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UrBaN963 said:
Could be that the XBOX took the brunt of the current when it blew, thus saving the other components.

I would just put the PC on - changing power cables isn't a bad idea though.
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I did turn it on just to see if it lights up and it did phew
 
UrBaN963 said:
Could be that the XBOX took the brunt of the current when it blew, thus saving the other components.

I would just put the PC on - changing power cables isn't a bad idea though.
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Although it boots I am not going to use it until I buy new plugs and cables to be safe I know an ups is recommended but what would be cost effective to have it on while gaming
 
UPS serves too functions, short-term back up power as well as a line filter - cleaning up the power to the device. You can have it running permanently as a filter for the power.

Add a surge protector at the wall outlet and you potentially prevent these things happening again.
 
UrBaN963 said:
UPS serves too functions, short-term back up power as well as a line filter - cleaning up the power to the device. You can have it running permanently as a filter for the power.

Add a surge protector at the wall outlet and you potentially prevent these things happening again.
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I actually have a surge protector on some plugs my inverter which was on a surge protector got fried
 
UrBaN963 said:
The switch being off won't save it necessarily, depends how much current we're talking.

Good news is, if it's dead, it's dead and if it isn't, turning it on won't kill it. So just put it on.
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Sadly learnt this lesson back in the day :-(. Lightning took out my PC, it was off at the switch
 
UrBaN963 said:
Good news is, if it's dead, it's dead and if it isn't, turning it on won't kill it. So just put it on.
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Schrodinger's PC

UrBaN963 said:
UPS serves too functions, short-term back up power as well as a line filter - cleaning up the power to the device. You can have it running permanently as a filter for the power.
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You'll want an online (double conversion) UPS for that.
 
Lupus said:
Sadly learnt this lesson back in the day :-(. Lightning took out my PC, it was off at the switch
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Damn sorry to hear that, I think what saved my PC and I got lucky is my Xbox PSU the external one that thing took all the current and blew up before the switch flipped down, so I would have suffered the same fate
 
William1102 said:
Damn sorry to hear that, I think what saved my PC and I got lucky is my Xbox PSU the external one that thing took all the current and blew up before the switch flipped down, so I would have suffered the same fate
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Sadly you still lost a lot of things though :-( don't even know if insurance would help
 
Fulcrum29 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1890102891119276284

Prepare to be und... overwhelmed. People will watch this to see the price.
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It's the same every AMD launch...people get their hopes up after jacket man announced another line-up that goes in dry. Then it's a big meh when the pricing is a bit less for a bit more performance (at a given price point) while not being competitive on feature set.

AMD graphics cards look better 6 months to a year later when the price drops come in.
 
Neoprod said:
It's the same every AMD launch...people get their hopes up after jacket man announced another line-up that goes in dry. Then it's a big meh when the pricing is a bit less for a bit more performance (at a given price point) while not being competitive on feature set.

AMD graphics cards look better 6 months to a year later when the price drops come in.
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It has been like that since Vega.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
It has been like that since Vega.
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Yeah. We don't even get the cheap options like we used to with Polaris...at least at that time, the bottom end of the market had products to choose from. The RX-470/570 were great for the value they offered...there aren't products like that at all anymore. Admittedly that was before mining and whatnot warped things.

Giving family advice sucks because inevitably you get the that much? question. Didn't used to be that way.
 
Neoprod said:
Yeah. We don't even get the cheap options like we used to with Polaris...at least at that time, the bottom end of the market had products to choose from. The RX-470/570 were great for the value they offered...there aren't products like that at all anymore. Admittedly that was before mining and whatnot warped things.

Giving family advice sucks because inevitably you get the that much? question. Didn't used to be that way.
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I do believe that UDNA will be a big departure. Though AMD has made progress with its open libraries and Instinct series GPUs, more so with CDNA 3, it is not doing so well in the enterprise market. At least, we could see a consumer-level matrix core. A dedicated approach, like Nvidia's. This could potentially lead to parity with path/ray tracing.

I am certain that AMD will have a GPU (UDNA) that is better than Blackwell. However, Rubin that is Nvidia's upcoming GPU, will also be all new. Only time can tell.

Then there is the other thing. AMD will sell RDNA 4 on what RDNA 3 can't do. The thing is, all known new technologies are built on rocWMMA. I do read their documentation. There might be some new things that aren't documented, and both AMD and Nvidia have introduced new things at a later stage that are compatible with new(er) architectures. I know that some bells and whistles will trickle down to RDNA 3. There might be some cost, but I don't think it will be that big a deal. AMD might stall it, but people will dig into those drivers.

Regardless, though, the new tech I have written about. It is big, but it won't be applicable to current games and applications unless it is updated /cough, remastered. All I know is. People with RTX 3000 and RDNA 2 GPUs might get some more time with their GPUs, pending.
 
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Anyone here have a 2 CCD AMD Ryzen CPU running with AGESA 1.2.0.3a?

I updated my BIOS, and now my CPU runs almost 10 degrees hotter than usual with the same workloads. 1.2.0.2a/b don't exhibit this issue. Just want to know whether this is unique to me.
 
sorry no. 10 degrees is huge man. scary to think what bugs were overlooked in new version
 
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