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djbrendan said:
True it is new to the market, but seeing the benchmarks on top. It beats out i9's on the workload you use it for.
Paying R6800 and having something that would last you quite a good few years?
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That's a good point, it is a beast of a CPU.
 
airborne said:
That's a good point, it is a beast of a CPU.
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The i9 9900K is more expensive than the 5600X, and slower.
If you want something cheaper, the 3600 is actually pretty cheap and will only be slightly slower than the 9900K when it comes to scrolling through develop mode. That will leave you with an upgrade path to the 5600X later if you want.

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When just randomly making adjustments as fast as I can on a 22MP file on my 3700X, I notice no delay between me applying it, and it reflecting on the image.
 

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Barbarian Conan said:
The i9 9900K is more expensive than the 5600X, and slower.
If you want something cheaper, the 3600 is actually pretty cheap and will only be slightly slower than the 9900K when it comes to scrolling through develop mode. That will leave you with an upgrade path to the 5600X later if you want.

When just randomly making adjustments as fast as I can on a 22MP file on my 3700X, I notice no delay between me applying it, and it reflecting on the image.
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Flippen heck, 32MB of L3 cache? That's nice. I only have 8MB.
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I guess something had to make way for those 8 Vega cores....
 
What is the most reliable place to purchase a Gaming PC prebuilt or components online these days ? I see a lot of replies in this thread recommending Wootware. I kinda just wanna get a machine now, I don't much care for fiddeling around with the internals anymore and just wanna buy something good quality.
 
Grifthin said:
What is the most reliable place to purchase a Gaming PC prebuilt or components online these days ? I see a lot of replies in this thread recommending Wootware. I kinda just wanna get a machine now, I don't much care for fiddeling around with the internals anymore and just wanna buy something good quality.
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Wootware, Techfox, Progenix
 
Just fyi all
Kloppers in store IT departement has the Asus TUF 3080 for R17k
Gigabyte vision 3080 for R18999

Comparing these to online it looks good!
 
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Who's looking for the RTX 3080 Auros master. I know of 2 available in P.E for R19 999 at Kloppers, but in store.

Got price for that beast and model
 
djbrendan said:
Who's looking for the RTX 3080 Auros master. I know of 2 available in P.E for R19 999 at Kloppers, but in store.

Got price for that beast and model
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If you keep an eye out I think they are getting a 3090 extreme in. Atleast they said they were..
 
I bit the bullet and bought the GigaByte B550 I Aorus board, will return the ASrock with the noisy VRM once I'm up and running on the B550.

Why can't they just make simple "good enough" motherboard with no fancy names that reminds me of cheap cooldrink? I also read some post on Reddit of people having issues with the 4000 series APU on updated B450 Gigabyte boards. So I have my reservations about B450 and the newer processors.

Having watched a few videos on that particular B550 it seems it will do a decent job with power delivery. In particular the +2 part that drives the SoC part (iGPU) of the processor. If I'm lucky I can take my RAM up to their rated 3600mhz as it is currently 3200mhz.

The idiot I am did not check the reviews before buying else I would have seen it already ships with the RGB header cable. So I wasted a couple of bucks buying a Phanteks one with it.

My lessons are costing me an awful lot.
 
Grifthin said:
What is the most reliable place to purchase a Gaming PC prebuilt or components online these days ? I see a lot of replies in this thread recommending Wootware. I kinda just wanna get a machine now, I don't much care for fiddeling around with the internals anymore and just wanna buy something good quality.
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Wootware and titan ice.
 
Rouxenator said:
I bit the bullet and bought the GigaByte B550 I Aorus board, will return the ASrock with the noisy VRM once I'm up and running on the B550.

Why can't they just make simple "good enough" motherboard with no fancy names that reminds me of cheap cooldrink? I also read some post on Reddit of people having issues with the 4000 series APU on updated B450 Gigabyte boards. So I have my reservations about B450 and the newer processors.

Having watched a few videos on that particular B550 it seems it will do a decent job with power delivery. In particular the +2 part that drives the SoC part (iGPU) of the processor. If I'm lucky I can take my RAM up to their rated 3600mhz as it is currently 3200mhz.

The idiot I am did not check the reviews before buying else I would have seen it already ships with the RGB header cable. So I wasted a couple of bucks buying a Phanteks one with it.

My lessons are costing me an awful lot.
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3200Mhz is fine. 3200Mhz CL16 the same performance as 3600Mhz CL18 anyways.
 
Hi guys, any comments on the redragon k556 devarajas keyboard? Looking for a good mechanical keyboard that is budget friendly and this is going for R1300, metal frame as well...
 
HideInLight said:
3200Mhz is fine. 3200Mhz CL16 the same performance as 3600Mhz CL18 anyways.
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For an APU, graphics performance scales nearly linearly with memory bandwidth. People don't tend to pair very high-speed memory with APUs because it doesn't make sense budget-wise but the performance does improve (far more than a CPU responds to faster memory).
 
Grifthin said:
What is the most reliable place to purchase a Gaming PC prebuilt or components online these days ? I see a lot of replies in this thread recommending Wootware. I kinda just wanna get a machine now, I don't much care for fiddeling around with the internals anymore and just wanna buy something good quality.
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Do yourself a favour and send them a mail with your budget / requirements. That part costs you nothing.
 
Damez_Mod said:
Wootware really have some of the best service out there - their Google Reviews speak for themselves.
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Still charging ridiculous prices though. This card should be R7000 - R8000 not R11000. Now maybe the distributor is ripping them off but they don't have to pretend like the real price for this card is R14000 and you're saving R3000 on this deal. Absolute joke.
 
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