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It's quite mad how pricing has gone.
I remember when I built my setup in 2014, cost R20k for everything.

Now you looking at R15k for just board/cpu/ram.
 
ponder said:
With a 11400 you should be ok but if you move up to 8 cores not so much.

With a budget board I would expect it to run a locked cpu at it's full potential without issues. AMD does a better job here at a lower price.
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Techpowerup saw throttling at 100W with an 11400F on the stock cooler...meanwhile most places say the CPU can pull around 120-125W sustained under an all-core load.

I'm not sure what the right answer is - for enthusiasts, it's moot since decent aftermarket cooling is pretty cheap. Someone using the stock cooler might get a quiet PC that doesn't perform to its potential OR they might get a really loud PC that's near the limit (AMD chose this option) OR they might get a PC that's running past the limit of the stock cooler and throttling itself. None of those are great - I agree it's Intel situation to resolve.
 
Neoprod said:
Techpowerup saw throttling at 100W with an 11400F on the stock cooler...meanwhile most places say the CPU can pull around 120-125W sustained under an all-core load.

I'm not sure what the right answer is - for enthusiasts, it's moot since decent aftermarket cooling is pretty cheap. Someone using the stock cooler might get a quiet PC that doesn't perform to its potential OR they might get a really loud PC that's near the limit (AMD chose this option) OR they might get a PC that's running past the limit of the stock cooler and throttling itself. None of those are great - I agree it's Intel situation to resolve.
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Even with an aftermarket cooler you'll have issues as the vrms can't cope with 8 core cpus.
 
ponder said:
Even with an aftermarket cooler you'll have issues as the vrms can't cope with 8 core cpus.
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Yeah, that's a different discussion though, imo - if the idea is for boards at different price-points to be able to meet the power requirements of 6-8-12?-16? core CPUs at their full potential then that means budget boards would be more expensive. They'd be better boards but that means the dude who just wants to game with a 6 core 65W CPU (actually pulling ~80W) is paying more out the gate.

I think it's reasonable to expect that a budget board would be designed for the budget CPU (of a given generation) and YMMV once more power-hungry CPU's are plugged in. It's an interesting business problem though.
 
Neoprod said:
Yeah, that's a different discussion though, imo - if the idea is for boards at different price-points to be able to meet the power requirements of 6-8-12?-16? core CPUs at their full potential then that means budget boards would be more expensive. They'd be better boards but that means the dude who just wants to game with a 6 core 65W CPU (actually pulling ~80W) is paying more out the gate.

I think it's reasonable to expect that a budget board would be designed for the budget CPU (of a given generation) and YMMV once more power-hungry CPU's are plugged in. It's an interesting business problem though.
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This wasn't really an issue before, you could buy a budget board and your locked CPU would be fine.

People ran R9 3900 on the entry-level A320 chipsets without issues except hot vrms (not advised though). Intel's B560 is not even their entry-level, the H series is. Further Intels B560 boards cost significantly more than AMD's B450/550 boards and they can literally run any CPU.

I don't consider it unreasonable for a budget B560 board to run a locked 8 core CPU at its full potential, it's not asking for much & it was the case before.
 
Wootware.co.za 2080 lol
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livw88 said:
Wootware:
  • Palit RTX 3060 Ti R9,999 (Jan 2021)
  • Palit RTX 3060 R18,799 (May 2021)

I hope you crypto miners die in a house fire.
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I got my 3060Ti back then for R10500 (Zotac) and was pissed because I thought it was overpriced then. Anyone wanna buy a 3060ti for 20k? :laugh:
 
I bought my brand new 2060 super just over a year ago for R7k, now most listings for 2060 are 10k? 2 years okay I got a 1660ti for R4500 now people are asking 9k second hand?
Even the RX580 is 3 times the price I got it in 2019.
 
Hey guys, need some advice if I should just upgrade my pc or get a new one altogether?

I only want to preferably upgrade the CPU and GPU, otherwise, I'm just buying a new PC when I have the money for it...
My current specs (not adding storage cause I'm happy with it at the moment):
Intel Core i3-7100
GIGABYTE GTX 750 ti 4GB OC
8 GB RAM

Thx in advance for the advice!
 
PrimeSteak said:
Hey guys, need some advice if I should just upgrade my pc or get a new one altogether?

I only want to preferably upgrade the CPU and GPU, otherwise, I'm just buying a new PC when I have the money for it...
My current specs (not adding storage cause I'm happy with it at the moment):
Intel Core i3-7100
GIGABYTE GTX 750 ti 4GB OC
8 GB RAM

Thx in advance for the advice!
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Do you have an ssd?

SSD and upgrade to ram to 16gb would make quite diffrence
 
PrimeSteak said:
Yes, I do. A 128GB but I mainly use it for OS and steam, browsers, etc. And I put my games and stuff on my HDD
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Thats great, so you dont need upgrade that.

If you find I5 it might make bit of diffrence in games, can maybe pick one for second hand.

Def upgrade ram to 16gb, games like warzone needs a min 16gb
 
PrimeSteak said:
Hey guys, need some advice if I should just upgrade my pc or get a new one altogether?

I only want to preferably upgrade the CPU and GPU, otherwise, I'm just buying a new PC when I have the money for it...
My current specs (not adding storage cause I'm happy with it at the moment):
Intel Core i3-7100
GIGABYTE GTX 750 ti 4GB OC
8 GB RAM

Thx in advance for the advice!
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It's probably the worst time in history to want to upgrade your GPU but if you're willing to go used then you could still improve things significantly compare to the 750ti.

Something like a GTX970 or 980 maybe, you should check Carb for deals: https://carbonite.co.za/index.php?forums/nvidia_gpu/
 
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