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Have sealed hx1200i if that will do the job?
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This weekend I used gskill 2400mhz ram, XMP profile enabled on the B550M with my R5 3600 and couldn't pick up any stability issues. Worked fine for the entire time I used the PC. Definitely think that 3600mhz ram isn't happy.

Just gave woot an update on what to look out for, since Memtest86 didn't pick up a fault
 
No update from Wootware yet, however my pc has been stable with the other paired components to the point where I'm 99.9% certain it was the ram giving me grief
 
I can't believe how terrible graphics card pricing is.
Friend had their card die so I went looking for a semi low-spec replacement.
GTX 750ti / 950 / 1050 / RX 470 sort of tier.
Back in 2017 I paid R1999 for a 4GB RX 470 from wootware.
Where are the budget cards now? oof. They can't all be used for mining at this point.

You're either stuck paying nearly 2K for a GTX 1030 and hoping you dont get a DDR4 card (faster than a 750 I know)
Or you're wasting your money on a GTX 1650, or paying through the nose for a 6600XT
 
Faux_Grey said:
I can't believe how terrible graphics card pricing is.
Friend had their card die so I went looking for a semi low-spec replacement.
GTX 750ti / 950 / 1050 / RX 470 sort of tier.
Back in 2017 I paid R1999 for a 4GB RX 470 from wootware.
Where are the budget cards now? oof. They can't all be used for mining at this point.

You're either stuck paying nearly 2K for a GTX 1030 and hoping you dont get a DDR4 card (faster than a 750 I know)
Or you're wasting your money on a GTX 1650, or paying through the nose for a 6600XT
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The chip crisis and miners don't help sadly.
 
GTX 960 perhaps?

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It seems AMD gfx cards are not nearly as desirable as Nvidia cards at the moment, why is that?
 
airborne said:
It seems AMD gfx cards are not nearly as desirable as Nvidia cards at the moment, why is that?
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Dunno but a lot of the software I use has nvidia-specific (optional) settings like CUDA etc. that make it seem like the developers prefer nvidia & provide options to utilize their architectures more than AMD. Also look at all the game trailers with RTX comparisons etc.
 
airborne said:
It seems AMD gfx cards are not nearly as desirable as Nvidia cards at the moment, why is that?
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AMD's pricing puts their cards right up against Nvidia competing models. But Nvidia's got the better offering overall - better ray-tracing, slightly better / more widely-used upscaler (DLSS), as @saor said GPU compute is basically all CUDA-centric, better video encoder. It also doesn't help that Nvidia already has 80% of the discrete market...Radeon needs a Zen 2 moment ( an as-good-as product for less money).

The 5700XT and Vega cards are popular for mining but their newer cards should be priced better. A 6700XT should be cheaper than a 3060 Ti LHR to be competitive.
 
Neoprod said:
AMD's pricing puts their cards right up against Nvidia competing models. But Nvidia's got the better offering overall - better ray-tracing, slightly better / more widely-used upscaler (DLSS), as @saor said GPU compute is basically all CUDA-centric, better video encoder. It also doesn't help that Nvidia already has 80% of the discrete market...Radeon needs a Zen 2 moment ( an as-good-as product for less money).

The 5700XT and Vega cards are popular for mining but their newer cards should be priced better. A 6700XT should be cheaper than a 3060 Ti LHR to be competitive.
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Regarding DLSS I heard a new thing coming DLAA so it's not a upscaler from lower end resolution to give same quality but it's more like supersampling. I think AMD FSR will be more widely used in the future due to any DX11 capable gpu that can use it. Also if you run linux then almost any game can use FSR even if the game has no support for it.
 
Hey guys, so this is what my current build is looking like. I was wondering what the thoughts were and if I should maybe swap the RX6700 for a GTX3060 if it is cheaper?

I also need advice on what motherboard to get.

The main use for this PC will be gaming and maybe video editing /rendering (nothing hectic just primier pro)
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EventHorizon said:
Hey guys, so this is what my current build is looking like. I was wondering what the thoughts were and if I should maybe swap the RX6700 for a GTX3060 if it is cheaper?

I also need advice on what motherboard to get.

The main use for this PC will be gaming and maybe video editing /rendering (nothing hectic just primier pro)
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A 6700 XT is closer to a 3070 than it is to the 3060 or the Ti. It's got a lot more raw horsepower but falls short when it comes to ray-tracing...if RTX doesn't matter to you, the 6700 XT will perform better for longer. If it does matter, then a 3060 Ti falls into that price range but I don't think Wootware have anything as nicely-built as that XFX. Premiere will work fine with either card, it's not picky.

You can save 400 bucks and get the 650W version of that power supply - if there was a 550W, you could even get that safely. The CPU and GPU will pull about 330W maxed out so well within the peak efficiency window with fans, drives and the motherboard thrown in.

For motherboards you can page back and look at what other people chose - the 5600X isn't hard to power (it's only going to use like 105W at peak) so onboard features are probably going to be the difference.
 
Neoprod said:
A 6700 XT is closer to a 3070 than it is to the 3060 or the Ti. It's got a lot more raw horsepower but falls short when it comes to ray-tracing...if RTX doesn't matter to you, the 6700 XT will perform better for longer. If it does matter, then a 3060 Ti falls into that price range but I don't think Wootware have anything as nicely-built as that XFX. Premiere will work fine with either card, it's not picky.

You can save 400 bucks and get the 650W version of that power supply - if there was a 550W, you could even get that safely. The CPU and GPU will pull about 330W maxed out so well within the peak efficiency window with fans, drives and the motherboard thrown in.

For motherboards you can page back and look at what other people chose - the 5600X isn't hard to power (it's only going to use like 105W at peak) so onboard features are probably going to be the difference.
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Thanks alot bro!

About the motherboard, I actually know nothing about them. So like I see there are micro ATX boards in the previous pages and im not too sure about the differences between 450/550 etc.
Would you be able to explain that to me or reference something?


This is the one im looking at
 
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