Recent content by blkspade

Where'd you get that idea from? Most of the AM5 boards out will handle the 230w of the top CPU skus. The super cheap boards with bad or no vrm cooling still fail with the low end CPUs and shouldn't really be bought in the 1st place. Buy a half decent board. If you think you're likely to...

You are technically on the right path. Threadripper uses more CCDs than Ryzen for the same core count, with disabled cores. That facilitates full performance of the memory controller, which is also bigger than Ryzen. The entire IO die is also much larger to accommodate all the PCI-e lanes. All...

The flip side is you can get larger models to run without having the VRAM, but there is a performance hit.

This has been a pretty false premise based on statements made by people with poor memories. All Dual-CCD CPUs have had an inter-CCD latency issue if game threads switch CCDs. It was talked about with the 5950X in reviews, and led to the 5800X occasionally having more consistent frametimes in...

AI does. Everyone serious about AI does it on many multiple GPUs simultaneously.

The irony of your rebuttal there is Deepseek made a huge fuss about it costing far less to train the model. So cost was immediately made a significant metric. You can buy 2 XTXs for less than the cost of a 4090.

I wouldn't make that bet about MSFS2024. It seems they intend to rely more heavily on online Map streaming, which is going require doing decompression in real time. I believe that is why higher core count CPUs are in the Ideal Spec. Even other games that do dynamic shader compilation lean...

The NR200 can fit up to a triple slot GPU, and SFX PSU do come in that wattage. Not that you would end up needing such a beefy one. I tend to stick to 850w-1000w. The max I pull from the wall gaming with a 7950x3D and 7900XTX is ~550w, in a full tower. Can't even plug enough things into an ITX...

Unless you're dead set on a particular ITX case, any one that'll fit something like the Noctua NH-D12L would be a good choice. I have built several ITX PCs for people in the CoolerMaster NR200 using either the Noctua or Thermalright 120mm air cooler. 5900x, 12600K, 9700x (OC) all kept cool with...

To this day I still say "You've got mail" when bringing in the mail.

No they clearly already have a deal with Intel, but they are trying to make it not as obvious. Dell's website only has AMD cpus in their lower tier consumer products, and you still have to specifically filter for AMD. They offer them in a way that if someone suggests similar collusion as before...

There are a lot of potential metrics that make for a valid comparison. One of which is time. Technology advances over time, and so it makes sense to compare the best competing offerings at a given time. Now I would count price in that equation, which is better grounds to invalidate the 1800X...

Its fair to evaluate if a benchmark is telling you anything relevant that would translate in to real world performance. Consumers aren't putting any effort to evaluate what the data is actually telling them. CPU-Z just doesn't correlate to anything. I would put some value in decompression...

I see I was wrong, you don't even understand the definition of cherry picking. If you go "look look more power", you are picking a single metric with zero context or even recognition that said power is used to do work. If the whole story is "what's happening with said power" its literally the...

That's the point I was making. The data a thread is using is initially isolated to a specific CCD where said thread is spawned. If nothing ever hits the other CCD there is no reason to move data into it. If a thread is suddenly balanced in to the other CCD it makes an attempt to pull data from...