Recent content by iamacow

Intels been this way for over 10 years. Not surprised at all. Only reason people still buy Intel is because the top end is always have been faster than anything AMD offered. Ryzen is changing that slowly... Built my first primary AMD computer since AMD64. It was cheaper and actually preforms...

I feel like we hjacked this thread lol.

My bad I was thinking of the Z370 and Z390. Yeah the 170 and 270 only work with the previous generation. I get that its not just the VRM phase count that matters. But the quality of the phases. But you don't need a high end motherboard to have good VRMs.

All X399 are beasts lol. Even the lowest tier has 8 phases. more than enough to drive 250watts stock CPU. If the 2900WX is supported than I can almost guarantee any future CPU will work. Since no AMD CPU will be released above 250 TDP (unless they don't want anyone to buy it *cough.. intel...

If you not someone who is going to upgrade the CPU or anything but rather just use it until buying a new computer, you may want to rethink about what is best for you. Personally I don't mind used CPUs or video cards. Basically everything but the Motherboard and RAM will be swapped out before I...

That is correct. Intel on the other hand as you can look up from prior sockets, basically never keeps the old socket around very long. Its almost a yearly thing. Check out AMD, they used AMD3 forever before AMD4. The benefits is longer socket support, but the downside is new tech takes longer to...

Everything has a price. I personally went with the 1920X because of the price and upgrade-ability (at the time). I was going to get the 9900K until I saw the price tag. I paid $500 for the motherboard and CPU. It was a no brainier to go AMD this time. I haven't bought a AMD CPU since AMD64...

Hmm there is a few programs, but I never found it necessary to run if Prime95 lasted 12+ hours.

if you got 18 hours on prime95, I think you are set!. Congrats on the golden chip. You might be able to do slightly better with it delid, but 5.3ghz on all cores is pretty much the limit before LN2.

So far I never had one revoked if that's what your asking....

If you run the Ethernet cable outside, make sure you buy some that is rated for it. My old company had a camera on the roof and ran a thick CAT6 cable to it thinking it would be okay. Only took 6 months for the sunlight to ruin the plastic coating allowing water to get in. Came all the way into...

I've put SSDs in computers without anything holding it for years now. Thats the great thing about solid state, no moving parts :)