Recent content by kognak

In the screenshot CPU usage is 100% and core residency is C0 100%(fully active). It's not idling at all. First figure out what's causing it. Trying to "fix" cooling is pointless, people are pointing wrong direction. Also XMP is not enabled, memory is running at 2133MHz.

They can. Some just think bigger is automatically better which isn't true in every case. I've seen tests 30 bucks 4 heatpipe direct contact cooler slightly beating Noctua D15 at 100W(OCed 5600X) however Noctua completely demolishes it at 200W(OCed R9s and intels) and beyond as cheap one gets...

I have 5800X3D and Fortis3. Sure at stock it hits 90C in CB23 but you can't cool this behavior away. Stacked chips simply are hot because thermal conductivity is reduced due extra layers, amount of heat is actually relatively small. It produces less heat than 5800X does, my former 5800X could...

Nope. RAM is still slow as af. It's slow because in single cell array it's possible to read or write only one bit at the time. Cells are extremely simple, just a transistor&cap and laid out in arrays for high density(as said above) but drawback is performance. SRAM cells are more complex but...

You forget it takes hundreds of cycles to get data from system memory(and clock speed is half with DDR). Just because clock speeds on surface are similar, it doesn't mean those two operate in sync. Meanwhile L3 latency is around 40 to 50 cycles. In performance metrics the gap in latency is 5-6x...

To me it looks like your case has limited air flow and ambient creeps up while gaming. Averages are reasonable but IO-die temps are somewhat elevated while gaming indicating the case isn't removing heat from graphics card very well. CPU cooler looks like it works properly, L3 cache which sits...

Yes, it will and with wide margin. It was fastest gaming CPU just 6 months ago before intel 13th gen(with DDR5) and AMD 7000-series. Frankly your 9600k has fallen off cliff quite badly, 6c/6t doesn't cut anymore in modern games. From 9th gen only 9900k has aged well because it had HT. Cheap...

No you don't, new RAM kit would be waste of money. It's a thing with X3D CPUs, in gaming workloads a big cache eliminates a lot of memory operations because data is often already in the cache so faster memory isn't useful. Basic RAM is completely fine. In other hand it's kind of boring for...

Could you stretch your budget for 5800X3D? It doesn't care about RAM much due large cache. It would be faster in games with your existing ram than 5800X + best possible RAM out there. Even if it's tuned. If your budget is tight, then upgrading the RAM is out of question too.

At first you should try DLSS(MSFS got it last fall), 4K render resolution is a lot for 3070. It should also expose if your CPU has trouble to keep up. New shiny graphics card might not make much sense if CPU is holding back. MSFS is notoriously heavy for CPUs and 30fps isn't that far from what...

With full 16 lanes these performance hits happen one step lower because 8 lanes already cuts bandwidth half once. Also with old and slow CPUs PCIe bandwidth question is pretty secondary as CPU itself is primary bottleneck. Even with suggested 4790 changing motherboard to get PCIe 3.0 wouldn't...

It's option in driver installer. This issue happens when Windows Update automatically install one driver in background and you are installing another newer one. Reset option removes previous drivers and their settings plus disables temporarily Windows Update automatic driver installation.

Just get PCIe 4.0 card, there's zero issues on PCIe 3.0 platform. Last PCIe 3.0 cards are already 4-5 years old, that's second hand market stuff. I suggested to buy a discounted Radeon with good cooler right now. Starting from RX 6600. HW encoders are same in each generation, not really worth to...

None of 40-series cards supports PCIe 5.0, 4.0 is max. No need to wait reviews to see how it performs on PCIe 5.0 board.

None of the other 5000-series Ryzen are like 5800X. The rest are efficiently configured. Only 5800X is pushed completely to the limit. Also TDP is not same as power consumption nor it's any kind of limit. For 105W TDP ryzens limit is 142W(PPT) and 5800X does get there in heavy all-core...