Recent content by Stardude82

The MSI M482 looks to have identical hardware. Check out their current pricing directly from MSI if you are in the market for a best value drive.

One synthetic benchmark vs one real one for the RX 6400 with 30% loss. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-6400-pci-express-30-scaling/3.html Overall, it's not that bad, but I'm better off looking for an unicorn reasonably low profile GTX1650 or replacing them with consoles for...

I've got a couple older LP boxes that could use a GPU upgrade. RX 6400... Preforms crap on PCIe 3.0 bus. ARC GPUs... Need a system that supports resizable bar or they run like crap. Um.. okay. I guess these systems aren't getting any upgrades.

Certain niche segment have crazy pricing, but you can get RTX 3060 laptops for half that price.

I feel as though this is the third article... 55W low profile modern entry level cards now please.

It doesn't look like 300 series mobos are getting Cezanne support (Asus board pulled at random; heck the 5600X isn't listed even), so the 5500 is probably off the table there as a terminal upgrade.

There's lots of complaints about Inland's customer service, especially if you didn't buy the drive from a Microcenter.

Untested games in your Steam Library: 929 LoL Okay... 51 verified. 52 playable. 18 unsupported. I guess you're in luck if you're into hacky-slashy games!

So, we're looking at the i3-12100 fast enough for a 3070 Ti or less while a i3-10105 is only stuck on a 3060... The lows on Hitman 3 are concerning, but an easy upgrade when/if GPU prices decline.

Picking up the E12S utilizing Neo Forza eSports NFP075 500 GB. Tech Power-Up liked the 1TB version and it came out to half the price of the EVO Plus. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/neo-forza-esports-nfp075-1-tb/ I'll do pushup or something if it dies in 6 months. Edit: I got it and...

I don't know where they got their pricing... $210 i5-12400, $180 i5-12400F. (Ha, we're paying 20% more for the same aging HD730 graphics! I was wrong, they are getting an up grade from aging HD720 to aging HD730 here, I guess it's better than nothing. Well, probably not nothing if you have a...

Zen 2 chips are all but gone from retail. I guess they are a useful reference, but here they are just very odd strawmen.

The 965 would beat the FX-83xx AND that's not even taking into the account that there were 6 core Phenom 2s! This is more analogous to the Netburst days where AMD had clear performance supremacy for a couple years. Check it out...

The 5600G is most of the way there pricewise and only has a 10% smaller die. There, in principle, is space there.

FTFY The original Phenom chips were hot garbage. Phenom II only made sense in budget builds for all of a 9 month before Lynnfield arrived. We were all fools for not buying Bloomfield on release, really. It was a workable platform until really very recently.