I’d bet your fun at lan parties.
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For Canadians some crazy cpu deals happening right now some are beating American black Friday prices
to give you some idea’s of just how good the new Ryzen 3000 based on the Zen2 architecture is, the 3800X has 8 cores / 16 threads and it beats the first gen Threadripper 1950X, which is 16 cores / 32 threads by 25% in single threaded tasks and by 5% in multi-threading tasks. the IPC performance boosts are significant and more than we’ve seen in CPU processing in more than 10 years, when we went from Core2Duo / Qad to Core i3/i5/i7, which was a 33% jump for first gen and then another big 20% jump or so to second gen.
Sorta kinda.
Usually I dare people on the dust level in their computer.
My box for games that do not run on Win7 or higher:
Code name: Zombie PC
| Brand | Part | Note |
|---|---|---|
| AMD | Athlon64 x2 3800+ | |
| AMD | stock cooler | from the FX-8320 |
| Jetway (?) | M2A-GH (?) | AMD 690G + SB600 |
| G.Skill | 2x 2GB DDR2 | 4-4-4-10-16 @ 266MHz or 5-5-5-15-24 @ 400MHz |
| ATI | Radeon HD 5570 | 1GB GDDR3 |
| ? | 380GB PATA HDD | Throws a lot of errors, doesn’t start half the time |
| LG | CD/DVD drive | PATA, as all things should be |
| ? | 2.5" floppy drive | smooth as silk |
| Microsoft | Windows Vista 64bit | HomePremium Edition |
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Duct tape is a nice touch
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Updated rig: RGB strip removed
Current specs are:
Ryzen 5 1600 OC 4.15GHz @ 1.39V (currently 30 min into AIDA64 stress test, temps have been fairly level around 77C with occaional spikes into low to mid 80s)
Team Vulcan DDR4 2666 (timings dialed in at 14-16-14-14-30)
PowerColor RX 570 4GB Red Dragon (OC Clocks: GPU: 1475 VRAM: 2150)
Thermaltake Versa H15 (no-window)
Arctic P12 PST CO x2 (installed in the front, stock fan installed in back)
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My computer is mainly for music and gaming. I built it about a year ago saving only the cpu from my last build.
8700k overclocked
Gtx 1080 ti (decided to skip 20 series
16gb ram
750 watt psu
Asus motherboard (can’t remember name)
256 gb pcie m.2 ssd for boot Samsung
1 tb ssd Samsung
2 tb hybrid drive by sea gate?
4 tb hdd
And just added 2 tb crucial mx500 ssd
All in a phanteks case.
Monitors: rog swift pg34 gsync
Also a Wacom that I use for drawing
I have about 3 MacBook pros laying around the house (1 for work the others were retired but wasn’t worth selling them) specs don’t matter much on these for me haha.
Picture of my main setup. Don’t worry. I tested the shelf. It’s solid haha
Edit: keyboard is Corsair and mouse is Logitech 960? (I believe it was 960 haha. With the wireless charging mouse pad because why not? 
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And the wall ac unit for maximum cooling efficiency!!! kidding. It doesn’t actually work anymore haha.
It fits the theme 
Thought I would revive this topic:
Recently Win10 was causing a lot of RAM useage and was very slow to open software (and I could hear all my harddrives doing what I would guess was indexing work). Every 3 or so hours…
Fixes/Workarrounds:
- Disable/reduce page file - I set it to 500MB
- Disable superfetch - NOT prefetch!
-
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies NtfsDisableCompression= 1 -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management ClearPageFileAtShutDown= 1
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My PC consists of:
Ryzen R5 3600
Ripjaws 16GB DDR4 3200MHz
MSI B450 Gaming plus MAX
Gigabyte Windforce OC RTX2060
All thrown in a Fractal Design Meshify C.
My most recent addition though is my new monitor, an LG GL83A-B. I’m really loving that monitor.
I just to run a dual-boot with Windows and Linux, but it’s just a bit of a pain in the ass. Now I hook up my peripherals to my laptop when I need to work.
mine is a lenovo flex 14 with a ryzen 5 3500U with vega graphics, 6 gigs of ram (upgrading that to at least 8 in the future)
a 2TB intel 660p i installed in, and windows 10… i am interested in using linux but there is no real audiophile players and exclusive mode stuff on linux… nothing like wasapi and no bitperfect things
Linux is good for:
- Real time
- Massively paralel
- Not having all the security holes
- being efficent
- programming
Linux is meh at best for:
- audio
- photo editing (allthough it is getting better and better)
On Linux, you don’t need exclusive modes or other hacks for the reason of the kernel not being shit 
Edit: If you have big projects in Blender you want to render, do that in Linux for an extra 15 to 30% performance boost (yes, really).
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Parts List
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor
- Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB Video Card with EVGA Hybrid Liquid Cooling kit
- Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM SE 63 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
- G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory
- ADATA XPG SX6000 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
- ADATA Ultimate SU800 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive
- Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case
- Corsair 760 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
- 2 x Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans
- Corsair Fan Controller Commander Pro (CL-9011110-WW)
- 2 x Samsung LC27JG50QQNZA 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor
- Corsair STRAFE RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard
- Corsair Sabre RGB Wired Optical Mouse
Just wanted to share my pride and joy! 
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I’m waiting for more info on the Zen 3 based Ryzen APU’s. then I will look to upgrade.
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IF, like, BIG IF AMD manages to squeeze the XboxSeriesX (or XboSeX for short) into AM4, AMD just wins.
I rarely wait on things to upgrade, there is always something better around the corner.
I guess I did wait for a 3900X, because I wanted the 12 cores.
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