Im not saying you cant game on threadripper but as you said it is mainly for those needing extra threads for production. I just dont want anyone thinking that the $1200+ TRs are a go to if youre only concerned with gaming, especially bc it was on par with a $200 intel part with a much more cost effective architecture. Technically my 5930k was a higher end, made for production chip but i used it for gaming.
As @RiceGuru explained, TR can game (and competes with Intel desktop parts while doing so).
So for everyone who needs cores (or I/O), there is no need to build a seperate gaming machine next to the big fat workstation they already have.
I would never recommend TR for a gaming-only workload.
but the 5930 k is a much older chip yes it can compete with single threaded performance but gets annihilated beyond that due to it only having 6 core 12 threads. its also much older made by intel when they had no competition. a more fair comparison to your chip would be the 3600x which would probably perform better in most tasks regardless due to the newer architecture and for the original msrp of the 3600 and 3600x its really hard for intel to beat and when it comes to price to performance its also hard to argue with the ryzen 3100 an overclocable cheap cpu bought new can compete wiht even i5s in many workloads.
Again im saying my chip was a high end type of chip only the 5960 was higher up. The x99 platform was all highend and workstation boards to start but i used it to game. After 6 years yes it is starting to show its age. Its a 22nm in a time where 14nm is in its refresh of a refresh refresh stage. I want to see intel get over this 10nm hump and have competion surge back and forth again.
We all do.
14nm is optimized beyond belief though.
I feel the same amd now has an architecture that can perform with good temps. Amd they clearly haven’t shown their best crap yet. As I’m pretty sure they may be holding back a bit so they can respond to whatever Intel throws at them and have carved out an great reputation for price to performance. It’s only a matter of time when Intel catches up and we get to see a great back and forth.
just rma it, dont think about it, dont debate it
if you get artifacting, its just a bad gpu
if you overclock it (say you didnt)
if you dmged it (say it wasnt moved)
all that matters is you have artifacting and you should rma asap
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theyve shown enough when you need a refrigerator on the top of your 5700xt to cool it
Anyone noticed a change in music streaming volume when your computer moves from one wireless network to another?
My Windows 10 desktop PC has been moved to the basement so I use a wireless network adapter for it instead of a LAN connection to the modem. We use CenturyLink for our ISP and have been using their stock modem/router mostly without issue. The internet speed has been spotty the past couple of days (first time in over 2 years I can complain about the service, really). My Samsung smartphone (Verizon) also does a wifi hotspot. While doing some work today the CenturyLink internet speed has been throttling wildly again so I activated the hotspot and connected the desktop PC to it. When I did that I noticed right away my Spotify stream got several dB louder. About an hour later the CenturyLink internet seemed to be working normally again so I switched back. Without touching any other settings or potentiometers, Spotify went about as many dB quieter again - and both volume changes happened mid-track, so this wasn’t a volume equalization across tracks issue (I don’t have that enabled anyway). Now I’m curious and went back and forth between the CenturyLink and hotspot a couple more times while checking Spotify’s streaming quality and volume settings. Those settings never changed AND the volume kept being louder on the hotspot and quieter on the CenturyLink. Any ideas what’s going on here?
Well that’s interesting. If you are keeping all your settings identical on your end, my theory is that you are switching between to two different Spotify servers. Maybe one server is configured in some way that results in a higher playback volume?
Interesting idea. When the CenturLink has been struggling and I’ve run speedtests, the “server” has been bouncing around locations. I’ve seen Chicago, Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Bismarck for sure. So maybe there’s something to that.
Did you try disabling Spotify’s volume normalization feature? Maybe that function is acting funny.
Yeah. I leave that off at all times and explicitly checked for it changing when I bounced between networks. It didn’t. Or at least the UI never showed that it changed.
big if true but this is the generational leapp I was waiting for if this is true this is a bigger leap than 10 series from the 9
That’d be nice. I’m just hoping the cards aren’t a bad value day one like with the 2000 series launch.
Not buying that completly. Power is rumored 350W, so at the CUDA core count from the Titan RTX (1700MHz @280W), I can kinda see 2000MHz with the same core count.
However not at the xx60 levels of price (brace for $600 “mid-range” GPUs).
The rumored heatsinks looks like this:
So “magical 100% performance boost” → No, stop expecting that unless they pull and AMD and build a Titan Z again (which I would not expect since SLI support is kinda dead).
All I say regarding rumors is to be taken with piles of salt and assuming AMDs doings in the consoles do not scare Nvidia.
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it will be most interesting to see what happens with Ampere. however, I doubt a 3060 will beat a 2080 Ti. I can see Nvidia making it so the 3080 beats the 2080 Ti by a fair margin…but not invalidate their whole previous gen with a move that big. I doubt Big Navi 2 will be that big of a jump, so they have no need to provide anything like that.
Meh, ima keep rocking my 1080ti this this gen unless its absolutely massive. No reason to upgrade yet unless cyberpunk destroys my system and is worth playing lol
well…rumors on Ampere are rampant. what was reported as benchmarks for the 3080, being about 30% higher than the 2080 Ti is now being said to be 3060 scores. I find that hard to believe though…don’t recall any leap of that magnitude in the GPU world where a mid-range blows the top end out of the water in just one gen. heck…it’s usually 3 gens to match on average.
and now there is word that AMD is working on an ‘Ultra Navi’…
it’s funny and fun! 
It happened. Early 2000s, ended with Nvidia Fermi.
Offcourse there is a rumor of AMD bringing some insane GPU to market (which they won’t because it is not cost effective and they are short on cash anyway)
A general word on rumors:
When neither Videocardz (who are accurate in their leak articles 80% of the time) or WCCF Tech (huge grain of salt) report a rumor, it is probably fake.
On the subject of the “AMD 6900XT leaks”
https://adoredtv.com/overvolted-11-fake-navi-real-tiger-something-ampere/
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