XFX and Powercolor both have a history of being… Sketch. ASUS has let their reputation go to their head, and tends to pass the blame onto everyone else when shit goes wrong.
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MSI has proven their reliability for me in regards to their motherboards just like Asus none of their boards have failed on anyone’s PC’s that I’ve built personally. Asrock and gigabyte both have. MSI has also had the best budget value boards for like 2 generations in a row with ryzen debatable now with b550 in the mix.
The only thing asus I ever buy or tell peoe to buy these days are their boards.
MSI mainboards are good.
I haven’t used Gigabyte parts in years.
I try not to. But some people are stubborn unfortunately. At least no GPU by them has broke on me yet.
@RiceGuru There are three(four if the X570 Tomahawk WiFi would ever come in stock at MSRP) boards that fit the general “needs” I have(for a next build), while falling into an acceptable budget:
been seeing alot of sales lately at least in canada from amazon on the strix b55a I would watch out for that. personcally I love my current board the b559 tomahark but its pretty pricey especially for a b550 board might as well get a x570 tuf at taht point for most people
any of those boards look pretty good. Due to Msi’s VRM cooling personally I would go for either of them. there are some sacrifices going one fr the other nnot sure what but one is cheaper for a reason. and at the price of that b550 asus board I woudl just get a tuf board personally and aesthetic downgrade but a functional upgrade
I want the flexibility of WiFi, and would prefer on board, rather then built in. Otherwise, it’s partially aesthetics after performance.
In Steve’s testing, the Gaming Edge edges out or matches the B550-F, both of which beat the Carbon (following suit with what seems to be the trend for that line) in thermal performance. Admittedly, there is a non-wifi version of the B550-F for $160, and I could easily go with that, and just deal with an add in card for WiFi(should I find a need). It also tends to follow the aesthetic I’d be looking for a tad more.
I dunno if i believe any of this and I think AMD is pulling it straight outta their arse but if its true this is mad…
AMD risks a lot if they fudge their numbers and it doesn’t turn out true.
what will be neat to know is how much performance comes from their platform boosting integration tech vs. random platforms running their GPU’s.
Rage mode probably not alot as its just an increase power state, SAM on the other hand could be very exciting…
I’m not surprised the marketing team would do that. Are you? I’ll take it with the appropriate amount of salt that should be taken with any first party benchmark.
I know they said the Rage Mode should only boost by ~1%(negligible if true), and SAM is between 4-11% (again, grain of salt). I’ll be looking forward to both Steves’ (GN and Hardware Unboxed) reviews and overview of the technologies. I expect a metric butt load of numbers from the lad down under, but Tech Jesus to do some really deep dives
Edit: adjusted the percentage for SAM, as I found the correct number, as I was going off what I thought I remembered.
This is a good one XD
I saw this on the LTT stream
To be honest, I will just sit here and just enjoy the view of the two opposing sides for I am currently happy and satisfied with my current build. Also, when it comes to AMD’s cards, I would temper my expectations of it if I were you for I am not usually one of those guys who would buy something on release date, plus I would wait for the benchmarks to those who are looking to jump ship quickly for an AMD GPU upgrade.
I don’t think there are many Fanbois here either side, This was the same reaction when Nvidia dropped 3000 series just as much, If not more as people just jumped on them. If AMD is going off of how they represent Ryzen they wont be lying too much. And I love that meme because AMD is half the size of Nvidia/Intel yet takes them both on at the highend.
To be honest, I’ve been looking to upgrade my current system anyways. I don’t care which company so King as I get better performance for my money. If you haven’t noticed, while I tend to favor AMD a bit, I’m not above being critical of them, and have pointed out that I’m looking forward to reviews. I know for a fact that I’m not the only one of this mindset.
Main thing to wait out with AMD is both benchmarks and reports on the drivers.
Wouldn’t necessarily want to deal with long problems on that.
I am lucky I got a Vega at the end of the production time meaning they had everything fixed yet.
Though regarding drivers NVidia isn’t an angel anymore either.
Nvidia never was.
I have no idea when and where they got the reputation of amazing drivers. Even before the Vista-crash lawsuit revealed how bad their drivers were, it was ugly.
Edit:
Nvidia’s current drivers rely on interrupts.
The advantage is simplicity, the cost is CPU load. Because each interrupt thrown down the pipe halts all operation on at least 1 core. This may be comming round to bite them in the ass with the 30-series.
