Another thing is that I think Radeon Software is far superior to Geforce Experience (at least when I switched).
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I am in favor of Gigabyte, they turned their stuff around on the aurous line, but have heard horror stuff from even a few gens ago. Asus is good only on the very top end, msi has sneakily been doing well but my god do they put the awful dragon on everything. No experience with asrock.
oh damn…Linus video is GOLD!
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RIP intel… (until next gen assuming they some how catch up)
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Tiger Lake-S has some promise as they’re saying it has about a 20% IPC gain on single threaded tasks. so when they come out Spring 2021, Intel may take the gaming crown back.
and amd will probably have something to hit them back with with a price drop and new chips in the fall with a new motherboard platform and chipsets. the competition I was looking forward to since 1st gebn ryzen that I bought into is finally here. I camnt wait to see how amd fights nvdia in a couple of weeks
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Tiger Lake S? Tiger lake is mobile processors only and Intel still is pushing 14nm for desktop, I doubt they will be able to push that much if they cannot get their process node to work.
Guys, since my B450 mobo is getting a BIOS update that can support the new 5000 series CPU, I have my eyes set on the next CPU that I want. Time to save up and get the 5600x, if there’s availability of it but I am in no rush 
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Don’t you mean Rocket Lake?
I have Aorus AX370 mobo from first gen Ryzen that was suppose to be the least stable combo without bios updates. I had purchased it a few months after release, and had zero issues other than that first and second gen Ryzen is pretty much not overclockable. I managed only to OC my ram with XMP profile on stock voltage and squeezed an extra 0.1 out of the R7 1700 by locking the voltage at stock as well.
It’s been a great mobo. Also have a Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Extreme. Not complaints other than I’d love to get my hands on the new Ryzen 5900 and 6900XT combo. But it’ll be many months before there is stock I’m sure.
I’d definitely go Gigabyte again. I think their only issues really were getting bios updates going when Ryzen was new. The build quality of the stuff is nuts though.
FUCK
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A lot of fires. Bordering on suspicious.
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yeah…my spider sense are tingling that something is amiss.
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Bad chip’s seem to cause “sudden” factory fires. To avoid something maybe?
Without even reading the news… i would think no casualties reported. 
Wondering might there been a “fire drill” just before hand. what a lucky coincidence
My feeling would be:
Stops due to COVID reduced productivity -> to compensate, factories rush the production -> as in every rush, accidents happen easier.
Also, I worked some years in a manufacturing plant and fire drills were common, like 4 per year with the whole factory. People are strong conditioned to leave everything and get out at any sign of fire.
But I am the least believer of conspiracy theories, so keep this in mind.
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Excited that Gamers Nexus might design their own case!
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Apparently it controls the touchpad too which is… interesting.
Realtek used to have a Wifi/Sound/USB controller in a single package. Together with 1GB drivers, those were absolutely horrible.