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Well, it's a year later and I've gone through two DACs in the last month. After trying to pick between the Schiit Modius and SMSL Sanskrit 10th MKII, I ended up deciding on something else entirely. I wanted the SMSL M300 MKII to match my SA300 amp. However, the M300 MKII was apparently discontinued late last year. Hifi-express still had it in stock though, but on the night I was ready to buy it, I added it to my cart, then went to eat dinner, and came back to see it was out of stock. I clearly had practice for my Micro Center CPU/MB/RAM bundle out-of-stock experience last week. That led me to scramble and opt for the SMSL Sanskrit 10th MKII, which I learned was also recently discontinued and succeeded by the slightly pricier MKIII. I still got a new 10th MKII without any hassle though and had been using it for a month. It's been a great DAC and the price was exceptional at a discounted $100. I randomly looked up the M300 MKII on Hifi-express again a couple of weeks ago and this time, it was back in stock. Well, since that was my original target DAC for matching my SA300 as much as for using the AKM4497 DAC chip, I went ahead and bought it. Its price-performance ratio is much worse than the Sanskrit 10th MKII which has the AKM4493 like the original Schiit Modius, but a new M300 MKII on clearance cost nearly the same as a used AKM4493 Modius on eBay, so I guess it worked out. As of today, Hifi-express returns a 404 page instead of out of stock when looking up the M300 MKII, so now it's gone gone. I can't hear the difference between the M300 MKII and the Sanskrit 10th MKII, which was itself not as dramatic of an upgrade as going from the SMSL Q5 Pro amp to the SA300. It is nice to get a noticeably cleaner and stronger signal to my speakers though. No more internal PC sound hardware for speaker output. Also, I have audio output switching in Windows working for me for the first time ever with functional switching between the M300 MKII and my ancient Chaintech AV-710 sound card. At this point, I'm only using the AV-710 for basic front panel headphone output, and I'll be doing the same with the onboard sound on my new ROG Strix motherboard. Anyway, when I was running speaker output through the Wolfson DAC on the AV-710, switching to front panel audio required me to quit and restart every open audio stream, and Adobe Audition and Premiere would throw stream output errors when the Wolfson DAC was active. Glad I won't have to deal with those annoyances anymore.

I'm not over the moon with the result, but it also fit about as well as I could have hoped. It gets the job done and It's rigid enough to not deflect much when I press my fingers against it, not that anyone's going to be doing that anyway. In hindsight, welded mesh would have fit in a lot neater without warping and been much easier to work with than this standard fare woven mesh. To be fair, I didn't know welded mesh was an option until I found it on McMaster-Carr the other evening. I may still buy some because I'm far from having everything I need to put together the build right now. Another option is expanded steel, although I believe that would be significantly harder to bend with only hand tools, since I don't have a sheet metal brake or even any spare metal stock to create a makeshift one on a workbench.

I've telegraphed my build plans for probably an entire year now and I was planning to wait longer, but I couldn't pass up the most recent Micro Center deal even though I'm not truly ready to build the system at the moment. I have too many other things going on outside of this project right now. However, this was $599 before tax, and I've also ordered 64 GB of G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR5-6000 CL30, so I won't be using the 32 GB of Flare X5. Once I sell off the Flare X5, I'll have paid about $500 for the ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WiFi and 7900X, which currently go for a combined $730-740 elsewhere. The B650E-F was either my second or third choice of motherboard, but it does everything I need it to do. This is happening at a time when I just can't squeeze any more productivity out of my current sig rig. Working in Photoshop or especially Premiere with it just sucks. This is so long overdue that I would have been just fine going X570 and 5800X3D or 5950X, but I prefer to work in at least one CPU upgrade per motherboard if I can. Knowing that there is an obvious opportunity for AMD going forward for an 8950X3D or 9950X3D that uses 3D V-cache on both chiplets and can clock as high as a 7000 non-X3D, I'll take my chances on AM5 now. I realistically don't see the time to play games as much as I have over the last few years, so I'm okay not getting a 7950X3D or waiting for the 7800X3D and giving up a lot of productivity performance. Regardless, I haven't played at 1080p on my desktop since...ever, so the pissing match for fastest gaming CPU is largely irrelevant to me. Back on the production side, I also seriously considered their Asus Prime X670E-Pro WiFi and 7950X combo, but the B650E-F and 7900X combo came back in stock when I decided to review my options one more time. It sold out at my local Micro Center last Friday while I had it in my cart and then went down to eat breakfast, so I just assumed it wasn't meant to be for this current sales period. Then the inventory was restocked Monday, so I decided to not blow it twice. The 7950X would have been nice, but right now, I prefer saving the $250 and having a better quality motherboard on a slightly more limited chipset. As for the Intel options, the deals aren't there right now and they need to get their power/heat/efficiency issues in order before I consider their CPUs again. This 7900X is going to be run in 105W Eco mode. So here's an annoying quirk of this older ATX case. The back panel cutouts were never designed to accommodate a large fan beside the motherboard's I/O backplate. This means the chassis back panel cover is a solid piece of metal next to its I/O backplate cutout. I need to replace this entire piece with something more breathable. I settled on woven stainless 5x5 wire mesh, but in hindsight, I'm not sure that was the best choice. At least I should have used welded stainless 4x4 wire mesh from McMaster-Carr, but I'll try the Amazon special first and see where it gets me. Also, I'm expecting big things from those Silverstone Aeroslots Gen 2, because that's been dead air for my 3080 Ti. I guess this isn't a revelation to anyone who's done this more frequently than I have, but I see I/O backplate sizes have grown in width just noticeably enough since I last did any build (ASRock Z170 in 2015). The backplate on the B650E-F is wide enough to the point where it makes the wire mesh cutting job slightly easier because I no longer need to cut a rectangular hole in the mesh, but rather an open C-shaped cut where I don't need to replicate the "teeth" in the original solid chassis cover. However, that also makes it a little less secure. Hopefully, I can pin a couple millimeters of mesh in front of (or behind, relative to the case's front) the I/O backplate just enough to where it won't obstruct any ports.

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 it is then.

Strangely enough, I'm not really an SN95 fan either. That's a big part of why I never seriously considered a Mystichrome, other than, you know, that whole being poor at the time from still being in college thing. If nothing else though, a non-Cobra was certainly a non-starter. But that supercharged Terminator powertrain plus the paint? All of a sudden, I really liked the car. Currently, they're not outrageously expensive with them commonly going in the low-$30K range, but find a really clean, low mileage one, and well... No Reserve: 986-Mile 2004 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra Mystichrome Coupe BRINGATRAILER.COM Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: 986-Mile 2004 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra Mystichrome Coupe at auction with Bring a Trailer, the... My limits aren't endless though. I'm not going to be impressed by Mr. Bean's Mini done up like that, especially since the only way that engine fits in that car is if he sits on the roof with that armchair.

Thanks. I wish I had taken pics of my painting process back in 2007-08. If nothing else, that gave me a great appreciation for how body shops work. The funny thing is, if I had started this project a few years later, I would have copped out by vinyl wrapping the whole thing and called it done. Anyway, when I first started going down the path of painting, I figured I'd initially be okay with a matte finish on the paint job, but once I saw what the front panel pieces looked like after painstakingly wet sanded glass smooth and polished, even I was stunned. This time when I'm done, I'll have to remember to take some pics of the case in the sun. Even better would be if I had a friend with a 2004 Mystichrome SVT Ford Mustang Cobra (or if I had simply gotten one myself), but this ice cream sundae probably won't be getting that cherry-on-top photo op.

So here's my useless geek-out writing exercise. I partly loathe doing this because my mind goes on so many tangents when I write that I force myself to make tons of edits to cut down the fluff and verbiage, but I did also want to document my experience this go around. My machine was already built when I first joined OCN in 2011 and that was the last time I truly started from scratch. Also, I'm pretty sure I can be at least somewhat engaging when writing about esoteric crap like this that none of the normal people in my life understand. I'll make updates as I put all the pieces together, eventually culminating in the actual hardware installation and final build and workspace pics. Hopefully I don't run into any issues that will cause me to have to ditch this case, because it's really the centerpiece of the build. Starting with the case—as I’ve mentioned a number of times in other threads, it’s a Gateway 2000 P5-166 XL ATX tower case from 1996. It was one of the first ATX tower cases ever, since Gateway was selling this exterior case design as a Baby AT case the year before as their 10th Anniversary P5-133XL model. If you don't know what it looked like without the automotive paint job in my sig rig thumbnail, here you go: Source: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Gateway_2000_P5-166_XL The chassis is made with 1.94mm thick steel according to my digital calipers. Yes, you read that right. This is some ‘90s server grade material. It can also serve as a place to sit if you were too broke for chairs. There was a time when I was too cheap to buy a new case, but that hasn’t been true for decades now. I kind of admire this old tank, and the fact that it was ATX from day one made it easy enough to use now, even though the ATX spec has evolved quite a bit over time. There used to be a time when the power supply fan was supposed to be an intake that blew cool exterior air over the CPU. Crazy, huh? If you look at the third unmodified P5-166XL pic above, internally, it had removable drive cages to support up to seven 3.5” drives in addition to the front panel space allocated to four 5.25” drives. The front drive cage got in the way of longer video cards, so that was gone the day I got an EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Classified. The top rear cage was positioned in front of an opening for an 80mm fan. I never had a use for that upper cage, so I took that out in either 2001 or 2005. Sometime between 2008-11, I hacked a hole in the front of the case where there was a bump to support a plastic bracket that held a PC speaker and an optional 80mm front intake fan. I cut this thing open with an angle grinder and it was not a pretty sight or effort. I used the rectangular slots for the bracket—which happened to be about 105mm apart, same as the distance between the mounting screws of a 120mm fan—as weakly secured mounting holes for a 140mm to 120mm reducer adapter that once held an AeroCool 140mm fan, then later a Phanteks 140mm fan. Never mind that I was wasting the airflow of a 140mm fan by forcing it through a 120mm adapter, or that I didn't understand back then that static pressure matters more than CFM through partially obstructed openings. I truly didn't understand nor pay a lot of attention to anything in those days, as evidenced by my cuts that weren't straight and went way past the corners of perpendicular cuts. Well, over a decade later and with much more experience with metalwork and doing projects the right way, I decided to clean up this hack job. With the front drive cage no longer in use, I cut enough space on the front to mount two 120mm fans, this time with a rotary tool instead of barely being able to control an angle grinder with a cutting wheel larger than these fans. I originally wanted to put in two 140s, but the static pressure would have been weaker with the bigger fans unless I turned up the fan speeds, and believe it or not, this is supposed to be a silent PC build. Also, there would be a minor fitment issue with the upper right mounting screw location for the upper 140mm fan if I chose to go with that size. I ended up going with a pair of Be Quiet Silent Wings 4 120mm PWM fans. Of all the truly “silent” fan options available, these had the highest listed static pressure. The widened hole I cut still isn’t perfect, but again, it’s never going to be seen. At least this time, I filed the cuts, the lines are straighter, and I drilled proper mounting holes. The main thing I wanted to do was allow the Noctua NA-SFMA1 140mm to 120mm fan mounting adapters to sit flush against the inside of the chassis. One cheat I had to do was mount one the Be Quiet plastic push fasteners through the case to secure the Noctua adapter and 120mm fan hole for the upper right corner of the upper fan instead of using the 140mm mounting hole. Truthfully, the Noctua adapters weren't a must-have, but it was far easier to drill holes in the chassis spaced for 140mm rather than 120mm. The last bit of metalwork I still have to do with this case is bend and trim wire mesh to fit and replace the large blank plate area on the back of the case next to the I/O panel (see the second unmodified P5-166XL pic way above). With my new Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 120mm dual tower heatsink, the goal is to have the CPU's hot air directed out the back of the case primarily with the heatsink's rear fan. Not having a dedicated rear case fan hasn't been as bad as I worried it would be, as evidenced by my interim Montech X1 case's great temps despite having to remove its rear exhaust fan so my existing Noctua NH-C14S heatsink could fit in the case. I should point out that compared to the Peerless Assassin 120 SE, the NH-C14S is a far worse heatsink setup as it's a top-down cooler pushing internal air down onto the CPU and spreading it around rather than flowing the hot air away from the CPU. That's about it for this entry. Below is a pic of my case after I installed white LED lighting near the front vents back in 2016, then the Montech X1 I'm currently using. Even though I hate admitting to being attracted to RGB lighting, it's given me some ideas for my case. I mean, if all these contemporary motherboards are going to give us ARGB headers, then I guess I'll just play along.

Enough reviews to keep you busy for hours: https://videocardz.com/150677/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-desktop-cpu-review-roundup Maybe I'm too old to care about FPS in isolation, because this is the most staggering difference versus the 13900K to me: The 7800X3D will be the better gaming CPU. AMD wanted to get the higher margin SKU out first. Anyway, guess I can go reserve my Micro Center CPU+MB+RAM combo now for the price of a 7950X. I'll be running a 7900X in 105W Eco Mode.

I was rummaging through some old boxes to see if I could collect a total of eight M5 fan screws for my case mod project. Here's some of the crap I found: This 5.25" IDE hard drive is the Quantum Bigfoot TX, the slowest consumer-grade 6 GB piece of crap on the planet. It was pulled from my cousin's 1998 IBM Aptiva PC. The computer eventually changed hands and became my parents' for a few years. Like all IDE hard drives I held on to for far too long after I got a motherboard that supported SATA, I never bothered to hook this up with a SATA-IDE adapter to pull any useful data and wipe the drive. This one just went in a box for me to forget about for a couple of decades. This thing was a complete joke of a hard drive. 4000 RPM. Yes, 4000 RPM. That was actually an upgrade over the original Bigfoot and Bigfoot CY which spun at 3600 RPM. This family of drives was so damn loud and slow that I remember my friends clowning another friend for actually spending money on one back in high school. He was so happy that he got the biggest consumer drive on the market at 19.2 GB and it was relatively cheap, which to be fair, mattered a lot for a high school student. But it was loud and slow and generally sucked. Everyone else at that lunch table would have preferred making up the deficit with Iomega Jaz drive cartridges or a stack of CD-RWs instead of having this poor excuse of a contemporary hard drive. Here is the original 3.5" internal floppy drive to my Gateway 2000 PC. The original ATX motherboard backplate for my Gateway: two serial ports, PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports, and parallel port. That was it. Lastly, this is the fan I removed from my Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro after it died on me. Oh yeah, I only found two M5 fan screws but somehow I have over a dozen M4-sized ones, so I ended up ordering 50 more M5 from Amazon.

Comcast still employs the irritating first-year introductory pricing game, but you can change your plan at any time online without having to pick up the phone. Just do it on month 11 or whenever you see a good deal because they actually do periodically rotate the discounts.

As a former web designer, I've hated IE pretty much since the dawn of its existence. I used Netscape Communicator before Mozilla became a distinct entity. I haven't used Firefox proper in a long time though. I have no love for the Mozilla Corporation nor the direction in which they've taken Firefox over the years.

Here are the oldest components I documented selling. Afreey 56X CD-ROM 256 MB Crucial PC133 CL2 SDRAM Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS 64 MB AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1333 MHz with Socket A heatsink and fan US Robotics 56K PCI Faxmodem Finally, here are the oldest components by manufacture date that I photographed. The Altec Lansing ACS400 speaker system came with my Gateway PC in 1996. Apparently, I didn't sell this until 2010. I replaced the ACS400 with the ACS500 back in 2006, then I sold the ACS500 in 2011. Both models debuted in 1995-96 with the ACS500 coming out first (according to what spotty records I can find with Google) and going to retail markets, while the ACS400 debuted a little later and went to OEM.

I guess this thread came at a good time for me considering I'm planning to move my entire build this weekend into a temporary Montech X1 case I picked up for cheap at Micro Center so I can perform some more fabrication work on my own case. These were the main parts to my build in 2011. I'm still using the motherboard. Back then, I didn't have a cordless drill, Dremel, metal files, or any meaningful sense of custom fabrication or building things the right way, so the hole I cut out in my case back then was extremely hacky. The bump originally housed a bracket which held the PC speaker and an optional 80 mm fan. I think I made those cuts with an angle grinder, which was too unwieldy for making more precise cuts. The fan was a 140 mm AeroCool mounted on a 120 mm adapter which barely hooked into the slots for the original PC speaker bracket in the sheetmetal. There also used to be a 3.5" drive cage that I no longer use that mounted on a mid-case support brace. That brace has been the bane of almost all my CPU air cooling efforts. The case mounting point for the PSU has also been a nuisance for me over the years. At the time, I was using a Noctua NH-U9B SE2 oriented to attempt to ram the exhaust through the PSU. I've measured and determined that I can indeed create a proper dual 140 mm fan intake on the front. Part of the challenge for my Zen 4 build will be continuing to make a 27-year-old ATX case viable despite it having a few idiotic layout issues that were complete afterthoughts back when active cooling wasn't necessary. Obviously, I don't need to do any of this when I can work with far more modern cases, but it's been a good challenge to cut down on e-waste and see how far I can push the limits of such an old case that also serves as a reminder of how long the ATX form factor has been around. My main difficulties involve no top ventilation, no chassis-mounted rear fan (that stupid 80 mm above the PSU doesn't count), and no built-in cable management. If the case wasn't so tall and ATX, I would have given up on it a long ago. It's interesting reflecting on how I transitioned from a time in my life when I didn't want to spend money on a new case because affordability was a concern and I was being frugal, to now, where I'm basically keeping an old-ass case for retro vibes and the technical challenge of making it work for a modern PC build. Here's the oldest PCB I photographed. This was my old Iwill KK266Plus VIA KT133A motherboard that I used from 2001-05 before I listed it on eBay. I also have plenty more pics I can post later of old hardware from when I listed those components for sale. Finally, this was my desktop in 2005 with the Altec Lansing ACS500 speaker towers and a 70 lb. 21" Sony CPD-G500 Trinitron CRT that had some color accuracy issues over VGA. First of all, what a boulder of a monitor. Second, I can't believe I used to think those speakers were good compared to the time, effort, and money I put into audio equipment now.

I'm sure this is no big deal to a number of forum members here, but this is as close as I've ever gotten to a cutting-edge GPU so it's kind of exciting for me. Yes, it is used. Yes, much of its potential will be wasted for a few more months until I build my Zen 4 machine. I have a friend building a new PC now who is interested in my 3060 Ti, and I was going to upgrade sooner or later now that I'm driving a 4K TV and a wannabe-4K ultrawide monitor, so I went for it during an active eBay Bucks promotion. Also, I get to own a small piece of history, a top-shelf EVGA FTW series card with nearly top-shelf 30 series silicon, for a period of time while it's still performance-relevant. It's sad to say that this will be my sixth and final EVGA card and we all know it has nothing to do with being dissatisfied with the brand.

For the last couple of months and even as of right now, I'm targeting the cheaper of the 7900 or 7900X, but I'll be looking forward to when the reviews for these come out to see if either the 7800X3D or 7900X3D can make a good case for my needs. I guess the 7800X3D and 7900(X) aren't really typical targets for cross-shopping if you consider the use cases of the 5800X3D and 5900X, but I do both gaming and production to varying degrees. Either one will be so far ahead of this i7-2600K regardless that I probably can't go wrong either way. I'm also curious to see how the Windows scheduler will handle the 79x0X3D SKUs. Microsoft seems hellbent on moving people to Windows 11 and I wouldn't be surprised if they withhold any updates needed to optimize the 79x0X3D CPUs from Windows 10.

Ignoring the nonstarter of its steep price for a moment, yeah, that resolution is awful for that screen size, which is a shame because I like the fact that it's bendable. One of my biggest issues with curved monitors these days is too narrow of a curve radius (i.e. too much curve). Being OLED would help with color uniformity (which LCD ultrawides are notoriously terrible with) at the cost of always-lingering worries about burn-in. Last month, I upgraded from my 34" 3440x1440 to a 38" 3840x1600 (will probably post more details about this tedious upgrade later in another thread) and those two sizes and resolutions essentially have the same pixel density, so at the same viewing distance, the 38" just feels like a nice dose of more screen space in my face. 45" 3440x1440 has a pixel density that's a fairly close match for my 55" 4K TV which is on a wall mount. I sit about 29" from my monitor and 39" from my TV when I have the wall mount arms extended. I wouldn't have another 10" to push a 45" ultrawide monitor further back on my desk, but even if I did, a screen that far away from my face loses its immersive qualities which negates the benefit of the curve and also doesn't feel suitable for work.

OCN was a great help to me back when I first put together the core components of the build I'm still using to this day (at this point, really only the motherboard) and plan to retire and part out by the middle of this year. There were a number of helpful people and threads there that helped me get more mileage out of Sandy Bridge than any other platform I've ever put together. However, the community there did noticeably and continually decline over the years and my only two lasting memories there that haven't carried over to here (such as several intelligent and knowledgeable forum members who help make the EHW community what it is today) are 1) a 2011 thread where an OCN forum member shot up his Pentium 4 machine and posted photo proof and 2) back around maybe 2019 when some clown who probably frequented r/wallstreetbets was too much of an incoherent chickenshit to provide proof of whatever idiotic claim he was making, so he chose to flame me via PM, which I then promptly reported. My last dozen or so posts at OCN were spent arguing with OCN brand loyalists and the VS admins about I don't even know what anymore. Once UltraMega dropped a subtle hint in a post there back when mentioning EHW was more taboo, I ended up over here and never looked back.

Nvidia: "You will get a 192-bit memory bus on a 70 Ti class card for $800+ and you will like it." Me: "Nah."

This is my go-to test track for bass too. A couple things I'll say about this and my Rythmik D15SE: I've listened to other tracks where I felt it in my chest, but this may be the only track I've ever played on the D15SE where I felt the bass between my ears. To others reading this thread, that is not the same as hearing it. Also, with this playing at slightly uncomfortable levels indoors and standing outside in the yard between my neighbor's house and mine: nothing. Can't beat single-family/detached house living.

Follow-up to my old post: I ended up getting a refurbished Steelcase Leap V2 without a headrest from Crandall. I went for their thicker seat and back pad options for extra cushioning, as well as the rollerblade casters. Total out the door was under $650. If I had gone with a refurbished Gesture with a headrest, it would have cost well over $1000 with the options I wanted, but I read some mixed reviews about the Gesture's back support and decided it wasn't worth double the cost of a refurbished Leap V2. What prompted me to get a new chair now was my old cheap office chair's seat cushion foam going completely flat over the last month, so I was basically sitting on an upholstered hard surface, and my butt and lower back were hurting as a result. So far, the Leap V2 has been great. I haven't really sat in a chair with good lumbar support since a few years ago when I worked in an office that had Aeron chairs. This chair's lumbar support is better than the Aeron's and the pressure on my lumbar causes me to push my upper back against the seatback and sit up straight instead of slouch. I'm also more actively aware of stretching out my upper back and neck muscles while sitting as well. The casters are nice. They roll so much better on my chair mat than the casters on my old chair. The adjustable armrests are very versatile. As for the headrest, I realized that I usually don't need one unless I'm trying to lean back and recline. However, for the times that I do, I'll be doing this mod since I'd rather not drill holes in the seatback. I know I don't really need it because these chairs are fairly easy to work on, but I may as well preserve Crandall's 12-year warranty. Because I went for the platinum frame on my Leap V2, I'll look for a lighter colored Engineered Now H3 headrest and use stainless steel zip ties which should look a little more professional than your usual black plastic ones. Leap v2 Aftermarket Headrest Hack : OfficeChairs OLD.REDDIT.COM I purchased a used Leap v2 about five years ago and it has been a fantastic chair for me. I recently found myself wanting a headrest...

I mean, that's probably true too. The real difference between NorCal and SoCal.

I'm liking the Steelcase Gesture with headrest when I get to a point of really wanting a new chair. I'd probably go for roller blade casters. I was also considering the Leap V2 with headrest, but there are a lot of mixed reviews on the headrest that goes with that chair.

Check out BTOD or Crandall Office Furniture for refurbished Steelcases or returns instead of buying new from Amazon. That's probably the route I would go for a Steelcase chair. Crandall especially seems to have a lot of customization options for the refurbished route. Ergonomic Office Chairs and Furniture from BTOD.com WWW.BTOD.COM Shop a wide selection of office furniture at beyondtheofficedoor.com. Free shipping and no sales tax on everything shipped outside of WI. Crandall Office Furniture - Remanufactured Office Chairs & Chair Parts WWW.CRANDALLOFFICE.COM Remanufactured / Refurbished Used Steelcase & Herman MIller Office Chairs. Office Chair Parts. Office Furniture Buyback / Decomissions

I guess people could argue all day about the RAM situation, because on one hand, DDR4-3200 with an i9-12900KF is very sub-optimal, but it's also sub-optimal for Zen 3 Ryzen. The DDR4 is also at a more palatable price point for the otherwise more expensive Intel platform. TechPowerUp did extensive testing on DDR5 and concluded: DDR5 Memory Performance Scaling with Alder Lake Core i9-12900K WWW.TECHPOWERUP.COM In this article, we take a closer look at the performance scaling you can expect for various DDR5 configurations. We test from DDR5-6000 all... So it doesn't seem like the memory makes a big enough difference in the grand scheme of things, which isn't that surprising considering this is what happens with every transition to a new generation of DDR RAM. I think the real takeaway is that L3 cache is clearly beneficial to gaming. Also, here's the original review from XanxoGaming which shows all their benchmarks. AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Review – The last gaming gift for AM4 XANXOGAMING.COM AMD's last gaming gift for AM4 platform. Ryzen 7 5800X3D review. Benchmarks and work in progress of the new AMD's gaming focused...