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Just picked up a 1 TB XPG SX8200 Pro as per earlier recommendation in this thread for my gaming rig, absolutely great drive as a main Windows drive.

Pretty sure AM5 would be DDR5 to match all their previous launches. Not sure how different DDR4 and DDR5 will be in terms of memory controllers, but they could do the AM4+ / AM5 approach, but I think it would be nice to have proper walls. With AMD's new income stream and more stable income, I can see them moving to a AM5 socket for DDR5 compatibility, while having AM4 options of the new processor architectures as well as long as. Naming would be something that they need to figure out for sure to keep all confusion out. It would actually be nice to have the Socket Generation part of the CPU names would be nice, so if 4000 becomes the last generation that AM4 sees

So for my home network, I'm using some Mellanox Connect-X3 cards with SFP+ ports and picked up a pair of them alongside some 15 feet Direct Attach Copper Cables for only $170 on eBay.

So much storage, love it. I love my current Plex Server in a Rosewill RSV4000 with up to 12 3.5" bays and M.2 as Cache drives, but I think my next build I might actually want to paly with the idea of networked storage via a 10 or 25 gigabit link then just have a separate box of purely drives and redundant power supply. That way I don't need to take my main array down if I am upgrading storage and the big network storage block would be for the less important bigger things like backups, all the media, etc. and reserve the main array for files, web server, VM's, etc.

Woohoo, looking forward to a good board this time around

I'm no financial expert, but I think Intel's CPU division was still holding on to a deep set of reserves from then they did have virtually all of the OEM and Server space, now that AMD is really digging those markets away, the reserves are being spent more cautiously on refinements until a large breakthrough. Intel might just have to bank on having such a diversified portfolio and make a large investment in to their CPU division and just to the Zen route and try to design something new for the next process node and win in some other way. The Core architecture and its derivatives has been around for far too long and we need some spicy new innovations to keep a competitive market alive.

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At least you have a good CPU upgrade path still and the 2070 should last you for a while, or at least hold its value in the used market if you decide to sell it.

It's not the multiple models with different speeds that bugs me. It's the different memory interfaces and different encode/decode engines that bugs me the most.

They are better in some ways, far worse in others. Now ReLive is just on by default I think, and they added a bunch of hotkeys, so I had to go in and Disable all the hotkeys since some of them line up with in-game shortcuts I have setup. Also if you grew up in Catalyst Control Center days and then early Adrenaline, you will have a hard time with how they moved stuff around again in the latest driver software and some stuff is only accessible buy the little settings gear icon on the top right (like the hotkeys I talked about) which is annoying.

Another thing I've been hoping would happen for a long while is for all PSU vendors to use the same PSU-side pinouts as each other so you can just buy add-on cables as you need them, or in this case, the new 12-pin GPU connector.

Yeah, early uses of the 12-pin will likely be conservative until proper power supplies or modular cable sets for existing power supplies are released.

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Definitely would not want to see dual 6-pin to 12-pin as most 6-pin cables will have smaller gauge wire. Assuming they do use 6-pins for 12 V delivery and 6 for ground, that's 100W per wire pair and at 12 V, that's 8.333 A per wire and connector on the new 12-pin side. Or another way to look at it is 300W per 6-pin. On the 6-pin, only 2 of the wires are actually connected to 12 V per the spec so 2 pins/wires would need to carry 3 pins/wires worth of current, so then you have 12.5 A per wire/pin on the 6-pin. At least on the 8-pin, you actually have 3 12 V carrying wires/pins to keep it consistent. It would just be a bad time as even people who bought good power supplies might not be able to afford a new power supply alongside a new GPU so having "cheap" dual 6-pin to 12-pin adapters would lead to either too much current travelling through the older 6-pin cables, or bad voltage regulation at the end and not getting the full 12 V causing even higher current spikes and instability on a GPU that is otherwise okay.

I just hate that Ryzen 4000 and Big Navi will hit at the same time, I should start writing my opinion pieces to sell online to buy tech so I can keep writing more opinion pieces lol.

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As much as I am really hoping that AMD pulls off something great, I can't deny that Nvidia has faster options for gaming right now and I can't fathom AMD making a big enough jump to be directly competitive with Nvidia's highest end gaming products. Now I do like the idea of a more powerful "single" connector as that same 12-pin could also be used for CPU sockets or PCIe Socket power and get rid of the 6-pin PCIe, the 4+4 EPS and the 8-pin EPS all at once and maybe even the 8-pin PCIe. Just think about only having the following connectors to choose from: - 20+4 Pin Motherboard - 12-pin 12V connector (CPU + GPU + Motherboard Aux 12V + Add-in cards like Thunder Bolt) - Sata Power (also used to power most add-ons now and could easily be used to power add-in cards like USB 3.0 cards) A dual 8-pin to 12-pin adapter should suffice for the transition phase until cards come out that absolutely need that full 600 Watts of potential power. Not sure exactly how the new spec would play with the sense wire used by some power supplies to help regulate the voltage at the end of the PCIe power cables, so adapters might not be just a simple direct connection between the different connectors. Pros: - Less parts to stock - Better QA on limited set of connector types - It would eventually make PSU's cheaper - Modular cables would be much easier - A push for a standard wire gauge as part of the spec would also mean power delivery Cons: - Inevitable transition on new motherboards, GPU's and add-in cards to new style of PSU - Also transition to new PSU - Would need adapters during transition which could lead to fires if undersized or used improperly

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Let's just bump the main power rail up to 24 VDC.

Source NAS hardware is starting to get interesting for Prosumers and Small to Medium business with options like this. It could make for a nice weekly "cold backup" that you just boot up on Sunday night to copy that weeks files to, or run this as an easy way to get a couple redundant file servers somewhere.