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Just gotta keep you on your toes bro. Seriously though, those were some gorgeous cards. I have one of those 290x Tri-X's myself, great cards. I can never remember if that model was a Tri-X or Vapor-X, whatever, you know what I mean lol.

Oof, is that Cooler Master v1000 the reason why those cards are no longer with you? R.I.P.

Honestly, having ran a 6900xt, 5700xt, and a Vega64, all with modern enough Ryzen CPU's, I'd say the biggest difference between the 2 cards is going to be resolution. A Vega is capable of running "most" games at preset Ultra settings at 1080p. 5700xt can do the same at 1440p. And the 6900xt at 4k. With that being said, those tests were ran when I got my 6900xt when it was new. So basically, what your current Vega is doing at 1080p, a 5700xt will do VERY similarly......at 1440p.

Wanna bet? I say we let the cards do the talking.....

I have not. I'll be busting out Socket 939 here soon-ish for the hwbot Team Cup (you should join us again this year, only 2 weeks left). I can try one of them in Socket 939 or even AM2 here when I have those rigs out for benching.

I have a Vega, 5700XT, and even a 6900XT. Been a while since I've checked on server boards, but looks like C32 is roughly equivilant to Bulldozer and Piledriver ish. I've got a 290x paired with my FX chip. RX 580 is also a good pairing. Vega will be SLIGHTLY bottlenecked by it, but it'll run fine. R9 Fury would also be a good fit, although Vega would work better. 5700XT if you absolutely want something supported by current drivers. You could also step into like a 6600XT, or even a 6700XT if you're at 4k resolution I'd wager too.

I'm not sure if it'll help in your fella's quest here, but I have on hand a Vega64 I could measure. I do believe @LabRat has the same card too though.

Question, Wouldn't this new "section" conflict a little bit with the "site suggestions" section? I mean if you can't find something on the site / how to use something, the site itself should be relatively common sense proof. So if something is missing or a person can't find it, they could always suggest whatever feature is missing. If the site has it already, @ENTERPRISEusually pops in and gives the proper directions on how to access said feature, and if its not available he usually offers to put it in for us. I kinda agree with E on this one, that it would absolutely have the potential to be "abused" for just general tech help instead of the "site help" like you're suggesting. Thing is WE here at EHW are, for the most part, a group of pretty smart individuals. We need to remember though however, that PEOPLE in general are dumb, mindless creatures in mass. Not everyone would take the time to read E's instructions. "Oh, this section says help, I need help with my new Asus x99999 motherboard so I'll post here" is EXACTLY the kind of mentality I would expect with a "site help" section. IDK, just my 2 cents.

$5.99 at the thrift store.

Okay, you actually made me go hunting and research a Socket I already thought I knew everything about. See....we DO learn new things everyday!!!! So.....I was GOING to say, that magazine must be impossible. FX-51 is a Socket 940 based processor, and Socket 940 only had PCIe capable motherboards and DDR ECC memory options only. HOWEVER, turns out I'd be wrong in that assessment. I had NO CLUE they made AGP Socket 940 motherboards!!!! Apparently, they were only produced in the early days of Socket 940, once Nvidia got their act together with their NForce chipsets, 940 went full PCIe only at THAT point (around Socket 939 release). Socket 754 was the only Socket at the time that had AGP from AMD, or you'd have to go backwards to Socket A and K7 with the Athlon-XP processors to get AGP back. Again, I see NOW that I was wrong in that remembrance. Here's proof: ASUS SK8N NVIDIA nForce3 Pro 150 Mainboard IXBTLABS.COM The only reason I even went into all that, is because the Radeon 9800XT was ONLY released as an AGP card. But hey, thanks for teaching me something new today!

You're going to fit in PERFECTLY around here....... Welcome (again I guess?) to EHW!

The Ti 4200's aren't too terribly bad if you can find one from a reasonable seller. I almost bought one for $35 a few days ago. Seller didn't want to combine shipping though (was from Ukraine to US), was trying to grab multiple old cards from him. $160 shipped for 3 vintage cards? Yeah no thank you. The Ti 4400 and 4600's are stupid expensive though. Been trying to score one. -_-

That was a wonderful read boss man. Sounds like Gigabyte has their act together on this SSD, looks like this SSD might be worth every penny of the Gen5 pricing. The included heatsink also appears like it might put high end tower coolers to shame too..... Spot on review! Was well worth the read!

Send it to pio to collect? Hey, can't say I didn't try......

I'm working on that...... Currently I've got a XFX GeForce 6200 I can toss in there, or a Riva TNT2 PCI 16MB card. I might be able to get my MX420 to stop artifacting, MAYBE but that's like a $9 card to replace too. So yeah, lacking AGP video cards still at the moment.

Don't you have a 3060Ti still you could be running too? You probably could've held the lead and beaten Flux had you had all your gear running I bet. Good showing everyone! My poor 6900XT is worthless on these foldathons, plus the heat, yeah its just too much during the summer.

Want! I already did that run though, I really should allow somebody else to take that.

Just got a neat new (to me) motherboard in from @UltraMega actually. Old 775 board that takes P4's and Pentium D's, and a couple Conroe C2D chips (very few). AGP board though!!! I do need to actually repair the board, there's one blown cap on there that needs attention before I want to power it up. These AGP 775 boards, ESPECIALLY ones that support Core 2 at all, are actually kinda hard to find. Should be a good board for hwbot stuffs later once I get it recapped.

https://hwbot.org/submission/5333204

That's a really terrific looking case! Never would have even looked at BeQuiet cases. Thanks for covering this Mr. Fox!

Did someone say 939? @Avacadoif you need a copy of clockgen, I think I still have the copy I used decades ago ON socket 939 stashed away somewhere on my NAS. I'm probably not going to break any records on 939, my CPU's I have all suck. 2.9GHz at best. I could try a single core out though, I've got like 6 of those laying around I haven't even tried yet.

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We can't let OCN win beat us this year........

Okay that's it. My collection is coming out this week.