End of Year PC Build

Yep and AMD is on the power bandwagon too it seems:

AMD have not changed "physical" CPU design since Ryzen 3000...
Sure under the hood: Chiplets, Cache ect....
Just different amounts and but same locations...
NOTE: Have not looked at 7000's sub-straight yet but doubt its much different.

INTEL's worse though been a hurtle to even go sub 10 nano meter for what 5 years now?
Really can't innovate but under new leadership I will let that slide for a year or so.
Of course its the law: "If it ain't broke don't fix it" but that is the safe zone no risk taking.

AMD has or is about to fall into the dreaded stagnation trap:
INTEL's CPU chips are still 10 NM last i checked.
AMD is already working on 5 NM -so once AMD can't go smaller and can't get anymore performance...
INTEL still will have the head room to beat them bar none.
And that is coming from someone who has had disdain INTEL and their CPU's for decades...

IF they want to really allow people get creative...
Let people send in CPU designs and the best performer could exceed even their own margins.
Sure though they would need to give a crash course on do's and don'ts of designing.
Of course they would never do this -not in this day and age.

Does this sound ridiculous?
Yeah sure but its better than this end run that hard ware manufactures are heading toward.
Though some have bigger head room than others...
Unless they all venture toward Quantum computers then we can all have superhero computers:
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I've changed my mind: that is a beautiful piece of engineering.
But is does draw a lot, 300-400W in most cases, and about 520W in extreme cases. But then there's this:
It's crazy fast. And while it may be nowhere near my price range, now I want one. Just to marvel at it; It's no mean feat to make that sucker actually work and run cool.
It just might be. I mean I would if I had the money.

I'm fairly certain that the cheaper versions of the 40-series are going to be pretty good too.

Make sure it fits:

I would need a new case and PSU for sure.
I noticed that. I still think that the FPS crowd will love it.

Haha. That is the Seasonic 2x8-pin to 12VHPWR cable. The Corsair one looks just as iffy.




Most 40-series owners might prefer to use DLSS without frame generation for competitive FPS. DLSS still reduces input latency because it does the upscaling based on "real" frames.

The frame generation tech adds new frames based on motion interpolation like your TVs do. So that increases input latency.

I really hope they use it for video playbacks in the future. It is perfect for it. You know what I'm talking about if you have ever watched 24FPS movies on a high refresh rate gaming monitor with low response time. It is like watching a stuttering slide show.

So...
Since you plan on a 4000 series...
You think you should use a TV?

Just pray that their cable looks better...
Though it would probably be better to just get a S.PSU.

I still really like my 8 GB RTX 2080 Super FTW 3 Ultra Gaming....Given that the equivalent 30 series card is ultra rare almost non-existent these days and prices are still stupidly high...I would have an extremely hard time getting rid of my 2080 Super if I had thought I wanted to upgrade, because frankly, given the supply problems and the high prices, I wouldn't find anything in the 30 series that I would be equally as happy with. In my mind the price to performance plus teh struggle of actually obtaining a card would not be worth it.

And the set-up I have still totally rocks every pair of socks I have at 4K 60 FPS with everything on Ultra and even with DLSS and RTX ON, so why bother even trying to 'trade up' ?

The way I see it my current rig will last me long enough into the future that by the time I want to upgrade...I will actually NEED to upgrade and at that point it might as well be worth building from the ground up. Maybe then I will have luck in finding parts that I want which are at least equivalent to what I have now.

Until that time, I'm going to stick with what I have.

To add another thought to this post, however..... Although I am equally happy with every piece of hardware in my system- there isn't really any single piece that I think 'meh, it's okay..I would have preferred this, OR it would have been better if....'.... Looking at how my PC works when at full load (especially in the hot summer months), the hardware that I would say I mentally keep coming back to as being the 'most worth the money, given price to performance and build quality', would have to be the CPU Cooler:  the Corsair 280mm iCue H115 RGB Pro XT.  Not only does it fit my case beautifully, but the cooling performance (out of the box) is world's more than expected.  Some would say, 'insane' given my choice of CPU.

   The 10-900 series is reportedly known to run quite hot (some say pushing 85 Celcius), but even under full load (for example when doing 4K Gaming marathons of 3 hours+ at 4K/60 everything on Ultra with RTX and DLSS ON), I barely push 40-45 Celcius across all cores.   The ONLY single situation that I have ever seen the CPU get up to even 65-69 degrees is when I am running a FULL Virus Scan.  But that process is known to be and expected to be very intensive, so temperatures in the mid to high 60s or even low 70s would be expected.   And even those temperatures are only for split seconds, bouncing and changing randomly every second so there is nothing sustained for any length of time, which is also I think a marker of better than excellent cooling performance and reliability.

When I was building my system last year and chose the 280mm iCue H115 RGB Pro XT, the guy at Canada COmputers asked me "why specifically Corsair?  I mean, think about this:  Of all the brands we carry, Corsair is the only brand that we get back for repairs (not often but it does happen), and then repair them and sell them as refurbed"   We don't do that with any other brand."

To which I replied "well, I have used Corsair liquid AIOs since the H40 and H55 came out...the latest one I have is the H80i v. 2, and not one of them have I ever had any problems with.  More than that, they have all been excellent in the performance department, so as far as I'm concerned....when it comes to liquid cooling AIO/Closed Loop Coolers-- Corsair is a brand that I know and trust.   Also, I think they are reasonably priced."

Satisfied with my answer, he conceded and I chose what I chose.  I have in no way ever been disappointed.  In fact, I would by the same model again if I had to and could.

I mean we probably shouldn't laugh at Nvidia for doing the right thing and correcting their mistake rather than doubling down on it. Though it was a mistake that shouldn't have existed in the first place.

The "RTX 4080 12GB" will probably be renamed to RTX 4070 or 4070 Ti. The MSRP will be reduced as well, so this is good news for everyone. The not so good news is the crazy price increase of the RTX 4080 16GB over the RTX 3080 10GB. 

Yes.