NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

Kirun said:

Can't find a 5900, but you expect me to be able to find a 3090? Lulz. There's no fucking way I'm paying $1500 for a GPU, even if I was able to skimp and pay only $100 for a CPU.

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Did you see if Springbok has one for sale?

Kirun said:

Can't find a 5900, but you expect me to be able to find a 3090? Lulz. There's no fucking way I'm paying $1500 for a GPU, even if I was able to skimp and pay only $100 for a CPU.

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My real point was that for a lot of people, the 5600X is not at all inferior to a 5900X until some much, much better GPUs come out and more programs other than benchmarks and content creation actually optimize for more cores.

Those new Intel chips run hot as fuck too.

You can tune any CPU to run at the listed power draw. I've run my 3950 at 95w under P95 small FFTs or 230w. My 3700x at 65w or 140w full load P95. 5800x at 95-150w. You need to look at like-for-like, same-site reviews and understand methodology. Intel gives recommend turbo guidance for clocks and power draw (tau) which the CPU is supposed to run at for the initial 50 seconds (?) of the load, after that, it is supposed to drop down in draw. But mobo makers almost always all tune their defaults to override these settings, so they can run at (much) higher power draw and rely on thermals to throttle (side note - back in the AMD Bulldozer days, one mobo manufacturer was gaming the temp sensor reporting to trick the CPU into thermally throttling, because otherwise the CPU would exceed it's 125w TDP and their boards weren't able to handle it).

AVX-512 on Intel is it's own special variance regarding power draw (often this is the Peak power value in reviews), but also crushes AMD in performance on this type of workload.

Kirun said:

I'm really fucking tempted to pull the trigger on a 10900k. 5900x is just flat impossible to find.

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I got one on Kijiji for 150$ under retail sealed in the box. A bunch of 5950xs dropped at a local store and there were quite a few people dumping their 5900s for retail or a bit below. I for sure hit the lottery but its a clear cycle that happens every time the local stores restock. I ended up dumping the savings into a 2TB SN850 pcie4 M2 drive. Going from an Intel 4700k with an old
Sata ssd to M2 and 5900x is like another world.

Also is it impossible to buy any decent hardware without RGB? My pc looks like the Vegas strip.

Tripamang said:

Also is it impossible to buy any decent hardware without RGB? My pc looks like the Vegas strip.

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You have to go out of your way to avoid the RGB it seems like. I didnt want any RGB in my latest build but couldnt get around it on my ram and video card. I tried to offset it with a case that has tinted, tempered glass on the side. The RGB is still visible, but it's a bit muted rather than looking like carnival lights.

Tripamang said:

Also is it impossible to buy any decent hardware without RGB? My pc looks like the Vegas strip.

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Typically easy to disable though, either via BIOS (some mobos allow the reset button to be repurposed as an off/on switch for RGB) or by using the correctg RGB software mode and setting everything to the off/blackout mode.

I got the cheapest aio water cooler, DDR 3200 ram and motherboard available and its lit up like a Christmas tree. But my 2 yr just sits there in my computer chair saying "Woah, awesome. Good job daddy." watching the lights. I was surprised how interested she was while I was putting it together too, she made me explain everything I was doing. I'd shut the lights off but she really loves them.