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I want to start 2 projects with AMD but I am afraid of all the issues with the APU models. 5600G and 5700G both have some issues. Is there any specific feature the motherboards needs to boot without GPU? - AM4 motherboards I am thinking of buying AMD non-APU models, maybe 5600.
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I was laptop only for like 13 years after my Athlon 64 X2 GeForce 6800 GTX system died on me back in the day.
Got my last gaming laptop summer of 2020 when the pandemic was entering full swing. That was:
i7-10875h
32 gigs DDR4 running 2933 mhz
Nvidia 2070 Super
1080p VA panel
In February I finally decided to get back into the desktop world, which meant I had to get a monitor.
So I started with an:
Alienware 27 360Hz QD OLED Gaming Monitor AW2725DF
This is my first OLED and my first ever HDR monitor. Funny, HDR wasn't even on my radar but now its a killer app. I figured I would only use HDR in a small group of titles that supported it properly but there are multiple tools to use HDR even in 25+ year old games and it looks amazing.
Intel i7-14700kf
MSI Nvidia 4080 Super
32-gigs DDR5 6000 mhz
850 watt PSU
Can you believe I paid a grand total of $2199 for that? My first ever prebuilt. I was worried that the video card would break off in shipping or something but nope. There was a very thick rigid piece of foam holding it in place.
If you told me I would ever get a prebuilt I wouldn't have believed you but I have had no issues.
Got my last gaming laptop summer of 2020 when the pandemic was entering full swing. That was:
i7-10875h
32 gigs DDR4 running 2933 mhz
Nvidia 2070 Super
1080p VA panel
In February I finally decided to get back into the desktop world, which meant I had to get a monitor.
So I started with an:
Alienware 27 360Hz QD OLED Gaming Monitor AW2725DF
This is my first OLED and my first ever HDR monitor. Funny, HDR wasn't even on my radar but now its a killer app. I figured I would only use HDR in a small group of titles that supported it properly but there are multiple tools to use HDR even in 25+ year old games and it looks amazing.
Intel i7-14700kf
MSI Nvidia 4080 Super
32-gigs DDR5 6000 mhz
850 watt PSU
Can you believe I paid a grand total of $2199 for that? My first ever prebuilt. I was worried that the video card would break off in shipping or something but nope. There was a very thick rigid piece of foam holding it in place.
If you told me I would ever get a prebuilt I wouldn't have believed you but I have had no issues.
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Anybody here who finds a SoC motherboard with: Intel CPU on it or AMD CPU on it. with following specs. MUCH APPRECIATED!
Atleast x8 mode for a PCIE x16 slot.
However an M-ATX with x8 mode and x4 mode on the PCIe x16 slots would be a dream for me
Atleast x8 mode for a PCIE x16 slot.
However an M-ATX with x8 mode and x4 mode on the PCIe x16 slots would be a dream for me
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I got the Asus ROG Strix SCAR 18 (2024)
Specs:
18" 240Hz Mini LED display at 2560x1600
Windows 11 Pro
1TB NVMe M.2 SSD - added a second SSD, a 2TB WD_Black SN850X M.2
32GB DDR5/5600
Intel Core i9 14900HX CPU
GeForce RTX 4080 12GB
Took out the stock WIFI6e M.2, swapped it out with the Intel B1750X (BE200) Killer series WIFI7 w/Bluetooth 5.4
I might clone the 1TB drive and put in another 2TB, but not sure if it's needed yet. I will have to see how much the 2TB drive fills up after I use it for a while.
I really like the display on this thing.
Only tested out "Horizon: Forbidden West" for a few minutes, and it runs pretty well.
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I almost got that exact laptop then I decided to get my first desktop in 10+ years and a QD-OLED monitor. Took a minute to get used to a 27" screen after using 17" for more than a decade
Good idea. I have a LG OLED 48" and a 55" OLED C1, so I'm good in the 'big monitor' section.
However, I'm gonna be going on extensive travel the rest of this year, and my older laptop has a really, really awful display. It's over 3 years old, so figured this one should last me a while.
With Horizon on my current playlist, and Ghosts of Tsushima coming out, I will have several weeks of free time to enjoy the beauty of these games on the laptop.
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A small but worthwhile change to main rig:
R7 5700X3D (from R9 5900X)
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Xtreme
XFX MERC 310 RX 7900 XTX
2x 16GB Kingston Fury DDR4 3600C16
2TB Team Group Cardea Zero Z440 NVMe M.2 PCIe 4x4 (games)
4TB Lexar NM790 NVMe M.2 PCIe 4x4 (games)
4TB Samsung EVO 860 SATA SSD (games)
2TB Samsung QVO 860 SATA SSD (games)
6TB WD Black (games)
2TB Seagate (downloads, music and vid files)
Corsair HX1000 Platinum
CoolerMaster H500M
A CPU upgrade for my 2nd rig:
AMD R9 5900X (from R9 3900X) + Thermalright PA 120 SE
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite AX
Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6900 XT
2x 16GB DDR4 4000
500GB Crucial P3 Plus NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen4x4 (OS)
1x 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe 3x4 (games)
4TB Leven JS500 SATA SSD (games)
1TB Samsung 860 EVO SATA SSD (games)
2TB Seagate (downloads, music and vid files)
Enermax MAXREVO 1500W PSU
SOLDAM XR-1 Black Knight
Other than these few minor changes, everything else stayed the same ...
R7 5700X3D (from R9 5900X)
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Xtreme
XFX MERC 310 RX 7900 XTX
2x 16GB Kingston Fury DDR4 3600C16
2TB Team Group Cardea Zero Z440 NVMe M.2 PCIe 4x4 (games)
4TB Lexar NM790 NVMe M.2 PCIe 4x4 (games)
4TB Samsung EVO 860 SATA SSD (games)
2TB Samsung QVO 860 SATA SSD (games)
6TB WD Black (games)
2TB Seagate (downloads, music and vid files)
Corsair HX1000 Platinum
CoolerMaster H500M
A CPU upgrade for my 2nd rig:
AMD R9 5900X (from R9 3900X) + Thermalright PA 120 SE
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite AX
Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6900 XT
2x 16GB DDR4 4000
500GB Crucial P3 Plus NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen4x4 (OS)
1x 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe 3x4 (games)
4TB Leven JS500 SATA SSD (games)
1TB Samsung 860 EVO SATA SSD (games)
2TB Seagate (downloads, music and vid files)
Enermax MAXREVO 1500W PSU
SOLDAM XR-1 Black Knight
Other than these few minor changes, everything else stayed the same ...
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Anyone played around with any of the Snapdragon-based Windows laptops? They've been endlessly fascinating to me lately, to the point that I put in an order for one.
From what I gather compatibility is generally pretty good, with odd quirks here and there. I'm kinda expecting it to be on par with how Intel Arc was at launch.
The thing that really got my interest in them is, of course, the battery life. x86-based Windows laptops have been absolute trash in that regard; my Razer Blade 15 in particular, with its Intel i7 10750H, gets MAYBE two hours of battery life browsing the web. Then there's the battery drain when it's in sleep mode, which discharges the battery and what feels to be nearly the same rate. A number of reviews I've seen online place the laptop I ordered at having, at minimum, 10 hours of video playback time. If I even got half that for browsing the web I'd be a happy camper.
The laptop I ordered is the Asus Vivobook S15. It's got a number of things going for it, but of particular interest is the 16:9, 120hz OLED screen. It's wild to me that proper widescreen is becoming increasingly uncommon in the laptop space; even in gaming laptops. Not that I'm going to be using this much for gaming (although I'm hoping to get some light gaming in on it), but 16:9 is just better suited for basically every type of media consumption.
I'm excited to play around with it when it gets here.
From what I gather compatibility is generally pretty good, with odd quirks here and there. I'm kinda expecting it to be on par with how Intel Arc was at launch.
The thing that really got my interest in them is, of course, the battery life. x86-based Windows laptops have been absolute trash in that regard; my Razer Blade 15 in particular, with its Intel i7 10750H, gets MAYBE two hours of battery life browsing the web. Then there's the battery drain when it's in sleep mode, which discharges the battery and what feels to be nearly the same rate. A number of reviews I've seen online place the laptop I ordered at having, at minimum, 10 hours of video playback time. If I even got half that for browsing the web I'd be a happy camper.
The laptop I ordered is the Asus Vivobook S15. It's got a number of things going for it, but of particular interest is the 16:9, 120hz OLED screen. It's wild to me that proper widescreen is becoming increasingly uncommon in the laptop space; even in gaming laptops. Not that I'm going to be using this much for gaming (although I'm hoping to get some light gaming in on it), but 16:9 is just better suited for basically every type of media consumption.
I'm excited to play around with it when it gets here.
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Got to use the new laptop for a few hours last night and I have some thoughts.
My main takeaway is I think the whole ARM on Windows could have used some more time in the oven. It's overall pretty snappy, with very good battery life, but I've had multiple hard crashes, and a lot of small oddities in between. For example I ran Cinebench 2004 for ARM, and for some reason only 8 of the core were loaded up, each at like 75%. Why? I dunno. I couldn't get it to load up all the cores, no matter what I did.
For gaming I tried Half Life 2, and it ran very well, even at 2880x1620. At least between the hard crashes. I also ran the Final Fantasy 14 benchmark on a loop for an hour, and thankfully that didn't have any issues. In fact, on battery, it only drained about 30%, so in theory there's about 3 hours of gaming battery life. Using Firefox it was estimating about 5 hours and 40 minutes of battery life, but I noticed I was using the X86 version. Curious to see if there's some battery life overhead due to emulation. On the ARM64 version now, so I'll keep an eye on battery life to see if it's any better.
ARM stuff aside, the screen on this laptop is absolutely gorgeous. Half Life 2 really looked stunning on it, and HDR video is really something to behold.
I'm rolling into my weekend today, so I'll be able to get a lot more time on it to see the ins and outs of how it runs. So far it's a mixed bag, but I'm mostly happy with jumping in as an early adopter.
My main takeaway is I think the whole ARM on Windows could have used some more time in the oven. It's overall pretty snappy, with very good battery life, but I've had multiple hard crashes, and a lot of small oddities in between. For example I ran Cinebench 2004 for ARM, and for some reason only 8 of the core were loaded up, each at like 75%. Why? I dunno. I couldn't get it to load up all the cores, no matter what I did.
For gaming I tried Half Life 2, and it ran very well, even at 2880x1620. At least between the hard crashes. I also ran the Final Fantasy 14 benchmark on a loop for an hour, and thankfully that didn't have any issues. In fact, on battery, it only drained about 30%, so in theory there's about 3 hours of gaming battery life. Using Firefox it was estimating about 5 hours and 40 minutes of battery life, but I noticed I was using the X86 version. Curious to see if there's some battery life overhead due to emulation. On the ARM64 version now, so I'll keep an eye on battery life to see if it's any better.
ARM stuff aside, the screen on this laptop is absolutely gorgeous. Half Life 2 really looked stunning on it, and HDR video is really something to behold.
I'm rolling into my weekend today, so I'll be able to get a lot more time on it to see the ins and outs of how it runs. So far it's a mixed bag, but I'm mostly happy with jumping in as an early adopter.
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I wonder if 12th gen Intel cpus are bad too? I had issues with my desktop going on black screen at times. It has stopped long ago however.
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Haven't seen anything about there being problems with 12th gen, it seems it's purely 13th and 14th gen based on my research. That black screen could've been a driver issue most likely related to the gpu that got sorted out with a driver update, etc.
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Had issues on black screen lately, that I could not trigger it back when moving my mouse or keyboard. Traced it to my power management settings...
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