• arc@lemm.ee
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      21 days ago

      I saw a video on Gamers Nexus about how shitty a company they are. Hopefully word spreads amongst gamers & builders that they’re no good and they should be avoided.

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        21 days ago

        What’s the deal with them? Only NZXT component i’ve had is my current case, which has awful airflow (old model of H710 I think, bought 5 ish years ago).

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          21 days ago

          Apparently their PC rental program is a worse value than illegal loans that are likely mafia-backed.

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          Apparently they very recently got acquired or invested in and are probably looking to increase profits tenfold in under a year so the company can be dumped before it all crashes.

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      21 days ago

      If you are blindly renting things without doing numbers you have bigger issues.

      Always read and do long term calculations

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    I recently had to go through this maze. I hate it. And I’m glad that my PCs tend to live ~10y, this means that I’m not doing it again in the foreseeable future.

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      I’d be very careful relying on that site… just flipped through some of the build and it was very strange.

      E.g. they were recommending a $500 or $900 CASE at the highest tiers - not even good cases, you can get something less than half the price with better performance. They recommended a single pcie 4.0 SSD and a SPINNING HARD DRIVE for a motherboard with pcie 5.0 m2 slots. Recommending CPU coolers that are far, far in excess of requirements (a 3x140mm radiator for a 100W chip? Nonsense). Memory recommendations for AMD builds are also sus - DDR5 6000 CL30 is what those cups do best with, they were recommending DDR5600 CL32 kits for no reason.

      Just strange… makes me question the rest of their recommendations.

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        Mind you, recommending a PCIe 4.0 SSD is the one part that makes sense. Right now very few people will gain noticeable benefits from a PCIe 5.0 SSD, AFAIK. The rest though… yikes.

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          The price differential doesn’t really exist anymore, though. If they were recommending 4TB, then I’d agree (only a few 4TB 5.0 and they are quite pricey), but at 2TB you’re looking at like $10 difference between something like the MP700 and the SN850X they recommend (not counting all the black Friday sales going on).

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    I always go by the rule of the larger the number/more letters the better. The exception being M that usually means it’s made for mobile devices.

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    I just go by PassMarks rating for CPU and GPU. It may not be the most nuanced rating, but it does give numbers that can be easily compared.

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        Is it not still “higher better” at AMD? With the obvious X or “m”, but usually price reflects the specs when the numbers are the same.

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        The only thing you should realistic understand from the naming conventions is relative generations and which bracket of price/performance the part targets. Assuming more than that is just a mistake.

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      Just ordered another CPU from them. Downside is that there isn’t any modern AMD desktop platform that works with coreboot, which seems to be the only workable way to deactivate the Management Engine/Platform Security Processor after boot.

      Was really considering to swap to Intel for that, but got a good deal on a Ryzen 9 that fits in my socket, so…

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      Make sure to get your 5900x3d with your 7900XTX. Note that one is a CPU and the other is a GPU. For extra fun, their numbers should eventually overlap given their respective incrementation schemes. The 5900x3d is the successor to the 5900xd, which is a major step down in performance even though it has more cores.

      I’m gonna give this award to Intel, which has increased the numbers on their CPU line by 1000 every generation since before the 2008 housing crash.

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      Honestly my preferred manufacturer since I started putting together my own machines.

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    Thousand times this. For actual builders that care about the nuance it all probably makes sense but then there is me over here looking at pre-builts wondering why the fuck are two seemingly identical machines have a $500 difference between them.

    I’m spending so much time pouring through spec sheets to find “oh the non-z version discombobulator means this cheaper one is gonna be trash in three years when I can afford to upgrade to a 6megadong tri-actor unit”.

    I’m in this weird state of to cheap to buy a Mac and can’t be arsed to build my own.

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    Just go here and check the charts for the kind of work you want the PC to do. If one looks promising you can check specific reviews on YouTube.

    For gaming the absolute best cpu/gpu combo currently is the 9800x3d and a gtx 4090, if you don’t have a budget.

    Yes the part naming is confusing but it’s intentional.

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      They fudge their criteria to make intel look good and AMD bad. Do not use this.

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      userbenchmark is a biased site(anti AMD) soo much that it’s actually banned from /r/Intel. Absolutely do NOT use userbenchmark

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      Userbenchmark is a terrible site. Its a shame it shows up first in the search results.