PC Build Advice/Review II: 3090 or Bust.

[Melena]

They are similar. Gsync Compatible means Nvidia has certified it to work via VESA Adaptive Sync, whereas a G-Sync display will have a dedicated Nvidia chip inside.

https://www.displayninja.com/g-sync-...heir%20testing.

[Krandor]

Been going slow about it, but finally settled in on totally stable undervolt/GPU OC numbers.

Feeling pretty happy about this considering it's a 5 lbs laptop



That's with fans on max and the CPU rocking the full 130w TDP. For normal use I have a profile limiting the CPU to 55w so I don't have to have the fans go full blast (GPU still rocking the 170w TGP), usually keeps everything around 80c which just feels fantastic given the size of the unit.

[Yabby]

Which laptop did you get?

[Krandor]

I got the 4080 version of the Razer Blade 16.

Paying the Razer tax on it, but I very specifically wanted a slightly smaller laptop then all the other similarly specced ones so worth it for my needs.

The CPU took undervolting super well (-155mv on the P-cores, -115mv on the cache/ring and E-Cores) which gave me a pretty substantial performance boost.

Didn't test super deep on the GPU overclock (perfectly stable at +200Mhz on the Core Clock, benchmarks crashed at +300 so just went back to 200 and called it a day)

All the high end laptop CPUs (both AMD and Intel) this year are running super duper hot, but between changing out the thermal paste for PTM7950 and the undervolt I can keep it from thermal throttling in spite of Razer's very tame fan curves.

[Yabby]

With those prices, you can get more and customzie it with Orgin from what i see. Good to compaire anyways.

[Krandor]

I think Origin only goes up to a 4070 right now, and the drop from 4080 to 4070 for laptops is HUGE

[Yabby]

Naw

[Prothescar]

not a PC but anyone have their eyes on the ROG Ally? $700 for something that is 2-3x as powerful as the steam deck is compelling. Only $50 more than the 512gb deck.

[Jamison]

not a PC but anyone have their eyes on the ROG Ally? $700 for something that is 2-3x as powerful as the steam deck is compelling. Only $50 more than the 512gb deck.

I'm not in the market myself but that Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme look like they'll do some really great things for handhelds.

[Bardicrune]

not a PC but anyone have their eyes on the ROG Ally? $700 for something that is 2-3x as powerful as the steam deck is compelling. Only $50 more than the 512gb deck.

You may want to hold off a bit. AMD is offering the same SoC (Z1 and it's Extreme versions) to other mfgs. Asus is just the first to market. Others may include hall effect joysticks instead of potentiometers.

[Melena]

[Salodin]

Y'all got any mini itx advice? Or certain hardware you recommend? Space is important, and I need an upgrade, so I thought I'd go bespoke and get a fancy itx case that I can sit on my desktop and regain some room real estate from my XL case I've been using for 7 years

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[Prothescar]

Thor mjolnir. There's a waiting list and it's expensive but man is it nice

[Krandor]

If you're not going to reuse your existing PSU and CPU Cooler (since the case has them built in) the NZXT H1 is pretty sweet since afaik they fixed the whole "catching on fire" thing

[Salodin]

This isn't some dream build mini itx machine lol. I might only be reusing the m2, PSU if the box doesn't come with one. Everything else is outdated

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[Salodin]

Mannn I couldn't justify these costs on a mini build even though I could really use the space and upgrades. I did not realize however that the first gen am4 boards can mostly be bios updated to support zen 3, so that's cool. I did that, also realized my memory wasn't running at full speed so I fixed that (for how many years has it been running slow?!!), and now I'm going from R7 1700x to R7 5600X for an easy $200 upgrade that'll get me a lot of life and also supports W11 haha. Decided to throw in a 1tb m2 (I was using 250gb), and upgrade my long term storage 500gb HDD to 2TB. I can drop the 250gb SSD I put the games I didn't/couldn't fit on the m2 cause the new one is twice the storage of what I've been using combined, and now I can finally sit back and go how the hell have I been managing to do anything with such little storage space lmao

Such basic upgrades but I haven't touched this machines parts in like 7 years...def got value out of the ryzen parts.

[Salodin]

It was there in the cart, waiting for me to click confirm...but then life stuff happened and while I was out I stopped at the casino cause we almost went last night but there was overtime at the cats game. Anyways, gonna nix the processor and just buy an rtx I guess now

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[Melena]

So for those curious about ongoing product failures within the PC world, Gamers Nexus has a new site that is basically a mini site going over part failures.

https://gamers.nexus/failure-list

[Gredival]

Anyone got recommendations on a good protection gear for the Steam deck? Finally got time to start using mine (been sitting since the spring sale...)

[Krandor]

Spigen case gets the job done and it will still fit in the case while it's on.

https://www.amazon.com/Protective-Sh.../dp/B0B75N73N9