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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.

This is why I love Lemmy (it's a reference to another thread btw)

Wouldn't that be the same thing with no other percentages in sight because we're subtracting from 100%?

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.

...I just the other day ordered all the components to make the first "Extremist" tier build, nearly verbatim.

I guess I made some of the right choices, then.

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.

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

You still need to understand their naming convention if you plan on comparing hardware.

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...

Or you'll see something equally efficient and equally performing at the same power levels..except you'll see newer gens or upgraded skus allowed to pull more power

i'll trade you my geforce 9500 for your 4090.

The other exception being monitors, which are named by connecting three keyboards to one computer and then rolling a bowling ball across all three.

I agree. Another good trick: Don't buy a 4K screen. GPU's work for much longer that way.

i mean dumb naming schemes isn't just a PC thing. Remember how the Xbox 360 is 359 faster than the Xbox One