I recently got an A5 and so far am very happy, it works very well and is inexpensive and even better it takes up very little space, also it Bluetooths my speakers and WAP's my printer so I don't have cables everywhere picking up dust, it's a breakthrough for home computers and runs Sniper Elite very well with great graphics, as good if not better than my old RX 570 and 6350 CPU.
These newer cases are not designed for ancient technology. Mechanical drives should be used in a NAS and not inside the case as they take up valuable room for slow mediocre nonsensical performance. They don't include the trays to reduce the initial cost so ppl don't have top pay for crap they don't need or want. It does come off cheap though at this price point not include them but for most users those trays would just add to the landfills anyway. If you are still using Mechanical drives then this style case is not for you, you can easily find old obsidian 900d or Cosmos II cases for hoarding nonsensical mechanical drives.
That's literally what brought me here too. It seems the DF2 just made B tier on the PSU tier list but I see some reviews from people saying after a few months it starts making a loud grinding noise. I also found a review stating their Enermax only lasted a few years total but they didn't specify which model. The sale is crazy right now but I'm starting to think its because the PSU won't have a great lifetime. Let me know if you found anything else about the DF2 and good luck with your build!
It's a tough decision but for me the value to performance AMD wins . What sways me is the fact that i play single player games only and love the high fidelity that ray tracing brings. FSR and DLSS are great tools for upscaling but native is where it's at in most situations for me. If i played competitive games lie COD and such I would go with the AMD cards because it's raw power and frames so the lower cost AMD wins.
Old video but a fantastic review. Im really thinking about buying these fans now. Ive had Silent wings 4 high speed but they are making too much noise. These Light wings seem to be very silent..
I don't like the new connector on the nvidia 4000 series cards either. I'm looking to put a RX 7900XTX in my REVOLT 3 case, so if any body can tell what video card works in this case. thank you
I feel like amd offers the right price to performance for current Gen games, anything more is wasted money imo when game engines have capped fps now or are just badly optimized regardless of GPU
So glad I've still got the 4GB EVGA GTX 960 SSC for that VRAM advantage with older games, where the extra 2GB of VRAM costed as much (with P&P) as the optional extra full metal backplate of the backplate-less 2GB version, while also coming with the backplate as standard as a bonus. It's great for maxing out Windows XP/8.1(+Classic Shell Start) dual boot retro builds without having to depend on funky modded drivers.
P. S. Also the last mid-range x60 card to still support SLI, if you're into that sort of thing, for those few titles that'll actually benefit from it, for that "just because it looks awesome in the case, especially with the light up EVGA hard SLI bridge" factor, rather than for practicality, where a significantly more powerful single 1080 would otherwise make more sense.
P. P. S. The GM206 GPU of the 960 was also the first from nVidia to support HDCP 2.2, putting it ahead of the likes of even the Maxwell based Titan-X of the time, at least in that regard.
I own this and it runs pretty smooth on really high settings for almost every game i play. Spent most my time playing rdr2 with max graphics with this things and it doesn't lag or have any other issues
The current price on Amazon is LESS than the 7800X3D. If you are willing to do a bit of configuration, you can get the 7900X3D to be about the same speed in gaming and it will be faster in productivity tasks. Still only 120W TDP.
Same reason why I am here. The gamer crowd is too loud, but looking at the pudget bench marks for video and photoediting, this CPU is literally a 7900x on sale, with a tiny bit weaker performance.
hey, how are you? can you help me? I have an RX 7900XTX Nitro Plus. she is incredibly beautiful. or almost incredible I say this because my computer after a while restarts by itself. I have already reduced the power of the GPU. I already removed the xmp from the memories. but for some reason my computer restarts. my configuration is: b550 auros elite 5800x3d 2x16 (3200-360MHz) rx7900xtx nitro plus 850w source a detail. before restarting the computer. the monitor is left without video. then restarts in a few seconds. Another detail is that all of the computer's LEDs (RGB) remain accessible. gpu rgb, memory and water cooler.... I already updated the drivers. I've already used old drivers but nothing changes. Do you think it could be a source? hug!!!
It's not a BAD CPU, its just a rather pointless one. In productivity tasks, it is worse than the cheaper 7900X , and in gaming it's worse than the cheaper 7800X3D. Had it been priced a LOT lower, It might have its own little niche. Unfortunately its outperformed in both productivity and/or gaming by its cheaper cousins. Just doesn't make much sense.
It's May 2024, and we can buy the 7900X3D for <$390 US, only ~$25 more than the usually favored 7800X3D and even a bit less than the 7900X. Sure, having only six 3D cores is a bit of a drawback, but for most gamers who also want to do some creation, or vice versa, the 7900X3D is a truly valid option.
why no 7800x3d on this chart? Come on... Now that the price is fairly close to the 7800x3d it shows the 7900x3d may be a little slower in games however it makes up for that in Productivity, IMO. I just picked one up for 389.00 20 bucks more that the 7800x3d. Its in the mail now. :)
Wonderful tests and nice video overall! Made me confident that my purchase of a 5900x paired with a wraith prism is a decent combo, not optimal but that was not what I was aiming for either.
I tried to do the same with a 7700 XT but it was defective and blackscreened in a week. It was great for the price but after that i wasnt eager to just replace it with the same card. So i went and returned it and bumped up to a 4070 Super
This has to be one of the greatest cm's psus. I'm using it daily under heavy load since 2019 and it's still in perfect condition. The only thing I don't like about it is the slightly annoying coil whine. Amazing psu
Nice video but you'd really need to compare your 7950X to a 7000-series Threadripper Zen4 to be really apples to apples. Would make sense for a 2-3 year newer part to decimate a 3000-series TR.
For it's price it's def not worth it, it might be cheaper than Nvidia, but it's still crazy expensive. If prices don't drop in the next few years most average joes are just going stop buying graphics cards, and I'm talking about all the Cards, not only the Flag Ship gpus.. At the current price point I can buy a PS5 and a Meta Quest 3 for a cheaper price than a RX 7900 XT / RTX 4070 Ti Super mid range gpus that's crazy.
Although I am not an expert, nor do I have a RU-vid channel, nor am I a creator of technology content. I have 4 graphics, all tested on the same PC, with a Ryzen 9 7950x3d and with 64 GB of DDR5 RAM: RTx 3060 ti, RTX 4070 ti, Rx 7900XTX and the RTX 4080 super. Therefore, if I can say, without repeating what someone else repeats or without repeating what someone else tries. Nvidia's are excellent graphics, they are the best in fact, the RT theme, especially in the 4000 series, is spectacular. I don't use technologies such as DLSS or frame generation, it seems to me that games look bad when applying that. I liked playing in 4k and the 12GB of VRAM is not enough to move many titles to that resolution, without rescaling. The 4080 super has 16 GB of RAM and in many titles it goes very well, very few get to fill that VRAM, but I recognize that without technologies, those 16GB can become a limitation in the middle term. The RX 7900 XTX moves the RT well, not as much as the 4080 super, but well enough and without FSR, or frame generation, in pure raster. With the 24GB of VRAM of the 7900 XTX, the aging of this one will be slower. In summary, I can give my opinion on both brands, because I have tried both, I do not rely on RU-vid videos or the opinion of a friend or acquaintance and many times that is what many lack, to be able to create their own opinions. I like Nvidia graphics more than AMD's, especially because in productivity AMD's have limitations, but does the everyday user really use so much productivity software today? Those who do AI or machine learning, in short, must choose Nvidia, the rest of the mortals, any of the 2 solves and the price is the determinant, with some considerations of how the games look, although sometimes it is very subjective. If you can, take the test. Without knowing what graphics you are using, play a demanding title and have someone you trust change the graphs on your PC and try to distinguish which is which. You are going to be surprised.
great review, detail and description. I didn't have any issues described with the touchpad. For sounds, I find Volume Master chrome extension is great to increase volume or adjust the base, not perfect, but great tool to enhance ax15 sound. Tested a few games, playable, while some were questionable due to frame rate below not as high as it would need to be for those games (7 days to die, kingdom reborn), then again, these games weren't meant to be played on this laptop. But it's doable. I agree with the review, this laptop is perfectly designed for office use (my purpose for it), so the fact that it can go beyond that is amazing. Personally I dealt with network card issues (frequent disconnects from wifi), but dealing with resolving those. Out of the box it would only connect to to the 2.4 GHz network for me, so I adjusted settings to force it to connect to AC instead of auto.
