Tech Gaming Hardware discussion (& Hardware Sales) thread

[jefferz]

And they're rattling.

 

[jefferz]

Phillips SHP9600's are $55 on Amazon. Pair that with a $20 Vmoda Boom Pro Mic and you have a headset will outperform most "gaming" headsets.

The Phillips and Boom Pro combo have been a recommended for years. You can find tons of videos and posts about the combo.




The SHP9600 is the "upgraded" version of the SHP9500, they just changed the cosmetics.

 

[My Spot]

MC lets you substitute any mobo and RAM you want now for bundles and you still get the discount on the CPU.

 

[Madmick]

MC lets you substitute any mobo and RAM you want now for bundles and you still get the discount on the CPU.

JFC, if that store got any more Chad, Best Buy would formally announce they changed their name to "Stacy" and build their new retail locations in the figure of human silhouette bent over with the doors as the sweet heart-shaped prize pointed in the direction of the nearest MC ready to receive its turgid blessing.

 

[My Spot]

I wanna pull the plug before Zen 5 comes out.

CPU: 7600X or 7700X (it's only $7 more in the MC bundle, $105 vs $98)
Mobo: Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite Wifi or MSI Tomahawk B650 Wifi ($10 cheaper and uses a wire-free antenna)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x16gb 3000 CL30 or Teamgroup 2x16gb 3000 CL30 ($39 cheaper)
GPU: 4070 FE (better ray tracing, better upscaling) or Sapphire 7800 XT ($50 cheaper, better rasterization)

 

[JBSchroeds]

I wanna pull the plug before Zen 5 comes out.

CPU: 7600X or 7700X (it's only $7 more in the MC bundle, $105 vs $98)
Mobo: Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite Wifi or MSI Tomahawk B650 Wifi ($10 cheaper and uses a wire-free antenna)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x16gb 3000 CL30 or Teamgroup 2x16gb 3000 CL30 ($39 cheaper)
GPU: 4070 FE (better ray tracing, better upscaling) or Sapphire 7800 XT ($50 cheaper, better rasterization)

I've personally had terrible experience with MSI products, would not recommend.

If you're looking for a GPU in that 480-550 range, there is also the 7900 GRE, which is the same price as the base 4070 but trades blows with the 4070 Ti in rasterization performance. The usual caveat being that the nVidia card will kick its butt in ray tracing.
SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 GRE 16GB

 

[Slobodan]

I've personally had terrible experience with MSI products, would not recommend.

Have an MSI motherboard, great hardware. Shitty software, really fucking shitty BIOS as well. Would not recommend either.

Will most likely switch once the X870 motherboards come out. I wo

 

[KaNesDeath]

 

[Madmick]

Already posted 11 days ago in this thread, dude.

Razer is implementing hardware level cheats on some of their keyboards.
Be careful if you have a Razer keyboard, you might get banned.

 

[My Spot]

If only rob mafia was still here to celebrate the current Intel clusterfuck. Even the 13600K and 14600K are affected.

 

[jefferz]

I don't see how this wouldn't get you banned on Faceit.

 

[KaNesDeath]

I don't see how this wouldn't get you banned on Faceit.

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This Razer software could at one time be done in CS's autoconfig. Whose usage was/is still banned by FaceIT and completely removed in CS2.

ESL's silence on this is troubling. Theyre likely waiting to see how PGL acts on Valves behest then echo it.


Valorant has a similar problem with Angle Snapping that they havent acted on yet with their anti-virus anti-cheat.

 

[KaNesDeath]

Already posted 11 days ago in this thread, dude.

Its a review of the software from a well respected Pc FPS reviewer. Who primarily reviews mice, mousepads, keyboards and high refresh rate monitors for FPS games. He's the S Tier standard in this department.

 

[Bornstarch]

I'm planning on upgrading my PC in a week when the new AMD 9000 series processors come out

I'm leaning towards the 9900X, upgrading my RAM from 16GB DDR4 to 32GB DDR5 and my SSD from 4TB SSD to 8TB SSD. Just standard SATA SSDs, not the NVMe ones.

 

[JBSchroeds]

I'm planning on upgrading my PC in a week when the new AMD 9000 series processors come out

I'm leaning towards the 9900X, upgrading my RAM from 16GB DDR4 to 32GB DDR5 and my SSD from 4TB SSD to 8TB SSD. Just standard SATA SSDs, not the NVMe ones.

Why would you stay with a SATA SSD? The difference in speeds are huge.

Samsung 870 Sata SSD
Max Sequential Read Up to 560 MBps
Max Sequential Write Up to 530 MBps
4KB Random Read Random (QD1) [IOPS]: 11,000
Random (QD32) [IOPS]: 98,000
4KB Random Write Random (QD1) [IOPS]: 35,000
Random (QD32) [IOPS]: 88,000

Crucial T700 Gen5 NVME
Max Sequential Read Up to 11700 MBps
Max Sequential Write Up to 9500 MBps
4KB Random Read Up to 1,350,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write Up to 1,400,000 IOPS

A Gen 5 NVME is approximately 20x faster in sequential operations and around 10x faster in random. If you need the bulk storage then I think you should get multiple drives, an NVME for your OS and software and then you can get your SATA drive for storage.

 

[Slobodan]

Just standard SATA SSDs, not the NVMe ones.

Why would you stay with a SATA SSD? The difference in speeds are huge.

Samsung 870 Sata SSD
Max Sequential Read Up to 560 MBps
Max Sequential Write Up to 530 MBps
4KB Random Read Random (QD1) [IOPS]: 11,000
Random (QD32) [IOPS]: 98,000
4KB Random Write Random (QD1) [IOPS]: 35,000
Random (QD32) [IOPS]: 88,000

Crucial T700 Gen5 NVME
Max Sequential Read Up to 11700 MBps
Max Sequential Write Up to 9500 MBps
4KB Random Read Up to 1,350,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write Up to 1,400,000 IOPS

A Gen 5 NVME is approximately 20x faster in sequential operations and around 10x faster in random. If you need the bulk storage then I think you should get multiple drives, an NVME for your OS and software and then you can get your SATA drive for storage.

Gen 4 NVME drives are better value imo and can have comparable Random Read and Write speeds.

E.g. Samsung 990 Pro Gen 4.


Gen 5 drives also tend to run really hot, to the point that a lot of them require some ridiculous cooling solutions.

 

[My Spot]

Or better yet the 980 Pro which is $30 cheaper than the the 990 Pro.

 

[Slobodan]

Or better yet the 980 Pro which is $30 cheaper than the the 990 Pro.

They're good drives, I have two of them.

 

[Bornstarch]

Why would you stay with a SATA SSD? The difference in speeds are huge.

Samsung 870 Sata SSD
Max Sequential Read Up to 560 MBps
Max Sequential Write Up to 530 MBps
4KB Random Read Random (QD1) [IOPS]: 11,000
Random (QD32) [IOPS]: 98,000
4KB Random Write Random (QD1) [IOPS]: 35,000
Random (QD32) [IOPS]: 88,000

Crucial T700 Gen5 NVME
Max Sequential Read Up to 11700 MBps
Max Sequential Write Up to 9500 MBps
4KB Random Read Up to 1,350,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write Up to 1,400,000 IOPS

A Gen 5 NVME is approximately 20x faster in sequential operations and around 10x faster in random. If you need the bulk storage then I think you should get multiple drives, an NVME for your OS and software and then you can get your SATA drive for storage.

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Gen 4 NVME drives are better value imo and can have comparable Random Read and Write speeds.

E.g. Samsung 990 Pro Gen 4.

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Gen 5 drives also tend to run really hot, to the point that a lot of them require some ridiculous cooling solutions.

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I'm not sold on NVMe:

 

[jefferz]

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Gen 4 NVME drives are better value imo and can have comparable Random Read and Write speeds.

E.g. Samsung 990 Pro Gen 4.

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Gen 5 drives also tend to run really hot, to the point that a lot of them require some ridiculous cooling solutions.

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If you're just gaming, PCIe 4.0 vs 5.0 NVME drives won't make a noticeable difference, and that money is better spent elsewhere. Your game will load half a second quicker, maybe. Whoopee do.
Just make sure to get a quality drive.