The world is upside down, remember??
The world is upside down, remember??
The world is upside down, remember??
I have a confession. I bought a 128 thread Epyc. For gaming"But it's a Xeon!". I've seen some morons buy Xeons for gaming. It'd be like buying Epyc for gaming. Stupid.
It's not just cooling method. Serious skills are also involved.to get in 2-3% range of his scores ?
Motherboard sound is awful. I still haven't found any motherboard that sounds close to a good discrete sound card. If you are using good headphones, the motherboard sound doesn't seems have enough power to drive it. If you increase the volume and bass it gets muddy and distorted. Maybe very expensive motherboards have "good enough" sound, but why buy an expensive motherboard when you can buy much better sound card for far less."Good enough" if you are using the pittiful speakers inside your computer monitor, or Apple Airpods. Using high quality over-the-ear headphones, or a quality PA system and suddenly all that crappy design shines through like a fart in church .
S'trewth... look out for the Crikey Edition... its a bonza!CPU assembled in Australia ?
I hope it works here
Also a sound card can last forever while boards get changed more frequently. I use an X-Fi Titanium HD from 2012 for headphones and an external Denon receiver for speakers. Everything works great on Windows 11.Motherboard sound is awful. I still haven't found any motherboard that sounds close to a good discrete sound card. If you are using good headphones, the motherboard sound doesn't seems have enough power to drive it. If you increase the volume and bass it gets muddy and distorted. Maybe very expensive motherboards have "good enough" sound, but why buy an expensive motherboard when you can buy much better sound card for far less.
Sound is very subjective but if are used to discrete sound card/USB card, there is noway to going back to MB audio (at least for me).
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Easiest solution IMO is to just buy something like the Schiit Magni with an internal DAC or Schiit Gunnr/Fulla. You can also use it with other sources, or extend it to active speakers etc. iFi are also good, and there are others of course.Motherboard sound is awful. I still haven't found any motherboard that sounds close to a good discrete sound card. If you are using good headphones, the motherboard sound doesn't seems have enough power to drive it. If you increase the volume and bass it gets muddy and distorted. Maybe very expensive motherboards have "good enough" sound, but why buy an expensive motherboard when you can buy much better sound card for far less.
Sound is very subjective but if are used to discrete sound card/USB card, there is noway to going back to MB audio (at least for me).
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Expensive and useless. Buy a Truthear Shio/Moondrop Dawn Pro (any double CS43131 really) and there you go.Easiest solution IMO is to just buy something like the Schiit Magni with an internal DAC or Schiit Gunnr/Fulla.
I'm not a huge chi-fi fan, or dongles with mediocre to bad build quality with a form factor that's built more for phones. A $110 Fulla is not that much more expensive than $50 or $70 IMO, and you get a US built dac/amp with decent build quality, form factor and features that are more suited for a desktop. However, I'm not going to shill Schiit, will just say that to each their own.Expensive and useless. Buy a Truthear Shio/Moondrop Dawn Pro (any double CS43131 really) and there you go.
At <100$ the smsl su-1 is a pretty good no frills dac. Got mine for 80$ and it was alot cleaner than my old sound blaster.Expensive and useless. Buy a Truthear Shio/Moondrop Dawn Pro (any double CS43131 really) and there you go.
Schiit has Hifiman-tier QC so they're almost disqualified from my recommendations. That's offtopic nayway.However, I'm not going to shill Schiit, will just say that to each their own.
There aren't really phone dongles per se, they're the size of ye olde mini-DAPs.or dongles with mediocre to bad build quality with a form factor that's built more for phones
I'm interested in the improvement over the 7800X3D. If it's 15-20% in 4K gaming then it would be compelling, but not sure for less than that.
Also a sound card can last forever while boards get changed more frequently. I use an X-Fi Titanium HD from 2012 for headphones and an external Denon receiver for speakers. Everything works great on Windows 11.
Cool cool, but you guys take that discussion to the builders thread. This thread is about the CPUs, with the soon to be released X3D being the current focus.TBH I grabbed the X870e Nova board so that I could use my SBZ or Z2 I cant remember, also so I can use graphics x16, my M-Audio LX4, through the chipset lanes, and probable a 8TB PCIE4 m2.
Edit did not mean to quote mod. hopefully edit cleans that up.
The OLED TVs are all 4K and are the best gaming displays out there. On a big screen 4K is a noticeable improvement over 1440p. Some games are bottlenecked by a single thread in some specific areas regardless of resolution, so the newer CPU's clocks may help a bit there. Starfield was one example.i dont really agree , 4k just isnt worth it over 1080/1440p especially once you leave 16:9 ratio.
I would rather 1440p ~100fps with lots of features set really high , compared to 4k. That will be more CPU bound then 4k unless you really drop the settings in 4k.
So really generally speaking in gaming what we should be talking about is target frame rate, the higher the target frame rate the more the CPU will matter.
I wish Australia had any sort of semicon industry. We do some NTD at Lucas Heights but that is about it.CPU assembled in Australia ?
I hope it works here
Noooo