IMO, no point going for 2x16gb 3600 ram for your 2700X

whether can hit 3600 also depends on your mobo as well

in fact, 32Gb of RAM is a bit of overkill, your current 16Gb + 2700X should be sufficient for 90% of the apps usage out there

not only it's expensive, but the price performance ratio imo it's not worth it

Intel's i5 & i3 will always outsell AMD's CPU no matter how good is the price/performance ratio of AMD's CPU

just look at the major prebuilt PC/laptop brands like Dell, HP and the rest, 90% of their products are still based on Intel CPUs

The Blues already heavily dyed in general public's brain, Red still has a lot of catching up to do

General users will still prefer the blues, whereas only PC enthusiasts like us will look into the price/performance ratio, which is a shrinking population in this age of mobile devices.

just one of the heatsink will do, the heatsink should come with thermalpads to fill the gap

anyway, some claim nvme ssd doesn't need additional cooling at all, as it will kill off the ssd faster, and that's a bit of OT already, you can read more of it in google or ssd thread

noise is very subjective, my stock cooler on 3700x is pretty quiet for my case.

anyhow... since you got a budget around RM300, why not consider AIO?

us early adopters habuk pun takda

use the HWinfo tool to monitor the stats over a period, you'll get better idea on what's causing it

use the HWinfo tool to monitor the stats over a period, you'll get better idea on what's causing it

just tried mining with my old AMD Ryzen 3700X vs new Intel i9-11900KF

my old 3700X stock mining performance on stock fan is on par with the i9 with AIO Cooler
it's even slightly faster

and damn me! the result aren't bad after 1 day of mining with both, waaay better return than what you can get from the nicehash or XMR mining

if this catches on, expect more miner grabbing up the Ryzen 9

year end hand itchy planning for upgrade the B450 mobo and maybe the 3700X CPU as well

checked online local price
CPU price still reasonable, still on the high side, but not much scalping there compared to last year
but celaka X570 mobo price is still ridiculous

buying from Amazon + shipping + tax also still cheaper than buying local



This post has been edited by greyshadow: Nov 26 2021, 03:33 PM

yeah saw that, it is a pretty attractive combo, 3999 for 5950x + X570s Aorus Elite AX mobo

but... pulled the trigger on Amazon liao, as today's black friday offer + I have a few cash vouchers on hand
it's still waaay cheaper than buying locally

so far so good on my PC parts purchased from Amazon, just make sure you're buying items that are Sold by Amazon and Shipped from Amazon
avoid any 3rd party sellers there

for packing I think depending on luck on the warehouse staffs you encountered, sometimes I have a lot of padding, and sometimes not sufficient

All my shipments are handled by UPS, you just need to worry about the last mile delivery as my area doesn't have UPS and they outsourced to 3rd parties

bought CPU, GPU, RAM, storage and VR from them before, all arrived in perfect condition

even got a free refurbished Arctis wireless pro headset from them before due to their own mistake
(I bought new, arrived refurbished, complained, they refunded without asking me to return it)

This post has been edited by greyshadow: Dec 1 2021, 11:53 AM

gotten an Ryzen 9 5900X "free"
so building my 2nd rig with leftover parts from previous upgrade

Mobo: ASRock Steel Legend B450
Case: NZXT 510
Cooler: AMD Stock Wraith Prism

The case and mobo was from my old 3700X rig, it run fine without any excessive heat issue, but with this 5900X combo, even I didn't get thermal throttle, but seeing the temp constantly at 90C ++ at full load at making me uneasy

so I gotten a Scythe Fuma 2 and replace the stock cooler, and temp only dropped to 83C range, still kinda high for me, was hoping to get around 75C range

my other rig running 5950x with Cooler master ML280 AIO, max temp is at 62C at full load

wonder what's wrong here?

This post has been edited by greyshadow: Feb 21 2022, 10:24 PM

so mobo could be the culprit then?
but I was farming Raptoreum with CPUminer, hence it's always at 100%

I'll try reapply the TIM tonight, I also suspect could be too little TIM as I was applying just bare minimum, left only a bit of Kyronaut from previous rig

This post has been edited by greyshadow: Feb 22 2022, 09:44 AM

didn't know XMRig added ghostrider already, seems better than cpuminer, thanks for the headsup!

if your D15 hitting only 75c, meaning something is wrong with mine already, gotta reseat the cooler and reapply the TIM tonight while changing to XMRig