Nice I hope I can get the update sooner or later

BTW, on an unrelated note - love that Vista wallpaper

Hopefully the upcoming Surface laptop may turn things round a bit

Also I wonder why AMD never made a proper competitor to Intel's performance laptop chips? A CPU with performance more comparable to the 9300H/9750H would have been really good IMHO

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 20 2019, 07:56 PM

Most probably the fact that TSMC is having some supply issues

Yes - even the Zen 1 CPUs (aka Ryzen 1000 series) will outperform your FX especially in terms of single threaded performance

So which CPU did you pick?

You might want to look at the B450 Pro4/Steel Legend if you are on a budget, or the MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX if you are willing to spend a bit more for better VRMs

Might as just well save the money and get something like this:

https://www.lazada.com.my/products/scythe-m...554bpC2ZbX&mp=1

Basically a Noctua NH-D15 at half the price, and even outperforms some AIOs too:


https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/8320/scyt...iew/index6.html

Note that most AIOs tend to perform the same as it is mostly manufactured by a handful of OEMs:
https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2122-who...id-coolers-oems

In addition, due to patents from Asetek (a very well known OEM for AIO liquid cooling), very few brands can actually improve the design without ending up with a lawsuit from Asetek (Cooler Master was involved in a lawsuit from Asetek before). However there is some exception, such as the Swiftech H360X3:



This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 27 2019, 07:42 PM

The only things that AIOs have the upper hand are:

1. RAM compatibility (some tall air coolers may not have enough clearance for some tall RAMs)
2. Weight - air coolers tend to be very heavy, and might bend the motherboard (the bending issue can be mostly solved by properly mounting the cooler)

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 27 2019, 07:46 PM

Could be possible due to the fact we used to have free games back in the days of HD7000 series

Well that's just early adopters tax

What kind of improvements would it be then?

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Oct 4 2019, 07:07 PM

According to the AM4 VRMs list here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d9_...t#gid=611478281

Personally I'd get neither - the MSI B450I Gaming Plus would be a better choice than the 2 as the VRMs on board are better

For Type C - it's mainly for data transfers (at least on PCs for now)

https://www.techpowerup.com/260130/intel-sc...ylake-till-2022

Somewhat unrelated, but it looks like Intel is going to end up stuck with 14nm+++++++++ for the foreseeable future

Did you disable reboot on system failure on Windows?

Also, try disabling XMP and update your chipset driver

Disable it in Windows settings as it may produce a BSoD

According to the AM4 VRM list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d9_...t#gid=611478281

It's OK as long as you don't overclock - but you'll definitely need some VRM cooling

B450M Mortar MAX for RM479

I'm running a Zen 2 + Navi setup from day one and it hasn't giving me problems so far

Yup, that's a good one as well

Personally I'd drop the X570 for a decent B450 - some budget X570 has poor VRM cooling:



Also I highly doubt the GPUs will saturate PCI-E 4.0 anytime soon - even PCI-E 3.0 x4 still barely bottlenecks a RTX 2080 Ti:


Then use the additional funds to upgrade to a 3700X

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Nov 1 2019, 01:24 PM

Looks like ASRock is going to update their B450 boards with the latest 1.0.0.4B AGESA:

https://shop.jzelectronic.de/news.php?id=1573458000&sw=

But it's in beta