That’s an excellent deal, Misguided! It’s on sale for me as well but only down to $359.99.
There’s a 10% off code on their email list. Debating whether I should do this or just get a thinner drive like Sabrent or T-force (they are unfortunately sold out of the latter I could use the promo with).
Note I do not need a drive immediately
They have a Discount code in their daily email to get it down to $323. I got to say I have never seen such a gigantic heat sink on an SSD before. Is that the way things are trending these days? Why is the SSD getting hot?
No, it really isn’t. Not sure I want to bother for that reason
stusser
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Heat doesn’t really impact performance in most cases, but the heatsink certainly doesn’t hurt anything if it fits. If not, use the one that came with your motherboard.
My core CPU/RAM/Motherboard is now an amazing 10 years old, and still fine for anything I throw at it gaming wise - upgraded GPU a few times (Titan X now), network card, HDs, USB 3.0 card - but it’s a bit of a Frankenstein and how much longer can the CPU/RAM/Motherboard hold out without problems? Increasingly I run into driver quirks, not surprisingly, like the fans going into hyperdrive.
So thinking of doing a full PC upgrade and moving this venerable machine to backup hookup on a TV - probably just go with a prefab gaming PC like Alienware. Not the best bang for buck, for sure, but I’m old and lazier now - presume they will probably get a decent share of early 3090s too? I don’t think their current form factors would accommodate one though, so who knows?
stusser
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I’d suggest waiting on Zen3 for that. It should be coming out this year, so in the very near future.
This Alienware form factor? That’s, um, a look. They have said they’ll include 3080s.
Did Dyson have extra fan housings that Dell bought cheap for those?
I’m interested to see how these small cases handle cooling. The Corsairs are ones I have half an eye on. Not because I need one, they’re just so cute.
Everything I’ve read says the Corsair Ones handle (GPU) cooling surprisingly well (and quietly), though obviously the 3000 series may be putting out a lot more heat.
I’d love one of those Corsair One cases, but the full set-ups are ludicrously priced. I’m also hoping to get something that can be taken as a carry-on, as I’ll be moving a few times in the next year or so.
I have my eye on either Sliger 560 or Sliger 580 (580 pictured below).
stusser
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You’re probably going to want an AIO watercooler to fit a 3080 or 3090 in a SFF case.
Sliger is recommending vented sides and using all fans as exhaust. Edit: neglected to mention that the reason to vent both sides is that the psu fan can be faced toward the outside of the case instead of drawing hot air coming off the new cards.
I’m not planning to do either of those things with my sm580, but I’m looking at a 3070, which has much lower power usage
To be fair this is quite a nicely built SFF:
With the Xbox Series S outed, it’ll be interesting to see what all the tech guys will be able to extrapolate from RDNA2 considering the price point and capabilities at $299.
Rumored:
Rumored specs copied from r/hardware:
CPU : 8c/16t Zen @ same clocks as Series X!
GPU : 20 CU RDNA 2 @ 1.55ghz
RAM : 10GB GDDR6
Drive: NVMe (capacity unknown atm)
Rumor to run auto-upscaling through some new MS ML algo, that they trained on their Azure cloud. 1440p 60hz for high quality games, and 120hz for fast games.
stusser
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Well, 20 CUs is really small-- the 5700XT came with 40. The 5500XT came with 22CUs and boosted to 1.8Ghz. It basically performed like a RTX1660 non-super, non-ti, and was not really capable of 1080p at 60fps in ultra quality in modern games, although it came close.
Of course that was RDNA1 and the XSS is RDNA2 so there will be additional optimizations made to the architecture so you can’t directly extrapolate. My guess is it will live up to Microsoft’s marketing and handle 1080p 60fps just fine, particularly if they have some sort of AI upscaling comparable to DLSS.
Yeah, I’ve heard IPC boosts along with frequency boosts for RDNA2 and that the consoles would be cut-down versions, but 20 sounds awfully low even for that. Time will tell, of course, and as long as the performance is there they can be powered by unicorn sprinkles.
Rumours leave room for post Navi reveals and process shrinks and differing memory allocations…
… while the tools sent to certain Ampere reviewers look kind of extreme:
All courtesy of Videocardz.
I was watching some stuff on those tools on Youtube during lunch. Very cool for those who care about the super-granular stuff.
