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I bought into the ai hype early on and ended up buying a lot of teslas. I bought m10s at first thinking having the more vram = better and found out the minimal you need is something like p40 on the cheap end. I now have a couple of m10s I'm not going to use, setting it up in a tower was counter productive.

I was wondering what use the m10s will have other than multi user capacity at 1gb vram per user.
 
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I honestly thought i was going crazy and my hardware was cursed. I still had to reboot my modem a few minutes ago because the internet went down, but I completely swapped routers around and did everything I could to try to troubleshoot the internet problems. Now I might as well put the network back the way it was before, if my download speeds stay low due to the age of the main router.
 
Thank you to everyone who offered advice! I haven't been able to test my CPU usage until now, and it does look like I need to upgrade my CPU. I started playing Baldur's Gate III and just standing in a room with only my party caused the CPU usage to reach 100% and the frames to go anywhere from 25 to 60 fps. This was at medium settings. The GPU stayed around 60 to 70% usage, so I'll be able to keep that for a while longer.

I'm looking at the Ryzen 7 5800x3D. I can get that an a motherboard with everything that I would need for $400.00. Are there other one's I should consider? I don't care if it's Intel or AMD, but around $400.00 is about the most I would like to spend. I would need to buy a new motherboard regardless as mine doesn't support past the Intel 7th gen
 
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Kit Marz said:
Thank you to everyone who offered advice! I haven't been able to test my CPU usage until now, and it does look like I need to upgrade my CPU. I started playing Baldur's Gate III and just standing in a room with only my party caused the CPU usage to reach 100% and the frames to go anywhere from 25 to 60 fps. This was at medium settings. The GPU stayed around 60 to 70% usage, so I'll be able to keep that for a while longer.

I'm looking at the Ryzen 7 5800x3D. I can get that an a motherboard with everything that I would need for $400.00. Are there other one's I should consider? I don't care if it's Intel or AMD, but around $400.00 is about the most I would like to spend. I would need to buy a new motherboard regardless as mine doesn't support past the Intel 7th gen
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The 5800X3D is an amazing processor, it's absolutely the best you'll get within that budget. The extra cache also means you can run it just fine even without great memory, unlike non-X3D Ryzens (which are very memory dependent).
 
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Kit Marz said:
Thank you to everyone who offered advice! I haven't been able to test my CPU usage until now, and it does look like I need to upgrade my CPU. I started playing Baldur's Gate III and just standing in a room with only my party caused the CPU usage to reach 100% and the frames to go anywhere from 25 to 60 fps. This was at medium settings. The GPU stayed around 60 to 70% usage, so I'll be able to keep that for a while longer.

I'm looking at the Ryzen 7 5800x3D. I can get that an a motherboard with everything that I would need for $400.00. Are there other one's I should consider? I don't care if it's Intel or AMD, but around $400.00 is about the most I would like to spend. I would need to buy a new motherboard regardless as mine doesn't support past the Intel 7th gen
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Last time I looked, Baldur's Gate III had a known memory leak, which is why CPU performance goes to shit on even high-end machines. That said, the 5800X3D is a very good buy. I would also look at the similarly-priced i7-12700k.

 
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Second Sun said:
Christ, I'd never pay that much for a mobo. Although, there really aren't any LGA1700 or AM5 boards that are good value - everything cheap is severely cut down in terms of PCIE. Given much ram and ssds have fallen, it's annoying mobos have stayed ridiculous like GPUs.
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When I bought it it was only $129. For all I'm getting, 2 4x4 m.2, 1 3x4 m.2 slots, 8 sata ports, better sound with the optical audio port, wifi, not to mention good voltage regulation, I think it was a pretty solid choice tbh
 
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I would only skip Wi-Fi if the board was very cheap, which is what I did for one mobo, and added about a $15 network card.

I have no idea what feature set would get me to pay a lot for a motherboard, other than Mini-ITX.
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RGB... the answer is always RGB.
Also, fuck RGB.
I've never once used WiFi on a MB at home, I have wires everywhere and by god I'm going to use them.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
I would only skip Wi-Fi if the board was very cheap, which is what I did for one mobo, and added about a $15 network card.

I have no idea what feature set would get me to pay a lot for a motherboard, other than Mini-ITX.
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Agreed. I thought for 129, I'm getting a lot, wifi included, which is just a nice bonus. Im also getting a USB C slot in the back, which is better than what i originally had. Also, it just looks slick.
 
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When I bought it it was only $129. For all I'm getting, 2 4x4 m.2, 1 3x4 m.2 slots, 8 sata ports, better sound with the optical audio port, wifi, not to mention good voltage regulation, I think it was a pretty solid choice tbh
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How many SATA ports are active when you're using the the m.2 slots? My mobo has 6 SATA ports. But only 3 of them are available if I'm using more than 1 m.2 slots.
 
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How many SATA ports are active when you're using the the m.2 slots? My mobo has 6 SATA ports. But only 3 of them are available if I'm using more than 1 m.2 slots.
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I'm going to have to check the board when I get it, I don't know
 
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As a followup, i dropped memory frequency to 6000MT CL32 and switched to gear 1, it was running at 6400MT CL32 in gear 2 before but maybe it's too much for my 7800X3D (2x48GB so probably pushing it). I will try to tighten timings down the line, since it's a 6400MT CL32 kit.
Maybe it's just motherboard being retarded, why is it refusing to boot when it's headless? Asrock's retardation? I also flashed latest beta bios. Too many variables at once but something may work.
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Final update on the issue. Turns out that 6400MT CL32 is too hard to run with 2x 48 GB kit. I had no more weird anomalies with booting after dropping to 6000. Besides I can do Uclk=Memclk now which is supposed to be optimal with Zen4. It does fail to POST maybe once every couple weeks, but that's acceptable.

For people wanting a 10 Gbps USB HDD enclosure, I can fully recommend D6-320, it's a six bay 3.5/2.5" dumb enclosure with a fan. Great for software RAID. I use it with ZFS with 6x 4TB drives I got used for ~20 bucks a pop, plus a couple spares and so far it's great. Reads top out at about 970 MB/s.
It uses ASMedia controllers and doesn't bog down.
Onto cons, side panel is fixed with screws at the back and front part vibrates. I fixed it by shoving a piece of earplug to dampen vibrations.
I used it for a couple months now. Bought it to learn ZFS after reading a book about the basics, and virtual machines were too boring, drives clicking in harmony are way cooler.
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Forgot to mention, it runs as raidz2 pool. Incremental snapshots of my linux box are a breeze.
 
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$540 for an RTX 4070? What the bloody hell is going on with video card prices?
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AMD getting absolutely dumpstered in sales. Consumers really want DLSS, especially in these low-end and midrange cards, and AMD really got caught with its pants down on FSR not really being competitive with DLSS. So Nvidia doesn't really need to compete on price as much as PC Gaming Youtube seems to think it does.
 
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