I can't believe this is a modern PC build. It reminds me SO much of my first attempts at PC building when I wanted to add a video card and upgrade the power supply in a Dell Dimension E521. It was a nightmare. As soon as he removed the cover I could see that 50% of the weight of that rig was due to bloated design with unnecessary springs, latches and slidy bits encased in gratuitous metal and plastic everywhere. I can only imagine what it would be like to be a fly on the wall of the meetings where they design and market these abominations. I will say though that for whatever reason Dell seems to kill it when it comes to making displays.
Advice please: my plan was to get the "very best RTX4090" which money can buy, (which I heard is the Asus Rog Strix OC version) & put a EK dual active custom waterblock on it. But if the board itself barely varies between companies, & I'm planning on stripping away the fans & heatsink it comes with anyway, would who assembles the GPU even matter anymore? And if not, could you please tell us which is the best pre-custom-waterblocked (NOT AOI but to be added to a custom waterloop) RTX4090 GPU available, please? P.s. any rumours about a RTX4090 super or any other variation of the RTX4090 that comes with a display port 2.1? There are displays being released for which the existing display 1.4a would be a bottleneck, so I find that outdated display port tech off-putting, when even lower spec AMD GPUs use display port 2.1 now.
For content creators - 3D modellers in particular - we're pretty much stuck to Nvidia GPU's and no matter how good other manufacturers products are, with no Cuda cores it's a done deal for our graphics cards. OpenCL has, I believe, been dropped by Blender so again it seems to be Nvidia products all the way. 😞
At time of writing this, a 4070ti is roughly $400-$500 cheaper than a 4080 and $1000 cheaper than a 4090. It costs $100 more than a 3080 while being more power efficient and supports ray tracing better. Seems good to me
bruh, they waste so much money on that dumbass log on the inside of the back panel, that you will never see, unless your PC is always breaking down. lmao, da fuq?
I just got a Sapphire 7900XTX last weekend for my brand new rig and so far it's been really solid. I'm still tuning it in and I need an extra PCIe cable cause it's a 3 x 8 power connector and I didn't see that...
2021: "This is kinda an unreasonable example, but... .200W CPU 2023: Intel i9-13900K: "Allow me to introduce myself... I am a magic rock of outrageous wealth-concentration and tastelessness...."
One suggestion for the series: I would also like to hear some kind of a low'ish load absolute noise test for all of these cases. I feel this performance normalized with noise is slightly at odds with several computer use cases. I use mine for music recording (relatively low load, very low fan rpm, noise critical), media consumption (basically idle) and photogrammetry/ 3D modelling, where I don't really care if it sounds like a jet engine as it's work and I can just exit the room for the day it chugs along. So while noise normalized results give me an idea of how the case performs, I'd really like to see some standardized, noise focused test procedure across all cases for media consumption/ creation scenarios that wouldn't be so heat dependant.
the problem with the Hyte Y60 is as GN you use the arctic freeze ii in your testing cooling things on cpu. cant fit a arctic freeze 2 into the hyte y60. i bought one and had to return it, as the AF2 360 version will not fit into the top of the case mounted position at all. the y60 that cut out corner, also has a piece of metal inside the housing so cant fit a rectangular 360 radiator into it. unless your willing to cut metal and remove that from the case. which i did not have the time or tools to do correctly, so i downgraded to a 2x fan 240 unit for my 13900k. the case claims it can hold a 360 but it actually cannot hold one in a top mounted set up due to the cut out corner as the radiator wont fit due to the metal support inside on that area blocking the 360 radiator from fitting inside the top of the case correctly. thier is a few cm of radiator corner hitting the cut y60 angled corner support section on top. its also angled not squared off to actually fit a 360 3 fan cooler as claimed it can support.
amd software last 5 years is total garbage, their QA is totally bad in compare to intel / invidia as of late. sure none are perfect but if you had to pick which company makes better software for less break outage down time - not feature sets. Intel is 1, invidia is 2 and 3 last suckiest software is AMD all the claims off how good or features is useless if its broken more then the others as tech support down time costs clearly outweigh a few dollars in the shopping cart difference.
Hmm it's a toss up for me. My 1080p video 100% looks better, but even at quality 1 on a 3060ti it pegs utilisation at approx 75% so I have to deal with fan noise and the power consumption. It's weird not to idle while watching TRvid videos. I wonder if anyone else is in the same dilemma?
I do not understand the reduced ventilation whatsoever. Why do so many case sin general have poor ventilation, but if you have a case that is good and make a simpler cheaper one, fine, but the ventilation was much better in that one, it doesn't make any sense to me. The two filters going two different ways... WHY !? Either pick a side, and the glass side makes most sense, or make a mini bracket and screw so you can choose a block to be put in on either side, or, do without one even and have the ability to get them out on either side. About the fans, include enough, or don't include any, i almost always throw away those 1-2 fans since i want my own so they all look the same or want better looking ones etc. And it being this hot, why, i kind of feel that goes very much against their whole idea, looking good, but also working well, the Y60 was ok at best, this doesn't work well at all, looks nice, but nothing special, even with the glass corner. Honestly, i feel that they were far more promising than what they came up with.
The RTX 4070Ti like pretty much every other higher-end GPU is priced higher than what would typically be expected for sure. However, given the current REALITY the RTX 4070Ti actually represents a better value than the RTX 4080 via achieving ~ 80% of its performance at 1440p (the ideal resolution for this GPU) for ~ $450 less. The RTX 4080 would need to cost around $1000.00 USD to represent an equally good performance / price ratio. The RTX 4090 is roughly 2X the performance of the RTX 4070Ti so it as well makes more sense than the RTX 4080., the RTX 4080 is the MOST overpriced of them all. Regardless, if you're coming from say a GTX 1080Ti you will be HUGELY impressed by the performance uplift (~ 2X the FPS) with the RTX 4070Ti.
13:13 so looks like the Intel Arc may just be capable to do A.I. though seems is going to be slightly difficult because AMD and NVIDIA have some sort of special connector, (i.e. SLI or some such thing) to connect multiple GPUs on one mainboard, and both my Arc cards have nothing of the sort. A750, A770le. Yet my RX6700xt has nothing either and those are used for A.I. and my RTX3050, also claimed can be used for A.I. deep learning, renders etc. no special connector there either. Eh figure it out one day. Gonna go order some more Arc770s....
You can legit buy, im not saying build, i'm saying you can buy a machine with a 4090 and a modern cpu , and D5 Ram for less than this. This is stupid. If made properly, it is stupid.
I love how AIO's ship with the tubs just too short to fit all configurations. Like they go around the board room table and decided, ya let's not add the extra 2" they need. What, make it sort by 3"? SURE!
I've tried the ML140 fans... Most of the time the RGB would not light up, even with profiles set.. Then the fan speeds wouldn't pick up... The iCue software is just trash, IMO. I sold them off and got some Noctua fans instead, with a manual 5.25 bay controller, with a temp probe and/or manual toggle and adjustable RPM.
What about a 2x120 radiator on the side, with the fan mount? Then you get vrm cooling kinda as well ***also need mATX version in dark grey with purpleheart wood
