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System Name | Best AMD Computer |
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Processor | AMD 7900X3D |
Motherboard | Asus X670E E Strix |
Cooling | In Win SR36 |
Memory | GSKILL DDR5 32GB 5200 30 |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire Pulse 7900XT (Watercooled) |
Storage | Corsair MP 700, Seagate 530 2Tb, Adata SX8200 2TBx2, Kingston 2 TBx2, Micron 8 TB, WD AN 1500 |
Display(s) | GIGABYTE FV43U |
Case | Corsair 7000D Airflow |
Audio Device(s) | Corsair Void Pro, Logitch Z523 5.1 |
Power Supply | Deepcool 1000M |
Mouse | Logitech g7 gaming mouse |
Keyboard | Logitech G510 |
Software | Windows 11 Pro 64 Steam. GOG, Uplay, Origin |
Benchmark Scores | Firestrike: 46183 Time Spy: 25121 |
Ah Threadripper or X299. You could buy a 1900X for $200 10980x werelike $600 and get 48 to 64 lanes with a $300 MB. With that you could use one of the Asus M2 cards, fill it with 4 drives and double that and still have a Multi GPU setup. Then TRX40 was announced and people like you and me were excited. It was either 96 or 128 PCIE lanes of 4.0 on TRX40 and boards were as cheap as $399 Canadian. Then the chips at $2500 to get in forced people to abandon that thought process. So we will wait until those CPUs drop in price and snag one. That never happens and f. me they release a 16 core monster on AM4 that is so compelling that you will bite the bullet and and buy X570. Only to find that X570 is even more restricted than X470 when it comes to PCIe allocation. Then they realize that there were more than a few people on HEDT and release X570 boards that have lane splitting only on the high end Having said that I am not sad about my AM4 main driver but it behooves me how a board with 1/2 the connectivity is more expensive than a TRX40 board Asus Prime for $399 vs the Extreme X570 for $800.Probably the usual case where it halves the top slot lanes when used... you put a sound card there in the most natural place it could be, furthest from the GPU at the bottom and if you have a nvme HHHL card like Optane... it will give you a surprise running at half speed... my ASUS X570 has a such great "feature".
The rant about lack of slots is really an actual pain...
I would like to have like PCIe expansion card with pcie bifurcation and have 4 drives there. You can easily swap them, and cooling is better. And ASUS actually has things like that... it is just a piece of PCB with some simple plastic and without expensive controllers... basically it doesn't cost much and should be added by default imho.
I also like independent USB expansion cards... because I often test faulty devices that can fry the USB... next thing are capture cards... well... it is a workstation... some people not only game on them, but buy them because of customizability. The intel mainstream chipset were so anemic in PCIe department and making an artificial segmentation to force you to use HEDT for more PCIe lanes... that's another di*k move in my book.