Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "JayzTwoCents" channel.

  1. $10 says it's a motherboard issue.
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  2. let it fail, RMA it, get your money back. Buy a 12900k or a Ryzen system, 9950x will be out soon.
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  3. I'm using a MSI GF series 10500/1650. Solid laptops, well specced out.
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  4. @Dark Joker 2 for tightly TGP limited products you often find that the 1650 outperforms the 3050 and 3060. That's why I didn't spend $500 more for a 3050 part a year ago. There's only so much ability to cool in a small form factor.
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  5. ​ @Gamesemag  funny. but I've had AMD's on and off from the K6, through the Athlon and Thunderbird, Second Gen Ryzen to current Zen 4. They've all been stable. They all did their job just fine. If you've had stability issues, it's probably because of the motherboard brand you used, or you thought that because they were unlocked for overclocking you could just wind them up 50% like the good old days of a Celeron 300. The reason why Intel started locking down their gear was the amount of complaints from customers who destroyed their gear by overclocking the hell out of it.
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  6. Ryzen 5 2600. Everything since I've just tried to provide the thermal headroom and it does the job itself.
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  7. I've been tossing up the 3070 Ti/3080 given resale price of the 2070 Super is still good. Who knows what the market will do when 4xxx Nvidia comes out.
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  8. Imho Jay's got two issues there. 1 is the motherboard, and 2 is the 7950x3d. A 7800x3d and a non Asus motherboard is the best bet.
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  9. Since there seems to be so much feedback about not being able to get new stuff, might be worth a few reviews of old versus new comparisons. Some of the most interesting content coming out on tech right now is how to make the most of what wd've got and how small the gains really are in most upgrades to all but power users and content creators.
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  10. Why am I thinking "The Watchmen"?
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  11. I changed from the stock 2600 Ryzen fan to a Snowman T4. Minimal performance enhancement (really need the 3000 series' self boosting) but the temps dropped 20 degrees C immediately on installation. Overclocking seems more limited by my b350 gaming plus motherboard and the Zen + CPU. Memory is GSkill Ripjaws V 3200, so I'm betting it ain't the memory that's the limiting factor. Heats are still fine at settings that will still post, at 15-20 degrees lower than I was running at. But really only got 100 MHZ more. I could clock higher, up to 300 higher, but memory stability issues when I try pushing the fabric clock. Quieter, Cooler, a little bit more go. Cheap. It's a win. Yes, the Ryzen stock fan functions and doesn't HAVE to be upgraded. But seriously, a cheap heat pipe tower cooler is a much much better investment of time and money than an AIO.
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  12. I got mine when I got my 11400f so I'm guessing I'm over 3 1/2 years. So long as it's top mounted and they don't sound like a milkshake when you buy them you should get a good lifespan out of them.
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  13. 400f specs are actually pretty good gaming balance as far as bang for buck. Have been since the 8400. Really the Intel xx400's run against the AMD 600's, the Intel xx600 runs against the AMD 600X, the Intel xx700 runs against the AMD 700X and both AMD and Intel 900's run against each other. Historically it was more that Intel 700's ran against the AMD 800's and the Intel K sku 600's ran against the AMD 700X, but AMD pulled the pin on those matchups a bit with no 7800's, and also holding out so long on the non x variants (as well as the G, 300 and 100 variants) whilst they had such a huge advantage and basically milked customers to buy a 7600X. Not cool, AMD. That's where the xx100 Intel has honestly had a good run as a budget CPU since the 10105F. The 600k (or 600kf) is kind of where "sensible" mostly gaming performance ends and the priority becomes more cores and clock speeds at the cost of enormous energy usage and running costs. Of course, the AMD 7600X regularly trounced the 600 class intels. Most games just don't run enough threads to be able to use more than the Intel 13600k or the AMD 7600X or 7700X can use. That's why we actually saw in many cases lower gaming performance with the 7950X3D than the plain old 7700X. The 7800X3D is basically a 7700X with VCache not really a higher end CPU. There is no 7800x in the AMD lineup, unlike the 5800X which was slammed for being an overpriced 5700X, at least until the 5800X3D came along.. The X950 is just AMD showing off. Those things are more a high end workstation than a desktop CPU, and unless you're a sponsered twich gamer or a heavy multasking renderer probably irrelevant to buyers. Doesn't stop them being bought for reasons of pure swag. If you're thinking I'm an AMD fanboy I am running an 11400f, btw. At the time it was just far better bang for buck.
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  14. Ridiculously, the US$650 Tuf ASUS F15 laptop has an Aussie Amazon price of A$1499 for the 10300/1650 version. On current exchange rates as a A$940 laptop this would be a great deal. At $1499, well... you can see how much you're getting taken for a ride. AMD 4600H version a far more reasonable A$1160. I picked up a similar spec MSI 10500/1650 about a year ago for $999 Australian Dollarydoos. They're now available as an 11400/1650 for similar pricing. A slightly higher spec 144 Hz one was available but it was about $500 extra at the time, but came with twice the memory and twice the SSD space. I upgraded both and called it good enough. I think mine is only a 75hz screen though, so kind of regret it. But how frequently you can actually get up into the 144Hz range on a budget gaming laptop is up to you... you'd have to be running awfully low settings to achieve that and for mobile gaming performance my 4g wifi is usually by far my biggest limitation. Funny thing is in Australia, Amazon prices for most of this kind of stuff are 50-100% higher than you can get them from a brick and mortar store, or if they're price competitive they are almost always a far inferior product being dumped on the lazy or gullible. Right now a Gigabyte G5 or G7 is under $1200 Dollarydoos with a 11400H and RTX 3050 and 144Hz panel. You can get the A series versions with the AMD mobile CPU normally a few hundred cheaper. The ASUS TUF F15 can be got with a 12700 and 3050 for $1449 from the same brick and mortar dealer who will do shipping. The very laptop you've listed here is basically the same price on Aussie Amazon as the Gigabyte G5 with 3060 and 12500H (G5 KE-52DE213SD) which should absolutely romp all over it. 12500 vs 10300, and 3060 vs 1650, for the same price? Game over. That would be my personal recommendations to anyone looking to buy a cheap gaming laptop downunder right now. If you want the TUF, as reviewed here by Jay, go to another retailer, and you can get a much higher spec one cheaper. If you HAVE to buy off Amazon for whatever reason, get the Gigabyte with the 12500/3060. A reminder to make sure you do your research, people, as what's cheap over there may not be cheap in your market.
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  15. Funnily the Gigabyte G5 is an US$849 Amazon laptop, showing the reverse is also true.
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  16. A 40 x Xe2 card will only really be a 4070 Super to 4070 Ti card. Having said that, if they could punch that out for $500 I'd be keen, and it should be cheaper than two B580's - it only needs one PCB and one bracket.
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  17.  @maxweinbach3996  Price to performance, dude.
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  18. Running 11400F, 3080 and 16 gb ram, 144 hz 1440 monitor. Should have bought a 11600KF probably. Dumb me. Yeah, I could have spent twice the money, got 15% more frames, been unsatisfied, felt that junkie need to upgrade again and blown a whole heap of money on a 12700 3090 and 4k monitor to get less frames and a bigger screen that I can't see the dude sniping me without actually turning my entire head. Would I play better? Well, moving your whole head is slow and I'd be doing more overtime so I wouldn't get time to play, so no.
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  19. I've been super stable from day dot. 2600 on MSI B350 Gaming Pro, first with a 1060 6GB and now 2070 Super (bought just at the start of the crisis). The only thing though is overclocking. I got a really good stable overclock with my first memory, but had to manually overclock it. ryzen Master did all sorts of strangeness. then when I changed Memory to 3200 Ripjaws V I struggled to get it to clock up to 3200, even though it was on the support list. Yet the previous team 2133 ran happily at 2667, even 2866, anyway, but I struggled to get the supposedly much better 3200 to run more than 2933. Later bios updates fixed that. XMP profiles are erm... messed up. Then when I changed coolers to a far better one I lost my overclock profile, even though it was saved it was just gone. Manually tried to reinstate it, just gone. Set the same settings, it wouldn't take them. Eventually found a stable slightly higher overclock, but it was serious work to get it. Why is it harder to overclock with better quality components, AMD? WHYYYYYYY? Anyway, I've tossed up upgrading, was gonna go 3600, then 3800X, or maybe XT or whatever. but I'm maxed out 1440p 144 fps for the games I play, so what would be the point. Although if someone wants to buy me 1060, b350, 2600 and that team memory I can probably justify a 5600X or 3700X build.
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  20.  @nareshsookraj9230  I wish
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  21. They have been there before but they couldn't keep it up. I went digging in my shed and found a K8 SLI motherboard with some huge ass round blue heatsink. What's in there? A thunderbird? Who knows!
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  22. One question needs to be answered. Is the Microcentre US$899 price due to Trump's chip tariffs and the US$749 is a global price without the tariffs? Is this the reason for the high 9070XT and 9070 leaked pricing too? If so, that's not an Nvidia or AMD fault, that's a domestic issue, just like the 18% VAT that many European countries face that makes GPU's expensive in their markets
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  23.  @Jayztwocents  so, with the 10% tariff announced after initial pricing, the price should now be $823.90 (+ Sales tax, of course). While that's still bad, that means there's another $75.10 gone walkies into someone's pocket.
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  24. 40 series was.
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  25. Something that NVidia is doing that frustrates heck out of me is simply why the slowed down 2060's and nothing else from that node? I'd love an explanation of where those older process node silicon is going? Is it to the car industry, other consumer devices, or are those fab plants basically mothballed? Or is it resource constraints or staffing shortages meaning we're not able to see increased production on the older nodes?
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  26. Been running a deepcool 240 AIO now for about 3 years and still running great. There's certainly a time limit on them but at this point everything is running good, fingers crossed. I will be changing cases eventually and when I do then I'll probably go with a 360 or 420 AIO so it's good to see what's out there.
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  27. My MSI will just shut down in seconds if you have the battery profile set to extend battery life. If I'm gaming I always run on wall power. If I choose "kill the battery I don't care" you can get maybe an hour of gaming from fully charged at most.
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  28. Summary seems to be, it's best at 1440 and the extra memory will make it more future proof than some of the other cards. Also in RT Nvidi-evil > Intel > AMD
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  29. CYRIX is a different x86 platform. 3 companies were licenced to make x86. Intel, AMD and Cyrix. Would be good to see them do something. They were still kicking around for ages due to high efficiency low power consumption but it's been a long time since we heard from them.
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  30. Waiting for the heap of reviews when intel get their GPU's out. Never thought I would be cheering for intel graphics, but it's been a funny few years.
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  31. Why didn't you paint the shroud plastic between the backing plate and heat sink? I know it's going to be pointing in but still would have helped with the white aesthetic.
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  32. ​ @tim3172 basically both Intel and AMD have had issues with running different cores with different specifications in the one CPU. 12th gen intel had huge problems, to the point that many users were manually turning off their e-cores just to play games. AMD really only has this problem on the 7950X3D. Windows scheduler WILL get better at this stuff over time, but for now the best solutions are: a) buy a 7800X3D or a standard 7900X/7950X. Don't get a 7900X3D or 7950X3D. b) buy a 13th gen intel and make sure you run all the latest patches
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  33. does it outperform the 6600xt? If not, it probably goes close...
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  34. Leave them in the same place, colour them in brand colours, and group each brand together in order from alleged highest performer to lowest. You would probably need to colour the card you are specifically reviewing slightly or even significantly differently. You could even have a bit of a joke with that, maybe a gold to brown scaling based on it's performance.
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  35. that society has learnt about alphabetical order?
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  36. Driver updates need to fix this. You can understand Intel being cautious about not having people overeclock their cards and then giving their first gen a reputation for failure. But seriously, 240W or even 250W should be possible safely with that 90 degree temperature cap. AIB's should sort this out a bit. There's clearly a bit more grunt being locked away there.
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  37. Hang on, don't Americans keep saying covid isn't real? Hopefully a few more people might believe when someone they follow on youtube actually comes out and says they have it. Get well soon, both you and your family, and let's hope your production crew are not affected either.
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  38. 1440p and 16gb 3200 here. frame rates are just sweet on the 2070 super
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  39. I've certainly had NO stability issues andnot one BSOD or crash since switching to Zen 4. Did have some dramas getting expo timings running, but that might have been a bios thing or just not kowing how to activate things properly (which I doubt, 3rd straight MSI B series board). The only real drama I see is the insanely long boot times because of the DDR5 memory. I've sometimes wished I was still on 11th gen for that reason alone.
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  40. Big step to cut a sponsor. Kudos. Even if said sponsor hasn't been paying you for a while, still...
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  41. It seems strange that they dedicated a slide on 1060 and 1660 but I think the point they're trying to make is that the B580 is basically targeting the market space that the 1060 and 1660 once occupied, and for that kind of user the time to upgrade is definitely now, and that the B580 is that kind of generational jump they need at around the same price point those other cards originally cost. Although it would have made more sense to include the 2060 6gb card in there too, or instead of the 1660 Super, which was technically a first gen ray tracing card. The B580 should monster that even with raytracing enabled, based on vram alone. Realistically, no one is going from a 3060 Ti or 6600XT to an Arc 580. The performance gains are too minimal to justify the expense. The target for these cards is upgrades from 10 series, 16 series or 20 series Nvidia, or new builds who were looking at 6600, 7600 or 4060 cards. It looks promising for US$249 - not of any use to me, since I'm well above that performance tier already. I hope they follow up with a B770 card in the new year. If it gets near 4070Ti Super raster and raytracing I'll be interested.
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  42. Yep. A month ago I almost bought a 4080S or 4070 Ti S but was holding out based on all those "aggressive pricing" rumours on the 9070XT. Now we know they meant "priced aggressively AGAINST consumers"
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  43. Chaaa aiiir!
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  44. Sadly this makes this release irrelevant for 99.9% of the gaming population. So really it's a paper release, a marketing gimmick.
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  45. I don't know that he's breaking an NDA once this pricing is public knowledge
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  46. It isn't Corona that's making his voice a little funny?
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  47. i5 or equivalent AMD, 6 or 8 cores, ddr4, 3070 non ti LHR or 3080 / 6900xt, decent gen 4 ssd For budget i3 or 5600 AMD, 6 core, ddr4, 3070 or 6700xt, base end gen 4 ssd. For anything above that, please, blow the money you can afford and feed the second hand market.
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  48. For low end , 10400 or 10105 or 5500, 6600 or used Nvidia 2070 Super/1080/5700, gen 3 ssd. Once you're getting into low end it's starting to be whole system off facebook marketplace time. Below that it's keep using what you got, or at best pick up a used 1060 or 570 graphics. A secondhand 9400, 8400 or 8600 or 2600 system is honestly not that bad and can play 1440 with a 1060 or 570 if you're realistic with your detail levels.
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  49. Obviously more power and cooling overhead will allow better overclocking. But Intel needs to fix their overclocking software. 20 watts cheaper to run and 10 degrees cooler is a win though. Worth the $20, even without the overclocking potential.
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  50. Seems like a 7700X looks better. Massive disappointment. There were rumours that the 65W cap was throttling performance heavily. Looks like a dumb move by AMD tbh.
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