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  1. blaineoliver

    Upgrade from 1700x

    Have the latest bios running, done a clear CMOS too but to no avail.
  2. blaineoliver

    Upgrade from 1700x

    seems like options are: a. don't spend too much and get an x470 board relatively cheaply. b. buy a b550 board and a 3700x or 5600x What are thoughts on which cpu to go for if do option b?
  3. blaineoliver

    Upgrade from 1700x

    Yeah my typo, not cpu or ram I meant.
  4. blaineoliver

    Upgrade from 1700x

    I think the current board is the issue, I can use any of my 4 ram sticks in slots 2 and 4. If i put just 2 sticks in slots 1 and 3, I get bluescreens or it fails to boot. I tried a 2200g and this shows the same behaviour on slots 1 and 3.
  5. blaineoliver

    Upgrade from 1700x

    I have managed 2933mhz for about 3 months, now when as CMOS reset 2133mhz it's still showing issues. The bios only reports 8gb of memory when using the 'bad slots'.
  6. blaineoliver

    Upgrade from 1700x

    I have currently got a 1700x and a MSI x370 xpower titanium motherboard with 32GB DDR4 3000MHz and an RX580. My motherboard is giving issues using slots 1 and 3 on the ram, which I have troubleshooted down to not being the motherboard cpu or the ram. All my sticks of ram can pass a memory test...
  7. blaineoliver

    Worth upgrading from a 2200g?

    Upgraded by brother from 2200g to 2600 and the gaming uplift was incredible. We did a Rx 580 with it too. Your 1060 is already faster than that, the 2200g might be bottlenecking that card.
  8. blaineoliver

    2600 still a better budget option than 1700?

    2600, I'm using a 1700x and there are few use cases where the 1700 will help with the extra cores most games are still not well threaded and the IPC improvements of the 2600 will help in games.
  9. blaineoliver

    Apple M1 CPU

    My job is to build supercomputers, only notable arm system is in China as they're banned from having x86 systems of that level of power. The Chinese system is also only good at linpack, not real world tasks. So you're not right with this claim.
  10. blaineoliver

    Argghh, bent CPU pins on 3900x

    You've never had to bend back a socket pin on an Intel motherboard clearly. Eww that was a horrendous job.
  11. blaineoliver

    Apple M1 CPU

    I don't personally like the OS on my MacBook, but I do use it occasionally. The laptop was my wife's for graphic design. The OS level display scaling and colour management is way better on MacOS Vs Windows. You can get things done in Windows but every app has its own colour management profiles...
  12. blaineoliver

    What laptop processor alternative to desktop is 2400?

    i5 2400 is pretty old now. Any 4 core Ryzen cpu based laptop will provide enough grunt.
  13. blaineoliver

    Nvidia CPU's? Nvidia is looking at a takeover bid for ARM

    Ewww, this is horrible. I was hoping this wouldn't happen.
  14. blaineoliver

    AMD Ryzen3 3200G Quad Core 4.0Ghz upgrade

    Fitting tasks into 8GB of ram can be a struggle nowadays. Upgraded my brother's PC from a 2200G to a 2600 plus 16GB RAM, RX 580 and it really flies. I would upgrade to decent 16GB 3200mhz (minimum speed) ram and a 4750G if you don't want a descrete GPU. Or a 2600 + gpu otherwise. Also what...
  15. blaineoliver

    AMD on the road to recovery.

    Only wish I put more on last year, I had a spare £100 that's now worth £210 a year later.
  16. blaineoliver

    AMD announce EPYC

    I would expect it's around 50 EPYC servers to get 40Tbit/s. This is raw infiniband throughout rather than storage capacity. Likely that are streaming the data and processing or before storing a much smaller version of it. I've been working on some storage using EPYC servers that's capable of...
  17. blaineoliver

    *EPIC THREAD* Major Problems with Coollaboratory Liquid Pro Thermal Compound DEAD CPU

    What is dead my never die. Very Apt Game of Thrones quote for that CPU.
  18. blaineoliver

    AMD Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000) - *** NO COMPETITOR HINTING ***

    Not only are the x370 board bioses in beta, they also have removed the nice interface and put a crappy one on to save space for microcode.
  19. blaineoliver

    AMD on the road to recovery.

    Freetrade is a really simple way of investing, got mine though them.
  20. blaineoliver

    AMD Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000) - *** NO COMPETITOR HINTING ***

    My AMD shares took a hit today after some positive end of year results, which is a shame.
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