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My gaming PC is still a 4770k that I delidded and overclocked the crap out of to like 4.7ghz. Paired with a 3060ti it's pretty much maxed out. It's showing signs of age and I look forward to going team red, but don't want to spend the money yet. 10 years I've gotten out of this chip.

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I switched to Intel with Haswell, 4570k I believe. Broke my heart going back to Intel.

I started building computers around 2005, and AMD was the shit. I got caught up in knowing all the spec differences between CPU lines, overclocking potential, and so on. One of my first motherboards was a DFI LANPARTY and there must have been about 70 ways to tweak RAM timing. I've never seen anything like it in modern mobos.

Anyway, K10 or Bulldozer or whatever it was called by AMD was a flop, and Intel just kicked ass. I kept that Haswell probably longer than any other CPU I've used - About 5 years as my primary gaming CPU, before getting a Ryzen 1700.

Dawg. The DFI LanParty was my dream board! Always wanted one. I had a piece of crap socket 754 Soltek board instead… but it was purple which was cool.

It's a decent proxy for peak utility when enthusiast motherboards last came without lights. Miss those days.

All my new ASUS boards fortunately have a stealth mode that defeats all onboard RGB. Unfortunately my gaming pc still looks like the SF pride parade because the dimm’s are RGB. My latest workstation though just has regular ripjaw’s so it’s nice and stealthy.

I’ve never understood the idea of RGB DIMMs. Can they be configured to show useful information about the stick (access, writes, parity errors, bus speed) or is it just for show?

Just for show and requires software to configure. Fortunately tools like openRGB exist but I’d prefer off by default or a physical switch. That was a nice element of a resent ASRock Taichi card I picked up - it has a physical switch to turn off RGB.

AsRock offers the Taichi Lite mobos without RGB and ~30$ cheaper IIRC.

[edit] https://www.anandtech.com/show/18891/asrock-unveils-z790-and...

I have a theory that hardware vendors are making Christmas tree-inspired products trying to segment the market between gamers and professionals.

Gaming hardware is typically pretty good in terms of performance/dollar. However, similar computers without all these LEDs marketed as workstations are more profitable for the manufacturers.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040409-00/?p=39...

Just for show. I like some white LEDs in the case, and so I have some acrylic artwork mounted on the PCI bracket under the GPU and lighted RAM.

> parity errors

I have some bad news for you...

I miss when cases looked really cool and advanced instead of the modern "it's a glass cube with rainbow lights" look. Still think the Cooler Master Cosmos II is the best-looking PC case ever made.

Modern motherboards are configured so that RAM optimization is done automatically but you can still do it manually.

DFI LANPARTY !! What a motherboard! I still remember it’s physical buttons for reset, and power on and off, which were entirely new at the time (and super useful Btw)

Manually adjusting timings is somewhat obsolete since the introduction of XMP, but you can still set all the subtimings on modern boards, most people just don't bother (although the gains can be not insignificant, especially if the XMP profile is poor). It's still dozens of parameters.

I recently replaced my 4770K/3080 Ti rig with a 13600K and can wholeheartedly recommend the upgrade. Such an old CPU is not only keeping the GPU back, but load times etc are also like 10-50 times faster.

I have an OCed ryzen 5 3600 system with a NVME SSD 32gb ram blahblahblah and it's running a GTX970 I bought about 3 years ago for $100.

I had hoped the 40 series would be properly priced so I could actually afford to buy a GPU again......

Even a RX 6600 would be a nice upgrade over your 970, and in that category prices are OK.

Interesting, I have a 3600 too, I thought they weren't over clockable because I read some random forum post saying so. I've been given bad info then? What have you clocked it too? Stock cooler?

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