I may be mistaken but isn't the Ryzen 9 5980 CPU for laptops? How are you comparing a laptop CPU and a desktop GPUs in performance? I might be mistaken. Nothing wrong with AMD CPUs, 7nm Ryzen 9 and beats Intels 10nm 12thgen by a ton.
The 5900X is awesome, I have a 5950X in my backup rig and it benches much better than the 12900K in almost every category, now they have the 7900X series, I can't wait to get my hands on that.
I can't argue any point there. It's exactly what you should have. If I didn't have to write reviews, I probably couldn't even afford a 3080 and a 5900X. I am just lucky to be in the right place at the right time to get that gig. Its been 15 years already, that I have had the privilege to be a reviewer and get all my parts for nothing. It's actually funny in a way because when I review a CPU I am one person and when review a GPU I am somebody else. But it's worked for a very long time and I am not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.
RGB is a kid's thing, it's also used as an aesthetic to bring people to the booth at CES. That's where it actually started, about 4 years ago at CES I was the booth engineer at the Asus booth at CES. I had a big discussion with marketing about RGB, they said it was the next really big thing in Desktops and all peripherals. Look like I was wrong, everyone is using RGB and posting the most illuminated rig on the internet.
Me too, but it is almost impossible to find what you need without it. Its like having a year-round Christmas Tree on your desk. I remember when clear acrylic cases came into the market in the early part of the century. Some of the Eastern companies started with small blue lights on fans and then Kingston had the Blue lit RAM coolers with fans. I never in my wildest dream thought it would get like this, no professional would like RGB, I wish I had a desk with a fan-cooled compartment for my desktop, they make them but they are expensive. Have some fun, Taiwan just opened its borders and took down the Covid restrictions for entering the country. So they will have Computex Taipei for the first time in 3 years I believe next year 2023. Buy a ticket, you will have some real fun.
LEDs serve a purpose, RGB lights do not.
LEDs serve a purpose, RGB lights do not.
DQ, you are my brother, and I would love to agree with you. But RGB is for kids, 15-year-old gamers who want their friends to say WOW, " The Wow Factor", and pro gamers who do not have RGB if they can help it, who build machines that have every W in their PSU to the GPU and CPU has a purpose and is allocated to the specific game they are playing. They spend hours tweaking the BIOS of the motherboard and the GPU BIOS, some even write their own BIOS. It's all about heat and throttling not " wow that looks cool". All that said, I admit you have to go some to find actual parts that do not light up like a holiday tree. I have RGB parts in my rig but they are all disabled, I mean no one sees it but me. I do not play console games, I play computer games, and that's rare for me. I spend 90% of my time here or writing a review that I make templates for, and add in the benchmarks and other things like conclusions. It's become easy for me. I love being here most of all. Now in conclusion I understand everyone is different and I do not begrudge a guy who loves lights, but for me, if it doesn't serve a purpose it's not important when it comes to computers.
DQ, you are my brother, and I would love to agree with you. But RGB is for kids, 15-year-old gamers who want their friends to say WOW, " The Wow Factor", and pro gamers who do not have RGB if they can help it, who build machines that have every W in their PSU to the GPU and CPU has a purpose and is allocated to the specific game they are playing. They spend hours tweaking the BIOS of the motherboard and the GPU BIOS, some even write their own BIOS. It's all about heat and throttling not " wow that looks cool". All that said, I admit you have to go some to find actual parts that do not light up like a holiday tree. I have RGB parts in my rig but they are all disabled, I mean no one sees it but me. I do not play console games, I play computer games, and that's rare for me. I spend 90% of my time here or writing a review that I make templates for, and add in the benchmarks and other things like conclusions. It's become easy for me. I love being here most of all. Now in conclusion I understand everyone is different and I do not begrudge a guy who loves lights, but for me, if it doesn't serve a purpose it's not important when it comes to computers.
If you go up a few posts you will read what I said to SamuriHL, LEDs have a purpose, RGBS do not.
But I like a chrome bumper
Me too, when I was a young man, I used to want a Chevy 409 Impala Convertable so bad I would have stolen one but sadly I come from a middle-class Military family that never had any money, and when I was able to drive I was lucky to get a VW bug so I could get to work and make my own money, it was a different world back then.Yeah I read that for sure. It had just occurred to me I was basing all my thoughts on what I like or do and 3/4 of my "lighting" are LEDs. We will have to agree to disagree whether RGB has a purpose. I fully agree they have a low priority purpose and are mostly just like chrome on a bumper
You took the picture yourself?
