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Its a budget build not a workstation for gaming :D If COVID affected you then this is the worst time to plan an upgrade. Come back later when your on your feet again after your priorities have been addressed.

You need a complete upgrade. I guess you are budget limited? My suggestion: AMD 3600 CPU. Cheap B450 board 16 GB of 3200Mhz RAM. Radeon 5600XT ABSOLUTELY avoid a expensive graphics card on such old system.

Yes the I5 is the logical and obvious choice on intel side. I have been watching the reviews and my goodness they are misleading. You have to look in to the devil in the details such as: 1-power consumption and temperatures to reach 5Ghz is not really feasible for the i9 24/7 without monster cooling apparatus that most people never consider buying. 2- I9 tested on 360 AIO, while older CPU's are air cooled, yeah right. 3-Why are people using old games such as far cry 3 and GTA I don't know. Once you reach a certain FPS threshold (far higher than what your monitor refresh rate is capable of or than you need) you'll see stuttering settling in due to poor game optimization. 4-Also anything with modern API sees Intel's advantage evaporate away. But this is rarely ever shown. 5-They show new CPU's overclocked VS older on Stock. 6-AMD side for example they often even don't show up configured with the recommended memory & infinity speeds (3600/1800) that the chips are capable of out of the box. Thats 5-20% of performance chopped off right there. 7- while they are at it, the memory speeds in comparisons are different. Even the 7700K can run 3600 Mhz RAM, so all CPU's should be tested without memory bottlenecks. 8- Most reviewers fail to choose benchmarks with complex scenes with many units on screen like a battle for example and opt instead to go 1080P standard single person shooters built in benchmarks when they are more adequate for graphics cards.

consider buying a discount 9700K or a 9900K instead of a 10 gen CPU, due lack of availability of the latter and gouging prices not to mention there will be no change on your gaming experience. That is only valid if you really don't want to consider AMD side.

its interesting that the the roof blowing off follows the wake of the aircraft rather than the engine jet wash (much stronger and on the opposite direction). That's Hollywood for you :D

Hammering on the beer bug now :]

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Stoked with the news about the Eurofighter :]

Folding! Lets kill the bugs!!

Not a single aircraft tracer in the sky! I live by the airport and it has been quiet as I have never seen.

I hope what comes out of this is more education by experience, because the rate of spread is clearly an indicator people dont know how to act and several of the governments in the west have been complacent (mine included) and are reacting & improvising as they go. Note: South Korea's performance in this Area has been OUTSTANDING and we should all learn something from them.

Now that we got all teen fighters in, it would great: Mig-31 Mig-29M2 Su-30

oh man, the memes about toilet paper... why toilet paper of all the things??

its going to get worse for intel in the upcoming 10th generation which is a few weeks away at most (some stores already have price lists online). You'll get similar performance but its going to cost even more than 9th gen and since they are trying to cram more cores on the same old manufacturing technology expect extremely high end cooling solutions to be a must.

Yean AMD is the most economic effective CPU as you can get more cores for the money, and with those savings get the biggest GPU you can afford. The only downside to AMD is if your accustomed to tweaking and optimized intel systems for that many years you'll have to re-learn alot of things on the AMD side. make sure you get a qualified memory kit for your motherboard and you should be fine (essential to avoid trouble).

not going to bother with anything below 50% FPS increase over my 1080Ti. It was too expensive to replace it lightly minded and still performs like a champ.

Intel and AMD have swapped roles. LOL

I wonder why the airspace is not closed to civilian traffic during conflicts. Ukraine, Syria now Iran. Extremely sad news, and I am personally appalled.

maybe not, they appear to give this one some attention to quality, lets wait for reviews.

If you go online 16GB is not enough anymore.

what? he was in the front seat? :D

too soon to replace the 8700K.

went to Hans Zimmer concert in Lisbon yesterday. Here's a similar concert on youtube from the 2018 tour. DrZfsdNovYA

The failures of dead 20 series cards have been linked to faulty VRAM modules of a given brand and have nothing to do with cooling. Some non reference cards have never had issues because they were using other VRAM modules. Personally I skipped the 20 series as from the standpoint of performance to gamers they are half a generation upgrade at outrageous prices despite the vaunted ray tracing features. If you are tempted to buy a graphics with your hard earned money get AMD instead, or wait for the 30 series cards. I'm sure NVIDIA will course correct by then or face same trouble from AMD as Intel did.

those backdoors were there much before that.