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  • @dustinc said:
    Congratulations to the below winners of our engagement giveaway! We sincerely appreciate the participation. Winners will be DM'd within 72 hours.

    1st Place: A new gaming PC - Ryzen 7700X, RTX 4060Ti, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe, installed with Windows 11 -- @noob404
    2nd Place: ASUS ROG Xbox Ally 7 Inch Gaming Handheld, Powered by AMD Ryzen Z2 A Processor, with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD, Windows -- @Saragoldfarb
    3rd Place: Hiboy S2 Pro Electronic Scooter with a 500Watt Motor -- @ralf
    4th Place: AirPods Pro 3 -- @bchot
    5th & 6th Place: $200 RackNerd Account Credit OR 4 GB RAM KVM VPS, deployed in any available location of your choice, completely FREE for 3 years + RackNerd Sweater -- @BasToTheMax and @PuDLeZ

    (Regarding 5th and 6th place -- @PuDLeZ and @BasToTheMax were awfully close depending on the time the rankings were viewed/scraped, and one point was tied and/or only one or two posts apart. In this exceptional case, I’m making a fair-and-square, one-time exception to allow @PuDLeZ and @BasToTheMax to choose whether they would like $200 RackNerd account credit, or the 4 GB RAM KVM VPS for 3 years + RackNerd sweater. All other placements were distinctly different in terms of participation.)

    The good news is, we have more in store! It's not over till we say it's over! And that's never. Let's keep this party going :)

    EYY NICE!

  • @Saragoldfarb said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @dustinc said:
    Congratulations to the below winners of our engagement giveaway! We sincerely appreciate the participation. Winners will be DM'd within 72 hours.

    1st Place: A new gaming PC - Ryzen 7700X, RTX 4060Ti, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe, installed with Windows 11 -- @noob404
    2nd Place: ASUS ROG Xbox Ally 7 Inch Gaming Handheld, Powered by AMD Ryzen Z2 A Processor, with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD, Windows -- @Saragoldfarb
    3rd Place: Hiboy S2 Pro Electronic Scooter with a 500Watt Motor -- @ralf
    4th Place: AirPods Pro 3 -- @bchot
    5th & 6th Place: $200 RackNerd Account Credit OR 4 GB RAM KVM VPS, deployed in any available location of your choice, completely FREE for 3 years + RackNerd Sweater -- @BasToTheMax and @PuDLeZ

    (Regarding 5th and 6th place -- @PuDLeZ and @BasToTheMax were awfully close depending on the time the rankings were viewed/scraped, and one point was tied and/or only one or two posts apart. In this exceptional case, I’m making a fair-and-square, one-time exception to allow @PuDLeZ and @BasToTheMax to choose whether they would like $200 RackNerd account credit, or the 4 GB RAM KVM VPS for 3 years + RackNerd sweater. All other placements were distinctly different in terms of participation.)

    The good news is, we have more in store! It's not over till we say it's over! And that's never. Let's keep this party going :)

    Wait what? That's way better than an Ireland vps!!!

    I don't think international shipping is included. So you would have to deal with that or covert it to credits

    Maybe we can work something out, I don't thing it'd be too costly ;)

    I never know what it's like for other places. I know a buddy in canada can't really order anything from the US unless it's cheap since there's an additional tax on top of the import fee. He says it ends up being much more that it's not worth it.

  • @BasToTheMax said:

    @dustinc said:
    Congratulations to the below winners of our engagement giveaway! We sincerely appreciate the participation. Winners will be DM'd within 72 hours.

    1st Place: A new gaming PC - Ryzen 7700X, RTX 4060Ti, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe, installed with Windows 11 -- @noob404
    2nd Place: ASUS ROG Xbox Ally 7 Inch Gaming Handheld, Powered by AMD Ryzen Z2 A Processor, with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD, Windows -- @Saragoldfarb
    3rd Place: Hiboy S2 Pro Electronic Scooter with a 500Watt Motor -- @ralf
    4th Place: AirPods Pro 3 -- @bchot
    5th & 6th Place: $200 RackNerd Account Credit OR 4 GB RAM KVM VPS, deployed in any available location of your choice, completely FREE for 3 years + RackNerd Sweater -- @BasToTheMax and @PuDLeZ

    (Regarding 5th and 6th place -- @PuDLeZ and @BasToTheMax were awfully close depending on the time the rankings were viewed/scraped, and one point was tied and/or only one or two posts apart. In this exceptional case, I’m making a fair-and-square, one-time exception to allow @PuDLeZ and @BasToTheMax to choose whether they would like $200 RackNerd account credit, or the 4 GB RAM KVM VPS for 3 years + RackNerd sweater. All other placements were distinctly different in terms of participation.)

    The good news is, we have more in store! It's not over till we say it's over! And that's never. Let's keep this party going :)

    EYY NICE!

    GG sir!

  • apparently my credit would be same as last 2 places.. i thought airpods were worth more.

  • i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

  • @Saragoldfarb said:
    @ralf where you at? You won something dude!

    Thanked by 1ralf
  • @bchot said:
    apparently my credit would be same as last 2 places.. i thought airpods were worth more.

    It really depends on the model but still, you won something for chatting with everyone!

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @bchot said:
    apparently my credit would be same as last 2 places.. i thought airpods were worth more.

    It really depends on the model but still, you won something for chatting with everyone!

    On top op that, my holiday started! What a great day!

  • @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

  • @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

  • @Saragoldfarb said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @bchot said:
    apparently my credit would be same as last 2 places.. i thought airpods were worth more.

    It really depends on the model but still, you won something for chatting with everyone!

    On top op that, my holiday started! What a great day!

    Thanked by 1Saragoldfarb
  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    Yah, I agree on all counts. And, yes, I am a big AMD fan when it comes to desktops, but, when it comes to laptops, I kinda end up recommending Intel laptops to everyone, except for handhelds, where AMD once again triumphs (MSI Claw was a disaster).

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    i know.. interestingly google search itself is MUCH MORE welcoming and knowledgeable about AMD than Intel.. didn't go into AI mode yet..

  • bchotbchot Member
    edited December 2025

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    Yah, I agree on all counts. And, yes, I am a big AMD fan when it comes to desktops, but, when it comes to laptops, I kinda end up recommending Intel laptops to everyone, except for handhelds, where AMD once again triumphs (MSI Claw was a disaster).

    funnily my laptop is also intel. msi but intel. i am a fan of msi.

  • @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    Yah, I agree on all counts. And, yes, I am a big AMD fan when it comes to desktops, but, when it comes to laptops, I kinda end up recommending Intel laptops to everyone, except for handhelds, where AMD once again triumphs (MSI Claw was a disaster).

    funnily my laptop is also intel. msi but intel. i am a fan of msi.

    Yah, as Pudlez mentioned newer Intel's efficiency cores prolly does good for battery. But, if I was going for a powerful gaming laptop, chances are I would still choose an all AMD laptop. Guess they used to call it AMD Advantage bak a few years ago

  • @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    Yah, I agree on all counts. And, yes, I am a big AMD fan when it comes to desktops, but, when it comes to laptops, I kinda end up recommending Intel laptops to everyone, except for handhelds, where AMD once again triumphs (MSI Claw was a disaster).

    I'm still waiting for non apple arm chips to catch up in terms of performance. I do love arm64 the best but with current options, you take such a performance hit that I don't think it's worth it if you actually want something powerful enough on the go. At least i feel the $ will be better spent on an intel laptop instead.

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    Yah, I agree on all counts. And, yes, I am a big AMD fan when it comes to desktops, but, when it comes to laptops, I kinda end up recommending Intel laptops to everyone, except for handhelds, where AMD once again triumphs (MSI Claw was a disaster).

    I'm still waiting for non apple arm chips to catch up in terms of performance. I do love arm64 the best but with current options, you take such a performance hit that I don't think it's worth it if you actually want something powerful enough on the go. At least i feel the $ will be better spent on an intel laptop instead.

    Wait aren't the Qualcomm Snapdragon X arm64?

  • @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    Yah, I agree on all counts. And, yes, I am a big AMD fan when it comes to desktops, but, when it comes to laptops, I kinda end up recommending Intel laptops to everyone, except for handhelds, where AMD once again triumphs (MSI Claw was a disaster).

    funnily my laptop is also intel. msi but intel. i am a fan of msi.

    Yah, as Pudlez mentioned newer Intel's efficiency cores prolly does good for battery. But, if I was going for a powerful gaming laptop, chances are I would still choose an all AMD laptop. Guess they used to call it AMD Advantage bak a few years ago

    Yeah, amd will beat it in terms of performance and graphics without an actual GPU. Though if you get an laptop with lets say, an nvidia 5070 or whatever, I think gaming wise they will be equal. Intel would get a little better battery life while the amd would kill the intel in terms on compute power.

  • @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    Yah, I agree on all counts. And, yes, I am a big AMD fan when it comes to desktops, but, when it comes to laptops, I kinda end up recommending Intel laptops to everyone, except for handhelds, where AMD once again triumphs (MSI Claw was a disaster).

    I'm still waiting for non apple arm chips to catch up in terms of performance. I do love arm64 the best but with current options, you take such a performance hit that I don't think it's worth it if you actually want something powerful enough on the go. At least i feel the $ will be better spent on an intel laptop instead.

    Wait aren't the Qualcomm Snapdragon X arm64?

    they are but still a performance hit and they're spendy. Honestly would rather just buy a macbook instead. Though some day it will get there

  • Hello @dustinc is double bandwidth still available?

    Order Number: 8384256619

    Thanks in advance!

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    Yah, I agree on all counts. And, yes, I am a big AMD fan when it comes to desktops, but, when it comes to laptops, I kinda end up recommending Intel laptops to everyone, except for handhelds, where AMD once again triumphs (MSI Claw was a disaster).

    funnily my laptop is also intel. msi but intel. i am a fan of msi.

    Yah, as Pudlez mentioned newer Intel's efficiency cores prolly does good for battery. But, if I was going for a powerful gaming laptop, chances are I would still choose an all AMD laptop. Guess they used to call it AMD Advantage bak a few years ago

    Yeah, amd will beat it in terms of performance and graphics without an actual GPU. Though if you get an laptop with lets say, an nvidia 5070 or whatever, I think gaming wise they will be equal. Intel would get a little better battery life while the amd would kill the intel in terms on compute power.

    That's right. If gaming's all one needs, I guess an AMD mobile GPU is really good as well, and an all AMD laptop will also cost lesser if I am not wrong

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    i looked stuff up and apparently some Intel gen12-14 mobos accept DDR4 RAM and provide PCIe5.0 .. maybe i will finally go with Intel after decades with AMD... gotta research some more

    Oh that's cool. Maybe a detailed cost comparison and a cost to performance comparison (most prolly amd will win here) could help you decide for once and for all.

    That is something I would totally ask an AI to give me a jump start on the research (of course, don't take what it says as 100% truth/facts)

    @bchot I've been kind of the same way, always alternating between AMD and Intel, at least in my desktop. It's always came down to the pricing/deals at the moment. Only thing is I do kind of prefer intel in laptops since they do get better battery life without doing a bunch of tweaks. Which, if you did a bunch of tweaks with the intel, you get even better battery life! Though if you only care about powerful cores, AMD has had intel beat for a long time.

    Yah, I agree on all counts. And, yes, I am a big AMD fan when it comes to desktops, but, when it comes to laptops, I kinda end up recommending Intel laptops to everyone, except for handhelds, where AMD once again triumphs (MSI Claw was a disaster).

    I'm still waiting for non apple arm chips to catch up in terms of performance. I do love arm64 the best but with current options, you take such a performance hit that I don't think it's worth it if you actually want something powerful enough on the go. At least i feel the $ will be better spent on an intel laptop instead.

    Wait aren't the Qualcomm Snapdragon X arm64?

    they are but still a performance hit and they're spendy. Honestly would rather just buy a macbook instead. Though some day it will get there

    Yah, teh first gen Snapdragons for laptops as we discussed earlier in the thread aren't yet at their best or even at good levels. But, with community support and tweaks, I guess they could pose competition to Intel and AMD, while still being arm. But, to take on apple's arm chips it's gonna take a lot

  • Alright, guys. It's almost 2AM here. I am gonna get back to sleep and see you guys later.

    Good night and come again, congrats to everyone!

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  • it seems that if i wanted to have PCIe5.0 on Intel mobo - it would be something like $600 for just the mobo.. and $250 for CPU, making it 3x more expensive than AMD 5 5600+B550 MAX.. i guess go with AMD gen 4 for now.. it's all based on my need to reuse the 64GB DDR4 ram.. in a few years i can do better, right?

  • @noob404 said:
    Alright, guys. It's almost 2AM here. I am gonna get back to sleep and see you guys later.

    Good night and come again, congrats to everyone!

    g'night man! sleep well!

  • i will be going now. Cya!

  • @BasToTheMax said:
    i will be going now. Cya!

    Later dude! Hopefully I catch a stream soon!

  • Congrats to alllll winneeerrrs !

  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    i will be going now. Cya!

    Later dude! Hopefully I catch a stream soon!

    Maybe tomorrow?

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