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Still half asleep, changed it.
OP, how about a text list of products and prices and times and dates?
We need a parts.pdf
PARTS.pdf
Yeah, and pls make it really hard to read. Maybe Bright yellow and red fonts, with a early 2000s layout?
Eyeing the MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK, would this work with a 5900x out of the box or need to use the Flashback?
You need to use the flasback feature, it is super easy though
Thanks OP, hopefully some good Ryzen deals coming
Were any of these even on the voting page?
Shipping is not free?
this should be moved to Computing category :)
Skimming through nothing looks particularly cheap. Maybe if someone wants to get their hands on a 3060ti but for 700aud, don't think it's much of a deal
I don't know, 6 core 12 thread cpu for $209 that out performs a ryzen 2600 by a little over 10% in applications and about 15% faster in 1080p gaming, it not a bad deal.
the ram looks like an ok price. unless I'm missing something?
This or ryzen 3600 for my son's new gaming pc matched with either rtx 3060ti/3070/3080 for 1440p 165hz.
Everyone is quick to tell you to go Ryzen nowadays (usually with good reason) but these two are pretty much neck and neck for gaming from what I've seen, shouldn't matter much at 1440p. Eyeing the 10400f/3060ti combo myself.
General advice seems to be whatever is cheapest of the two factoring in mobo/cooler etc.
Cooler is another thing that people forget. The wraith cooler is adequate for most of the job while the intel stock cooler is well a bit of a joke and thus you'll need to spend a little for a cooler.
If they want to do anything else beyond gaming though ryzen is the go here. It's for this reason that people suggest the r5 3600 as the best all round value chip for 2020.
I always neglect cooler and use stock, been doing it for many PCs and no problem with any of them (my PC is around 7 years with stock cooler). Do we really need CPU cooler? And should we reapply thermal paste if it's been like 7 years+?
@Nick K: While It's true you might be able to shave off a few degrees with an aftermarket cooler, in all honestly that is an unnecessary investment unless you are using a 10700F and need to unlock the TDP limit to boost performance.
MoBo is another thing that people forget; all my research was around AM4 MoBo so I have zero clue about Intel MoBo and I heard that they're not as good as AM4 MoBo?
How slow is i7-3770 3.40 GHz comparing to the advertised i5-10400F 4.3GHz? I am thinking of either get a new PC, upgrade CPU or upgrade RAM to SSD.
It depends on what you're doing with it really…. you don't have an SSD? That's the first thing you want to do, before you do anything else.
I had an i7-3770, 16GB RAM, SSD and replaced it with an i5-10400 (the non-F version), 32Gb RAM but kept my SSD. Honestly just with standard use (web browsing, office etc) I can't really tell a difference. Gaming is a different story though, and you're comparing a 4 core / 8 thread CPU to a 6 core / 12 thread CPU :)
No, it has SATA not SSD. It was fast in Win 8 when bought, but now getting slow in Win10. You are right. upgrading to SSD is more important than upgrading to a faster CPU.
You're comparing a hardware interface with a form of storage technology. Do you have an SSD or not?
SATA is a hardware interface - you get SATA hard drives and SATA SSDs. (you also get the protocol or command interface which is used by SSD which is either AHCI or IDE emulation)
SSDs come in a few different hardware interfaces. SATA, M-SATA, M.2, PCI-E. For most people, it's either SATA or M.2. SATA SSDs are the 2.5" ones. M.2 ones are the one that looks like RAM.
But M.2 could have two protocols: AHCI and NVME. NVME is faster - theoretically. One that uses AHCI is no better than a SATA 2.5" SSD in terms of performance.
Suggestion:
If you have an SSD which connects via any form hardware interface and was purchased in the last 5 years, you won't notice much of a difference in most consumer workloads, except in benchmarks.
@nushydude: I should have clarified it. My computer doesn't have SATA SSD. It is only SATA HDD. I should look either mSATA or PCIe as the computer has a mSATA slot and a PCIe slot.
The computer is using 2 x RAMs on the existing 4 x "DDR3 DIMM" sockets.
The slowest phase is after logging into Win10, the HDD is running at 100% for over 5 minutes (viewable from Windows task manager), and then Win10 is back to life.
This video pretty much answers this exact question (4770k is very very close to 3770k, architecture and performance wise): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9HV9V5nzOc
In general, don't trust userbenchmark.
It would be a massive upgrade if you're for some reason CPU bound (i.e. you game at 1080p with a modern GPU, such as any 3000 series). If at 1440p with an older GPU then the benefit isn't as big, if you don't already have an SSD that would by far be the biggest benefit day to day.
However if you have a GPU as old as the 4770k then it would definitely be worth investing in that instead. This is all assuming you are mostly using the PC for gaming.
Thanks for the information. I occasionally use the PC for gaming, but mainly use it for web browsing and WFH. Guess it is better to have an SSD in the mSATA slot or PCIe slot first.
1000%, if you don't already have any SSD then that will give you the biggest impact by far, and a lot cheaper than a new CPU/mono/RAM.
Honestly, a 4C8T CPU like the 3770k still holds up perfectly fine right now for a casual gaming, work PC.
OP, how did you get free shipping?
I tried to add a free shipping item together, then a BOXINGDAY21FS was added automatically. However to purchase a single 10400F still need to pay shipping.
I'm looking to upgrade, was thinking a MSI A320 board for $59 and Ryzen 3 3300x for $195. Why does this deal have such an expensive motherboard, arn't there cheaper ones for the cpu.
Looks like they released the whole catalog now.
Noticeable deals
11pm 25th - Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MHz $225
2am 26th - MSI GeForce RTX 3080 VENTUS 3X OC 10GB GDDR6X $1349
10am 26th - WD Blue SN550 1TB $133
6pm 26th - Corsair RM750x $189
10am 27th - WD SN750 1TB 3D NAND 3470MB/s
9pm 27th - Corsair RM850x $209
God, if only the R5 3600 was $207.
It's $209.
$227 is regular price