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I'd expect the 9800X3D to drop to $449 or lower pretty soon once the 9850X3D launches. Rumors are strong for CES announcement and I wouldn't be surprised if it launches not long after.
 
igor_kavinski said:
I'm curious about one thing though. Whatever happened to 2x12GB=24GB kits???? Those could've softened the blow but only a little bit. Still, better than 2x8GB kits.
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Neither of those are optimal, for DDR5 they're essentially 'half rank' kits. DDR5 needs at least 32GB for 'single rank' operation, and 64GB for 'dual rank' operation, due to the increase in minimum DRAM die density.

But really you want at least single-rank, or 32GB. Sadly what used to be ~US$90 is now three or four times that, for a while it wasn't really even worth buying less than 32GB.
 
I'd recommend gamers go used for almost the whole build at the moment. Still get deals in for sale/trade forums. Ignore the Ferengi, of course. Just picked up a 12600kf, Z790, 32GB Ballistix Elite 4000MT/s for $275 shipped.

Get a pre-built minus GPU off of Ebay, that can play everything, for dirt cheap too. Might have to skip Battlemage on some of them though. ETAPrime could not get a 2020-21 era HP gaming PC to boot with it.
 
DAPUNISHER said:
Might have to skip Battlemage
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I'm still waiting to see what Intel does. Their second-generation isn't much more die- or watt-efficient than their first, and they're still hunting down CPU-hog gremlins with their drivers. That and general compatibility still being questionable even for the price.
 
LazyGamer said:
I'm still waiting to see what Intel does. Their second-generation isn't much more die- or watt-efficient than their first, and they're still hunting down CPU-hog gremlins with their drivers. That and general compatibility still being questionable even for the price.
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ARC is a mixed bag. The CPU overhead issues are real. It was amusing when tech channels finally started covering it. Any of us on Alchemist knew about it already. Unlike when A series was new, have to use 3rd party for streaming, recording, screenshots. Retro-gaming is hit or miss even with DXVK, DXwrapper, and dgVoodoo2. UE5 does not particularly care for ARC. REBAR is a must. Older PCIe standards can impact performance more than expected in some titles.

We have RGB GPU vendors now. I'd stick to R&G if I could only buy 1 card. In the price range, the 9060 XT 8GB is an easy pick, particularly for older PCIe gen systems.
 
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