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I'm going to pay attention to it anyway, but there are some new things coming out of Computex right now, am5 is the big one and again, if you're not familiar with the AMD launch, it's the pre-launch, it's actually the soft launch . take that back, you have to go back even more months, there's the teaser, then there's the teaser, there's pre-release and there's soft launch and then there's hard launches, it's not the actual hard launch because things aren't actually available. on the shelves, then the really hard launch comes later, which is when usually everyone will buy everything and the resellers will increase the price and stuff anyway, so I think we're like phase two of the 17 phase launch system from AMD, uh, moving forward with New platforms are always coming.

New features establish new things to talk about and things to really put a carrot in front of your face to say hello come to our trash, even though you don't really need it, so that's the premise of today's video I've made several times and every time I do it, the list changes a little on features that you definitely don't need. Now we'll start

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in no particular order except last. being the fourth time we've talked about

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since you know there have been PCs and that's pcie gen 5. Well, why isn't it the fifth time? Because they all need pcie gen 1.

They need the first gen to have any additional gen so this is the 4th pci update or pci express pcie gen 5 uh it comes much earlier and much closer to the release of pci gen 4 than 3 and 4. 3 was available for a long time pci gen 3. I mean anything that connects and needs to talk to the CPU you need a pci express lane to do it if you are using the pci express bus to talk which has made pcie popular gen 4 is the fact that although the graphics cards are also pcie gen 4 on the latest rdna technology, rdna 2 nrdna1 for amd and 30 series uh for nvidia uh graphics cards, they don't come close to saturating the pci express bus, so that discussions about gpu, apart from anyone who tells you that you need pcie gen 5 or even pcie gen 4 for graphics, for this matter, run away from them as wildfire because they really have no idea what they are talking about.

One or two percent isn't going to make a difference. Tangible real world differences you might even notice: storage and storage speed and 3d nand and nvme. that made pcie gen 4 even exciting due to the fact that we are finally getting over 000+ megabytes per second, read, write, read speed and then write speed, pretty close to 5000 megabytes per second, obtainable and achievable in pcie gen 4. pcie. gen 5 is just kind of a forward compatibility because right now there is absolutely no consumer facing, should I say, consumer grade pcie gen 5 technology, so you're going to have this shiny new pcie 5 lane that right now nothing can use.

So while it seems like a nice-to-have set of features right now, it doesn't make any difference to you; in fact, even if you adopt pcie gen 5, you would have to buy a newer platform, be it intel 12th gen or now the rumored 13th. gen which is just around the corner or am5 so my point is if you want it because it's the last highest number you are buying something shiny right now that has no support and by the time it is supported you will probably see the next gen . cpus or even the tick tock stuff that Intel has been doing and sort of doing the same thing now, you'll probably see next generation cpus come out before the pcie gen 5 products are actually available, you'll see pcie gen 5 graphics cards.

You see pcie gen 5 storage should be the only reason you would consider pcie gen 5. It's just a way to increase sales and continue the artificially inflated prices of components now, like I said, in no particular order, coolers large mid-range. graphics cards this is another way for aibs to keep graphics card prices artificially high. We've talked about this a million times, but I keep seeing every time I say you know, send your systems for our jay, what do you think what series I'll do? I see 30 60s 3060 ti with strix coolers or large ones for the wind coolers or whatever galax has or whatever msi has and I think you know with the 100 to 150 premium that you have paid for that cooler in an efficient part quite low power You could have had a 30 70 or a 30 70 ti which, by the way, would outperform a 37 or 30 70 ti with a more basic cooler, because obviously you would also be paying for the more expensive cooler. 37 dti, if you have, say, the equivalent strix for any model out there, there comes a point where the cooler is absolutely overkill and that is the case with almost all non-xts um 6600 xt 6600 6700, even the xt's 30 60s 30. 60 tis 30 70 these parts don't consume a ton of power now they do so 3070 has a 250 watt part but you don't need a 450 watt cooler on a 250 watt gpu it's a way to keep prices up Now, I think if more people were willing to buy a more entry-level graphics card, they would get more for their money without spending a ton of money on big, fancy coolers.

In my opinion, over the last four or five years, this has been one of the best. scams of all time when it comes to keeping graphics card costs high. It's basically like having a Ferrari, but when you open the hood, it has like a standard 2.0 or 1.8 1.5 Honda engine inside, it's like it looks cool, but it only goes as fast as the engine that's inside it, and Unless you just want to look cool, you're not paying anything at that point, so do yourself a favor and consider getting the bottom tier of the graphics card hierarchy because all the graphics cards themselves will have five six seven eight nine ten options available at that range and if you look at the price difference between the entry level and the top level, sometimes it can be as much as that of a graphics card itself, it's ridiculous. so do yourself a favor and stop buying these giant, super huge coolers because they are a solid 25 of the cost of the card itself when you simply don't need it, talking about high temperature parts and you know, graphics card coolers and So, let's talk of motherboards for a second.

The latest trend is to simply put as many power phases as possible on a motherboard. You have noticed the trend in the last two generations of motherboards. Remember when a 200 250 motherboard was considered high. final and expensive, now you can't even find basic motherboards that come with feature sets worth mentioning for less than 200. An Asus 700 motherboard as the hero can be considered as three or four top models where you can buy two. thousand dollar motherboards now is crazy, it's absolutely crazy, but the reason why is one of the ways motherboard manufacturers keep the cost high and this has very little to do with you, unless you fall into A very specific category is putting in tons and tons of energy. phases and we have seen motherboards with 14, 17, 18 power phases.

Imagine taking a 17-phase motherboard, like an Intel motherboard, and putting 12,600k on it. The thing about the power phase is that it's all about reducing the power cleanly and neatly to whatever it is. Consuming the power which in this case will be the CPU, it costs money to design, implement, manufacture those power phases and it's just a way to keep the price up if you're not going to look, even if you get a 12,900k. If you're not planning on trying to overclock that CPU, in fact, we show you undervoltage, it actually takes some stress off of those vrms and also undervoltage of the CPU gives us the best result in terms of temperature and then maintains all.

Intel Turbo Boost clock technologies, but when you have 17 phases, you're paying for things you don't need at all because if you're not going to overclock the CPU using ln2 or some kind of cooler or its sub-zero cooling on the CPU to try to bring the watches as high as possible, you will never end up needing that kind of technology in terms of the power delivery system on your motherboard, there is a rumor a mantra that goes with the higher end, like more phases, higher quality parts placed in the power supply system, that's true, we're talking about solid capacitors, Japanese capacitors, more gold content in the socket, all that kind of stuff, but you know what's funny.

It's just that I've never experienced a CPU that felt like it was being held back when placed on a low red motherboard compared to one of these motherboards that have all the bells, whistles, tassels, and dangling things you'd think you needed. So if you are building a new system, especially now with the release of am5, a lot of people will buy new systems from scratch and upgrade the same with the new Intel stuff. Don't think you need any of that. The manufacturer will do their best to advertise it and say that you need all of these things, but the point here is to say that it's nice to have them, you don't have to have them, that brings me to my next point here, which is what the CPUs themselves are, we are in this core count race, we have come as far as we can in terms of the silicon we have, the processes of course are getting smaller, am5 is based on five nanometers which is absolutely crazy and like the gpu stuff out there now is like six nanometers, because now we're seeing rdna 2 come to the cpu, so it's no longer an apu, it's actually considered discrete graphics integrated into the cpu. but you guys can watch all of am5's coverage to find out more about that.

I'm not going to get into that today, but once we got about five two five three single-core performance, that's about as far as you can push silicon. No, you know, standard cooling that's easily and reliably available to the consumer, and again, the power delivery systems of motherboards, CPUs, and all that kind of stuff, so what they've started doing now it's, instead of pushing the limits of speed, We're now pushing the limits of core density, which is why we're seeing these thread count ripper CPUs now in mainstream desktops, where in 2016, if you wanted a 16 core CPU, you had to use thread ripper or you had to use Intel Extreme which was an 8 cores and 16 threads now you can get 24 cores and 48 threads on a mainstream desktop CPU currently with AMD 5000 series or 16 cores and 24 threads on Intel.

Do you need that many cores? That was the question just five years ago, a four core and eight threads. The Intel i7 CPU was top of the line, that was what you needed, it was the best for gaming, the high core count was again on alternative platforms like x 299 for Intel or Threadripper for AMD and the only people that were even considered to be it needed more than four cores and eight threads. Anyone creating content, editing videos with Photoshop, a lot of virtual machines, or anything that required high core counts and was CPU intensive, which was always going to be a professional workflow.

They weren't gamers, they weren't personal computers at home. Doing random things, now I see people posting photos of their system and being proud of their 12400 f, which again is like a quad core eight thread CPU, and people shooting it due to the fact that it doesn't have a high count cores. Again, it's like this, this whole idea that you need all these CPUs and stuff is completely either these processors and a high core count is completely false, I mean, in thisAt the moment, four cores and eight threads with hyperthreading on Intel or AMD, simultaneous multithreading on the AMD client. no hyper threading is more than enough to satisfy 90+ average consumers in their workloads when it comes to gaming and stuff like that, if you think you play a game that has a lot of multithreading and you think your CPU is simply tied In fact , open the task manager and take a look at your course and see what the active cores are and I bet you'll find that none of the threads, like hyperthreading or simultaneous multithreading cores, are actually being touched, it's the core major. on any of those nodes or those chiplets or whatever you want to call it that is doing something, they are passed to the main core and the hyperprocessing core is sitting there idle, so you think and you probably won't even see four maybe six of those threads being used in a high CPU usage game where you play any other game like any kind of shooter or whatever, you will find a world thread that is probably linked to 100 and a couple of other threads doing things that are more than likely tasks of your system are done in the background, so you don't need expensive high-core processors. which then goes back to what I said about motherboards not needing all those super high mass count vrms, uh, due to the fact that they are power phases, due to the fact that you're not even going to come close to needing them, so it's all about balancing your system and it's easy to overspend in one area, meaning you won't have money left over to benefit from something in another area.

If I had to choose, I would go for something mid-range in the CPU and get something mid-range. low range on the motherboard and get a better graphics card, this is how I personally would balance it, which brings us now to ddr5, it is obvious that all the new platforms from Intel and AMD are based on ddr5 currently with 12th gen . gen intel you can choose between ddr4 and ddr5, it is more than likely, although in 13th gen you will not be able to choose ddr4, ddr4 will be phased out, ddr5 is the only place where you will have forward movement. but ddr5 is one of those things again where we saw a doubling of data speed, we saw a doubling of speed and again it's completely unnecessary to use ddr5 if you're on an older generation platform, which means you're going to have to. upgrade everything and i have no doubt anyone watching this video has probably already been through this where they upgraded their system they wanted ddr5 once they finally found ddr5 and then had to mortgage their house to get it they built their system and then , at the end of the day they scratched their heads because they left, I didn't really notice a difference because unless you're doing something that actually uses a ton of system memory, you won't notice it, so don't waste money right now on ddr5 if you don't do anything that needs it if you're sitting there on a ryzen 3000 series CPU, I'm

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you right now am5 looks very attractive looks very want ddr5 want or want am5 want ddr5 I want a 4, 40 or series GPU 40, everything will be, I mean, look, we're enthusiasts, right?

Those of us who want the latest and greatest, but at what cost, because you will find that there is a huge diminishing return even. Trying to use these latest developments and actually get a benefit in terms of costs still depends entirely on what it is that you do. Honestly my recommendation would be to upgrade to a 5000 series ddr4 system and it's super solid, it's been around long enough that I've worked out all the issues, lots of BIOS revisions and stuff for motherboards that have made them super stable with the latest memories and else. Go and peruse the Intel forums when it comes to 12th gen on Reddit or whatever and read about some of the issues that are coming up with DDR5 support, um, the weird clunkiness I said, don't take our word for it .

I mean, I'm the only one running 12th generation right now at the studio because we need our systems to be as reliable as possible. so phil is into the complete opposite of ddr, our ddr5 and 12th gen intel, he's still on threadripper with ddr4 and couldn't be happier, but don't take our word for it, go and read what the other people say, something else too. You can totally and absolutely waste money on our expensive fans. Fans are the last thing that becomes kind of a bragging point in your system. It's like looking at all these thin uni fans I have.

Look at all these Corsair SP 120 fans I have, yes I look at my maglev bearings and I look at my rgbs and all that, but you know, when you compare the performance of 10 years ago, a 4.50 and 120 millimeter Yate Loon fan was the most popular fan you could. put in your system because the performance and price predates rgb, then the best you could hope for is to find a fan with white, blue, red or possibly green LEDs, which again were just LEDs that lit up with the fan, but it had to do it. Pick the color, but as time went on, manufacturers found a way to get a lot of money out of the consumer by adding a lot of bells and whistles to the fans.

This is what the four basic types of sleeves or bearings are still like when it comes. for the fans and the ultimate reliability of the fan itself will depend on that type of bearing, the rgb, you know the adjustable rpm or some fans, you know they now have zero rpm capability, all of that is just an extra that doesn't provide any type of increasing the rgb user experience is somewhat debatable because a lot of people love the idea of ​​rgb, most people hate rgb because of the marketing behind it, not because of knowing the product itself, but because of thirty dollars per When I started YouTube my white.

The water cooled system I had had two radiators and was in a giant Switch 810 case. It didn't even have 30 fans in the entire case let alone a fan that cost 30 bucks. Now it looks like a three pack. of these rgb fans or a hundred dollars or more which is absolutely ridiculous and do you think those fans fail at a lower rate? I have news for you. We've had five dollar fans that are still working and we've had $35 fans. that failed us and it had bearings that started to wobble and started ticking or is it because they're spinning we've all experienced it it's still a fan it's like you can tie all you want to it but it's still just a fan and then for an honorable mention let's talk about rgb look rgb shouldn't be something you look for it should be something you end up with what do I mean by that if you go, I want this thing rgb is, is, is it terrible? way to buy, it should be the last feature you look for in a component if you buy a high end graphics card if you buy a high end motherboard if you buy a high end case you will get rgb with it it is given that it is automatic, you should not buy in that upper echelon of pricing thinking that you're necessarily getting more for your money depending on what your use case is.

Now that topic is valid for every category I've said today, but I've seen someone like it on Twitter. I remember exactly when it was, but they were asking me who has the best RGB and that's a question I've never seen anyone ask before, but it really got me thinking about everyone's implementation. rgb is different somehow you have the jst connectors you have the standard connectors you have 12 volt 12 volt rgb it's like it disappears now it's actually hard to find 12 volt rgb which is the four pins and it's just that all the LEDs do the same thing , now everything is addressable and you find that with that they become proprietary controllers and such, where they have to use their control box or whatever, luckily if they use a jst connector like I showed with my system and then they can be converted to the header three-pin motherboard rgb, which will allow you to control everything, uh, with a system, in my case, it will be asus time, but you have asus. aura you have mystic light you have um well I guess this through precision to control everything and it is a pain in the ass but at the end of the day once I take the time to set everything up I love the look of my system but rgb should be absolutely last on your list of concerns or something that is looking because you will get it automatically if you buy at a certain price and above anyway with all the Computex news going on right now I want to give you guys something different in your inbox that wasn't just the same boring stuff regurgitated 15 different ways to give them something to think about when they go oh wow I want this new thing maybe wait and save your money for a while and just wait unless you absolutely have to buy something now doesn't mean you should buy the latest generation ;

In fact, we have a whole video on what to expect when you buy something cutting edge, cutting edge technology, there's something to think about. there too, so make sure you go and look for that video and see what we had to say about it, what are your absolute wastes of money that you think no one should pay for or buy? Leave it in the comments below and maybe I'll do it. heart, the best ones that way can be brought to the top so you guys can get recognition for those opinions thanks for watching, see you next time