So I finished upgrading from my old CPU/Mobo/Ram to my new one. Installed drivers, updated the BIOS and etc and I got some thoughts after playing games on it and such.
- While the new motherboard doesn't have any on board RGBs, I do think it looks quite good and there are ARGB headers.
- They also have a button that easily "ejects" the GPU in the primary PCI-E slot
- The new m.2 latch system they added basically makes installing m.2 ssds tooless. No more needing to screw in those SSDs.
- 7800X3D is fast, like really fast in games. With Spiderman Remastered with Max Ray Tracing on, when I turned on DLSS on my 4090 with the 5950x, there was hardly any improvements because the 5950x couldn't keep up. So I played Spiderman Remastered at 4k Native with Max RT on. It still got over 120fps mind you but with the 7800X3D, DLSS finally has meaningful improvements.
- 7800X3D is also runs cool and efficient. Highest I have seen go to is 80C under max all core workload even with overclocked using PBO in my setup.
- I have been monitoring symptoms of the Intel 2.5G NIC but I have not had any issues thus far. I checked event viewer and everything but zero disconnects
- Motherboard actually supports Thunderbolt through the USB4 ports so they are actually full USB4 ports and not gimped ones
- Some games feel a lot more consistent than before. 5950x had some odd dips when playing at high framerates in certain games. It's not very often mind you but you could still notice them if you play at very high framerates. Could be windows scheduler doing wonky things but now that all the cores are in a single CCD with Vcache, I don't see those dips.
Now for some not so goods and mehs
- Boot times are significantly longer. You can find out how long it takes to boot via Task Manager and startup. With the 5950x, it took 10-15 seconds to boot. Now it takes 40 seconds and this is an issue with Zen 4 + AM5 as a whole. I did update to the latest BIOS and etc but still nothing. Kind of lame honestly.
- Going from 16 to 8 cores of course has some add on downsides. All my games that need to do shader compilation are needing to redo them and yea, you can feel the core difference.
- ProArt doesn't come with any stickers like my ROG board did despite the ProArt costing more. Come on Asus.
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PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
