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Pemalite said:

Hardware Unboxed is probably one of the better tech-outlets in terms of their data reliability as they often retest many things.
People every single day, convince me they are as a collective... Stupid. It's the individual that can be smart.

In saying that, their data is really really really basic... For more technical analysis of hardware (I.E. chip architectures) you can't go past: https://chipsandcheese.com/

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Put in an order for a Ryzen 9950X3D, decided to bite the bullet and upgrade from my 5950X, it's tax time with it's zillion sales to jump on.
Should be a tangible boost just from the cache alone, wanting more CPU-driven A.I performance.

GPU prices continue to be discounted... Some good deals to jump on, like the 9060XT at $579 AUD, which is a massive deal cheaper than the 5060Ti at $749 AUD.

Many Geforce 5070's are under the $900 AUD mark now as well which is probably the best value nVidia card... And about $550 AUD cheaper than the 5070Ti.

Hardware Unboxed is a very good media outlet for PC hardware, but some of their testing irks me somewhat:

Their power tests don't insulate the component they're actually testing and instead give you the entire computer's load. Somewhat helpful, but doesn't give you the full picture. They also stubbornly compare performance with average FPS when 1% and 0.1% lows would be much more valuable.

Chips and cheese and Gamer's Nexus are much more in depth with their reviews, but I can understand that for many non-hardware nerds the additional information isn't very relevant, hence why I tend to send someone HU reviews when they want to know what the performance of a given piece of hardware is - it's simply the most understandable for laymen.