r/buildapc

Modern components like cases, motherboards, and such, often feature:

• Thumb screws for often accessed parts of the case

  • And the screws stay on the panel so you don't lose them

• Toolless installation for drives (if anyone still uses 2.5/3.5" drives)

• Cable management and routing channels

• Modular PSUs to eliminate excess cables

• On the motherboard, one way and gated ports. So that, you cannot insert the wrong thing into the wrong port, and you can't insert the right thing in the wrong orientation

• And generally a lot less open pin ports (case headers are still the last thing like this though)

• PSU oriented on the bottom of the case as opposed to the top, so the cables don't hang downwards and get in the way

• There aren't that much ODDs and HDDs these days so modern cases basically don't need that old front compartment that housed the drive bays

• I don't think you can "blow up" your PC with bad settings like overclocks, there are fail safes and throttling to prevent that

• "ball joint" clips instead of "teethed" clips so you're less likely to break a clip if you just pulled something off the wrong way

• AIOs have made the entry into watercooling a lot less daunting

  • (But I'm still firmly Team Air)

• Case edges generally feel a lot less sharp

• No more big cables needing to be screwed in place to stay fixed

• There is an abundance of PC building content creators now. Linus is huge. It really takes the edge off for a first time builder to be able to visually see how the building process comes together, before making that big monetary investment in parts

• There's and I like it more than

Afaik 7800x3d is just 7700x but with 3d cache, other than that they are the same (both are 8 cores). 3d cache helps a lot in games, especially at lower resolutions. But also in benchmarks I see that 7800x3d is also much more power efficient than 7700x and I don't understand why. Is it because of the 3d cache or are there other differences between them besides the cache? Or is it simply "more powerful" = "needs less power, hence less energy"?

Also, I know 4k is mostly gpu limited, but in not so demanding games (not latest AAA) would 7800x3d make a huge differences in low 1% and 0.1% compared to 7700x (if paired say with 7900xtx, 7900xt or 7900 gre)?