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Ah, then that wouldn't work for me. I like to float between projects in flux and know I always have something to work on at any given time. I can see that approach would drive you batty. My wife is a completest to the point she can have problems falling asleep if something she is working on isn't completed. She'll lay there and think about it. She will be dog tired (even now) and can't stop till something she's working on around the house is completed. Me? I can shut down my brain and disconnect. I had to learn to do it years ago because as a programmer, I couldn't turn off my brain even after work. I would sit there or lay in bed with code just dancing through my head to the point I would have to get up and keep working. A lesser form would take hold in any hardware or software (or even gaming) projects I did back then. Took awhile, but I was able to translate that into everything I do and learn to shut down and then turn it back on the next day. Agreed, we didn't know how "good" we had it back then but AI and generated scarcity is driving record profits. Companies are charging these prices but I see everything in stock in abundance on the consumer side except 5090s which are in the single digits at MC so the wall has been hit for everything 5080 and below. Cheapest is the $3599 Ventus..... Those two Gigabyte Infinity OC 5090s at my local MC are still in stock after all this time at $5299.99. Biggest shock was I haven't checked Best Buy stock in quite some time. Only two 5090s in stock. The $3999 MSI gaming and $4329 Astral. Newegg cheapest in stock is $4149 TUF 5090 with a very limited selection.... I mean....sheesh.... 5080s? Plenty in stock everywhere but prices are still going to rise across the entire stack outside of the 5090 which does its own insane thing.... https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-and-colorful-announce-rtx-50-price-increases-for-distributors-rtx-5070-ti-now-starts-38-over-msrp Incoming MSI and Colorful price hikes: It will take a bit, but as always these prices will hit everywhere else and in the US prices will just adjust up with some retailers adjusting in the now even with current stock on hand because....profits.... Glad I snagged that $983 open box 5080 when I did last week. Same as snagging that $1971 Vanguard 5090 last August. The market is reaching a point where inventory is just going to stagnate because even at current pricing clearly cards aren't moving same as ram and storage. Crap tons of stock everywhere..... Something has to give and when this crashes, I hope it is spectacular...

Hi there! As I am slowly closing my old project, there is a new one as soon as I bought replacement for ol' trusty rusty 8570w. With a nice price tag, I though "why not". It has 12th gen i7 HX CPU, A3000 gpu, lovely vapor chamber, 32GB of ram and a lot of potential. There are some things I don't like and some I do. As for now I wanted to : -Change keyboard Done! -Upgrade IPS LCD to OLED 120HZ 2K -Upgrade power supply to at least 280W or even 330W (I use puny 200W) -Make chassis sturdier and coolder? (I mean less hot furnance, more ice freezer) -Upgrade speakers -Upgrade GPU - A3000 to at least A3500 or higher -Newer motherboard? (If I win lottery, haha) I tried using chinesium big HP charger to smaller HP charger (as I have 280W left from 8570w), but failed. So I don't recommend them, laptop don't recognize those. And original 200W is burning itself slowly to death. Already bought cable with enough DP lanes for 4K ! Part number on photo. Now I have to save money for buying that sweet, sweet 120HZ OLED from Samsung.. Case is good, generally speaking, but I hate plastic bottom plate. I plan to try CNC that in aluminium.. maybe. And I have yet to think about modding palmrest to less of that of hot plate :F (no ideas for now) Before I bought that COMPUTOR (think of aliens voice in muppets, haha) I used for 2 weeks MBP 16" with M1. I disliked some things about that bitten apple, but it's ice like coldness and very good sounding (for laptop) speakers got me shocked. Inspired me so much, that I will try to replicate that characteristic. About things I despise (and I may be too lazy to do something about) is power button right on keyboard. Yuck! Quality is something to be desired, ex. DuraKeys on older HP are very hard to leave finger print on them, here it's much easier to leave grease (maybe because high temperature ?). Finish on older palmrest is better, too (same reasons as keyboard). Motherboard is more fragile, too. Those puny connectors and locks.. I can't count times I dissasembled old girl (about milion times, no kidding) and nothing brittled or got damaged. Here I was disconnecting LCD cable (for palmrest swap) and while connecting it back it's plastic locking tab almost flied itself to Moon. And I was careful about it. Keyboard is harder to swap, but at least it's screwed on, not riveted. Anything else comes to mind I will share here. Let the fun begin .. Now!

Hello. I got 19700 points in TimeSpy graphics with the RTX 4090 150W in the P775TM1. With a P570WM3 and 4090 130W I got 17700 graphics points.

5090's at older prices seems as a great deal nowadays. Same as for the 4090's back then. And the 5080 will probably be equal bad deal as for the 4080's. Graphics card prices continue to rise in China due to the increased cost of GDDR6 and GDDR7 memory. The entire technology industry and companies of all kinds have poured their efforts, time, and money into artificial intelligence. This is not surprising, as artificial intelligence is a booming sector, relatively new in recent years, and with enormous potential... MSI warns: its GeForce RTX 50 series cards have already seen their price increase by up to 20% in China MSI and Colorful are among the first manufacturers to announce a widespread price increase in China for their GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards. This price increase affects virtually the entire GeForce RTX 50 series family. This price increase was expected, as hardware prices across China have begun to rise. This clearly indicates that more hardware is being consumed in China and is now being delivered directly from the factory to consumers, meaning the price increases have already been passed on to the consumer.

Sounds like you've got some good things going on for projects. I think that my problem is mental disorder. I love projects, too. But, I do not like working on multiple things simultaneously and when I start something I want to work it through to the end without stopping. I do not like projects that I do over a series of days or pick up on weekends. That's why I am exhausted. A normal person would have taken their time and not get stressed out about the idea of going to bed and finishing something tomorrow. I didn't stop for anything except to go to the bathroom. This is one reason why my young adult hobby of building street rods and modified muscle cars will never be part of my life again. I was like this as a teen/young adult as well, but it has grown worse with age. There were numerous times that I got off work on Friday and worked through the night, all of Saturday and into Sunday evening without stopping to finish one of my car projects. If I didn't finish my entire week was hell because I couldn't live with the fact that I started something that wasn't finished.

Looking to see if anyone is interested in buying my Alienware 18 R1 from 2013. Just recently got a better machine and wanted to see if there was anyone interested. There are scuffs on the lid and around the corners, the rubberized coating is still in good condition, and everything works great! Price: I've seen some going on ebay for around $600USD, so around there? Specs: Unlocked A12 BIOS 18.4 inch 1080p 60hz screen Intel Core i7 4900MQ (I have a 4940MX I could swap in) Nvidia GTX 770M SLI (with SLI bridge cable) 32GB DDR3L 1600MHZ 2x Intel sata3 ssd (1tb RAID) 32GB Samsung msata ssd 330w Dell OEM ac charger (included) I also have a HP Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 looking for a home if anyone is interested. Any input is valued and appreciated!

Please tell those people whom are saying to connect Prema to give you also the actual means to do so, and after see if you will get any repsonse...You will see that none is given.

Would love to see some love given to the AW 18 r1, been wondering what it could do with a modern modded bios.

Yeah the big ol vapor chamber that says like 5 pounds helps a lot . I wonder if yours is the earlier model with ihs that needs to be delidded to drop the tenps . Mine is the newer one with the polished mirror finish . I don't need to throttle none down

Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong (wouldnt be the first) but if one was good enough at micro soldering and cut the right traces couldnt we make the cables were trying to build work at the board level? i mean its alot of work, but a question is free......

Hopefully it's a ripper! Fingers crossed. No denying the 5090 is a monster. The problem remains the current pricing and with Nvidia looking to continue to raise CPU/memory packaging costs, they will just keep going higher....insanity atm. I didn't realize the frequency drop in the 9950X3D2 either, meh. Hopefully once you dig into it, it will show its worth... Personally, I love having numerous projects in the queue. I actually get antsy when I don't have at least two projects in front of me to work on.... You'll eventually get to the 270k delidded improvements. I'm hoping to see that extra cooling translates into at least a bin or two of uplift but we will see. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaking of projects, I picked up a 9850X3D for a good price and I'm going to be running it delidded with a TG Heatspreader in my desktop. I cancelled my 7600X3D order from MC and decided not to pick up that 7800X3D on OCN and instead I plan on running my 9800X3D in my SFF Portable project instead especially after comparing my 9800X3D vs the 7500X3D at 1440p and 1080p in the Lightning B850i. 7500X3D can not cap out the 5080 at 1440p and especially at 1080p so on to the 9800X3D as my new portable rig CPU. Problem is I haven't used liquid metal in ~2yrs and my collection is pretty old. Somehow I lost my ( albeit 7yr old lol) Conductonaut vials and all I have left are ~6yr old Silver King vials from Thermalright. I do still have a bottle of non conformal coating but I think I'm just going to toss out everything and refresh with the big 5g kit of Conductonaut Extreme. Last CPU I ran with LM was my NH55 12900k I delidded and before that obviously dozens of CPUs from 6th gen through 10th gen. Still have plenty of Flitz's and tons of the high quality LM application Q-tips too along with silicon gasket sealant albeit I won't need that with the TG HS. Desktop 9850X3D delid and upgrade* SFF build out which is all over the place in a good way Still playing with the 270k build but it needs more love. I haven't had time to really dial down on it. Wife's system needs a major overhaul and clean install. Personally, I am not impressed with the AC LF III 360mm AIO. Very loud and cooling is.....ok. Not sure what I'm switching her to AIO wise but acoustics are priority #1 and switch her Gigabyte Gaming 9070xt to the Red Devil 9070xt which runs MUCH quieter and clocks higher. Basically, if you can't tell, she's complaining about how noisy her computer can get. Maybe even switch her case fans to Noctuas too. It's worth the cost to not have to hear about how loud her computer is every night at dinner. 🙂 *Really fighting the urge to give the Noctua 420mm AIO a whirl because reviews have been overall really positive. My Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer II 420mm has been running for 5+ years now as my main AIO rig cooler. Might be time to set it out to pasture especially as the Noctua is even quieter and cools even better.

I will soon. Too many projects at once. Spent the entire weekend doing computer stuff and still not done. Thoroughly exhausted. Built the A3 mini Installed the 9950X3D2 for testing... seems kind of meh, but haven't given it enough attention. It does need less core voltage than my other CPUs, but I didn't realize I would be losing 200 MHz on the AMD fused max boost on PBO. Completely gutted the O11 XL EVO for cleaning, flushed all of the parts, disassembled the disto block and cleaned the inside manually to remove all of the white chalky residue on the acrylic from something, (no idea what,) and now running a batch of PrimoChill System Reboot. (So another system flush and refill will be needed in 24-48 hours.) I redid the loop and removed the distribution manifold, forcing everything to flow in series rather than parallel. My flow rate is now 310-315 L/H (up from ~215-225 L/H). The EVC 2.0 is no longer being detected by the EVC software for some reason, so now I have to figure that out. Supercool memory block should be arriving tomorrow for the CUDIMMs in the Z890 Apex. (I already have Supercool memory cooling on the G.SKILL 8400 DIMMs but I don't what to have to swap things around, so I ordered the new kit so I could leave the other kit as-is.) So, I will be doing that next. Everything is a mess. I'll have to clear a spot in my office for work tomorrow and finish cleaning up and putting things away.

If you do this, you’ll be the first and only person to have achieved it and shared it.

Windows is very insistent that v1.3.4 has a virus in it. Also, do you have a way to effectively shift the frequency/voltage curve like normal overclocking? Ex: Can I offset clocks by +150MHz, or does setting a higher core clock just pick a higher frequency/voltage point?

Oh cool. What version you going to base it upon?

The 5090 is a beast compared to the second and the (3rd) last.

Highest SP I’ve had with 270K is 89. it’s a solid 89 with balanced P/E cores and it does 5.7Ghz rock solid. It also have excellent thermals and core temp distribution. If this SP97 can’t do 5.7Ghz P I’ll be very disappointed. 5.8ghz would be pretty sick. There are just so many moving parts on Arrow Lake that it makes binning difficult but fun. @Mr. Fox Id love to see what scores your newly delidded 270K can put down in the new Geekbench 7. Get the chiller running and push it! lol.

The TongFang machine I bought (16" Mini-LED 300Hz Display, i9-275HX + RTX 5090 24GB 175W TDP , 2x48GBDDR5RAM, 2+2TB M.2 SSD) is 3-5x more powerful than the Clevo X170SM-G and X170KM-G. I sold it because I needed an upgrade. I don't regret it! It has factory water cooling and all the extras. Very good machine. Quiet and cool. I recommend it to everyone. Erazer Beast 16 X1 Ultimate 007 First Light (Max. Graphics Opt.)

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Good news: C26 arrived early Bad news: #1. MB is defective from the 7500X3D+Asrock B850M-C combo after much testing so I'll be heading back to MC this week. I ended up finding a good deal on an Asrock B850i ITX Lightning MB that I used for testing and I'm going to use that instead with a 7600X3D from MC for $199.99 + MB $130 = $329.99 vs $249.99 for the combo but much better MB quality between the two. I ended up trying 7500X3D, 9800X3D and 8400f along with 4 sets of DDR5 (TG 8200, KB 8400, CV 9200, KR 6000) and the MB would only post 1 out of 10 times and 0 times if trying from the onboard HDMI port. When it did manage to post it would eventually freeze randomly booting or even in Windows using it for a bit then restart and same instant lights. Tested all the CPUs and memory sticks on the Asrock B850i ITX and rock solid each and every time. #2. My order from Amazon with all my Noctua fans and a custom squeegee for my Armada was out for delivery on the 21st and disappeared. Amazon refunded me today for the "lost" package. Hope someone is enjoying 5x Noctua fans, and a sweet sweet custom telescoping squeegee with all the bells and whistles..... Helluva HTPC ya got there..... looks good though and perfect height for integration with the wood slats on the front. With the market predictions getting worse and worse, holding onto GPUs, DDR5, storage and even CPUs potentially makes sense if you want to have the flexibility to work on projects and fun stuff at sane levels in the future. A decent parts stash makes sense with prices really predicted to rise on GPUs, memory, CPUs and Storage even more. The poor victims in the contracting PC market are PSUs, cases and MBs. Nice! And someone we know will get the good data from such a high SP 270k to see how it compares to quite a few previously binned samples. What is the highest SP rated 270k you've seen out in the wild at this point? It will be nice to see the differentials in results from SPs low 80's to s 97 in regards to stock lidded clock OC's to really get an idea of how much you get. MCs can be a crap shoot but that SP97 looks to have a decent one that Digital didn't go out of his way to note in not so many words was "meh" at best like the SP96.

Thank you so much and I'm looking forward to the V2 bios

I did but I'll probably end up regretting it lol. All of the 270K I've used have all been good samples, small differences really and this one might end up being worse than my current chip, hard to say. It looks fairly balanced, maybe I'll get lucky and it's a 5.8Ghz P on stock IHS with AIO but who knows. Maybe it won't scale with voltage like I said.

Here are the photos. Everything is working well. If the 9950X3D2 is a keeper I will move the 4585PX from the Apex to this system and keep the 9950X as a backup/spare CPU. Or, I may just leave it with the 9950X, put the crappy VColor 6000 C26 dual rank kit on this board and put the Kingbank 8400 kit back into my surplus stash along with the 9950X. Everything was tight, but nothing had to be forced or modified to fit. I even found a spot for the remote debug LED, power/reset panel. (I love that feature and it was a deciding factor in purchasing it. I do not like motherboard that are missing debug LED, power and reset buttons.) When I say "tight" there is about 3-5mm of clearance between the PSU AC power connector and the front AIO fan above it. Lian Li/Dan clearly put a lot of effort into designing something where things that are supposed to fit actually do. It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I could still fit a 5080 or 5090 in place of the 3070 FTW3 if I needed to. I remembered that I had a couple of old Scythe low profile 120mm fans, so I managed to fit one of them in the floor at the rear to help cool the dual NVMe PCIe card I have in the bottom 4X slout under the GPU.

wait until you see v2 when it's released. Up to RTX 5000 working in legacy mode. Pure uefi support added 16gb dimm support (not fully done, need testers with 16gb sticks, boots to bios but doesn't boot windows with my sticks). I am still working on above 4g decoding and rtx 4090 support. Dual PEG reg edit Win + R Regedit Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} There should be a couple of folders such as 0000, 0001, etc. Check each folder which GPU it corresponds to Create a new DWORD key inside the folder for your high performance GPU , name it EnableMsHybrid and set value to 1. Ex: EnableMsHybrid=1 Create a new DWORD key inside the folder for your power saving GPU , name it EnableMsHybrid and value is 2. Ex: EnableMsHybrid=2 Reboot. Next Regedit: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DirectX\UserGpuPreferences create a new string value which name is “DirectXUserGlobalSettings”, and set its value to “HighPerfAdapter=xxx” where XXX stands for hardware ID’s VEN&DEV&SUBSYS of your graphics card, which can be found in device manager. In the case of my 7800 XT "HighPerfAdapter=1002&747E&78011EAE" while device manager displays "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_747E&SUBSYS_78011EAE&REV_C8" Reboot Now right click desktop and choose display settings. Then graphics settings. Add your app and choose high performance GPU for it Tesla specific addition: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}, find where your tesla card is, change “AdapterType” value to “1” and “FeatureScore” value from “cf” to “d1”, create a new dword key which name is “GridLicensedFeatures”, and set its value to “7”. Disable then enable tesla in the device manager. This step changs the gefore driver into grid driver，and the tesla is in wddm mode now.