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Yeah he just got that 5070ti the other day. I watched the quick unboxing. He's actually one of my favorite YT'ers to watch as he owns multiple platforms, tunes his hardware decently enough and always buys AMD and Nvidia top end cards with a sprinkle of midrange when he wants to bench. He also keeps Intel and AMD platforms too. He's not wrong and I agree with him. Like I said in an earlier post (and the video I posted is the same argument):

Hard life. But they are still happy.

Hard life. But they are still happy.

You have a superior binned Red Devil compared to mine. My RD, at stock only hits around 3k. With an UV, I get 3100, maybe 3150. Always my luck, but it is still a super quiet card. Sometimes I question if the fans ever spin up.

Sorry I've only got a Ranger 17 But this is the large + key from right side numberpad

This is actually a handy little reboot tool from AsRock! I really hate mashing the Del key, and somehow missing it, and booting to windows.

Hello everybody! 🖐️ Please advice 🙏 I do enjoy my x170km-g (11700k/3080/FHD 300hz) even in 2026 and i'm still happy with it 🥰 and In view of upcoming x170km-g maintenance and good opportunity of CPU & RAM replacement, please kindly advice: 1) Does it right to goes with 10900k (10850k) instead of 11700k? (My 11700k looks nice with UV -130mv, 150w at full load @4600, with max temp 80°c, max fan for such test). I'm talking mostly about power consumption/produced heat/4x32 RAM in XMP? (Kingston Fury Impact KF432S20IBK2/64) 2) So, does XMG bios 01.07.09RTR6 isn't suitable with 4x32 ram in XMP, instead of 01.07.09RTR7-G2? 3) Am i correct that XMP profile #2 is better than #1? Will XMP#2 run either CPU 11gen or 10gen?

My main m18x r2's OS is on a NVME SSD and want to know if I would be able to use the main HDD 3 slot ribbon tor extra storage for my OS since that HDD port is not being used. Is there any way to do that?

If you liked the E7440, stick with modern business lines — they’re still the closest match. A used Latitude 7420/7430, ThinkPad T14 (Gen 2–4), or HP EliteBook 840 G8/G9 would fit your needs well: light, quiet in normal use, solid keyboards, and good matte display options if you pick the right config. Performance is more than enough, batteries are easy to replace, and all are fine for Win10 LTSC with an easy path to Win11 later. Just make sure the listing specifies a brighter IPS panel (400 nits if possible). Avoid consumer lines — business laptops age much better.

Red Devil is so much quieter and boosts higher than my Gigabyte. IMHO, this is the "premier" card to get this generation of 9070xt's especially using 3x 8pin vs 12v2x6. What makes it worse is the positioning of the connector on the Taichi 9070xt which is overly recessed or Nitro+ which is on the back of the card and will force a substantial cable bend in every scenario. Best argument for the 9070xt vs 5070 and 5070ti: Red Devil hitting 3300+ and 3400+ in FO76 at stock:

I do not have any Windows 10 devices missing drivers, but after installing AMD chipset drivers I always have to browse from Device Manager and point to the C:\AMD folder to get one or two items to install because the automated chipset installation process skips them for some reason. This has always been this way for me since I first purchased an AM5 system, on both Windows 10 and 11. I'm not sure why. I can't remember now which device(s) that occurs with. Maybe the PSP or I2C device? I used to have something similar with Z790. I think it was GPIO or something like that which I had to always manually select the driver from Device Manager.

How does this device manager tree look for Windows 10? All drivers installed, except for ACPI. Was able to install a null driver to clear the error 🙂

I returned the X870E Taichi because installing anything in a PCIe slot dropped the GPU to 8X. It was installed and running 30 minutes before I started the RMA. Functionality is the equivalent of an ITX board with only a GPU slot. Very idiotic engineering and lousy bifurcation design decisions are a curse on MOST X870E mobos. We can partially thank AMD for mandating the waste of PCIe lanes on USB4/TB (which most never use and never will). I could see limited use cases for it with a turdbook (like using an eGPU or having no external display options without it) but USB4/TB is irrelevant and mostly worthless on a desktop with a dedicated GPU.

Not sure if its been mentioned, but I found this little gem via grok. There is a work around for the mediatek wifi 7 and windows 10. The Dell driver package installs it at wifi 6, but it works. I found that this Taichi will run the gpu at x8 with my wifi card in the other pcie slot.

Had a little time the other day, so I decided to try the Taichi X870. So I swapped the gigabyte aorus elite for the taichi. Took a bit to get the 8000 mhz ram set up, but a bios upgrade helped. Did a mild overclock and was able to hit 45k in cb23. If I have a little time this weekend, I may try to break my PB of 46.5k. The firmware is very similar to the gigabyte (not my favorite), I much prefer the MSI firmware, but its always fun to play with new hardware.

noone? 😞

I’ve tried the old “by eye” calibration which I know isn’t going to be perfect, no matter what I do the screen either ends up looking perfect until I export the files to another device and realise it was calibrated to be slightly warm with oversaturated greens (meaning the output looks more beige in areas it should be yellow/green) OR for a closer matching output the screen looks super cool and with a blue/grey tinge, my eyes adjust to this to when I export although it’s closer to true it takes a good 5-10mins for my eyes to adjust back to normal so it doesn’t look whack. It’s a shame because in games it looks stunning, it must be because I do macro photography so a lot of the subject is in super high detail with almost black backgrounds so the colours are very pronounce, with landscape I imagine the huge variety of colours mixing negates this. I’m not throwing the towel in though, I’ve found someone within a 30min drive that *might* be willing to use their Spyder, trying to bribe them with the promise of beers and/or compensation.

Looks great, You're pushing the topic full steam ahead! Gruße Darius

I bought another 16x to x8x8 adapter that is a bit more direct and doesnt use the SAS interconnects + daughterboards. If this doesnt work then I'll just have to eat the L and buy the adapter from C_Payne as he had tested his adapter with my motherboard years ago as working. Trouble is the guy is not based in the US so i'll have to risk the overseas + customs. Really want to test 7900 XTX and 3090Ti together though I could go with less I am enabling the idea of getting a second 1080mm UT45 for "symmetry" purposes under the AC unit. If so then I would likely go for a waterblock on the 5800X3D just to make it easier on my fingers. Also bought another PSU for the benching rig. Be Quiet 1000w. If I need more power I still have 3x 900w for GPU's. Going to be changing up my DD a bit as the current scenario is not really optimal for benching. God of War: Ragnarok took the GPU to 39c the other night so I think I am too close to the wall and recirculating air.

For the past 6+ years I have used my own desktop PCs for work and now I will be using a company-issued turdbook for work. I repurposed my dual Acer 4K 160Hz panels for the work PC since I will be needing the massive screen real estate for work. I grabbed a 40" Samsung Odyssey G75F 5120x2160 180Hz WUHD monster on sale at Micro Center for $638 (model LS40FG75DENXZA) and it seems pretty great so far. It doesn't like the 4090 and neither does my ASUS 4K 120Hz monitor. I have to lower the resolution to not have a BIOS or Windows Boot Manager black screen (same problem using the ASUS screen with 4090) when using DisplayPort. Something about 40-series firmware and high refresh rate 4K on DisplayPort is glitchy. There are many examples of people complaining about this online. Using HDMI 2.1 it functions flawlessly. The 5090 doesn't care whether I use DisplayPort or HDMI.

Whoa, you sold your 5090? I guess it makes sense considering you game at 1440p which keeps consistency across your desktop and laptop 1440p displays. In WoW, so much performance is left on the table at 1440p with a 5090. My wife games at 1440p and the 9070xt is near perfect for that at Ultra RT Max, but if given a choice I'd go with a 5070ti depending on price. Hope you got a good price for it. Did you ever tune and push those V-color 9600 sticks? Those should slot in nicely for Nova.... You're the second to sell off their primary/only 5090 so far. You and @tps3443. I wonder if he kept his Acer laptop or sold that too?

Yep! That 285K might have actually been better than my 285K I am running lol. I didn't really test the 2 fully, but that 285K I sold you did my 8400 CL38 tune, same voltages, ran 40x D2D no issue, and only had a very slightly higher P core voltage and ring voltage. But it still did the same 41x ring and 56x P cores. The chip I sold you also booted higher E core on auto voltages lol. I can boot the higher E core clocks on this chip, but the low voltage V/F stops it from scaling unless I go in adjust the V/F offset for point 8. I think that is mostly a function of interpolation failing, while your slightly higher voltage allows for better interpolation and boots with no adjustments. But ya my 285K can't do 40x D2D unless I run a manual voltage, but I've been gaming on it and testing it for a couple days now and no issue at 40x. If we had a higher ceiling you'd likely be able to go higher since you still have voltage room.

Hi, this is what the RTX5070Ti looks like in the P870xx! I've now measured all the lengths and will be able to make the cables soon... I'll do the routing soon, I mean! best regards

Is that 285K that could do D2D 40x at auto voltage the one you sold me? I have not done much tuning with it sadly and will probably not end stretching it much. But it is still a major uplift compared to the 12900KS I used before especially with encoding jobs. It can even outperform the 24 P-core Xeon 2495X in certain tasks that could not multithread well beyond 8 P-cores. I sold my 5090 a few weeks ago as well as I still do most of my gaming on my laptop (which I am now testing out Prema's bios which has been really fun). I have even tested out my 32GB M-die kit which is XMP 6400 CL32. Obiously not as great as the 48GB M-die which would do 8400 CL40 out of the box. I need to bench my encoding jobs and see if the faster memory speeds them up. Then again if I want Nova Lake later this year the faster memory would probably pair better with it.