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I've applied for a lot of jobs I am ideally suited for and could do with my eyes closed that have not worked out. Ageism is illegal, but it is more real than anyone wants to admit. I have one that looks even better that I have my third interview for today that I pray works out and it would probably end up being the best one I have applied for. The one that looked promising that you referred to is not off the table, but the President wanted to see how how the financials looked for 2025 and how January revenue looks before adding a new c-suite resource to staff. On the WireView Pro... when you get around to it, this screenshot might be useful if you run into any complications getting Windows to correctly identify it. I think the key is manually installing the driver in Device Manager, immediately powering off and unplugging the PSU long enough for the board and everything attached to lose power. It appears there was some sort of delivery failure. I replied and it shows to have been sent, but you evidently cannot see the reply on your end. Thanks for checking on me, brother. I really appreciate it.

Happy New Year everyone.

It is definitely overclocking season - I am about to take my new purchase (yes, I went the dumb BGA route and got a 275HX/5090 Lenovo 7i Pro laptop) into the snow. I got a great deal on it with 64GB of 6400MT RAM. I kept haggling with the seller and he kept coming back - 64GB of laptop RAM cost around 500 to $600. However, I got it for the price of 2800 (before taxes), my max budget. I am hoping I can sell my old 7i (11980HK/3080 (16GB VRAM) 32GB of DDR4 RAM) for around 800 to $1000 to offset the cost. February is the best time to sell things, because people are going to be spending their returns. My area is projected to get around 21 inches of snow - at 5F (-15C), with a wind chill of -10F (-23.33C). @Papusan I know this snowy weather is tame compare to what you have, but us people (well most) in the Northeast are celebrating. We haven't had snow like this in years, normally our max is 12 inches of snow.

THIS is why I love MSI...... MSI just contacted me about my RMA on the AI1300P to inform me they have zero stock of the newer revision (AI1300P PCIE5) and would the following PSU be an acceptable replacement: https://us.msi.com/Power-Supply/MEG-Ai1600T-PCIE5/Specification Uh, yes, that will definitely be a suitable replacement!! I'm going to wait till it gets here and then do my system with it along with the swap to Ultra 265k, WVP2 and custom 140mm fan cooling for the DDR5.

Just got my 7900 XTX blocked, liquid metal and minus 8 pads for memory and vrm, used the ek thermal pads for everything else. Depending how I feel I may get it installed into the loop tonight. Also set up 3x 800w psu's from the crypto days, one for each 8pin. This is mostly just to keep their fans at a lower rpm. Last time I used just one psu and it started to sound like a jet engine. Also rebuilt the other open air bench finally, what a pain to rebuild. 10850k will run with the 1300w. Everything is beginning to take shape and thank goodness because my room is a disaster lol

There are some new ones for just $431 on Amazon right now. I hope you get a good one! I actually had to return an Apex to Amazon for absolutely shit tier memory OC. I learned it's definitely possible to get a bad binned board, something I had not experienced before. I really want Intel to drop the ARL Refresh in January since I have vacation and will have time to tinker and bin. But I saw a rumor of a March release which to me is just wild. Why would they drop a new CPU refresh, about 6-9 months before Nova Lake. But maybe the rumor I saw of a fixed IO is the reason. If Intel actually fixed the IO, then we might actually see the latency fixed and there could be significant gains. The rumors of 10-30% gaming gains could be true then. If they fixed gaming that much without huge cache, then Nova Lake with this fix and huge cache could be an absolute monster.

Happy New Year from Norway to all my good friends🙂 The rockets is already fired up. Money down the drain, LOL

The 12V-2x6 / 12VHPWR petite arson cable is just a ludicrous scam. NVIDIA (and Jensen) need to burn for introducing this stupid POS. I'd love to see NVIDIA financially obliterated by the largest-ever award of damages in a class action lawsuit. A just award would be that everyone that can provide proof of original purchase of a brand new GPU made with this connector gets a full refund of their original invoice amount, non-transferable unconditional lifetime warranty on the GPU connector and PSU and keeps the GPU. The tech space is just overrun with garbage now. Bad enough that almost everything new is trash, but it adds insult to injury when the trash is overpriced by double or triple what a person of average intelligence would be willing to pay for it. Speaking of trash, I found one less excuse for running Windoze. One of the things that has always been an impediment is needing to use Micro$lop Office for work. Linux doesn't have any 100% fully-compatible and truly acceptable substitute. Well, no longer an issue. I even got PowerBI to run on Linux now.

https://videocardz.com/newz/cinebench-2026-released-with-support-for-amd-rdna4-and-nvidia-blackwell-gpus Cinebench 2026 has been released. New software to punish our chips with. https://www.maxon.net/en/downloads/cinebench-downloads

All of my 32GB ECC DDR4 are in use, unfortunately. I do have one W-1290 server that I only turn on once per month with 128GB of 2933MT/s RAM (32GB x4) that doesn't particularly need that much RAM. I only purchased that much RAM to max out the server. They are UDIMMs though. The crazy part is the price for them didn't change. I paid around $850 for the two kits around three to four years ago. They cost the same now. I am starting to realize I only buy RAM during shortages...LOL.

MSI finished my RMA and got the FedEx package today. To my complete shock, they gave me a brand new unit and the new ATX 3.1 version. Honestly a great RMA experience with MSI.

If only we could get some moisture here in the PNW. Normally the valleys would be coated with white stuff this time of year, but we have not had any measurable snow fall dating back a to a year ago. It was however, 14 degrees this morning in Nampa, Idaho which would be nice for some OCing.

Hey guys, since having looked at a bit of the lossless scaling app, thinking my next daily driver system should align with that for my 7900 XTX and 3090Ti since Im not too keen on the newer connector + pricing of it all. Are there X3D variants of threadripper in the rumormill? If so I might start saving up... I got the 512GB of Persistent Memory (Intel Optane 2666Mhz 4x128GB) installed in my C622 server, Gigabyte was kind enough to not include a switch to dedicate it to system memory and I cant activate it via a Linux VM, so I wont be able to see the RAM pool until tomorrow (family is asleep).

This evenings efforts, iout Gain was stuck at 300 so effectively I was able to push the card again. Around 650-700w, I wasnt able to change the Iout gain from 300 so ran as is. Next time I'll try 250-275. Core 3475 Mem 2764 Voltage 1.158 Card is stuck at 683 again after one of the failed attempts so I guess thats all for tonight. Wasnt able to breach 3500 Core. :(

I always make things more complicated than they aught to be, like using 3x PSU's for each 8-pin on the bottom shelf, an ITX system since HEDT has been more or less dead to me since the X58 days (though Im sure there were options since, poor decisions didnt allow them to be obtainable) so anything beyond ITX or cheap laptops like the M4600 were simply not even considered. Then naturally a UT45 make perfect sense in my hodgepodge of parts. Since the 5800X3D sips power and is locked a cheap Thermalright PA120SE does fine for gaming though if I go the 9800X3D route I could definitely see a second UT45 in my future. During the era where I surfed OCN AIO's were still called CLC's mostly targeted at ITX users who later got to deal with the pumps dying or tubes coming undone and leaking over everything, I never considered CLC's since they were considered "Cheap Low Cost". Anyways it feels like I have been typing this post for a week now. I was making progress when perplexity recommended changing the power plan in Windows. Ever since then I have not been able to get the EVC2SE to change the register for the IOUT Gain so its stuck at 683 which is the default. I tried a couple of fixes but for the evening I am going to call it a night. Core: 3450 Mem: 2764 Now my clocks are back to stock and until I figure it out, I cant get them past 2850 in Steel Nomad, a far cry from 3450. Was working on getting 3450 sure stable before moving on to 3500 then seeing what I could do about the memory. With a 16c ambient, 21c idle, and 30c peak load temperature I feel like I still have some performance to get out of the 7900 XTX. Hot spot was "bad" from a differential standpoint, 30c at its peak so it peaked at 60c. Still well within margin for benching (105c throttle). Since it wasnt working before, I tore down the loop and took apart the GPU to reflow the solder. Worked great after that. I also checked on the LM application and all was well on that front as well.

In for a penny, in for a pound eh @Reciever? 🤜 Very nice! You really embraced water cooling nicely....I wouldn't be surprised to see a chiller on premises in the near future at this rate.... 😁

RIP - Bob

Dell admits customers are not buying PCs based on AI videocardz.com Very useful. Grok is generating thousands of AI "undressing" deepfakes every hour on X "X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter"

I can see the same here now. You can still get 5090's but you have to buy what they offer. You may not get the brand or the SKU you want/prefer. But it seems more cards is on the way within 1-2 weeks/Unknown delivery date. How they will price they... I don't know yet. We are flooded with loads of 9070XT for those that dare. Me... I have the 5090 so no need to buy one. I rather spent $3875 USD (incl tax) on a new snow blower. Much more needed than any new tech parts right now🙂 A machine also my wife can handle. Honda is so damn expensive here home. But if you take care of it it will last you 30 years +. Even 15 year used they cost over $2000 in the used market. Honda doesn't change much. They prefer keep the old design/engine that just works... 12V-2*6 I look at you, you stupid🤢 Sad. They could offer 1200W and be within specs. I expect the 2500W XOC vbios is for the elite/chosen ones (and their friends) as usual from MSI. I expect Asus will make an XOC vbios for the Matrix for the elite. If they not already have it by now. But not for the vanilla pc enthusiasts. Dynamic 20X frame gen will be for 6000 series from Nvidia. Or 12x then 20x for the update a year after. For 7000 gen, I don't know. Maybe there is no more geforce cards by then. Only the cloud + overpriced AI cards for those that can afford it.

WireView Pro II was just delivered.

The $431.99 one is sold by Kova Trade and shipped by Amazon. Shipped and sold by Amazon is $441.99. With these types of products via Amazon, I tend to lean towards both shipped and sold by Amazon just to be safe unless the price difference is meaningful. That is $70+ in my pocket 🤑 for picking up an open box new and worse case scenario is I return it and pick up the $441.99 variant. Most times open box new is box damage with Amazon so we will see. First thing I'm going to do is check G4 9200 on down to see where it gives up the ghost . Hopefully this one is a good one though! If it isn't, welp, back it goes.... ----- I was waiting for the refresh after reading about the node refinements, IO improvements and better IMC incoming. I'll just continue to double down around this 265k atm while sorting out the memory end of the DDR5/MB combo and then go from there. Worse case I tune it around 8400 unless it is an OC dud on top of that then off to eBay it goes... Nova with latency refinements and bllc could clock in as a legit AMD gaming killer. I would be ready for a return to Intel's glory days but remember....this IS modern day Intel we're talking about. We might want to lower our expectations......

Yeah, its great working with Asus bios. One bios that's pretty annoying is ASRock lol. My sons Z790 DDR5 bios is a pain and very confusing. Theres like 4 different settings for CPU load line. The ASRock bios reminds me of Aorus/Giga bios.

So I bit the bullet (the itch wouldn't stop itching) and picked up an open box new Z890 Apex from the zon for $371. This gives me the Z890-A Strix and Apex for motherboards along with 3x of memory on hand atm (TG 8200, KB 8400, Corsair 9200) along with this open box 265k which I am 99% sure is capped out at 8400 at G2 but we'll see. I'll also be able to verify the Z890-A Strix capping out at 8667 in G4. Z890-A Strix is rated to 9066 but two review I've seen now show it capping out sub 8800 under stress test so this isn't a surprise as mine will boot 9200 G4 just fine but falls apart about 5 minutes into the stress test (TM5 1USMS 90 min). Return window is Jan 26th for the Z890-A Strix or I'll hold onto it and the 265k for the Hyte White Y40 I have. ------------ w00t! That bodes well for my ship window thank goodness and it will be in your hands sooner than later to start getting some data. Thanks! I just grabbed it. I'll patch it in a few...

Playing the newer Avatar expansion. Native 4K with Frame Gen on, graphics on Unobtanium. Card reaches almost 1,000 watts! and averages around 800-900 watts from my 5090FE. Been running a few hours now. Cable melters DREAM right here. My 5090 spends its life pumping pixels, and I’ll say this is on the higher end of what I see in games, even more than Starwars Outlaws, and a cyberpunk 2077. It also uses 20GB VRAM.

I just watched the video and yep, definitely looking forward to getting mine next month. Warranty only applies for it in stock configuration though which is how I would run it 99% of the time anyhow so that's a plus. But referencing my last post: You can clearly see how stress and movement on the cables can imbalance the load quickly in De8auer's video. I'm going to be very interested to see just how "bad" the MSI yellow adapter is and test it against whatever PSU I end up getting unless I can track down a quality 12v2x6 adapter cable for my EVGA P2 1600w to run. ----------------------------- We've reached that point where even the lowliest of Ultra chips can beat the 10900k in gaming:

Happy New Year brothers! ------------------------------------ Again, not that it makes it 100% safe, but even the makers are giving guidelines for connecting and routing your cables for the 12v2x6 dragon flame edition connector.... This is what I mean when you are not being proactive about giving the connector the best chance possible of surviving.... ----------------- As noted earlier, prices are slowly on the rise for the 5090 again and supply dwindling ever so slowly.... "Instead, we expect NVIDIA to ignore rising flagship pricing and either delist the Founders Edition or wait for the market to stabilize. One thing seems certain, though. As we approach the one-year anniversary of the RTX 5090, we do not expect the card to become widely available at MSRP, which seemed possible a few months ago but clealry does not anymore." ----------------- Ditto. All upside, no downside. I already dropped $2k on a GPU. I'm not going to squabble over $140USD for such a device and what it offers. This is exactly the approach to take when using a laptop. You are never, ever going to approach the flexibility or cooling of a desktop and that is just the nature of the beast and physics. Toss in all the added heat and component life and you just can't approach laptops like you do desktops. Your prioritization list is apt and on point for what most consumers need from their portable devices as they are tools to be used first and foremost for various tasks. Would I love to lug around something like the old mALX or even a Predator 21 and have a no compromises experience? Absolutely, but I know I am so very far into the minority of customers. Bean counters are very good at their job and know what the market wants and it isn't us. 😞 With that being said, I still love laptops! 🤣

I do not remember using it with my Sager 15" 8086K laptop. I remember benching/gaming without any sort of phantom throttling. I was battling heat with that thing most of all. The biggest issue I have had with this laptop is not really throttling, but the bios is so locked down that I could not turn off the CPU power saving features. When I play games on it, Intel SpeedStep and C1E were just always working at their hardest. So, all of the CPU cores were flickering down/up/down/up/down to lo/high frequencies. All of the CPU core frequencies looked something like this graph below. And this was causing GPU usage to just tank. Since installing throttlestop, I have turned those features off, it has allowed me to change the max pwr limit some as well. It was also causing micro stuttering really bad. For the first time, the machine actually runs smooth. PS: I am running my default GPU bios again with full performance. I am not sure why its performance was gimped before. The machine is able to run normal 5.1-5.2Ghz in games, and 3.9-4.1Ghz on the E-Cores in games. I keep my 4090 undervolted to 2.1Ghz@800mv so the CPU always runs full speed in games, and those two are not fighting over power sharing.

Happy New Year brothers!

you juuust beat me to it 😄

On the topic of WireView Pro II...

There is still some small hope that people can get 5070Ti at more decent prices. If you are lucky and take your time. You are crazy if you rather go for $1100-1800 USD 5080 cards that in reality should be the new xx70 Ti tier in the 5000 series. $600 is an quite decent price. Or better say the more correct price. Edit. Some people don't grasp it. Why they need to defend a bad purchase/bad product for the money they spent? And as usual... The r/Nvidia modteam remove/close such threads. The old 14th gen Intel is still a monster chips. And Asus want to be one of the first offering price hikes for the New year. Their products is all too cheap. Of course they prefer to be first. Asus announces product price hikes starting January 5 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/asus-announces-product-price-hikes-starting-from-january-5-and-ai-is-to-blame-ram-and-storage-cost-pressure-cited-as-main-trigger-for-pricing-increases 1000 Limited Edition cards, LOL ASUS ROG MATRIX also has RTX 5090D V2 version with 24GB memory, 807W max power teased Joke or stupid rumors.... I don't know. NVIDIA Pushing RTX 5090 Prices to $5000 in 2026, Rumor Claims Yees, flood China with US tech. This due Trump admin's ease on AI export controls. Feed it's worst enemy with whatever they want than helping their own citizens computer needs, is just disgusting. Sad. TikTok owner ByteDance to reportedly purchase $14 billion worth of Nvidia AI GPUs in 2026 Despite numerous setbacks, ByteDance spent 85 billion yuan on Nvidia chips throughout 2025, marking a significant increase for next year, South China Morning Post reports.

That’s insane! I’m shocked by the MSI cable burning up on people, you won’t see me running one now with a shunted 1200w 5090fe though. But, I did run a MSI 1KW BABY PSU with yellow tip cable on my 4090 Gaming OC which had the 666w bios on it. Never had a single issue. I didn’t undervolt that card much, I just blasted it to the max 2,940Mhz daily that it would run in 4K. No issues with the yellow tip MSI 2x6-12v cable while I had it. I have been playing the new Mafia Old Country game lately with my 5090, I was playing for hours, decided to check MSI AB graph after closing the game out. Little did I know it’s chugging along at 900 watts during cut scenes. Little dinky Lian Li 2x6-12v cable is doing the job well though. They are plugged in completely. Power usage goes crazy when I’m not looking though, I don’t really keep an eye on it like that anymore. Definitely shocked to see a 9070xt burn like that, when my 4090 was excellent. These cables are nuts. I don’t understand it.

ThrottleStop with laptops is unfortunately or fortunately the way to go still. Luckily the DEV still provides updates and I also used it with my 13900HX to really unlock that beast. It sort of lets you bypass the cancer that is X-Load limits on gaming laptops. It also lets you have really fine control over power limits when you want them, which is ideal for tuning for each game/load scenario. Luckily some laptop OEMs provide some pretty great tuning, while others are pure trash. Lenovo actually provides a pretty great gaming laptop product, with really good tuning. Unfortunately they don't have fully unlocked BIOS, and the latest version apparently patched out the backdoor to get into the unlocked BIOS. So if I do consider a new laptop again in the future, it will have to be MSI again. They still provide their unlocked/hidden BIOS, the tuning is all recoverable within reason and their BIOS is more desktop like with it's menu options actually working and not bricking the machine.

Hey everyone. Man, throttle stop is amazing. Am I just learning how to use this tool, and what it’s actually for? What the heck is wrong with me lol. 😆 i have been over here dealing with some low GPU usage, and very weak CPU clocks, and poor 1% lows. Now I’m gaming and my 14900HX will nearly hold 5.2P/4.1E in most games FOREVER. After long duration, it’s still holding 4.9-5.1P, and eventually goes back to 5.2/4.1. I had reinstalled windows on my machine which was running very poorly. And speed step was kinda hindering its performance. I’m super impressed here with this 14900HX, never really liked it all that much until now I suppose.

Well, that's what I get for waiting a few days before ordering. I ordered my WV2 on 11/3. Looks like we both got pushed back, but myself ~3 weeks after yours. Well, that's a lot of data I'll get to soak in from you and @jaybee83 before mine arrives. 🙂 ---- Agreed on the GPU front. I think @Papusan noted several months ago (while I had my 5080FE before jettisoning it due to locked out vBIOS) the juice wasn't worth the squeeze vs the 5070ti in terms of cost MSRP vs MSRP and then obviously AIB models that completely went off the tracks especially for 5080s ($1800 for an Astral 5080?) and obviously 5090s (~$3800 for an Astral 5090 LC?). Then again, the way the market is going, next gen AMD is now rumored for mid 2027 (or later) and I suspect Nvidia will follow suit. I would not be surprised if we don't see 10k and 6k series cards from AMD and Nvidia till Fall of 2027 at this rate with the RAM market hopefully coming to its senses by fall 2026 enough for Nvidia to offer Super cards by Jan 2027. And we still have price hikes incoming. Along with scaled back production due to memory reallocation from Nvidia to more lucrative markets In other words, hug your 9070xt's and 5090's and hunker down..... Not the greatest 9070xt, but Microcenter has Asrock Challenger 9070xt in stock for $579.99 They also have several 5070ti models at $749.99 and one at $729.99 Bang for buck, that 9070xt can't be beat.... Even in RT only testing, the 9070xt trades blows with the 5070ti: 5080s are running off the rails with the lowest cost being $1300 at Microcenter.... Cheapest on the part picker is $1129.99.... For myself, I'd either scoop up a fantastically priced Challenger 9070xt for $550.99 after MC discount or pony up a bit more for the Zotac 5070ti for $693.49....

That sucks, but I trust that TG is producing a good product. I know if I ever go down the path of securing a 5090, I would definitely be picking up a WireView. In other news, the 9070XT Red Devil arrived last week and the PRIME 5070 TI will come today. It doesn't escape my mind that I essentially spent nearly $1500 for two GPUs, when I could have put down another 500 for a 5090 at "MSRP". We all know they don't cost that, so I am fine for now. If anyone needs a 4070 TI (Gigabyte Windforce), let me know. I might just build a PC out of spare parts and sell it.

still plenty of stock, albeit prices are continuously increasing and the low point waaay out of reach by now. out of 40 models listed, 6 are available shortly, with 29 directly available in stock. cheapest is, funnily enough, the FE at 2650€ 😄 at 19% VAT that would equate to 2227€ without tax or equivalently 2621 USD, again, thats currently the cheapest available, so seems like norway @Papusanhas some better luck now with 5090 pricing 😛 oh snap, say wat! didnt expect the next version to be out so soon already. @electrosoft btw bud, just got notified today that my TG wireview pro II was shipped out, hows it looking on your end? 🙂 guess now its time to also order me some additional pots of TG putty pro to completely fill out the backside underneath the backplate. every bit counts when flashing the matrix / XOC 😄

That looks totally awesome, brother. I love it. To protect the GPU SMDs around the core you can use clear nail polish, the red Thermal Grizzly conformal coating (or other conformal coating) and the Thermal Grizzly GPU Guard gasket. I use clear nail polish covered by the GPU Guard, so double-protection. My recommendation would be doing that. You not only protect the SMD components, but everything else beyond them. The gasket also minimizes exposure to air, so the liquid metal should be less likely to oxidize. https://www.titanrig.com/thermal-grizzly-tg-gpu-guard-nvidia-gpu-set.html

Well after a dozen mock ups, test fits, cuts, more mock ups and test fits this is the current state of the watercooling project. Was able to mount both pumps and res on to the UT45 like I wanted. Essentially used all the fittings save for maybe 2. I assumed the 90 degree rotary fittings were stand alone, didn't occur to me until a bit ago that they need to be coupled to a standard compression fitting. Luckily I purchased enough for the loop (including the 2 filters) Radiator outlet may be better served by a 45 degree fitting long term but tube isn't kinking so it may be OK. Still haven't been able to get the shelves yet, my aunts been using my car for her side hustle quite often while I've been on vacation so I haven't been able to go anywhere. Ideally when I go the shelf approach the rad/res/pump will all be above the pc and tubing will be fed through the shelf directly to the pc below. Probably going to put in my 3090ti to hold me over while I install the ek block. To protect the diodes from liquid metal, is clear nail polish still the preferred method? I did buy some kapton tape and still have some 33/88 electrical tape.

I've had to do a few RMAs with MSI over the years, including my old x670e Carbon, and it always went well. Either repaired properly or usually they just sent me a new one. They really won me over back during the 1722 17.3" laptop days with parts and repair accessibility. Untill they, PERSONALLY ( IE bombarding me with anecdotal examples means nothing since my anecdotal evidence says otherwise), give me a reason to not deal with them, they will always be on my top 3 list for consideration. They still have the best mass commercial market laptop BIOS on the market and to a certain point, they treat their laptop BIOS like their desktop BIOS and I like that.

This is my desktop project showing how the desktop graphics card is installed in the P870xx! Here's a photo showing the MXM adapter board and power board in the 2.5 hard drive bay.

Well turns out there is a wrinkle on part of the server :/ Gigabyte did not enable bifurcation on the motherboard, it can be enabled with a BIOS mod just really didnt want to do that sort of thing. The Sage has it enabled by default and works on my Precision Towers so I fully expected it to be commonplace on this one. I'll look at the guide in a bit and toss a coin for looking for the hardware programmer I have somewhere. tl;dr the 4xNVME PCIE adapter is only showing 1 drive from the 4. Otherwise Unraid just booted right up, reallocated the array of drives and the cache on its own, didnt even have to point anything anywhere. See's the 80 threads available to it now with no issues. Just been cleaning up what ever I was doing at the time, server is nice and cool, and more importantly more than quiet enough to be placed in the second floor living room (hybrid office kind of setup). Overtime I do plan to replace the older 4/6TB drives there are still present in the array, they are getting looooong in the tooth so if I do anything with this system that will likely be the first step. drives on the right are 12TB each but 2 of them are being used for parity, so it doesnt add much to the "useable" pool of storage. Onto the next project for now :) Decided to go with the server build first to get my confidence back, its been some time since I built something outside of my wheel house. Damn near thought I had some crap karma for a minute there because the server wouldnt post when I tested the motherboard. Turns out, its not guaranteed that it will default to a GPU for video out since they have a chipset video output via the VGA port on the I/O. Once that was squared, then realized, sadly, one of the sticks of RAM was bad :( Anyone got 2933Mhz/3200Mhz 32GB DDR4 ECC laying around? Damned things are stupid expensive now :(

Merry Christmas my friends! I hope you're all having an awesome day today! I know I am! After yet another grueling few weeks of really busy devleopment, I'm finally on a one week vacation. I got caught up on MANY pages worth of posts today, so now I'm up to speed on all the threads I follow. That was very time consuming. Thank goodness for my super long attention span and hyperfocus abilities. I got a second GPU installed in my desktop (RTX 3080 from brother Fox), and this system slaps! Paired with Lossless Scaling, I can now render any game I have at 300 fps for the foreseeable future. I love this return of multi GPU gaming rigs brought about by this awesome software.

Project #1 almost done, just needs to be setup in unraid again then hopefully don't touch for 6 months lol.

9070 XT is definitely a solid option for raw performance. Radeon features are comparatively low and the hotspot temps are comparatively very high. The minimal amount of time I spend gaming either one would be fine and I would buy the cheapest option as long as a water block is immediately available. I don't think I like any GPU enough to get excited about using it with a stock air cooler.

You should be able to assign the second core to Lossless Scaling as long as Windows sees the GPU as 2 GPUs, which I image it does. This reminds me of the GTX 690, as that was a dual GPU board as well. Now we have a new version of that from Intel which is awesome. That is correct. Your monitors should be plugged into the framegen GPU as plugging them into the render GPU will invoke a double readback, which will destroy performance and increase latency.

Hoping mine is issue free. Had been working well, streams my games way better than my old 4070 setup still. I did salvage a old 11th gen vostro 3420 with an 1135g7 and put 32gb ram just before the ram crisis and a bx200 wifi card in it. Getting phi speed of 5Gb and a real 250MB/Sec over wifi from it. Great little spare machine that work was chucking out due to the Polish keyboard (I touch type).

Thank you! As I said, I'm currently having the latest MXM board assembled and will then test it. I hope the DisplayPort channels work with all resolutions and frequencies! Then you can operate the internal display of the P870xx with all resolutions. But an external display is also still implemented. Unfortunately, the other DisplayPort channels could no longer be integrated for geometric reasons, and the maximum number of layers allowed for a PCB with a thickness of 1.2 mm is only 12 layers. No factory in the world can produce more layers. I had the idea for the whole project a few years ago. I thought the updateability of the P870xx and its wonderful features were cool! In my opinion, Clevo has created one of the best laptops with this model series!

Yeah this thing is completely locked down. The only thing it has working in its favor right now is, I repasted it with TG putty and Supercool LM, did the whole shebang all up. So temps are great (compared to stock temps) And it feels like the 14900HK might be a good sample, but I’m speculating here. But, you can’t undervolt it. So it’s always just blasting away with auto voltage while it shoots upwards of 5,850 boost browsing around windows lol. 😂 (And apparently these chips degrade? ) it’s some how completely reliable though, and mine has not degraded. But if it’s gonna happen it’ll be in this exact scenario. #1 Hot CPU? CHECK! #2 Auto voltage going wild? CHECK! You do get what you pay for with MSI, and I keep hearing about Lenovo being really good as well. If I could pick a single option, it would be to have the ability to set tREFI manually to 262k, would probably opt for that instead of CPU voltage control. That alone would drastically boost gaming performance. These laptop manufacturers need better engineers/design teams.

Seems a little bit inconsistent between runs for some reason. Not sure if the 3D-Vcache is helping the EPYC or what. The clocks and power limits are the same as the 9950X, but it scores higher.