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Maybe someday I can be bothered with Memory tuning, but its not going to be today, or tomorrow, or the day after :) I enjoy overclocking to yield tangible gains in gaming. Looks like PCIe Bifurcation works on my Aorus ITX x570. That being said I had to scrunch up the ribbon cables so much for the test that I think it was rendered non-functional. The 7900 XTX wouldnt show up at all and the 3090Ti was misbehaving quite severely reporting the link at PCIE 2.0 But it POSTed! so thats progress of a sorts. Got a shorter ribbon (60mm) so hopefully that works i'll test this weekend.

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.

https://www.overclock.net/posts/29562444/ What grade are you in? Are your classmates really mean to you, or is it a parenting issue?

Well, now this is a nice new feature added to the latest update of Winaero Tweaker. Does the same thing as the script I have been adding to the right-click menu. Just check the box and it's ready to use. Very awesome.

That why its a mod and its not easy to pull off, a lot of time and money but its cool to see other people doing this to fight back against NVIDIA. Sadly AMD refuses to take advantage of NVIDIA's mistakes to make themselves a good option. Speaking of the RTX3000 series there are rumors that NVIDIA is bringing back RTX 3060 GPUs https://www.notebookcheck.net/GeForce-RTX-3060-re-launch-Nvidia-preparing-to-bring-back-5-year-old-gaming-GPU-later-this-month-claims-report.1245823.0.html This is stupid, why politicians from both parties always create terrible solutions that wont change anything especially when kids are very tech savvy. Plus this bill is useless especially when Parents buy PCs for their kids they register the account (MS Account) or whatever under the parent's name and age, It would be more scary if they have to verify the age of the user through a webcam every time you wanna login. Just another excuse for the government to take more money out of regular people pockets. Also the media is nothing but propaganda and ragebait same with social media.

Couple of new additions to the roster. Traded one of my 5700 XT's to a coworker for his 6500 XT. It'll act as my frame Gen mule on the TV and main gaming monitor. The second was my first real GPU. Anyone care to guess what it is?

I think the vBIOS has to support it. If it does not that might be why there are no examples of it having been done on numerous other video cards rather than just a select few.

I bet some of you here are going to try this mod too some day😁. I know its not a new mod but its cool to see NVIDIA getting screwed by the consumer for once

Quake II RTX - silky smooth on Linux at 5120x2160. Had to lower my power limit with LACT to 500W because the shunted 5090 with the 800W Matrix vBIOS was making the WireView Pro II scream like a stuck pig. My UPS also started squealing because it exceeds its 1500W capacity.

If you think about it from the inside out there is no reason to bin anything at all for quality considering the current market forces in play. I'm sure the cynical outlook might be that they are binning server gpu's and we get the left overs. I doubt they are binning anything at all for any interested party since the demand is so fierce and prices making all the shareholders quite happy. I was thoroughly surprised to see that my 3090ti was numbered and also tested for its clock speed which was written on the frame of the GPU die (#1479 and 2055 if memory serves). I'd be lying if I didn't entertain selling the thing an extra 1200-1300 is a fair bit of spending money. Decided against it, plenty of uses for a 3090ti. Pretty happy that I was able to find an unused ek-wb for it they should pair up nicely someday.

Grab it before its too late😁 Remember its an limited edition. MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPUs listed on eBay for almost $27,000 — limited edition graphics card demands 500% premium from resellers As you can see... The world is filled with stupids. I'm sure there is some out ther that are willing to pay $27K for the Lightning.

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.

MSI, in typical MSI fashion, has dropped the ball on their BIOS development. They mysteriously omitted the AMD CBS menus and sub-menus, so there are lots of tweaks that were not accessible with the stock BIOS. It has taken a couple of days worth of mods and testing to get them added back. So, basically restoring expected function and features. It's really ridiculous that it was not present because it is an AMD firmware default menu option AFAIK. Couple this with how they behaved with the 5090 Lightning BIOS and insisting that Techpowerup take it down from their GPU BIOS database makes it hard to respect their brand in my mind. The MSI brand is all about show, not go. There was a recent article on this that got little attention. I tried to contact @flashhez and @chew and got no response, but Svet (the MSI Forum guy) came to the rescue. The world needs more people like Svet and Prema. Enthusiasts have unlocked hidden overclocking menus on the MSI B850MPOWER motherboard

Have been working with Svet for a B850MPOWER BIOS mod. It's shaping up quite nicely. Will have to see how 8400 works.

damn i saw that vid, felt really sorry for Roman, he definitely didnt deserve this....especially after doing all that due diligence! these market conditions really suck atm. been using winaero tweaker for quite a while now, love that they keep adding this kinda stuff!

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/153759825 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/5988575 Not too bad for the cute little guy.

Of course, its not something I would recommend to the laymen. Just something I have been fondly passively following for the past couple of years. Mods are always exciting when you are watching someone else suffer the ups and downs. When I was modding the Alienware 17 R1 my friends thought I was nuts taking a Dremel to my laptop and "making" my own heatsinks and there were definitely plenty of times I was questioning whether or not I was tempting fate! lol Like an idiot I did it anyways. The Red Devil 7900 XTX effectively is that new scratch to that "itch". Heck I have been semi debating picking up a DDR3 based system just to see how it performs under games of this era. I have enough hardware though so I really shouldnt. https://www.ebay.com/itm/406231132612?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20250417133222%26meid%3D3b5d9c1dce2a42bca896f1dd563e6c62%26pid%3D102727%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dnone%26itm%3D406231132612%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DWatchlistVariantWithPSItemDR_BP%26brand%3DASUS&_trksid=p4375194.c102727.m162921 If they accepted 300 might be a fun deal, looks like a lot of cleanup though. As for the politics, lets steer it back away from that. Feel free to discuss the issue itself but lets leave the politicians off the thread. Feel free to continue via PM :)

Tried Bifurcation again today and sadly no dice, system would hang half way through post. Oh well, I'll return the adapters at some point during the week and hang up this goal for a while. Likely going to need that adapter from C_Payne in the UK. Otherwise I want to get more hoseline and make some adjustments to my setup and the benching itch has been working me over for a while now. Maybe I'll start with the EAH4890 and potential Tri-Fire.

The black and red in front? Not sure it's the TOP sku you have from Asus. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-eah4890-top-super-ml/4.html Not everything you buy is gold standard... "All that glitters is not gold". Yup, the fancy screen on the Lightning ain't gold that glitters. Just some fancy unnecessary gimmick to increase the already sky-high prices. And I shouldn't start talk about the new web based trashy software to make it work (which not work at all). — William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice Norwegian gov't consumer watchdog calls out ‘enshittification’ of video games, connected devices, and others

Nice! Make a nice chunk of change on the "almost as good as my main rig" setup and have a very competent secondary rig. New toys on deck or into the kitty for future consideration? Mine was destined for the kitty but got slammed with a larger than expected tax bill, so there goes that.... 🤑 5700xt is still one of my favorites. I had the AMD anniversary blower edition for over a year (~august 2019 to ~Oct 2020) before upgrading to a 3090FE fresh from BB. I remember Asus red fans and AMD cards era, so definitely an AMD card I think. I kinda remember those around when I got my EVGA Nvidia GTX 280 so circa 2009-2010?

My newest sets: MXM- and Powerboard

Say hello to the newest example of silly things we want but don't need. Phanteks XT M3 MSI B850MPower EPYC 4585PX CPU Lian Li GA II LITE RGB 360mm AIO 32GB V-Color Manta XSky 6000 CL26 ASUS Prime RTX 5080 OC Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W PSU 2TB NVMe x3 on mobo 2TB NVMe x4 on Sabrent Quad 4X card 1TB SATA SSD and 2TB SATA SSD Cougar single-frame 360mm reverse-blade fan trio in case floor I am updating the BIOS now and will reach out again to Svet about doing a BIOS mod for it.

Hey stranger. Where you been? Welcome back. You were missed. No idea on the RTX 6000. It's not a product that fits into a sane person's discretionary hobby budget so I've not given it even a glance. Curiosity killed the cat fox, so I just don't want to subject myself to temptation for nonsense like that.

I will give it a go after work.

Well look at @Talon making the TPU and YT news! TPU: Intel "Bartlett Lake-S" Flagship Appears, Won't Boot on Consumer Motherboards | TechPowerUp Hopefully more subscribe to your YT channel and get to hear Bill Hader discuss tech! 🤣 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That would definitely help! If, with the 800w and 1000w vBIOS we can just adjust them up manually like with the other Asus 2000w XOC vBIOS (down in this case from 1.15), that rocks. My main issue now are the new drivers from Nvidia purposefully capping voltages when you overclock. The problem looks like the newest drivers might override even native vBIOS relaxing. In the OCN forums, someone running the XOC found they suddenly were limited to 1.025 vs ~1.1450 If this and future drivers put a hard lock on voltages based on certain criteria when overclocking regardless of BIOS limits, that is going to suck. @Mr. Fox any chance you can try the new drivers with your EVC2 and a >+190 core offset to see if it keeps your voltages and clocks suppressed even in the face of a hardware control mod? Those running stock vBIOS and try to OC are getting capped when overclocking and even those running the XOC are suddenly neutered down to 1.025 when overclocking. The good news (?), is if you're not overclocking or doing a mild OC (sub +190), the drivers are decent. Yeah, I slurped the 2500w for my collection as soon as it appeared. 🤣 Seems to be her son murdered her and a few others in the same location before officers put him down. Mental health issues. https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article314852958.html He didn't start it. Someone else did to help out with funeral and other costs with a cap. I'm ok with GoFundMe requests but I've seen some truly wacky ones. Heck, you could throw one up for a "need" for a Lightning MSI 5090 or RTX 6000 and Threadripper and attach a need/sob story to it or a Kickstarter about how you want to, "Research AI via daily immersion in simulated battlefields" aka play BF6/COD! 🤣 I always have a soft spot for medical GoFundMe because we shouldn't be in a place in this country where people are routinely driven to bankruptcy or financial straights over medical issues. Seeing a few "big name" hollywood stars who had to start one and digging into the hundreds of thousands of dollars they had to spend if not millions for medical treatments is a pretty disgusting statement on the state of our healthcare system in this country while big pharma and insurance companies continue to rake in the profits. On a personal note, I have a very close family member that is having to rip through whatever they have for medical treatments for a variety of ailments that in any other country would be covered and that's with insurance here in the US. It's pretty disgusting. The fact we are one of the few, if only, first world countries without universal health care is pathetic.

there was a follow-up from Jay in the comments that AB newest version added support for Lightning voltage control, so should be possible to push that limit up further. no idea if hes gonna do a follow-up video on this though... and no, im not defending that 5k+ USD card LOL LOL i saw that video yesterday via Louis Rossmann and thought of bro @Papusan right away 😄 well THAT should be interesting... if theyre ever gonna do a public statement on this, that is. good that the community has surely made a gazillion local copies of that vBios (myself included), so we dont really care about any takedowns 😛 say wut....what was that about? armed robbery or smth? any details available? thats crazy! altho i must say i dont know how i feel about starting a frigging gofundme after a family member was murdered....dunno if its just me but that leaves a bad aftertaste in my mouth....

The vBIOS was modified and did report 16GB but failed any test plus didnt output any direct images from the GPU (guessing iGPU was used for trial and error) I think, sadly, this is more of a Nvidia was entertaining the idea of 8GB and 16GB variants back then, deciding only to release 8GB variants versus AMD who never entertained 16GB consumer cards. In theory it the GPU is compatible since the workstation variant exists with 16GB but there may be significant differences in the PCB. Since RTX 30xx continued its dominance, we lost innovation since AMD couldnt hold Nvidia to the fire. I really enjoy my 7900 XTX and how much I was able to extract out of it. Stock OC vbios: 2565 Aquas OC vbios: 3Ghz 24/7 Highest OC: 3300c That being said it'll never beat a 4090 with the same amount of time put in.

I actually REALLY want to do this...for my RX 5700 XT's. I still have 3 of them and last time I used one it immediately hit 8GB VRAM buffer in Sons of the Forest :( Sadly there are no success stories of anyone doing this for that card. I continue to hold out hope, maybe I need to setup a bounty for it to generate interest? Not sure how I would even go about it. Especially considering Lossless Scaling Dual GPU FG, just need one card that has the 16GB VRAM and the other could be left as is. I keep revisiting the old reddit thread where one university student tried it, looks like it failed and/or lost interest due to lack of time. Would be a lot of fun going from 8GB 14Gbps to 16GB 18Gbps + OC. I hold out hope but gotta admit its disheartening not seeing any progress made towards that end.

Haven't checked in for awhile. Any news on RTX 6000 series?

I don't know what's more insulting.... Not sending a replacement set which they do have in stock but it now costs almost 3x as much or having the balls to deduct 15% from the refund for the original cost because of use depreciation when in actuality the items valuation depreciation actually increased over two fold..... In this situation, you either offer a product replacement equal or better than sent in for repair. You don't offer a refund because the replacement set is now worth so much more and you DEFINITELY don't then have the cojones to lop off 15% use depreciation. That is absurdly greedy on a gobsmackingly large scale. Not that Silicon Power was ever really on my list except besides a few freebies tossed my way for evaluation, but they will never be on my list to buy pretty much anything. 😠 Heh heh, what I liked most was him flat out saying he won't be soldering on another connector for him. Makes me think Dufus asked if he could also add another connector with the repair and was told, "nah bruh." 🤣 Ended on a sad note, though. His sister was murdered in Washington State. 😞 It was good to see the large outpouring of support though via his sister's gofundme and messaging. ♥️

See how Frame Chasers shouldn't have even attempted any mods...HE killed the card when he added the second 12vhpwr connector and that melted holes in the PCB. LMAO. Yet, people pay this guy for his expert overclocking/binning 'abilities'?

About 12-13A per pin.

Another reason why I want to live part time in Norway @Papusan besides the Snow and Cold. When a government agency can produce an entertaining video that also points out a serious consumer issue, you got to give it to them. "The memories may be yours, but the photos are mine" WOW. The Norwegian gov took shots at all companies.

Not sure if it'd work on other mobos, but i bet there is a generic tool out in the wild somewhere. What happened to memory prices? Chip shortage? I've a brand new unopened 2x16gb Trident Z5 6000mhz rgb kit, and feel extremely wealthy! 🤣

niiice, nifty lil tool. would it work on other mobos as well? or asrock specific? wtf 😮 i wonder how many IMCs he had to bin for that RAM speed (and how stable it is).

Yeah, got $2900 for it which is about $500 more than I paid a year ago. 1440p was definitely holding it back. For now I will just run my desktop as iGPU only which works fine for what I am actually using it for. All that I ended up using on the Vcolor kit was 8400 C40 as beyond that was unstable and I could not pinpoint what was causing the issue. iGPU may be an issue now with the higher MT as well.

Sugi pushing AM5 rig to the max: 5800 on all cores 9950X3D 8800 C34 5090 running 2500w Lightning BIOS clocking 3427 pretty much rock solid the entire play session

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I started having weird little freezes with my main rig about a month ago. I caught the flu and was down for the count for 10 days and did not care about my computer, but getting back to D2D usage and just very random little issues. On the 17th the errors went into full tilt hardware errors overdrive: That was when I pulled my 5090 to swap into my Ultra rig and it had no problems and my main rig "calmed down" a bit without the 5090 in there. Still, something was up. Pulled out good 'ole AIDA full suite stress test, no problems. Pulled out OCCT and ran extreme tests on every sub system no problems. Ran OCCT combined extreme and started getting random errors every different run within 5-60 seconds: "VRAM failed," "GPU failed," "memory failed" and even "CPU failed". Each run was a crap shoot which error I would get so I was pretty sure it was the EVGA P2 1600w that was slowly failing and then suddenly took a turn for the worse. Installed the MSI AI1600T tonight and combined passed with flying colors. As a checksum, hooked the EVGA P2 1600w to the Ultra Rig with the 9070xt and OCCT combined crashed and burned on it too with the 9070xt. Bonus was seeing transients on the 9070xt hitting 600w+..... Getting the AI1600T couldn't have come at a better time.... EVGA P2 1600w has a 10 year warranty so it will be interesting to test the "new" EVGA for an RMA.....might as well get an RMA for a dead/dying K20 keyboard I have in the closet too from them. wasn't worth the postage to send it back but combined with the PSU probably worth the round trip.I tossed one of their wireless mice that just died a bit ago. Shoulda held onto it to toss in there too for an RMA...... Wife's EVGA K20 keyboard is still going strong and she beats the crap out of that thing playing WoW..... MSI AI1600T is gorgeous.....too bad you'll never see it in this Phanteks case. Good thing is switching to a single 12v2x6 run and the way the cables are thinner and braided meant easier runs and management. It has a USB-C to USB connector to the MB, but you need to run MSI Center Bloatware to access the features and yeah, no thank you. I'll use it as is. Almost in final boss form ( need to make a few cuts to the brackets for the DDR5 fan): ----------------------- Yeah, that was a pleasant surprise on the Ultra when running the original MSI octopus connector directly vs through the WVP2. I'll take every bit of coil whine reduction I can get. Definitely going to go back to 800w Matrix as my daily vs just testing but I also want to test the 1000w Lightning. Nothing wrong with the gigachad, but I'm leaving a lot of the 1.125v cap on my card on the table with the 600w variants. One thing I learned during the Pandemic was to scroll on by comments and positions that make zero sense. Better for your mental health. Politics? Religion? Absolutely stupid takes on tech? Scroll Scroll Scroll! I feel bad for family and friends that sit on forums and social media for hours on end just arguing. You won't walk away feeling better and you will carry that luggage with you for an indeterminate amount of time. Most forums and groups I quietly extract nuggets of useful information and absolutely refuse to engage in any type of flame wars. It's just not worth it. I didn't join OCN till 4-5 years ago, so I have no idea what it was like during its heyday. I am not. I'll have to give it a whirl. I'll have to check, but outside of outliers that heavily favor X3D (IE Fallout 76), Arrowlake is solid at 4k IMHO. I was a little bummed they cancelled the 290k. I was tempted to pick up that nice 285k over on the OCN forums that is delidded and 9200 C40 certified to play with.... Arrowlake felt a touch like Rocket Lake and almost a prototype calm before the big storm coming. I'm expecting big things at the end of the year from Intel. At least almost all of the XOC bios files are out in the wild now to play with so that's a plus....unless you're an FE owner or an Asus/Suprim AIO owner. As for the 9070xt? Marketshare tells us if given a choice, gamers will pick Nvidia all day everyday still but with 5070ti prices through the roof, 9070xt is viable....if priced properly. All the market conditions in the world won't force gamers to exceed a certain price point. I knew the writing was on the wall when Newegg started lowering their 9000 series prices a few weeks ago. Either lower the prices or get stuck with a glut considering 9000 series has been on the market for almost a year and 5000 series for over a year. Many who wanted them have bought them. Same theory applies to ram prices. You can jack up the prices all you want, but all I'm seeing is plenty of stock, eBay kits priced lower than the MSRP ones not moving and Newegg and MC now offering bundle deals. Nevermind the price of many things overall has gone up in this economy. Comparing my grocery price history today vs a few years ago and it's a bloodbath. Comparing many items on subscription on Amazon and prices are up easily 10-15% overall if not more. Prices in restaurants is so outrageous now and/or shrinkflation we eat at home now or do pick up orders to avoid a savage 20%-23% "recommended" tip (remember when 15% was considered generous?) Good times!

I am sorry, but the guy doesn't know what he's talking about. He claimed he was able to "warp" the internal PCB. Clearly, he hasn't watched Northwestrepair - the PCB's on these 5090's are literal heatsinks. He almost likely killed the GPU by a mistake in his shunt mod. This is what happens to people that labeled themselves experts.

We opened this forum so that it can be a soft landing pad for those who still surfed those forums could still mingle. Personally I wanted to keep in contact with those of like mind in hobbies that I also enjoy. Forums have become fragmented over time especially for laptops as manufacturers become more and more locked down both on software and hardware. The identity of the forum may change over time as a result. That being said we are able to keep the forum relatively light in cost so as a result we are comfortable keeping it alive effectively forever. You can always PM me if you have questions or concerns I do try to be as fair as possible in moderating.

Finally got around to the ole switcheroo for some FO76 and WoW testing.... Welp, my 265k adventures have come to an end for potential on my main rig methinks. 9800X3D is just too beastly in Fallout 76 9070xt is just too weak on top of that but that was to be expected against a card that costs 3-6x more and is really a 5070ti/5080 contender depending on games played. Good news is for WoW at 4k? 265k tuned is a legit contender. It also was holding its own in Hogwarts too. For raids, I found it had almost that same smoothness and control of the lows like the SP109 14900KS in the wife's system. If all I played was WoW, I'd recommend a nice, tuned, cheap 265k on the cheapest board you could find. Problem of course is securing 8000+ DDR5 in the current market. Unfortunately I play equal parts Fallout76 and WoW both at 4k these days as my two main games and have for the last 3+ years and the X3D just massacres All of Intel's offerings in that game as it always has since I started testing with the 7800X3D several years ago vs the 12900k, 13900KS and eventually the 14900KS. I did manage to eeek out a little bit more performance on the Strix and 8600 tuned vs 8000 tuned with the better 265k being able to tune up quite nicely but it still couldn't hang but that's about right considering it couldn't hang even with the 14900k still churning along at 59/45/50 atm. Red Devil 9070xt was clocking over 3300 at stock in Fallout76. Much better than my Gigabyte 9070xt in the wife's system. 265k vs 9800X3D with MSI Vanguard 5090: 9070xt vs 5090 on 9800X3D: 9070xt vs 5090 on 265k: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Up next is a break down and cleaning of my main rig and install the MSI AI1600T PSU along with the WV2Pro and DDR5 cooling mod. I plan on holding onto my Vengeance 9200 sticks in anticipation for Nova.....

Sadly the nature ofy work requires I sit behind the windshield but at the very least for now I do second shift so my commute is close to 20 minutes. Would be nice if I could get 7pm departure though so I could socialize but for now income is good and it appears they want to steer me towards engineer route which I do like the sound of :)