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duuuude 😄 but WAIT, no 9995WX? peasant! 🤣 what are ur plans for this beastly setup? post some pics of the hardware and internals 🙂

Thought you all might appreciate a few photos I took from my own reference of the internals since it was my biggest interest on the redesign

Boo! Ghost from the dead saying hi.

Hey Papu, glad to hear that some of the heat is reaching you up north. Yeah, did some 5090/80 testing for Brandon (gizmosliptech), to demonstrate what this gen could be. Here a more recent run for the old gang: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/57674088

Oh no, it works with the reaper too, I don't need water cooling, I don't need water cooling 😄

If I decide to keep it I am going to. I do really like this Zotac Solid OC model. The aesthetics, build quality, size and performance compared to most of the other options is really good IMHO. Thank you. I will have to drop back to those drivers and re-run all of the benchmarks again. I suspect my Sky Diver and Fire Strike and Time Spy scores will also likely go up using old (better) drivers. The newer ones are mostly gamer crap I think. Thank you. I paid $2399 for it. Cheaper than we have seen AIB 5090 selling for, but still probably not worth it when I stop to think about it. Nice GPU, but way too much money for how little gain (related to price) that I am seeing over my 4090. I dusted off the portable AC unit sitting in the garage and parked it in front of the GPU and that made a huge difference in boost clock. I can't catch brother @Papusan with his arctic temperatures. His max load temps are about 15-20°C lower than mine and that really makes a big difference. Anyhoo, so far I am running like 3300-3325 MHz core and that is losing around 200 MHz on account of the higher load temps, but pretty much pegged at the 600W limit (605-610W). Maybe if I keep it and block/shunt/chilled water it, I might be able to give him more of a run for the money. Its too close to stock behavior right now to get within slapping distance. https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878520 https://www.3dmark.com/sw/2591206 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/5878519 https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3594837 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_vulkan/submissions/5878517 https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7957241 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/5878516 https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7957336 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_solar_bay/submissions/5878515 https://www.3dmark.com/sb/326913 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_time_spy/submissions/5878513 https://www.3dmark.com/spy/57999178 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/5878511 https://www.3dmark.com/fs/33672605 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_sky_diver/submissions/5878518 https://www.3dmark.com/sd/6526977

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! who is this guy and what happen to Mr.Fox?? All AMD rigs? Ryzen themed wallpaper? 🤣 BRENNER is Totally AMD fanboy’n it up in 2025. Hahaha. I’m just messing with you man lol. 😆 I’m about to jump to AMD soon my self. The new Threadripper 9960X has me drooling, and it’s the first time in years since original AMD Threadripper 1900X/1920X/1950X when I have really really wanted something from them like this. 🤩 You got to shunt mod and block that Zotac 5090. ASAP! But it’s a GREAT GPU. I don’t care if it’s Zotac or other brand, good price, good performance, let it rip! The 5090 is a great improvement over 4090. Very efficient! Better silicon, higher clocks, less voltage needed, better thermal transfer. The 32GB VRAM works great in a few high memory leak games I play, that still can’t fill up the VRAM. I can play for hours and will see 28GB VRAM utilized, and the 1% lows are butter smooth and no skips. For speedway you want 572.43 or 572.83, Steel nomad still loves 576.28 lol. Anyways, shunt mod won’t increase voltage it’ll just allow the max voltage to always be tapped as if the card is pulling 50 watts, but it’s really pulling 600+ watts, so it’s not throttling back the voltage anymore. You can exceed 600w in some heavy games and benches even with just 0.895mv on these monsters. 🔥you will notice the power limit can kick in much sooner than 600w and it’s all for the sake of maintaining stability trying to fit in that small power envelope, so without shunt it’s forcing down clocks and voltages. Either way, it’s a great GPU and a solid upgrade over the 4090. Especially for brutally heavy gaming like many games upscaled to 8K, the 5090 just chews right through it with ridiculous memory bandwidth. Pricing isn’t bad nowadays. It looks like you got a good deal! As far as shunt modding, I would go for soldering (2) 2mohm shunts or maybe even (2) 1mohm shunts. 2mohm will give you 1200w max, and 1mohm will give you 1800w max. The thing is you may see phantom throttling much sooner than that so the more the better. Reliability is top notch! No melting cables here. I trust it 100%! All buttoned up in a closed case with some serious GPU power being put out in BF6 at 3.3Ghz on the core! I’ve had mine since March, and have been shunted since June. It has been 100% reliable with no 🔥🔥🔥🔥

3090 vs 4090 vs 5090.... that 3090->4090 uplift was crazy but 5090 is still good too.... @Talon Jarrod really loves the Acer Predator Helios 16S 275hx + 5070ti ...... 🤣 5070ti is capped to 115w as is the CPU to ~95w and a 230w PSU tops comes with it. It scores lower across the board vs similar, bigger, stronger versions of that same combo. Curious to see what the 5060 version has in it and what it is capped to on the GPU when it finally arrives.

Happy Anniversary and congratulations. We live in a day where marriages that last the test of time like ours have is becoming more rare and commitments don't mean as much as they used to. Getting old sucks, but getting old with the person you have given your life and your heart to make the years go by faster and with more happiness. We will celebrate 39 years in November and it seems so weird that so much time has passed so fast. Sometimes I forget that I am approaching 63, but my real life started only 39 years ago. May the rest of your years together be filled with love and happiness.

You can see what changed here.... What is it to trade? Sell your soul, credibility, country and your principles for highest bid? This leadership is awful. Crawling on your knees for a trade talk with your enemies? For what? Disgusting. US can't even fulfill own needs of advanced AI chips yet they will allow Nvidia to sell 900.000 chips to China. What the hell is that? Give the man the boot.... @electrosoft you are spot on. "the devil is in the details". See also the signed letter in bolded text. Yep, they begging the US administration to keep up the chip ban. In short... The US government with today's administration selling their own country's security for pennies, to pay off for the lower taxes for billionairs and millionairs. Trump freeze on export restrictions to China reportedly in aid of trade talks — However, while companies that thrive on Chinese trade are keen to take advantage of this lull in economic hostilities, not everyone within the Trump administration is pleased. The Financial Times Reports that a letter signed by over 20 ex-US administrative officials has been sent to the Trump administration, urging it to reverse course on its tech export bans, especially with regard to Nvidia GPUs. "The decision to ban H20 exports earlier this year was the right one. We ask you to stand by that principle and continue blocking the sale of advanced AI chips to China as America works to maintain its technological edge," it reads. Of course Nvidia follow what they got from the US administration (Trump administration reversed the chip ban).... How stupid is this @Mr. Fox Giving the Green Light to build China as super power is perverse. People will regret what they put in the position. The history will show that Papusan have correct. As usual😐 Nvidia seeks extra 300,000 H20 GPUs to meet China's surging AI demand — places order with TSMC to meet unexpectedly strong interest __________________________________________________________________________________________ Today 29. July is my and my lovely wife's 30th wedding anniversary. Also known as a pearl wedding. That's something to celebrate🙂 Then the 5 years we lived together before that sunny and beautiful day we put on the wedding rings. So 35 years now together as couple. Oh' as the years have gone. A bit above two weeks and I'm passing 60 as well. The life go damn fast now. And faster and faster the older you become. At least the way I see it. And I'm sure many others also see it the same way as me. I wish the speed could be slowed down a bit. Oh'well, it's what it is.

Every % increase counts.... Linux Just Hit a Big Milestone in the Desktop OS Race According to Statcounter's June 2025 stats, spotted by TechSpot, Linux now has a 5.38% share of the US desktop operating system market, its highest-ever result. But though Linux is holding a bigger slice of the pie than ever before, OSes from tech giants like Apple and Microsoft still control the vast majority of the market. Microsoft's Secure Boot UEFI bootloader signing key expires in September, posing problems for Linux users

Yeah I watched this last night. I absolutely refuse to use Armory Crate. Last time was on the wife's system and pure laziness setting it up decided to give it another chance. She kept getting stutters and freezing in games and random BSODs. It was a clean install and the only difference was Armory Crate. I removed it and everything went back to working like normal. I installed it again as a test and the crashing and game issues returned. This was with as minimal of an install as I could get on there for RGB controls. I ended up just nuking the whole thing again and used SignalRGB and smooth sailing since. You definitely need AWCC to control the power modes. Balanced is king. CPU is almost to max and the 5070ti pulls 175w. I didn't even know a 5070ti could be rated this high. I thought it was 140w. In Overdrive mode the CPU pulls 170w+ and the GPU drops down to 140w. Everything just stays so cool. Hardware wise, Dell knocked it out the park this time but I agree with the forced updates. I'll have to check to see if there is an option in BIOS to disable BIOS updates. The redesigned AWCC isn't that mad or intrusive. What is intrusive is all the other Dell custom software crammed on there as always. The 5070ti in there performs like a 4080 mobile even down to the benchmarks. I used an Asus Strix 18 with a 13980hx in it and a 4080 before so performance is good. It can't touch the MSI A18 Raider's 23k+ 4090 Timespy with it's 18k+, but still gets it done. I wish they offered an 18" version of the Hydroc. I see it will have a 9955HX3D option soon which is nice! I expect the 9955HX3D to come in like the 7945HX3D and rule the roost..... 9955HX vs 275HX is a wash. Both are fantastic mobile chips:

Your nephew will (should) be super happy. Those are some decent upgrades from Uncle Electrosoft. ❤️ He should be commended for exploring Linux as a solution to the Micro$lop cancer dung OS. I am approaching the end of week #2 using Linux exclusively and only resorting to opening Windoze in a virtual machine when I need to do something that only PowerBI and Excel can do. As soon as I am done I shut it down. No regrets. If I didn't need to use those applications for work I would not even bother with the virtual machine. Kubuntu with Plasma 6 is fantastic. Very satisfied and even more impressed than I have been in the past with Linux. I'm so sick of the nonsense from the Redmond Retards. 25H2 is going to be the most vile strain of colon cancer to have ever emanated from their posterior orifice.

While trying "new things" with the desktop I built him a few years ago, my nephew managed to nuke all his drives (sans the one mechanical 1TB drive I put in there and told him to use it to backup everything important which he did) on top of his system running oddly. He was trying to learn how to install Linux and use Mint. The more he did the worse it got till eventually his mom dropped it off for rescue work. They live 2-3hrs away. I ended up upgrading his system with the components I picked up from gtz over on OCN: 12100f -> 13400f A380 -> 3060 12GB 128GB boot -> Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Gave it a most needed cleaning from head to toe (it was chock full of dust and dog hair), recert/tested all his components. Replaced a faulty Sata cable, discovered the distro he was trying to use failed sha256 checksum, created a proper mint distro install for him and reinstalled Windows 11 and made a proper dual boot Mint system for him along with reorganizing his data properly. He will be pleased. Games wise, this is a pretty decent upgrade since he games on a 25" Dell 240hz IPS 1080p display I gave him along with his system 🙂 I closed up my desktop. Glass and front panel back on signifying it is in final AMD boss form. The 9800X3D and 9070XT run cool enough that I only have the three AIO fans on the 420 as intake and everything else passively exhaust cooled and the case is so big and porous enough and the 9070xt doesn't pull the sun into orbit like my Astral 5090 did that temps are the same even after hours of gaming on the 9800X3D and 9070XT. In addition, my computer room doesn't turn into a 1970's sauna within an hour of playing.... I just can not get over how well the 9070xt handles the lows/fps when the CPU is being assaulted with all that player data. It can never soar as high as a 5080/4090/5090 when being fed properly, but in WoW how it handles the lows is most important and routinely in Raids, PvP and ORBs, utilization drops under 100% same as the other cards and that is where it shines.... One thing I do miss though is the locked 240fps in delves. That was just a super, silky smooth experience on the 5090. Fallout76 on the 5090 was beast mode too.

Mission accomplished! 🤣 (Out to dinner with the wifey tonight for her birthday)....... 5090 for $2054 total in my hand secured...... Foxtrot Tango Whiskey.... (That look when you refused to pay the stupid high prices, returned your Astral, and calmly waited and watch the market to drop and hoping to snag an Open box sub $2k).....

Someone snatched one of these up at Walmart for $1,124.99. But I’d still get it at $2000. Walmart is crazy lol.

lesson learned for the 6090: will not bother to spam refresh during launch, but rather lean back and enjoy the 5090 3-4 months longer until prices come down to normal levels 🙂 (watch me eat my words once the 6090 actually launches 😄)

If it is any consolation, I already wiped the stock install and did a optimized clean clean install and with just that Steel Nomad and Timespy at stock went from "good" to "excellent" in both. Dell always has the trash cookie cutter OS installs. Now to start dabbling with the BIOS CPU OC options and OC this 5070ti and see where we can take this finely milled piece of beauty. 🤣 Ugh, I was out of town a few months ago and we stopped at a random mall and they had another full on CROC STORE! I hissed at it and shielded my eyes from the horror! 🤣 Interesting fact, kids at my wife's school are banned from wearing these because they do not promote sure footing and can cause potential accidents or trips/falls. 🙂 This can mean only one thing! @Mr. Fox is keeping his 5090!! Now I feel like the odd man out!! I need to double down looking for a good open box deal or promo! If a good deal on a 5090 comes my way, I'll end up passing the 5080 down to the Mrs. and the 9070xt to my daughter as I have a whole pile of components to build out her new desktop or if she is leaning towards one of my full fledged gaming laptops one of those since I have like 7 of them again.....

BF6 Beta was such a TEASE! The game was INSANE. Now we cannot play anymore!!! 😭I got to rank 10 Can't wait for next weekend. This game needs to launch already! @Talon was hitting it harder than me lol. I wish I would have started playing it earlier. Anyways, it's amazing how useful cover is in this game. And spray someone with a M4 takes a little practice as first. But you can get the pattern down after some practice. GREAT GAME! Game was completely butter smooth. Maybe once per hour you would feel the tinniest stutter, but not enough to care. And it could have been because my frame rate was like sub 400 with x4 Frame gen on. Anyways. Fantastic game! It feels FASTER moving than other Battlefield titles. Kinda like a mix between COD and BF2042. I really like it! We can play again on 8/14 THRU 8/17 Can't wait.

BINGO

This one is better.

oh mymy, what have we got here? 😄 welcome to the club bud, curious to see what u can squeeze out of that card. how much did u pay for it? hope u got a good price. yeah, the GB Master vBios seems to be the best if you still need proper fan control. if you dont, then the waterforce xtreme seems to be quite nice, although i dont have any personal experience with that. 1.07V max vcore is quite nice, congratz on that!

That has been true on all of my shunt mods. Not as much as I wanted it to go up, but enough to get a higher core overclock. But, I think they have locked down more stuff on the 5090 FE, which might be why. My Port Royal score also went up about 700 points with the same overclock just by switching to the AORUS Master vBIOS. https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3593815 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/5878251

Yep, that's one of them. If you shunt it, you may also find like many your voltage max will also go up too in tandem albeit some stay the same. I think @tps3443 voltage didn't go up when he shunted or minimally.

So, I flashed the Gigabyte AORUS Master 5090 vBIOS and got an instant boost in performance. @Papusanand @jaybee83 isn't that the one you both decided was the best? I tried the Extreme Waterforce version and it disables the fans since that card does not have fans. Same exact overclock settings as the previous post, just different firmware. If keep this it will get blocked and shunt-modded because the voltage and power limits are crippling it. https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/139535603 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878242?recalculate=true

Still slowly working toward finding the max core OC. Not there yet. This is with +300 core and +3000 memory. Max voltage is 1.070V. Temps are still great in spite of the little fans @Papusan mentioned. I might have to dust off the portable AC and see if the boost clocks will hold higher under load. https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/139527683 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878196

Yeah I've hit a personal wall in GPU pricing. When you're paying 2-3x the amount of all your other components just for the GPU, something has to give. Remember when the golden rule before was to grab the cheapest model and block it for those who run CLs? I'm ok with RGB as long as I can adjust or turn it off. Products coming with default rainbow pretty much forces users to use their data gathering software to control it to turn it off or to something more pleasing. Every RGB enabled item should ship in a default state of OFF. That should be mandatory and let the user choose if they want to turn it on. Yeah, it boggles my mind that some people can not see those with an absolutely clear and selfish, narcissistic, greedy agenda that are in it profit above all else while pushing a, "trust me bro" approach and try to isolate and make themselves the purveyors of truth and default to the "misinformation" label at every opportunity to push their platform. It is PAINFUL to watch. Dufus does it ALL the time.... I'm not a big BF fan so ah well but they use that to identify cheaters and ban their hardware primarily. As for the dual X3D CCD, would have been nice to have a dual binned X3D 9950X3D but it's not the end of the world.... 🤣 -------------------------------------------- In 5090 news: Newegg is now either offering promo codes and/or hardware tossed in to try and move cards ranging from 9700x to 7800X3D CPUs along with now MSI slashing prices on their cards. Clearly no one is buying enough and as reported, stockpiles are growing. Zotac Solid OC 5090 is still down to $2399.99 MSI Ventus is now down to $2499 w/ promo code MSI Vanguard 5090 is down to $2599 with promo code MSI Gaming Trio 5090 is down to $2799.99 and you get a free 7800X3D with it MSI Vanguard Launch Edition (8 months later??) is down to $2799.99 and includes a keyboard(!) Gigabyte Gaming RTX 5090 is down to $2809.99 and includes a free 7800X3D MSI Suprim Liquid finally dropped in price by $250 and is now $2999.99 MSI Suprim Air 5090 dropped in price to $3149.99 and includes a 9700x In addition, the Gigabyte Master (both white and black) and TUF OC are all down $60 (!) to $2939.99 now... those must be official as Best Buy also lowered the price on the Masters cards. Everything in stock.... Only cards that continue to remain out of stock now are the Gigabyte AIO/WB models.... And of course Asus continues to not lower the price of their Astrals holding steady at $3359.99 Microcenter 5090 pricing continues to fall: Zotacs down like Newegg, but also PNY ARGB down to $2499.99 Gigabyte 5090 gaming down to $2599.99 Like Newegg Trio down to $2649.99 Asus TUF OC down to $2799.99 One of the few rare times you can get overall better deals from Newegg than MC on 5090s atm with the promo codes and free hardware tossed in. Microcenter has serious markdowns on 5090 laptops.... That MSI 5090/285hx raider on launch was $4399.99 VERY glad overall (after the rush of early adopters) buyers are just flat out not buying this stuff and prices continue to trend down.

The A$uS tax is alive and well and even growing..... Top gear MSRP from Asus.... $450+ for an AIO.... $1k+ for a MB.... $700+ for a PSU $3359 for the Astral fits right into that pricing.... MSI is trying hard to be like Asus lately too with their pricing..... Damn right it is..... Still holding onto that SP109 14900KS because I know it can do 59/45/50 all day everyday for gaming on an AIO..... it has my 9070xt capped out in WoW at 1440p quite nicely on the wife's system. I'll probably never let it go and have it drive the wifey's system for quite some time. I might pick up an EVGA Dark Z690 or Z790 to fully complete her "Ode to EVGA" system when they are dirt cheap because I will say having run that 14900KS tuned on a Z790i lightning with TG 8400 DDR5 for quite some time tuned that DDR4 with the same 9070xt is now noticeably inferior even tuned 4000 CL15 or 4200 CL16 tight. --------------------------------------------- Dude is always hustling to sell his bundles or "PC Optimization classes" Monthly fees to join his discord.... Plenty of other tiers: $10/$20/$40/$75 per month $750/yr tier also gets you access to his PC Optimization class.... Or the class on its own for ~$400..... FC 48GB or 32GB DDR5 kits for $500..... $100 "another chance" to get unbanned from the community if you were banned.... MAX fps build lists with affiliated links.... $500 consults on your hardware..... Sheesh, dude is probably making a killing. Expect merch sooner than later on top of it. Still watch his videos though.... 🤣

I described my experience above, I did use a P5000 in a M6800 briefly to flash the vBIOS on it and I had no trouble with it being "discovered". @DynamiteZerg just joined up and he has a M6800 with a P5000 GPU (see posts above), apparently still in active use? It seems like it "should work" and I'm not sure what was going on in your case, if the GPU card wasn't actually dead. That said, any GPU upgrade beyond K5100M is an "unsupported" upgrade and brings the risk of unknown issues.

How much memory and storage does yours have installed? Maybe the temps with it maxed out could be higher than if it is only two SODIMMs and a single SSD. I could definitely believe quality control variance with the heatsink exists. Those should be using PTM7958SP from the factory along with their special VRAM putty. If yours has the 5070Ti mobile then I would also wonder if its using the same heatsink part as the 5080/5090 mobile variants. The latest one I have preordered is a Dell Pro Max 18 Plus. If it performs as listed on its spec sheet it could be a solid machine. Even better if their memory is set to gear2 when using 2x16GB instead of the aweful gear4 that the X580 and all other 2DPC laptops use.

Long time no see! How ya doing bro! Agreed, 5080 is absolutely not an upgrade in any way, shape or form over the 4090. Only path forward is a 5090. I just need it closer to $2k to make my common sense switch move to the "off" position. It flicked back on with the Astral just in time.... Yeah, those temps are crazy high for only pulling 142w unless you got the worse silicon sample known to mankind.... Refresher, here is my Alienware 18 pulling 170w and topping out at 68c: I do have an Acer Predator 16s Helios 275hx + 5060 for eval that arrived a few last Friday I just cracked open for comparison but that core differential is not normal unless like I said you ended up with a dud CPU sample. I know @win32asmguy was pulling over 200w in his unit. @Talon what is a sample spread on your desktop 285k? While voluntary, one thing I do like about Steam Survey is it just asks permission to scan your hardware to participate. It isn't self reporting which would greatly skew the data. AMD has stated several times they can't keep up with demand with the 9070xt so while Steam is one very large valid metric due to established users, we must entertain other reasons why AMD isn't showing up while also accepting Nvidia owns 93% of the overall PC gaming market as a harsh reality. Hopefully AMD keeps plugging away and chipping away at Nvidia like they did Intel and now look at Intel? In the tech sector, not innovating and resting on your laurels will leave you with the fishes. When Apple abandoned them back in 2020 I knew they were in trouble after refreshing skylake to death but behind the scenes I guess we didn't realize how bad things were slowly going. Alderlake was a breath of fresh air, but then it was back to super hot and heavy CPUs with no real innovation and just adding e-cores for another 2+ years while AMD continues to innovate and then we got Arrowlake which while it may not be a gamers delight is NOT a bad chip design and still games well enough. Novalake HAS to deliver......Intel has one last gasp to be relevant.... I would never have guessed Intel would be in this position 10 years ago wow..... For social media steam stuff, I don't really participate in any of that and kept myself hidden at all times.

Dang. Hello bro. +4 years at least since we crossed roads. Hope you're doing well. AMD needed a gaming chips (X3D) at Threadripper price point. Hope they don't break $1000. All depends on 52 core Nova Lake. It will be like this when Intel mixed the cores clusters for Arrow Lake. And they did it to reduce max temp for the more powerful P-cores. Desperate rescue of Intel: US to force TSMC to buy 49% to secure tariff advantages for Taiwan Intel credit rating hits rock bottom at Fitch, Intel sits at just two notches above junk status Hmmmm. 5080 and 5090 on Steam surway but none of the newest Radeon cards. And this is from Asia. 20% market share in an important Asian region and yet no penetration on Steam. This smells. South Korean GPU popularity market: 76% for NVIDIA, 21% for AMD and 3% for Intel

Death by a thousand papercuts! great to see you again bud 😄 what kinda system are you rocking these days? VERY curious to see what kinda CPU that will be, if at all. heres to hoping that they supercharged their chiplet binning so as to provide the same clocks or maybe even higher than non-X3D chiplets, to have the best of both worlds. plus no more need for any scheduler / process lasso shenanigans 🙂 looking forward to this! the thing to consider with AMD cards is that there are lots of regions in the world that barely have any AMD market penetration whatsoever. especially in emerging markets like south america or asia Nvidia is basically the only game in town. sso even if AMD kicks butt in the US and europe, that would barely equate to a drop in the proverbial bucket when looked at on a global scale vs. the preinstalled base and new sales in most other regions.

Eh, re:entertaining and such, people (even older people) tend to forget that older generations of music were also filled with their fair share of bands and acts in it just to make a quick buck. We tend to filter them out over time and only ever remember the greats. Everyone remembers the Rolling Stones for example, but how many people today remember The Monkees? They were one of the (many) bands that were just making a buck, just like how (to take an example I've mentioned in detail here before) Nickelback was when I was growing up as a kid, or hell Puddle of Mudd (even though I absolutely still blast Burry today). Nevermind music back then, as it does now, also was sending some kind of message, albeit exactly what changes depending on the then-current trends/issues/blah. Beatniks of the 1950s, hippies from the 60s/70s, punk/ska/etc from the 90s/00s, etc. -------------- Anyway, ironically enough a song that's been stuck in my head these last few weeks is exactly that: some artist expressing the history of a certain musical vocal program (Machine Love by JamieP):

Was fortunate enough to pick up a used MSI Shadow 3x OC 5080 for $825 shipped. Currently running the Asus 5080 Astral vBIOS. Zero coil whine again. I'm seriously starting to think it is the triplite + 1600w EVGA I installed at the same time in August 2022 that is helping out more than I realize. The odds of scoring ~12 GPUs in a row both AMD and Nvidia tested with various MBs and CPUs in the mix all producing low to no coil whine can't be a massive streak of luck. 🤔 It's pulling more and scoring more in WoW and fps have gone up by ~17% in my testing spot (that's good for anything not a 5090) vs 5080FE at launch: 5080 FE at 99% 4k Ultra max scoring ~122fps stock launch drivers: MSI 5080 Shadow 3x OC running Astral 450w vBIOS stock 577 drivers scoring 143fps: Driver refinements also adding in too. I could always install launch drivers and see how they compare to really differentiate the two.

Rules can be changed. Depends on what stupids you get in the countries Government/national assembly. Every day and internet will be filled with more trash. This is as expected @Mr. Fox Fake AI images are flooding the Internet. Here's how to recognize them Faking images, videos, and voice recordings has become much easier with the latest AI technology. But there are also new tools designed to recognize these fakes Maybe buy AI-infused smart glasses so you can look smart and enjoy the fake images on the go? Mark Zuckerberg says if you aren't wearing AI on your face you'll be at a societal disadvantage "I think in the future, if you don't have glasses that have AI - or some way to interact with AI - I think you're ... probably [going to] be at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people," said Zuckerberg

Cool to hear you are having these two for testing! Currently waiting for my Clevo X580 as all high performance options have issues for me this year so I am going for something where I do not expect top notch but just OK performance and what is very important a QHD panel, 4 memory and 4 SSD slots 🙂 I would suggest to use Throttlestop power limits to even out power consumption in a comparison as for some reason MSI never sets meaningful power limits for its laptops and often goes up to 220W for the CPU alone that cannot be sustained in normal operation. Looking at the Raider and Alienware cooling solutions I would expect the Alienware to be able to pull anywhere from 15 to 30W more than the MSI at a given temp and noise level so a more meaningful comparison would probably be with the MSI being limited to somewhere between 150 and 170W via Throttlestop. As for fans I have never really used automatic fan curves on MSI as they are just very bad and that was starting with the GT72. These days I strongly suggest Feature Manager and a custom fan curve - that works really well and prevents the fans from being annoying all the time.

Not quite, that article the other day was based on manipulated data. While AMD has definitely gained market share in server, they're definitely not at 50%

I'll take a look later when I get a chance to really play with it hopefully sooner than later. Not really sure it needs any type of repaste atm but we will see. For example, just recently had the chance to meaningfully put the Raider through the ringer from top to bottom with the new July BIOS and newest MSI Center to get the fans under better control but it may need a repaste/PTM because the CPU runs pretty toasty. On the other hand, this Alienware is running ice cold in comparison. Even in full overdrive mode pulling as much as it wants, it caps out at ~170w, temps cap out at 68 and it scores 38368. Compare that to the Raider w/ a 285k out of the box needing some love. Overheating like crazy, pulling 200w+ and only scoring ~35k in R23. Could be cooling, TIM and a bit of silicon lottery at play on my end. Timespy balanced with fans not even really reving up CPU topped out at 80 pulling ~102w and GPU topped out at 62c pulling 175w. Real test is when I settle in for an extended session of WoW and FO76 where I expect the Raider to beat it clearly in WoW and flat out trounce it in FO76 because of X3D and FO76 ideal combo is X3D + Nvidia. I would need overheating/high temps to even want to repaste with the temps I'm getting. Running in balanced and gaming, I am just gobsmacked at how quiet it is even with the 5070ti pulling 175w. Just seems odd that before recently meeting with trump, trump wanted to break up Nvidia, enforce pre-existing restrictions from the previous admin (which was an addition to his term one restrtictions) and add more down the line. But after the meeting? Singing his praises, lifted pre-existing H20 AI restrictions and is buddy buddy with him including at a recent AI summit....why is that? So which is it right now in this scenario? Is Jensen the problem? trump the problem? both? Maybe a bit too much anti-china sentiment? It isn't logical or objective thinking to think you can just shut down a country economically with a blunt instrument like China which is massive. Looking at Jensen's background, he barely spent any meaningful time in Taiwan before moving out of the country with his family as a child. I wouldn't attack him on his upbringing or origins, but corporate greed? That's fair game.

First try, its a beast. 😆Cooling it with Alphacool Eisblock XPX Pro 1U in a 2U rack chassis, its loud as hell but it will be part of my homelab rack in the basement. Probably will move it in a 4U chassis like the Alphacool ES 4U ServerRack where i can use bigger fans and will be quieter :). Doing around 130 W on win idle, need to check in Zorin OS linux aswell. But didn exceed 65 celsius in cinebench. Paired with only 64gb 5600mhz DDR ECC Ram.. will buy some more but ECC ram is expensive as hell right now. Need more cores? 🙂

Looking around this Alienware's BIOS and it looks like it has some overclocking functionality. I flipped the switch to see if it was enabled and it is so that's the next fun time seeing how stupidly cool this CPU runs even in overdrive mode. Dial in the CPU and AB and see where this modest 5070ti (aka 4080) can go. No option to disable BIOS updates (just option to disable downgrades), so for now I'll have to put a stop to that through update settings.

9995WX scored a whopping 173K in Cinebench R23, LOL. 🤣 Around 26% faster than its predecessor. 5.0GHz on 96 cores.

One of the reasons I have so many drives on my computers is that I loathe partitions and multipurpose drives. Both of my desktops have drives with a W10 LTSC NVMe for my work OS, a W10 LTSC NVMe for my "not work" OS, a W11 NVMe crash dummy OS to occasionally re-validate my hatred for W11 and a Linux NVMe. Beyond that I single-purpose other drives as well. A drive for storage of work-related files. A drive for personal file storage. Drive(s) for games. A drive for Macrium Reflect images. A scratch drive for temporary "garbage" files. My personal preferences rarely ever change, but my "needs" have and now I need Windows less than ever. There are only two applications my job requires that only run on Windows (Excel and PowerBI). They only function on Windows and there are no fully functional Linux equivalents. My needs for work have changed over time. For a very long time (about 35 years) almost everything I did for work necessitated the use of Windows. But today (the past 5 years) the vast majority of my work is performed in a web-based environment. I'm not benching any more. I seldom game, and I am losing interest in that. In no small part because I have a narrow preference in genres and there are very few titles released that hold any interest for me. We are all creatures of habit with preferences that are often shaped by bias and opinion. To some degree, some more than others, we equate preference with need. Distinguishing the two is often challenging for us. My extreme contempt for what Windows has become is a major driving factor behind my pursuit of a Windoze-free life. This has brought about significant shifts in my personal preferences that never would have occurred otherwise. Being a rebel that thrives on resistance and rejects anything resembling command and control, that derives a high degree of personal satisfaction in defiance of status quo and deliberate in demonstrating malice and extreme prejudice toward ideas and concepts I do not approve of, I am finding Linux is a better fit. It nurtures that rebel beast inside of me, whereas Winduhz is evolving into a source of antagonism, wrath and rage against the machine. By nature, I actually like that.

CachyOS installed without a hitch on the X870E AORUS Master. Working great. Still rocking Kubuntu on the Strix X870E-E. Week three without using Windoze except for in a VM when it is unavoidable. Not missing anything Micro$lop has to offer, which is close to nothing.

AI-generated legal filings are making a mess of the judicial system Honestly, who didn't see this coming? Legal experts say it's only going to get worse...

Clean connector is fine, they just needed to balance the wires like they did to start with the 3090 and with a warning if it got to unbalanced to plug the cable back in or replace it.

I've been quietly putting an Alienware Area-51 18 2025 sent to me through its paces and Dell/Alienware has an absolute winner on their hands this time around. If the BIOS was at least somewhere between Asus and MSI/Prema for customizing, I'd declare it near perfect and their first worthy 18" since the Alienware 18 I had w/ the 4940mx many moons ago. One downside for many is the lack of an mLED or OLED display. On my laptops, I'm fine without either and sticking with good 'ole IPS. This one is rated for up to 500nits. I could only get a 5070ti variant but beggars can't be choosy and I'm not going to look a gifted horse in the mouth. MSI could learn a few things about cooling. How it is able to handle 170w+ CPU power and also allow the 5070ti to pull up to 175w and make that level of noise and stay that cool is damn impressive. Zero overheating anywhere. Build quality is the best I've encountered in an 18" laptop in years. Much more solid than the Acer Predator 18, MSI 18 4090 or Scar Strix 18 4080 I've used or tested in the past. Imagine if/when they find a way to allow you to properly undervolt the Ultra 9 275HX in this thing.... It's already hitting ~38k in CB23 in balanced mode. Loving all the ports on the back now except for a card reader and headphone jack on the side. 5070ti is hitting 18k+ in Timespy out of the box. Can't touch the 23k+ of my MSI and it's 4090 but it does it much quieter. Decent review of the 5080 model:

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