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Oh yeah I agree, I just enjoy dreaming from time to time, I personally cannot afford any of these CPU’s right now lol. Hopefully you find something soon though employment wise. I’m about to be right there with you. I’m ready to move jobs. I’ve been employed with same company for over 5 years now. Have been making the same money for the last 4 years of that, but my qualifications and workloads have changed substantially to doing more and more. It’s just not sustainable anymore.

New TRX50 Threadrippers are the absolute best chips available. Intel is supposed to be dropping their equivalent at some point. But nothing yet. I’d want one of the 9970X chips which are 32/64 cores. And don’t forget the Threadripper 9980X 64/128, people are hitting 150,000 in R23 with those chips on air cooling at just 5.1Ghz, and they can push MUCH more on ambient custom water cooling. For $4,500 USD street price. Now, if someone is gaming and needs lots of CPU power, the Threadripper 9980X kinda sucks. Too many cores. And not really viable. Games just don’t handle it as well. I think Process Lasso might fix this though. This is where the 9970X 32/64 comes in, these chips clock super high. And they absolutely throw down in gaming with performance comparable to the standard 9950X Ryzen chip, and some random outlier results with even better performance than the 9950X. This is where the 9970X will outpace the 9980X though. I have seen a comparison and it gets oddly obliterated in the 1% lows. Even in heavy multithreaded loads we see the 9970X pull ahead of the 9980X. This makes the 9980X only about +25% faster on average. So I really think the best balance is 9970X (32/64) I do not recommend the Threadripper pro chips at all for any gaming due to the OCTO channel memory which will double bandwidth, but also double the latency. (who would? lol)😂 I think the entry level TRX50 is excellent with amazing future upgrade ability for YEARS. I love these big brute systems. My current Dominus Extreme and w3175x performs great in gaming and all of my work apps. But that’s the end of the line. There is no newer higher core count drop in CPU which is unfortunate. And that’s where I think a TRX50 motherboard really shines. Someone could snag a 24/48 9960X for now, and in 5 years they could drop in a 9980X when it’s more in range price wise lol.

Absolutely lol. Those cheaper 90's will leak. I have seen some brand-new one's leak if any sideways pressure is applied due to weight of a hose or something, and the swivel gets STIFF. The last time I had one leak, I found a small puddle on the back of my 5090FE when it was on air cooling. The scary thing is, I am still using some of them in my build in random places lol. (Those have not shown any signs if leaking and my loop fortunately holds air, but if I could go back I probably would not have used the cheaper 90’s) @Reciever Maybe add another pump D5 with the basic top only in the near future in case one fails. The extra pressure and flow allow you to not depend on running 1 single pump at 100% for good performance. Those big rads like flow. Then you can run more pumps and lower speeds or on a PWM profile. Mine are setup where all (4) pumps fall to 20% speed when the CPU is below 50c. If CPU goes over 50c, it means my GPU is pushing some frames, or I am running a load lol. With 1 pump, you can run it on the auto/lower PWM RPM, let the water temp reach equilibrium under a full system load, then unplug the pumps PWM, the pump will shoot up to max RPM or max flow rate. You will then see the temps drop on all of your components. This alone tells us more flow will be beneficial. My system still does this with (4) pumps all running at a lower speed on auto with PWM plugged in. Then if I crank them to 100%, I will see everything fall in temps. That's a nice kit you have assembled in the cart though!

There is not, but I cannot count the tubes of standard liquid metal I have used over the years. And it does not last long. Of course it will last some time, but it loses its cooling ability. And the first sign is loss in stability. It feels just like degradation.

No more stickers! Looks Much better. I don’t know why I have always left those on laptops before.

Anyone using Liquid Metal needs to try some of the Supercool Liquid Metal. It has changed my mindset completely. The stuff just doesn’t degrade like other Liquid Metal’s do. It doesn’t perform quite as good as Kryonaut Extreme, but longevity is the best I have ever seen with Liquid Metal. And I will easily take the +2c worse temps for better longevity. This is one of the main reasons I have not hard lined my 5090. Radiator Fan speed really doesn’t matter if your delta sucks. And so far I have held 8c@400 watts and 12c@600 watts. This is +565@935mv the fans are all turning 1300rpm which results in a 38c GPU temps, with 30c water. It has already been 3 months since I applied the Liquid Metal. I have re-pasted Liquid Metal so many times, and degraded Liquid Metal so many times. This stuff is really a miracle TIM! I also re-pasted my Acer Predator 18” 4090 laptop with it too. Excellent LM. It’s like the mix is different on this LM, and drying out or any reaction from gallium and air is slowed or doesn’t happen at all. I’ll be curious to see what 6 months looks like. But typically for me at 3 months mark any other Liquid Metal would already be degraded and a loss in temps or instability is present at the previous overclocks.

The new Threadripper CPU’s are so awesome, been doing some reading on those lately. They have improved IPC so much so, that I do not think it’d be even worth picking up a prior gen Threadripper 7960/7970/7980. This is how the new chips stack up in Cinebench. TR 9960X CB R23: 59,000 stock TR 9970X CB R23: 77,000 stock TR 9980X CB R23: 113,000 stock (People with custom loops are overclocking 9980X 64/128 chips to 5.5Ghz on all cores which is just pure insane to imagine how crazy that is and how over the top beastly) Apparently the 9970X is the sweet spot. Now here’s where it gets interesting. These chips can run fast DDR5. People were already pushing DDR5 6200-7000 with the older 7960x/7970x/7980x. The new Threadripper 9000’s run DDR5 6400 natively and apparently the IMC is worlds better. And they can easily handle DDR5 7200 right out of the box. Tuning will probably net you closer DDR5 8000 or more. What a shame DDR5 prices have gone hay wire. Anyways, AMD Threadripper is sick.

I know man a 2TB iPhone is pretty wild. People do not believe this, but Verizon had a promotion and the 2TB model was $599.99 over 3yr period. 🤯 Anyways, I don’t think I’m gonna change my rig yet. I play 4K, so I’m always GPU bottlenecked anyways. But I’m gonna be watching the upcoming hardware. The 9950XD2, and 290K, and hopefully Intels new LGA1900 platform? I’m content for now at least.

Physx support is suddenly back to RTX50 series GPU’s. Very odd seeing this. Only thing I can think, is maybe Jensen him self sat down to play Metro Exodus EE, and was like “WTF Where’s the Phys-X support for my RTX PRO 6000?” And he makes a phone call, and they send him a new driver enabling Phys-X 32bit on Blackwell GPU’s. And he goes right back to playing his game. 😂 I seriously can’t see them enabling this older tech for any other reason. 🤷‍♂️ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/nvidia-reinstates-32-bit-physx-support-for-rtx-50-series-as-part-of-its-latest-game-ready-driver-rollout-9-titles-included-in-initial-release

This was Gskill 8200’s at 8800c40 Ycruncher HT on, and only 1.485v. They would do the 90min as well. They could also do it with less voltage. These same rams on another CPU would require 1.485v for just 8600 speeds and still not run VST lol. My Gskill 7200’s responded identically only needing +0.010 more mv. After seeing this, I learned that most DDR5 kits are ahead of their time. And our CPU’s are not. 🤭

Be careful not to fall in the expensive binned ram rabbit hole. Most all rams can run 8600c36 or 9000c40 if IMC allows. If the motherboard will boot at high speeds in bios, this means your ram sticks and motherboard are capable of such a speed. So if it post in bios or windows but it’s not stable for daily, your IMC is the limit here. If it doesn’t load in to the bios, then it’s a memory/board issue and better memory/board/voltages/timings might help. I’m on a 17Pro max 2TB. I had a 13 pro max for over 4 years previously though, gave to my son. iPhones will survive the good fight lol. 😂

@electrosoft Did you upgrade to the iPhone 17 Pro Max yet?

I set up a drain on my most recent build mainly due to size and weight of my case. It’s very easy to maintain though. And I use QD3’s with the drain. So I can flush without moving my PC. I think the most important thing is just to flush everything out really well before setting up the loop. Otherwise all of those tiny debris will collect inside of your cold plate fins. And you will see them after 2 months in your cold plate. And be like (What is that) This reduces flow rate as well. Then you gotta tear everything down and take the block apart. So I advise to go heavy on the flushing before assembly, and after. Another thing I recommend is running more than 1 pump. If one fails, it won’t even matter. Not just that but the 5090’s LOVE high pressure flow with ambient water. I might demonstrate in a video. I run (4) pumps currently, and while you don’t need that many, it’s nice because we can run them all low and slow and maintain high pressure in the loop, until the wattage starts getting up there. You won’t be disappointed with two pumps that’s for sure. One more thing: Many people do not realize this, you can use whichever G1/4 on the rads as the inlet or the outlet, it just does not matter. However, depending on the port you use, make sure the fans are blowing the correct direction based on which port on the rad is the inlet and which side is the outlet. I learned a lot about this from HWlabs guru on overclock.net, It makes a difference. There is a very small water temp advantage by setting this up the correct way. Make sure your loop does not leak. It’s not like what people think and water comes dripping or leaking out, soft tubing is easy and unless you receive a fault radiator or fault block it’s not gonna leak. But you can have a leak and never see water at all, but what happens is your loop is pressurizing your system with air and you’ve got tons of micro bubbles everywhere. Instead of water coming out and dripping it leaking, it’s slowly pulling air in. And removing the fill port sounds like opening a soda bottle lol. I know you said you were running a smaller self contained setup, but still all of this stuff applies and may be useful for you. Another thing is, don’t cheap out on fans. After doing this you’re gonna end up expanding pretty fast afterwards probably. That’s what happen to me. I bought an expandable AIO, and went haywire from there.

Nice to see you are watercooling. That’s an expensive hobby on its own, at least the initial investment is. What cooling components are you gonna be using? What are you putting this in? Yeah that sucks about DDR5. I have been ignoring this hobby completely. Other than using my components. I am not all that up to date on the latest. I’m telling you a 5090Ti X2 could have dropped, and I would have had no idea. Looks like Intel released some of their new server chips though. They have these new fabrication Xeon 6 chips they have a X3D like cache as well. You can also pick from two product stacks this time around: P core only version, or E core only version in a server/workstation socket 4710. It looks to me like they are not giving up yet, and are taking their time before releasing the new mainstream products. https://www.provantage.com/intel-pk8072006347700~7ITEP9KR.htm

Dang, DDR4 actually is overpriced nowadays. I was able to get my 16x16GB of G.Skill 3200c14 Bdie for around $500 back when I built the Dominus Extreme rig last year. Running 192GB or 12x16gb sticks at 3800 c14-14-14-34 with 1.560v, I am running 2T for daily which is stable. But oddly enough it can bench/game with all of this ram at 1T. Blistering fast though. And the latency is killer good at around 55ns. I love my DDR4. 💯 I think the main downside is people do not realize how much power high capacity DDR4 uses when at this voltage. Running something like TM5 pulls like 140+ watts for the memory alone. I found the Clevo 4090 mobile bios on techpowerup VGA data base. And I just flashed it. My brightness controls work in SDR and HDR again now!

Yes I would love to! Thank you.

Here is my 4090 laptop with new bios. Hard to believe my desktop 5090 is so much faster than this. But this gaming experience out of this laptop is amazing. http://www.3dmark.com/sn/10199710

I did not shunt mod it, was going to few months ago but got lazy on the idea, I just flashed it to another 175w 4090 bios . The stock bios was just really weak. Unfortunately with Windows SDR on, it broke my screens brightness controls in Windows and on keyboard. So I have to leave Windows Auto HDR on all the time to control brightness now, since SDR brightness is too dim and turning it up does not work. May have to try another bios. But for the first time ever, auto HDR actually looks useable. Not really sure why it’s faster. I have been on 581.94 hot fix for a few days now.

Hey everyone! Still rocking the same system. My 5090 has been strong! Hard to think its already been 8 months since I got it. 6 months of that has been shunted for 1200w. It has been getting rung out hard though. I essentially lost interest in talking about this hobby and just been using it for work/gaming daily. 😆Something has pulled me back in to talking about the hobby though. I suppose I needed a break from the daily PC discussion lol. On another note, tonight I flashed my Acer Predator 4090 18" laptop to some random unverified Asus 4090 Laptop bios from techpowerup, and this thing picked up tons more performance. I am able to pull 175w steady in games, I could never do that before, usually 150-160w before. So, I checked my bios, and apparently my bios was the 1215Mhz clock/ 1590 Boost. And the bios I flashed to now is a 1590 clock/ 2040 boost. My GPUz said mine was a 175W bios, so thats why I never tried this before. So, I flashed out of curiosity. And it's just blowing the doors off of the prior bios that was on this Acer Predator. I am not really sure why. But I can run another +250Mhz on the core. It is really odd. Anyways, hello everyone!

Anyone with a shunted 5090’s cook a cable yet? Mine has been solid running daily still. I think we can have a decent future with the 12v2x6. I feel like this cable is “Finicky” and so long as we’re all aware of that everything will be alright. 🔥

Who would have ever thought that a 5090 even at 0.895mv undervolt still uses over 630 watts for 1080P Furmark! Lol. Furmark is excellent for stability testing very quickly. (If your card is shunt modded that is)

8K gaming beast right there. I do miss the old days though. I wish it would go back to when majority of people didn’t know what PC gaming was lol. GPU’s sat in stock on Newegg for low prices. I know it really sucks. Intel was always the best. I think they need to release a TRUE 60K+ R23 BEAST-Zilla mainstream chip, and Better gaming performance than 14900KS, and they will win back the crowd love right away. I feel like everyone would want one. I’m waiting on Intel to turn it around. I still run an Intel rig daily my self. Not really sure what their plans are for HT.

I want to see the new Intel Nova lake with 52 cores. It’s going to have 32 E-Cores, and 16 P-Cores. This would be brutally fast! Even if it had Raptor lake IPC, and was locked down, it would be scoring 57,750 if the P Cores ran at 5.5Ghz, and the E cores ran at 4.3Ghz. (I’d still want one lol) I can only assume it would probably operate at similar or maybe lower speeds to save on power and run cool-ish. So, it would be an absolute BEAST either way. Such a chip would be amazing.

I fixed my cracked 5090 FE block! RTX 5090 FE Block Plexi repair, and re-mounting!

I’m playing Dying Light The Beast, this game is very well optimized! Better graphics than Border Lands 4. Game: Dying Light The Beast Release Date: 9/18/2025 Graphics: Maxed out Resolution: 4k Technology: DLAA Native 4K Frame Gen: x4 Frame Rate: 450-500fps Thoughts: Ridiculous. Because my CPU is completely stock by accident when turning on my PC this morning, so it’s at 3.8Ghz and it’s old as hell. 🤣 I believe this company learned well, because hardly anyone could play Dying Light 2 even with a 3090. My son is getting almost 200fps at 1440P maxed out graphics, with FSR frame Gen x2.