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My motherboard has been okay, I can’t really find fault the board primarily because my Liquid Metal was gone completely, and my cold plate was completely clogged. I think my BSOD’s in windows and weird system issues not loading windows just messed something up momentarily. After cleaning my cold plate, and installing new Liquid Metal, pulling battery, I was back in business. Maybe it’s Intels new Microcode that is causing this. I read something about that Intel latest microcode causing BSOD’s.

I’ll play around with it today. My whole system fell apart recently stability wise. I kinda let it go in to the abyss of normal life and using it for just work and no play. Then it just started crashing left and right under normal loads with DDR5 8800. And CPU freezes in R23. My SP rating actually dropped in the bios to SP96 Global lol. It said my E-Cores were like SP60 😂 (Never seen anything like this before) (Not even kidding) (1st) issue: Super Cool Direct Die cold plate was clogged completely. (2nd) issue: Liquid Metal was hard as stone. Oops. I put new LM, cleaned my direct die fins, put all back together SP rating said the same thing. I pulled the chip again and pulled the battery on the motherboard and it finally came back to life as an SP104. And it’s solid again yay 🙂. Seriously though, I thought my cpu just up and fell over on me. But this SP104 is still a beast. And she’s back to 100%. This really was strange seeing a SP just up and go down on only the E-Cores. Temps were always pretty good during all of this. So I’m not sure why it happen.

I know they are awesome. I have a MacBook Air 13” I got the 16GB of ram and 1TB of storage. I can run it from morning to night for all of my work stuff on just battery. So long as you have a back up machine for when you wanna run some more demanding games, it’s really all you need.

I love the M1 chip. I have one. All of that power on a machine with no fans going at all is awesome. Its greatest ability though, is the M1 chip is just as fast unplugged with a nearly dead battery VS. if it is plugged in on wall power with a full charge.

I only do this every few years. I enjoy it while I can. I can remember each recent gaming event in order too lol. These games take years to make and launch, and once they do I game like crazy until I get bored with the titles. I hardly ever play games most times, and mostly not at all. A lot of games are chintzy and small and uninteresting. While some games can really keep you engaged. I may be missing some titles, but below are some recent ones where I spent hours and hours and hours gaming simultaneously. Most games may have my attention for like 1-20 minutes then it’s dropped forever lol. 2003 (Morrowind Elderscrolls) 2007 (Fallout 3) 2010 (Fallout New Vegas) 2011 (Skyrim) 11/2015 (Fallout 4) 02/2018 (Kingdom Come Deliverance) 11/2018 (Red Dead Redemption 2) 12/2020 (Cyberpunk 2077) 9/2023 (Starfield) (What’s next?)

Fallout 4 was a mess CPU wise. It had no idea what to do. One minute your at 99% GPU usage, spin around near outskirts of Diamond city and your GPU usage drops to 45% and your frames go with it. I never could fix it. The games engine just didn’t know how to use a processor. I’m just glad this game is not like that. Anyways, I have 25 hours of playtime so far on my save game lol. It has been lots of fun! Heck, I have been playing it off and on all day long. Seeing the 7900XT performance makes me regret not grabbing one before when they were super cheap. But oh well, maybe Nvidia can work some magic for us with a new driver, enough people are complaining that something might just happen. Hooking my character up nicely.

The fighting is some of the best. I’ve been in moments where I go in a building and I’m fighting like 10 space pirates. And it’s different everytime you load that game and fight the same guys. I will load my game and do it all again just because it’s a blast. There isn’t loads of that, but you can go find it. The action is great when it’s happening. The game is very solid. I put like 8 hours in it just yesterday.

I got too much invested in this game makes me feel sick lol. First is game pass which charges $17.99 per month. I installed the game, then saw with the deluxe edition I can play 5-6 days before launch. So then I paid the $34 dollars and upgraded to the deluxe edition since I already had game pass I got a discount. (Turns out this method didn’t work, upgrading to deluxe doesn’t provide early access, and I could not refund this) so I then had to pay the full $103 with tax for the actual Deluxe edition. So I am at $154 dollars so far just to play the game early. 🤣 The game is great though. It takes some scratching the surface. And the graphics are actually really good.

Level 12 in Starfield so far! While there are many aspects to the game that I didn’t like at first. The game has my attention and it has really grown on me. I play it and enjoy it for many hours at a time. I haven’t had a game to dump endless time in to like this. The game is solid! No complaints with performance either. I’ve bumped my DLSS slider to 80% of my 4K resolution (Looks far better than 67% DLSS), and I still maintain over 60FPS at all times, with shadow quality on high instead of ultra. (Worthy trade) I feel like I’m playing a new version of Fallout 4 with slightly better graphics and engine. Nothing ground breaking in this game. I honestly would have preferred if Bethesda kept it in dev for like 2-3 more years and gave us the whole experience. But I guess we gotta wait for ES6 for all that goodness. Either way it’s a good game, and much better than Cyberpunk 2077. I did beat Cyberpunk 2077… But after the story I just couldn’t get in to it. And they had that bubble you were always in and no action happened outside of this invisible bubble. You could not snipe people at all, and no bombing cars from further away. It was so silly.

It does kind of suck having to stay on top of the upgrade wagon if you always want that peak performance. Sometimes it’s nice to just use something for what it is, to get the job done. I started getting in to shooting rifles as a hobby, and I built a rifle with a nice $2K scope on top, it’s nice knowing it won’t be obsolete in 4-5 years or even 10+ years haha. We aren’t going out and buying new cars every single year. We typically use what we have. And even now, having the latest and greatest still doesn’t always pan out. Especially seeing what the 7900XT/XTX does against 4080s/4090’s in AMD optimized games like Starfield. Even if we do have the best hardware wise we aren’t always gonna get the best driver and optimization service from our brand of choice. I know the AMD guys are enjoying their tech right now considering how a 6800XT competes at a stock RTX3080 level performance in this game right now lol. PS: My first ATI GPU was a ATI 9600XT and then a ATI 9700 Pro soon after, I was too young to afford the Nvidia 6800 Ultra or ATI 9800XT. Back then we could do a lot with bios flashing though. I remember flashing a X850 Pro to a X850XT with a floppy disc.😂

I’ve got right at 150 hours on that OLED monitor I got some months back. No issues whatsoever. It really leaves all visual and fidelity problems that a traditional monitor would have at the door. And yeah they are like kinda dumb little issues that most people would laugh at or not mind with traditional monitors and TV’s. If anyone is curious, those issues are light bleed, light glow, poor viewing angles, and not being able to see the color black but instead dark gray. Oled and mini led over come these and really making gaming a vibrant experience.

I’ve had some time to get adjusted to the game. I have disabled motion blur, everything else is maxed out though. DLSS is on quality, while running 4K resolution. I have enabled rebar through Inspector tool as well. I typically get 60-70fps easy out in the more demanding open worlds or cities. Caves are about 85-120fps. This game totally maxed out with quality DLSS is easily 60+ FPS at all times though. With the 3090 being a 4K DLSS GPU, I imagine lower tier GPU’s shouldn’t have any trouble running 1080P/1440P and DLSS on top while still getting 57-67FPS range easily. Aka: 3070/3070Ti/3080 etc. The DLSS mod isn’t really mandatory. And it doesn’t offer any significant performance gain. Just a better image quality over FSR2 is what I’ve seen. Forcing rebar was good for +4FPS Installing DLSS mod +2 FPS NVCP picture quality “High Perf” +2 FPS Disable motion blur +3FPS Heavy GPU overclock/power limit + 6FPS ^ Real world 17 FPS boost for me. YMMV. No 4090’s here, so I was trying to get every frame and maintain a 60+ 4K gaming experience.

I’m amazed how fast that 10850K is against the 5800X3D. Just gotta say it!

Starfield gameplay at 4K Ultra DLSS Quality

It certainly feels like it after sitting on top of 8 different motherboards/builds and lots of gaming under its belt. Haha.

I am using the DLSS mod (Just installed it) with all graphics settings maxed out. Film grain turned down a bit, and motion blur off. PS: Turning off motion blur completely gives a nice FPS bump. 50% resolution slider is balanced DLSS. 67% resolution slider is Quality DLSS. I am getting like 58-70FPS avg with Quality DLSS 67%, and forced ReBar. Looks great and amazing performance from a tired old 3090 Kingpin. FPS has never dipped below 57FPS, very acceptable for 4K on this setup. Image quality is looking real GOOD!!! Now, to just understand the game a little better lol.

Awesome!!! Thanks guys!!! I just installed DLSS, and it looks great! Runs super good on such an old GPU.

The game is absolutely great so far! I have disabled dynamic resolution scaling and just run native 4K with FSR2 running around 48fps-50fps average. The game feels very well polished! While it is consistently demanding to run, it’s a story game, and it’s consistently smooth. No random frame drops. I am surprised to see something so large run so good on an early release. Skips and frame drops in a game distract me. Nice to see this is a great title right out of the gate, with none of that going on. As for the game, it’s in-depth and lots to read and tons of things to miss while walking around. The exploring is good, and the shooting is also pretty good. “Much better shooting experience than Cyberpunk 2077” I’m still in the very very early parts of the game. @Talon @electrosoftyou guys playing this? Lol. I figure you would be.

Hey fellas! Been busy with work and family and what not. Starfield early access dropped today! Playing right now on my 13900KS@6Ghz/DDR5 8600/RTX3090 KP 1KW bios OCed to the max. Game runs amazing at 4K and game defaulted to max graphics settings with 75% resolution slider. Getting about 57-80FPS during the first area in the caves, V-Sync forced off in my Nvidia control panel. No skips no pops or stutters at all etc. Very very nice performance! I considered ordering a RTX4080/4090 to have for this weekend to play. But honestly, I am stunned by this performance. Good enough for me.

So guy on OC forums said Intel could not replace his 13900KS under warranty because they didn’t have any, so they offered him a refund instead. What in the heck…🤯These things must be gone for good then.

I have no idea, this was a while back when I was considering getting a 4090 laptop. I think it was actually a video on YouTube. But I was researching and investigating the crossload thing a lot, and I was able to see some advantages where a 7945HX CPU would spare more overhead for your 4090 somewhere. This was part of what kinda turned me away, because I had my mind set on the faster clocked intel chips. I don’t doubt your machine is fast though.

You know how all of these machines have a combined CPU and GPU max limit for both component loads? Some are 200 watts, others are 250 watts maybe. Well, I saw somewhere during testing with Battlefield 2042, and with the Ryzen 4090 machine it was straight whooping the Intel 4090 laptops. And this was because 4090 and Intel CPU was scaling back during gameplay because power consumption. The Intel chips were using much more power. While the Ryzen chip stayed clocked higher during gameplay, and it allowed the 4090 GPU to use more power too. I don’t think they can lock that 175 TGP watts during gameplay. Not even a GT77 can do that (Maybe games like Dying Lite 2 or low cpu power games). Because the CPU can hit just 60-70 watts in plenty of titles, and it starts throttling back the 4090 available power to the 130’s and 140’s range. It kind of sucks that they do this. But they just stay inside of that 230ish combined CPU/GPU power range. They have to power other components with the 330W brick like the panel, keyboard, trackpad, fans RGB lights, motherboard, storage, and other items.

I was impressed as well. It’s actually a little faster than my 3090 desktop. And to be a laptop, that is just crazy. Only that laptop has benefits of DLSS3, frame insertion etc. Not bad at all. I think the GPU score is really good because the CPU uses less of the available max system power limit. So on average that 4090 will be a little quicker in GPU bound scenarios than the Intel/4090 laptops.

I thought this too, but the Unify was a (4) Dimm model, and the Unify-X was a (2) Dimm model so we had both options. They did not release either models. Then to see the Gigabyte Tachyon Z790 2-dimm release right on schedule was just like “Garbage lol”. Not just that but we had a 50% bump to our system ram standards with the new 2x24GB and 2x48GB sticks. The overclocking community bleeds for the MSI Unify-X Z790. But what can we do. At least the new Apex is good and not a broken paper weight.

MSI is really great, I just don’t understand where their head is at. When something is good, we should keep that going and keep it updated with new models. I loved my Unity-X Z690 so much. It was just fantastic. The updated Gigabutt Tachyon Z790 2 dimm released The updated EVGA Z790 Dark 2 Dimm released The updated Asus Z790 Apex 2 Dimm released. The updated MSI Unify-X 2 Dimm never came 🤷‍♂️ Why would MSI not release something that is so awesome? It was and still is a massive success. Most of their new Z790 boards are catered to cheaper priced gamer crowd.