Rage Set

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'?

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.

You have a superior binned Red Devil compared to mine. My RD, at stock only hits around 3k. With an UV, I get 3100, maybe 3150. Always my luck, but it is still a super quiet card. Sometimes I question if the fans ever spin up.

I know soldering, PC break/fix and 3D printing extremely well, but I would never label myself an expert. If my YT channel ever reaches 50K+, you won't ever catch me trying to get money out of my community for a device that I damaged. I would probably be too embarrassed to even admit it, lol.

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.

Nova Lake is looking like the return of Intel, but it is going to cost. A Z990 mobo is going to be expensive. Stepping down to Z970 and you are losing a lot of PCIe lanes - BCLK OC'ing. If the rumors of the top NL chips costing over 1000 are true, we are back in the days of HEDT - but only two memory channels. Lastly, still no ECC memory support unless you go W980. I am not sure whether it is going to be AMD or Intel that offers the first mainstream platform with quad channel memory support, but it needs to happen.

Only Alphacool has a waterblock, but it is available in multiple shops. While the Red Devil 9700XT is one of the best 9700XT's on the market, I am still debating whether I want to shell out $250 to $300 on the block. For the first time in years, none of my rigs are custom watercooled. They are either cooled by an air or AIO cooler. Mind you, I still have CPU blocks and tons of radiators I could use. The problem is, if I buy the block, I am going to have to get a two-dimm mobo and faster RAM - that is the chain reaction. I don't really want to invest more money into the 1700 platform. With that being said, I may still get the block with how prices of copper are shooting up.

I have the Powercolor Red Devil 9070XT. I am trying to convince myself not to buy a waterblock for it. I am also limited by RAM. So my goal of getting into the top 15 TS (for my CPU/GPU) might be out of reach.

14900KS + 9700XT - 14900KS is in Extreme mode. Yes, my memory sticks are mixed, lol. The PC is located in my basement office - which I keep frozen. Ambient is 20 to 25F. Stock: Timespy - https://www.3dmark.com/spy/61860414 It's okay, middle of the road performance. Graphic Score: 29578 The CPU is all over the place. Stock with only a -100mV offset on the core: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/61860626 Still middle of the road performance, but the GS jumped nearly 1500 points. Graphic Score: 31075 Results: AMD is drunk.

While I missed the boat on the best pricing for 8000MT+ RAM, I am happy I spent the 150 to 180 for each of the nine 4TB NVMe SSDs I got over 2025. I went nuts on the Acer GM7000 SSDs. I did a quick calculation, I have over 100TBs in SSDs (spread across 8TB, 4TB, 2TB and 1TB drives) in operation. If I were to buy them in today's prices, I'd have to spend over 30K. Damn! I guess being a frugal data hoarder has it benefits once in awhile.

Ideally, I should be a fan of Loyal Moses. Conceptually, he lives my dream. Owning a business and home off the grid. His videos about the incoming laws enacting government spyware in 3D printing applies to all technologies. Unfortunately, it is the case of the messenger killing the message. Moses is known to be a "shill" for certain brands and when certain companies enact anti-consumer policies or reverse course on promised products, he doesn't say anything. This means, a lot of people are wary of him and his messages - in this case, he's right on though. On the subject of the Washington and NY laws, it is simple government overreach. This law applies to CNC and Lathe machines in addition to aforementioned 3D printers. What's next? The government forcing CAD/3D model design software to detect and prevent you from designing a part that looks like it is related to a gun? Welp, there goes the video game industry. How far the slope can go, it is easy to see. Imagine the government pushing Nvidia, AMD and Intel to stop allowing consumer GPUs to be used in certain software, because they can be used to design things that they don't agree with. That means that 2 to 3K GPU becomes less valuable overnight.

I attempted to overclock my laptop twice outside and within minutes, had to scurry back into the house. My fingers man! Early morning (around 4am EST when I awake), the temp is between 2 to 4F (-16C) for the past week, not including wind chill. The kind of cold that just inundates you, but man do I love it. I guess that is why I earned the cheeky nickname, Ice Bear, from my family. I love the first few hours after a snow storm, everything is covered and it is super quiet. I'll have some 3Dmark benches from my laptop and perhaps the 14900KS/9070XT combo later.

I researched all of the "flagship" 9070 XTs. Generally, when it comes to AMD exclusive AIB's, I like Sapphire, but Power Color won me over with the phase design and 8pin connectors on the Red Devil. It was strange to see the Red Devil go under the radar compare to the other AIB "flagships" 9070 XTs. I think it was due to Power Color producing a powerful card but being very conservative in their default OC profile. They chose complete silent over performance. I get it, the general public want cards that are quiet. Then I saw people unleash the Red Devil, seeing the core hit 3400 to 3500Mhz (or even higher when instability be damned) - all the while still running cooler than others. On the other hand, memory overclocking on the Red Devil is where it is make or break. I wonder how this card will perform blocked, but I only see one waterblock available. I am super surprised that Bykski didn't make one for the Red Devil, instead produced blocks for the lower end Powercolor cards. I guess they only produced blocks for "reference" designs this generation. I am interested to know how each of our cards perform.

Honestly, I kept looking at the 9950HX3D Lenovo 7 Pro, but it was limited to a 5080. It started at 3K and then I saw the 7i Pro with a 5090 around the same price. It snowballed from there. It is a really nice laptop and it handles my 8K footage from my Canon R5 like butter. Yes, this is the time. I am not sure if I want to attempt to put some rigs together to sell or just simply sell the components individually. I only have a couple DDR5 mobos from AMD/Intel and only three sets of DDR5 that are working, two sets currently in use. Probably best I sell the components. We got 20'' inches thus far where I live in CT. I spent the past several hours, going out every few hours to attack with my shovel. I still relatively young compared to my neighbors, so whereas all of my neighbors will be using their snow blowers, I am out there strong arming the snow. Good cardio as well! I was having some serious buyer's remorse, even though I got both cards for their MSRP. I am happy now, seeing that the Red Devil jumped up $110 and the Prime is $250 more, excluding the scalper pricing. Both cards are great. I can't really choose. The only thing the 5070Ti has over the 9070XT is better video editing performance. Welcome to the Red Devil family, lol.

It's funny. Some states shut down when they get 8 to 12 inches of snow. We, on the other hand, require 24 inches or more. My job (IT school system) & Mayor are still contemplating if we will or not. Now if the governor shuts down the state (they rarely ever do), that's one thing, but if the Mayor shuts down the city, he will have to pay us all. Otherwise, you have to use personal or vacation time if you don't want to venture out in the snow. I make it a point to go, because there is no one there and I can use the time to learn/study or repair broken desktops/laptops. I usually work on my soldering skills and/or create troubleshooting guides for the entry level techs. Or I can do some overclocking in my office, which I might do!