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Great job! Are you using MorePowerTool?

We have lots of below zero weather for all of you...except @Papusan here in Connecticut. Right now 15F (-9.4C), but with the wind chill 3 degrees. It is going negative tonight and most of tomorrow. Perhaps it is a garage overclocking type of night.

Thanks. Before I dissolved my MSP company, I was technically sponsored by it. I "got in good" with several companies, including Intel. At one point, I was testing memory/storage technologies before they went public. I am a bit of storage lover...or rather hoarder. As the son of a Funeral Director/Embalmer, I grew up with a different spiritual fitness than others. I am sorry for your loss but to honor her, remember the memories you've created together...keep those memories close. In time you will begin to heal.

Perhaps, if I had the A770 at the very beginning of its launch, I would have a different opinion. As it stands now, the A770 is criminally underrated. I had it installed in my 11900K gaming build, testing it with several games and I had none of the major problems that were reported. If there were cheaper blocks for it, I would have blocked it already....however I love how the cooler looks and feels.

Luck only comes in when buying a component. The skill is extracting the most performance out of that component. Variables will always be a determining factor when overclocking a component, but the skill/experience is knowing how to identify the variable(s) that can cause an outcome. I know TimeSpy/Firestrike so well, I know by heart what a 1080 TI to a 3090 should score based off their overclocks. Here is an example I did on an MSI 2080 TI stream. I have it at the exact spot where I guessed correctly where the score would land based off my skill/experience.

A couple of years ago, I thought to myself. I may become a youtuber and I should get ready for that with a homelab with 10G around my home. That was my excuse. I use to own and operate an MSP and we routinely designed and deployed networks upwards to 100G, yet at home, I ran a 1G network. It is only when I built two flash servers (alongside the idea of becoming a yt'er) that I wanted a 10G network. A lot of my setup is overkill and I know that. My home rigs, workstations, IOT, consumer devices and mobile devices are on separate VLANs. ISP: Xfinity Business 1.25G. Modem: NETGEAR CM2000 Router: Lenovo ThinkCenter - Intel i5 - 32GB - x2 2.5Gbs NICs with PFsense Switch: Main switches: 1x MicroTik CRS312-4C+8XG, 1x Zyxel XS1930-12HP POE switch. Various 1G to 2.5G - 5 to 16 POE port switches. Wireless access point: x2 Netgear AXE11000 in AP mode. (only because at the time I built this 10G network, there were no consumer level 6E APs on the market in stock for purchase) Network cards: I have four servers and three NAS devices - all with 10G NICs or higher. All of my main computer builds have built-in 10G nics, except the builds with Dark mobos. Misc: Cat 6A/7 cabling installed throughout the house. About 16 POE cameras.

Happy Birthday brother @Mr. FoxI hope you enjoy your day. I would love for all of us to have a virtual meeting one of these days, to talk tech and family.

Steve at GN made an interesting point in his News video. With MSI Afterburner not being supported by the developer any longer and EVGA not really supporting Precision X, what will Nvidia GPU owners use to overclock future cards or worse, current cards?

While we have had poor luck with Asus mobos, I will say I have never had issues with an Asus GPU (even the TUF series). From the 1080 TI up to the 3090, they were good to great. It just so happened to be beaten by a KP card.

This guy is very rash and could be off-putting to some. I keep watching, learning his techniques. He is an interesting fellow to say the least.

That is the KEY issue with RDNA3. My watercooled 6800 XT with PPT can beat the majority of 6900 XT's and my 6900 XT with PPT is above the 6950 XT variant, even when overclocked. To be fair, my 6900 XT is technically a 6950 XT because they share the same core. Now I don't even need to upgrade my 6900 XT. With a mild overclock coupled with the PPT, my card is within 90% of a stock 7900 XT. Any enthusiasts that do buy a 7900 series card are likely going for points or were hoping like the 6000 series, that the PPT would be unlocked somehow.

This is what I did. I do miss my Tornado F5.

I use only Noctua iPPC 3000 PWN fans with both MO-RA radiators I have and I love them. I have a total of 30 of these fans in various builds around my home office. I got tired of replacing fans from other brands, mainly EKWB. I never needed quiet focused fans but I also the guy that slapped three delta fans to a modded laptop cooler.

While I agree with RT becoming a standard in gaming, companies are going around Nvidia implementation or rather, vision of RT. UE5 doesn't use Nvidia's RT cores natively. If you read this article by Nvidia about UE5 - https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/building-the-future-of-real-time-graphics-with-nvidia-and-unreal-engine-5-1/ you will notice it mentions Lumen. Lumen is actually a neutral take on RT....a lot like AMD's take on RT. https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/lumen-global-illumination-and-reflections-in-unreal-engine/ What does this all mean? RT's future performance and interpretation may come to an "open standard", something that Nvidia does not want. Akin to G-Sync finally aligning itself more to the AMD's freesync. In the future, paying the Nvidia tax for RT performance could be like paying for a G-Sync Ultimate monitor vs a Freesync Premium monitor that works just as well.

Are you overclocking for stable gaming or to see how far you can push the laptop?

Very true, however, I still believe he should not have jumped the gun on this story when he claimed it could be drivers. I believe he did what he did because he got a bit of notoriety from der8auer but I guess he learned his lesson. He got beat down in the comment section by AMD fanboys on his first video, lol. Intel I226V has always been problematic and so were the I225V B2 and earlier. The only one that isn't having major issues is I225V B3 and that is the one I am searching for, to build a new pfsense firewall for my 1.5Gig internet connection.

He's clearly trying to walk this back. Look at his pinned comment. He should have not stated in his first video that the drivers caused this, without proof. That is why he is getting pushback. There was speculation that these were mining cards but a lot of sole Nvidia fanboys tried to use this matter as additional ammo against AMD. Sure, AMD messed up bad on their reference designed GPU's, but this came at the right time to help fuel the fire.

I tried WOW three times and I couldn't get into it. It felt too easy to me compared to Anarchy Online. I guess the sci-fi elements of AO was the key feature for me. It had guns and swords, lol.

I was in my late teens/early 20's when I played Anarchy Online. It is when I discovered I could have an addictive mentality. Before AO, I didn't believe anyone could be addicted to an MMO. I was wrong. I will say I met a huge diversified community in AO and developed a lot of irl friendships, like my friend Jacob from Norway ( @Papusan another reason why I want to come there). That meant a lot to a bi-racial man that was going through an identity crisis at the time. I wouldn't mind playing an MMO with some of you guys and this time, I won't have the time to become an addict, hahaha. I loved PSO for the Dreamcast, but the servers were filled with a lot of cheaters.

WOW! You were into AO as well? I was a HUGGGEEEEE fan. I have a few 220 toons. I was too deep in that game, practically a stereotypical MMO unwashed, BIO needing geek back in that time. That was the only MMO I played that required actual deep knowledge of in-game 'buffing' items to build tweaks. EDIT: Before you ask, I was a clanner through and through. I never once built an Omni toon. The player driven "raids" of Omni control cities were some of my fondest memories and vice versa, when Omni players raided Old Athens.

@Mr. Fox Looks like you will hopefully see improvement with the EK Kit

You know that 'extra' five minutes of Special binning cost Intel money. It's 6GHZZZZ OUTDABOX!

I am definitely going to take a look at the software, but what bugs me most is there isn't any manual fan control. Unless, the USB wire that allows control of the RGB on the card, also allows you to control the fans. I didn't install the wire...i guess I will try after work.

I want that radiator and case....I am going to actively search for them.

Being a small SI has its perks and some downsides. It is all on how you mitigate those downsides. You don't get a lot of "problems" with small to medium size businesses, only when you deal with the public consumer markets. You should pursue it and just find a piece or rather a specialization.