Rage Set

If he's right...Intel is going to pull another Rocket Lake on everyone. Sooooo, it looks like Intel's HEDT is to the rescue. I don't get Intel's moves here though. They concede HEDT to AMD for several generations but combats them in the mainstream. Now with AMD on the ropes, they are going to concede the mainstream market while reentering the HEDT market, where if rumors are correct, will be able to stand toe to toe with Threadripper. Ever since they were caught with their pants down with the recycling of 4 core processors, they really haven't been the same.

I have had MSI graphic cards but I never gave them a second thought on motherboards. I, like a lot of PC users, will be loyal to brand...to a fault. The problem now is that all of these TRX40 boards are sold out at normal retailers. There are only third party sellers. I was thinking of buying a cheap TRX40 board on eBay, but with how bad some of these boards are (checking reviews), I don't want to chance it. The only thing I can do is wait until after Asus tells me its decision on the board. Something definitely changed with Asus. I still have their first Zenith Extreme board and it works perfectly, so does the X299 Rampage I have....even the X99 Rampage I got all those years ago...works. They are really resting on their laurels now and their brand is suffering.

I think I am cursed. I swear I am. The TRX40 platform has been nothing but trouble for me. My Asus Zenith Extreme II Alpha has died....and this was the replacement mobo for the original that died on me. So in two years, I went through the original Zenith Extreme II, replaced that and sold it. Purchased the Zenith Extreme II Alpha, died and got that replaced. Now this one is suffering from the same Memory 00 - Memory Test error. I don't understand. I am not overclocking the CPU nor the GPU. The RAM is set at 3600 which is perfectly fine for this platform. Now I have to worry about if Asus is going to replace it, because I don't know if it is under warranty or not. I'm going to send it to them on Friday and wait. I am done with high end consumer PC products.

The local gamestreaming tech is great. They are getting rid of it so you can pay them for the privilege now. Luckily for me, Steam Link is better.

Apparently, the different variants of the AmScope SM-4NT with the double-arm boom stand, "can" suffer from pitting of the arm due to the ball bearings used. I see that AmScope has a five year warranty and that may be enough to sway me to buy them. The last thing I am researching is whether the Simul-Focal feature is something I really need or not. It not like I am going to need the ability to look through both eyepieces while recording through the trinocular port all the time, like Louis Rossmann.

As long as it gets the job done and works for you, that is all that matters. I am going to be doing a lot of board repair, some of it for the schools I am working for and others for clients. I have my soldering irons and hot air station, but I want a microscope that will last me several years. Those youtube videos you posted, pushed me to get my s%%t together, lol. I got into soldering/reballing in high school, follow by working for a small PC repair business where I did a lot of that then...then going on my own after that. I remember when $250 could get you something like the $700 AmScope...

I was going that route initially. My eyes aren't bad (yet) but I do want something that I grow with. Thank you for your suggestion, bro. You're the third person to point me to AmScope. Thank you for telling me it is still working, because some of the user reviews about the boom arm was concerning. I may end up with a AmScope. Thank you for your suggestion, bro.

I am not surprised. EVGA saw this and other things Nvidia is doing, the writing was on the wall.

Question for the guys that do a lot of SM soldering. What microscope do you guys recommend? I am looking at two (appear to be made at the same factory), Vision Scientific VS-5FZ-IFR07 Simul-Focal Trinocular Zoom and the AmScope - SM-4NTP 7X-45X Simul-Focal. If you guys have other suggestions, please let me know. I am not a beginner in soldering. I have lots of experience but I usually just use my eyes or a magnifying glass.

After all of these years, you'd think that Jay would know a little more about overclocking reference cards. It is obvious that reference cards are extremely powerlimited and while the results are novel (instead of crashing, the card steals power from the VRAM when overclocking the core), he didn't have the same issues with the PowerColor Red Devil AIB card. However, if you read the title of the video, you'd think it affects all AMD XTX cards. There are some issues with the XTX that AMD NEEDS to correct via drivers and I am going to remain on the sideline until they solved, but I can't help but think that all of this crap is because people wanted the 7900 XTX to beat the 4090 at $600 less. I blame AMD for their announcement bullcrap and the tech media.

I am looking at any AIB XTX that will have a decent waterblock available. While AMD may try to deny a warranty if you overclock an AMD Reference card purchased from them, they can't be said about AIB's. Plus, the burden will always be on the manufacturer to prove that an end user damaged the card from overclocking. A lot of clocks that are being power limited. Unlike Nvidia (and unless it has changed this generation), AMD GPU overclockers have apps that allow us to go beyond the defined power limits. MorePowerTools and Red BIOS Editor. My 6900 XT performs better than a 6950 XT (they have the same upgraded XTXH chip) due to these tools.

The 7900 XTX AIB cards are hitting 3.2Ghz (and these aren't even the best AIB cards). Apparently, AMD left A LOT of performance on the table, in the name of being "energy efficient". These cards with waterblocks are going to shine....crossing my fingers if we can use the MorePowerTool I am almost sold on the 7900 XTX once I see some waterblocks for AIB cards.

I think that you guys should consider creating a YT channel or video podcast together and talk "shop" about overclocking and other things. If buildzoid can spend three hours talking about the same stick of RAM and gain over 150K subscribers, I sure you guys can do the same. It might even reignite your passions and get you guys a door in.

Bought all of these 8TB and 4TB NVMe drives during "Black Friday" and they are all about 50 to 100 cheaper now. Newegg nor Amazon will price match their own prices, so I have to return everything. Newegg would, but as store credit only. Luckily, I didn't open anything yet. I am loving my A770. It's fun trying to learn how to extract more performance from a new GPU maker's card. I wish someone would release a MorePowerToo appl like AMD has for the A770 though.

@electrosoft Does your ARC Control panel have manual fan control? Apparently, Intel took out manual fan control but they are still displaying images of the software with fan control on their website. I tried MSI Afterburner but that allows zero control of ARC. Maybe I am missing something.

I find this article and other continued chip shortages news articles as misleading. As a moderate conservative, I am all for companies making profit, but if these companies think I am going to continue to let them use chip shortages as means for them to continue pad their fat wallets, they have another thing coming. It's like the car manufacturers are completely blind to how other industries are taking hit after hit in revenue. The smart companies are building products that are affordable in today's market conditions, taking small hits to high profit margins in order survive this recession.

Due to this guy, I purchased a new soldering station and I am currently researching a microscope to go with it.

What I gather from all of these 7900 XTX reviews is that AMD does, in fact, challenge the 4080 in everything besides RT. We all expected that. What I find interesting is no one is talking about the frequency these cards are hitting. They are averaging 2.675 at stock. I have yet to see an overclock video on the XTX but based on the evidence and if you can use the MorePowerTool/Red BIOS Editor, I am sure these things are going to hit over 3k. Now I am a bit more interested in these cards than before.

@electrosoft I agree with you. The A770 is a very sexy card. Intel shown a lot of skill with the design of this card. The materials used alone make me wonder if they are losing money on these cards. I've never seen such high build quality on a $350 card. Installation was short and simple. I'm using it on a 11900K gaming rig and so far, it appears to be working normally. I haven't tried overclocking it yet. Right now I'm running all of my benchmarks at stock and once I'm satisfied, I'll start overclocking.

AMD will respond with a non-pro Threadripper but they are going to learn that many of us TRX40 users won't touch it. I have a soft spot for TR, but I will not forget that AMD abandoned TRX40. I am and likely always be interested in the HEDT market and I will keep my eye on W-2400 series. I suspect that series is going to require a monster amount of cooling if you want to hit 4.5 to 5.0 allcore. Broadwell-E all over again.

It as @Etern4l stated, you're likely thermal throttling. You're unfortunately limited by the heatsink and TIM in that X170SM-G, especially with the 10900k. Has the 10900k been delidded? Even if you are not going for world records, a delid will increase your thermal headroom. If you are uncomfortable with a delid, what TIM do you have applied? Does the X170SM-G have a modded bottom cover, to allow in more air? If you want to go the simple route, you are going to have to lower your allcore to something that is achievable with an undervolt. This could mean, allowing 4 of the cores to be at 4.8/4.9 and the other six at 4.4/4.5.

SInce you have a laptop, it is probably safe to say you don't have control over your RAM timings and your cooling is "fixed" (excluding using an insane laptop cooler...I made one with four Delta fans when we were over at NBR, lol). If I am in your shoes, I will have throttlestop with two profiles. One is when I don't care about hearing (using headphones) fan noise and one for office work. Now I will say this, while I know how to undervolt GPUs, I never done so...even in my laptops. With Nvidia laptop GPUs, you are heat/power limited anyway, so there isn't a point of undervolting in my eyes. With my safe base settings in hand, I go after the full overclock. Squeezing as much performance at the top end, that means adding voltage.

I don't want to live there but with snow like that, I would love to stay one winter. I may sound crazy (some think I am) but I do want to visit some of the coldest places on earth. The only reason why I've stayed in the Northeast is due to the four seasons we get here and when we get snow, we get buried. Your snowfall looks a lot like the snow Buffalo, NY gets. I'm slowly getting my wife ready for either Colorado or Vermont. Before I sleep my final rest, I need to be near a wilderness, as my backyard. Anyway bro, congrats on the card. I am sure you are going to do some major damage with that card in benching.

I did pick one up. I am very curious on how it will perform, especially now that they are improving DX9 support. I also want to experiment with it in a cheap photo/video editing rig.

Are you looking for the best general performance or for a specific app? Is this desktop or laptop? How I start anything is defining my cooling potential. From there, I learn more about my chip's quality or lack thereof. For gaming or general compute, I start at the predefined allcore boost clock and then start lowering voltage until it isn't stable. After that, I start working on RAM within that stable allcore/voltage. Once I have got the CPU and RAM stable, that becomes my "safe base" setting which I save.