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I have a lot of hours of testing ahead of me. Plus I am building a new "set", initially for photos but likely for my talking head vids. @Mr. Fox How much far were you able to push the 12900KS in terms of memory speed? Anyone got any opinions on a good chair? None of those gamer-racer chairs. Something like Herman Miller but not the same cost. (My apologies to @Reciever I don't want to take this thread completely off topic).

Pretty similar to my review of the drive. Until 2TB TLC 2230 drives come out, it is going to remain your only option if you want a lot of storage in a small package. While I wouldn't purchase the MP600 Core Mini for use in a laptop for work, it's not bad for gaming handhelds.

I was aboard the Optane hype train years ago when I was a tester for Intel. Unfortunately, when Intel tried to sell these products to the consumer market, Optane was nowhere cost effective. Then they tried to sell the idea of a "hybrid" system, using small optane drives as caching for HDD or even SATA SSDs. That didn't work as the mainstream tech media couldn't wrap their heads around the idea (even though it was always a thing in Enterprise) and they lambasted Intel for it. While it isn't Optane - if you need a lot of storage for "cheap" I highly recommend the Intel enterprise SSDs like this one - https://serverpartdeals.com/products/intel-dc-p4510-ssdpe2kx080t851-0m6cnf-8tb-pcie-gen-3-1-x4-4gb-s-3d-tlc-1dwpd-u-2-nvme-2-5-solid-state-drive Like Optane, they are highly rated for their endurance. Or if you want a Optane drive, the 905 960GB is on sale right now through Newegg - https://www.newegg.com/intel-optane-ssd-905p-series-960gb/p/N82E16820167463 Happy New Year everyone!

His rants are legendary and funny...all lined with the truth. I am happy he moved from NYC to Texas, as that city was trying to drain every single penny they could from him. Admittedly, his message sometimes disappears in his rants. He fights for freedoms that many people in the US don't know about or don't care.

I have never used cloud storage for any of my personal data or data for my clients - I do have an offsite backup of my data but it is another server that I own and control. No worries from me. I have over 40TB of PCIe 4.0 or higher total NVMe SSD raw storage that I have at the ready. My problem right now is getting it all in one "pool". While this total size is far lower than what I have in HDD storage (120TB+), the speed is what I'm looking for. My goal is to have four to five video editing workstations in my home, all using one volume of NVMe storage. The HDD storage being used for backups and archives. I'm getting there.

@Mr. Fox Now that it is on sale on Steam, I highly recommend Trepang2. It is very much an old school FPS in the vein of FEAR with elements of the original Crysis and a bit of Max Payne. It is good ole fashion overpowered super soldier good guy versus bad guys soldiers and zombies. EDIT: It isn't a very long game though, apparently around 10 to 15 hours if you rush through it.

I think everyone in this thread has started using computers during the HDD era as the primary storage device. My first computer HDD had 40GBs and I thought I was hot stuff. Yet I remembered how slow everything was. Accessing anything took ages. I never want to feel that again. I know many of you will say you don't feel the speed differences between SATA SSDs and NMVe SSDs, but I am not sure if any of you guys tried editing video over your network or ingest 8K RAW files. The speed of the drive is as important to me as the size. I am at a happy medium though. I am not interested in Gen 5 drives; not at this point anyway. I can easily ingest over 2TBs of RAW video in 10 to 15 minutes, instead of the hour plus that it use to take. Which is why I hate QLC....but that's another story for another day.

I really do believe I have a storage addiction. I could happily ignore GPUs (almost picked up a 4090 from GameStop of all places because it was at MSRP), CPUs (I have a 7600X that I eventually want to replace with a 7950X) and etc. Storage is my Achilles heel. I just picked up three more 4TB Acer GM7000 SSDs, which are criminally underrated by reviewers and buyers. My addiction also forces me to always look at "HEDT", as neither AMD or Intel's mainstream platforms offer true PCIe Bifurcation support. My MSI X670e ACE has pseudo-PCIe Bifurcation, meaning I have to use their included PCIe Gen 5 card. Why they don't support manual PCIe Bifurcation is beyond me. Another story for you. I'm building a gaming PC for my wife's cousin. His first gaming PC. I gave him the option of my 6800XT and 3060 TI. I explained to him the differences. Mind you, he only knows bits and pieces about tech from his friends. He chose Nvidia. There was no price difference, I was going to give him either for the same price. Just reinforces that the average PC user only knows certain brand names. He also wanted as much RGB as I could add within his budget, hahaha.

What I can't figure out is how he's actually selling these bundles at $1000 a pop plus cost of hardware. I mean, if the majority of his audience is intelligent enough to understand how to overclock, who is paying him these outrageous fees? Convenience can only be so much when it turns into foolishness.

All of the major companies are taking a piss on consumers. AMD with how they handled the Starfield situtation and now with the Vega drivers. Intel with APO and continued product segmentation. Finally Nvidia with ... everything 40 series. If all of this doesn't make fanboys understand that none of these companies are your friends, I don't know what will.

Another product launch by AMD that MSI isn't participating in, at least not initially. While I understand TR isn't going to sell like hotcakes, MSI's wait and see approach is very interesting. MSI did this with AMD's 7000 GPU series and I believe they did the same with AM5. There are two theories based off rough rumors for MSI's apprehension. AMD is punishing MSI due to their past transgressions. MSI did offer features/functionality (as did Asrock) that often went against AMD's wishes. I really don't think this is the case. MSI is trying hard to take EVGA's spot in the eyes of Nvidia and Intel. If KP does go to MSI, this all makes sense. MSI may soon abandon AMD and their products. Thus becoming an exclusive partner for Nvidia (GPUs) and Intel (CPUs). Perhaps one day, we will have a MSI K|ngp|n Lightning card and KP OC mobo. I believe this is what the plans are.

I read 3 years old, I was like what is AMD doing. Then I read the AT article, GCN (which Polaris is based on) has been supported by AMD for nearly 12 years. The problem I have is that Vega is still technically being used by AMD in their APU's and mobile chips that are being sold right now. That is truly an arrow to the knee*. Notably, AMD is actively asserting that this is not “legacy” status for Vega and Polaris, which is an important distinction because of what “legacy” means within AMD’s ecosystem. For AMD, legacy products are effectively considered end-of-life, and ongoing driver support is retired. Which in the case of previous generation GPU architectures going legacy, AMD did not have any further driver releases of any kind planned – though in practice did AMD release a couple of drivers to fix critical security issues. AMD’s support plans for Vega and Polaris, by contrast, still call for regular driver releases, albeit without major feature updates or performance optimizations. That means receiving bug fixes and other occasional updates as AMD sees fit to backport them to the older driver branch, but not the full scope of updates that AMD’s RDNA products are now receiving via their up-to-date mainline driver. In practice, this is much closer to how NVIDIA has handled their legacy GPU products, which have traditionally received security fixes for a minimum length of time – making for a more welcome offramp for going from fully supported to unsupported." Ultimately, while the remaining GCN GPUs haven’t been put out to pasture quite yet, this is clearly the beginning of the end for a line of GPU architectures that stretches back to AMD’s 2011 GPU architecture modernization. AMD has been selling Polaris (GCN 4) cards since mid-2016 – starting over seven years ago – and in practice the core compute and graphics architecture of GCN 4 is virtually identical to the even older GCN 3 architecture. Consequently, AMD has essentially been supporting that core GPU architecture for almost 9 years at this point.

And this is why I'm sticking with the older cards for now. Instead of a 7900XTX or 4090, I have gone back to the 6900XT. As you always state and I completely agree, newer isn't always better.

I have chalked it all down to bandwidth limitations when the A770 is connected to this particular Asus monitor (PG279Q - IPS). I believe it's about five years old now. The speakers don't work any longer, but it works quite well when I am testing hardware.

Quite the opposite for me. The ARC A770 does not like any HDMI cable when connected to my old 165Hz 1440p Asus monitor on my test build. When I reboot the test rig, it will black out. I would have to power the monitor off and on again to get it to show windows. I connected a cheap DP cable and it works perfectly. I can't say it is the monitor because on any other build, using AMD or Nvidia cards, HDMI works.

The fusible link holder in mine, broke - completely disintegrated in my hands. I could easily fix it but I haven't dedicated the time to. I thought about selling it several times, but it is not something most people would want locally and shipping this thing would be costly. So it sits.

I'd be seriously afraid if they were selling these concept boards for much cheaper than traditional mobos to spur adoption. As it stands right now, you will need to buy a specialize case and mobo that can only be used with each. You also have to hope that MSI, Asus and others don't abandon it after a year or so. Unless these mobos have the backing, like, CXL (https://www.computeexpresslink.org/members), I don't think they are going to be a thing for too long. Look at the BTX mobo form factor, it was supposed to be the next big thing (literally). I was one of the people highly interested in it back then...got crushed by ATX. So, I wish these companies the best of luck, hahaha.

There has been rumblings of this since a little before Nvidia tried to buy ARM. Nvidia was trying to get away from buying CPUs from AMD and Intel for their Enterprise servers. The question is, can Nvidia do what Qualcomm couldn't (well their next Nuvia based CPU is supposed to rival Apple's M series of processors)? Ultimately, all of these companies - AMD, Intel, Qualcomm and perhaps Nvidia, are at the mercy of Microsoft. No matter how great the chips are, if MS doesn't produce a version of Windows that can utilize the power of the chips, then it is a non-starter. I am waiting for one of these companies to offer their own Linux based OS to compliment their chips...then MS and in turn their competitors are in trouble.

Based off what I've seen, this "socket" will likely have two gens to it, however, they made no mention of future support. So no, I am not going back. Plus they made TRX50 really bad compared to the TR 7000 Pro series...48 PCIe 5.0 lanes? I get the four memory channels. Lastly, you can use TR 7000 Pro processors on TRX50 motherboards but you still have the same memory channels and PCIe lanes. This is crazy to say, but AMD is Intel five years ago. They think they can put anything out and it will sell. There are a ton of us TRX40 owners giving AMD the evil stare now. EDIT: One more thing...why did they choose to name them 7980X and lower? I mean, did no one in AMD's marketing team research how Intel used the same names for their processors?

You got me by upload but Comcast keeps pushing the download in my region for free. Here in CT, I have fiber, DSL and Cable, which keeps Comcast/Xfinity honesty. Comcast was going to introduce a data cap, but every since the fiber company arrived, they backed down. According to a rep, we will have 5gbs by the start of 2024 and 10G (🙄) by 2025 "if" I upgrade my modem to a DOSIS 4.0 variant through them (the rep should see my account, knowing I will not ever use Xfinity modems). By the time a DOSIS 4.0 modem is needed, I will have moved on to fiber. 10G over coaxial will be hampered.

I generally buy brand new and then resell as like new (because generally for most of my hardware I use it very slightly for overclocking and/or testing - then they end up back in their box) - @Mr. Fox and @tps3443 can tell you. All options are on the table for either the 7900 XTX or 4090. Warranty really doesn't matter to me for pre-owned hardware. Unless it was an EVGA GPU, most warranties do not transfer, so that is why as a buyer you expect a certain level of discount.

So. Is Nvidia going to release refreshed cards or not? Most of the rumors up till now claims they weren't going to release anything to best the 4090 until 50 series...and I thought that was odd (yes even in today's economy). I guess I will wait until the new year to make a decision.

On one hand, I am happy that AMD is supporting their past hardware with new features that aren't "hardware limited", on the other hand I want them to fix the issues that have been plaguing their cards for months now. If @Mr. Fox ever gets tired of the 6900XT and AMD, let me know. If I can't get a 7900XTX or 4090 for a good price, I will be searching for a 69XX XT card again.

Good thing you've explained the first photo as it does look like you are blocking the vents. So you're using the paper to "shape" the air to where you want it?

I believe I met the older, slightly different version of me. He's 82 years young (God bless him) and is very much becoming a PC enthusiast - I am fixing a PC he built himself - that features nearly all EVGA components. Like many of us here, he has a love of EVGA and their customer service. I am going to try to get him to sign up here and join this thread. His current specs are 13900K EVGA Z790 Classified EVGA 3080 TI FTW3 Ultra EVGA 1600W PSU The reason why I am posting this, he's using a Noctua air tower and I may need help to convince him to get at least an AIO. The CPU is throttling bad - to the point it caused Windows to be corrupted due to thermal shutdowns. HIs single DDR5 6400 stick (I'm going to speak to him about that - because I know technically he only needs one stick of DDR5 RAM) is bad. I'm going to point him to this thread and I am sure he will get a warm welcome.