Rage Set

All I can hope for, is that this is the straw the breaks the camels back. Asus needs to be cut down and lose their ROG brand's premium status in the eyes of the public. Whether that really happens or not, is to be determined. I, personally, don't think this is going to happen but I won't be buying any Asus products for awhile.

As brother @Papusan likes to say, "Newer is better". Z690 Dark with a 12900K beating 13900K's and newer mobos.

I think he is going to be the enemy of all of these companies. Asrock refuses to work with them. Gigabyte is still sore after that butt kicking they've received and MSI continues to get jabs here and there for their past mistakes. Now it is Asus's turn. In my opinion, I believe Steve (GN) is the only tech tuber to be for consumers. They call out Intel, AMD and Nvidia. While we may not agree with them on everything, they are fighting for us.

I am not so certain that VRAM is as expensive as AMD/Nvidia make it out to be. If Intel can create a card with 16GB of VRAM and Nvidia produced a 3060 with 12GB, and sell these cards for under "$400" while maintaining a profit, it's corporate greed. I personally believe Nvidia wants out of consumer GPUs, at least on the lower to mid levels. They have successfully got their customers uncomfortably, comfortable with the idea of GPUs costing upwards to $2000. I wouldn't be surprised to see 5090/80/70 class cards north of 900 with maybe one "budget" card around 600 next gen.

I think this Intel rebranding is them conceding parts of the mainstream market to AMD. Think about it. They won't have an i9 product to compete with the high end Zen 5 part, so they are going to consolidate the i7/i9 into a Core Ultra product (they definitely learned their lesson with the 11 gen cough *11900K). These Core Ultra products may not have a high number of P cores but will still compete in "efficiency", AI features and most importantly to the consumer, price. Intel is really going to copy Apple and I feel this is going to lead them to their demise. While I was hoping Intel getting their butt kicked for a bit would teach them a lesson and force them to compete on price and product functionality, it could all be too late. I hope I am wrong.

Going through some of my old PC part bins, I discovered one of my first higher wattage PSU. An OCZ Fatal1ty 750W unit with red LEDs (I was completely team blue at that time, so don't ask me why I purchased a power supply with red LEDs). About nine or ten years ago, I started buying overspecc'ed PSU's for my custom builds. In the late 00's, early 2010's, you never really needed more than 500W for 90% of all custom builds. If you told people online that you purchased a 600W or higher PSU and didn't have SLI, a good portion would ridicule you. Fast forward to today, 850W to 1000W are the baseline. I remember paying $80 for this Fatal1ty PSU and thinking, I am spending a lot of money for this thing. I also remember researching the power rails, making sure they had enough amps.

Not looking good at all.... https://www.tipranks.com/news/intel-slumps-on-sapphire-rapids-troubles The question is can Intel and AMD move against the tidal wave that is ARM? Enterprise is going to be crazy for the next two to three years before everything stabilizes. Intel may end up around 50 or worse, less than 50 percent of the server market. If you don't think this will affect how Intel competes in other markets, think again.

Don't you have like 12 different 13900K/KS's? What's a single 4090 going to matter. Hahaha. All kidding aside, I would love to see one of your binned 13900KS and a 4090 versus his fine-tuned 7800X3D/4090 in certain benchmarks/games.

All of the monitor technologies have their place. I personally use an OLED C2 for my console/PC gaming with a controller setup in my home office. It is amazing. In my basement, I have a 34'' ultrawide IPS 1440p 175Hz for competitive shooters and 27'' 4K IPS 165Hz for when I want eye candy. I am partial to my ultrawide monitors, as I love the concept and screen size.

While everyone is buying new hardware, I am here performing maintenance and/or repairing my old consoles (which includes "jailbreaking"). Right now, I am working on my NES, SNES, Genesis, Dreamcast, N64, Wii U and more. In addition to all of that, I am trying to archive nearly 60TB of old hard drives from my youth. Protip: Do not use Windows 10 while backing up old HDDs, Windows likes to corrupt index information.

The question is, did Asus physically change anything between the 2021 and 2022 models? Asus won't come out and say they changed some things but you never know. It's like the Asus Zenith II Extreme and Zenith II Extreme Alpha. Asus claims the boards are identical outside of adding improved, VRM's but they also changed the VRM heatsink slightly.

Asus replacements do not come with S/N stickers. The reason why I know this is due to all of the replacements I had to get for my Asus boards over the years. Asus sends you an e-mail with the replacement's S/N. Ask the seller for the S/N they've received via e-mail. If you toss away that e-mail, you are SOL.

It is full path tracing....bro, the optimizations will come as new generations of cards. And I mean, generations of cards to enjoy full path tracing at 60fps.

From the date of purchase to delivery, I think it was like 10 business days. Seven of those days were shipping. Now I didn't know it was shipping from China, but it still got here pretty quick. Returns are based in your country and I am sure they have service centers in the UK.

Hmmmmmm. Long story, short. Don't buy the 7950X3D nor 7900X3D (should be obvious). Also, don't buy the 7800X3D if you need to do other things besides gaming. AMD really handicapped this CPU to ensure the 7950X3D/7900X3D were not too far behind and yet the 7800X3D made those CPUs and others obsolete. This is such a confusing launch of CPUs.

I've ordered some DDR5 sticks from them, when they were hard to get. Shipped directly from China, much quicker than I expected. No complaints.

I'll say this and end it here. This thread for the most part, leans Intel. Nothing truly wrong with that, as Intel have historically offered the best overall overclocking products. Yet, if Intel continues down their current path, they can end up like AMD pre-Ryzen era. Basically, barely holding on from bankruptcy. It's not farfetched to conceive that in five years, Intel could simply be a fabless chip maker like AMD/Nvidia or worse. I am not a true fan of Nvidia, AMD or Intel. I am a fan of computing and competition. Intel for the longest time has rested on their laurels and it caught up with them...in a big way. Who would have thought five/six years ago that AMD would be currently beating Intel in sales in enterprise, going toe to toe in mainstream (no matter how much people want to bash their mainstream parts) and completely eradicate Intel in HEDT/Workstation up until recently? I didn't.

Currently, AMD is the first to the table, followed by Intel. While in this scenario, Intel is eating a lot more than AMD, that is because they have had long-term contracts. Those contracts won't last forever, especially when Intel keeps delaying products. The article I shared is from an Intel Investor conference summary...aka they [Intel] have to tell the truth. They have admitted they are going to lose more marketshare over the next two years to AMD but hopefully their shift to AI products can give them another way to claw back market and mind share. You do know that all of the major data centers run custom servers, with custom hardware? Very few run turn-key solutions. The emphasis on custom hardware designs are even greater now with AI. FPGA's offer the most customized options outside of a company spending billions of R&D on their custom silicon. Put it another way....GPU mining vs FPGA Mining. The GPU offers great general purpose data processing but a programmed FPGA can process specific datasets, sometimes upwards to 10X better at lower power. Another scenario, instead of using two 3090 TI in SLI and all the power those GPU's require to operate, I can use a 3090 plus a FPGA accelerator to transcode/process video much faster with much lower power requirements.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4591798-intel-stock-buyers-strike-back Unfortunately for Intel, AMD and Xilinx are eating their enterprise lunch. A lot of people are saying that the purchase of Xilinx is what saved AMD and I agree somewhat. The question is can Intel survive this onslaught from both Nvidia and AMD? While Intel is still the market leader, their lead is eroding and the ramifications are huge. For the first time, I see Intel as being only a Foundry. The mistakes they've made are costing them.

At least with DDR4, "RGB Powered" RAM sticks tend to need looser timings and that is generally due to the type of RAM requiring more voltage. So the thought process for me is simple. If I want RGB bling and a certain speed, say 3600/4000 for DDR4 or 6400+ on DDR5, I make sure to get a RGB RAM kit that is specced higher and manually lower the speed. Timings won't be as tight. If I don't want nor care about RGB in a build, I can "usually" buy a cheaper set of nonRGB RAM and overclock higher, with tighter timings.

It is extremely rare for a workstation/server to need TB. Add-in cards are what we use. Need additional storage? Add a 10/25G NIC and connect to a file server or install a PCIe M.2 add-in card if faster speeds are required. Need additional GPU compute? Install additional GPU directly to the PCIe slot without performance penalty. For all intends and purposes, TB is a consumer product or even Pro-consumer. We do not want that in our workstation/enterprise builds to take away resources. This is why I'm struggling to convince myself to sell my TRX40 build. If you saw the amount of stuff I've connected (including 8 NVMe drives, GPU, video capture card), there is no way I'll trade those PCIe lanes for TB. AMD may not have TB, but it has the PCIe lanes.

They have been waiting a long time to raise the ASP to over 25% and the "inflation" and "chip shortages" gave them the power. Now, oddly they are ignoring the global recession that we are in. Or perhaps not. Perhaps they know that and are raising the margins to cover the lower number of units sold. Those record profits from the pandemic made a lot of these companies overvalued in the stock market and they HAVE to keep showing growth. It is all going to topple over.

AMD shot themselves in the foot by listening to "customers" that wanted a 16 and 12 core X3D variant. I am not sure what Lisa was thinking outside of some early adopter money? They are gimped 16/12 processors that don't do gaming or productivity as well as the Non-X/X CPUs. The true king of gaming is going to be the 7800X3D and Intel won't have a competitor at its price point. AMD knows most of the X3D's potential customer demographic are going to wait for the 7800X3D but they got some people to bite on the "higher end" X3D parts.

You're going to make me want to join you on this hunt and install Office on my all AMD rig. It is strange that it only affects MS Office. You don't have AMD Anti-Lag enabled or the AMD sharpening (forgot the name of it). One thing I learned with having AMD GPU's for the past several years, they are very picky with it comes to cables. While my 3090's are more forgiving with it comes to PC monitors, my 6800 XT barks at any lower grade HDMI 2.1/DP 1.4a cables over two feet.

Now that is new. I have troubleshot aplenty of server/desktop CPUs with missing DRAM banks, but not an SSD disappearing during I/O due to heat expansion with the CPU. Is the SSD connected directly to the CPU or through the chipset?