Rage Set

If you were in the states, I could offer some desktop hardware. I know the feeling of being lost, but I have my ways to find myself. Working out, infecting my network/PCs, reading and filmmaking are all things that keep me sane. I also have a woman that knows when to knock me on my head to get my attention or let me be. Find your muses. Everything else will work itself out.

Andddd it's off! I am curious to see what Mr. Fox does with AMD on the GPU side of things. On one hand, it is a new experience and the chance to gain some points. On the other hand, I suspect his visit with AMD to be short-lived, hahaha. Mr. Fox, my advice is that dialing back the voltage aka undervolting on AMD GPU's will help you in certain benchmarks. One last thing, I don't remember using MPT and Red BIOS Editor on the Asrock 6900XT, only on my MSI 6800XT. I don't think I did it because I wanted to wait until I blocked it and as you will see, I never did block it.

I didn't even know about the MC warranty policy, although I generally don't hold onto hardware long enough to invest time or money into a warranty. That is crazy, even if it is store credit. This may push me to drive the hour and half to my local MC more often.

Yes! That is why I am not buying a 4090. I know the 4090 TI will be coming and I've learned my lesson with the 3090. While I have A LOT of anger in my heart with AMD over the TRX40 shenanigans, I wasn't angry with them with the 6900XT getting replaced with the 6950XT. I think it due to having a 6900XT that is a 6950XT in everything but name. You also hit the nail on the head with AMD and Linux. If you are willing to pay shipping back and forth, I will let you borrow my Asrock 6900 XT with the block (I purchased the block, but I have never blocked the actual card.) for a month, so you can test things out. If you end up wanting to keep it, we can work out a fair price for both or you can simply ship it back. I really don't use it any more, it is sitting in my X570 Dark rig.

Buy a cheap 6950 XT with a waterblock, get some points and sell it. You will also get to see what the Red users were using with the MorePowerTool. The downsides are you won't have a huge pool of buyers when you sell and AMD's own overclocking tool can be funky sometimes. It loves to crash when you push the card too far.

You have to consider brands. While the majority of the people in this thread loathes Alienware as it stands now, they are like the Apple of PC laptops. Higher resell value because everyone knows them. MSI tends to be lower on the totem pole compared to Alienware or even Asus. I use to be into Asus/Alienware laptops before I was introduced to DTR's like Clevo on NBR. Now my current play toy is a Lenovo Legion 11980HK/3080 that I keep with me at my office. A lot of my colleagues were like "We didn't know Lenovo made gaming laptops" and then start talking about Alienware laptops; these are actual Cyber SecOps and Network Engineers...people that are supposed to know computing. Go figure.

The FB Marketplace is becoming a nonstarter. Lots of lowball offers or if I do get an acceptable offer, the person is more than 50 miles away. I don't want to ship anything to people I don't know and have them claim it wasn't delivered, otherwise i would have bit the bullet and sold on eBay. I've tried LetGo, Craigslist, and others. Either scammers that can't read or still think I'm going to fall for their scam anyway, lol. These components/rigs are going to fund my W790 escapade. Crossing my fingers!

There is no doubt why Intel combined traditional HEDT with workstation. They could charge much more. To be fair, Intel did charge an arm and leg for the halo parts on the X99 and X299 platforms. I also don't mind that they are using older tech. Remember, Intel's HEDT platforms were always a gen behind mainstream in terms of core architecture. The only thing I wish is the ability to use non-ECC memory. I don't see Intel bringing all P-cores to mainstream. Non-enthusiast media and consumers are already complaining about the cooling and power requirements for 12/13 gen, I could only imagine the tears if they used only P-cores.

Wow. Intel HEDT is back indeed. I am impressed. Competition is back and I'm loving it. EDIT: There is no doubt you will need two PSU's on two different circuits for this platform if you plan on overclocking...even with the 24c processors. I'm so excited.

I've upgraded both of my AMD 6000 series GPU rigs to the latest graphic drivers, with no problem. I even let the rig with the 6900XT do a full factory reset within the driver upgrade, it rebooted fine. I am unsure why some people are having issues with it, unless AMD changed something in the driver installer the past day or so. Thanks for the update about the vulnerability with Ryzen Master. I didn't know there was an update.

I completely agree. One of my servers in my homelab has a W-1290 in it and its a beast with that iGPU. But I think those days are coming to end.

It all comes down to convenience, but you already knew that. These corporations can do whatever they want with our data in the name of convenience and millions of people eat that "blank" up.

X58, X99, X299 are workstation derivatives. The only thing that separated X99 "HEDT" from X99 "Workstation" was marketing and code. Hence why you can use both "Xeon" and "Extreme" processors on the same mobo. Intel's marketing magic made people believe they were totally different. When the C261 platform was opened up with the 3175X as it sole unlocked processor, it was still an enterprise orientated platform. That didn't stop Intel trying to coin that platform as "SHEDT". Forum members even spoke about this in the NBR Official Benchmark thread about HEDT vs "Super HEDT", then the death of HEDT and how the 3175X style of processors were the future of HEDT. I don't think an avid overclocker buying into W790 is going to be disappointed if they know exotic cooling is going to be the requirement in extracting the most performance. Plus, you can overclock ECC memory and some of these boards are already stating 6800+ as possible (likely with two sticks though).

The same was said about the X99 and X299 platforms. They were never value platforms nor are any of the current workstation platforms from Intel. Those that pick up the W2400/W3400 aren't going to be using them for gaming. Either overclocking or business (or both). I was going to get a 13900K, then 13900KS. But I kept going back to those rumors about Intel's return to HEDT and it's here. Like with the 3175X before, it will all come down to the boards. I realize I am going to be spending a lot, but they better come with the kitchen sink thrown in. EDIT: The cooling requirements for overclocking alone are going to be $500+. The EKWB CPU block for C261 was like 400 to 500, if I remember correctly.

I've seen this motherboard. What I find funny is that Intel is still using I225-LM (likely B3) as the standard controller instead of the I226. This confirms Intel knows there is a hardware issue with I226. Workstations require stability over everything else. I am not certain EVGA is going to join the fray on this platform. The SR-3 Dark didn't sell well at all, because it was so late to release. Surprisingly, the Gigabyte C621 Aorus Xtreme was the best board out of the Asus, EVGA and Gigabyte C621/C622 overclocking mobos for stability. At least that is what the common theme I saw when I purchased a 3175X and was waiting for a mobo to become available.

Well well well....Intel is going to announce their "Workstation" SKUs tomorrow and it appears the rumors were right. While Intel is going the Pro route like AMD's TR Pro, Intel is offering more unlocked SKU's. The big problem is going to be RAM overclocking since these are going to be 4 to 8 channels chipsets. I suspect that with the right cooling, these CPU's are going to rip apart CPU benchmarks. I can finally let go of my AMD TR 3960X.

Not going to lie, I am a bit jealous. Congrats on the card. While we joke that since EVGA has left the GPU industry, no one else can measure up, the HOF cards are the only ones that went head to head with the KP cards. I can't wait to see what you can do with it.

The day my wife buys me a GPU is the day I cancel the order. I love her with all of my heart and being, but she doesn't know tech. I created an actual video game for her for Christmas about ten years ago and she (like me) grew up playing video games, however, since it required a mouse/keyboard she couldn't wrap her head around the controls. I built her a 10900K/3080 rig. It just sits there, unused with a keyboard that still sprews RGB vomit. With all that said, she is the only person, personally around me that has zero problems with the fans blasting on my MORA radiators.

I would take you up on that offer, but I still have hardware to get sell through. As crazy as it sounds, I do want to have an EVGA GPU collection.

My apologies. That is why I have not responded to any of the other replies.

Thank you two for your perspectives. I am not going to hijack this thread with any thing political. I wanted to see how others view it. I am going to keep my ability to protect myself but I am now going to go about it in a different way. I have seen a material difference in buyers when stating my protective measures. I was taught well and I never, ever want to intimidate someone with it (my height and size alone does that). I only meet up at or quite close to police stations, I guess that is why the majority of buyers still come to complete the transaction.

An interesting story and a question for you all. I had someone message me on FB Marketplace about a GPU I have for sale. I noticed the profile was completely sparse. Interesting. The person haggled per normal but we agreed on a price. He asked about meeting in a city between him and I (he supposedly lives in Mass.). I told him I normally deal in the surrounding cities because I only meet near Police stations and I notify the police dept of the city I am heading to ahead of time to let them know I am legally armed and I will be in their city (this protects me in several ways in this very leftist state). His messaging tone changed. I told him I could meet him in a different city (ten minutes away from the city he suggested). He quickly changed his mind. He told me it was too far and he's now going to be pressed for time after work. Strange. I do tell all of my potential in-person buyers that I am armed. I rather they know ahead of time before seeing me in person with my holstered weapon. Should I stop doing this? Telling buyers that I am armed? If you were going to meet with someone to buy something from them and they openly told you they were legally armed, would that cause you to cancel the transaction?

I agree. My gaming PC is actually my fully custom watercooled 5900X/6800XT build and I have a 3080/3090 and 6900XT. Truthfully, I am using this rig because it looks the best and I spent about 1000 on watercooling components. I play games on my LG C2 in 1440p...right now I'm deep into Elden Ring.

Are you using MPT alone? With my card, I am able to adjust the PPT with MPT and writing the SPPT, then restarting my computer. The changes take hold.

Use this while we still can https://www.igorslab.de/en/red-bios-editor-and-morepowertool-adjust-and-optimize-your-vbios-and-even-more-stable-overclocking-navi-unlimited/3/