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I got my picture and name/details all updated on my passport ready for ours trip to Amsterdam 🙂

I have a work laptop (Lenovo T14 thinkpad) and my old GS30 that I use for things like dumping microSD footage or programming my car's ECU. But otherwise I just have my phone and tablet while on the go (S7+ tablet which I use for my choir sheet music mostly and flip 6 phone which fits really easily into a handbag or even evening little black bag). The Gen5 capable riser from my old case did not fit the new bracket on this case so I drilled a couple of extra holes in the PCB to make it work 🙂

No, I think i'm sorted for now. I think I will wait CPU wise for the next AM5 gen.

Decided to change out my case, also got a new card after a bearing issue with the fans. This one seems much happier.

https://www.3dmark.com/sn/4335867 Best result so far.

I just hope they hit that sweet spot and keep the drivers up, if they can get some volume and purchase in the market it will be a good thing.

They focussed their driver and wafer capacity on a single die, we may see a 9070XTX with an even higher TDP, faster/denser ram. But that's it I think this gen.

The MEG display has been a trooper so far, seems even happier with the 9070xt than it did the 4070.

Now without pigtailed connectors lol. Grabbed the corsair type 4 premium single end cables.

The 12VHPWR can be used as 2 8 pins with the last cable and it looks like they come with 3 single ended 8 pin cables and a pigtail cable, so the 1200W cable comes with 7 total 8 pin connector ends.

I guess it depends what you want really, it's not an XOC model for sure, but that last 30-40W the other models is not a huge difference. This way I get the vast majority of the performance in something that I can keep the same case with.

£560 here in the UK on launch day (so $600 equivalent after taxes) but it took a fair amount of effort. The reaper is good for that, no effort on lighting etc and genuinly two slot and normal full length.

I've seen peaks of about 486W but gaming loads about 380W on the new setup at the wall. So no stress for my 750W 🙂

12527 in timespy extreme. https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/127686533

My $600 equivalent (when you account for VAT) 9070 XT arrived EDIT: PCI-E Gen 5 on a riser no issue. Stock https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/127667606 100mv undervolt stock clocks https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/127668715

I managed to get a close to MSRP 9070xt reaper from powercolor that fits in my case. It will arrive tomorrow 😊

network build out complete 🙂

I got the B650E and a 7700 because the value was very decent, the 9xxx series is not that interesting but the next gen might be with the 12 core CCDs.

Yes full support for that on the new 2.5gb utility switches (with allow all, block all or custom)

I am doing a home network upgrade and moving from a primarily super strong WiFi 6 network to cabling in all the computers on 2.5gb ethernet and WiFi 7 network for all the sundry devices. I've got the express 7 handling routing and WiFi and and then using a pair of 5 port unifi utility 2.5gb switches to handle all the cables. The hub will let me directly vpn into home and remotely manage it in case of issues. I'll be able to properly isolate all the iot etc.

Was looking at an old unboxing and realised their site is gone and saw an angry post on reddit. Seems like Ken might have had some health issues so I hope he is ok at least.

TLDR Imbalanced draw from the card.

8 pins each have a larger contact area, more space for cooling. Unless you have a new solution with per pin sensing either side then it's not really an improvement.

I've finally retired my old 500W silverstone unit and got an SF750 for mine. Did a little bit of cable management.

I agree with Derbauer on this one, same node, equivalent cost to performance increase. It's not a new generation so far.