jaybee83

50s, huh? good to know, thx for the heads up 😄 currently using my 1 yr parental leave not only to take care of my little princess but also take care of that dad bod that crept up on me. 4kg down, 2 more to go and im back to lean meat boiz! all that running around after the lil one and taking care of household chores is burning those calories like nobody's business! haha

was like wtf is this thread topic, had to check it out, was not disappointed 😄

afaik intel is readying a new tech that will replace hyperthreading, what was it called again? ah yes, "rentable units": https://www.techpowerup.com/318127/intel-15th-generation-arrow-lake-s-could-abandon-hyper-threading-technology#:~:text=Rentable Units are a more,different cores based on complexity. so basically, they still do multi-threaded workloads but not via hyper-threading as we know it. so its not like intel plans to suddenly lose 20+% perf. by cutting of hyperthreading. as for Zen 5, i dont think we will see 32 cores, unless AMD decides to go all in with the smaller Zen 5c cores. wouldnt make sense tho. id say mmaybe 24 cores max, with one CCD sporting 8 full fat Zen5 cores and the second CCD 16 Zen5c cores...

be patient my young AM5 padawan 😄 Zen 5 support is only preliminary anyways, so there will be additional versions coming for sure. haha agreed on this. although happy to see Asus is fast, the available bios versions thus far are just inofficial test / beta versions. collecting them diligently but not flashing everything right away. gotta pick and choose carefully since i dont have as much tuning freetime as i used to have. baby girl and wife keeping me busy 😄 on another note, started playing Alan Wake II and DAMN. completely maxed out with pathtracing at 4K im getting 50-55 fps best case with occasional dips into the 30s with my 4090 overclocked to the max. completely insane! first time ever im switching to DLSS Quality to at least get 60-80 fps... the 5090 cant come fast enough if u ask me 😛 however, the game also looks absolutely stunning. talk about photorealistic graphics...basically another crysis.

kool, but also feasible in terms of pricing? i mean, u can always offset it a bit by selling off ur modded 3070 🙂

u should update ur sig 😉

here we go boiiiiizzzzz! Granite Ridge Zen 5 CPU support in new Asus Beta Bios versions *w00t w00t* https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-x670-agesa-1-1-7-0-update-enables-initial-support-for-zen5-granite-ridge-cpu-series already got myself the latest 2005 for my X670EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 😛 😄

heard lots of good things and for a jump n run shooter it looks pretty sweet maxed out. havent played it long enough yet tho for any definitive conclusion 🙂

depends on your expectations for 4K gaming @5 years. 6 years ago the 2080 Ti was released, compare its performance in today's AAA titles at 4K with RTX on and ull see what u potentially get with a 5090 after 5 years 🙂 yeah could be deliberate or just plain ignorance 😄

welp as with all things related to performance on hardware: every program / benchmark / games has different bottlenecks. there are tons of games that do not benefit from any RAM OC while others see a big boost in min fps or even avg 🙂 always depends how and what ure testing i wager. huh cant say i have any complaints about my AC LFII 420. no pump noise, no water noises, performance as expected. whats the age and mounting orientation? also make sure its not one of those AIO batches affected by the faulty gaskets: https://www.arctic.de/en/lf-service-kit hmmm that is always a dangerous game to sell off the gpu before getting the successor / replacement... depends on whats more important to you: to make some profit on selling your 4090 before prices drop or to avoid any system downtime. i for one will go the second route, since i dont want to risk not being able to snatch up a 5090 at MSRP-ish prices or having to go the scalper route (or even worse: not being able to get one at all). the potential profit from the 4090 is not worth to potentially be sitting on a non-working highend system for months.

welcome back bud, nice to be remembered from those good old days! i had the same decision to make when i jumped onto desktop back in Oct-2022 (damn its been that long already?!). it really depends how much fun u have modding it and how much headroom theres still left for modding. i had pretty much reached the end of the road for my Dark Knight, with a gpu upgrade being too expensive to be feasible, so i rather sold off the parts and invested into my new monster desktop (see sig). in general tho, i salute all Clevo hold-outs, those were awesome machines and the last stand of true DTRs! 🙂 btw, @Meaker also found his way here 🙂

hahaha trust me, Hyperion is in use every day i can spare an hour or two. but my limited freetime also means i rather spend that time actually using it and not providing updates here 😛 currently playing through the alan wake series after i completed Control (same game universe, actually). currently in the last third of Alan Wake`s American Nightmare before continuing with Alan Wake 2. Should be quite the challenge for my 4090 and definitely worth upgrading to a 5090 (already compiling the budget for upgrading to Zen 5 and a 5090 this year haha). Ive also started Ratchet & Clank: Rift apart and waiting on Titan Quest 2, as well as the new Indiana Jones game, should be awesome! Still havent come around to properly adjusting the stand-offs for my custom CPU IHS, but hoping to finally getting around to it in the coming days / 1-2 weeks. i definitely want it ready before Zen 5 drops 🙂 and yes, ure right, it is god tier. that was the whole idea 😎

quite valuable as im still using a big-ass tube of kryonaut that i purchased back in Oct-2017, so 6.5 years and counting 😄

very nice base, then later down the line upgrade that to a nicely binned 14900KS and OC the crap out of it 😄

welp if u kill it by just filling it up once with data then it aint worth ur actual data lulz

lulz damn, at that price point 110% fake. please run some benches and let us know how theyre doing. also be sure to check the actual capacity, i.e. via this nifty lil tool: https://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/h2testw-14-gold-standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/comment-page-3/ it basically keeps on writing to any selected drive until its full, thus determining its actual physical capacity, no matter what the firmware / OS is saying.

u going with the paste of thermal pad? wasnt it that the paster performs worse than the pad? might be mistaken tho! in any case, keep us updated on your findings 🙂

totally on it, got both my wallet and F5 ready for action 😄 and then sell off my 7950X with a profit due to increased demand?! hahaha also started building up the budget to get a 5090 on launch day, should be a nice upgrade year! 🙂 yups they do. i *think* it was only introduced with AM5 though.

agreed 100% on that. i keep trying to convince people not to "invest" into crypto. even with stocks and the highly people / investor mindset dependent fluctuations of the stock market, u at least have SOME actual reality backing them up, i.e. real companies, real products & services, actual value. same goes for FIAT currencies, u always have the actual economy of a country / bloc of countries backing them up. what do we have for crypto? nothin except the "belief" that it "must be worth something". 🤪 anybody saying gaming or benching is a waste of electricity should focus on crypto first 😄 I KNOW! EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS! ugh, already dreading it....

here we go guys, next crypto craze stealing our beloved hardware coming up: https://www.techpowerup.com/320281/qubic-cryptocurrency-mining-craze-causes-amd-ryzen-9-7950x-stocks-to-evaporate good thing is: if youre on the intel side of life ure safe (for now at least) cuz bad energy efficiency doesnt make them worthy of crypto mining 😄

yep already had my eye on those new seasonic cables, wanna get one in preparation for RTX 50 Series 🙂just havent figured out yet where to buy the cables. anyone have a pointer? as for those "50 mating cycles", its probably equivalent to 8-pin pcie limit of "150W" or the M.2 slot rating of "60 cycles". might all be listed in some spec sheet or white paper but the reality would be much different 🙂

hahaha same thoughts exactly!

keeping tabs on fleabay for 14900Ks as a potential upgrade for my lady's machine, the number of offers has suddenly jumped, likely because of the upcoming KS 😄 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️ and deeefinitely keeping tabs on this, next upgrade for Hyperion 😛 either that or an RTX 5090, whichever releases first 😄 although for the CPU i might wait a month or so for prices to go down considerably before upgrading. for the GPU doesnt matter, highend prices dont seem to fall anymore anyways after launch day, but the inventory DOES, so yeah...lulz

wth...i have no words for such behaviour 😄 the only thing that makes sense is that theyre trying to haggle down the price or theyre just bitter they cant afford any faster ram... anyways, moving on! duuude, what kinda FCLK clock is that?! 😮 how many cpus did u have to bin to get to that? hahaha

any news on the Kingpin front yet? its been a while, thought something wouldve gone official by now.