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ah good that u spelled it out @Etern4l, i saw the video pop up but hadnt watched it yet. figured it had to do with AI though. and youre right, AI is just smth for highend gpus with tons of vRAM (unless someone comes up with the idea to be able and distribute loads across lower end gpus with less vRAM then were all done for 😅) also agreed on the indirect impact on lower end gpus, nvidia just doesnt give af about gaming gpus currently, they just throw castrated trash onto the market, slap on a ridiculous price tag and are like: take it or leave it, all the same to us. im just hoping that consumers will be able to HODL the line and not buy into it. all things considered, i cant imagine shareholders being too kind on literally NOTHING selling on the consumer market, even if itll have a smaller impact on the overall bottom line vs. before. plus, what are they gonna do with all the unsold gpus stored somewhere skyhigh in warehouses? seriously, id bet nvidia would rather just scrap them than selling them at low pricing....ugh bastards

yeeessssss big black box with tons of space, this is the way 😁 could be for mobo VRM cooling. oh damn, just realized i havent even posted my setup here yet. will do once im back from vacay! be sure to remind me if it hasnt happened by this sunday yet haha

dont forget the most important factor: it looks fancier with just one cable exiting the gpu 😋 (lets not mention the adapter cable mess that comes after lulz) and true, suprim X is among the cards with the most oversized 4090 vrms, both in number and individually rated amperage, should be able to take quite a beating before it gives out on us...

wait wat?! ive seen reports of the new type 4090 with max 1.07V but they cant even be crossflashed? seriously? 🫠 boy ive never been so glad to be on the early adopter / bleeding edge... ill cherish my suprim X! 😅

KHENGLISH! hahaha i had to laugh when i saw your posts, both because its awesome to see you here on NBT and also because this is 101% YOU 😂 a 2080 in a P150EM waiting to be upgraded, thats just insane hahaha. gaiz, cmon, lets get this man a board to play around with, i promise itll be worth all our while 😋

the single game i have played for the longest stretch of time (and still am!) is titan quest. i started playing it shortly after it released back in 2006 and i still havent played completely through it 😂 for one, a single playthrough takes quite a while, especially when doing all side quests. secondly, they STILL KEEP UPDATING THE DAMN THING! the most recent expansion pack actually came out in Dec-2021. in addition, there are three difficulty levels, and u need to complete the game on normal before being able to access the next higher one (normal, epic, legendary). each level brings with it unique enemy configurations / types, as well as new more powerful items. the most recent expansion eternal embers is actually only playable once u reach legendary level. what keeps me playing is the engaging story, the huge game world and the fact that u can switch up the way u play it, whether focusing on hack n slay, customizing ur character towards a certain goal or just going bonkers with collecting items. this also allows you to either play it intensely or in a laid back way, i.e. an hour each evening after work or such.

ha i highly doubt that, at least not on the highend skus. on the plus side, we get three cpu gens on the same socket, my lady's machine will be happy about that 😁 should be a nice lil perf boost going from a 12600 to a 14900K lulz. plus imc should also provide benefits in higher ram clocks / tighter timings. yeah thats one thing nobody can really help you with: personal justification for a purchase. if youre a guy who spends his money sensibly and needs proper justification then id probably go with a good value desktop build, i.e. AM4 with a 5800X3D and a 6700XT for best gaming bang per buck currently. on the benching side, as @Papusanalready mentioned, makes more sense to bench old hardware than new, thats where most bot points can be gained anyways due to much wider range of possibilities. my desktop purchase was a mix of strategical longterm planning and going for the latest and greatest / max performance. in all my previous builds, be it desktop or laptop, my main goal was always to maximize platform longevity. i like to be able and regularly upgrade individual components while keeping the same base. thats why i went for AM5, so ill be able to keep upgrading and build around it for quite a few years to come 🙂 at the same time, i waited for the 40 series to emerge to be able and maximize the utilized lifetime of the gpu. as for proper justification for this purchase? welp, my actual usage case is a mix of work / gaming / media consumption, collection, transcoding / benching & tuning (24/7 stability, not hwbot points). that doesnt justify this kind of overpowered hardware haha. so the rest is my hardware enthusiast heart speaking 😁

latest rumours: rtx 50 series release date pushed to 2025 (usually 2 years would normally mean fall 2024), 4090 Ti canceled and 5090 supposedly sporting a 512 bit wide vRAM bus, but no idea yet if thats on higher performance GDDR6X vs what we have now or first gen GDDR7. you purchase decision should revolve around the following: are the prices ok for you right now? and is the leftover lifetime of the current cycle sufficient for you to not have buyer's remorse once 50 series comes out? id wager were still early in the cycle, havent even reached the midway point yet. so u got about 1.5-2 years left to enjoy the 4090 as the top dog basically.

damn, when murphy strikes, he likes to do so multifold 😅 hope things are looking up by now! welp that sums it all up nicely... 😋

geez cant decide whether to laugh or cry at that 🥲

so gaiz, whats happening here? still some NH55 owners around? i just upgraded my lady's machine to a 2x32 GB 3200 mhz Mushkin Redline kit for her bday (not her main present, dont worry haha). wanted to start tuning it soon, see how far i can take it. the previous 2x8 GB 3800 mhz kit maxed out at 3500 mhz in gear 1 and 3800 mhz in gear 2. but might also be related to the IMC of the 12600 shes using. (if anyone is interested, im currently selling the 3800 sticks, 2 out of 4 left). as for cpu upgrades, lets see what we can do about the upcoming 14900K... 😋

Meh....between the threat of nuclear war flaring up every once in a while (latest in ukraine war), the ever accelerating pace of climate change and new extreme weather phenomena being encountered every single year and overall natural resources getting scarce (farmland, potable water, rare earth metals, etc), i think AI is currently still our smallest problem in terms of "threat to humanity" 😋 LLMs being able to mimick human chat partners doesnt mean theyll develop general intelligence of their own and try to take over the world / extinguish humanity anytime soon... back to blissful ignorance! 😁

finally some aida results for ddr5-8000 on AM5: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16jMBDVEvNFkjkJ-RBW5hllsVdHgxVyaGMvY-Fz_ONtE/htmlview# latency is roughly the same as 6000-6400 with tightened timings, thus the identical gaming perf. we saw before. but its got a nice bandwidth boost, thats what i was hoping for! 😁

yep sounds about right, you definitely are one of us 😁

yeah, the new agesa not only improves Gear 1 max frequencies but also compatibility with 4 DIMMs! check out 128 GB at 6000+ Mhz: hows ur stability at 6400? i assume ull do some tightening of timings 😉 also be sure to check how high u can go with gear 2 and post AIDA results. havent seen any yet aside from game testing or zentimings screenshots... soooo whatcha planning to get on the egg? 😉

as long as u have an m.2 wifi port with pcie functionality u can slap in any wifi card with that form factor 🙂 just beware the subtle differences as mentioned above!

hm i hope that doesnt hold true. got the feeling that AMD is getting comfy being in second place, its a safe haven and easier than being top dog. underdog always gets extra leeway and additional fan support. they might need a few more years to grow properly before taking the fight to nvidia properly? lets see... yaaaaas about time boizzzzz. i want results, be sure to keep us updated here! ill do the same once i get back home from vacay and back to tweaking 😁 yeah its funny, saw soooo many comments related to "crazy about alienware as a kid" but now realizing theyre just cheap plastic trash. i felt the same, back in the late 90s, early 2000s i wouldve given both legs for an alienware system. now we all know better 😅

the m15x just keeps going...what about a quadro P5200? 😁

dayum! although those are very loose timings... still, this is awesome! 😁

aight then, im sold. will get it after my vacay! but for now its beach time 😁

those are nice ram temps, shouldnt run into heatrelated errors :)

u might wanna drop the FCLK down to 2000. Mhz. i did extensive testing and found that u get a bandwidth and latency performance bump when keeping MT/s to FCLK ratio at 3:1. so 6000 to 2000 / 6200 to 2067 / 6400 to 2133 and so forth. other users i.e. on overclock.net found the same. also, try to up both soc voltage to 1.25-1.30 and vddp to 1.15-1.18 to get more leeway for tightening timings. the rest is just elbow grease, tighten a timing, test with karhu/tm5/memtest86, find the tightest stable setting, move on to next timing, rinse and repeat...

yeah same here, sounds highend and expensive! haha fits right in here 😁

noice, posts such as these warm my NBR heart 🙂 welcome back to the fold, guys!

hm why would u go with the crappy proprietary CNVi format? best to stick to regular pcie in m.2 form factor cards. the latter is universally compatible, whereas the former has to match your motherboard, too many headaches. the pcie vs CNVi versions of wifi adapters have almost identical designations, so be sure u get the right one. i.e. for interl 201ax vs. 200ax, the 201 is the CNVi version whereas the 200 is the pcie version 🙂