jaybee83

soooo, back from the in law's, seems like ive missed quite a bit here 😄 so lemme dig right in... well well well! seems like u got the card i initially was planning to buy! congratz and welcome to the 4090 club 😎 its lonely up here, so far away from any other gpu right now LOL huh cool, so looks like they finally uploaded that vBios... tbh, i expected more watts though LOL. have u tried flashing it yet? still need to catch up on overclock.net 4090 owner's lounge, pretty sure someone has already cross flashed that vbios onto their 4090 already. so much forum reading and hardware tweaking to do, but so little time, sight... HAHAHA nice! welcome to the 7950X club, about time some others joined here 😛 keep us updated on how it runs! SP ratings, oc / uv potential, i can also see that u chose the arctic LFII 420, runs very well with the 7950X 🙂 sounds like a sausage party ruining GPU prices for us 😄 random / unexpected comment but very sympathetic my man! this reminds me of this brilliant little vid by Simon Sinek. if you ask me, id go with the people I trust pretty much 100% of the time rather than with the overall best performer in a team: not really surprised by this i must say... all signs, at least currently, are pointing towards Intel's dGPU downfall. rumour mill states that they only have a single mid to low end silicon SKU in the pipe for Battlemage and still a measly two for Celestial (if they even get that far). splitting their GPU group into two entities, one for consumers and one for business / professionals is nothing new, they did the same with Larrabee...before its imminent downfall 😅so lets see where the chips will fall.... this sucks. so far pretty "meh" showing of RDNA3. nevertheless, i wholeheartedly think that their chiplet approach will do wonders for AMD in the mid to long term, especially if Nvidia`s only answer remains higher wattage, larger silicon and bigger coolers... that aint gonna work for too long. didnt work for Intel either and voila they pulled E-Cores out of their hat 😄 agreed, it is actuallyn quite decent...but only that, unfortunately. community at large just expected way more, AMD promised too much via their raw specs and initial performance indications at 1.7+ gains vs. RDNA2, which turned out to be more like 1.3-1.4 in the end...just not enough to REALLY compete with Nvidia.....yet. nice find bro@cylix and yep as usually perfectly put uncle FOX 😄 interesting vid you posted btw, was surprised to see the discrepancy between MSI's warranty period (i myself had trouble finding hard facts as to their official warranty periods for gpus, like....wth) and their historical build quality / hardware endurance / failure rate. kinda reminds me of how their 4090 Suprim lineup is the most overbuild of all SKUs in terms of VRM quality, amperage and total amount, but at the same time their stock vBios only peaks at 520/530W vs other crappy entry cards like the Gigabutt Gaming OC offering up to 600W. but ah well, who cares, just crossflash and bobs your uncle... no wait, its Fox! 😄 ah whatta time we live in... gpus being judged by their RGB, loudness / coil whine, ability NOT to burst into flames and NOT to crash your PSU and, most importantly: fitting inside your case 🤣 huh, that reasoning sounds familiar, wonder why..... 😄😉 awesome man, again: welcome to the 4090 club! have u crossflashed anything yet? does it sport dual vBios? u still on the lookout for upcoming X3D Zen4 chips? also curious if their RAM speed capability will be improved, would be nice to close the gap to RPL in this regard. although, to be fair, those crazy 7000+ speeds on Intel are all on Gear 2, whereas all Zen4 speeds are just rated at Gear 1. ha, really curious if ull be able to resist that temptation until this gen is done for 😄 1440p is kind of a waste right now with a 4090, itll be CPU bottlenecked, in some instances even with a 13900K overclock balls to the wall. personally, id always wanna put the system bottleneck on the most expensive component in the system, thus the gpu. anything else would be a waste of resources. thus id recommend 4K. scaling is not a problem if u need larger icons / text, etc. but the overall image crispness / clarity / sharpness is just nice to have 🙂 HUB just posted a nice vid ranking their monitors of 2022, if you need a nice overview on current models: as for 4090 air cooled cards, Zotac AIRO sports the longest warranty at 5 years in europe, whereas Suprim X has the beefiest overall power delivery in terms of amount, amperage rating and quality of VRMs. so these were the two i was most interested in. in the end i got the latter because i got it at MSRP and with next day delivery 😄 happy with the purchase so far! crazy to see what a little CH341a can accomplish. i also still have one of them lying around here and its helped me with my previous 980M and also my lady's 3070 TI (Laptop) to unbrick them multiples times. great little life saver! oh heck yeah, absolutely... 😄 i feel ya man, i absolutely LOVE this gorgeous Neo G8 im looking at right now 😄 but im actually glad i didnt go for the Neo G9, wouldve just been WAY too wide for my desk space hahaha. plus no headaches about non-standard aspect ratios. but the Neo lineup is beastly in general, no doubt about it. regarding the G9 8K successor, i wouldnt worry about it. everything so far indicates that a jump to 8K is just a gimmick and will not bring any actual visual fidelity advantage over 4K. so enjoy your monitor for years to come bud! i know i will! especially at 240 Hz, not even a 4090 can max that out, so itll take at least 2 additional GPU generations to be able and even touch that....and even then only the halo top end SKU.

im already smashed and its barely 31-Dec here now haha. 650km drive with my pregnant wife at 7 months yesterday, having picked up a TON of baby stuff from my best buddy and his lady, packed two cars to the brink and only arrived late last night. phew... now catching up on what i missed here during the past week.

one can only do so much with such little time and limited tools. but look where it got us here with NBT 🙂 its quite something!

wow thanks for the kind words! always happy to be of help to the tech community 🙂

another possibility would be crappy mobo traces causing bad signal integrity. they all need to by in line to support high ram speeds, unfortunately.

have u tried the NBRchive yet?

ill keep that in mind next time im facing potential jailtime LULZ

well that sucks....but still hope with potential patches upcoming then.

dude how are u even still standing 😅

too bad, sounds like the IMC is not up to snuff then...

yep also saw that vid. im thinking in HEDT Intel can more easily ignore the baby cores and needs no excuse to go all out on energy consumption and thus performance to be able and compete with the threadripper / epyc multicore monsters from AMD. curious to see what Intel will do with that. id like one please, thx 😁 LOL they dont build them like they used to hahaha. perfect thing to use this shitty cold weather, enjoy! dont u freeze solid on us mr. snow man hahaha merry christmas to you and your family! duuuude thats absolutely amazing. i cant believe u actually managed to get that oldtimer chip all the way to 5 Ghz 😱🥳👍 agreed, very important to have many view points around to foster exchange of ideas 🙂 we dont wanna end up as a fanboy camp here hahaha merry xmas to you too bro, currently cruising around in NRW visiting friends n family 😃

challenge accepted 😋😎 currently at my in law's for xmas so will take a week until i get back to my beast haha happy holidays everyone!

dude those are some sweet caps! looking sleek af both you and ygohome are good sons 👍😁

ah no, thats actually after manual tweaking to my needs and usage. i usually try to max out battery life vs performance or max screen brightness 🙂 so the tests u saw was with stock config.

give it some time, im.sure hell not be able to resist at some point mwahaha 😁😎

DAFUQ 🤣

omg dont even know if to laugh or cry on that one....so true 😄

what happened was ever higher board TDPs on desktop GPUs and more and more castrated mobile GPU TDPs 😄

definitely not much left. u might update the RAM to 2133 sticks and OC them to either 2200 or even 2400. Wifi one or two more gens newer... higher capacity SSDs.... maybe custom CPU heatsink for higher OC:...but yeah performance wise not much more to gain 🙂 good job!

add to that the neat battery life, getting around 15-17h of SOT, pretty sweet!

keep us updated on that beastly setup then 🙂

welp, nothing more to add here 😄 sorry i didnt reply earlier, im happy i can even post once every 1-3 days currently 🙂 in any case, the AF2s are definitely good products. and safest bet to get a late revision is to either buy directly from Arctic (website or ebay) or use a shop that has a lot of sales and thus fluctuation. that way u can be sure their products dont stay on shelves too long and are stocked up frequently. duuuude ure going all out with GPU purchases eh? planning to keep all of them or just test, screen and keep the ones u like? in any case, thats taking one for the team 😄 well this trend of comments is concerning....so far i cant really complain about the X670E Extreme i got from Asus, everything functioning as it should. knocking on wood that this will last! funny thing about all this is that rumor mill makes it seem like AMD themselves actually expected more from their own cards... 😅 lets see if they can fix any of those performance bugs via driver updates or if new silicon would be necessary... in any case, making the HORRIBLE 4080 look like a better deal is just....i cant even 🥲

geez... THATs why i keep telling my wife that we cant go to Canada, well freeze do death LOL

huh... hes got something in mind there, and he wouldnt leave a poll like that to chance... dont trust this as far as i can throw the platform's servers 😛

damn dude, someone's planning to go all out on his next build, i know the feeling 😄 that case looks a wee bit small though...just make sure its able to fit those 4090 monster cards 😅 as for those crazy capacity sticks...be aware that the higher cap u go the less speed ull get out of them. what u need so much RAM for, anyways? running whole datasets in memory or smth?