jaybee83

yep, agreed on that. always good to take a little time out every once in a while, look at your life and decide, if the internal hesitation is based on being overwhelmed or if its a sign that ure taking a direction u dont actually want to take. oh no worries on that front, i actually pushed back the job start for two weeks so i could take care of the worst part of the move. the rest will just take a while to figure out, i.e. getting the furniture in place (delivery times being quite long that they are atm) and unpacking everything. yeah! thats what i was referring to above in reply to @Reciever, once u feel that internal hesitation and realize youre "stuck", thats the absolute worst. its often times not straight forward though, i.e. "be careful what you wish for". a life of total individual freedom might sound awesome right now, but picture yourself on your death bed: wouldnt you miss having a family of your own? maybe regret having lived a life that was a bit too "selfish"? as with all things in life actually worth having, it needs work, time, nerves, dedication, compromises and sacrifice. thanks for the feedback guys, much appreciated 🙂

dont forget, theyvre alread done exactly that, going from 10 core 10900K to an 8C 11900K... lulz, AMD supporters, cmon man 😄 im not a fanboy for any company, i just go with the products that make the most sense to me 😛

less of a bother, more of a worry. but that worry bothers me. tons going on currently, just finished moving into a new appartment, had to handle all of our stuff single-handedly, since my pregnant wife obviously is not allowed to handle any heavy things anymore. luckily im pretty much in peak physical condition atm, been working out hard the past few months but still, was SO much and so stressful, i ended up getting sick. now in the new appartment, but basically living out of suitcases n boxes, still tons of furniture missing we need to purchase and build. gonna start my new job in 4 days time. interviews were a blast, seems like they REALLY want me and expect great things. recently married in August, got our first kid on the way, just found out its gonna be a girl! soooo....long story short: am i cut out for all this? be a good husband, good father, good employee? i feel so inadequate and stuff currently just feels overwhelming. a bit more personal than i usually like it to be, but felt like i needed to vent this.

ouch, not a good trend my man! as @Etern4lmentioned above, out of sight is out of mind. best to get rid of all excessive sugar storages in your home. just leave enough for a snack or two ahead. add in roadblocks for urself to get to sugar, i.e. having to do another supermarket or shop run to get sweets. also, if it HAS to be smth sweet, try and go with smth more healthy, i.e. fruits or heavy grain bars with a touch of dark chocolate on top of heavy grain cornflakes. or with drinks, instead of straight up just dilute everything with water, fills up the belly faster and quenches the sugar thirst but limits the total sugar intake. source: myself 😄 always trying to find new tricks to fool my body into burning more and consuming less.

dangerous game ure playing there with that argument. its the classic "i and others i know dont need this, so might as well just get rid of it!". same can be said for: - socketable cpus. most people never upgrade their cpu, even on desktop. - socketable wifi. most people never upgrade that either. - hows about dat RAM? do most people upgrade that in their machines? doubtful. and so on, and so forth. what AMD provides with their platform longevity is CHOICE. u dont want to upgrade to the latest compatible cpu on that socket after 6-7 years? fine, get a completely new system. but u still have the CHOICE to do so, i.e. ure tight on budget and cant bother to build a completely new machine, bam new cpu swap with bios update and bob's your uncle. would u prefer a complete platform change for every single cpu gen? including soldered down components for everything? welcome to laptop land! this is where PC enthusiasts come to die 💀 respectfully disagree on that point, its not a gimmick but rather a tool for AMD to win market share from Intel. AM4 CPUs and especially the 5800X3D outselling all other cpus combined is a pretty strong indicator for that. of course there are MORE than enough peeps that just prefer Intel tuning, just way easier to overclock, bigger numbers in terms of clocks, stable boosting without fluctuations, more direct control, etc. but point being that both strategies seem to attract a looot of users, so something must be done right on both sides. and I KNOW! most of us dont look for "value" of this kind with our hardware choices and we sneer at "good enough" hardware, since we usually want only the best of the best. but catering towards us is not how AMD and Intel make money, were just there for the Halo effect. it is what it is! dude, this whole post is a friggin piledriver (pun also intended) driving your points home, great work as usual on the analysis and summary! sadly, thats exactly what ive been hearing so far, as well. 14th gen is going 6P + 16E, its not gonna be pretty vs. the expected 24C / 48T Zen 5 flagship from AMD 😅

oooh i forgot about the books, ure totally right! they lost Cavill? oh snap, smth mustve gone terribly wrong then. have they found a replacement yet? big shoes to fill, to say the least...

try and stick to Andor, its a slow burning fire but its slowly picking up and gets more interesting as u go along 🙂

ha, nevermind, i mixed it up with the Honeywell paste / pad 😄

aw man, still waiting for a new season of Sherlock! "unfortunately" the main actors have become waaaaay too famous and expensive I fear hahaha

looks quite impressive! ashamed to say ive never played that game, but heard tons of good stuff 🙂 funny to see that theyre implementing stuff inspired by the tv show, which in turn was inspired by the game series 😄 coming full circle haha

dude ure quite unlucky with faulty CPUs!

will let my best bud know, hes also an old die hard X vs T fan 😄

ha! cheap marketing pics if ever i saw any 😄 if my paste looked like that after unmounting id gett worried that i didnt have any contact whatsoever 😅

yah dude, same for the 7950x, craaazy pricing around currently!

had a good long run though! and came to a good conclusion in the end 🙂 loved that show

dude! main thing is ure in good health though!

additional point being this is still a pretty small community. plus most of them likely notebook owners 🙂 nevertheless, ill also be posting my stuff here first!

damn, stark contrast to all the super positive reviews in the thermal paste thread. crazy stuff, thanks for the input!

u kidding?! how am i gonna survive on this low-end hardware im currently sporting? 😂 dude, seriously....who TF is buying those 4080s?!?!?! WHO? someone who can spend 1200+ on a GPU but aint willing to spend a bit more for a 4090? WHO DOES THAT?!?!?! please, anyone, enlighten me... or, alternatively, wait a bit and go for a 7900XTX....seriously! would be such a sick joke if all Ngreedia did was rebadge the fake 4080 and keep their crazy pricing. i see what u did there Mr. Musk 😄 yeah the thing with those Atom cores... looking at silicon area, one cluster of four takes up as much space as a single P core. with E cores at roughly 65%+ performance of P cores, each P core u substitue for one E core cluster would result in 4*65% = 260% vs. 100% multi core performance, so basically ure losing almost two thirds! with the 13900K at 8P and 16E this would result in a CPU with 12P Cores at roughly 65% of total multi core performance. that would only be on par with a 12900K or less, meaning they would lose baaaaad against AMD. best thing for us to happen would be Nvidia and AMD being on par and going at each other's throats just like Intel and AMD are currently doing in CPU space! get the 7950X and listen to a totally unbiased 7950X owner 😉 platform longevity. also, value proposition depends on how high the stack ure looking. at the very top, barely any difference. if u go midtier i.e. 13600K or 7600X/7700X then RPL does have a better value. but all that has changed now with the adjusted holiday pricing. lets see if AMD keeps those prices around, id wager they wouldnt pull back anytime soon 🙂 funny to see ready-made options for such displays! and for so cheap! i wonder what the quality will be like...im still planning to do a custom one with a 10 inch display, should be fun!

haha ok, good to know 😄 ive found overclock.net a good place to just read up on new hardware and how it behaves / tuning basics like which voltages do what, which bios versions are available, what others get from the same hardware, etc. for me personally a good starting point to know how to tackle my new machine haha. but this is likely different from your perspective, having been back to desktop way longer than i have!

is the 990 pro out yet anywhere? last ive seen was like a january release (planned).

lol that Linus reaction will always be legendary and priceless 😄 but yeah, just switch off and run along, no biggie 🙂 hahaha i knooooow ive seen so many butthurt users on overclock.net, basically every port royal score above 29k is called into question. but its kinda true, variance seems to be unusually high lately with similar clocks, that should not be the case with a proper benchmark worth its designation as such! issue in the end is that users that do their due diligence in bios finetuning, OS decrapping and pulling all tricks in the book get crapped on by n00bs who just got lucky with a wonky run and bam u get big discussions.

may i ask, why would they refuse to register here? in the beginning right after NBR closure its understandable since a proper successor was still to be determined. but now its pretty safe to say that NBT is the true mental successor to NBR, albeit still in the growth phase 🙂 but good things take time, as we all know! and it definitely has the right spirit to take over from NBR if u ask me.

yeah sure, now that theyve realized theyve fired too many 😂 higher turnover than Amazon?! how is that even possible, lol. amazon is already having troubles finding new ppl because theyve USED UP THE WHOLE ELIGIBLE US POPULATION!!! how much worse than that can u actually get? omg 😂 phew, such frequent "updates" are a tight rope balancing act... ive gotten used to implement this for myseff, i.e. make short n quick notes on what ive done on a work day to keep track of my accomplishments - comes in handy at the midyear and end of year reviews as well as salary or promotion related negotiations - and, most importantly, it helps me keep a healthy work life balance and not lose sight of any potential OT. however, if such things become requirements it gets annoying and overbearing VERY easily and just causes unnecessary extra work. having regular (like weekly) update meetings to be on the same page is different, because that is not in the context of "justifying" one's existence at the workplace but rather just alignment of the team and clarification / tackling of unknowns and issues.

this is only an issue if ure worried about official warranty. if u just go by actual reliability, rest assured ur samsung ssd will have closer to like an order of magnitude higher TBW before it gives out on you