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Always a pleasure buying from you @Mr. Fox. Personally it's much less stress buying from you since you know what's under the hood and no post-sale shenanigans from me. Here's hoping your next project will scratch that itch just as mine will for me! A bit of a laugh but I actually tried to get a second opinion from my good friend Hiew to talk me out of reaching out to Brother Fox. He just straight up told me I was buying it before I even said anything. He's been so happy with the previous bundle I bought from Fox so that it comes up semi-regularly the performance compared to the 5800X3D for anything he does. From time to time he's downloading at 5Gbps and just giggles as the cpu gets to work. 5800X3D pretty much took care of all my needs but I did like the idea of the 9950x3d2. I have been too busy with work to know Mr Fox even had this chip but more than happy to buy it from him. Outside of our circle I probably wouldn't even consider it. Time to pick up a waterblock for the 9070 XT everything on my pc will be under water now. I may take some time off from work to get everything set up.

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Seems to have passed for now. ill try to keep an eye on it

Hey sorry I havent been posting, busy season in my line of work its been madness. Still keeping tabs when I have a moment, 60 hour weeks and probably filling in for the overnight shift for a stint. Might be making a move into Engineer role if things line up. @Papusan Sorry to hear about your recent troubles but really stoked you are on the mend. @Mr. Fox is going to need a tag partner to keep these manufacturers honest. I have been thinking about trying to sell my 10850K system again as I would like to get something that is x16/x16 for GPU benching, just been too busy. Now that I have a sizeable slush fund it seems my guilty pleasure is trying to find a 1991 Honda CRX. I have certain designs for my RSX but would "need" something else to use while its being worked on.

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Yeah :( They've seemed to move on for now

Its usually not targeted persay. Lots of bot farms out there just raining hell on any IP address range they decide for that day of the week. Internet is closer to the real world than people care to admit

Was another ddos attack but things should be back to normal

Sorry I hadn't notice the forums lack of responsiveness, been busy on my end. I have sent for the issue to be looked over, hopefully tomorrow morning. Sorry everyone!

By nearly a 1000 points too!

Not that I condone reviving threads, just saw you mention the result in another thread and thought it should be shared here for any passerby. @Scourge ended up replacing the motherboard and also confirmed that all the original parts save for the motherboard all functioned as expected. Something on the board had failed, though quite irritating (something I tend to experience with my experiments in the past) I am happy to hear that you were able to get it running again after replacing the motherboard.

Much better than mine. I had 2 switches running for a while but the problem seems to come down to heat. My 10G SFP to RJ45 adapters overheat and shutdown. For the moment I have it running 2.5GbE and it seems to be tolerating it but this weekend I plan to take a closer look and see what I can do to increase dissipation. That being said I do appreciate having 2.5GbE but I just recently installed an NVME to 10Gbps Ethernet adapter for my CrossHair VIII so I can take advantage of my server.

Those YouTube videos are mostly garbage claiming more FPS. You aren't generating frames via raster and if you set the multiplier too high you get visual distortions or worse, input lag. When set up correctly with the appropriate hardware it can be really good, I'll test some multi-player fps tonight though as those titles are more sensitive to latency. Having a 6C delta for gaming gives me the warm and fuzzies though The sapphire Pulse, seems to work pretty well. I may be looking to get a block for it so that the radiator and it aren't pulling air from each other. Would also free up the space needed to plug in the thermal sensor too. If I do I may as well just block the cpu too. Truthfully just wanted to play Monster Hunter Wilds @4k120 Next on to do list is figuring how to cool my network switch a bit more. My eth to sfp adapters overheating preventing me from being able to use 10Gbps :( Last night was able to hit 260MB/s on the network. I put an sata ssd in the server and some iso's so I can run a VM to house all of my steam library, future downloads will come from it instead of the internet.

Well this weekend I installed the Crosshair VIII Dark Hero, AM4. Luckily it had flashback as the firmware did not support the 5800X3D when I got it, one flash later and it POSTed. Though the extra memory modules I purchased were no good, seller is attempting to replace but we'll see on that front. I also traded the 3090Ti for a 9070 XT. I just didnt have a use for it and my server needs dont justify it at all. Also added an NVME to 10Gbps Eth adapter. With the 9070 XT sitting in slot 3 under pcie 4 x8, acting as the Frame Gen mule. I am able to sustain 60 FPS at 4K with Monster Hunter Wilds, with Frame Gen via Lossless Scaling carrying it to 120 "fps". I have to say, this method is quite viable. At 2x Fixed with both GPU's I am using less power than when using the 7900 XTX alone. I'll try out some FPS titles eventually to see if the latency is perceivable. Under Monster Hunter Wilds and GoW: Ragnarok I cant perceive the latency. Ideally I would like to use Adaptive so that if the FPS drops under a threshold the Frame Gen could fill the gap but I could feel the delay on the mouse hand. Under this scenario and the "improved" ducting from the A/C, the GPU was running at 22C, with the Ambient temperature being around 16C from the A/C unit. There is still gaps in the ducting but it would make the system less accessible as well. Pretty happy with the results glad I kept chasing down this experiment. Hate that its needed for certain titles to play well but I do appreciate that its there.

Lossless Scaling allows using a second GPU for Frame Generation. I tested it initially with the 3090Ti (raster) and 1080Ti as the frame gen card. I was able to get stable FPS with Monster Hunter Wilds running native at 3440x1440 and from a perception standpoint it was smooth. This was running 3090Ti PCIe 3 x16 and 1080Ti PCIe 3 x4 which is pretty limiting for this type of scenario. I would like this for smoothing out 4K120 until all the new stuff comes out. Ideally you run (for 4K120) at minimum PCIe 4 x8/x8. You also want to set a framerate that doesnt cause the GPU to sit at full tilt, so if 110 is your max average then set the framerate for 90, let the mule carry it to 120 via dynamic framerate target. It also has the standard 1/2/3 multipliers also.