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So what's the temp sweet spot? Has the same effect been observed in DDR5?

Are you sure? These ain't diesel engines..... Edit: you may be onto something:The increase in current flow means decrease in the resistance. Thus, the electric current in the semiconductor increases with the increase in temperature or heat (Semiconductor has negative temperature coefficient). https://www.physics-and-radio-electronics.com/electronic-devices-and-circuits/semiconductor/heatandlighteffectonsemiconductors.html Still, flies in the face of the "cooler is better" overclockers' rule of thumb.

Unless I'm missing something, there are no E-Cores on those Sapphire Rapids Xeons. For one thing, most businesses probably still run Windows 10, and that OS suffers from occasional issues with E-Cores. Second, Intel wants to provide AVX-512 on the pro platform, and that's only available on P-Cores. But yeah, it would be great to see something in between: octa channel RAM, up to 512GB, more PCIe lanes. Doesn't look like that's in the works though :( Agree, that 13900K exceeded expectations.

Yeah, probably - especially if we are talking about some decent SKUs. That's going to be a very niche product competing in a market kind of crowded out by the Great AMD Chiplet Swarm.

I will wait for the pricing information - for now very happy with what Raptor Lake can do. Just to state the obvious: the above is not HEDT in the 10980XE sense. 10980XE was something in between consumer and Xeon - much less memory supported, no ECC, and only 1S (to mention the basic differences).

Yes, so the implosion of Alameda Research had nothing to do with core crypto per se. They were basically an unregulated hedge fund / proprietary trading firm who happened to invest in crypto. The gross fraud part is the siphoning of customer funds from the FTX exchange anywhere outside other than to a proper custodian. No FTX customers were aware that their funds were misappropriated this way. Their confidence was being maintained by a clever PR campaign, hanging out with politicians, high profile investments itd. Again, the core rule is "not your keys, not your crypto". The only role exchanges should play is handling quick transfers back and forth between crypto and fiat. Instead, people were handing their funds over to the exchange in order to hold (and possibly earn some interest, I'm not sure) or trade on the exchange - a costly mistake. Should one absolutely need to use an exchange, obviously the safest bet would be to use one located in a regulated jurisdiction, rather than an offshore one, but the same rule generally applies. TBH the thought of using FTX had never crossed my mind prior to them becoming "famous". I'm not sure I was even aware of it's existence. Then again, we can take a broader look at the world of investing and consider what's happening in equities. Tesla investors have lost at least $500B, or at least half the value of their investment, this year. However, because these are good old stocks, nobody is constantly lamenting. It's considered par for the course. Then of course, there are historical events such as the Great Recession or the 2008 housing/banking collapse which brought entire countries to their knees, and in the case of the former, arguably lead to WWII. The losses of SBF's investors are a drop in the bucket compared to those major global events. The difference, of course, is that - at least in the case of Tesla - it's harder to fault Musk, or anyone else, directly. He didn't really deceive anyone much - other than through the usual Twitter shenanigans. Yes, his reckless actions contributed to the losses, but he had every right to take them.

I enjoyed these YT comments under a Linux gaming video. Summary: works great unless raytracing is involved. Ian Luyten 3 months ago (edited) Microsoft crossed the line with Win11 ... switched to 100% linux (endeavourOs) last week on my new build - have to admit that gaming is a bit more pain than I expected Uchiha Madara 10 days ago More freedom always comes with a little pain...

Just to add on the RAM question: you can see that those titles are already pushing 13GB. Those are not really 4090-class productions, basically legacy at this point. VRAM utilisation just 25% higher than this would push it over 16GB. But yeah, obviously not necessary to support the games available today. From gamer's perspective 24GB means healthy future-proofing, for those who don't buy a new $2k graphics card every year.

I imagined Charles as a much older person. Must have been the formal style and the occasionally overly heavy-handed moderation.

Merde!

Obviously a speculative bubble. I could understand this pricing if Tesla produced vehicles powered by portable fusion devices good for 20 years, priced about $50k and had this patented globally. Instead they manufacture cars based on technology which is mostly replicated by other manufacturers, based on a battery technology that inflicts horrendous impact on the environment, and replaces a dependency on oil produced by many countries across the globe with dependency on rare Earth elements mined largely in China.

Yeah, sadly so. I will try to shop for a high quality replacement - it looks like a 60mm fan. The device itself is totally worth it as far as the massive RAM temp reduction is concerned. For now I pulled off the fan label, and applied a little drop of dry weather bike chain oil - the disturbing harsh rattle turned into a barely audible kind of high-pitched swooshing noise. Probably a bit too much oil. BTW The system has been rock solid with the new PSU, running fairly heavily undervolted (-90mV) with +1 on E-Cores and CL32 instead of CL40. Massive difference vs the old Thermaltake 1200.

Corsair Vengeance Airflow lasted but a few weeks before the fan started rattling... Hoping the Corsair PSU endures rather longer!

No worries bro, the price will also be cut by a quarter...

Elon Musk pumps Tesla stock with ridiculous $4 trillion target. Is a dump coming next? He thinks this is going to be as easy a job as with the crypto monkeys jumping onto Doge after a tweet, doesn't he? YTD performance: AAPL -21.89% MSFT -26.69% NASDAQ -30.49% GOOGL -35.97% .... DOW -8.50% VW -23.90% GM -37.42% F -39.46% TSLA -55.23% That's over $500B of value gone, and at least $150-200B over the par. Utterly ridiculous. Five hundred billion dollars. A company which manufactures a million cars a year into a capped market. P/E ratio still at an idiotic 55 after the collapse.

3....2....1.... ON AIR (completes a shameful checkout) of another Nvidia product

For people like you they should just ship those with a water block :) That would probably decapitate AIBs though.

Thanks. Unfortunately the 4080 has the exact same Chungus-class dimensions as the 4090, which is idiotic or lazy design/cost saving. Plus I need the 24GB and the NVLink option could well come in handy.

Similar boat. Appreciate Musk saving me the trouble of logging in to delete the account. Will be good to see the spam stop too.

OK, I think I'm going to just grab one of those 3090 Ti's.. Might get away with using the current case that way. Joining the Desperate Slaves of Nvidia Club:

I'm really confused by this. Techpowerup specs claim both cards are 61mm/3slot, whereas on this video the 3090ti appears to be thinner:

OK so the Force/SP ratings might not be meaningfully comparable across CPUs. The 13900K is an absolutely monstrous upgrade - I mean +30-40% multicore performance improvement over the 12900KS is insane, but obviously only worth it if the current CPU gets maxed out by whatever it's used for.

Oh dear, but fair enough. I didn't realise it was so bad. Having never owned an AMD component, I'm in no position to argue. Just hoping Team Red can improve as the competition they provide is sorely needed. BTW Am I reading this right? 3090 Ti FE is about the same width (or height, depending on how you look at it) as the 4090? About 138mm.

And yet, you've declared willingness to try Intel ARC? Surely that's less mature and stable. Perhaps you are not risk-averse, but are a little biased? Not saying that for no historical reason at all. Guess let's wait until Tuesday to see what they say about the 7900XTX. We can post funny Linus videos all day, but the only way to really say "FU" to Nvidia is by not giving them any money.

Let's put the myth that Intel guarantees any binning with their KS products to rest My 12900KS was Force 165, unless that bad rating was somehow effected by the poor PSU.