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Are you using a contact frame? How is your Thermaltake GF3 doing?

Thanks, I saw this ranked high by TH but couldn't find it for sale initially. 1600 TBW for the 2TB model is second only to the Firecuda, runs on the same Phison E18 controller. Will read through. If it's as reliable as Kingston RAM then def a very strong option.

The crazy thing about the Corsair Mp600 is that all the models come with some sort of heatsink (which seems permanent), as if they didn't know that high-end boards have heatsinks built in. Have to cross that one off :(

I got a little concerned with the power draws we are seeing here, and decided to bite the bullet and service my new Arctic Freezer to replace a faulty gasket, and try out the Thermaltake contact frame. I've got to say, I was a little sceptical. Holy guacamole! Cores hitting ambient at idle and around 80C at 310W. Ca. 10C improvement as advertised. Reminded me of a battle to keep a laptop CPU under 100C at 60W 🙂 BTW one fan started rattling a little after a few months of rather heavy use, nice one Arctic, thanks for the extra hassle - good thing I had a spare, although it's fiddly to use a standard fan as a replacement due to the extra wires..

Yeah I'm a little sceptical about that service, therefore I would be hedging my bets. Really the main concern is Seagate's short track record with the Firecuda's SSDs, some people say the 520 wasn't that reliable.

Strong option, many thanks. TBW is actually 1400 for the 2TB model vs 2.5k for the Firecuda but that's decent. The reason I'm looking for high TBW is that the usage will be fairly heavy, might easily run into tens of TB per month so looking for something with a bit of headroom. I actually have a 2TB Corsair drive, has been good for me but mostly used as storage. Will def read some reviews on this.

Nice. Not sure what der Bauer was talking about with 320W power draw.. Edit: Ah, so this suggests the CPU is power limited out of the box, and removing the limits and then some OC pushes the power draw to 388W and 399W respectively 🤣 (probably for very little benefit though)

Hello, after a brief research the answer seems to be clearly FireCuda 530, nothing else comes close to 2500 TBW for 2TB. Performs reasonably well too. Any experiences with this SSD, or perhaps some alternatives I missed? How is the real-life reliability?

Right, but of course the smoothness of CG motion is a function of FPS. With input lag there is a bit more extra neural complexity, however, we can also perceive "smoothness" of response very well. In real world a 100ms "input lag" would probably correspond to really heavy intoxication 🙂 Yeah, I don't know where that 60 fps or something "upper limit on FPS perception" myth came from. Possibly born back in the CRT era where they were figuring out at what point we stop perceiving the scanning effect. I would argue that's very different, because then we are not talking about perceiving FPS, but perceiving individual lines (or pixels) being drawn - a 2-6 orders of magnitude quicker process.

This is a common misconception. Reaction times are different to perception and could indeed be much longer. Pretty much everyone in good health can perceive the difference in smoothness when dragging a window around reasonable size monitor at 60Hz, 120Hz and 240Hz - through this simple exercise we are already in the perception of sub 10ms phenomena territory.

A reputable retailer here says availabe tomorrow for.... $840.

You keep referring to some DF video, although you haven't provided a link recently. Monitor latency is a component of the total system latency. 10ms is deemeed significant for one and therefore any component of the total latency by a major and fairly sophisticated review site, and this is in reference to the impact on the overall latency as perceived by the user. Again, highly subjective and dependent on the relevant user reaction time/sensitivity to some extent. All good as long as neither the extra latency nor the artifacts detract from the user experience. Well done scoring a 4090! Edit: BTW DLSS artifacts are not just showing up in between frames, since the two "master" frames are also DLSSed, so some of the artifacts and the loss of quality are permanent and very visible in many cases (rather than just imperceptible flickers between two perfect frames).

A link to scrutinize would help, as I'm not even sure how the imput lag was measured. For example, 10ms of extra monitor input lag alone would be very noticeable, see https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tests/inputs/input-lag I wish I knew what you are referring to re 100ms input lag. Atari 2600 pong perhaps? There is an absolute technological chasm between DLSS and prior technologies, and the artifacts are on a different level as well. For example here: DLSS 3 introduced a gigantic quantity of artifacts, which applied together kind of look plausible. In the example above the algorithm invented some cloud reflactions it assumed should be there, the colours are off, the details are blurred etc. but it all looks convincing if you don't know what the raw image looks like. Think of this as deepfakes going wrong. There are lots of other examples involving conjured up/overdone reflections for some reason. Here is an interactive comparison. Shocking! https://imgsli.com/MTI2NzI5

The latency would basically double, so in your case 25ms to 50ms. The impact would be highly title dependent. Perfect for a relaxed flight sim for sure, anything that requires frequent and precise control might start feeling slightly slippery, depending on one's perception threshold of course. Naturally, the higher the raw framerate the lower the risk of input lag issues, so this is probably a better tech to use going from 120 to 240 fps than from 60 to 120 or from 30 to 60. Then there are the model errors / artefacting - plenty of examples on YT to enjoy. The beauty of it is that most people wouldn't notice since they would not routinely scrutinise correctness vs the raw material. Clever Nvidia, good for them.

Let's hope so. My point is that things like core counts don't tell much of a story, and kind of look underwhelming in comparison. Looking deeper, 6800xt is on par with with 3080 on Linux (and outperformed it in gaming) so go Team Red!

There is obviously a one frame input lag with Frame Generation, but this would likely only possibly bother esports twitch shooter players, who would already be enjoying raw 400-500 fps on 4090 rigs, so wouldn't need any extra frame generation. Casual player's dream for sure, similar to gsync.

The specs look like "Navi 31" will compete robustly with the 4080, unless the much larger cache provides a substantial enough boost.

Hope they manage to stay in business after the falling out with Nvdia, and maybe come out with a PSU with native 12VHPWR if not PCIe 3.0 support. Of course, according to Jensen, his pal EVGA owner is just wanting to close shop, nothing to do with Nvidia specifically 🙄

Great, I'm keeping this PSU on my shortlist then 🙂

I mean of course the PSU-side 8pin PCIe ports could be capable of delivering 300W of power each, it's just that we don't really know, although they can evidently do ~230W. Was the 465W sustained? Could that have been within the 450W tolerance margin? Unless you hit 500W+ sustained, as people seem to do, something's a bit off (especially given Seasonic's 450W disclaimer). And again - trivial to check if the Seasonic adapter is the issue, first thing I would do already.

I don't understand this. With the 4x Octopus, you'd need 4 8pin PCIe cables coming from the PSU. Those 4 cables, would require 4 PSU-side sockets. There are no 1->2 splitters on the PSU side, just straight up 1-1 cables: https://seasonic.com/pub/media/wysiwyg/feature-pics/PRIME-TX-1000-accessories-shadows.png The Seasonic 12VHPWR cable can be rated to 600W but that does not mean that the PSU is actually going to deliver 600W (as per their own disclaimer). Could simply be because the PSU is not delivering the power...

Worth a shot. I'm pretty sure I saw mainstream YT videos of people reaching 500W+, so if you can't do that maybe the 2x 8pin adapter cable is at fault. How about you switch to the 4x Nvidia Octopus for comparison? With the Seasonic cable, can you specify power target > 100%?

Have you tried any GPU rendering benchmarks yet? Maybe give IndigoBench a go.

Wow, looking at this angle, the 12VHPWR cable is quite thick (which has its advantages obviously... safety, hello) but not as easy to route as say the Corsair cable: https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/Categories/Products/Accessories-|-Parts/PC-Components/Power-Supplies/600W-PCIe-5-0-12VHPWR-Type-4-PSU-Power-Cable/p/CP-8920284 the BeQuiet one: https://www.bequiet.com/de/accessories/3959 or the one in the the new Toughpower GF3 (the second cable from the bottom right I believe):

I hate this remote Windows home directory business, it kind of works but there are issues with profile synchronisation etc. What's wrong with cloud solutions? You can add your own encryption layer on top? Alternatively, you can host your own - e.g. Synology Cloudstation.