Talon

Pass for sure. Sometimes I have to wonder what Intel is thinking.

Exactly why I kept my slightly less performant 5090 core with the Dual 12V2x6 connectors. I think it's almost guaranteed next gen high end will feature 2x of these connectors which is why most newer high end PSUs now feature 2x of them.

I would 100% have called the police and filed a report. After I got into my car and grabbed his license plate. Can’t trust anyone these days. Too many local deals have turned deadly.

270K and 5090 in the main setup and 273PQE and 5070 in the tinkering rig lol. My 9850X3D lives in the living room, now GPU-less 🙁. I do have a B580 brand new sealed from Intel as an RMA replacement that I could put in there if I feel like using it lol. If Zen 6 ends up being amazing and Nova Lake a flop, maybe I'll switch it up and drive the AM5 for awhile.

Just sold my other 5090 Suprim SOC yesterday. The card was actually better than my 5090 D HOF, but I prefer the uniqueness of the 5090 D HOF and the dual power connectors to protect the card. The extra 100Mhz on the core is cool, but meh, I just don't care anymore lol. I bought the 5090 Suprim around the excitement of the 800w Matrix vBIOS but in the end, I don't trust that much over the single cable and the card was barely used. Luckily for me the 5090 cards are insanely priced now and I was able to dump it locally for well above what I paid for it. I doubt were going to get a 5090 Ti, hell at this rate we might never see a 6090 lol. Either way, this generation has been pretty squeezed at this point and it's all pretty boring for me. I've gone back to just gaming and less worrying about my frame rates and tuning. It's a lot more fun lol. Battlefield 6 has been my main lately.

All the more reason Intel is better off shifting towards a foundry only company.

Still using my SP88 overall. It has decent P cores, but weaker E cores. The MC seems OK. I saw Microcenter now has them for $299 and the free game that I don't are about, and I've considered going and picking up a couple more but honestly just might wait till Nova Lake as I'm happy with this sample overall and I doubt I'll get more than 100Mhz on the P cores? Maybe hunt for a godlike MC but even then meh.

Found a brand new factory sealed Z790 Apex Encore for $400 the other day. Went by and picked it up immediately. Not sure why I wanted it, but I think maybe because I love this 273PQE so much I'll probably put it in that board instead? Maybe I'll just keep it and never open it lol. Figured for the price, for a peak Z790 board and being factory new and sealed I couldn't pass it up. And my never ending hardware addiction continues. 🤪

I miss EVGA quite a bit at times like these. Still have my EVGA Nu Audio Pro 7.1, 1600w T2 still rocking hard and hoping EVGA might be able to provide me with a replacement when warranty nears so I can extend it's life, and my EVGA Z690 Dark KingPin which I'll just keep.

Kryptonfly over at overclock.net did this BIOS mod using AI. Imagine that, AI did something useful for a change LMAO. He managed to do the BIOS edits using Claude which is just incredible and crazy. It's still a work in progress, getting into the BIOS menu is only possible on first boot, unless you CPU swap/re-insert 273PQE. This will hopefully be solved soon as it's making tuning/testing things a pain as you get one shot and if it breaks the boot, you cannot get back in until you do the process over again. I'm thinking about just getting a heavy metal pot and resting on the CPU while testing. I think that might work and would make testing much faster. So far I've only tested Battlefield 6, and it works beautifully. All cores boost properly to 5.4Ghz locked which is more than adequate for this chip. Speaking of boost, right now single core boost to 5.9Ghz is not working, but that might just be me needing to change a bios option. Will keep testing. I got a little heavy handed on first boot and wanted to change everything, and it got fussy at either C-States or XMP, my guess is XMP. It might be one of those FSP-M issues where I can only use manual tuning for memory, XMP might be a no fly zone. As long as I can tune memory, this chip will be awesome. So far I've booted 5600 Jedec 2x32gb, which is nicely above the 4800 I was locked to on my Industrial W680 board. Guess I can send that back lmao. Will report further findings as I figure them out. For now though, am loving this chip on Z790.

Sometimes this is why I love this hobby. O it's no supposed to work Intel? Lets see about that.

"Empowered" LMAO.

This looks pretty sick, I especially like that it’s coop.

Remember when they told us that 13th and 12th gen wouldn't work with APO? That is my biggest issue with Intel. They did say IBT has specific silicon "hooks" but I doubt. They said they're looking into bringing it in some fashion to ARL 1. Tells me they're waiting to see how initial sales look before they make that decision.

Being mislead by tech tubers telling you that you have to install 'additional' software was your first mistake. The Intel Performance Package is literally a motherboard driver that you install just like my 9850X3D has Chipset drivers that installs a 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer and Platform Power Management drivers. No longer do you have to enable anything in the BIOS, it's all on by default, you no longer download the overlay (was never required before anyways) from the Microsoft store as it's all been brough in house, single Intel PPP Driver which installs everything. Intel PPP driver is now on the Intel website as well as your motherboard support page. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/869519/intel-platform-performance-package.html Intel simply brough it all under one roof now, a single driver that does it all which is how it should have been. It's a great fix. So PPP isn't a gimmick, it's literally Platform Power Management and Optimizations that every single vendor does. I'm not sure how this misunderstanding even started.