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These cracks are ridiculous. It's happening on all cards. They're too heavy unless you use the brace. I have a brace under my cards since launch and haven't had an issue. But they need to make it clearer to consumers that the card needs this to be used. To be fair, all of my cards, except for the FE had a brace in the box.

Pretty much the review I expected.

I've been testing one of these with a 280mm AIO on my living room setup. They work pretty dang well! Temps are comparable to the best pastes out there. I ordered the 38x38 sheet and then cut to size. When I cut it down a tad the sheet to slightly crack so that actually could have hurt temps IMO. I have a second one that I'm saving for 14th gen so don't want to retest. But overall I'm impressed with this. Could be good for those that don't need absolute best, don't want the mess while quickly testing a setup, etc. I'll keep using it for that setup since I leave it stock and don't need the best temps possible.

Pretty interesting, I found that Reflex helped latency quite a bit vs not using it. You can feel a significant different in the mouse movement/latency. Either way, definitely a good start for AMD, just wish it wasn't tied to FSR upscaling.

I think I have you address, when I get back from my 4 day I'll drop you a tube in the mail. I bought 3 when I got it and I don't think I'll be using all 3x anytime soon.

Nice! Good to see the temp drop and your gap came down a bit more too. Good stuff. I'd be curious to see how well the temp shakes out using the paste. I personally have not tried it.

See my above comment. That is AMDs FMF or Fluid Motion Frames, only works on their 7000 series RX GPUs. So unless you have one of those, it will not work. It's a driver side toggle. @tps3443Ya, unfortunately more exclusive features lol. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fgdxrp1niy8rb1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1404%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D0eef5d0124a6a02c33762d9a37e790793ef68c99 More beautiful examples of FSR3 Frame Gen 😁

That is AMD FMF or Fluid Motion Frames and it's EXCLUSIVE to AMD 7000 series cards. You can't use that unless you have one of those cards. It's a driver side frame gen thing, but not nearly as good as the game dependent version. The only 2 games you can use the game dependent, hardware agnostic frame gen is Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum, both really shit games lol. Hopefully more games to come soon.

Tested FSR3 Frame Gen on my 4090 in both games. Unfortunately it's linked to forcing FSR, no DLSS available and looks like garbage because of this. The tech itself does seem to work decently enough, and seems to take a different approach than Nvidia. They are like doubling the frame vs AI generating a frame. This leads to visual issues. See below. It's also odd to me that they didn't do a preview/early sample to tech outlets that usually review this stuff. Then they released it with 2 terrible games. Either way I gave it it try since I have access to both games and ya not terribly impressed. This is at 4K Quality FSR with Frame Gen in motion. Horrible ghosting, fizzles, and halos around objects. Some of the textures are just missing basically.

Yes I grabbed mine on eBuy7. I went with the 7958 version for the paste.

Yes, I use the 7958 on my desktop with 13900K/Apex. It's good stuff. I have the 7950 Pad on my laptop 4090 while the bare die 13900HX is using LM. I also tested the 7950 Pad in the past on a 6750 XT that had a huge delta between core and hotspot. It not only improved core but lowered the delta down to around 10c between core/hotspot. So the pad/sheets work great on GPUs.

I've been preaching PTM 7950 for quite some time. The stuff is nothing short of incredible compared to traditional pastes, and best of all, no pump out. I have both the pad/sheet form and paste 7958. The sheet/pad will not work on a desktop CPU IHS, it will never melt from my experience. The paste though, that stuff is awesome and works like it should. It won't match a delidded LM setup, but it will get great temps and keep a warranty intact with none of the risk.

I'm on vacation from Oct 3 - 23, yissss I will be grabbing one or 2 for testing. Y not lol.

Now to get these stable. They game for hours in BF2042 without issue, pass Geekbench, and haven't had any issues using them this way, but will eventually error out TM5. Hard to keep these dual ranks cool even with air. If I push the cache to 50x gets the latency down to 52ns. Not too shabby for 2x32gb kit. Took that picture hiking with the wife in Yosemite earlier this year. Gotta touch grass every now and then. 😁

https://www.microcenter.com/product/651260/gskill-trident-z5-rgb-series-64gb-(2-x-32gb)-ddr5-6000-pc5-48000-cl30-dual-channel-desktop-memory-kit-f5-6000j3040g32gx2-tz5rk-black This kit as long as 820A (a-dies) are excellent overclockers. They’ve also got the 6400 CL34 kit for same $219 new sale price. Had I aimed for new instead of the $153 open box deal, I would have tried them. But I have a feeling these will OC the exact same as the 6000 CL30 kit.

Starfield seems to absolutely love dual ranked ram. I am seeing about 10fps higher than my single rank ram that is running at higher speed. Microcenter had some of the 2x32gb stuff in stock and open box for $153 this morning, insane deal. I reserved some and ran over and unfortunately when I arrived and checked the package, it was M-Die. They had more open box kits in the back for the same price so I decided to go check those. Sure enough they had some A-Die kits for $153. I grabbed them and swapped them into my Dark Z690 with my crappy 13900K (crap IMC). Running 7400 CL34 dual ranked 64gb for $153. The package had 3x returned stickers all over it, and even a RTV (return to vendor) and RRTV (tested by GSkill and Refused Return To Vendor). They looked sus lol. Sure enough they are rockstars like my other kit I got earlier this year for $270?. https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-14th-gen-core-i9-14900k-i7-14700k-and-i5-14600k-reportedly-launches-october-17th Hoping the IMC is god like. Apparently Asus has stopped production of OG Z790 Apex and a refresh is coming with even higher memory tuning. I saw a product listing for the new Gigabyte boards claiming 8800+ memory OCs.

It actually blows my mind that people are still using those adapters. Seriously, how much more proof do you need they're defective and ticking time bombs. The only cards I see having melting or burning issues today are the ones using those 90 degree adapters. Just use the stock Nvidia crazy fingers or get a custom cable and be done with it. I've been using my CableMod cables in 3x systems since launch, no issues. But @Papusancould write a book on the amount of these adapters that have burned up.

After they've cancelled the 4090 Ti, or at least it's definitely looking this way. I gave up and am swapping the 4080 to a 4090 again lol. My local BB had a couple in stock this morning. I had a $50 coupon from them. Of course it's a 1070mV limited chip. No worries, a quick vBIOS flashed fixed that and now I have a full 1100mV OG version. Boosts to 2715Mhz out of box completely stock. Temps are cold on this beast too, the coolers on the FE are insanely good this gen. That vapor chamber and PTM doing work. With OC at stock 1050mV voltage I can hit 2955mhz. VRAM seems decent but not amazing. Unfortunately it seems it's going to top out around +1600. Have not tried to punch the voltage up though. Will see how far it will go, but honestly even at stock settings these cards are insane enough.

They're busy selling GPUs to AI and letting modders take care of their performance issues in the form of Frame Gen.

I’m loving just landing on random planets and exploring a bit. Taking over random ships that land nearby and killing everyone onboard. Space pirate stuff. The AutoHDR mod/hack looks incredible on OLED. Def have to try that out. DLSS and Frame Gen are a must as well. I don’t usually love this type of game but I’ve def gotten into it. I can see this game lasting a long time and being heavily modded over the years. Worth a look on Gamepass for $5 tomorrow when it drops for those that haven’t tried it out yet.

https://www.maxon.net/en/downloads/cinebench-2024-downloads Get benching yall. edit: Seems very demanding compared to R23.

For me it really depends on screen size and viewing distance. But for a normal computer desk viewing distance, 27" screen I can easily spot the difference between a 1080p, 1440p, and 4K screen. 1440p is a tad more difficult, but individual pixels are still viewable, 1080p is disgusting on a screen that size, and 4K is finally at a high enough DPI that individual pixels are no longer distinguishable. In game, it's no contest, a 4K screens clarity and detail really stands out. Textures look incredible and games have never looked so crisp and beautiful. I've been gaming at 4K 144Hz since 2019, and the road only points forward. Although I do wonder if were going to reach a point in the near future where it won't matter anymore. Like the next horizon is 8K screens, but will that matter if we can't see individual pixels anymore? My gut tells me we're close to the end on resolution, or need for a new monitor technology to make a real difference in visual fidelity and the drive towards life like graphics.

LOL I totally forgot I renamed them to that one day when I was screwing around. Now it's staying haha. And yes, I've had quite a few comments about that on YouTube over the years. It's so weird hearing your own voice recorded, like wtf I don't sound like that..

Been testing Frame Generation all day for PureDark.. I had no issues with stability or otherwise after about 6 hours of testing. It's now been greenlit and is released to his patreon supporters/discord if interested. It's an amazing mod that will give you HUGE FPS gains. BIG MIDDLE FINGER TO AMD and their attempts to block frame gen and DLSS.

Wow that is an absolutely crazy good price.