Raiderman

an angry thunderstorm now and then. @Papusan -21c is not too terrible. We will get that here in Idaho from time time. 60mph on a snowmobile is not as much fun when its that cold though!

If only we could get some moisture here in the PNW. Normally the valleys would be coated with white stuff this time of year, but we have not had any measurable snow fall dating back a to a year ago. It was however, 14 degrees this morning in Nampa, Idaho which would be nice for some OCing.

@Mr. Fox Sent a message to your phone. Glad to see you are doing ok.

Delete all of your old screenshots to free up space for the new. Nice results!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Agreed!

Going into winter, I may have some extra time, and was thinking I needed something new to bench 🤷‍♂️ Of course I could always go the route of @Papusan and grab some old cards. That's the problem with hardware geeks, in order to have something new and shiny you have to spend an arm and a leg. Unfortunately this below isn't much of an upgrade. Only a 5090 would be.

I was looking at the zotac solid core oc. $999, or the zotac amp extreme $1199. Neither has me terribly excited. I've been contemplating waiting a bit longer to see what AMD has in the pipeline. Hoping that it would be comparable to the 4090.

I wont pay $2k for a gpu let alone those prices. Gpu+waterblock+thermal paste/pads. I have a 5080 in my cart, but I cannot seem to justify it. The 5080 is only marginally better than the 7900xtx.

#1 with a 9950X, nice!

This is a serious Rabbit hole.

@Mr. Fox Screenshot Something about needing Nvidia closed source firmware

The Taichi is now listed on fleabay along with the 7900xtx.

Amazing, and very appreciated reply. Thank you! You've convinced me to sell the Taichi MB. My gigabyte board had a similar problem with the top pcie heatsink/cpu waterblock, and GPU backplate. I had to dremel a 1/4" off the pcie heatsink in order for it all to fit/mesh correctly. Of course the top pcie is needed for the SSD to run at 5.0, and the GPU to run at x16. Cutting aluminum with a dremel cut off wheel was excruciating. Aluminum does not cut well, so it was frictioned off! 🤣

Opinions!? Zotac rtx 5080 solid oc w/ Alphacool water block....or Msi suprim rtx 5080 Or none of the above? Or hang on to my 7900xtx till next gen? @Mr. Fox Did you have/test the Asrock X870E Taichi mb? I have a brand new one and was considering swapping it out with the Gigabyte Aorus elite x870E thats currently in my rig. What were your impressions of it?