Mr. Fox

I love this guy's work. Always awesome. His messaging is great and I love his style of heavy metal.

I wonder how many people are going to send me a PM asking for this? https://www.overclock.net/posts/29569587/ I decided not to sell the Strix and 4090 to pay for the new SFF build. No interest on Facepoot Marketplace, just lots of stupid emojis because it was out of nearly everyone's league to trolls there. I gave the entire system to one of my sons that is an avid gamer, took his system that I built a couple of years ago and gave it to my daughter. She developed an addiction to Baldur's Gat 3 and played almost 600 hours in the past 90 days using a system I gave her with an X79 mobo and CPU and RX 580. So both got an upgrade. The system I took from my son and gave to my daughter has a B650 AORUS Elite AX, 7700X CPU and RTX 3060 12GB. So, both of them ended up with nice upgrades. This was the ExtremeHardware review video on the system (case and AIO) I build a couple of years ago that I gave to my daughter today. After cleaning it up, repasting, fresh install of Windoze and adding an extra 2TB NVMe for her Steam library it looks and runs like new. Both kids were thrilled. (They're middle-aged adults but still my "kids" and always will be.)

Agree with every statement you made. MSI > ASUS as a company, but MSI < ASUS for firmware and overclock focus. EVGA had them all beat, but now they are irrelevant. What is so stupid is MSI marketed this motherboard as being targeted for overclocking, especially memory overclocking, then they do something extra stupid and gimp the firmware options related to memory overclocking. What the heck? Nuts. Conceptually same as the Lightning. "Hey guys, here is this extremely expensive GPU designed for extreme overclocking. You won't find out you're getting screwed until you buy it. Core is not binned, and no... no XOC BIOS for you. Only our chosen few. Hurry... buy it... quantities are limited." Screw 'em. Scammer losers. And, now there is this... the good old days are gone for PC enthusiasts. At least until the AI bubble burst and they find out they actually DO need us. Right now we're getting shafted left and right. Gee, thanks Lisa Su. Witch. Speaking of AI... LFG...

MSI, in typical MSI fashion, has dropped the ball on their BIOS development. They mysteriously omitted the AMD CBS menus and sub-menus, so there are lots of tweaks that were not accessible with the stock BIOS. It has taken a couple of days worth of mods and testing to get them added back. So, basically restoring expected function and features. It's really ridiculous that it was not present because it is an AMD firmware default menu option AFAIK. Couple this with how they behaved with the 5090 Lightning BIOS and insisting that Techpowerup take it down from their GPU BIOS database makes it hard to respect their brand in my mind. The MSI brand is all about show, not go. There was a recent article on this that got little attention. I tried to contact @flashhez and @chew and got no response, but Svet (the MSI Forum guy) came to the rescue. The world needs more people like Svet and Prema. Enthusiasts have unlocked hidden overclocking menus on the MSI B850MPOWER motherboard

Have been working with Svet for a B850MPOWER BIOS mod. It's shaping up quite nicely. Will have to see how 8400 works.

Someone at oc.net said the same. It works normal for me. If you tried it more than once and it does nothing it may be something Windows is blocking for some reason, or maybe a BIOS setting. Hard to know. It works for me on the B850MPOWER, Strix and Apex.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/153759825 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/5988575 Not too bad for the cute little guy.

Well, now this is a nice new feature added to the latest update of Winaero Tweaker. Does the same thing as the script I have been adding to the right-click menu. Just check the box and it's ready to use. Very awesome.

It is primarily sponsored by 3 libtarded Demoncraps and 1 worthless RINO, all from the cuckoo leftist Denver, CO. So, no it's not the "US" as the foreigner-written article states. It is a boisterous minority. Things are not great anywhere, but mainstream media is unreliable no matter where you live. We all need to be cautious about believing "news" about one country written by outsiders or distributed as part of the orchestrated narrative. It leads to being mislead and misinformed. Hell, we cannot even believe the "news" when it is local because most of it is just bald-faced lies or distortions and plays on emotion. The narrative is almost never accurate because it's part of an agenda to deceive, misinform or mislead gullible sheeple into drinking the Kool-Aid and believing the lies. The states run by idiots (WA, OR, CA, CO, NY, IL, MN) want to do all sorts in idiotic stuff that sane human beings living everywhere else do not want anything to do with. https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

When we are done obliterating Iran we need to do the same to China. Evil nations need to be exterminated. There is no place for them.

Nice trade. I think you made out better than your coworker did. First GPU? Man, that's a hard one. There have been so many over a long period of time. I'd just have to take a wild guess and say something like an 8800GT or maybe a Radeon Pro / All-in-Wonder Pro (both were AGP, before PCIe was invented). Maybe I am dating myself by guess one of those oldies. I can still remember running Voodoo and Matrox cards before NVIDIA or AMD.

It's mine. I am going to sell the Strix build with the 4090 locally.

Say hello to the newest example of silly things we want but don't need. Phanteks XT M3 MSI B850MPower EPYC 4585PX CPU Lian Li GA II LITE RGB 360mm AIO 32GB V-Color Manta XSky 6000 CL26 ASUS Prime RTX 5080 OC Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W PSU 2TB NVMe x3 on mobo 2TB NVMe x4 on Sabrent Quad 4X card 1TB SATA SSD and 2TB SATA SSD Cougar single-frame 360mm reverse-blade fan trio in case floor I am updating the BIOS now and will reach out again to Svet about doing a BIOS mod for it.

So, I think I had mentioned that I had an old G.SKILL 8000 CL40 XMP 48GB kit that I could never get to run stable on any Ryzen platform I have tried to use it on. It ran fine at 8400 C38 on Z790 and I just saved it in case I might need it. Well, I got it stable on the Strix. Not at 8000, but 6400 with 1:1 (Gear 1) mode and it runs pretty nice. I might be able to tighten things up a bit more, but the way RAM prices are so stupid right now we have to make do with what we have because we not only cannot afford to waste money on better RAM, finding it to buy it is difficult. The only thing you can buy is overpriced crappy bin quality right now.