Mr. Fox

I virtually never wore shorts and never owned anything but jeans and slacks for my entire life until I moved to Arizona in 2015. Now I only like wearing shorts, even when it is cold. (Cold here means a few days of 35-40°F overnight low winter weather.) Wearing long pants now seems uncomfortable and very annoying to me, LOL. I also like all of my clothing to be very loose fitting. Tight shirts, pants and shorts make me feel like I am going to lose my marbles. I usually go with a size larger than I need for the sake of comfort. The small subscriber base is possibly because the Thermal Grizzly channel is relatively new and Roman has multiple channels. He has both English and German der8auer channels and now the Thermal Grizzly channel. All that said, it does seem like kind of a low number. I suspect that some people that are subscribed to one of the two der8auer channels might not have even noticed they are not subscribed to the Thermal Grizzly channel. None of his channels have a gigantic subscriber base. Splitting things up is probably affecting the number, but to what degree I have no idea. It may also have something to do with the fact that his target audience is not gamers, per se. He is more interested in producing content that interests overclocking enthusiasts and the kind of hardware we like rather than producing content that is appealing to gamers. I think a fairly high percentage of gamers are not into overclocking or expensive high-end hardware. One of the things I like about him and his channel is that he is focused on facts, information and results, but not entertaining people. That may also be a factor.

While it is disappointing, it's not too surprising the dual GPU set up had some issues. Bifurcation is problematic on most of the AMD platforms, and to a somewhat lesser degree also for Intel. Mostly because of insufficient PCIe lane count. Even the dual chipset X870E platforms squandered added lanes from the second chipset on stupid stuff like USB4 and left the add-in card PCIe slots either unusable or crippled. I think that ducting your HVAC through the 1080 radiator will make a really big difference in cooling. I think more so than adding a second 1080 radiator. If you add a second, you need to be sure to duct the HVAC through both of them or adding the second 1080 radiator will actually impair the cooling by heating the water toward ambient. The same principle applies using a water chiller. Routing the chilled water through a radiator actually prevents it from getting as cold as it will without any radiators because the radiators try to warm the water to normalize with the ambient temperatures.

Sorry to hear the weather is ruining your vacation. That sucks, especially since it cost money for something you're not able to enjoy. I hope the stormy weather goes away soon. It is almost always too hot in the Arizona desert, but I am thankful that it is rare and very seldom that I have to tolerate stormy or catastrophic weather events. Apart from an occasional and isolated haboob or monsoon, no rain, no snow, no hail, no tornados, etc. Just relentless heat most of the year. Almost never any surprises. The consistency is good if you can put up with the heat. New technical vids on WVP2.

It is as easy as disconnecting one QDC, turning off one valve and plugging in two QDC fittings. I could probably break into both of those clubs had I let the chiller run longer and got the water a few degrees colder. I might do it later just to say I did. I know I would be proud of myself... for a few minutes, then it wouldn't be enough and I'd feel compelled to push harder. I am starting to feel like all of it is just an exercise in futility and have been asking myself "What's the point?" more than I have in the past. Not because I don't enjoy benching. I do enjoy it a lot, but because everything is both super expensive and in short supply it gives me pause. If I kill something having fun with it, replacing it might literally be near impossible due to availability and cost. And, that is a tough pill to swallow when it is all just for fun and there is literally no reward other than a momentary sense of personal accomplishment that nobody else cares about. I've been trying to re-ignite my old passion for gaming, but it's really difficult for me to get into it with most of the newer game titles. A lot of them are made for a different generational mindset and gaming styles that I personally do not care for. The titles that I would play and enjoy require me to do things I am unwilling to do (as a matter of principle) for the sake of online multiplayer anti-cheating crap.

Decided to fire up the chiller since today was over 95°F and my office was a bit too toasty. Got a couple of personal best scores. Steel Nomad was pulling 1650W from my 1500W UPS that was screaming about "overload" the entire time. To keep the WireView Pro II from shutting things down I had to max out the current limit in the software (25.5A per wire, 150A total). https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/5991752 | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/154125943 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r23_multi_core_with_benchmate/submissions/5991744

So, now the trolls come out of the woodwork. Entitlement is a serious problem. That's one reason why @Prema changed his approach. Good guys are always hated, LOL. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29569920/

Several already, LOL... I added a post to explain the process. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29569667/

We need more heroes like the kid that snuffed out this piece of crap. He deserves a medal.

I love this guy's work. Always awesome. His messaging is great and I love his style of heavy metal. Another new truth bomb gem from Brother Tom...

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 that 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