Mr. Fox

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone.

The 12V-2x6 / 12VHPWR petite arson cable is just a ludicrous scam. NVIDIA (and Jensen) need to burn for introducing this stupid POS. I'd love to see NVIDIA financially obliterated by the largest-ever award of damages in a class action lawsuit. A just award would be that everyone that can provide proof of original purchase of a brand new GPU made with this connector gets a full refund of their original invoice amount, non-transferable unconditional lifetime warranty on the GPU connector and PSU and keeps the GPU. The tech space is just overrun with garbage now. Bad enough that almost everything new is trash, but it adds insult to injury when the trash is overpriced by double or triple what a person of average intelligence would be willing to pay for it. Speaking of trash, I found one less excuse for running Windoze. One of the things that has always been an impediment is needing to use Micro$lop Office for work. Linux doesn't have any 100% fully-compatible and truly acceptable substitute. Well, no longer an issue. I even got PowerBI to run on Linux now.

First batch. My last update was December 9 and their projection was January 21, 2026 delivery. I think the 5070 Ti is a better value (bang for buck) than a 5080. The 5080 is better but the price gap doesn't scale with performance well enough to make it worth paying more. The 4070 Ti is also a good GPU. I'd buy it if I were not unemployed. It would be perfect in a Phanteks MT X3 build.

Mine still shows "in process" and I ordered/paid on 10/30.

Seems a little bit inconsistent between runs for some reason. Not sure if the 3D-Vcache is helping the EPYC or what. The clocks and power limits are the same as the 9950X, but it scores higher.

Nice. Thanks, bro. They finally gave it a new program icon so you can tell at a glance which Cinebench version the shortcut is for.

We already knew Winduhz 11 is lousy, but it is nice to see so many people figuring it out for themselves. Starting from conclusions (feel free to watch the whole thing)... I do not agree with his rationale for accepting Winduhz 11 at the end. Better to have no support from Micro$lop than tolerate a sucky OS.

Just fill the space around the die with low melt solder to protect the SMDs from liquid metal. 🤣

No thanks Brother @Papusan. I have no space in my life and no desire at all to waste money on mobile computing garbage. I hate turdbook filth more than I ever have. Just the thought of it makes me feel sick.

Interesting... Setting tRDPRE and tRWPRE from "Auto" (4) to 3 in the BIOS seemed to have made a minor improvement in performance and equalized my tPHYRDL. It certainly is stupid that motherboard OEMs are not using common nomenclature for all BIOS menu verbiage as we are on the verge of entering 2026. In their infinite wisdom A$$zeus has decided to refer to these settings as "Read Preamble P0" and "Write Preamble P0" for some idiotic reason. Why not just tRDPRE and tRWPRE? Keep it simple and speak the same language... dumb-dumbs.

That looks totally awesome, brother. I love it. To protect the GPU SMDs around the core you can use clear nail polish, the red Thermal Grizzly conformal coating (or other conformal coating) and the Thermal Grizzly GPU Guard gasket. I use clear nail polish covered by the GPU Guard, so double-protection. My recommendation would be doing that. You not only protect the SMD components, but everything else beyond them. The gasket also minimizes exposure to air, so the liquid metal should be less likely to oxidize. https://www.titanrig.com/thermal-grizzly-tg-gpu-guard-nvidia-gpu-set.html

If the Unify is a 2-DIMMer like the Unify-X of the past you probably should, even though it is an MSI. It probably won't match an Apex, but I think it would still be better than a 4-DIMM option. One of the best things (other than the BIOS) about the Apex is the DIMM.2 feature. I really like the convenience of being able to access all of the M.2 slots that I am willing to use without having to remove the GPU. (I will not use the M.2 slots that castrate the GPU bandwidth to X8 under any circumstances.) It is unfortunate that most motherboards made for Intel and AMD are still sucky 4-DIMM garbage. It should be an exception and 4-DIMM boards should be limited to a few isolated creator-focused options where maxing out RAM capacity is more important than performance. It's comical that some people still view that as a future "upgrade" path, but understandable to the extent that the average gamerboy is somewhat fightened about entering the BIOS to apply an XMP/EXPO profile. On another note... my God, how did so many people get so stupid so suddenly... rampant idiocy is the new normal where technology is concerned.

It will be interesting to hear what his conclusions are after 30 days. I can't say that I like either one now. I can identify things that I dislike about both brands, but I try not to dwell on those things because it can get pretty depressing when you begin compiling a list of the things that suck.

Merry Christmas, everyone. Blessings to all of you.