Mr. Fox

Only if they are bare copper. It is very beneficial with bare copper. It is pointless and not necessary with nickel plating. I would recommend avoiding bare copper for anything, but especially liquid metal application. It's not harmful to copper, but the absorption is just an added hassle that you avoid with nickel. Even when you are not using liquid metal the bare copper starts looking pretty nasty with normal use and keeping it looking sharp is a real pain in the butt. It looks nice when it is new, but looks horrible when it begins to tarnish.

Sacrificing usability and features for a marginal improvement (and with AMD gains are always marginal) in overclocking equates to a poor buying decision. XOC means sub-zero. I do not do that and never intend to. I don't have the time, money or home office space needed for that. If I actually made money overclocking and/or had free products sent to me I might feel differently. When my money is involved and the only benefit is momentary satisfaction the rules start to change. A single chipset AMD board may as well be ITX or mATX because the added size of ATX/E-ATX offers nothing in terms of functionality when there is only one chipset available. I need my systems to offer some level of versatility or they are not worth owning. X870 (non-E, single chipset) may as well be B850 ITX/mATX in terms of functionality and overclocking capabilities using above zero cooling.

And, we thought the 5090 FE was an idiotic design, but this is far worse. What an absolute abortion. Should be interesting to see what kind of water cooling contraption will be developed for this goofball piece of crap. The Green Goblin has lost its mind. In stark contrast, this is quite the engineering marvel. I am not a fan of SFF but this is truly an elegant creation that oozes quality from every pore. Imaging how great a full E-ATX tower to support triple 420mm radiators built like this would be.

Yeah, I could see where that would be true.

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI/tree/main

While it is sad in some ways, I think most elements of it is unavoidable and natural. A person born in one country that moves away to another country brings elements of their culture and language along. That is expected. If they get married to someone not from their old homeland and start a family, their spouse and their children have no connection to the homeland. Apart from sheer novelty, there is no basis for the spouse or children to learn the language or culture of their spouse, parents or grandparents because it is not relevant or useful to their lives. It was never their home and they do not see any reason for having a foreign micro-culture. The cities that have neighborhood pockets or bubbles of cultural focus often have very serious problems associated with them. Those that leave those cultural bubbles assimilate and become successful contributors to society, and they identify only as Americans, with no hyphenation to identify their hereditary origin. They excel based on merit, motivation and self-worth alone. The culturally isolated urban pockets are frequently centers of poverty and crime and the people that cluster with others of common descent are frequently some of the most unsuccessful people. They are trying to cling to familiarity rather than moving onward and upward. They need to let it go, stop and remember why they left in the first place. If it was good place they would have stayed. That happens domestically as well. It is not exclusive to the immigrant experience. For example, you have people that live in severely misguided and corrupt states (such as California and New York) fleeing the utter insanity and despicableness of those filthy places looking for a good life in another state. They must adapt their thoughts, behavior, social and political views and speech to fit in with the culture they migrated to or they will be reviled and remain a rejected misfit. Nobody in their new home state wants them to import their baggage and undesirable elements from their prior state. It is unwelcomed and undesirable to those that already live in the place they moved to. There are a variety of slogans such as "DON'T CALIFORNIA MY ARIZONA" because nobody wants the invaders to bring their garbage and ruins things the way they ruined the place they were escaping from. They must leave it behind.

Looks like you have it covered. The only thing I do not see are the Mayhem's additives I mentioned. You only need them if you are using distilled water. FWIW, I have a leak tester, but only purchased it recently. I historically leak tested my systems turned off and unplugged with the pumps running. Finding a leak is rare. I cannot remember the last time I had one except for the time I left a drain port unplugged by accident. It's nice to have but not essential. The leak tester will reveal a leak, but will not direct you to the source of the leak unless you can actually hear it. Pressurizing a system with coolant while not connected to power is how you find the leak. Where it is probably the most useful is checking waterblocks for leakage. Are you going to use one of the Core 100 D5 pumps for the Aurora 250mm pump/reservoir unit? (It does not include a pump is why I am asking.)

Weird. I claimed it and completed that but it does not show up in my Epic library. If I go back to the store it says "in library" on the page but doesn't show in the client. I had to refresh the library. Simply logging out and back in did not work. There is a button up at the top next to the word "Library" to refresh. Never noticed that before. Downloading it now.

Thank you for letting us know.

None of the 5090s are worth what people are paying for them at any tier level, and the halo models represent the poorest value of all. It seems insane to me that anyone is paying a lot extra to get almost nothing in return. They do not deliver benefits to scale with price and (as noted in your comments and the video) can even be an inferior product overall. I do not think any GPUs models other than the Intel options and 9070 XT offer anything that somewhat resembles value based on price. The best job is the one you have. At the end of the day, job you used to have is of no value whatsoever. The best that you can hope that it provides is qualification for something that produces a paycheck that makes you a more attractive candidate.

My situation is that the company I was working for has fallen on hard economic times due to lack of business and about 10 of us got booted to keep the lights on. I was the highest paid person (Chief Claims Officer) and was furloughed without pay in the hope that things would improve and I can return. My daughter was also one of the people eliminated and a couple of other higher-paid and very highly talented people. My position in the workforce is also a problem for me on my resume. Lots of "overqualified executive leader" opinions come into play even though I am willing to do the work of an individual contributor and applied for roles like that. I am trying to get back into a gaming mindset to pass the time and having a hard time with that because two of my favorite AAA titles (BF and CoD) have been permanently ruined for me because they now require me to enable stupid cancer $hit in the BIOS and I am not doing it. Screw 'em. There are not that many games that hold my interest anymore and I have played through all of the Crysis title at least a dozen times and got kind of burned out on them for over-familiarity. I really only like FPS with heavy graphics focused on not looking cartoonish and heavily ray-traced environments. I hate RPG, strategy, most indie titles and online multi-player games so my interests are pretty narrow.

They do look pretty awesome. All of them. I miss HEDT platforms. The most fun I ever had with overclocking was X299. CPU and memory overclocking was epic. I won't be doing anything with computer stuff until I find work though. Lots of applications out and a couple of opportunities that look very promising. A lot of email generated rejections without an adequate review of my qualifications, most likely based on my age (even though that is illegal). I may end up redoing my resume and dropping out the first 20 years of my career history to keep my age concealed from AI filtering and biased recruiters. Even when I do something in terms of the next upgrade, my preference would be to go back to Intel. My X870E builds are great, but AMD overclocking is pretty darned lackluster compared with Intel, and I really do not care for how AMD handles memory overclocking. So, I will wait and see what Intel drops before making any purchase decisions.