Mr. Fox

Some of us here might remember a friend and partner in crime back in the the days of our Alienware laptop overclocking escapades in the old NBR forums. He went by the forum names usmc362 and Trafficante. Joe Testa was his real name. I just received a call from his wife about a half hour ago. He passed away yesterday. He was 82. He had struggled with some health things for a while and had been hospitalized a number of days. He was a Godly man, served his country in military service, (thus the USMC forum name,) and now he is in a better place. He beat us all to the Pearly Gates and will be waiting for us to catch up with him. Those that knew him will remember that he was quite the animated character and got banned many times by @katalin_2003 and Charles P. Jefferies for stirring up a hornet's nest.

For whatever reason, I had not bothered to look at my Karhu speeds on my Z890 builds. I used to do it all of the time with my Ryzen stuff. I haven't even really tried pushing the memory overclock much, just plugging along with this pedestrian 8800 profile. Maybe I will find some downtime to play around with 9000 and higher soon.

Yes, I think having one is a good idea for protecting your system from a catastrophic event such as power surge and lightning strikes. Here is a link to the one I use. I thought I would never have to worry about exceeding its 1500W capacity. I was wrong. A 5090 with modifications can and does. https://a.co/d/08HxQG3R

Snagged another G.SKILL 8400 kit for a good price to have in my backup/spare parts stash. This was pre-rampocalypse pricing for this kit. It was interesting to see someone bashing the seller for asking too much. Not sure what planet they are from. This is the same memory part number running in the system built in the LIAN LI O11D MINI V2. https://www.overclock.net/threads/g-skill-trident-z5-rgb-ddr5-8400-48gb-2-x-24gb-f5-8400j4052g24gx2-tz5rk.1820341/

And the cynical part of me wonders how many of these GPUs are stock they held back to create fake demand that were produced before the RAM prices got all effed up and now they are functioning as first-party scalpers, screwing their "customers" just because they can rather than passing on actual production costs as necessary to maintain an operationally viable profit margin. I have nothing to base it on, but my belief is all of them until there is evidence that proves otherwise. Hoping for the best, but always assuming the worst, is the best approach. (That assumption is frequently accurate.)

I have always held the opinion that Founders Edition GPUs are garbage, and the 50-series is their worst example to date. Tony reinforces it frequently in his videos. It seems like the engineers that design Founders Edition GPUs are always drunk or taking mind-altering drugs. Like my dad used to say "that piece of crap was designed by a drug Chinaman" LOL.

They make a trashy OS for stupid Kool-Aid drinking losers that are willing to put up with it. Why anyone would be willing to tolerate that is a mystery. How Micro$lop could expect anyone to is an even greater mystery. It seems obvious that they believe the users of their trashy OS are all very stupid people.

I only have the 6000 C26 V-Color dual rank kit that I never would have purchased had I known it was dual rank. It's unable to run above 6200. It's garbage and the only thing the dual rank seems to accomplish is limiting memory clock and adding latency. Not good. But, it totally makes sense that it would be the outcome. You've got twice as many memory chips for the CPU to manage, more circuits and traces, all of which contribute to hindering speed and taking more time for the data to go from point A to point B because it has to travel twice the distance. It doesn't work well like it did with DDR4 running at significantly lower speeds.

Here are some nice free to play internet arcade games.

None of them (NVIDIA or AMD) are genuinely good products that are priced to value. They're all grossly overpriced, flawed, poorly designed and compromised products that are destined for premature failure and fail to perform adequately based on what the pricetag suggests they should, including 5090. The current GPU market represents the most horrific example of poor value the world has ever seen. If something goes wrong, there is maybe a 10% chance your warranty will be honored, because the companies that build them are universally dishonest. Totally not worth the cost. The 4090 is better than 5080, but if you can even find one for sale it's nearly as overpriced as 5090 (double what an overpriced 5080 costs).

Yeah, 2200 over 2167 for sure Hey brother, good to see you. Nice setup! Yeah, I agree with you. I don't like the newer versions of Cinebench. R23 and R20 are both better IMHO. Now is the worst possible time to try to jump onto the 50 series bandwagon, but things are going to get worse before they get better. Maybe you can find a good 5080 or 5090 second hand from a trustworthy seller that isn't going to try to scam you.

If you want to see the difference 2200 FCLK makes, run Y-Cruncher 2.5B and look at the speed improvement compared to 2167.