Mr. Fox

Unless they do something really dumb, like they did with Core Ultra (more silly focus E-cores and no hyper-threading) my next build will be Intel again. Hoping to hear something on the new job this week. I hate being unemployed, even when it was a RIF to stay solvent. God has a plan. Nothing happening on the computer front until that is taken care of.

Very close to the same performance as Windoze in spite of the emulation overhead. So close, in fact, that my scores are significantly higher than most people see in Windoze. Unfortunately, HWBOT is behind the times. They support stupid crap like smartphone and tablet benchmarks, but not Linux. Dummies. Cinebench R23 on Kubuntu Cinebench R20 on Kubuntu

@Talon are you still looking for one of these waterblocks? https://www.overclock.net/threads/icemancooler-glass-water-block-for-rtx-5090-d-hof-oc-lab-plus-x-and-xoc-graphics-cards.1818311/

It's all crazy. Have you checked DDR5 prices? It has tripled to quadrupled in price in the past 30-45 days. Insane. Used kits are selling for 50 to 100% more than what people paid for it. What would we do without these "precious" AI innovators effing things up for the rest of the world? We have them to thank for many of our man-made financial crises. Families are footing the bill for their retarded nonsense. Even the cost of electricity skyrocketing in some areas is directly or indirectly a result of their insane pursuit of this idiotically obsessive business endeavor. They should not get any special incentives or tax breaks by federal, state or local governments and giving them should be illegal. I am not against AI. I use it and see value in it. What I do not see value in is it becoming the most important thing and the cost of living going up to subsidize development of it. That needs to stop. Companies looking to develop it need to absorb 100% of the cost even if it means they do no better than break even. If they can't do it that way and can't afford it without outside help then they need to step aside and excuse themselves from participation. Screw the shareholders looking for instant financial gratification. It should suck to be them rather than it becoming everyone else's problem.

Take that, Green Goblin...

At least it was not the GPU and EVGA sent him a new PSU. I sure do miss EVGA. I wish I still had the X299 Dark and HEDT CPU I bought from Brother @Rage Set like what, 6 or 8 years ago? I have lost track.

If you don't want to watch the entire video, start from here for the interesting part.

They retroactively added it to Battlefield 5 and 2042. There is no reason it should be required for single-player campaign and I don't enjoy any game enough to allow them to tell me I have to enable Secure Boot to play. Screw 'em and their digital rubbish. I hope they (Electronic Arts) go broke. That will fix the cheaters. They won't have that as a platform for cheating and they will find another place to cheat because they are losers. Yes, we can blame it on cheaters. 100%. But, the rationale to the approach being taken is flawed and foolish at its core. Penalizing everyone across the board in an effort to circumvent cheating is about as idiotic as the idea of making firearm ownership illegal to stop shootings. The only people penalized by it are to 99.9% of the population that are law-abiding gun owners and the criminals obtain firearms through illegal channels. You can't fix stupid. You can't fix the mentally handicapped. You also cannot fix the evil or dishonest people of the world. Cheaters are going to cheat, and they'll foil the anti-cheat. But, they'll continue screwing the rest of us on account of the 0.1% and that is the tail wagging the dog.

Mr. Torvalds is looking good. He actually looks better and healthier than he did when he was younger.

Hard to believe some of the Kool-Aid drinkers are saying LTSC is malware. Glad he put out a video to call BS on the lies.

Welp. I guess I am done with EA forever now. Those scurvy bastards deployed the Javelin Secure Poot cancer even to Battlefield V now. If I had any hope that they would consider doing the right thing I would ask for a refund. I will never purchase another piece of digital trash from those rooster sucking creeps ever again. I should sell my EA account and all of the games in it. If someone needs a second EA account and you are willing to put up with the Secure Poot feces being enabled for one of their kids to play independently send me a PM. It's got quite a few titles in it that I will never be installing or playing again. Man, 4090 is still such an amazing GPU. It's not a 5090, but it doesn't need to be.

If Steve is right you might be able to get a 5090 for a decent price. Let's hope it crashes real hard. I wouldn't mind my 5090 losing value if that means that I could buy a second 5090 extra cheap. If it is cheap enough I might even consider a 5080. Anything but an FE turd.

Nice to see you, brother. You have been missed. My vote would be to stick with NVIDIA. The 9070 XT was a great GPU overall, and it was a good value at the time I purchased it. However, the hotspot temps are the signature Radeon inferno and the feature set is not nearly as robust. NVIDIA is grossly overpriced, no question. But, you do get more features and an overall better experience despite the sucky premium. Linux (Kubuntu) is my daily driver and I have no issues with NVIDIA. Even CPU and GPU overclocking is easy. CPU using CPUFreq GUI and GPU using LACT GUI.

I haven't uploaded a video in a long time. Now that I finally found stable settings I wanted to save a permanent record for myself and help anyone else that feels like they are spinning their wheels. Moving from Intel to AMD overclocking is more difficult than moving from Windoze to Linux. Maybe (just maybe) there is something in here that would be useful to Brothers @jaybee83 or @Raiderman

I am going to have to fire up the chiller tomorrow and play with the power slider to see if I can reign in some of that because pulling 1700W from the wall is not sustainable. It will trip circuit breakers (and I have this on a 20A circuit) and exhausts the capacity of my 1500W UPS. If that does not work will I will just go back to the Matrix vBIOS and use the EVC2. I'm not gonna lie though... I just LOVED seeing that 1.150V default. For now I just flipped my GPU over to using the stock Zotac 600W vBIOS. I think letting it run wild and free on the XOC vBIOS probably isn't a smart thing to do. It might be safe, but I don't want to just assume that and hope it turns out OK. Temping fate to such an extreme degree (1700W from the wall, probably 1300W from the GPU) with the petite arson PCIe power cable should put the fear of God in all of us that possess an ordinary amount of common sense. Here is something interesting. I use a GPU overclocking program in Linux called LACT. It shows both core and hotspot temperature readings on the 5090. So, maybe the register is actually there and the NVIDIOTS gave Windoze software developers marching orders to not expose it. -?- I think they rank right up there with bad actors like crApple when it comes to being among the kings of command and control dictatorships. I received my Thermal Grizzly GPU die gaskets for liquid metal, so I really need to make time for that. The package comes with 3 for 4090 and 3 for 5090, so I can do both GPUs. I am expecting to get an offer on the job I want most on Monday or Tuesday and I am sure that I am going to initially not have much discretionary time to do things until I get past my orientation, which usually take a bit more time in c-suite positions.

Yup, we can certainly hope they will bleed a lot. Would be great to see NVIDIA and the DDR foundries, and all of the manufacturers of end-user components that use those parts literally lose their butts and have surplus stock that they need to dump as fast and cheap as possible just to keep the lights on. AI is like crypto. Value is assigned to something that nobody can see, feel, smell or touch because it does not actually exist. It is an idea and it is based on beliefs and imaginations, not an asset. Only stupid people invest captial into popular ideas. That's not to say that ideas are bad and worth nothing. But, overvalued ideas don't hold the interest of smart investors, only the stupid ones.

Process Lasso is definitely the way to go if you have a dual CCD processor with 3D V-Cache. No need for Micro$lop XBOX feces bloatware and the extra chipset driver crap. Just select the EXE and choose the affinity and BOOM, every time you launch that game it uses the CCD with the cache. When you close the game it is back to using all cores and threads. Easy, peasy... no hokey pokey nonsense with flakey rubbish from the Redmond Reprobates.

OK. New problem. My CyberPower 1650W UPS does NOT like this XOC vBIOS, LOL. SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER. I will be using the Matrix vBIOS one my "quiet" vBIOS position for normal daily driver usage and gaming. I launched Cyberpunk 2077 and all the sirens began blaring on my shunted 5090. I do not even need the EVC2 now because the XOC vBIOS gives me the voltage I was setting manually using the EVC2 LOL. I will test with benchmarks to confirm, but I may move the EVC2 over to the 4090 Suprim if I no longer need it on the 5090. Check the voltage and power now. Nice.

Now that the CPU is sorted, I got the RAM dialed in stable as well. Since I have more spare time on my hands temporarily, I decided to dismantle the Thermal Grizzly Mycro direct die block and clean the jet plate fins. It wasn't too terrible, just normal accumulation from the loop during roughly a year of use. I use two filters on each PC so that helps. I've had to clean the filters a couple of times. I ordered a set of Thermal Grizzly TG GPU Guard gaskets and will put liquid metal on the 4090 and 5090 when I can muster enough motivation to do it.

Yes, very nice results. The downside to that motherboard is the unfortunate fact that it is single chipset (X870) and lacks the extra PCIe lanes of the dual chipset (X870E). It is sad that Gigabyte chose to not make the Tachyon an X870E part. It may as well been made as a B850 motherboard. The single chipset configuration basically ruins the capability to use any add-in cards without sacrificing GPU bandwidth. It never ceases to amaze me how idiotic the motherboard engineers are at AMD, Intel and all of the AIB partners. They frequently implement the dumbest things imaginable. They are all guilty of it and none of them consistently demonstrate intelligent design. It almost feels like it is a deliberate nasty finger salute to the people that buy their products, but I suspect it is just ignorance more than anything else... maybe combined with a touch of apathy. For X870E, the USB4 is a flagrant waste of resources that could have been put to better use. It is unfortunate that AMD was so shortsighted and mandated the waste of PCIe lanes for something hardly anyone I know that buys an enthusiast board give a rat's butt about. The second chipset allows potential for the motherboard manufacturers to allocate resources that can be put to good use. More often than not, however, they do not. They waste it on something stupid. Deleting old screenshots is extra work. When I ran out of space for attachments I just started using embedded links from photos posted at overclock.net and hwbot.org and imgur. Much faster and easier for me.

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r23_multi_core_with_benchmate/submissions/5931059

Wow, nice. I am glad to see that board released. I am going to have to check out the owner's manual to see if they effed up the bifurcation on the PCIe slots like A$$zeus did with the X870E Apex abortion. Do you know if you can install anything X1 or X4 in the bottom PCIe slot without castrating the GPU slot to X8? How do you connect the two 8-pin CPU power cables. Does that rear I/O have a decorative cover that unsnaps? In the photos it looks like they are covered by the rear I/O.