Mr. Fox

Initial impressions of this cable are very positive. It is very soft and pliable and appears to be very high quality. The pin balance is good. I honestly have no room to complain about the original cable that came with the old Toughpower GF3 1650W PSU. It survived a 3090 Ti, 4090 and my 5090 up until yesterday, when it began to demonstrate a 2-3A variance between pins. It is probably still entirely within the safe zone, and well within the Thermal Grizzly default range, but it did suddenly change and I thought it not worth tempting fate. It has served me very well. It has no visible evidence of degradation or having been hot at the GPU end or PSU end. The Corsair cable has a tight range of variance.

I have a Corsair ThermalProtect 12V-2x6 cable being delivered tonight from Amazon. I had ordered one of those overhyped new ASUS cables and cancelled it after reading frequent reports that they're not nearly as good as the price tag suggests. (Twice the cost of the Corsair and no better pin balancing, plus no thermal protection.) Incoming from NewEgg for the B850MPOWER living room PC is a black with walnut wood front Lian Li A3 and a Super Flower Combat SFX FP 1000W 80+ Platinum ATX3.1/PCIe 5.1 PSU. PSU was on sale for $149 so my price match in-store credit on the Z890 Apex made it essentially free. End up getting both items for under $100 out-of-pocket grand total.

Are you using the new Corsair cables with the thermal switch, or have you tested them? The original cable that came with one of my PSUs finally started having current imbalance and I will be replacing it. It's within Thermal Grizzly's default range and only throwing imbalance errors because I set lower thresholds for amp (2.0A) and percentage (25%) variance manually. It doesn't have any errors using the WireView Pro 2 default thresholds (6.0A or 40%).

I absolutely love the aesthetic of the C26, but it is too small for anything I would purpose it for. If it were large enough for a 360 AIO and full size 5080/5090 I would want one. I understand you are aiming for travel portability and that would make it too big. At the end of the day, just about anything you could build would be much better than a laptop. If you are traveling by car most of the time something like that should be fine. I can't see traveling frequently by air with something like the C26 plus monitor, keyboard and mouse, but it might work. I think I am going to be going the Lian Li A3 black all mesh with wood front route with the B850MPOWER and 3070 FTW3. Then I can use my 360 AIO inside of it. The side mount bracket for 120mm fans should really help keep heavily overclocked DDR5 thermals from going bonkers. The bracket seems to be ideally placed to blow directly on the memory. A friend at oc.net loaned me his TG delid tool and heater so I will likely delid the 270K Plus sometime before the end of next weekend. I purchased a Mycro Pro LGA1851 direct die block. This 270K Plus runs freakishly cool. I'm astonished by that and it technically does not need to be delidded running the clocks and voltage I am currently running, but I am gonig to do it anyway just because it will be better and give me more clock/voltage headroom. If I were going to run it the way I am using it now forever there would be no valid reason or benefit to delid it. Cinebench core max is like 83°C. This CPU would be perfect inside of a mobile platform with a chunky chassis for folks that still like them.

Too funny, really messed up this AI bot.

New release from one of my favorite YouTube content creators.

Got the overlays set up... Using CPUSetSetter for the 270K and the 4585PX to specify P-cores and Cached CCD utilization. You can create profiles and switch on the fly for both Intel and AMD using hotkeys. So, for example in Fire Strike, you want to use only P-cores or only the 3D V-Cache for GPU tests but on the Physics and Combined Test use all cores, just punch the hotkey. For gaming you can instantly see which is better in realtime because your GPU framerate will go up or down, depending on which works best for the game. Also have the WireView Pro II critical metrics showing.

Will do. Will test more later tonight or in the morning. Thanks for the help. I tried it on my 5080 and it is not working even after enabling the DLL. The hardware ID should be G1B3 = 2C02h (forgot to add the h) Maybe there is something different needed in the DLL for 5080. Correction: also working on the 5080. I forgot to add the "h" after 2C02 for the HWID.

After it began working the dll file changed from 6kb to 7kb somehow. Weird stuff. But, it is working now. The part missing in the instructions is adding a checkmark to the plug-in to make it active.

I deleted the profile and force Afterburner to create a new one and edited this time. Now it is working. However, it does not work if I do not add a checkmark to the pluging to make it active. Something wrong with the profile must have kept it from launching with the dll enabled.

Yup, exactly like that.

The dll is show there. I did not know I needed to look on that page. If I add a checkmark to the dll in that page Afterburner will not launch.

Yes. I added it as shown in your screenshot. There is no new sensor in the Monitoring tab. I followed all of the instructions exactly as you presented them. Does not work. I uninstalled Afterburner and tried again and no dice.

I have followed the instructions in the PDF but I do not see the sensor in the Monitoring tab in Afterburner. Edit: I uninstalled Afterburner and started again from scratch, followed all of the instructions precisely and still no new HotSpot sensor(s). Do I need to be using an obscure version of Afterburner? I am using the latest I can find for download on Guru3d.

Mumak has a test build available that has hotspot temps. Here is a link to his post. https://www.hwinfo.com/forum/threads/nvidia-rtx-5080-incorrect-gpu-hotspot-temp-missing-3rd-fan-speed-summary-info.10306/post-52987

Good news, because HWMonitor sucks. Another happy degradation-free experience with 13th and 14th Gen Intel.

That was a really fantastic deal by 2026 "standards" (as if there are any now) in this insane AI-crazed world we are biding our time in.

I'm happy to hear that you are making progress but sad that you are having to go through it.

The thing that is even more stupid than Samsung doing this is the reality that some people will fall in line, like good little sheeple, and do it. The will rationalize the decision because they "have nothing to hide" or because it is "for the greater good" but at the end of the day everyone else knows they are idiots that are a danger to themselves and everyone around them.

He is using the G.SKILL Trident Neo 6000 C26 2*16 1.450V magic sticks. It is unusual to find any others that can do so well, and part of the reason for that is the effort ASUS has put into making them be able to.

@tps3443 did you see this? https://www.overclock.net/posts/29599251/

It is impressive how close to the same performance the 270K Plus delivers compared with the 9950X with 25% fewer threads to handle the workload. The 270K Plus is actually just a tad better, and it's half the cost. Not to even mention the fact that the 270K Plus is much easier to tune and runs circles around AMD's best where memory overclocking is concerned. 💖

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r23_multi_core_with_benchmate/submissions/6046141 With E-cores bumped to 54x... https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r23_multi_core_with_benchmate/submissions/6046144

Wow, down to just under 60% now. Wonder why it is still so high? Micro$lop deserves to lose another 25-30% market share, but that might not even be enough loss for those idiots to pull their head out.