Mr. Fox

The forum seems to be experiencing some issues. Very slow and unresponsive and sporadically inaccessible.

Nice that the user actually caught the problem before someone got shafted by a scam. Not using 2FA is not smart. https://www.overclock.net/threads/not.1819332/?post_id=29580311#post-29580311

Some people... sheesh. And, idiots like that not only make themselves look foolish, they make the process more difficult for others when the companies trying to do the right thing get soured on the process and become more resistant. The dummy should just be glad he wasn't dealing with A$$zeus or Gigabutt, because they would not have treated his as fairly as NZXT.

Man, so far GrapheneOS seems amazing. We grow numb to the hooks companies like Google, crApple and Micro$lop get set into us and we stop even noticing until it's completely gone. I have to use some of this cancerous crap for work, but having it quarantined in a sandbox and in a completely separate secondary user profile that I log out of and Google Services having control of nothing at the OS level is sweet. GrapheneOS even has its own geolocation service that Google can't touch. You have to deliberately opt-in for the Google Nazi surveillance stuff and you can change your mind later. https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play Looks like Motorola phones will soon have out of the box support for replacing consumer Android with GrapheneOS. That will be nice since right now the only phone supporting it is Google Pixel (which still seems incredibly ironic and may not last forever if enough people start saying yes to a Google-free phone). Edit: here is where I screwed up on the Micro$lop account that I am locked out of... I use MFA and passwordless accounts. On my other three Micro$lop accounts I had three recovery emails and my phone for proof of identity. On the account I am locked out of I had only one recovery email listed. To reset the authenticator you must prove your identity two ways, create a password to access the acount and then change it back to passwordless access after the authenticator is working again. You also get a recovery code with the passwordless setup. For whatever reason the Micro$lop service that handles phone codes and the static recovery code are "not available right now, please try again tomorrow" and today is the third day. The other accounts I was able to get codes at multiple email addresses to reset the authenticator. When I regain access to the account I am locked out of I am going to add at least two more recovery emails to that account like I have with the others so that I do not have to rely on a recovery code or phone text code.

I was about to ask the same. I had to return a WireView Pro that would not work with my 5090. I had similar issues. But, zero problems with the WireView Pro 2. It has been awesome. I am going to buy another one for my 5080, but have been waiting to see if they will become available on Amazon. I think maybe the original WireView and WireView Pro may not be up to the task of handling the extreme power draw of a shunted, overclocked and EVC2-modded 5090 or one with a high power limit like the Matrix vBIOS.

Thanks. I like it a lot and my wife loves her Pixel 10 XL Pro, too. Yeah, I don't have time for tinkering either, especially not for smartphone crap. This was super fast and easy. The only tinkering I had to do was the Micro$lop and Google Authenticator migration, but that would have ended the same even with a stock ROM. Getting them going on the new phone with a stock ROM was equally inconvenient. Installing Graphene OS was just as easy as a factory reset, minus all of the garbage I don't want (much of which cannot be removed). No need for hacks or rooting. It felt good to boot to an OS with only about 15 open source Android apps installed and nothing from Google. I am only having an issue with the one Micro$lop account and it's a glitch with the Micro$lop account, not the phone, OS or Authenticator. That problem is still not resolved, but thankfully it is only of my disposable accounts and if I cannot regain access to it I will just abandon it.

While it is by no means a definitive or comprehensive review, (and may not need to be,) this is shaping up as I expected it might. Not a bad product, but definitely a bad value. The juice ain't gonna be worth the squeeze. https://www.techspot.com/review/3114-amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d2/ Roman seems to have a similar opinion. $900 is a lot of money to spend on something that doesn't matter, or shouldn't matter, to most people. ...and Wendell...

Brother @Papusan check out Tony's comment around 6:50. He says what you and I say all of the time about "newer" LOL.

If they are offering to cover his actual costs this is reasonable and the most they should be legally obligated to pay. A loss cannot be greater than the original expense and covering the actual original cost would make him fully whole. You cannot lose money that you never spent. Anything extra he would need to pay to purchase new replacement parts at current market prices would not be considered a loss in the context of a warranty or claim. What he would need to pay today to buy the replacement parts would not be relevant to his loss. He can use the money received to buy something else for the same or less than what was originally spent.

So, the temporary Mint Mobile carrier lock expired (60 day hold on a new phone) and so I unlocked my new Google Pixel 10 XL Pro and installed GrapheneOS. Super easy and really slick. Initial install took like 15 minutes including the time it took for me to read the instructions. No ADB software or sketchy apk downloads required. (Actually officially authorized by Google as weird as it seems.) So, now no more Google tracking or data collection. I created a Google-free user account named "No Google" and another named "Google Crap" with Google Play and all of the Google apps sandboxed into their own little dysfunctional world where they can't function like the Alphabet identity theft cartel wants them to. So far all of the sandboxed Google garbage is working correctly, including my banking and financial apps. The only part that was a little bit of a pain was my Micro$lop and Google Authenticator app migration. I finally got everything but one of my four Micro$lop accounts working and I cannot get a auth code for it for some reason. I only had one recovery email assigned to that account and trying to receive a text message with a code produces an error that "this method cannot be used right now, please try again later" so maybe tomorrow it will sort itself out. Everything worked normally for the other 3 Micro$lop accounts, Google 2FA and Yahoo, just that one being stubborn. Overall, I am surprised at how little effort this was. Other than having one account with no trace of Google garbage (which is awesome) it seems like an ordinary phone. It's crazy how snappy it functions with like 15 open source (non-Google) apps installed on the de-Googled user account. Things open so instantaneously in the absence of bloat that it is kind of freaky and surreal.

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/6007850 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/155957074

This GPU seems to like Fire Strike. It would be interesting to see how well it would do with a waterblock, but I don't want to spend $200+ on one. I'm keeping an eye open for a cheap one. https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_time_spy/submissions/6007753 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/155933233 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/6007762 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/155933802

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/6007736 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/155931816

A decrease in boost by 100MHz creates a very unfavorable first impression with me. I would have been lukewarm to it staying the same and I think it is lame that it was not increased by 100-200MHz. It will also be interesting to see if they have better quality and matched CCD bin. If they continue with having one good CCD and one trash CCD that's going to suck, too. Considering the massive increase in price it needs to deliver a scaled increase in performance. If it doesn't do that then it's just a worthless gimmick to entice people that are obsessed with the notion of having more 3D cache regardless of whether it actually does anything for them.

I still think these were the best CPUs I have ever owned. I wish I still owned my Z790 Apex and best 14900KS. I don't hate the CPUs I have now. They perform well (about the same as 14900KS by most measurements) but they are pretty boring products when it comes to overclocking CPU and RAM. I really do not like the hard-coded performance limiters AMD bakes into their products. They are not truly "fully unlocked" or "unlimited" like Intel. If and when the retarded tech landscape corrects itself and prices return to something that resembles sanity my next build will most likely be a return to Intel. 9950X3D2 is going to be a DOA product to me. Zen 6 will likely be good, but we haven't seen Intel's answer to that yet.

Yet another example of denied RMA/warranty for totally bogus reasons by a fundamentally dishonest company. GPU was malfunctioning due to defective factory thermal paste application, not the bent I/O bracket. Seems like the notion of having a warranty is just a joke. They did not even take it apart. We're truly on our own now. In addition to getting screwed over on ludicrous pricing you get screwed again when their predisposition to dereliction of duty manifests itself in a denied warranty claim.

New version of ZenTimings with new features. Works nice and looks nice. Square corners FTW! Much better than icky round Winduhz 11 ugliness. https://github.com/irusanov/ZenTimings/releases/tag/v1.38 @jaybee83 @Raiderman wassup?

It seems like almost everything new is trash now. Built to fail and only last long enough for the warranty to expire to keep revenue streams on repairs and sale of replacement products flowing. Even in construction, materials and building techniques are engineered in a deliberate manner so as to require ongoing maintenance rather than durability. Pharmaceuticals are not a remedy because big pharma, doctors and hospitals do not make money on cures. They only make money when people stay on meds for life and stay sick and require medical care until they die. Natural remedies can't be patented and require no maintenance from the medical profession, so they label it as quackery.

I suspect the defective design of the Founder's Edition trash GPUs is also affecting their warranty claim frequency. There is no way that fragile garbage can be serving them well. Engineered to fail by engineers that are failures. Their demented machinations are ludicrous, and you can tell at a glance that the product design is predestined for failure. As far as I know there is no ASUS software for XOC. I have not heard of any. Just the Astral XOC vBIOS that reduces performance for most. I do not recall having seen anyone report a performance increase using that vBIOS versus Gigachad or Matrix firmware. I have only seen the opposite reported. I loved what it did to my default voltage, but my benchmark scores decreased using it.

I am not sure whether he got a white one or black one. If he got the white one then yeah, just flash the Matrix vBIOS and good to go.

Brother @johnksss I think this is it (above). turbogear figured it out But, also have a look at my post here (below) when I asked for clarification on the Astral mod... https://www.overclock.net/posts/29558012/