Mr. Fox

If you don't like Windoze 10 or Winduhz 11, you have to resort to third-party stuff that the Redmond Reprobates try to interfere with. If you don't like your Linux desktop look and feel, you simply change it to something you do like. Imagine being able to run a command to change Windows 10 to Windows 7, or flip it back whenever you feel like it. Don't like Zorin OS desktop? Install Cinnamon. Don't like Cinnamon? Install Mate. Or something else. Or, just modify things yourself. It's easier to fix the garbage you don't like about Linux than it is to fix what you don't like about Winderz. ZorinOS default UI. Clean and pretty. ZorinOS after running the command to install Cinnamon... Clean and pretty. Nothing needs to be reinstalled. Want to go back? Click on the gear icon before entering your password on the login screen and select Zorin. Tomorrow, click the gear and go back to something else. Have it your way... like BK. Easy-peasy. It all works.

A world without Windoze awaits us all.

AMEN! It's true. The Redmond Mafia doesn't want anyone to know that. @ryanbesides all of the Crysis titles we love, this one also plays great. (So far almost everything does.)

You should still be. It's a crock and a hoax. Climate change is real, but man-made climate change is not. There was an ice age and there was a great flood. There used to be dinosaurs and now they're all dead. The planet changes and there is nothing we can do to change it. We shouldn't pollute the air we breathe or poop in the water we drink, but the earth is changing and there ain't a damn thing we are doing to cause it and nothing we can do to stop it. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we will die.

After work today I jumped in my car to run to the convenience store. As I'm driving down the road and waiting for the AC to cool things down, I'm thinking to myself... my goodness it is so stinking hot. I looked at the thermometer and guess what? It is hot LOL.

I've played around with ChromeOS a bit just out curiosity and I can't identify a good reason to use it. I mean, if you had a Chromebook that is super anemic, like a smartphone, it might make sense on that kind of device. But, it offers nothing compelling or special. While it was an interesting experiment, in hindsight I wouldn't waste the time or disk space on it based on my previous tinkering. If you decide to go ahead play with it to satisfy your own curiosity, be sure you first physically remove all other drives and give ChromeOS full reign of the drive you plan to use it on. It installs many partitions and has potential to cause a plethora of issues with other OSes and their bootloaders if if you leave their drives installed when you install ChromeOS. It dees not play nice during installation on a multi-boot setup. I think you can reinstall the other drives after ChromeOS is installed. It is always best to use that approach on any multi-boot system. Install an OS on a drive with all other drives removed, make a Macrium Reflect image of it, take it out, install the next drive and OS, make a Macrium Reflect image, lather, rinse, repeat. Once you have finished installing OSes, go ahead and put all of the drives in the system and use the BIOS boot menu to select the one you want to run.

I can push the VRAM to +1650-1700 depending on the benchmark on my Suprim X. If a heavily ray-traced title +1650. @ryan - did you install Zorin? These (and many others) run fantastic on Linux with Steam using Proton Experimental.

Interesting.

If you mean web browsing, checking email, using Micro$lop Office, etc. Nope. If you mean gaming, I'm not sure. I've not bothered to check all that closely. Probably a little different, maybe more than a little, but you'd probably have to measure it deliberately to be massively aware of it. I know that if I play games on my turdbook and don't pay attention to anything else other than playing the game it doesn't seem remarkably different in most titles as long as the framerate stays high enough to keep everything feeling smooth and fluid. If I start measuring then it's definitely much slower. After measuring it also makes you feel disappointed. But, it feels OK while playing on the turdbook as long as you are not ruining it by measuring. (That's why consoles are successful, LOL.) If you mean overclocked benching, then hell yeah. Massive difference. And, because you are measuring, any kind of performance downgrade from what you have seen with better hardware is terribly disappointing.

This is interesting. Remember not that long ago, the 12900KS was the performance king for CPU overclocking. The 13700K/KF has been called things like 12900KS on steroids or a golden 12900KS. Seems like it is true. The core counts are the same. Memory overclocking on 13th Gen is definitely better. This is a pretty nice generational bump from the best of prior generation to the run-of-the-mill/nothing to write home about consumer CPU released the following generation. Here is my best recorded Cinebench R23 score. 31711 points 12900KS - 5.5GHz all P-cores, 4.3GHz all E-cores, using 1.490 vCore - 100°C after delid Max stable memory overclock 6800 https://hwbot.org/submission/5029753_mr._fox_cinebench___r23_multi_core_with_benchmate_core_i9_12900ks_31711_cb Now... compare this to 13700K, no delid (yet) 13700KF - 5.6GHz all P-cores, 4.5GHz all E-cores, using 1.390V - 91°C without delid Memory overclock 8000 (max stable unknown - haven't tested higher yet) https://hwbot.org/submission/5311899_mr._fox_cinebench___r23_multi_core_with_benchmate_core_i7_13700kf_32962_cb

I don't know about the dust. I guess it can be electrically charged, but it probably contains particles of things other than silica (sand) that are conductive. When it gets this hot and dry, one can let their imagination run wild about what kind of airborne particles there are beside your typical dust and pollen.

It varies but it is often in the low teens and that is when it becomes extremely annoying. Can't touch anything without getting zapped and I have to use hair spray to keep my hair from looking crazy. It is higher than normal right now inside my house and it is 34%. Anything below 40% is considered abnormally low. Outside it is 24%. We get our mail delivered at a cluster box around the corner. If it is at night that I go to the mailbox, I frequently get an ESD arc that is 2 to 3 inches long when I go to insert the key into the mailbox and it is audible, like a bug zapper (not as loud, but you can hear it). It is not painful, but it is always startling even though it has happened to me many hundreds of times. It happens during the day, too. I mentioned at night because you can see the bright flash from the arc easily after dark.

Unfortunately, I think you might be right. I have considered making life extremely inconvenient by doing something drastic like that. It affects more than my computer stuff. It even blows light bulbs on lamps fairly often. I walk up to a lamp and reach for the knob to turn it off and it zaps it hard enough that it blows out the bulb. Happens to both LED and incandescent.

Yes, I got it from Brother @Rage Setnot too long ago. It has been interesting. It's a pretty decent GPU all things considered and I am glad that I got it from him. It was good that I got it in the manner I did. I now have no desire to investigate 7900 XTX. It satisfied my curiosity about AMD GPUs in a more favorable way than 5950X did on the CPU side. It has basically an identical Byksi block at my 4090 Suprim. It is hard to tell them apart other than the power connectors. I picked up a 13700KF to hold me over until 14900K drops. I will either pick up one of those or snag a good deal on a used 13900KS when early adopters start dropping them after upgrading to 14th Gen. I run things bare die. No chance of shorting or anything wrong at the hardware level. I confirmed it visually. Nothing was disturbed physically. Everything was working fine. I received the Z790 Apex. Swapped CPUs and had both systems working. The motherboard, CPU and water block and RAM were removed as a complete assembly a few weeks ago and set on the shelf to wait for the Dark Base Pro 901 to arrive. I used the 5000D Airflow case to build a complete PC from spare parts (Strix Z690-E mobo) that I sold. I took the assembly off the shelf and installed it on my homemade open bench (photo above) and the problem was present. I am pretty sure it had to be a severe ESD zapping or a power surge. Something external and nothing related to mods. ESD here is horrible with the extreme dry heat. ESD has killed numerous LEDs and this is my third sudden unexplained CPU death in 3 or 4 years (first on this platform, twice on 10th Gen). It could have been zapped while removing the assembly from the old case or while setting this up. No idea when, only know the point of discovery. ESD is so bad here that sometimes when I leave my desk and return and go to touch the mouse or keyboard the first time it zaps me hard enough for all of the LEDs on the keyboard and mouse to go dark and the monitor goes black for 1 or 2 seconds. A few times in the past couple of years (maybe explaining the CPU deaths) the ESD was so bad it caused my PC to reboot like hitting the reset button. Here is another interesting observation for anyone that might be experiencing something similar. I thought is was a sketchy 4090 issue, but it seems to be monitor related. I was having random black screens on the system with the 4090. Almost never in Windows, usually at POST or in the BIOS. It seemed like the 4090 was going into a power saving mode. If I entered the BIOS and did nothing and let it sit idle on a screen it would sometimes go black after a period of inactivity. This was with the 165Hz 1440P IPS Acer Predator monitor I have owned for a long time. I now have the 6900 XT connected to that monitor. It has happened a couple of times with the AMD GPU. It has not happened once in several weeks with the 4090 connected to my 144Hz AOC 1080P IPS monitor trio. So, maybe my monitor is glitching out. It is weird that it does not ever happen in Windows. In fact, when the glitch occurs the screen can be black during POST and start working when Windows loads. So, while it does seem like it might be power/utilization related where the monitor goes to sleep, it occurs with both GPUs when the video output signal is at its weakest point.

So, looks like I got a decent bin on the 13700K. I wonder what the SP ratings look like? I haven't done any tuning yet. Just grabbed some numbers that I was pretty sure would work unless I got an extra bad sample and *boom* they worked.

The new normal for technology is to make the products fragile and less than durable with a targeted lifespan just slightly longer than the manufacturer's warranty. They want the products they sell to fail so they can sell more products. They rush things to market with known engineering defects in hopes that it opens up the opportunity for them to sell a revised version with the defects corrected. So potentially doubling their money off of each customer sucker. Being one of the first to purchase any product that is new to market demonstrates a lack of wisdom, or a failure to employ good judgment. It's always better to watch somebody else struggle with broken trash than to be numbered among them. Some of these things (like that thing) I would not want even if it were a free gift. I've got no use for trash like that. If I wanted to have a sucky game experience I can already do that on my smartphone for free.

LOL. I'm not inclined to spend more than MSRP even for a silicon lottery winner. AMD and Intel have an utterly worthless warrant that says overclocking voids the warranty so basically they have no warranty. Silicon lottery winners die more often than crummy silicon samples, or so it seems. No point in paying more. Just jack the voltage higher and enjoy rag-dolling the crap out of it. If it lives, great. If not, chances are it was going to die for no explainable reason anyway. I've had this happen 3 times in the past 3-4 years. Just stops working for no apparent reason. In the end it's all gonna burn, so it doesn't matter. At least it's not BGA dung. Toss it and drop another one in.

Yes, absolutely. The choice between warranty and a CPU that runs cooler and overclocks better is a no-brainer. Warranty is worth sacrificing. I only care about the initial warranty and return policy in case the place I buy it sells me a piece of trash lottery loser.

Thanks. I will wait for the guy on oc.net to get back to me. If his is still available I made a full price offer and the SP is a little bit better than the one that died. That's too much money. Same price as local Best Buy on the 13900K. If the guy does not respond within the next hour or so (I sent him a PM almost 10 hours ago and he has not been on the forum for 7 days) I my just grab a 13700K from Best Buy for $375 and wait for 14900K to drop.

I hope not too but I don't think so. It's just a very unfortunate coincidence. It looks like I was drunk when I typed out that post. I'm going to have to go back and edit it. I was falling asleep at the keyboard and made quite a mess of it. What I find so strange about it is that nothing was wrong when I took the motherboard out and set it on the shelf with the CPU in place. It never even booted once when I tried to power it up. I'm almost thinking it has to be some kind of power surge or ESD related thing when I first turned it on or something like that. Because nothing other than plug-in electrical connections and memory were disturbed. CPU and heat sink were not disturbed. ESD here is absolutely insane due to the low humidity. I can't find any outward visible evidence of an issue. None of the contacts on the underside are discolored and I have examined the die closely with a powerful magnifying glass. There's no sign of hot spots, chips or cracks. All of the SMDs on the CPU are intact. Visually, everything looks normal. I do not get a "00" Q-code and no hanging during POST. I initially thought it was a memory training issue. It behaves like one. Maybe it is the IMC that died. The CPU does get warm with power going to it, but the Q-codes never stop cycling. It booted instantly with the Celeron CPU. Anyhoo... here is my homemade open bench I am using while waiting for be quiet! to send me the case. I have about $15 invested in this, including the piece of black walnut that I bought at Home Depot to use for the GPU's PCIe bracket to attach to. It's a cheap $10 steel monitor stand from Amazon with the EVGA PCB and standoffs included with Dark motherboards attached to the monitor stand. I actually like it. It works perfectly for this. The leg heights are adjustable and the lowest height provides just the right amount of clearance for the PSU to sit on the desk under it.

@jaybee83yes I have had overall good resuls with TeamGroup DDR5. Better luck than I normally do with G.SKILL. @Talonsorry to hear about your 13900KS. My 13900K is dead now and I have no idea why. I had sold my Z690 Apex and 13900KF and had been waiting for the Dark Base Pro 901 case to ship from be quiet. Since I received the Z790 Apex and installed it, the Z690 Dark mobo CPU had been sitting on a shelf. Everything was working flawlessly when I stopped using it. Today I made an open bench because I am tired of waiting for the Dark Base Pro to ship and wanted to be able to use the Z690 Dark. I got everything set up and when I turned it on for the first time I found it will not complete POST. It just keeps cycling through Q-codes. After taking it out and examining everything I found nothing wrong. I put it back in the socket and tested again, thinking maybe it was not seated correctly and no change. I dropped in a Celeron CPU in to see if everything works and it does. I put the 13900K back in after testing with the Celeron and same outcome. So, I am using the Celeron until I can get another 13900K. I PM'd a fellow on overclock.net about one he has for sale. Waiting to hear back.

OK, my T700 product review is live. This is my sixth one. @Raidermanhow are yours working out? Crucial T700 PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD Review | ExtremeHW.net

Yep, I can do that as well. I tested Windows 7 on the Z790 Apex by installing one of my Macrium Reflect images and everything seems to work okay except for the 4090. It really sucks that current generation graphics cards only get driver support for the latest cancer operating systems from the Redmond Mafia. Had AMD done the right thing here it probably would have been enough of a compelling reason for me to flip from green to red, but they took the coward's way out and bowed before the altar of filth like Intel and NVIDIA. The degree to which the tech industry is controlled through conspiracy and fiat is truly repulsive and reflects poorly on the self-anointed masters of zombie muppets.

Well, it was 114°F today, but it has finally cooled down to a brisk 104°F just before 11:00 PM. Tomorrow will be hotter. Great benching weather, especially for a laptop. 😆 Newer is always better newer.

Don't do it, bro. Be smart. You'll end up regretting it because it will have all of the limitations that laptop have by design. It might be more powerful than what you have now, but it will be limited and frustrating. Just keep the laptop you have when circumstances demand using a laptop (which are few unless you travel for business) and enjoy the excellence, flexibility and frugality of building a desktop. Other than motherboard, CPU and GPU once the desktop is built everything else can span many years of service, unlike a laptop. Trust me, once you make the switch you will not even want to turn on your turdbook any more. It will become too disgusting and disappointing for words. At least if you are anything like me that will happen. I literally hate laptops now. I have one. It's adequate when using a laptop is unavoidable. I don't use it unless doing so is unavoidable. Sometimes I do not even turn it on for more than a month.