Mr. Fox

Speaking of collective knowledge pool as it relates to gaming...

That happens probably more than we realize. Remember, we are living in a McDonald's drive-by, Tik-Tok, BLM, point and click, XMP, PBO, TVB, AI-is-important, dumb-dumb, cookie-cutter, muppet show era. A whole bunch of people are not smart enough to troubleshoot a complex problem. Being a stupid idiot is the new normal. They push a button, reach for another piece of candy, (or their favorite legalized recreational drugs,) and hope it works. They tweet about it, post pictures of it on Instagram, and if their friends on Facepoot can't help them fix it they're totally lost. Then again, if a system runs completely stable 24-7/365 and the only time it doesn't is when you launch a specific game, it is really logical to blame the game for being a piece of garbage. I think all of us would because it is the only conclusion that makes any sense. If it is true and launching one isolated software title causes a system to malfunction, and there is no way to reproduce the problem using other programs or synthetic tests, I think it is safe to blame that piece of software. If you paid for it, you got screwed unless the developer cares enough to fix it.

I think maybe we expect too much from stupid people. I find it much easier to expect nothing intelligent, true, good or useful from them. In much the same way that I am not offended by a person with horribly disgusting body odor, who never bathe and have terrible personal hygiene; because I intentionally stay away from them and avoid directly exposing myself to such repulsive people. Therefore, I am less often repulsed. Where we start having problems is when they come over and fart in your face, they don't stay away and they want to force their stench on you, expect you to like it and demand that you give them special treatment and be extra nice to them. Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, the Dave2D channel, Tik-Tok and Facepoot are their spaces. Being part of the hivemind is important to them, and without it their lives have no meaning or purpose.

I will hold it for you until the 28th. Not a problem. If you want/need the docking station and headphones I will let you have them included in that price. It might make the shipping a tiny bit more, but probably not much. Let me know. The concubines were quarantined by Winduhz Defender, so no concubines. I will mark everything you want as sold in this thread. Let me know.

I will hold it for you until the 28th. Not a problem. If you want/need the docking station and headphones I will let you have them included in that price. It might make the shipping a tiny bit more, but probably not much. Let me know. The concubines were quarantined by Winduhz Defender, so no concubines.

Hi Brother @ryansure, I would ship it to Canada for you. Send me a PM with your delivery address and I will check the cost for USPS and let you know. No concubines. Mrs. Fox doesn't allow me to have those.. 😉

Hi Brother @ryansure, I would ship it to Canada for you. Send me a PM with your delivery address and I will check the cost for USPS and let you know. Sorry, no concubines are included. Mrs. Fox does not allow me to have those. 😉

Well, it looks like I am going to be waiting until June for a 13900KS to become available. The only ones available for purchase are from scalpers. All normal retail channels are out of stock. I am not interested in paying more than necessary. Even NewEgg's price is about $25-30 too much. It sells for just under $700 from reputable sources like Microcenter, Provantage, Central Computers, B&H Photo and Bottom Line (shopBLT.com) and I don't really want to pay $700+ for a CPU that will soon be obsolete. Current status from Provantage is my order is projected to ship on June 5. It looks like BLT has a small batch arriving in less than a week, but their backlog (visible to the public) shows more pending orders than incoming CPUs so there is no real hope of that working out. Plus, I can't use PayPal to pay BLT and that's where my money is sitting and waiting to be used. BLT is a good option for avoiding sales tax. The only state sales taxes they collect are for residents of CT and HI. If I thought there was a remote chance I could get one next week I would consider shuffling my money around and save the sales tax. The downside is, if you open the package BLT does not accept returns. They only accept returns on factory-sealed products. So, for now, I am leaving the pending order with Provantage active. The 100% unconditional satisfaction guarantee return policy rivals Microcenter, so I'd rather waste my money on sales tax and have that option available. I am glad Brother@Talonrecommended Provantage because of their return policy. It's a short time windows (not like Microcenter in that respect) but certainly long enough to confirm the silicon quality isn't garbage. Since I don't have access to a Microcenter, they are the next best option.

Indeed. It is both arrogant and specious to believe we are impacting climate change. It would happen without us. We are not that powerful and influential. But, we think we are, or so it appears. Certainly, we don't want to deliberately spoil the water we drink or the air we breathe, but those distinct topics are easily confused and spun into the climate change narrative because there is a political agenda that needs to be fed. Everyone knows we should stop eating beef because it is cruel to cows, but even more importantly, because cow farts are causing global warming. If we stop eating beef, will the cows stop farting? Will the population of cows increase and thereby increase the frequency of cow farts? Should we solve this by killing all of the cows? But wait, that's animal cruelty. Uh-oh, now cows are an endangered species... OMG. We need a committee, a 5-year multi-billion dollar impact assessment, a new government agency, and new laws, to manage this problem or we're all going to die.

Not sure what that is all about...

I agree that climate change belongs at the bottom of the list, if included at all. The most widely embraced fake science hoax in the history of the human race, created to drive political agendas.

This is true only if you select workloads and certain titles that RDNA2 is good at. In some circumstances, the RX 6900 series trails 3090/3090Ti by a pretty massive margin in areas that can matter a lot. In a graphics-focused workload such as Blender, the RX 6900/6950 XT gets slaughtered. Nvidia has CUDA and Optix rendering, which are significantly faster than the OpenGL rendering the RX 6900/6950 XT have access to. That’s not to mention the memory speed and bandwidth on the RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti, RT and Tensor cores. Both of them use GDDR6X memory, which tops out much higher than the GDDR6 the RX 6900/6950 XT have available. If you’re serious about ripping through GPU-bound workloads, ray-traced content and content creation, it’s smarter to spend the extra for the 30-series Nvidia flagships. And, it is well-known that RDNA2 fails pretty miserably where ray tracing is concerned. If you only play games and run benchmarks where the RDNA2 architecture does better, then going with the 6900 Series is an intelligent way to save money by doing without things you do not need. If you're a number chasing benchmark maniac, you need both and will have to identify the best assault weaponry for each battle. I can say for certain that where the 6900 XT shines, it shines brightly. Where it doesn't, there is nothing to write home about. The better all-around option is unquestionably the 3090/3090 Ti. But, that comes at a high cost. All of the above aside, the 4090 is grossly overpriced and anything less than a 4090 is a waste of money. The Green Goblin shows its darkest side releasing trash like the 4070 for $600+. Better to buy a new 6900/6950 XT, a good used one, or a good second-hand 3090/3090 Ti and skip the garbage sub-flagship Green cards. The MorePower Tool is what makes the 6900/6950 XT really shine. Without MPT spicing things up, they would be more boring and less fun to overclock than the 3090/3090 Ti. Even when you make very little progress using it, MPT makes it fun trying. It is sinful that a similar tweak tool is not available for the RTX cards. Not everyone has access to supreme options like Kingpin and Galax HOF GPUs, and those are the only Nvidia options that beat the tweaking fun the MPT brings to RDNA2 cards.

Indeed. Hard to believe the incredible amount of damage that has occurred--much of it deliberately--in the past 26 months. The question is, how much more of it can we tolerate before it goes off the rails on the point of no return. I hope we can survive another 24 months without everything imploding, and hopefully it won't be too late to restore order.

Actually, that is 100% exactly what they do. You can always tell when they are lying because their lips are moving. The only time they report anything accurately and without bias is either totally by accident or when it fits their agenda I love this... Anheuser-Busch deserve whatever tragedy results from their truly horrible decision-making. They are clearly out of touch with the largest segment of their customer base and clearly operating under corrupt/unfit executive leadership. If it is real and not just a joke, considering it is San Francisco it would not surprise me in the least, given that SFO is the West Coast HQ and poster child for everything that is stupid, messed up and going wrong in the North American continent.

This is the only way to rationalize anything that remotely resembles "value" in a 4090. It will work for gamers that don't want to upgrade every year or two. Sadly, it won't work for performance enthusiasts that do want to stay on the edge like it does for gamers. But, I digress... nobody cares about performance enthusiasts anymore. They certainly love our money, but they don't love us. We are a source of revenue, not a valued patron.

I use ProcessLasso and ParkControl (same software developer) concurrently and both utilities are very valuable. They compliment one another nicely, and they were worth every penny I spent on them. It makes it even sweeter that they are not a subscription SaaS rubbish like so many have become. I bought them a long time ago. I have used them on multiple systems. I only had to buy once, and the updates keep coming. That level of integrity is getting difficult to find in the PC tech space. One nice example of how I use it is assigning priority and affinity to specific workload executables (in things like 3DMark benchmarks, or wPrime, as two specific examples) based on how each executable responds to core count and workload priority. You can actually control priority and affinity for each running thread. And, it does enhance benchmark scores. I am certain it could be used in the same way to maximize gaming performance. And, these are things that just about every OS fails at.

LOL. 🤣 that could have easily been a conversation you were having with me. It has to be more than just a little bit before I notice. I do, however, immediately notice and appreciate the enhanced lighting and reflections when ray tracing is used. I notice that long before I notice things such as subtle muddy textures, minor jagged aliased edges, or minor screen tearing. I might detect them if they are pointed out, but might not notice otherwise.

Yeah, that is a no. You can use one of those silver trace circuit repair pens, or use a conductive paint (same concept as the pen). Or do it right and solder another resistor on top, or replace the resistor with one of different resistance. (Soldering is definitely the best way). If you were only going to be testing briefly, you could probably tape a fine strip of aluminum foil down to bridge the resistor, but I would not trust that for more that some brief testing. If the tape came unstuck over time you could end up short circuiting something.

These items are still available. They will all fit in a small box and should not be costly to ship. If anyone wants all three items, I would entertain a special bundle price. If so, send me a PM.

The limited availability is deliberate. It's like everything else that is rigged. The easiest way to be a winner is to make sure your competitors don't have access to the same resources. That's kind of a way of life at HWBOT. The winners are carefully selected, and they're winners because they get the special free stuff, not because they're special people. If they make the special stuff available to everyone, their chosen winners are at risk of becoming chosen losers. And, besides that, do we actually expect China to ever do the right thing about anything? Nope. I know I sure don't. We should play their game using our food and natural resources and see how that works out for them. (I'm absolutely serious. Not kidding.) Where we screwed up was sharing anything with them in the first place... information, technology, medical science, food, resources... our bad. Never should have, and we need to stop doing that. And, we need to stop purchasing anything they produce. When your adversaries have no food, no resources, and no money, they're no problem. Here are 4090 Catzilla benches. And, of course all of the submissions I am competing against were run with ECC disabled. So, I will have to disable ECC and rerun them to have competitive scores. I really wish NVIDIA had not exposed the option to disable ECC and left it like all prior generations. I asked in the 3DMark rules thread if they are going to apply it to everything and delete all 3D graphics benchmarks on 40-series that have ECC disabled. Too stupid that a big deal was made of this. They've created a mess for themselves and I hope my question causes an ah-hah moment for them, LOL. Same drill as 6900 XT... low resolution scores are missing a digit. Catzilla 576: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248827_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160739|*|Result Details (Score 152047) Catzilla 720: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248825_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160737|*|Result Details (Score 151124) Catzilla 1080: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248819_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160735|*|Result Details (Score 127856) Catzilla 1440: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248818_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160733|*|Result Details Catzilla 2160: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248813_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160727|*|Result Details Man, that 4090 sure loves him some juice. Almost 700W, LOL. Nice power draw for only 1.100V.

OK here are some 6900 XT benches... The low resolution scores are missing a digit because it is one more character than the benchmark window can show in the yellow square, LOL. Catzilla 576: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248766_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160706|*|Result Details (Score is 116079) Catzilla 720: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248773_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160709|*|Result Details (Score is 103291) Catzilla 1080: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248776_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160711|*|Result Details Catzilla 1440: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248780_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160713|*|Result Details Catzilla 2160: https://hwbot.org/submission/5248757_ | https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1160704|*|Result Details

I'd even go one step further and say it was severely overpriced; as a matter of fact. It opened Pandora's Box bank account and now we have released the kraken of unhinged stupidity on GPU pricing. And, to compound the problem, the general acceptance of it has allowed that cancer to metastasize and it is starting to show in ridiculous overpricing of other components. The inflation--a secondary problem--is just adding insult to injury. It would have been unacceptable without any inflation. We know what caused both problems, and "evil" and "stupid" are written all over both of them.

I agree. It is a huge mess and we know who we need to go after. There has been one major change that has thrown everything out of whack. We need to undo that change and take steps to make sure it never happens again. The difficulty is some people refuse to acknowledge the source or call it a problem, and they want to make it illegal for anyone else to. Because of that, the entire human race is in jeopardy. The irrational hatred of one man that has done undeniably more great things than any recent predecessor has been an incredibly massive distraction and it has driven some people to the point of insanity beyond any hope for recovery. They've become entirely consumed by their lunatic hatred, and it is all they can ever think, speak or act upon. It is unbelievably sad. LOL. I literally watched that less than 2 minutes ago. What a crazy coincidence. And, this one right after it.

It doesn't matter where you fall on the liberal versus conservative Richter scale, woke stupidity, the absence of common sense and the utterly insane levels of Kool-Aid drinking political correctness it requires is too easy to identify. Looks like a real "uh-oh moment" for CNN. They accidentally brought someone on a show that tells the truth. Quite the mess they found themselves in on Primetime. Hilarious watching the circus clowns doing the backstroke live on air. I wonder who got fired for accidentally choosing a truth-teller for a guest interview? LOL.. love it. Pants-down funny! I suspect this muppet media witch had a difficult time keeping up with the instructions in her earpiece and the chaos on her teleprompter.

Running the cache ratio at 50x, or higher if your CPU can handle it, does amazing things for memory latency. That might also contribute to game instability. If everything else stays exactly the same except the cache ratio is lowered, that might be enough to make things smooth out. Might try that with BF2024 at 8200 memory with cache ratio like 46x or 48x and see what happens. Anyone remember the dumb-dumbs a fews years ago saying having 8GB of VRAM on an MXM card was a silly gimmick and waste of money? I wonder how their "sensible" 4GB GPU laptop upgrades are working out for them now? How 'bout no? The "gimmick" isn't even good enough now, LOL. This is a new video looking at old video cards, not an old video from the HU archive.