Mr. Fox

I scratched them off my list a long time ago. My first and last Chai Tea mobo cured me. I've blacklisted them in my mind. It's always possible that they can do something to earn their way off of that list, but right now I am not aware of a way. They deserve to be blacklisted if for no reason other than their warranty terms are unusually hostile toward customers.

He mentioned how worthless the ASROCK firmware is on the system available to him. Maybe the option is missing.

Thank you. Makes me happy to know that information that I share gets put to good use with the people I care about.

Here is this... https://extremehw.net/all-reviews/sabrent-rocket-ddr5-16gb-u-dimm-review/

I preordered from NewEgg as well... 13900K not KF. And, I got an email saying the product is delayed but my pre-order will remain in effect unless I choose to cancel it. 4090 is extremely unlikely. 4090 Ti is also extremely unlikely. An AMD GPU even far less likely. I don't really see much point in a GPU upgrade right now. Too much money for meaningless points on HWBOT. For now it remains to be seen. It will depend on my ability to exercise common sense and self-control. It may turn out that I demonstrate foolishness and stupidity once again.

ASUS definitely offer feature-packed options, but they have had a horrible track record of failures including a fire and killing a 100+ SP CPU during one of the failures. It is always with great fear and intrepidation I purchase anything from them. When everything goes welll they are outstanding. When you need their help, they suck. If it were not for their poor reliability and lousy warranty service they would be the best. But, most of their competitors offer equally lousy warranty service, so I can't single them out on that character flaw. What is most interesting about my experience is their flagship products are the only ones I have had reliability issues with. The Prime and Strix mobos have been very dependable, but less capable.

It's got to be exciting. Motherboard is a tough one. With EVGA no longer in the game for AMD none of the acceptable options have respectable warranty support. Not to mention you'd probably be waiting for a year for the first parts to drop. EVGA is always painfully late product releases. Probably should stick with ASUS as much as I truly hate to say that. Hopefully they'll have a good two slot DDR5 option like the Apex. Are you going to get a delid tool and bare die frame from der8auer?

That is how it should be. There is no place for being a gentleman in business. You do what is best for yourself, your company/employees and your customers, in that order. You do what is worst for your competition and do it deliberately.

Awesome. Congrats. Where did you get the A-die? Splave at HWBOT or somewhere else? I have been looking on eBay and not finding anything, and I am not willing to pay more than about $250 USD for a pair of 16GB sticks. What do the AIDA64 read/write/copy/latency numbers look like at 7200? I have found M-die to typically cap out around 7000 as well with higher voltage, 6800 with less than 1.500V.

That is still going to be a performance-limiting factor, just as it is for GPUs. Not being hot enough to kill the chip doesn't mean it is ideal. They can say that it is OK all they want to, and change the firmware to let it run that hot without throttling, but it will shorten the life of the silicon and will limit overclocking headroom as a matter of natural consequence. Taking the right steps to make it run cooler has no downside to it no matter how they want to spin the narrative. To present it as somehow being "optimized" to be functionally ideal while running 95°C is like something out of an NVIDIA playbook that is facetious even if their supporters choose to believe it. Getting a CPU, GPU or memory to run cooler never has any downside to it, and the cooler you can get it the longer it will last and the better it will overclock. There is no headroom available at 95°C. It is too close to the thermal junction maximum. One of the videos posted earlier actually demonstrates the problem. You can barely push the envelope and it goes into thermal shutdown mode. If you lower the temps by 20°C by correcting the engineering defect with a delid you are in much better shape in terms of overclocking potential than you were leaving it stock. In Roman's example the CPU automatically boosted higher all by itself and pulled fewer watts by dropping the temperatures to ~70-75°C with a delid. Edit: We see a similar example of this with DDR5. The manufacturer says is it "good" with 80°C temperatures. They ignore the fact that the memory starts throwing errors and the system becomes unstable at 45-50°C and you have to either lower the clock speed or lower the temperature to regain stability lost by higher temperatures.

This is an area where they would do well to follow Intel's lead and stop worrying about silly people whining like bratty little girls about compatibility with old parts and just do whatever is best to make the new stuff work as well as possible. If it is not reasonably compatible because it can't be, it is better to focus on achieving the best outcome and let the chips fall where they may on the idea of re-using old parts. Making the IHS too thick to fill the gap to achieve the same z-height at the expense of the CPU running ridiculously hot is kind of silly. Saying 95°C is the new normal as an excuse is equally silly... and a disingenuous distraction from the fact that it is hotter than it should be, and that impairs performance.

That's good. There needs to be. It's good to see Roman is actually working on a delid tool for it. That IHS thickness wasn't very smart, but direct die is the best way to have good temps under any cirumstance.

Yes, I was raised in a household where firearm ownership was an essential way of life and as normal as breathing air. We always had a least a dozen different rifles in our gun display case, and we used them all, all the time. My younger brother is still into it in a big way. He owns several dozen rifles and pistols, some antiques he has restore and others modern. He custom manufactures firearms from raw materials in his home garage machine shop, and has his Class 3 dealer license. Up until my mid-20's I had all sorts of rifles and a few handguns. One of my favorites was a Ruger 10-22 with a folding stock, pistol grip, barrel shroud. I had both 30- and 50-round magazines for it and converted it to full auto. It was fun and cheap to enjoy. I typically ran 500 to 1000 round through it every weekend. We owned about 50 acres where I lived and we didn't have to find a place to shoot for fun or hunting. Military-style weapons were always our favorite and my brother is very much into sniper rifles and massive handguns, like 500 nitro. I will probably end up going with something from KelTec, but whatever I do it will be via private party sales so I don't end up on a government control freak gun confiscation list. When we started raising a family and living in the city, I lost interest (lack of use) and didn't have the time for it. I am not a hunter (or fisherman) and don't enjoy that aspect of it, and my brother is both of those things. I can't own motorcycles like that because I do not have the self-control, or the desire to find self-control, to behave in a socially acceptable manner when I get on one of them. I find it difficult to enjoy them if I can run them wide open on the highway and hotrod them between traffic lights. The power and noise are addicting and it is a different world now than it was back then. Instead of getting a ticket, you might go to jail or get shot by a rookie cop that is scared you are strung out on drugs rather than just having fun. (I often ran my bikes and cars with open headers and even that has potential to get you in big trouble today.) As a teenager and young adult, I was constantly in trouble for bad (but very fun) behavior with my streetrods and motorcycles. Age doesn't cure that kind of sickness, and when you have it you don't want to be cured. Part of the allure of high performance PC ownership for me has always been the fact that I can be as wild and crazy as I want to be and not incur fines, become uninsurable or go to jail for being wild and crazy. Yes, I totally agree with that. Anyone that doesn't recognize that as a contribution isn't paying attention. It is valuable to all, whether they purchase AMD products or not.

It is hard for me to imagine. It used to be cars and motorcycles before computers, but I honestly do not see that happening. For one, it is far too expensive and frivolous for me to entertain the idea. I was with them the way I am now with computers and I do not have the financial resources needed to do that on a level I would find scintillating. Secondarily, I have mostly lost interest. In part, due to the way tree-huggers ruin everything with a modern hoax which has become their religion. They've poisoned the minds of our kids and their imaginary crisis has been embraced by millions of people that forego facts in favor of a cause to fill a godless void in their hearts. A former passion that I would be more likely to devote a renewed passion for is guns. Here again, goofballs destroy everything desirable with their false religion. The viability of that endeavor remains in the hands of traitors holding public office and their church of misguided sheeple. If the woke twenty-first century Ameri-Nazi agenda continues to erode our Constitutional way of life, that option will be off limits too.

Yes, same. They almost regained my confidence, but the foul-tasting Ryzen 9 ownership experience hasn't left my mouth yet in spite of proper oral hygiene, and it re-revealed the folly of my naturally optimistic and forgiving nature. I guess it is fortunate for all of us that forgiveness is never earned or deserved or we'd all be irreversibly hellbound. The most dangerous part of it is how the Team Red fanboyz go out of their way to say nice things and pretend the engineering flaws and design defects are imaginary. PBO overclocking is a joke, but you'd think it was something special the way the Kool-Aid drinkers embraced it. It caused me to lose more respect for the fanboyz than it did AMD to be honest. Nothing they say can be accepted as true or accurate because they're impaired by their intoxication on the red Kool-Aid. "Stupid is as stupid does." - Forrest Gump

After I read your post I expected to find him on one of his childish, irrational, bipolar emo-Nazi potty-mouth meltdowns that have made it so difficult to respect him as a subject matter expert; but, this was a really good video and he communicated in a mostly-respectable way that made him seem like an authority with only an occassional unprofessional teenager-grade vulgar expression. The video is spot on. DDR5 is just another gimmick/scam designed to make money and stop consumers from reusing their old parts across so many generations that the hardware manufacturers can't get richer. DDR5 is to memory benchmarks an equivalent to what the relationship of RAM caching was to storage benchmarks... a blazing fast clock speed that is real, but doesn't get utilized for anything important other than memory benchmarks. There are going to some isolated examples where it does matter for something, somewhere, but gaming certainly is not one of them. Hopefully this won't be another sucky enthusiast wannabe example of a cookie-cutter sheeple metachurch product that performs well stock, but sucks at overclocking. And, hopefully it won't have the same reliability/stability issues and USB malfunction problems like Ryzen 9. What excites me even more is the anticipation of what kind of answer Intel is going to have for it. It's wonderful having the force of competition in play here again. AMD's progress is a win for everyone, including people that won't ever buy their brand. LMAO at opening remarks here... "...they clock very, very, very high which is kind of exciting like the funny thing about clock speed is it doesn't directly translate into performance but who doesn't love looking at big numbers even if they don't necessarily mean anything like on Bulldozer CPUs..." - Buildzoid ...or, like DDR5 memory, LOL. Short answer to why... because they're the Green Goblin and doing the right thing is not how they roll. It never has been... ever. But, as long as they have the most desirable products, they are licensed to be dishonest, shady and unfair with the people whose money keeps their wheels turning. They're going to price themselves out of a job though, unless stupidity continues to prevail when it comes to how people spend waste their money. There is always the remote possibility that common sense will prevail and people will say no with their wallet to the retarded pricing.

Yeah, I've never really understood the mentality behind any of it. When I am enjoying a game and it captures my interest it has little to do with photorealism or lifelike AI. It's because the game is fun and captivating and I am more in tune with the action than I am being a weirdo about things that don't make the game more or less fun to play. I might care more watching a movie or looking at photos if the image quality is poor resolution with washed out colors. I'd be more likely to notice in a scenario that has zero user interaction. I don't give a rat's butt about live gameplay streaming or watching other people play games, but if I were a spectator the lack of engagement and boredom might give me enough opportunity to notice minor anomalies in image quality. But, I think it wouldn't matter because there is a certain level of expectation that streamed video quality is naturally going to leave something to be desired. Well, bear in my we have 3090 KPE video cards. The people that own peasant versions of a 3090 are going to be dealing with all sorts of deliberately fabricated stupidity that cripples performance. Our GPUs are not castrated the way the rest of them are. Without EVGA driving competition with regard to overclocking and raising voltage and power limits, I am expecting the castration to worsen. They were almost single-handedly responsible for enthusiasts having as little reason left to be enthusiastic as we had. I won't have a surprised look on my face if I can't find a reason going forward. Factor in the irrational environmentalist agenda that is ruining our lives in other areas, we will probably see an expansion of the emasculation to include removal of all of the man parts, and we will all be left with cookie-cutter pansy-boy gamer trash.

I do not use DLSS and don't really care about it or the AMD version of it. I don't game often enough for it to matter... maybe 2 or 3 hours YTD. Why all the sudden hate and "fake frame" chatter? Seems like not long ago many were super excited about it and wouldn't buy a GPU without it. Did the world suddenly figure out it was just another silly gimmick for rabid gamers to wet themselves over?

Assuming the thermals are a direct comparison on the same test system within a controlled environment, the variance is possibly a direct reflection on the effectiveness of the fans and heat sink on each GPU. It could vary wildly among brands and different models within a brand. The only way you could draw any good conclusions on thermals of the actual GPU is with direct die water cooling, or using the same fans and heat sink on both GPUs. That is a gigantic difference in raw FPS and temperatures.

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LOL... the ONLY thing Chris Titus likes about Winduhz 11 makes me want to puke my guts out. Too funny... but remarkable the the only thing he likes screams how much the product sucks and should be avoiding like a plague.

More info... the last section of the video is particularly interesting and probably the most relevant in terms of the global magnitude of the tragedy of EVGA leaving the GPU industry. 20:19 - How NVIDIA Blocked Progress @johnksss

Apparently so. Seems they value change for the sake of change rather than change for the purpose of improvement. The perception that the presence of activity equates to progress is a serious character flaw, and their character has been in question for a very long time. To be fair, the same can be said of Mac OS, so they are in good company with respect to character defects and nefarious intentions.