Mr. Fox

I have made more than my fair share of stupid decisions, so you're not alone. 🙂 At least we learn what we should have done, even if it is too late to fix it. I think we are heading into some very scary days unless something drastic happens sooner than later. It is going to take a while to fix the current mess, even if we could stop the people causing it today and immediately began fixing the things they have screwed up. It really sucks that some of it is deliberate. That's seriously messed up.

I had heard of it before but never needed it on EVGA and it does not work with MSI Mystic. I actually tried using it on my Unify-X because their software is also UWP filth, but it doesn't work. So, instead of using the RGB/ARGB headers on the mobo I bought a cheap SATA-powered controller with a remote and bypassed the mobo. For me it is a set once to white light and forget it forever, or until the code it dumped from NVRAM, so I don't need the ability to do anything else. This is the first time I actually had an opportunity to use it.

This is SO MUCH better than Armoury Crate cancer feces. I can make all of the LEDs white without having to install performance-killing filth that is plagued with bugs. It is a portable replacement for Aura. It writes the color choices to NVRAM and survives a reboot. https://openrgb.org/ Armoury Crate is such a horrible piece of crap that some ASUS fanboys won't buy an ASUS mobo any more. I was on the verge of returning this for a refund because Armoury Crate is such a buggy and unstable piece of you-know-what. ASUS is retarded for making it a UWP digi-dung app. I will be putting the Z490 Dark, golden 10900K and bare die block up for sale here in the marketplace. I got quotes of $700-800 from people in the know, including @jaybee83 and @avacado (EHW and OC.net), but I will likely offer it here for less. The 12900K that was included in the bundle is a disappointing sample and strikes me as being very average. I have messaged Inland (Microcenter) on Amazon to ask them if they will exchage it for a better silicon sample.

Only a guess because I haven't really followed anything relating to laptops since 2015... it probably needs a BIOS mod to support the CPU released after the machine was made. 9900KS requires BIOS updates on desktops as well. Simply having a mobo that supports 9th Gen isn't enough and desktops need BIOS updates for 9900KS support. Same is true of 12900K versus KS.

At the end of the day we're all expendable and working for larger companies you are always more like a number than a human being. However, people who possess legitimate leadership skills know a quality employee when they see one and do whatever they can, within reason, to retain them. Unfortunately, good leaders are even harder to find than good individual contributors. There is a lot of truth in the old axiom, "People don't leave bad jobs; they leave bad bosses." It's almost a cliché to say that employees don’t leave companies, they leave bad bosses. Sadly, this happens all the time. A top talent asset will resign and in the exit interview it's confirmed that their manager was the root cause of their departure. In the same way that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, companies that do not conduct exit interviews, and act on the intelligence, are doomed for failure.

It is unfortunate that people holding positions of authority behave in such a manner. They may be leaders in rank, but not character. Good organizations are often turned into bad ones, or even destroyed, by losers like that.

Sounds like severely mediocre overclocking and not much better than an experience owning a turdbook with a locked-down CPU. Pretty pathetic IMHO.

Please share some pictures with us when you have time.

I really need a vacation, too. Real bad. Maintenance of sanity does not apply to high performance computing. The opposite is preferrable. We want to be crazy, go nuts and see insanely high clock speeds, voltage, power consumption, and insanely low temperatures. The more insane those things become the happier we are (or should be). I'd love to see something like 25GHz at 3.500V and 1300W in Cinebench. Yes brother @ryan as long as contact between the CPU/GPU dies and heat sink cold plates is correct a liquid metal paste job should help.

I think a large percentage of the people buying laptops and desktop components are not very tech savvy. Most of them max out their skills installing drivers or running a Windows update. Many can't even manage that effectively. They need everything to be easy and extremely low skill, so in that respect I think reviews like these are demonstrative of their low skill as well as shortcomings of the products they purchased. They certainly aren't smart enough to identify the game they want to play is a buggy piece of trash. Suggesting they need to tune things or test a variety of drivers turns them inside-out. They just expect it to work. It's probably not an unrealistic expectation, notwithstanding the fact that their lack of knowledge and technical skill compounds the problem. In great part, I think this is one of the reasons why game consoles are so successful. Of course, another obvious reason is the cost of purchasing the console is a lot less than a competent gaming PC. (They don't count the high cost of console games and monthly subscription fees. They are apparently not very good at math either LOL.)

Reviews like this are very meaningful and drive fanboys crazy. They get swept under the rug and ignored, and you don't see the YouTube reviewers that get stuff sent to them for free making comments like this. I haven't posted a negative review of the 5950X as a verified purchaser, but I probably should. It certainly is. Extremely satisfying. Second only to miners that have multiple thousands of dollar of GPUs that are worth less than half what they paid for them and not being able to cover the cost of them due to the loss of value of the cryptocurrency. Could not have happened to a more deserving industry. I hope it gets worse. Yeah, still way too much money. I am glad my GPU has held its value, but it doesn't deserve to. I paid more for it than it was worth (stupid on my part). Unfortunately, I do not expect EVGA, ASUS or others may ever offer their components at a rock bottom price to customers that deserve to see those prices. They will probably sell whatever stock is left at a massive loss to a wholesaler rather than giving the benefit to customers. That is the messed up way that business works. Not just computer components, but other things as well, including cars. Dealers will auction off huge inventories of used cars and leftover new inventory at a loss representing a fraction of what they are worth to avoid giving an opportunity for the public to purchase them at or near the same price. That's really messed up.

Dang, huge price drop. Nice to see it. Hopefully, we will see it drop by another $300-$500 in a desperate move to eliminate 30-series stock before 40-series releases. I probably wouldn't be overly excited about buying a Gigabutt brand GPU, but I probably would grab an EVGA or ASUS 3090 Ti for $1000-1200 even though I don't really have any compelling reason to want one. It will also be interesting to see what kind of prices and availability we will see with 4090. I will be curious to see if supply is kept artificially lower than demand so they can make the prices fluffier than warranted.

LOL... uh... no... Literally every product I have owned that was made by AMD was garbage. I have zero confidence in their ability to produce quality products. Maybe I wouldn't be so dead set against them if I purchased low-end components and didn't care about overclocking. I don't care that an RX 6600 crushes a 3050. I wouldn't waste my money on either of those products. But, that said, the Ryzen 9 5950X was also an abortion and one of the worst purchase decisions I have made in a decade.

It has Fluent Design and round corners now so, yes... it HAS TO BE better now. The people complaining that it is slower are trolls that have not learned that they should appreciate form over function. 🤣🙊🙈🙉

And, we all know what they say about payback. 😉

At a time where there is only bad news, hard economic times, astronomical inflation, incompetent leadership and so much less to be thankful for than normal, it is nice to see at least something trending the right way. What is happening to crypto and GPU pricing as a pleasant byproduct are certainly like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. The Digital Gold Rush - 5 Ways Bitcoin Helps Organized Crime Crypto money laundering rises 30%, report finds What is cryptocurrency and how does it work? If you own cryptocurrency, you don’t own anything tangible. What you own is a key that allows you to move a record or a unit of measure from one person to another without a trusted third party.

It is humorous to see impressive sounding names applied to such unimpressive products. "Predator" and "Zephyrus" and "Titan" immediately come to mind, but there are other examples. They should have more fitting names like "Prey" and "Milktoast" or "Space Heater" instead based on their specifications, performance and user experience. In the end they're all going to be worthy of titles such as "door stop" and "paper weight" LOL. With insanely expensive CPU/GPU/mobo integration and nothing within financial or practical reason being worthy of repairs or upgrades, they're all disposable one-shot wonders that overheat, thermal throttle and ultimately represent an extrordinarly foolish cash expenditure.

another crisis... *yawn* I'm so scared

As long as so-called self-anointed "experts" have a defective view of what goodness looks like we can expect the retarded masses to have a defective view. Sheeple follow shepherd's that lead from behind. Their flock represent the lowest common denominators of the human race. It is a big flock and having possession of what used to be average intelligence qualifies one as being elite, superior and extraordinary.

That is what happens when 99 out of 100 people buying laptops, maybe 999 out of 1000, lack the technical knowledge or skill to do that, and an even smaller number have the mental capacity to comprehend why it matters. Being an idiot is the norm today.

This is attractive to OEMs because it greatly enhances their abilities in terms of planned obsolescence and revenue generation. There is no easier way to ensure repeat sales than to make everything available for purchase a disposable piece of garbage that is unrepairable and upgrade resistant.

Best advice... Resist the urge to fix what isn't broken. If it isn't already broken from the last cancer cell injection, it will be once you "update" to their latest digital filth.