Mr. Fox

Hey Brother @ryan Glad you got your laptop back, buddy. Here is something you might find useful for the benchmarking. https://www.capframex.com/ Does a great job of measuring system behavior and performance and has a nice overlay.

LOL, I just saw that in another forum. Crazy stuff. https://hwbot.org/submission/5148862_elmor_cpu_frequency_core_i9_13900k_(8p)_9008.82_mhz @electrosoftI missed the comment about you being under the weather. I hope you get well soon and have no sickness in your house over Christmas. Will keep you and the fam in my prayers, bud.

This is too good to not share it here. Check this out. Never have seen or heard of this before.

Now this is really crazy. I am definitely going to explore this the next time I need to fix something that is broken.

Sorry, I have no interest in buying an overpriced eunuch turdbook. Mobile computing in general no longer interests me, and I hate wasting my money on half-assed garbage. And, that's what all of them are.

Yeah I watched that video right after Roman released it. There's almost no need for M.2 heatsinks on modern motherboards. Most motherboards incorporate a better native solution and some of the weird aftermarket alternatives present fitment and aesthetic issues nobody wants to deal with. This generation is a really good one to do nothing if you already have a strong performing 3090/Ti or 3080 Ti, or grab one at the lowest price ever, or go Intel A770 and save a crap-ton of money waiting for something good to surface in a year or two that isn't grossly overpriced, mediocre or prone to self-destruction. I don't see anything from the red or green teams that is worth buying. The only respectable options are absurdly overpriced and have engineering defects that are inexcusable for flagship products. Being greedy and half-assed deserves a 1 or 2 year time-out. They need an uncomfortable and costly pause to think about their behavior and come up with a better strategy that is worthy of our patronage.

Hmm. Weird, I didn't get that at all. Seemed more biased toward Russia to me. Not really anti-anything, just information about what is taking place.

They seem to enjoy being part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Supporting trashmasters like Alienware seems to be their new calling. GIGO... no other way to describe it. Bad input creates bad output. Gee, thanks, Tom's Hardware. *sarcasm*

Just discovered this chic and like her content. It's a bit dry, but she is really level-headed. Subbed to her channel. Glad I saw this. I have been a fan of the CoD franchise and was looking forward to acquiring the new Modern Warfare, but there is no way I will consider it after seeing the filth and controversy it is promoting. Welp... no more support for anyone on Patreon from this fellow. May they burn in hell for eternity. Exploitation of children and supporting, even protecting, those that do is just going too far.

The reason is because they are a wicked company, lead by fundamentally dishonest people that are driven by nefarious intentions that ultimately provide no legitimate benefit to the people that use their latest operating system digital abortion.

It works well. Once in a great while I tinker with it. I think I have used my Steam Link two or three times this year just for shiggles and it is pretty darned impressive. I hate using my XBOX Elite wireless controller (or any gamepad for that matter) for most games though and my only opportunities to use the 4K TV set for this are when I am the only one home. My preference is to sit at the keyboard/mouse in front of my computer, but the capabilities are impressive and the benefits (or pleasure) some folks will derive from it are self-evident. I believe a wireless keyboard and mouse combo with a unified USB receiver will also work with the Steam Link instead of my gamepad controller, but I don't want to spend money on that to find out since I so seldom use it and would not use them otherwise. I paid less than $10 each for two brand new Steam Link devices during a Steam Christmas sale a few years ago and gave one to @Premaas a gift. I cannot imagine that they would actually expect anyone to pay for this. Maybe they don't and it is their way of getting rid of it organically because they are no longer interested in supporting it. It probably isn't a cash cow for them so they stopped caring.

I agree. The biggest issue is the illegal entry, lawlessness and politically motivated agenda driving the lawlessness under a pretentious facade of fake woke humanitarianism. The path to citizenship should not be easy. It should require sacrifice and effort of those that seek it. The cost could be assessed as a temporary or permanent income tax surcharge to those granted the privilege of lawful entry for the purpose of becoming an American, with no income tax surcharge exemption to offset the cost of educating the ignorant and training the unskilled applicants. I am all for work visas, especially for farm labor. Those have been handled very effectively for decades and that part is not broken. It's the free-for-all influx of undocumented people that range from poor people looking for a better life, to cartels, to terrorists and with the current administration there is no effort to monitor or manage the influx. People that cannot demonstrate their presence is for the benefit of America should be detained, incarcerated while their identity is verifed. If they are found to not be criminals, immediately deported. If they are found to be guilty of crimes, remain incarcerated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law with a mandatory maximum sentence, served consecutively with seperate felony charges for unlawful entry and domestic terrorism. The risk for those that enter unlawfully should be terrifying and strike tremendous fear and dread in their hearts and minds. For those that do it legally, the bounty should be plentiful and rewarding. My family is filled with mixed-race marriages and racism is not a point of discussion here. I love Mexico and I am of Native American descent. The issue is degradation of our nation's sovereignity and the need for the rule of law and intelligent immigation law enforcement.

Yeah, there has to come a point that it stops for your country and mine. And, playing the "asylum card" needs to be validated if it is not already. Simply saying it doesn't make it true, and they have figured out here that they are being allowed to get away with it by the people that want our borders open. I am in favor of militarizing our borders and using lethal force to stop illegal entry. They need to make arrangements on the other side. Once the details are worked out, then they can get red carpet treatment and a fast track to citizenship, while their presence is monitored and policed until they become a citizen. It should require English literacy and fluency and there should be no accommodation for those that cannot read and write English. The path to citizenship should include several years of mandatory military service and the completion of a high school education and trade education for those that have no trade or skills. I want legal immigration to flourish and I believe the diversity makes us a better nation, but the open borders merely brings the slum and scum to us. The crime and poverty that is ruining their countries is not our problem and yet we make it our problem by allowing it to enter here freely... which is absolutely insane. They need to check their "culture" at the border. If you want to be an American, you embrace the culture here, follow our laws,speak our language and contribute to America remaining a great and powerful nation.

America belongs to Americans. It's absolutely horrible news for hardworking taxpayers that can't afford to pay their own bills much less support people coming here to further leech off the system. We have laws in place and we have a constitution both need to be followed to a tee. The lawlessness and lunacy needs to stop. The borders need to be sealed and people need to enter the right way, or not at all. They need to be self-supporting, not dependent on taxpayer-funded public support. Otherwise, they're not welcome here, and neither is the added burden their presence creates. Those who have come here the right way and followed all the rules are the strongest supporters of this point of view.

LOL... I was wanting to download something in one of their threads and ended up getting it elsewhere from someone that had already downloaded it. Now I am just checking out of curiosity about what the deal is. More shifty behavior by the Green Goblin... glad I never gave a rat's butt about streaming or NVIDIA Shield. I would not be a happy camper right now.

I can't help but think something went terribly wrong and somebody(s) are in deep doo-doo right about now. There is no way this was routine maintenance given the absurd amount of time that has passed since their forum went dark. And, I am wondering if they didn't have any backups and now there is nothing left to rebuild. That could be really tragic for lots of people.

It will be interesting to see what the generic A-die sticks from AliExpress do. They should be here the second week of January, LOL. (Proverbial slow boat from China.) This is my generic SK Hynix green M-die with Dark BIOS v2.05. http://valid.x86.fr/bq845g

It is kind of crazy how some people assume that just because they are paying a lot for a certain brand or part number they are guaranteed to have a good outcome. That is less true today than it ever has been in the past. The opposite *should* be true with QC, but the sad truth is most of the hardware OEMs just don't give a damn about what they sell or the people that buy their stuff as long as the cash keeps flowing.

Yup, 100%. We're in agreement here... totes.

I was also not aware of that being common AMD RDNA GPU behavior. But, neither I, nor Jay, have been interested in AMD GPUs or overclocking them. Kind of hard to be aware of something like that if you don't ever use it. Knowing that it is typical, I am less likely than before to buy one. At least not a reference card. From the sounds of it, seems that performance still doesn't scale well with overclocking the "enthusiast" Radeon cards even when the clocks do not drop. I have to keep forcing myself not to buy one and remind myself that I don't need it and that the performance is essentially the same as my 3060 Ti that is less than 90 days old. I really want one. I came really close to buying the Acer Predator version with an extra 200 MHz core boost clock and higher TDP this weekend. If they release a higher performance model than A770 I probably will not resist the temptation. I want them to be successful and I already have a fairly decent degree of confidence that they will be. Intel generally plays with the intent of winning, and they generally do not like it when they are not in first place. I hope that "character flaw" becomes evident and they stay in the game with the intent of dethroning the Green Goblin on both the performance crown and value crown.

I have seen people criticize and even go as far as calling it stupid for 3060/3060 Ti to be cooled by waterblocks as well, but I can tell you it makes a massive improvement in both temperatures and performance. I played 6 hours of God of War on my work computer this weekend and my GPU never went higher than an average of around 65°C and it stayed nailed to the max boost clock, voltage and power limit the entire time I was playing it. I don't believe a 75W GPU would get hot enough to need it with a proper air cooling solution, but it certainly wouldn't hurt anything to have it. That said, I could see some people putting a 75W GPU in a hot-box SFF case with poor ventilation and nothing would help that poor little critter stay cool enough to avoid pain and suffering. But, it probably wouldn't be liquid cooled in that scenario, so it's not relevant to that conversation, LOL. Edit: Anyone heard of CapFrameX? I had never heard of it before, but it is a fantastic benchmarking tool. I enjoyed fiddling with it, which is what got me started play God of War, LOL. With maxed out graphics and Ultra applied to everything, 3060 Ti stays above 100 FPS.

For what it's worth, it looks like it has, in fact, been redesigned. It sucks that the one they sold me was lousy. The cold plate looks totally different now. http://www.supercoolcomputer.com/en/product/44/direct-die-intel-gen13 Here is the current design: Here is what they sold me that sucked: Hopefully the new design does a better job of cooling. My temps were basically the same as using the copper IHS with the old design. There was no measurable improvement and it wasn't worth the added inconvenience created by the design. If you have to take it apart for any reason it is more than a little bit inconvenient. Here is how I did it without making a mess. (The inconvenience would have been an acceptable flaw had it worked as well as expected.)