Mr. Fox

Wait... are you pulling our leg Brother @Talon? Why does it say Arc 3 A350M at the top of the benchmark result, but in the system details it shows 3090 Ti? Did you mess with the NVIDIA driver INF file to make Windows call it something different. 😉

Nice! So, as usual, the talking heads on YouTube are either pathological liars or they're as stupid as a box of rocks, eh? The irrational Intel/NVIDIA hate and AMD man-boy love thing is too disgusting for words. How do Fire Strike and Time Spy scores look compared to 3090/Ti? I care more about them than I do Port Royal. Please post some photos and let us know where you purchased it and how much. Happy Memorial Day, everyone! Thank you to all who have served this country, and blessings to the families who have lost loved ones fighting to defend what true Americans hold dear.

3DMark 11 Physics: https://hwbot.org/submission/5007313_ 3DMark 11 Performance: https://hwbot.org/submission/5007318_ 3DMark 11 Extreme: https://hwbot.org/submission/5007319_ HOF Rankings (for some reason my best Physics result isn't listed, only my second-best is)

A fellow on overclock.net was trading messages with me and asked if the silver aluminum heat sink on the kit I sold to @electrosoftand the one on my Z490 Dark actually makes a difference. He is considering doing the mod because his RAM kit has the crappy G.SKILL factory "heat sink" that is eseentially worthless. This is exactly as expected, but it is nice to have proof that it works rather than the belief that it should. About 2°C cooler with the finned aluminum heat sink versus without.

Well now... this is certainly interesting. I guess the added thermal conductivity of liquid metal wasn't necessary because the contact was already perfect and the KPX did not create a "bottleneck" or insulative effect. The only way you can really tell it is not the same Cinebench run is the score and Windows time on the taskbar. Compare the overall and individual core temps. Totally unexpected.

What they did (releasing a 3090 Ti) is the height of betrayal and ultimately a show of disrespect and customer hatred. I think the best way to get a new graphics card is to wait and buy one used from last generation. You can still have the best, but wait and buy last generation best. Same thought process for buying automobiles. Better to let someone less intelligent absorb the loss on depreciation and take it off their hands later for pennies on the dollar.

LoL, Brother @saturnotakuI watched this video today and came to start a thread relating to it. You beat me to the punch, bud. 🙂 Great minds think alike. Yes, Brother @jaybee83they were/are supposed to. Winduhz gets dumber and crappier by the day, so waiting for Steam to release an "official" replacement for Windoze probably isn't the best idea. Winduz needs to go away sooner rather than later. It is only suitable for losers and wimps at this point, but we all end up stuck tolerating its incredible suckiness due to not having an alternative.

So, when I was fiddling with Wraith yesterday and installing that ILM frame I changed a couple of things. I added a thermal pad between the water block and memory jackets on my RAM cooling and adding a pad made the RAM temperatures higher by 2°C under a TM5 stress test versus bare metal-to-metal contact, LOL. So, I guess I will remove the thermal pad and go back to using nothing. I never cared for the veritcal orientation of my water sensor meter, so I moved the EK distribution manifold over to right a smidgen to make room for horizontal mounting. I think it looks a lot better this way versus how it looked before. Old: New:

So, I guess this means we should soon be able to purchase RGB toothbrushes and toilet paper dispensers. This kind of stupid **** is why overclocking enthusiasts just can't have nice things. The mentality behind it leaves no space for awesome because it is preoccuppied by stupid and their mental capacity was already severely limited.

It is lapped. I think there is enough difference in height between the top of the IHS and the frame for me to border it in Kapton tape. If there is, I am going to do that just to avoid any remote chance of corrosion with the aluminum frame. I put it back together using the same application of KPX that was on it before and temps are fine. No issues that I can see so far. Maybe tomorrow I will replace the KPX with Liquid Pro.

I like this. Looks like a great thing to use with liquid metal. It is aluminum, but it is anodized and should hold up fine.

Yeah, well... although they probably are not even aware of it, where PC technology is concerned it sucks to be them, LOL. I am happy to be numbered among the elitists and not one of the miscreant sheeple herd. Nice for them that ignorance is bliss. 😉 I'd rather have nothing than embrace the filth that they want.

Good luck with that. The silly turdbook jockeys are all locked up on their retarded fetishes that make no sense apart from the fact that they are in love with anemic trash incapable of supporting anything that remotely resembles awesome. It's humorous that some actually claim to be enthusiasts. It is beyond sad that some people that prefer desktops have been brainwashed by the lowest common denominators.

You can probably pick them up fairly cheap. They are too old and weak for practical gaming, but still very benchable. Paired with current CPUs and RAM it is not too difficult to steal all of the HWBOT gold from the record-holders back in the day when those GPUs were current.

Yakima and especially Spokane get snow every winter, and sometimes lots of it. But, Tri-Cities, Hermiston, Pendleton not much most of the time.

Yes, humidity is something I dislike no matter what the temperature is. I am not fond of extreme heat, and prefer colder climates, but I do like the extremely dry part of living here. ESD and the wildfire risks aside, the low humidity is nice in most aspects. Humidity exaggerates everything, and makes the cold feel too cold and the heat feel miserable. I really enjoyed living in Southeastern Washington for many years because there were four seasons, but it was high mountain desert with low humidity, seldom any rain or snow. But, winters were very dry and cold. In my opinion it was the perfect climate.

Yes, it does help. Unless you have a whole house humidifier you would need a few small ones.

Yeah, too funny. 100% accurate, too. I often have to go to the bathroom to wet and comb my hair prior to a teleconference at work because my hair will be doing stupid stuff like his daughter's hair was doing in the video. It looks ridiculous if I do not. The climate where he lives is very similar, but it is hotter and even lower humidity here. Where I live is very similar to Death Valley, CA. It is not even summer yet, but today it is 102°F (42°C) and 10% relative humidity. Next month we will start to see our overnight lows higher than the current temperature.

Yup, in the AZ blast furnace. And, although I don't remember seeing Jayz video, that is correct. Simply adjusting the position of my posterior on my office chair can be enough to generate an ESD event. Or, moving from a sitting to standing position can do it, too. I often (more than once a day) sit down at one of my computers, touch the keyboard and watch the screens momentarily go black as they recover from the ESD.

The static electricity is hell on electronics, including light bulbs and LEDs. If I go to my mail lockbox after dark, sometimes I can see an arc jump 1.5 to 2.0 inches from the key to the lock. Where it can actually be funny is when I reach down to stroke the back of one of my cats in the dark and it looks like a dozen tiny bolts of lightning running through their fur as I run my hand across their back. They seem oblivious to it unless I zap their face or nose, and they definitely don't like that.

Welcome to my world. An unlimited supply of sand, sun, extreme heat, dust, snakes, scorpions, spiders, termites and static electricity. It is difficult to understand why it is such a popular place to live with so many things that are symbolic of death and destruction.

Yes, that is a really good price. Good luck with the sale, bro. The tech hoarder inside of me wants to buy it just to have on hand as a spare part, but I do not need it. The 10900K is my favorite non-HEDT processor. This modern trend with big/little, chiplets and CCXes is stupid rubbish. Go big or go home.

The problem with most thermal paste reviews or "showdowns" is they are difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions from no matter how diligent the entity is that is performing the comparison. In the simplest of terms, thermal compounds are nothing more than thermally conductive gap fillers. The first problem is that such reviews are almost always done using desktops with heat sinks or water blocks that fit extremely well. No conclusions can be drawn in terms of their application on something as sloppy as a notebook computer. There is tremendous variance in fit between models and brands, and the wide variety in quality control, (or the evident lack of it,) makes it likely for two identical laptops to behave differently. A thermal compound that works fantastic on the laptop for Bobby might totally suck for Jimmy even though they both own the same exact product. The second problem is a showdown only gives you an understanding of how well a thermal compound performs on one machine at the time of fresh application. You have no clue, and neither does the tester, if the temperatures are going to be the same, better, or worse in a few days or a couple of months. The only way he would understand that or have any way to demonstrate it is if the exercise took several years to complete because you allowed a couple of months of data collection per product. Nonetheless, results are going to be all over the board among individual end users. Now, these product comparisons do provide value to the extent they demonstrate how well a thermal compound works when first applied in controlled circumstances where there are fewer opportunities for errors caused by variables such as fit and application. The ultimate test of which thermal solution(s) work best rests on the shoulders of the computer owner using a specific machine under unique circumstances. TL;DR: YMMV. The best one is the one that works best. If your temperatures are truly good, be happy. Don't over-think the situation or start a new religious technology cult based on it. Most notebook owners can't say that because theirs are not. Whether they even know or care how their system is or isn't performing is another topic.

I believe the appropriate target market for the Razer turdbook is the same as this product...

If anyone has issues with BenchMate 0.10.9.2 not functioning (it hasn't worked for me for a while on LTSC 2019) I finally got fed up with the developer doing noting about the problem and figured out what was messed up on my own. It's fixed now. What is weird is the prior version (0.10.8.0) installed and worked perfectly. My solution is posted here: The official BenchMate support thread | HWBOT Community Forums This is what it was doing to me before I fixed it. When I looked in the BenchMate error logs it was not finding the driver file, and it was because BenchMate setup wasn't installing the drivers in the folder where it is supposed to install them. (The installation always appeared to complete with no errors, but apparently that was not the case.) The reason I was seeing the error telling me "The driver file is not accessible" is because it did not exist where it was supposed to exist.