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  1. Mr. Fox
    Probably, at least in part, because games are made to run best on trashy hardware that is not worthy or fit for use in a respectable PC.
  2. Mr. Fox
    Yeah, the idea of spending ~$2,000 on a cookie-cutter GPU that has metered performance, cancer firmware and functionality limited to the OS that the $atanic Overlord wants the world to use makes me want to do something to them that would put me in jail, probably on death row. Maybe in time I will grow numb to their insolent behavior, but I'm not there yet. Even if I were already over it, I would be waiting for the 4090 Ti and choosing one with third-party waterblock support. Buying a 4090 when a Ti is probably in the works and soon to drop would be kind of silly. Same reason I cancelled the 13900K pre-order. I'll just wait and see how it works out for everyone else. If I like it, I will spring for the better binned 13900KS. If not, then I will just keep using what I already have and not spend any money. I am thinking it makes more sense to follow Brother @Papusan example and only buy used EOL video cards so you can beat all of the old best scores when it is too late for the original players to come back and challenge you. That's actually very smart, strategic and stealth warfare, like executing a strike on your enemy in the still of the night while they are sleeping and unable to react fast enough to save their own hide. Wow. It's nice to see something intelligent released to counteract the morbid stupidity of a new socket put in a really idiotic place on the GPU. I know the heatsinks are about 30% longer than the PCB, but they could/should use an extension cord to position it in a more intelligent spot than on top in the middle. That is where waterblock fittings need to be, not the power input. That also makes for a real eyesore and a cable-routing mess. While I don't like the idea of a new socket, I can't imagine how much more challenging it would be to wrangle three 8-pin connectors into the same idiotic position on the GPU. The smaller 12-pin is almost necessary because the PCB is too small for three 8-pin connectors. What is even more stupid is the smaller PCB on the biggest GPU the world has ever seen. You can't make this stuff up... it is SO DUMB. Just don't fix what isn't broken, Green Goofball.
  3. Mr. Fox
    They took a page straight out of the Micro$oft playbook on how to treat the people that love you like dung. You also have to put part of the blame on the AIB partners for being such willing and compliant butt-kissers. Resisting evil with goodness will get you where it got EVGA... ostracized for doing what is right and best for customers goes against the flow. It makes you a troublemaker and they only want Muppets to star in their crippled hardware and Skynet-sponsored software Nazi $hit$hows. The clowns at crApple taught the industry to never give customers what they want because it is so much more profitable to be a shepherd god of Kool-Aid drinking sheeple that are too damned stupid to know what they want. After all, their daddy is going tell them exactly what they should want. They just need to shut up and fall in line.
  4. Mr. Fox
    Following the example of Brother @johnksss(something that always serves me well) I use only automotive coolant. I use the straight 50/50 pre-mix and it works fantastic. I use the Asian import type because it's blue and very pale coloring (so pale that it looks clear in the lines). You can only see the color in the reservoirs. My systems have never stayed cleaner for so long and it's very low conductivity. It's as close to zero maintenance as I think you can get. Absolutely no issues with organic growth or corrosion that I can identify. After having both options, I don't think I'd ever deliberately choose to have an internal radiator over an external radiator again. It works better and is easier to manage when you have a big 360 by 360 radiator sitting on your desk outside of the chassis. It also frees up tons of working space inside of the chassis and keeps the interior of the case much cooler with nothing adding heat to the interior space except for the PCH, memory and VRMs. The effect of those items is very low and difficult to identify because it is easily exhausted and replaced by cooler outside air. After I figure out whether or not I can revive the 2080 Ti I'm probably going to move Banshee to an external radiator setup like Wraith. I am only procrastinating long enough to land on a configuration that includes the GPU so I do not have to redo it. It's not difficult or time consuming to change it as the build morphs, I just don't like the inconvenience of having to redo it when I can avoid it by not getting the cart before the horse.
  5. Mr. Fox
    Dufus should have run things like wPrime, Cinebench and Blender for CPU testing. 3DMark benchmarks and games aren't great ways to measure CPU performance. Seems like he wasted the opportunity to test the pre-launch CPU the way he approached it.
  6. Mr. Fox
    Isn't the PSU on this case hidden in the side chamber behind the motherboard where you cannot see it or tell what color it is? If so, I am not sure why it would need to be white since it would not be visible except for the small square area on the rear panel where the cord plugs in. Unless it is positioned where you can see that, nobody would have any idea what color the PSU is.
  7. Mr. Fox
    The problem with watercooling SSDs and memory is the added complexity, cost and risk can easily outweigh the benefits. You're not going to water cool the M.2(s) installed under your GPU and you're going to add tremendous cost (i.e. extra fittings and plumbing) to the system, not to mention additional points for catastrophic failure to occur due to water leakage. If you want your system to look nice, forget about that. It will be a rat's nest of tubing. The only "right way" would be for the large M.2 heat sinks on today's systems to become one great big water block that cool all of them at once and has single inlet and outlet ports. I was initially very resistant to the idea of water cooling memory, and would still be today, except for the EKWB water distribution manifold. That added two extra water lines to my system. It made it a lot easier, but more complex, more subject to mechanical failure, and less aesthetically pleasing. Had it not been for the EKWB manifold, I never would have considered doing it. Adding short runs of tubing between the RAM and CPU and GPU waterblocks would have just made a terrible mess that is a nightmare to work on and an eyesore to look at. Even though I found a way to do it in a fairly elegant manner using that manifold, my preference would still be that the memory ran cool enough without having to remove the worthless garbage stock heat sinks to employ a complex and costly alternative. Because the companies that manufacture computer parts and charge lots of money for them frequently do things in a half-a$$ed manner we are left with finding solutions to the problems they create for us. I also stop and think about how often NVMe/SSD thermal throttling has been a problem for me personally. I am unable to identify a point where it has ever been a problem, even on laptops I have owned. If it was, it wasn't severe enough that I noticed and I have never observed the temperatures go high enough for it to be a concern.
  8. Mr. Fox
    The problem I have with the concept of egalitarianism is the unavoidable, and often intentional, effect the lowest common denominators have on everything. It is a "nice idea" that really defies common sense and diminishes the moral fabric our world requires to thrive. The fact of the matter is, we are not all the same and we are not supposed to be. We have varying levels of intelligence, interests, desires, passions and challenges. People that don't get it need to rely on those that do. We cannot, and should not, lower the bar to accommodate the less competent or less capable for anything... technology or otherwise. We are male and female, our skins vary in color, we have unique personalities, varying levels of financial resources, physical and mental capacity. If we attempt to normalize or homogenize any of those things, or make everything a grayscale rainbow, we dumb down the process, compromise the product, and success escapes us. That said, I do agree that making anything unnecessarily complicated, difficult, or proprietary, is contrary to sound logic and ultimately not in the best interest of even the most brilliant minds. That often smacks of ulterior motives and selfish ambitions. We should condemn and ostracize the people and companies that drive that model for anything. Please don't beat yourself up on becoming more intelligent as you mature. You're not becoming more of a Luddite. You're actually finding it easier to identify bad ideas, losing tolerance for change for the sake of change, and losing patience with nonsense and stupidity. Maybe it is because I am aging that I say that and misery loves company, but I don't think so. When a person is young and doesn't know half as much as they believe they do it is harder to recognize because they haven't been exposed to stupidity for as long and haven't been harmed as often by the illogical obsession with variety above need and form over function. Even some of our more observant and intelligent youngsters are figuring out that an awful lot of the crap being fed to them as science or fact, although popular in some circles, is just post-modern bullshit being pushed by people with an agenda that want to brainwash them into a compliant state that can be easily controlled and manipulated. I think holding back the progress of technology so it doesn't require people to learn new things is bad. I think allowing technology to be controlled by a small group or single entity with nefarious motives for making it complex or proprietary is bad as well. It should progress as swiftly as it progresses and the people that can't keep up should get left behind. But, they should have the opportunity to stay caught up if they want to be. God helps those who help themselves. Big government, big pharma, big tech, and big business help themselves help themselves. They are not gods, but they want us to believe they are infallible, omnipotent and omniscient, and they want us to worship, obey and serve them as if they were.
  9. Mr. Fox
    Yeah there's absolutely no excuse... No legitimate excuse for not being able to hot-swap display panels to anything you want, as often as you want, on any laptop. It should be plug and Play, just like a desktop monitor, and the fact that it's not is totally unacceptable. The only reason I can identify for that is the people that make laptops are short-sighted, idiotic, dishonest losers that are dumber than a box of rocks. My dad used to call people that think like they do educated idiots, which is a much more civilized and kind way of describing their nefarious incompetence.
  10. Mr. Fox
    The whole concept seems like a very hokey and somewhat pathetic gimmick to me. When you talk about something being repairable and upgradable, I think in terms of modular core components on the motherboard, like CPU and GPU, not buying a modular BGA assembly with snap-in blocks to change ports whenever you wish, like a 21st century equivalent of PCMCIA slots. In my view, this product is a joke. It is probably OK if you still enjoy playing with Legos or Lincoln Logs. It is a real stretch to refer to it as being an "enthusiast product" unless an adjective is missing somewhere in that phrase. I could see calling it a laptop for mobility geeks, maybe. Perhaps "easier to take apart" would be a more accurate way to describe it than upgradable. I do like that they have created their own standard form factor and will not deviate from it across multiple generations. That should really be applicable industry-wide for laptops. The single-model, one-shot proprietary crap should have been outlawed a long time ago, along with dishonest shenanigans like whitelisting components like WiFi modules and display panels. I mean, motherboard form factors have been standardized on desktops for many years. mATX, ATX, eATX, etc. We're way beyond overdue for that to have already happened to laptops. The only reason it hasn't is greed and myopic stupidity.
  11. Mr. Fox
    Intel has baby CPU cores, and AMD has baby GPUs. The underlying hoax is the same in either case. An irrational virtue signal that they are doing their tiny and inconsequential part to mitigate an imaginary crisis.
  12. Mr. Fox
    Yeah, that "hey guys, here's the new flagship <insert item here> come and get it... but, hurry" followed later on by "ha ha, faked you out, you stupid suckers" is really a skanky way to do things. Companies that operate that way deserve to have unfortunate things happen to them. A variant example of the same. Leveraging confusion, misrepresentation and ambiguity to enhance cash flow should be viewed as an unethical business practice. It reminds me off all of the GPU rebranding that was so common 10-12 years ago. "Here's our new GPU. It is exactly the same as the older one, but it has a new name and a new hardware ID. It costs more, and runs 50 MHz higher stock boost clock. We added more RAM even though you already had more than necessary, because we love you. Hurry kids... quantities are limited. If you're not first, you're last."
  13. Mr. Fox
    Yes. And, I cancelled my 13900K pre-order and decided to wait for the KS release instead. Either way, I win. I buy the KS and have the better CPU, or I buy a cheaper K later on. Sooner or later they'll figure out how it works. It's really stupid to make people that want the top shelf product and are willing to pay for it wait longer than everyone else.
  14. Mr. Fox
    SO NICE to see that scalping and overpricing of new tech is not limited to the GPU side of the problem. These blocks are roughly $100 more than they used to be priced. I guess what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Or, maybe the thought is so many are willing bend over and take it in the back side for NVIDIA, so that means we all secretly like being taken advantage of and are willing to let other vendors molest us as well? https://www.ekwb.com/shop/quantum/gpu-cooling/gpu-water-blocks/geforce-rtx-40x0-series?utm_campaign=1410-b2c-newsletter&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=week41-22-section-1&utm_term=2022-10-14 Perhaps they knew in advance that their disrespect and betrayal of every single 3090 owner would not fly a second go round. I know I am not alone in my displeasure about it and I am sure they got an ear full of complaining about their unacceptable behavior. So, I am sure they know that there are lots of us that are ignoring the 4090 and won't waste any money on a new GPU until they show us the 4090 Ti. Fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice... I don't think so. In other words they are not doing anyone any favors by delaying release of the Ti. They are not losing any sales or cannibalizing 4090. All they are doing is delaying the profit and making the Ti hold-outs wait. Every day they make a Ti hold-out wait is another opportunity to totally lose an opportunity to make a sale of anything. Because everything else is a downgrade, they should have released the Ti FIRST and made everyone else wait to see what the downgrade looks like in comparison to where the bar is set with the 4090 Ti. Releasing the 4090 non-Ti first was just another cart before the horse butt-head move on their part, and it has potential to hurt them more than help them.
  15. Mr. Fox
    This certainly won't be holding first place for 3090 for long. Not using the chiller, Classified tool or running max OC, so somewhat of a half-hearted effort on my part. https://hwbot.org/submission/5098117_ | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/80935901
  16. Mr. Fox
    Yeah, I am not sure why my o-ring kept trying to pop out of the groove. I really do not like how thin and fragile it seems, or how shallow the groove for it is. Maybe next time I will use a silicone spray lubricant to help it stay put. Using water worked but it made faint water spots/lines on the dry copper areas around the screws after the water dried up. Using silicone spray would solve that and should not harm the plexiglass or the o-ring.
  17. Mr. Fox
    You did a really nice job. It looked really good. Did you use some kind of polish on the plexiglass and copper? Mine doesn't have anything left on the colored areas inside of the water chambers. It's basically clear on mine now. It doesn't look bad but I didn't remember it having that frosted look until I saw yours. I sure did. I'm very fortunate to have gotten it back together with no leaks. At first I thought I was going to be having to go back to the hybrid setup because I couldn't get that stupid big o-ring back in the right place. It would move out of place when I was trying to reassemble it. I actually used water to create a little bit of surface tension to keep it from moving out of place. It's one of the most miserable water blocks I've ever taken apart for cleaning because of how the o-rings are made and how thin and fragile they seem to be. It's in pretty stark contrast to how easy and fast it is to take apart and reassemble the EKWB block on the 2080 Ti.
  18. Mr. Fox
    This benchmark is very disappointing in much the same way that Port Royal is. Just another crummy limited measurement benchmark. Doesn't have any measurement of system performance apart from GPU. You could actually own a pathetic system with a powerful GPU and get a nice score. It's not even very interesting to watch. Since it is primarily focused on what seems to be an effort to be entertaining maybe having audio would have made It a little less pathetic. I guess probably the nicest thing I can say about it is that you don't have to be bored for as long as you do when running Port Royal. It seems like you just barely getting started and it's already over. I can't imagine a video card getting overheated it's so short. https://www.3dmark.com/compare/sw/12118/sw/12132#
  19. Mr. Fox
    It is unfortunate that the Nazi censors and thought police made it to where you cannot run Speed Way on a system that isn't corrupted by the latest iteration of digital feces from the Redmond Retards. The DLC refuses to run on LTSC 2019. Apparently, they don't want anyone to have the opportunity to collect more evidence that the newer versions of Windows suck.
  20. Mr. Fox
    Nvidia RTX Titan Ada reportedly canceled after it melted PSUs, tripped breakers | TECHSPOT Sound like something worth having based on the tripped breakers. I had to replace circuit breakers at my old house for benching the shunt modded 2080 Ti with the 2000W vBIOS and I had to replace a breaker for the 3090 KPE with the 1000W vBIOS when I moved to a new house. The original breakers lacked the capacity to handle the demand.
  21. Mr. Fox
    Yeah, close but no cigar there. I would be inclined to pass on that. They ruined it with fixed hoses and putting them on the end like that was an extremely stupid idea that limits installation options. A poorly designed and very ugly product. https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Graphics-Card/GV-N4090AORUSX-W-24GD#kf Gigabutt should have made it like this, only with an easily removable hybrid add-on. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/88538/inno3d-geforce-rtx-4090-ichill-frosbite-tiny-water-cooled/index.html
  22. Mr. Fox
    Dayum. That's like an 1100 point drop on the overall score if I am seeing it correctly. Hopefully, it is just a driver glitch and not a real issue. I am already resistant to purchasing a product that doesn't support Windows 7, but I would certainly dismiss the viability of any hardware that would require Winduhz 11 to achieve full performance. That would be a realy douchebag issue to have to put up with and I don't think I would willingly tolerate it. Companies that do stuff like that deliberately deserve to be decimated financially, with extreme malice and ill will... just to return the favor. They way I see it, a stab in the back deserves a bullet to the brain.
  23. Mr. Fox
    Somebody needs to release one that has a full GPU block like the EVGA Hydro Copper that is, in every respect, ordinary GPU block except that it comes with a pre-installed AIO with the pump mounted at the radiator. Then the person buying it could simply remove the G1/4 fittings from the block an add it to a custom loop if they wanted it that way later on. Then there would be nothing extra to buy unless you wanted to, and refilling and servicing the AIO would be as easy as refilling and servicing a custom loop. It would give the owner all the options that a normal AIO offers and all of the freedom afforded by a custom loop if they decide to go that way later on. They could even get creative in the design of the block to do something revolutionary like incorporating a DDC pump into the plexi top on the block. That would also be serviceable if it were an industry standard DDC pump. It would also provide an inline auxiliary pump on a custom loop similar to a chassis mounted distribution block with an integrated DDC pump. Another way an AIB partner could distinguish itself and offer something unique and compelling for customers to purchase their brand is to develop a proprietary software utility that would only work for their brand that would function similar to NVCleanstall that would mod a standard Nvidia driver to add Windows 7 support for their vendor-specific hardware ID. It could be a one-click mod and install utility. I can tell you right now that I would buy that brand over another. Others would potentially follow their lead and prove to the world that they are no longer a harlot that is willing to kiss the hiney (or something more deviant below the belt) of the Redmond Retards.
  24. Mr. Fox
    My 2080 Ti and 3090 KPE have both exceeded 800W in some demanding benchmarks. I think that is going to present some limitations. It probably will be more than adequate for gaming, but not for overclocked benching unless the firmware and thermals artifically cripple the performance to such an extent that achieving overclocking superiority is a futile endeavor that has no remedy.
  25. Mr. Fox
    While I have expressed my jealousy and disappointment that there is no Microcenter in Phoenix on more than one occasion, it is probably best that there is not in the grand scheme of things. Behaving myself and avoiding financial foolishness would be much more difficult if there were one here.
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