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  1. Mr. Fox
    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.
  2. Mr. Fox
    UserBenchmarks: Game 320%, Desk 128%, Work 389% CPU: Intel Core i9-12900KS - 130.8% GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090 - 254.6% SSD: Wd_black SN750 SE 500GB - 368.9% SSD: Spcc Solid State Disk 1TB - 105.9% SSD: Spcc Solid State Disk 1TB - 87% SSD: Nvme INTEL SSDPEKNW020T8 2TB - 211.1% SSD: Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB - 269.2% SSD: Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB - 266.7% HDD: Hitachi HUS724040ALE641 4TB - 82.6% HDD: Rsh-319 ASM1153E 4TB - 26.5% USB: USB DISK 3.0 124GB - 53.7% USB: SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 32GB - 26.8% USB: SanDisk Ultra Fit 123GB - 26.3% RAM: Unknown SB-DR5U-16G 2x16GB - 244.2% MBD: EVGA Z690 DARK KINGPIN
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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.
  4. Mr. Fox
    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
  5. Mr. Fox
    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.
  6. Mr. Fox
    Speaking truth into a vast expanse of darkness feels good even when those words fall on the deaf ears of sheeple lacking the brain power and mental capacity to process them if they wanted to. Nonetheless, they are accountable for receiving truth and they will ultimately be without excuse and pay the price for not being smart enough to recognize it. And, in the end, we can revel in the smug satisfaction of being able to boast about having been the harbinger of their destruction.
  7. Mr. Fox
    Black is beautiful. It is my favorite color, even though purists will tell you it is not a color. I like white and think it looks amazing as long as it belongs to someone else and I don't have to stare at it every day. White is for light. 😄 Black shows dust worse, which is a problem here for sure. But, white reveals every blemish and no sin goes unpunished when there is a white backdrop. Seriously though, if it could remain spotless and blemish-free forever I'd be down with it because a brand new white system looks fantastic. It's the not brand new ones that ruin it. Thanks. Yeah, it is impossible to have enough space for everything, at least on my budget. I'd like to have an extra room the size of my 2-car garage, or larger, for nothing but my computer lab and enough money where I could go nuts building everything to my ideal specifications. Hell will more likely freeze over before that happens.
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    It is more than a feeling, bro. The regression is a matter of fact. I honestly have zero regrets about abandoning laptops. I now only purchase inexpensive ($500~) off-lease business class machines for basic computing needs associated with business travel. The mere thought of wasting a larger sum on money on a compromised, disposable, overrated pile of trash made for gamers makes me feel sick to my stomach, and I hold nothing but contempt for the manufacturers of the pathetic thin and light rubbish that we are left with today. The notion of rewarding them with a purchase presents me with a personally irreconcilable moral dilemma. I wish I had moved back to desktops a couple of year sooner than I did. Things really started circling the drain and sinking fast when the thin and light BGA filth became the norm. Things have gotten progressively worse with each generation and there is no reason to hold any hope that their race to find the floor of a bottomless pit will ever improve. The sick clowns that build the modern mobile trash being sold today view their lameness and mediocrity as a virtue.
  9. Mr. Fox
    It is not on the same caliber as Hard 8 or Spring Creek, or even Rudy's. But, it is really tasty and more affordably priced. It's like a top-notch BBQ "fast food" place. Perfect place to grab lunch when you are having a hankering for BBQ but don't want to spend a lot and do not have a lot of time to spare. You will like it... I'm sure of it. Kind of like comparing Fuddrucker's to BK, or Salt Grass to Outback. It's all good stuff, but one is greater. So, I did some home office remodeling and added a sit/stand desk for work. Now the desk that I was using for work is moved side-by-side with the matching desk that has my pleasure rig, making for what amounts to a 10-foot long desk surface.
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    Yup.... ^^^ this ^^^ I would rather continue using a flagship GPU that is one or two generations old than buy a second fiddle GPU in current gen. The budget-friendlier gamer GPUs don't interest me even when they are more powerful than the GPU that I own that used to be the top dog in its day. Like they say, "Go big or go home." Plus, I just don't like the idea of opening my wallet to show financial support for products geared toward compromise.
  11. Mr. Fox
    Bill Miller is a Texas-based Barbeque chain. Their food is tasty, but there are no locations close to Brother @Clamibot When I was a kid growing up in the San Antonio area we would get their chopped BBQ beef sandwiches 4 for $1.00 and a quart of fresh-brewed iced tea for $0.25.
  12. Mr. Fox
    Yes, it does seem very high and it may not be accurate. But, as long as it is consistent and allows you to spot problems if they arise that is the greater value in having it. Knowing for certain the precise flow rate measurement really isn't that critical. If it falls for some reason and your temperatures increase, you would want to know and investigate. The measurement would be valuable without a number. It could be high, medium-high, medium, medium-low and low, for example.
  13. Mr. Fox
    Here is my latest (went live yesterday). https://extremehw.net/all-reviews/corsair-hs80-rgb-wireless-premium-gaming-headset-review/ The next one is on another DDR5 kit that will likely be finished over the weekend and go live early next week. It never ceases to amaze me that results often depend on who is doing the testing/measuring. And, the working environment has a major effect on things. The best way to identify improvement potential is before and after results, when that is possible. The amount of improvement (or regression) should be relatively consistent even when the measurements differ from one system to the next.
  14. Mr. Fox
    Here is a SK Hynix A-die memory overclock at 8500, LOL. Crazy. https://valid.x86.fr/lcqf0f
  15. Mr. Fox
    At least the motherboard OEM can fix Micro$lop's botched up messes with a BIOS update. Thankfully, it only affects access within Windows and you can still change voltage in the BIOS. How much do you want to bet that they will leave their laptops broken and only fix it on desktop motherboards? Then laptops owners are getting screwed again, as they always do. No BIOS menus to adjust and then locked out in Windows.
  16. Mr. Fox
    I have this one. I like it. It works well. It has an alarm that goes off if the water flow drops below a certain volume. If I turn off the PSU for my pumps and fans when I go away for a business trip and forget to turn the PSU back on it starts beeping to alert me. I do not use any software with it. I use it as a stand-alone product. No need for added bloat. It includes a cable to connect to a motherboard sensor header, but I also do not use that. No need for it. I can see what I need to know looking at the LCD screen. Igor tested the TF1. I have the TF2. Not sure what the differences are. AquaFlow makes nice products but I find them usually grossly overpriced and do not buy them for that reason. Their parts are also seldom available in the US and I have to order from Germany and that adds cost and complications that are best avoided if possible. https://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Construction-Monitoring-Temperature-CL-W275-CU00SW/dp/B08B3S7L3Q
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    Sweet. I look forward to seeing more as you get this bad boy fired up.
  18. Mr. Fox
    I passed on it, too. Way too much money and not enough of an upgrade from 3090 KPE. And, more than anything else no water block available and probably will never be one. That totally killed any remote chance of me ever changing my mind. Totally dead end unless you specifically want a hybrid GPU and have no aspirations for something more. But, I know there are some people that want it specifically because it is a hybrid.
  19. Mr. Fox
    It would initially be painful and difficult, but in the long run I think a world without participation from China would be a better place. Without the rest of the world buying their crap they would simply return to being a third-world country with nothing to contribute. They would just dry up and blow away. Wouldn't hurt my feelings any. They've worn out their welcome as far as I am concerned and they have only themselves and their unacceptable behavior to blame for it. Let 'em rot in their own sewage.
  20. Mr. Fox
    Here is how I always did it... Use some needle-nose pliers and bend the crap out of the spring arms at the base where they attach to the heat sink so they end up at about a 45° angle from the point where it intersects with the point of attachment. Just be careful to not bend it inside of the area where it is attached to the heat sink so it doesn't break off. This is where using needle-nose pliers is beneficial. You can avoid putting pressure on the point of attachment while bending it. By bending it upward like that it will take a comparatively tremendous amount of force (which is not saying much since there is almost none on a stock heat sink) to push the arm down far enough to engage the screw into the threads on the x-bracket standoff. You want the bend to be increased only within the area marked with the yellow ovals.
  21. Mr. Fox
    More irrefutable evidence of their unquenchable love and kindness toward us all... First Batches of NVIDIA RTX 40-series Sitting in Warehouses Since August: Report The first batches of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40-series "Ada" graphics cards were in production since Q2-2022, and have been sitting in warehouses in Taiwan since August, reports Tweaktown. NVIDIA probably decided against launching them sooner, as the crypto-currency crash left it with heaps of unsold high-end RTX 30-series graphics card inventory, forcing it to delay launch of the RTX 40-series, to allow time for the market to digest this inventory. It is now at a point where its retail partners have to clear out high-end SKUs such as the RTX 3080-series and RTX 3090-series at a third the street-price they commanded in the thick of the GPU shortage caused by crypto-mining through 2021; so NVIDIA could start pushing those RTX 40-series cards. The company is widely expected to announce the RTX 40-series later this month. Besides aggressive pricing, NVIDIA has been bundling its high-end RTX 30-series cards with AAA games. The best way to profit from demand is to limit the supply.
  22. Mr. Fox
    Finally took time to tighten things up on the Z690 Strix D4. It has some redeeming qualities, but DDR4 overclocking is DEFINITELY not one of them. I ran this memory at 4500 CL16 on the Z490 Dark and Z490 Strix sold to Brother @Reciever but it can't run stable above 4000 for some reason on Z690. I can run it at 4200, but not stable. I tested the 12900K and both 12900KSes and it is either ASUS cheaped out on the mobo or just Z690 doesn't like DDR4, not sure which.
  23. Mr. Fox
    Go EVGA, GO. Bring on the Revolution! Jolly Green Giant needs to learn the Golden Rule.
  24. Mr. Fox
    Yes, he is the proud owner of that rare gem.
  25. Mr. Fox
    I suspect it will hurt NVIDIA. We could see other AIB partner decide to follow in their shoes. Revolution has a side benefit that it usually grows stronger once someone with the gonads has the gumption to draw first blood. I'd kind of like to see it, too. I don't love NVIDIA, but I like AMD less. I am all for inflicting severe, long-lasting and catastrophic financial or devastating physical harm on big companies and governmental bodies that abuse their power and don't do exactly what the people that allow them the undeserved luxury to exist want done. I see it as justice working itself out. EVGA says they are not going to work with AMD, so we will have to see if that holds true. I can see reasons where they would not want to. They are probably no easier to get along with than NVIDIA. I might consider giving AMD another shot if EVGA were building them. One of the biggest issues, secondary to crap drivers, I have had with AMD has been sketchy reliability. EVGA is known for quality and if anyone were to affect that in a positive way it would be them.
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