Mr. Fox

Yes. It is a whole lot better, but... Still severe degradation... note size limitation. You cannot preserve original image resolution. The forum software will not allow it. Still need to use an image hosting service when quality matters. That said, sometimes quality isn't important.

Welcome, Brother @Prema. So glad you joined us. You have been missed greatly. Nice. I am eager to see how the comparison shakes out. Congrats again.

Yes, he has a rather annoying personality and communication style. He is like a drunk buildzoid with Tourette's Syndrome , LOL. He has some fairly decent content though, and I watch some of his videos in spite of it. I watched both of his videos on the 12900K delid and it looks good. Very impressive. I am waiting for a normal die frame that replaces the ILM. I don't want that kind of bare die block. I have one for 10th/11th Gen and never installed it because I do not like how it is made. I should probably sell it to someone that could use it.

No worries. Growing pains and learning on the fly is expected. You guys are doing great. I agree that hosting them here is better for the reason stated. You should both get some rest then. You deserve it and it is important. We will still be here. Rome wasn't built in a day.

No to both things. I am not planning on a GPU upgrade for probably at least one, maybe even two years. And, had the answer been yes it most likely would not be for one that has one or two (or zero) options for a water block. I am really done with that. Reference PCB with hardware and firmware mods that void the warranty is the only way to fly now. I don't want to have to accept the only option or choose between one option that isn't what I want versus a second overpriced option that takes 6 months to arrive. I'm just not OK with that anymore. I am really not liking a lot of what I see happening in PC tech in general. I'd probably be pleased if I were a gamer. But, because the only thing I care a lot about it overclocking, there is less to like now. Even if I were to ditch overclocking and try to rekindle my interest in gaming, nobody actually needs high end PC parts for gaming. Mid-range and last generation or two old components is almost always more than adequate for gaming. That would also be difficult because I don't like any of the genres and titles that are most popular now. The past few times I thought I might want to blow money on a game, I could not find anything that I was interested in. Steam seems to be catering to indie crap that is turn-based, open world, MMORPG, RPG and Strategy and I really do not enjoy anything like that even a little bit. When I do actually find something that looks like it might interest me, it often turns out to be some online multiplayer piece of crap with no offline single-player campaign.

Yes, it did look blurry to my eyes as well. Here is another. The problem is down-scaling. That image is 2560x1440, but uploading to the forum it makes it smaller (1000x562) and utterly worthless for clarity. I think a thumbnail preview is fine, but clicking the image should make it the original resolution. Otherwise, the only solution is to upload it somewhere else, then embed it using the direct image link so clicking the image opens it from the hosting site instead of here.

Looks like @unclewebb is still out there, doing what he always does well. I invited him and @prema to join us here.

I'd say you were lucky for that reason, as well as having a Microcenter (at least if you are in SoCal). But, I am not sure that those would be good reasons for me to want to live there. Seems like I can think of lots more reasons I wouldn't want to, LOL. Congrats on the GPU. What model of 3090 Ti did you order? I look forward to seeing what kind of overclocked benchmarks scores you will experience. It is hard to make sense of the marketing fluff because it is somewhat subjective and driven based on stock/reference numbers that benefit marketing more than the end user. A 3090 Ti specs are not remarkably greater than 3090 and it feels like both a money grab and a back-stabbing show of "appreciation" for the customers that wanted the best the Green Goblin had to offer. But, I asked what model you purchased because the playing field is far from level. A 3090 KPE or Galax HOF GPU, both with power limits set higher than the functional capacity of the GPU and unlocked voltage that sidestep common performance impediments, have remarkably more performance potential than a reference 3090. Yes, they might perform about the same running stock, but probably not many people that spend extra money to buy card built for overclocking care that much about stock performance. Some may buy it purely for e-peen or bragging rights. At the end of the day, it's how far you can push it beyond stock that matters most. A reference design 3090 Ti might not even offer a 5% performance bump if pitted against an unlocked enthusiast 3090 GPU when you start overclocking the crap out of the enthusiast-grade 3090. It might not even keep up. Likewise, a 3090 Ti KPE or HOF might offer more than a 10% performance bump over a typical 3090 when you break out the whip and start to punish it. We don't know and can't trust marketing nonsense to tell us what we need to know. They're only going to tell us what they want us to believe. If all I planned to do was play games and run stock clocks, I would save a lot of money and just buy a 3060 and call it good enough.

I did, but I suspect the only reason I enjoyed it is because I am not affected by AMD nonsense any more. Thank God. It looks like a self-inflicted wound caused by their perpetual incompetence.

https://hwbot.org/submission/4963388_ Benchmate https://hwbot.org/submission/4963400_ Without Benchmate

It really is an awesome game. I enjoyed the heck out of it too.

@Reciever I still love my modded 2080 Ti. It is an awesome GPU. If you are not competing for leaderboard status, I would say it is a winner if you can buy it right. The difference in performance between a shunted 2080 Ti with modded firmare and a standard 3090 is much smaller than a standard 2080 Ti and 3090. I am not interested in a GPU upgrade right now. Prices are still too high and 3090 Ti doesn't offer enough of a boost for the cost. Maybe if I were on an older GPU that might be worth considering. Even if I were looking for a GPU upgrade right now I don't think I would buy another KPE or any other GPU with an oddball PCB. FTW3 might be as proprietary as I would consider, because they generally have at least a few options available for GPU blocks. But, even an FTW3 has fewer options than a GPU built with a reference PCB does. I think that I would prefer to just butcher the GPU with hardware mods, force flash modded firmware and void the warranty than limit myself on available cooling options. I just flat-out do not trust AMD at all. You won't find any of the Team Red fanboys griping about the issues 5950X has and I found out the hard way that things are not a rosey as they pretend they are. I just don't need to complicate my life with their performance-tuning resistant buggy garbage. They have made significant progress, but not enough for me to entertain the idea of exposing myself to another round of disappointment by rolling the dice on a sketchy product that has severe flaws the fanboys won't acknowledge. Waiting around hoping and praying that they are going to fix their messes with firmware updates someday is just silly.

Yes, indeed. Very much so. But, I expect betrayal from NVIDIA as long as they stand to make a buck, and mediocrity from AMD. They always stick to things they are good at. Par for the course. Yes. I saw that too, and thought to myself... That "bonus" item had to cost them at least 0.02% of the total cost of the GPU. Very generous. And, tacky. But, at least I don't have to buy one from Dollar Tree. Eww, eww, OMG! Let me hurry up and spend another $2200 on a 5% performance bump. Not! But, thank you for taking decisive steps to devalue my 3090. I really appreciate that, Green Goblin. Bastards.

I ordered one in July and canceled in December after it was not shipped yet and no ETA could be provided. Some people have received theirs but come on that's just ridiculous. They didn't seem to mind sitting on my $650 for 5 months though LOL.

Wonderful news. That is a good reason to be happy, for sure. I am glad it worked out. As much as I like EVGA and their products, I am starting to have seconds thoughts about buying their products going forward because of their inability to service replacement parts. That problem kind of casts a dark shadow on an otherwise really great company, and it makes me feel sad.

A future that isn't worth living... nice. No thanks. They can put that tablet crap where the sun don't shine, along with the crappy OS designed for it. Nasty finger salute to the Redmond Retards. May their survival be difficult and filled with countless DMCA violations. They deserve nothing less than immeasurable struggle and financial hardship.

Comments from the video... And, here it is in my old Alienware archive. [ Download XTU 4.2.0.8 ]

Yes, the video was merely a multimedia prop created for that thread. It is sad how much valuable information will be lost from the death of that community. Even sadder that Tech Target doesn't care. Glad you found it in the archive.

It's still there. You just didn't go far enough back in my channel. You need to rewind 8 years LOL. It was almost 10 years ago that Alienware released their last good laptop. It is stupefying that people still buy their broken trash, even though it gets more broken with each generation.

Probably so. It seems the focus is more on the product and model names that appear in the list of hardware specifications rather than the numbers produced in terms of actual results. It appears that working well is optional as long as the list of specs is impressive to the kiddos. Kind of like naming your Chihuahua "Killer" even though its ability to inflict severe injury or death is non-existent.

Something about Crysis Remastered just doesn't play nicely with Linux. I had to tone all of the settings down to medium and high, and whatever form of ray tracing they used slows to a crawl on Linux. It's the only game of those tested with a framerate lower than normal, but it is still very playable even though the benchmarked results are abnormally low for a 3090. It may also be something with DirectX. Most Windows games played on Linux use Vulkan, where that is an option, instead of DirectX.

If you do not see an option for anything relating to it in the monitor firmware (OSD) then maybe the specs indicate support for it in error.

Add Call of Duty Infinite Warfare and WWI to the list.

Hi. Sorry, I can't be much use here because I always disable G-Sync and don't use FreeSync. If there ever were an issue I would not be aware of it for that reason.

Well, more good news. The next 4 games tested also functioned under Linux marvelously. Crysis Remastered got a bump in FPS as well, as I had forgotten to enable Proton Experimental for it. Halo Master Chief (tested Combat Evolved and Halo 4), Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider all working nicely. I may reinstall Gears 5 again and see if I forgot to enable Proton Experimental, and if doing that fixes it.