Mr. Fox

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I really need a vacation, too. Real bad. Maintenance of sanity does not apply to high performance computing. The opposite is preferrable. We want to be crazy, go nuts and see insanely high clock speeds, voltage, power consumption, and insanely low temperatures. The more insane those things become the happier we are (or should be). I'd love to see something like 25GHz at 3.500V and 1300W in Cinebench. Yes brother @ryan as long as contact between the CPU/GPU dies and heat sink cold plates is correct a liquid metal paste job should help.

I think a large percentage of the people buying laptops and desktop components are not very tech savvy. Most of them max out their skills installing drivers or running a Windows update. Many can't even manage that effectively. They need everything to be easy and extremely low skill, so in that respect I think reviews like these are demonstrative of their low skill as well as shortcomings of the products they purchased. They certainly aren't smart enough to identify the game they want to play is a buggy piece of trash. Suggesting they need to tune things or test a variety of drivers turns them inside-out. They just expect it to work. It's probably not an unrealistic expectation, notwithstanding the fact that their lack of knowledge and technical skill compounds the problem. In great part, I think this is one of the reasons why game consoles are so successful. Of course, another obvious reason is the cost of purchasing the console is a lot less than a competent gaming PC. (They don't count the high cost of console games and monthly subscription fees. They are apparently not very good at math either LOL.)

Reviews like this are very meaningful and drive fanboys crazy. They get swept under the rug and ignored, and you don't see the YouTube reviewers that get stuff sent to them for free making comments like this. I haven't posted a negative review of the 5950X as a verified purchaser, but I probably should. It certainly is. Extremely satisfying. Second only to miners that have multiple thousands of dollar of GPUs that are worth less than half what they paid for them and not being able to cover the cost of them due to the loss of value of the cryptocurrency. Could not have happened to a more deserving industry. I hope it gets worse. Yeah, still way too much money. I am glad my GPU has held its value, but it doesn't deserve to. I paid more for it than it was worth (stupid on my part). Unfortunately, I do not expect EVGA, ASUS or others may ever offer their components at a rock bottom price to customers that deserve to see those prices. They will probably sell whatever stock is left at a massive loss to a wholesaler rather than giving the benefit to customers. That is the messed up way that business works. Not just computer components, but other things as well, including cars. Dealers will auction off huge inventories of used cars and leftover new inventory at a loss representing a fraction of what they are worth to avoid giving an opportunity for the public to purchase them at or near the same price. That's really messed up.

Dang, huge price drop. Nice to see it. Hopefully, we will see it drop by another $300-$500 in a desperate move to eliminate 30-series stock before 40-series releases. I probably wouldn't be overly excited about buying a Gigabutt brand GPU, but I probably would grab an EVGA or ASUS 3090 Ti for $1000-1200 even though I don't really have any compelling reason to want one. It will also be interesting to see what kind of prices and availability we will see with 4090. I will be curious to see if supply is kept artificially lower than demand so they can make the prices fluffier than warranted.

LOL... uh... no... Literally every product I have owned that was made by AMD was garbage. I have zero confidence in their ability to produce quality products. Maybe I wouldn't be so dead set against them if I purchased low-end components and didn't care about overclocking. I don't care that an RX 6600 crushes a 3050. I wouldn't waste my money on either of those products. But, that said, the Ryzen 9 5950X was also an abortion and one of the worst purchase decisions I have made in a decade.

It has Fluent Design and round corners now so, yes... it HAS TO BE better now. The people complaining that it is slower are trolls that have not learned that they should appreciate form over function. 🤣🙊🙈🙉

And, we all know what they say about payback. 😉

At a time where there is only bad news, hard economic times, astronomical inflation, incompetent leadership and so much less to be thankful for than normal, it is nice to see at least something trending the right way. What is happening to crypto and GPU pricing as a pleasant byproduct are certainly like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. The Digital Gold Rush - 5 Ways Bitcoin Helps Organized Crime Crypto money laundering rises 30%, report finds What is cryptocurrency and how does it work? If you own cryptocurrency, you don’t own anything tangible. What you own is a key that allows you to move a record or a unit of measure from one person to another without a trusted third party.

It is humorous to see impressive sounding names applied to such unimpressive products. "Predator" and "Zephyrus" and "Titan" immediately come to mind, but there are other examples. They should have more fitting names like "Prey" and "Milktoast" or "Space Heater" instead based on their specifications, performance and user experience. In the end they're all going to be worthy of titles such as "door stop" and "paper weight" LOL. With insanely expensive CPU/GPU/mobo integration and nothing within financial or practical reason being worthy of repairs or upgrades, they're all disposable one-shot wonders that overheat, thermal throttle and ultimately represent an extrordinarly foolish cash expenditure.

another crisis... *yawn* I'm so scared

As long as so-called self-anointed "experts" have a defective view of what goodness looks like we can expect the retarded masses to have a defective view. Sheeple follow shepherd's that lead from behind. Their flock represent the lowest common denominators of the human race. It is a big flock and having possession of what used to be average intelligence qualifies one as being elite, superior and extraordinary.

That is what happens when 99 out of 100 people buying laptops, maybe 999 out of 1000, lack the technical knowledge or skill to do that, and an even smaller number have the mental capacity to comprehend why it matters. Being an idiot is the norm today.

This is attractive to OEMs because it greatly enhances their abilities in terms of planned obsolescence and revenue generation. There is no easier way to ensure repeat sales than to make everything available for purchase a disposable piece of garbage that is unrepairable and upgrade resistant.

Best advice... Resist the urge to fix what isn't broken. If it isn't already broken from the last cancer cell injection, it will be once you "update" to their latest digital filth.

Interesting. I've never encountered this at all. Is this on a laptop using a mobile driver or desktop computer? Neither one of my desktops experience this issue with Windows 7, Windows 10 LTSC 2019, Windows 10 LTSC 2021 or Winduhz 11. Most of the installations are non-DCH drivers. Is the affected system hybrid graphic or exclusively NVIDIA GPU? (It could be something with the Intel iGPU driver or hybrid graphics causing the issue.)

I traveled for years with 17 and 18 inch beasts and an employer-provided laptop and other gear. I loved every minute of it. I would not have wanted it any other way. Was never a problem and totally worth it. Anybody that is so addicted to playing games that can't last through a flight in coach seating and cannot wait however long it takes to reach their hotel room has issues that require professional assistance. A thin and light piece of crap suitable for gaming in such terribly cramped quarters is only going to mask their problem while it festers without getting the professional help that it deserves.

It would have to be a pretty crazy price cut for it to not be really stupid to buy a new RTX 30-series GPU this close to 40-series launch. I suppose if the price drop was massive enough (like 50-60% drop) it would make sense, but either way they are rolling the dice. I wouldn't buy a 4090 even if I were wanting to spend money on a new GPU. They already showed us that they were back-stabbers by releasing the 3090 Ti, so anyone that would have bought a 4090 under normal circumstances is probably going to wait for a 4090 Ti to avoid getting stabbed in the back a second time. It was not only a stab in the back for consumers, but also a kick in the gonads for the AIB partners that now have 3090 Ti stock that is going to be obsolete in a matter of days. It would have been smart for them to have not manufactured any so close to the 40-series launch. But, I don't know if the Green Goblin will allow them to make a decision to choose not to participate in a product launch. I feel bad for anyone that bought a 3090 Ti, especially if it was not a reference PCB. Any special versions (i.e. Kingpin, FTW3, Strix, etc.) are likely to have no options for water blocks. It would be stupid for companies like Bykski, EKWB and others to manufacture water blocks for a product that became obsolete within 90 days of its public release date.

I wasn't aware that there was any place where they still offered same-day delivery. It used to be common in Phoenix, but that ended 4 or 5 years ago. Some items are available the next day (tomorrow) depending on what time of day you place your order today. It is extremely rare that I do not receive an Amazon order on the day expected. Once in a while something arrives a day late, and I suspect that happens due to an unreliable delivery person, or they got sick, or the Amazon delivery van broke down. (They do not maintain their fleet properly. They run those delivery vans ragged, and some of them aren't even safe to drive.)

Everything is made for gutless wusses now. It wasn't that long ago that I experienced the joy of exhausting the capacity of my dual 330 watt AC adapter setups and craving more. It's all garbage now, made by sissy-boy idiots for those gutless wusses. It amazes me that people are willing to spend their money on castrated trashbooks. That takes some serious brain damage. The bar has never been set lower than it is now. It's a small miracle that most of this trash will even function as marginally as it does.

Maybe it is another one of those nefarious and cockamamie treehugger ideas for all laptops to become such worthless trash that everyone will become so frustrated with the garbage they will switch to using smartphones exclusively to conserve energy. Kind of like the Orwellian approach of implementing extremely stupid and idiotic ideas and deliberately doing bad things that are against the best interests of society in order to cause the price of gasoline and diesel fuel to become so expensive that everyone will magically accept electric cars.

Here is something extreme... extremely overpriced...