Mr. Fox

Nice Crocks, bro. 🙂 I hope that my series of unfortunate events are over as well. I like Samsung NVMe SSDs as well. Since the Unify-X has 5 slots I am going to use the 4 Samsungs that I already have and I ordered a WD Black SN750 500GB Gen 4 to fill the extra slot. I am hoping I can just plug and play the Windows 7 installation on the Unify-X without all of the idiotic issues I had with NVMe/M.2 slots on the Z590 Dark causing BSOD issues without the M.2 slots disabled in the BIOS.

Yeah, I do not like Gigabutt or ASRock. I have had one of each and was not impressed with either of them, and they were the "good" ones (as if popularity ever mattered). Yes, I got that CPU and RAM from the same guy on eBay and got the price down about $50. I ended up paying about $50 over retail for the SP92 to avoid taking my chances in drawing a crap CPU in the lottery. The seller was running the RAM at 6200 28-37-37-78 at 1T and tight sub-timings using 1.470V. So, that should be a decent kit. TeamGroup RAM isn't the most tasteful aesthetically, but if the RAM overclocks well I can ignore the looks of it, or replace the heat sinks with something more generic. For this I agreed to take 2 days of PTO from work for a 4-day weekend and repaint the great room (kitchen, foyer, dining and family room). Seems like a fair trade since I knew that was something she was wanting.

Thank you. Based on the research I was able to complete among a tremendous amount of marketing noise and lies, that Unify-X does seem like the best option overall. As much as EVGA is my first choice, I am not willing to pay the premium price for an EVGA Dark board. If Brother @Rage Set gets some incredible results from it, I might consider it later on if the MSI board isn't everything I hope it will be. The one thing I do not like about the design of the Dark series--probably the only thing--is the VRM heat sink interfering with placement of a water-cooled GPU backplate. Besides my own less than wonderful experience with ASUS, I have been noticing many things that do not boost my confidence about the brand based on what others are experiencing. I haven't been impressed by MSI overall and I am kind of going out on a limb here. My only experience with a product made by MSI was the Tornado F5 laptop, so my opinions are only based on what I see, hear and read. They have historically been a brand that caters to gamer-boys and that has been the basis for my not liking them, but the Unify-X does seem like a legit overclocking enthusiast product. I liked Buildzoid's breakdown on the product and at the end of the day I don't care about brand except to the extent it become synonymous with quality (or the lack thereof). I like that MSI ditched the iGPU and the Unify-X doesn't support it at all. I also like that it has dual BIOS, board-mounted buttons and no RGB features on the board (only RGB headers).

OK. Talked to my wonderful wife. She agreed, but it's going to cost me some favors. 12900K - SP92 MSI MEG Z690 Unify-X TeamGroup 6200 CL38-38-38-78 with Hynix IC Moving Z490 Dark components to work computer case Selling Z490 Strix with 4000 B-die RAM and 10850K SP84 CPU

I think most of the sheeple do whatever their friends on Facepoot and Twatter tell them is cool and believe whatever they are told to believe.

I even changed my signature on that digital dumpster fire forum to say I did not visit frequently because of the porn and spam that was not being managed properly and gave links to my profiles at this forum, ExtremeHW and HWBOT forums.

Thank you. I sent you a PM.

It should help lots of things. Run AIDA64 Cache and Memory benchmark with it turned off and repeat with it turned on and you will see the change in latency. It is nice when a free "upgrade" that takes 1 second does so much that you can feel it in the seat of your pants. But, it remains a mystery what the reason is for the poor performance option to even exist. The fact that it does seems very stupid to me.

A dramatic improvement in memory latency and better overall system performance. Not sure if Gear 1 is SA GV on or off, but whichever option mean Gear 1 in proper vernacular. The stupid Gear 1/2 foolishness was one of the reasons I did not like Z590 and went back to Z490. There is no idiotic Gear 1, Gear 2 nonsense on Z490. There is no reason for the latter to exist. It does nothing but allow higher RAM clocks at the expense of sloppy loose timings and horrible latency.

I think it's probably the most entertaining benchmark there is. Certainly my favorite in terms of entertainment value.

@Papusan I cannot help but wonder how people that do not have a working internet connection are going to read an internet article about how to set up Windows 11 without an internet connection? 🙂

For anyone else having issues with getting their Catzilla product key from Steam to run the standalone downloaded program, this may help: https://steamcommunity.com/app/261920/discussions/0/558750624753422315/ Quick Step Guide to Advanced 1. After running a benchmanrk go onto the results tab of catzilla 2. Click the Submit Results Button. It will give you a code then before atcually submitting the results 3. Copy that into a txt editor or run box then copy to clipboard (Ctrl+C) 4. Go to the catzilla website 5. Login then go to (http://www.catzilla.com/profil/userdetails) 6. Add / Paste (Ctrl+V) the code you just wrote down in to the "Invite or Steam Code" Box 7. Click update and Boom... Advanced version Code is Generated 8. Goto your Catzilla Profile and copy (CTRL+C) the Connection Mode Code. 9. Go back to the Catzilla App and Click on the Connect Tab. 10. Paste (Ctrl+V) the Connection Mode Code into the box provided... Boom.. Advanced Mode is now Enabled Save the key in a text file for future installations. When you are signed in at catzilla.com it will show you that key in your account as well.

It is showing in your screen shot. Down near the bottom. Long code ending with 881. Delete your screenshot since it has your name and product ID showing.

Did you download this one? If not, download and install that after removing any version you downloaded from Steam or elsewhere. The one from Steam and the one I had saved from a long time ago crash on all of my computers. https://catzilla.com/download If you need the Steam key for activation, once you have created a catzilla account and upload the first benchmark it will show in your catzilla.com account, or you can see this thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/261920/discussions/0/558750624753422315/

Thank you. I grabbed one. If you were posting it on HWBOT it would require CPU-Z x3 (once each showing tabs for CPU, Mainboard and Memory, full screen-not cropped, showing taskbar and clock) just like the example below, but for here we are not going to be critical if you choose not to follow HWBOT rules. Example:

Your generosity is inspirational and your kindness most appreciated. The fact that your actions are deliberate demonstrates sincerity and strength of character. The world we live in would be a better place if everyone behaved that way.

Sometimes people that like, embrace or accept something get offended when hearing the opinions of those that oppose, object or disagree with them. Unfortunately, it has become too common for the response to be taken personally and followed with an admonishment that the objectors need to be quiet. That is the cancel culture we live in today. Even folks that object to the cancel culture cancer can easily find themselves acting in that manner because it is becoming inordinately normal. I even have to stop myself sometimes because it is too easy to get caught in that trap. It is important that we all practice what we preach. I find the easiest way to toe the line is to remind myself that I actually don't give a rat's butt about who agrees or disagrees with me, and not to take it personal when someone expresses a different opinion. I also remind myself that nobody likes to be told that their baby is ugly. Windows 11 is a very ugly baby, even though some people find it adorable. If this thread had been designed to serve as an echo chamber for Windows 11 fans to gather together and discuss why they like it so much, it would be inappropriate for the haters to jump in and start bashing it. But, this is a "news and announcements" thread. In that context, I think it is totally appropriate to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly. Anyone that doesn't recognize the fact that Windows 11 has introduced some significant and controversial changes that many rightfully find to be undesirable or unacceptable is either living in a bubble or not paying attention. I expect the division will only worsen when Windows 12 is dropped from their digital colon.

That image is a preview, not the full resolution image. See my post above. If imagebb doesn't make it super easy to grab a direct link, use imgur or postimg.org instead. Boycott companies that make it difficult to do things your own way and try to force their own way. Those companies deserve to die. Yeah, that applies to the Redmond Retards, too.

You need to use a direct link to the full-size image itself, not the page showing the image inside of a web page. You can verify it is a direct link because if you paste it as a URL the image appears as the full web page with nothing else visible in your browser the image is the entire web page. If you are looking at the image in full resolution at imagebb, right click and "open image in a new tab" should also do it. Copy/paste that URL. It is not free, but should be super cheap. Check the price on Steam and catzilla.com. The Steam key will work without Steam. The only thing that makes it a Steam key is purchasing it there. (Same is true of Steam 3Dmark keys.)

Nice. Did you get a Steam key for it? That should unlock all of the options. Last time I checked, the installer at catzilla.com was newer than the version on Steam.

4K: https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1141712|*|Result Details 1440p: https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1141710|*|Result Details 1080p: https://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=1141714|*|Result Details https://hwbot.org/submission/4936355_mr._fox_catzilla___1080p_geforce_rtx_3090_72394_marks/

A desktop even with an older GPU like 2080 Ti would be a significant performance upgrade over a laptop. Here is that benchmark run on my work desktop with "High" and "Very High" settings. Here is 3090 again, run at 1920*1080 High and Very High, and 2560*1440 High and Very High. Roughly measured, 2080 Ti 1920*1080 High is about equivalent to 3090 2560*1440 Very High.

You can tell the difference even dragging a Windows Explorer window around on your desktop. It will move with a bit of jitter or jerkiness to it on a 60Hz display as compared to being very smooth looking at 120Hz or higher. You generally won't notice anything looking at static images, only when motion is involved. I would not consider it dramatic as much as noticeable. The real benefit is for those sensitive to screen tearing if your gaming framerate is much higher than the refreshrate. If you are generally in the 60-75 FPS range, then you may not be able to notice any huge improvment. If you are sensitive to screen tearing, being able to avoid V-sync and G-Stink is a plus because you don't have any input lag or performance degradation running with both of those "features" disabled.

I am not sure what that link is for. Maybe it was posted in error? A desktop even with an older GPU like 2080 Ti would be a significant performance upgrade over a laptop. Here is that benchmark run on my work desktop with "High" and "Very High" settings.

They haven't done anything well since Windows 7 SP1. They have done nothing but fail since Windows 8, so I do not have any expectation that they will magically change that. I have no reason to believe they are capable of improvement at this point. Their definition of success matches my definition of failure.