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  1. Mr. Fox
    It took a while, but I finally got 6800 CL30 dialed in as a daily driver memory overclock. Some interesting discoveries in the process... Setting tRFC and tRFCPB too tight improves read speed, but degrades write, copy and latency and the best overall performance and latency are achieved leaving both of them set to Auto and letting the BIOS train the values. Likewise, tRCD and tRP set too tight produced errors. Moving from 38 to 39 reduced errors, moving to 40 eliminated them. CPU VDDQ and CPU VDD2 and DRAM VPP work best if left on Auto. Setting them manually to the values programmed by the BIOS when set on Auto causes inconsistency in stability. Setting tWR and tWR_MR too tight causes inconsistent results, while leaving them on Auto and letting the BIOS train the values had no effect on performance and eliminated errors in testing. Setting tWTR and tWTR_L at 14 and 28, respectively, displays as 8 and 19 using Dragon Ball. Asus MemTweakIt doesn't even read those two values and it does not accurately read the tWR value. Using either software tool can result in erroneous interpretation due to the BIOS values not being displayed accurately for a few settings. Most of the values displayed by Dragon Ball match the BIOS settings.
  2. Mr. Fox
    Your experience is consistent with mine. Pads with very high thermal conductivity ratings that are dense and hard generally suck on laptops. They are better quality and more effective, but you lose the benefit of that when they don't make proper contact and decrease die contact pressure. Most laptops do not have heat sinks that are capable of creating enough mounting pressure to crush the dense pads far enough to conform with uneven surfaces. I use K5 Pro on my laptops now instead of pads. Yes, it is a massive pain in the butt to clean up, but it's not like that is a recurring ritual, so it is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. (There is no reason to clean it all off completely and have everything looking immaculate unless you are going back to using thermal pads later.) Other than K5 Pro, the extra soft and squishy thermal pads are often best for laptops with crappy fitting components. They easily conform to uneven surfaces and warped heat sinks with contact surfaces that are not precise. That is also the same reason I use K5 Pro. It fills the gaps no matter how uneven they are and results in fewer issues with contact at the die because it offers no resistance to compression. Because it is a dense paste, this will result in the least amount of space between contact surfaces because it will compress to a thickness that is less than a 0.5mm pad. So, die contact is never impeded by pads that are too thick using K5 Pro.
  3. Mr. Fox
    This was an interesting and informative video. Especially the "unexpected results" (15:56) which amounts to robbing Peter to pay Paul... good to know. Probably would affect an air cooled GPU more dramatically than a water cooled GPU. The Gelid Solutions GP-Ultimate and Nab Cooling pads seem to be the same product with different branding and they not only performed the best, but were among the most affordable.
  4. Mr. Fox
    Looking good. Did all GTX 580 have a vapor chamber, or only that model?
  5. Mr. Fox
    When people allow Macro$haft and crApple to make all of their decisions it should be assumed and taken for granted that things will not end well. It will end in a manner that best suits their agenda... period.
  6. Mr. Fox
    The manufacturers know this. By making the graphics card BGA they guarantee themselves a short product life and a repeat sale potential because the graphic chip will either fail or rapidly become too anemic to satisfy the poor sucker that bought it. Financial success is unlikely until we replace the people currently holding positions of political power and authority with new people holding views that are diametrically opposed to those currently in power. When the expressed and obvious agenda is to punish success, destroy wealth, confiscate security and eliminate freedom, things are going to stay really effed up for all of us.
  7. Mr. Fox
    You forgot to use quotation marks around the word better in reference to the Asus turdbook. Which one is more desirable among chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis? One can be worse than the other, but who wants one of them? The BGA GPU in the NH55JNNQ was a test and the buyers of it failed. "A little bit of leaven leavens the entire loaf." Why would anyone embrace filth on the basis that it is less filthy? Is rape an acceptable alternative to murder? Do we truly believe she "really secretly wanted it" even though the act was against her will? This trend will continue because stupid people are unaware of their own stupidity and because the feckless allow it even though they know it is unacceptable. Sometimes having nothing is the only good solution.
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    Ignorance is generally only temporary. It is easily corrected through the collection of information, which becomes knowledge and intelligence as soon as it is applied. Stupidity is incurable, enduring beyond the reach of ignorance and even flourishing in the presence of knowledge. Ignorance is defendable and those that prey on it should be held accountable, but stupidity carries its own guilt and it is indefensible.
  9. Mr. Fox
    I am not sure. I asked the question in the video comments on the MOAB video. I really love how that looks. My impression is that these are unique creations he builds for chassis building competition, but some of them may have been made as a promotional thing for Gigabyte, Zotac and MSI. No details are given in the videos, so I am just guessing. That Resident Evil typewriter is insanely gawdy looking, but the level of detail and intricate craftsmanship is amazing. The second video above, with that Mech-looking thing with legs, is also crazy good. It looks as though it is truly aged and battle-scarred. Even the appearance of grease on the pistons of the hydraulic cylinders is amazing. Edit: @jaybee83 I guess Zadak is a company. Never heard of them. Absurdly expensive. https://www.zadak-europe.com/collections/cases/products/moab-ii-elite-water-cooled-pc-case
  10. Mr. Fox
    Open Shell definitely has more customization options for anyone interested in that. I lean toward the minimalist approach and I like the crystal clear smoked tint on the menu and how easy it is to exact color match the taskbar and Start menu using StartIsBack. I also prefer the square corners. I think they look better than rounded, and the round corners was an immediate turn-off for me as a Winduhz 11 first impression. That said, all other aspects of the Windows 7 GUI are superior compared to newer OSes, save for the rounded corners.
  11. Mr. Fox
    This guy does some impressive fabrication work. I really like the MOAB II Elite, but the level of detail and craftsmanship on the others is pretty crazy.
  12. Mr. Fox
    I think this is where I am landing for my daily driver settings. This has proven to be stable in every scenario, including benching and a 3-hour session of Battlefield V.
  13. Mr. Fox
    Good morning!! Here is the screenshot. HUGE aesthetic improvement for LTSC 21H2. I still prefer LTSC 1809 with only AeroGlass and OldExplorer, but AeroGlass doesn't work on newer versions of Windoze 10.
  14. Mr. Fox
    I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly. It looks great. Tomorrow I will post a screenshot. I don't have access to that computer right now, otherwise I would do it now. But, anyway thanks for sharing. Ugliness is only part of what makes Windows 10 suck and this fixes that part.
  15. Mr. Fox
    Even if the BIOS did not support it, the mobile Extreme CPUs were generally overclockable using XTU and/or ThrottleStop. In the case of Alienware laptops and the stock BIOS, you could accomplish more by using software. That much has not changed. Laptops all have skanky trash stock firmware and probably always will. But, the ideal solution for an Alienware owner was an unlocked BIOS from Brother Marco (svl7). Before @Premabegan unlocking Clevo firmware, they were truly horrible products that were severely castrated and performed quite poorly due to botched up firmware. Once they got some of that PremaMod love they immediately started destroying Alienware laptops.
  16. Mr. Fox
    Yes, you are exactly right. Some people make money selling chicken manure. Some people make money recycling garbage. Some people earn a living working in sewage treatment facilities. If silly people want crappy laptops, then there is a buck to be made selling them turdbooks. The problem is as much on the consumer side of the situation as it is the clowns manufacturing trash for losers, LOL.
  17. Mr. Fox
    I would agree with that. I have seen the videos and spoken briefly with @B0B about the Eluktronics water cooling thing. I think it is interesting for sure, and it seems to work fairly well. The one they offer has a 120MM radiator and a 240MM would be better without adding a tremendous amount of size and weight. The part that makes ZERO sense to me is making thin and light laptops and then fashioning a colostomy bag cooling system for them. It would make more sense to build something more substantial with better air cooling, because the selling point (for those that drink that Kool-Aid) is the notion that a thin and light form factor plays to portability and ease of travel, etc. The colostomy bag is counter-intuitive in that scenario and the underlying product remains compromised. The addition of the colostomy bag flies in the face of logic if they are using the portability/travel excuse for accepting a compromised form factor. It is more like a band-aid for a botched job of notebook engineering. Remember, these wimps whine and moan about a 330W AC adapter being too big and heavy, LOL. It would have a ton more merit on a DTR IMHO. Something like the X170 would be an ideal candidate. But, nobody makes anything equal or better anymore. Sad days we live in for notebooks.
  18. Mr. Fox
    Clown show is a good way of describing it. We are surrounded by hopelessly worthless dumb-dumbs, and I can identify multiple areas in life where this is applicable and abundantly evident beyond the topic you are speaking about. People with properly functioning brains, ordinary intelligence, common sense, guided by decency and morals are a shrinking minority. There was one piece of good news if you look hard enough for it. The article mentioned, "Interestingly, only 11.3 percent voted that they care about the environment and hence take issue with high power-draw components. This figure, by the way, is much less than the 14.5 percent who voted that they don't care at all about components with high power draw." I am glad that the percentage of stupidity is so low as it relates to the number of people that are drinking the climate change hoax Kool-Aid. It is encouraging that the percentage of those that don't care at all about power draw still outnumber the tree-huggers. I can sympathize with those that want to keep their electric utility bill as low as possible. I can't fault anyone for wanting to give their local power company as little money as possible. Now we need to figure out how to get the tail to stop wagging the dog and put our nation's house back in order again while there is still something left worth salvaging. For the record, I am super happy the 4090 is going to be drawing massive amounts of power. That fact alone makes me want to buy one even though I don't need it.
  19. Mr. Fox
    The Micro$oft Monkeys always get rid of the things they have done best, leaving us with nothing to give them credit for except their mistakes and failures. They are nearly as unlovable as the dullards at crApple at this point.
  20. Mr. Fox
    How do you spell retarded? W-I-N-D-0-W-S-11. Everything they do to it makes if seem more like some nasty chunk of dried up dingleberry butt crust rather than an operating system.
  21. Mr. Fox
    What theme are you using for Windowblinds? I have tried it off and on for years, including very recently, and I can never get it to look proper. It has never functioned to my satisfaction because there is always something in the UI that is messed up for me and I have always regretted purchasing it. However, that actually looks pretty decent, I must say. Please share and I will give it a go again to see if I like it. I'd really like to love Windowsblinds if I can, because I feel the exact opposite of love for any version of Windows after 1809. I am the kind of person that would identify one theme that I like and use it for more than a decade with no desire to even try another one because I place more value on consistency and predictability than anything else. I do not like the Stardock Start menu. I think it is too functionally limited and doesn't produce as aesthetically pleasing results as StartIsBack does.
  22. Mr. Fox
    The absence of AeroGlass beauty has been a problem for a good while now. The problem was solved for a time using Aero Glass for Win8+ but Big Muscle (developer) seems to have vaporized and no longer supporting it. Newer versions of dwm.exe after LTSC 2019 are no longer compatible with Aero Glass for Win8+ mods. And, I'm sorry, but Windows 10 Acrylic is a totally lame excuse for a replacement. The flat color schemes, especially the abusive overuse of white and pastel colors, in Windows 8-10-11 makes me want to puke... truly disgusting.
  23. Mr. Fox
    Yeah, the rules don't apply to them. It seems like the people anointed to make up the rules often exempt themselves. I believe a fair amount of the "security" stuff is a gimmick that was created to generate money on fixes. It is a very inefficient UI, and that is putting it kindly. It takes more mouse clicks to do most things. Personally, I find the Winduhz 11 GUI extremely unattractive as well. Almost everything about its appearance is unattractive to me. The only thing I have been able to identify that is improved in terms of efficiency/ease of use is the Settings app. Performance is diminished in Winduhz 11.
  24. Mr. Fox
    Probably so. Macro$lop Winduhz 11 is the technology application of the old joke "you were such an ugly child that your parents had to tie a pork chop around your neck to get the dogs to play with you" LOL. Even the "Insiders" don't really like the latest abortion. 22K views and only 397 likes. That is a 1.8% approval rating on their "Task Manager Features" webcast. That's even lower than the POTUS approval rating. The Remond Reprobates' idea of "special" is having the new Task Manager color scheme match the applied Winduhz color theme and having a pop-out hamburger menu instead of top navigation. Whooopeee-dooo. As if that even matters. They've totally lost touch with what is important. They have no idea what is important. They just make up stupid **** and tell their sheeple what to think about it.
  25. Mr. Fox
    I might be more inclined to buy an ARC GPU versus an AMD GPU if I were going to buy a new GPU. I am glad the Green Goblin might have two competitors finally, but I don't like the idea of spending any of my money on AMD.
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