Mr. Fox

https://www.overclock.net/posts/29439921/ Pre-Ordered mine at NewEgg Link I just received my second 9950X today. I will compare bin/VF/SP rating to the one I have now and use the better of the two in the Apex. The X870E Apex will go into the case the X670E Gene is occupying now. I will use the Gene for in a SFF case like the Z790i Edge is in now, with the 9070 XT as the GPU. Will likely buy another A21 case for that. (Perfect ITX/mATX case IMHO.) Then I will sell the Z90i Edge A21 build with EK Direct Die AIO and the 3090 Ti or 1080 (buyer's choice, latter obviously less expensive) as a complete ready to run system. Or, maybe I will sell the Z790 Apex build complete with the external cooling chilled water package. Or, maybe I won't. Decisions, decisions. I think I am the third owner on the Z790i Edge that I bought from @electrosoft and that is one mighty little mobo.

We didn't need anybody to tell us Winduhz 11 is a piece of crap because we already knew, but it's nice to have confirmation of the agreement of people that have the ability to influence the easily misled people in the right direction. Such a sucky OS. The fact that Windows 10 is EOL later this year doesn't phase me at all. I don't need their support. Just as I did not need their support for Windows 7. Let's hope they don't bend us over and nail us in the hind end with a lack of driver support. Windows 10 matches or beats Winduhz 11 at everything. Winduhz 11 is the loser OS, literally and figuratively.

I received these and got them set up on my work rig. Just... wow... much better display quality than my older ASUS 4K 120Hz display, and these actually even look nicer when turned off. The ASUS screen has a wide bezel and ugly chassis with absurd RGB garbage on the back and a chintzy snap on plastic panel that makes accessing the connections inconvenient. I have never been overly thrilled with how it looks sitting on my desk. (Typical tacky-looking ASUS aesthetics.) And, I don't like that is uses a power brick like a turdbook. That is the only monitor I have owned that is made that way and it sucks. Speaking of my work computer, it started having problems and ruined my day yesterday. I finally gave up and used my Ryzen build to finish working. It was randomly locking up and Explorer.exe was crashing and restarting randomly. Of course the first rule when you have a computer or cell phone issue is to reboot. That's when things got really bad. It would power on, everything would light up and the fans were spinning, but it would not complete POST. It was getting stuck on the white debug LED (display connection) and not progressing, so I could not access the BIOS or anything. If I waited for like a half hour it would eventually boot up, but Windoze 10 was still behaving very badly. I was really worried that the Edge mobo had failed, the 3090 Ti was failing, or something similarly undesirable. After work I tried swapping the RAM, tried a different GPU and nothing helped. So, I moved on to testing other things. Next step was disconnecting all four of my SATA drives and *BOOM* instantly functioned flawlessly. I started reconnecting them individually and got to the third one in the stack and instant chaos ensued. So, I replaced that 1TB SSD with a spare I had in an external USB enclosure. It's back to the flawless operation I have always appreciated it for. Now I need to see if the SSD that died is still in warranty and get it swapped out. I am so relieved it was a SATA SSD. Not a big deal, other than the inconvenience and anxiety that it caused before I found the problem. To make me even happier, it turns out that it was the Winduhz 11 drive that I haven't booted into for probably 90 days. I did not lose any important files for work, and it was the ideal drive to have failed if one was going to because I just don't care about Winduhz 11 enough for it to matter. I am looking forward to your report on how well that worked. PTM7950 is perfect for GPUs. I disable core parking on everything as part of my Windows setup ritual, whether it needs it or not. I also disable power saving features in the BIOS and in Windows. I want everything running full blast at all times.

More fake pretty ladies. 🤣 No matter what way you look at is, AI is NSFW.

That's great and I am very happy that you got what you wanted at a price that isn't off the rails insane. While it is not a "bargain" at that price, I also know that $2,000 is not out of scope for what we paid for 3090 KPE. The only difference is, this being an FE model, there is nothing special about it in terms of overclocking, voltage controls, etc. If decent (better than normal) AIB cards ever sell for that price I might pause to consider it. Fantastic. Super happy for you, bro. I will be looking forward to seeing your max stable overclock and benchmark scores in things such as Cinebench and 3DMark Physics and Combined tests and then decide if I want one. If it delivers $200 worth of improved performance and overclocking capacity than my non-X3D CPU then I will definitely want one. Well, if you want an omelet you have to crack some eggs. I think the things he is doing are very good, very necessary and very right. He is almost always right about everything and the vast majority of Americans agree that what is taking place now with DOGE and snuffing out government waste and fraud, balancing trade with other nations so it is benefits us equally or more, is ruffling the feathers of those that didn't want their scams and crimes exposed. I am very happy about all the things that are taking place and wish they would have taken place 20 years ago and carried through to now. It's going to be harder to manipulate China now than it would have been when they were an economic dumpster, and the longer we maintain status quo the harder it will be to bring them down. It's our fault things are what they are and it's time to correct the mistakes of those that made China a relevant nation to the rest of the world. Regulators, elected and appointed public servants need to be held accountable, prosecuted and incarcerated for their crimes against the people that pay their salaries. And, as far as China (or any other nation, whether friend or foe,) goes, it needs to be America first, allies second, enemies nothing. Our government set the mess into motion with China and helped elevate them from a third-world slum nation and our government needs to undo whatever they can. We need to stop caring about whether something helps or harms our enemies and focus on what is best for #1 (us) and #2 (those we trust and are aligned with). Whatever happens to China... que sera sera. Not our problem. If I have to pay more for the crap they produce, including electronics, or not even allow them to export those to us even with tariffs, in order to make that happen, I'm good with that.

Congrats, brother. Super happy you got what you wanted. I love when that happens. Nope. No interest in 5090 now, and especially not an FE engineering abortion. Plus, I don't want to reward NVIDIA for being a scummy outfit. You honestly don't need one. Save your money for something better later on. Minus DLSS 4 and extra fake frames it produces it's not a meaningful upgrade to 4090. If you take those things away it's not that much of an upgrade, even though the ginormous price tag suggests otherwise. The X3D processors are of no special value outside of gaming, but they are the undisputed king in that area. Everyone else is better served with an ordinary CPU with core parking disabled. If they are cherry-picking binned silicon for the 9950X3D that might interest me, but we haven't seen enough of them in the wild to know if they overclock significantly higher than non-3D 99550X. If they can do 6.0GHz or higher on all 16 cores that would impress me enough to buy one. Not sure why they did not use 3D cache on both CCDs. That might have been more interesting. Relying on a crap OS like Winduhz 11 to identify the game and manage the CPU behavior is stupid IMHO. If the entire CPU (all CCDs) were equally binned and using cache, with core parking disabled that might be a real hell-raiser CPU. Having only one CCD on cache is a turn-off because it relies on drivers and software to function properly, and expecting it to function properly 100% of the time is probably unrealistic. Having to use a POS OS like Winduhz 11 with special patches and software in order to enable the functionality kills the idea instantly for me.

So, I snagged one. I guess I will find out tomorrow morning if my order gets cancelled again. This one has a vapor chamber, thermal putty and what looks like 9 heat pipes. $700, which it think is good for the better overall build quality. Hopefully it will be worth it. 3100MHz boost, 2520MHz memory and 340W TDP. Same advertised specs as the Taichi OC (but no nasty arson power cable) and XFX Mercury OC. https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Graphics-Card/GV-R9070XTAORUS-E-16GD#kf

Better to buy an older ATX 2.0 PSU with only 8-pin PCIe cables and without any arson connectors and either use the arson plug pigtail adapter that comes with the GPU or buy an 8-pin to arson cable and not be restricted by the engineering defects of new crap tech.

Yikes! That's just insane. 👺

We need federal regulations that make it a felony to conduct business with any enemy of the state. China, North Korea and any nations with terrorist operations need to be put on an ex-communication/no business/no travel/no communication watch list and we need to send violators (CEOs and CFOs) to prison that are caught in non-compliance. They should be charged with treason and have a mandatory life sentence and their citizenship revoked. We need to stop caring about companies getting wealthy selling crap to or conducting trade with China and other enemy nations. If they can't make it without China, then tough. Don't care. (Bottom line is, they can.) China needs to become isolated and unable to conduct legal trade with any nation that wants to place nice with the US and its allies. Survival needs to be made extremely difficult for China as a nation. They need to be stripped of any and all influence on the world stage and their ability to make money totally cut off. The world needs to reject them and exclude them from everything.

Given the fact that firmware and functional limitations are becoming more of a thing for me than thermal limitations, I am considering selling my chiller and going back to internal self-contained liquid cooling. I don't like the idea of it or the reasons that lead me to considering it, but an increasingly diminished overclocking experiencing and overall general dissatisfaction with hardware components that are being produced is starting to negate the benefit of having superior cooling systems. There is no point in having a superior cooling solution if the functional limits of the silicon and firmware castration eliminate the benefit of lower temperature in creating more overclocking headroom (because it doesn't facilitate more aggressive overclocking nearly as much as it used to). The silicon peters out or the firmware caps performance before the cooling becomes a limiting factor. This is also simultaneously diminishing my interest in computers. The functional frequency limits of my 4090 video cards and my 9950X do not seem to scale as much with lowered temperatures to the same degree as the older parts do. That really sucks.

They do not price anything to value. They price their products based on being legends in their own minds, with the knowledge that too many of their customers are brand fanboys and with no shame in exploiting the stupidity of those fanboys.

Why? Simple. Because they are scummy, scurvy bastards that never pass an opportunity to screw the people that buy their overpriced products.

That's good to know. I really like the design of the Lian Li Edge and Corsair RMx SHIFT PSUs (I own two of them) because they really help with cable management and ease of access. I am definitely not new to 4K but I do not like paying lots of money for keyboards, mice and monitors. I've found them to generally not age well and I typically prefer to spend more on performance/overclocking components than peripherals. I could not afford to replace all 5 monitors with 4K at once, but I am OCD and do not like having mixed resolutions on multi-monitor setups. I want all of them to be identical aesthetically and functionally. In this case the money is being spent on work-focused benefits of the added screen real estate. But, 4K is a bad choice on small screens. 27" is like the smallest acceptable screen size for 4K. Smaller than that is pretty miserable unless you use like 150-200% scaling. Doing that loses the benefit of the primary reason to own 4K (screen real estate).

Thank you. I actually have an ASUS 4K 120Hz IPS display that I bought about a year or two ago. It is an older model that was a flagship product in its day. It is connected to the Apex system so I do not use it 40-60 hours per week. But, these Predator monitors should be better based on numerous specs. I just finally got fed up with all of the scrolling I have to do for Excel and PowerBI every day for work. It will also be less of a shock/adjustment to my eyes and brain going back and forth from 4K to 2K. Whenever I use the Apex system with the 4K screen it takes me a bit to readjust to it. I have a total of five monitors in my office. The two 1080p screens will no longer be needed. I will use the 1440p Predators in place of them. That GPU looks so good. I know I have said it before, but I prefer that sort of very clean and non-descript look over the garish look of many of the popular gamer-targeted GPUs.

If that is true (and I do not doubt it) the product documentation Lian Li has posted on Amazon is not accurate (which would not surprise me). Clear communication in English has never been a strength for most Chinese manufacturers. So, I have finally outgrown my dual 1440p 165Hz Predator displays. They have been outstanding monitors, just not enough screen real estate for the amount of time I spend in Excel and PowerBI every day. Found this awesome deal ($100 off sale) and grabbed two. They are the same size and will fit on my dual monitor stand just fine. https://www.newegg.com/acer-xv273k-v3bmiiprx-27-uhd-160-hz-nitro-ips-black/p/N82E16824011500

So, if what I am seeing is accurate, if you have an older NVIDIA, like a 3090, or current AMD GPU with 2 or 3 8-pin PCIe power connections this PSU is unusable, is that correct? You'd have to buy a new PSU if you decided to go with something like a 7900 XTX or 9070 XT. It has only one conventional 8-pin GPU power cable? Is that right?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1420640/Boundary_Benchmark/

Anyone from China reading this, please contact me by PM about purchasing my Gigabyte 4090 for $5000 USD. I will include the waterblock for free.

I think the Reaper looks very good. I find it more aesthetically appealing than the other PowerColor models. It is PowerColor's version of the XFX Swift. The boost clock on both of them is lower and power limits are 36W less than some of the alternatives and I don't know if cross-flashing is going to work for AMD. (It has been difficult or impossible to cross-flash or mod AMD GPU firmware.) The software tools that I had to use on the 6900 XT to extract everything it had to offer was annoying and terribly clunky and inconvenient. Radeon 9070 XT GPU Brands and Specs

He is right. People are watching his videos, but not listening and acting. Having nothing to hide isn't a valid reason to let everyone spy on and steal from you. It is stupefying to think people are still buying iPhones and using the latest versions of OSX and Windows. The human race is digging its own grave with a smile on its face. The video is longer than average sheeple attention span, but it is worth the watch.

I have never heard of this lady before, but she has a very nice voice. Very smooth and seemingly effortless for her.

Those of us that wanted (or bought and had orders cancelled) may have dodged a bullet. Imagine paying $1200 for a $600 GPU and discovering that it sucks at overclocking. You get wallet effed and effed on a castrated part that is not satisfying to own. I do not like Red Devil GPUs. They are too tacky-looking to me, like the ASRock cards. I would only want something like one of the XFX Mercury and other models that are more nondescript aesthetically, like the ASUS Prime. Wow. Something new and it looks pretty crazy. Up to 384GB of VRAM that is upgradable.

The whole thing is just stupid. There is and was no reason for NVIDIA to deploy this garbage connector. To see two AMD AIB partners using it on Radeon cards merely reinforces that the people making decisions are inept and incompetent and shouldn't even be allowed to decide what to eat for dinner. Their inability to make sound decisions places us all at risk. This is an extremely bad time for anyone needing to build a new system or replace any parts that have failed outside of warranty. I feel very blessed to not have any compelling need to do anything and with my surplus I don't have to manage anything except for my illogical passionate for computer parts. I think I am going to start trying harder to not care anymore. A better hobby might be growing personal wealth instead of squandering it on poorly engineered overpriced computer trash. I can feel the apathy starting to build. It's not to the level of contempt and apathy I hold for turdbooks, but I could probably get it to that level without a lot of effort.

NVIDIA and AMD need to start building everything in the US. Our industries are falling in line and going according to plan. Would LOVE to see that happen to the China manufacturer scum.