Mr. Fox

They obvious do not care about sellling PSUs to anyone that owns an older NVIDIA GPUs or AMD GPUs with 8-pin connectors. Who needs a heat sink? Maybe the goal is to burn the GPU one way or another. If not the arson adapter plug then the core and memory. That will teach that naughty GPU and the idiot that buys it a good hard lesson about "can't fix stupid" 😠

For the lovers of Crocs it's not about looks. It's about how it feels. But I agree with Fernando in that it is better to look good than to feel good.

Looking good, brother. I hope all is well with you and your familly. How is the Mustang project coming along? I finally got ambitious enough to swap systems on the GPUs. 5090 is now in the AORUS Master and 4090 in the Strix. Maybe (just maybe) I will feel ambitious enough tomorrow to do the EVC2 mod on the 5090. The 4090 Suprim has had the 1000W Galax HOF vBIOS on it almost since it was new. There is only about 100W-150W difference in total system power draw between the two GPUs until full tilt load. This comparison is stock.

Answering the question in the video cover image... No. No, it doesn't matter if you own AMD. Or, at least not much. I tightened up tRCDWR and it is 100% stable, but it provides nearly zero benefit. The gains are almost too small to measure. Using 14 instead of 28 for tRCDWR provides no meaningful benefit and actually increases latency by about 1ns. After all is said and done, it is mostly (not entirely) irrelevant what you do with Ryzen memory tuning. The effort required and patience needed is very high and the gains are minuscule. The exact opposite of Intel. The reason for doing it should be primarily to show that you are capable rather than demonstrating why you did so. The architecture and the stupidity of having a fabric (or mesh for Intel) interconnect is evident. The concept is fundamentally flawed and a limiting factor.

The weakest link in any Ryzen build is, indeed, the Ryzen CPU and it's defective architectural design. Similar engineering defects are the Achilles Heel of Intel Core Ultra processors and for similar reasons. There has been no meaningful benefit to adopting new CPU and chipset technologies for the past few generations and the clear and unmistakable line of demarcation was the abandonment of monolithic design. All of the virtues of newer being better amount to little more than gaslighting the sheeple.

Love Steve's opening comment... 🤣 ...and who doesn't that isn't a Kool-Aid drinker? But it is always nice to hear it spoken out loud by an "influencer" on the biggest technology shill platform known to man.

The latest Strix X870E-E BIOS improved the memory tuning slightly. Finally able to get the latency down from about 58ns to below 56ns. Nothing spectacular, but small improvement is better than a small regression. I'll play with retightening the tRCDWR to see if I can eek a little more mojo from it without losing any stability. It's interesting that it's not better, considering the overhyped "Nitropath" gimmick ASUS chirped about and played up to be such a great invention. It has that feature but I've yet to identify any real or tangible value that it added. It is still not as good as the AORUS Master, but I have been too lazy to move the 5090 over to it and install the 4090 in the Strix. I haven't felt like messing with the cooling system and the tubing/fitting orientation is different. When I get around to it I am going to try to normalize the two configurations so I can freely move the GPUs back and forth without any kind of rigmarole. The Strix has the better of the two 9950X CPUs in it, so I should probably swap those out while I am at it. Maybe I will get ambitious when I install the EVC2 mod on the 5090 and do all of that at once.

Hi Brother. That old one still works for me, but I think there is a newer script. I was able to use it on 24H2 but you have to first disable everything in Security Center. AV, Core Isolation, Tamper Protections, SmartScreen etc. Everything. Disable UAC and reboot. Then downlload and run the script. Defender recognizes it and will prevent you from running it. It needs to be run as Administrator or, even better, as Trusted Installer. On most of my OS installs I run no security software of any kind. On my Work OS I run Malwarebytes Premium and Adguard. I can manuallly scan the OSes running naked with Malwarebytes. I have done this for years and never find malware. But, I do not visit sketchy web sites or download software from shady places. The original Github repo is gone. There is a newer one. This application removes / disables Windows Defender, including the Windows Security App, Windows Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), Windows SmartScreen, Windows Security Services, Windows Web-Threat Service, Windows File Virtualization (UAC), Microsoft Defender App Guard, Microsoft Driver Block List, System Mitigations and the Windows Defender page in the Settings App on Windows 10 or later. This script removes/disables following security components: - support for Windows Security Center including Windows Security Center Service (wscsvc), Windows Security Service (SgrmBroker, Sgrm Drivers) which are needed to run Windows Security App. - virtualization support. - Hypervisor startup (this fixes disablation of Virtualization Based Security, this will auto enable if you use Hyper-V and/or WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android) - LUA (disables File Virtualization and User Account Control, which will run all apps as administrator priviliges (also fixes old app errors)) - Exploit Guard (something about Exploits) - Windows Smart Control - Tamper Protection (for Windows 11 21H2 or earlier) - SecHealthUI (Windows Security UWP App) - SmartScreen - Pluton Support and Pluton Services Support - System Mitigations - "Services Mitigations" (search on admx.help for more informations, its policy) - Spectre and Meltdown Mitigation (for get +30% performance on old Intel CPUs) - Windows Security Section from Settings App. This script forcily removes following antivirus components: - Windows Defender Definition Update List (this will disable updating definitions of Defender because its removed) - Windows Defender SpyNet Telemetry - Antivirus Service - Windows Defender Antivirus filter and windows defender rootkit scanner drivers - Antivirus Scanning Tasks - Shell Associations (Context Menu) - Hides Antivirus Protection section from Windows Security App. Here is the link. https://github.com/ionuttbara/windows-defender-remover/releases/tag/release_def_12_8_4 You can use the EXE version, or disable your browser download blocker and download the zip file and run the script manually.

Fortunately, gaming is an expendable and totally unnecessary pleasure to me. The solution for me is a simple one: don't purchase any games that mandate the enablement of Secure Boot or TPM. There is not any, and never will be any, game important or enticing enough for me to make an exception or compromise my personal choice of disabling or enabling anything that is against my personal preference. The part that angers me is the carte blanche requirement for those that do not care about online multiplayer gaming and find online gaming cheating to be totally irrelevant. If they are going to make it a requirement on that basis, it should only apply to online multiplayer and not single player campaign. I know they are stupid and I know that can't fix that. There's no point in trying or allowing them and their hopelessly idiotic nonsense to waste my time. At the end of the day I view it as a first-world problem for the game devs. I am more than happy to ignore their products and not give them my money. When all is said and done, "not my circus, not my monkey" and "frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn" is my position on the matter. They can join the Redmond Reprobates in having a standing invitation to kiss my butt. It sucks to be them more than it sucks to be me. I only care about me and what they want doesn't matter.

AI: The Final Countdown No idea why this is age-restricted. Maybe the information conflicts with the public school system gaslighting agenda.

Now is a good time to opt out of the identity theft cartel with a Linux distro. Stupid people actually volunteer for this. I think they call it the "insider program" LOL. Can't fix stupid.

Nice! Thanks for sharing the photo, brother.

Yup, icky is the new normal. That's the business world we live in today, and it is especially true in the technology space. Nobody competes and wins based on merit, virtue or added value. In fact, being competitive is no longer important to most companies. Winning is the only thing that matters to most, and whatever amount of deception, unfairness, treachery, fraud, smear campaigns and showing of malice is necessary to win is how it is done. The harm it causes to consumers and competitors is just viewed as collateral damage and confirmation of their weakness and irrelevance. The prime directive is to maximize the revenue stream, or advance the agenda (or both) by hook or by crook. What anyone else wants is a distraction and an inconvenient annoyance. And, the sad truth is that consumers have themselves to thank for most of this. We have the power to kill companies swiftly and without mercy by closing our wallets and vetoing their existence, but we don't wield that sword effectively because too many sheeple need to be told what to believe and what to buy. There is still hope, though. What we have seen in recent days with Budweiser and Cracker Barrel needs to become a frequent and common, everyday demonstration of consumer intolerance for businesses that dare to step outside of the lines. If only we could see similar demonstrations of coordinated assaults on wickedness from consumers in the technology space.

It seems Intel bet harder on Jokebooks, tablets, consoles and similar mobile trash. A nice way to improve their processors... I mean iGpu performance. The worst that could happen is if they move away from desktop graphics cards. They need a partner to compete with AMD's APU's. Interesting news for me? Nope. This type tech ain't for me (see bolded text above). I suspect it is all part of the Green Goblin's evil master plan to eff things up for everyone in the world except for themselves, but especially AMD. Stats quo. Best time to make a strike against the enemy is when they are at their weakest. And keep hitting them until they are dead. Playing fair and allowing them to come up for air is a stupid idea if you're playing for keeps. Dead enemies don't fight.

Interesting news...

I've thought every release in the Borderlands game franchise sucked due to crappy-looking watercolored cartoon graphics. It feels like an animated comic book to me. I greatly prefer games that strive to achieve photorealism and the less realistic the graphics are the less I like it and much greater the likelihood I willl never play it more than 1 or 2 hours tops. Too bad we live so far apart or we could have swapped WiFi cards from either of my motherboards. This is an area where cheap motherboards sometimes have a design edge over the more expensive models. The cheap models often have the WiFi/BT modules mounted in the same area that the M.2 SSDs are installed. It sucks having them under the rear I/O cover. Both of mine would be in the motherboard box if they were not installed in such an inconvenient spot. The one and only thing I dislike about the AORUS Master is that Gigabutt provides no option in the BIOS to disable the onboard WiFi/BT module. It is the only brand I am aware of that omits that option in the BIOS. I contacted them almost immediately when I first installed it and discovered that firmware defect. I alert them to their engineering mistake and asked them to provide me with a custom BIOS that wasn't missing that feature and encouraged them to include it in all BIOS releases going forward. They replied quickly but refused and said I was the only "customer" that has ever complained and requested that option, and they won't consider changing anything unless numerous customers begin to complain about not having it. I contrast that sort of disregard for customer experience with EVGA, who made several BIOS changes at my request and made them standard options in firmware releases going forward.

I saw something on overclock.net that a guy that done something to override the flash blocking but it was not clear if it works on FE. I saw someone ask, but he had not responded last time I checked the thread.

That sounds very exciting. I'd love to get into something like that if I had to money and space for the equipment. As far as overclocking goes, you're not missing much. The idiots that design and manufacturer PC components are ruining everything for overclocking enthusiasts. Pretty much because they are all incompetent dumba$$es that survive by clever deceptive marketing and gaslighting the crap out of consumers. Most of what is produced now is locked down trash or overpriced unusable junk. What I mean by "unusable" is (for example) an enthusiast motherboard with a CPU socket that all of the CPUs that fit in it are trash that suck at overclocking, or the imbeciles that made it ruined something that could have otherwise been great by adding two extra memory slots that eff-it-up. And, any hardware that is not dog crap becomes worthless garbage because its gonads are crushed by cancer firmware. They should all feel very grateful that I am not the one that gets to decide their fate. The story wouldn't have a happy ending for any of them.

We missed you, brother. Hope all is well with your family, too.

This is what happens when you build a desktop GPU like a turdbook instead of a one-piece PCB. This is why I instantly rejected it when I saw how it was made. Predictable outcome with a product deliberately designed with multiple points of failure.

I have three of these. A desktop on one each and the chiller and 5 gallon tank on the third. I think it would work well for your desktop. They are impressively sturdy. The bottom shelf supports 100 pounds and the top shelf 80 pounds and the height is adjustable. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SCYSFP9?th=1 I would like to be able to appreciate WiFi 7 but can't go there because of Micro$lop's harmful influence and chokehold on the industry. I really don't understand why any of the feckless hardware manufacturers allow them to call the shots. They should have to fall in line and bow to the hardware makers to maintain relevance, but we've got the tail wagging the dog with the Redmond Retards in control. No way in hell I can embrace the notion of installing hardware that only has driver support for the Winduhz 11 trash OS. I already have two desktops with crappy WiFi 7 cards installed that I can't use because of that. If I actually needed to use WiFi on either desktop I would be pulling off the VRM/IO shields and replacing both with WiFi 6 or older technology so I can make my own decisions about what OS I am going to use.

That's good to know about the 9000D. The Corsair Airflow case I used to have a few years ago was very well made and had thick steel panels. It was too small for a decent custom loop to fit inside of it and I ended up not liking it enough to keep it because it was too small. Sad to hear they started cutting corners. Corsair has some really good products, but some of their stuff is totally junk. Not very consistent. I honestly can't see myself doing anything other than sticking with the two O11D XL Evo cases that I already have. It wouldn't work for a big mobo like the one you have but for my two current ATX builds is just about right overall. I'd like it better if it were about an inch or two taller at both ends of the motherboard tray and and about an inch or so wider between the motherboard tray and glass side panel. That would make it close to being perfect but I can't remember the last time I owned any computer component that I actually viewed as being perfect or a completely satisfying product. Seems like there's always one or two things that suck about anything available for purchase no matter what it is or how much it costs.

There is never a shortage of stupid. I expect demonstrations of stupidity now as status quo. Intelligence is something I appreciate because of its rarity. On that basis it will probably sell well and become popular. It doesn't need to be good RAM. It doesn't need to be fast or good at overclocking. It merely needs to be a shiny object. Good catch on the typo correction. The word "and" is more accurate because you do not have to choose between top or front, you can have both.

Having my Praxis Wetbench was always a constant temptation. I built systems that I didn't need more than once just because I had it and liked it so much that it made me sad to not be using it, so I sold it to remove the temptation. I prefer an open bench for convenience but don't like it for dust and aesthetics. I could clean it to the point of being virtually spotless and immaculate, and in less than an hour it would be covered with desert dust. I love huge cases, but I don't like how much space they take up in my tiny office. If I had a big home office I would have the biggest cases. The O11D XL EVO cases are a good balance. I wish they were a little bit bigger, but they are large enough that I don't hate them because of everything being overly cramped and cluttered looking. If I were going to replace my O11D XL EVO cases with something else I think I would go with a Corsair Obsidian 1000D or 9000D Airflow. They are both massive and look great. They are the same exterior dimensions, so I would have to decide which one I think looks nicer. They are just a little bit larger than the V3000 Plus... length and width almost the same, but about 30MM wider than the V3000 Plus. Enough wider to install two rows of fans and radiators side-by-side in front or at top.

This is assassination was horrible by every measurement, but the indications that is was a planned event and not the insane act of a single young psychopath is truly chilling. Organized evil is real thing. Truly chilling and diabolical. It will be interesting to see how the mainstream media gaslighters explain how the Los Angeles Times and New York Times headlines and the author of the new book on Amazon about the murder were published a day prior to the shooting. Nick's post is spot on... couldn't have said it better myself.