Mr. Fox

If the zombie horde can be persuaded to believe CPU and memory performance are unimportant and only GPU matters this will make things even worse for AMD. That would be very bad for everyone. Although I will not likely purchase anything they make, I want them to remain solvent and engaged so that Intel and NVIDIA remain pressured. As it stands right now they are already not being very aggressive in their efforts to compete in the GPU space. Given that they already don't bring much to the table, the buzz we are hearing now about RDNA4 being nothing more than a bug fix doesn't bode well for them. It's comical that UL takes the "everyone gets a trophy for participating" approach by lowering the bar with a "Lite" version of the benchmark for anemic trash PCs. UL buying 3DMark and the introduction of the Swiss Army knife crap 3DMark Suite marked a point of tragedy for PC enthusiasts, and that was when they started circling the drain and exhibiting signs of dementia. Finding respect for any of the decision-making morons, mentally handicapped "leaders" and self-anointed "influencers" in the world that we live in has never been more difficult. Looking for something nice to say about any of them... but, I've got nothing. I have only contempt and ridicule for their epic worthlessness and abject failures. We have a pandemic of stupidity. It's highly contagious and far more deadly than their experimental COVID-19 social engineering stunt was.

Entertainment is more important to the kiddos than a true test of overall system performance. We need look no further than the chintzy toy crap they are selling on the hardware side, like handheld gaming devices. The stupid tech trash bin is bottomless and there is never a shortage of poop-eating bottom-feeders. UL lost my respect when they started making smartphone benchmarks. I lost even more respect for the users of UL benchmarks that got excited about smartphone benchmarks. "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked." - John The Apostle (Book of Revelation) "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" - Ida Auken "One thing that humbles me deeply is to see that human genius has its limits while human stupidity does not." - Alexandre Dumas

Small and cute AI keyboards are for small-minded people whose intelligence is artificial.

Maybe the "artificial intelligence" refers to the mental capacity of those who will buy it because it has "AI" associated with it. It doesn't need to be true or accurate, as long as they believe it. @Papusan maybe it would be wise for us all to use toothpaste instead of thermal compound because everyone knows how the minty-fresh toothpaste makes your mouth feel so much cooler when you inhale immediately after brushing your teeth. It's only logical that if it makes your mouth feel cool it will make your CPU feel like it is cooler, even if it is not.

Older is often better, right @Papusan?

I cannot imagine being happy with a lidded CPU, even with chilled water. The overclocking is far too limited even with water near freezing point unless the CPU is bare die. I suppose if I didn't care as much about overclocking and primarily used a PC for work and gaming I might feel differently. I don't expect a crazy good overclock on my munchkin ITX system I use for work, but I would care if I did not have another option available for benching.

Did something happen to your good CPU? That one would be going back for a refund. I RMA'd four 14th Gen with similarly high voltage requirements.

It is rewarding in a kind of disgusting, sadistic way, to see them coming under fire. Every experience I have had with them as it relates to warranty/RMA matters over the past eight or so years has demonstrated to me that they lack honor and integrity and are not a trustworthy company. They screw everyone with overpriced products at the cash register and then screw them a second time if they need help with a product failure or defect.

I had to Google it because I did not remember what a 56K warning was.

It hurts less than it did yesterday and the day before. Oddly enough it hurts less when I'm wearing a sock and shoe on that foot. Thank you. I'm very skeptical that the clowns at ASUS will change anything. They've been dishonest and run a shady operation for a long time now. If they do improve at all I suspect it will be temporary until the bad publicity wears off. Then they'll be back to their old tricks. At their very core they are not a trustworthy company and they do not have honorable intentions. I think anyone that believes otherwise it's just living in a dream world. They aren't the only brand that is dishonest, but they might be one of the worst examples of dishonesty in the technology space. It doesn't matter whether you purchase a flagship motherboard, one of their absurdly overpriced and overrated graphics cards or a chintzy handheld gaming piece of crap, they're going to treat you the same if you need help with one of their products that has malfunctioned or failed. I think they really get off on kicking people when they're down. They make the RMA and warranty process painful, slow and at an added financial cost even when it is their fault the process is necessary.

I broke my big toe a couple of days ago. It's looking much better but still doesn't feel great.

Happy Constitution Day. It sounds like you're getting some beautiful weather that is uncommon for Norway. Tomorrow it will be 38°C here and probably 28°C inside of my office, LoL. So your weather there is preferable at the moment. Enjoy the sunshine, brother.

Some degree of PCB bending is expected on any motherboard that does not have a backplate. Even these ungodly expensive Apex motherboards are bent when they are brand new. For the absurd price they sell for, not having a backplate is kind of inexcusable. But, ASUS ROG products have never been a brand that offers genuine value. They offer compelling features that people are willing to allow themselves to be financially raped in order to have them. Rarely ever is there any real basis in value based on build quality or QC.

I see you already discovered the one I was going to link. It is super close to what your are looking for on the V/F curve (0.989 at 4300).

Since COVID and the massive incompetent mismanagement of everything relating to business and government occurred, things like this take WAY LONGER than they used to, and usually cost WAY MORE than appropriate. Buying a house used to take 2 to 4 weeks start to finish for anyone with good credit and now it takes 30-60 days. Having the privacy will be nice and so will having the trees. I take it you will have no HOA and not a managed or "planned" community. When you have HOAs and managed housing projects they generally come in with a bulldozer and level everything, so any trees and landscaping are recreated from scratch. Nice that you get to decide how it looks and how you want to do things. Having no HOA fees every month, not having any CCRs to restrict you from doing whatever you want, and not having to ask for approval or permission to do things, would also be nice.

Hey brother, welcome back. Did you get your family moved into the new place and all settled? That's way more important than our computer hobby. I kind of figured that you were busy with all that and you'd be back later.

I only have one 4K monitor on one of my desktops. On the other desktop my primary monitor is 1440p. If I were building a computer just for gaming and not for overclocked benching it would not have the components I have now and it would cost about half as much. As long as the gameplay is smooth and silky and can run full resolution with decent image quality settings then your hardware is sufficient for the task. Anything extra needs to be for something else and isn't necessary for gaming. I do really like the way ray tracing makes games look and prefer to have it enabled whenever possible, so you need at least a high mid-range Nvidia GPU for that. A low budget option is not going to handle that gracefully.

Having tested and used Gen3, Gen4 and Gen5, I honestly cannot tell them apart other than benchmark scores and higher temps as the drive speed increases. Anything as fast or faster than SATA SSD feels the same to me in normal daily use. For the vast majority of users this is a worthless upgrade and unless it is free it isn't worth having and certainly not worth spending anything extra for. Almost seems silly to pursue it to me. It is a gimmick that gives the manufacturers something new and more expensive to sell to people that won't benefit from the purchase.

All graphics settings maxed out and FSR/DLSS disabled, maxed out ray tracing. 296 FPS average. @ryan

This looks like a pretty trippy horror shooter for $17.99 ($42.00 discount) for a couple more days on Epic. Nice discount. The sale ends Tuesday morning (05/14/2024) so don't procrastinate. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-callisto-protocol

Speaking of games, looks like a pretty trippy horror shooter for $17.99 ($42.00 discount) for a couple more days on Epic. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-callisto-protocol All graphics settings maxed out and FSR/DLSS disabled, maxed out ray tracing. 296 FPS average.

If reputation mattered in the technology space there would be no technology. The industry is driven by dishonesty and the lack of integrity seems to be an inherent vice. Some brands stand out as being exceptionally dishonest, and ASUS is one of them. With all of them licking the boots of Micro$lop the future is bleak.

That is essentially all laptops, in a nutshell, now. Some are worse than others, but none--no not one--are actually any good. The last product that was remotely respectable was the Clevo X170. And, it required firmware mods to function correctly without having its performance nerfed. In fact, all of the true DTRs that had desktop CPUs and powerful MXM cards required firmware mods to deliver full performance for quite a long time. The manufacturers of laptops have been castrating their products for a very long time. For as long as I can remember, in fact. But now they just go ahead and take the sausage along with the eggs. They are all testosterone-free now. All are estrogen-powered turdbooks. That must be why they all suffer from hot flashes. It's because silly kiddos shopping for laptops only want the cute turdbooks that are thin and light and can play games on battery power. That is also why nobody manufactures good laptops anymore. The sheeple have spoken and the shepherds have found other things to do because no self-respecting shepherd wants to lead a flock of mentally handicapped dung-munching Ovis aries. They call overheating while pulling low wattage and thermal throttling being "efficient" now instead of defective.

This is nothing new for ASUS. It's no different than their scams and lies about bent socket pins that were not bent before they received it, denying warranty because of a spec of thermal paste on the black plastic exterior part of the CPU socket and claims of water damage when their is none. They are as scummy as it gets when it comes to shirking their responsibilities and have been for years. They are truly a despicable company. Yeah, no question. The rest of the muppets in the industry will kiss their butt and fall in line like they always do. None of them do the right thing and none of them care about the people that purchase their products. Nice... A trashy new and totally unnecessary form factor for turdbook memory. The video explaining the "benefits" does a nice job of highlight the fact that their focus is on making chintzy trash even chintzier than before.

Yes, I understand. We think the same things. But, I still blame NVIDIA for creating new problems where no problems existed before. And, there are many very big tower cases that were big enough before the stupid 12VHPWR adapter was forced on GeFarts AIB partners and PC owners. If you have a big PC and a big case that you like, an E-ATX motherboard and a fancy cooling system, having to purchase a different large case only for 12VHPWR side panel clearance and a different PSU to have a factory 12VHPWR cable really sucks and it was an unwarranted business decision that was a very crappy thing for the Green Goblin to do. There was no benefit whatsoever to consumers with these frivolous design changes. Consumers received nothing from the design changes except for unnecessary added expenses, hassles and inconvenience. This would be like a car maker changing the wheel hubs from 5 lugs to 6 lugs and if you had to replace one hub because of a bad wheel bearing you are forced into buying three matching hub and bearing assemblies and four new wheels that you did not need.