Mr. Fox

I'd have to log in to my Ubisoft library to try to even identify one title that I sort of liked. I can't think of one off the top of my head. I generally do not care for anything they release. Most of what is in that library (which is tiny compared to the others) are titles I got for free, played once for 30 minutes, then uninstalled and flagged as hidden so it would not waste any space in the list. They cater to people whose tastes in gaming genres are completely foreign to me.

Let's go Brandon! Have fun... this is, of course, one man's opinion. YMMV.

I don't worry too much about trusting sources. A lot of the "reliable" and "trustworthy" sources have let us down recently. I do not believe anyone or anything is safe. Micro$lop taking care of #1 first and not caring what their customers users think and stealing data (pretending an EULA makes it OK) is no less dangerous than some guy modding a Windows ISO. Our information being sold on the Dark Web was stolen from "trustworthy" sources. I might even be more inclined to trust "some dude" rather than a big data aggregator.

We still need more options for the rep button, such as 100, angry emoji and vomiting emoji. I would use the vomiting emoji for Windows 11 subject matter. Copilot marks the start of a new era of Windoze mega-suckiness. The world is full of silly, stupid, ignorant and just plain old fashioned nutjobs and lunatics that are a danger to themselves and everyone else, and those dunderheads can't wait to have AI ruin things. Winduhz 11 was already ruined, so I digress. The should have named it "Co-Pirate" instead. Maybe that's how they pronounce it in China.

Dumbed-down caterers to the dumbest of the lowest common denominators. A one-size fits all hat that only actually fits people with a shrunken head. The don't actually care about Windoze anymore, or the people that use it. They just want to sell you their other crap that only runs on Winduhz. Jay did a nice job on this video and it should be helpful to noobs. His description of the qualities and behaviors of the thermal pastes he compared matches my experiences with each of them.

Yeah, that has me stumped as well. Especially when it comes to CPU performance. It's so bloated and burdened with worthless crap, processes and services that serve no legitimate purpose as far as I'm concerned.

No you do not. Quite the opposite. Sounds like 9950X might though.

I am still working on transitioning to Linux. I do not find the direction Micro$lop is headed to be acceptable to me and I am approaching the point where I would rather just do without some things than compromise and embrace their feces. The reason each release of Winduhz sucks worse than the one before is because the zombie sheeple put up with it and it is only going to get worse. I think ripping the band-aid off and moving on is a better idea. We often misuse the word "hate" as an adjective to express disagreement or disapproval for something, but I don't think it is an embellishment or improper use of the term to describe my opinion of Micro$lop at this point. I find it hard to hold anything other than contempt for them and I no longer care whether they remain solvent and successful because I don't need them and view them as being expendable. I use it for work because I have to, but Windoze isn't important to me anymore.

It is unfortunate and inappropriate that hardware performance would be contingent or reliant upon the OS. Just the thought of that sucks and makes me angry. Windows needs to stick to being an interface with the hardware and a platform for running other software, and nothing more than that.

Now that my office has heated up to 82°F (28°C) I thought I would check this again. Looks like it's still fine. I am going to call this fixed. No more hotspot concern. Good to go.

Thank you. Yes, I was pleased with the result. I have purchased it twice from this Amazon seller. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D8W47P21 I can't prove whether it is genuine or not, but it works like it is genuine. I used it on the air cooler installed on the X79 system I gave to my son-in-law because of its long-term durability and when I pulled it back from 4.7GHz all core to 4.5GHz all core the temps were better than I expected them to be. Still not as good as 4.7GHz all core with the EK CR360 Nucleus Dark AIO, but still reasonable. About 85°C max core temp running Cinebench R23 at 4.5GHz all core with the air cooler.

The thermal testing in the screenshots above was stock, but because the temps were lower the core boost clock changed from 2685 to 2700 all by itself, as you can see in the screenshots.

I saw the hotspot temp creeping up on one of my 4090 GPUs and decided to do something about it. @tps3443 you had asked about PTM7950 for a desktop CPU and it's not great. But it does work very well for GPUs. See my "before" GPU temps below. I used PTM7950 (pad) on the 4090 core. The thermal paste (Alphacool Apex) that was on it was very dried out and that explains the core temps being a little bit elevated. But, the hotspot was what concerned me most. When I took it apart I saw all of the thermal pads were nearly cut in half. The block came with 1.0mm pads. I replaced them with 0.5mm pads to improve die contact pressue and everything across the board improved. Core, hotspot and memory junction temperatures. I found an easy way to remove the film on the PTM7950, which is always a bit tedious and often rips the pad. Put it in the freezer, then cut it and peel off one side. Stick it to the GPU core, then put the GPU in the freezer for about 10 minutes. Then the top film peels off easily without sticking or ripping the paper thin PTM7950 pad. I stick Scotch tape to the film and find that it peels the film off effortlessly with no damage to the PTM7950 pad. The melting point is so low and the pad so thin that you need it very cold and hard to stop the film from sticking to it and tearing up the pad. I used these 12.8 W/mK thermal pads. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DC772PR Now look at the GPU temps. Huge improvement. Hotspot alone is 15°C cooler now, with a 10°C delta rather than a 17°C delta compared with the core temperature.

Yeah, racing games makes good sense. I hardly ever play them so racing games did not come to mind. Years ago, I enjoyed playing a number of different racing games and found a joystick worked pretty well. I used the trigger for the throttle. Over the years my interest in gaming has become more narrow and restrictive. I think I have at least one, maybe two, undiagnosed personality disorders which have advanced with age that futher lend to a narrowed scope of interest.

I think your prediction that I would not like X3D is spot on. I am pretty predictable. I wish both of them would just release monolithic (or matched chiplet quality) high core count CPUs with all cores of the same product and silicon quality and not a hodge-podge cocktail like we have now. That is just stupid on the part of both companies. Sorry for the duplicate post earlier. Not sure how that occurred as it was separated by a post from another person. Weird. I hid the first one so it would not look goofy. I am glad you are enjoying it and that it is getting positive reviews. It certainly has attractive scenery and foliage in teh benchmark. I can say with about 99% certainty that I would not it like based on genre and gameplay style. It's far too expensive for me to consider buying it to find out. Maybe when it is old enough that the price drops to around $15 or less I might roll the dice just to see if I would not hate it as much as I believe I would. Every once in a great while that happens with a game and I have no problem admitting if I was wrong. I've never understood the desire for using a gamepad controller on a PC. If feels so clumsy and sloppy to me. That said, I know it is all relative and primarily about what a person starts with and gets used to that determines what they are most comfortable with. Other than maybe arcade fighting games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, I universally prefer a keyboard and mouse. I am a lot more lethal with a keyboard and mouse than I am with a controller, but I have never had any desire to play games on a console. I can see where people that started on a console and played that way for years before moving to PC might feel the exact opposite.

Yesterday I gave the X79 system (with the Titan, not the RTX 2080 Ti in it) to my son-in-law as a gift. He was elated. As I was reconfiguring it with an air cooler and dropping it down from 47x all core to 45x, reinstalling Windows, etc. I was still surprised by how well such an old build performs by today's standards. I installed Crysis, The Witcher (a game I never liked), Hitman: Absolution, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, and all of them play 100% awesome with medium or high settings and looked great. My two teenage grand daughters immediately monopolized it. They had never heard of Wolfenstein before, but the oldest was instantly addicted.

I am pretty sure I would despise an X3D chip for the same reasons he does. You basically get a gimped CPU that is good for gaming and not much else, and is further impaired in terms of its capacity for overclocking. I (personally) would never buy a CPU that was targeted for gaming above all else. If you replaced "enthusiast" with "gamer" then you'd have a solid statement. If the 9950X3D has two excellent matched CCDs and overclocks both CCDs as well or better than a 9950X on its better CCD, and you could toggle the disabling of the non-cached CCD for anything at will, then you would have a winner for both types of users that choose AMD and it would be worth the $650 price tag. I'm pretty much not going to like/want/buy anything that is designed around gaming as the prime objective. I don't like E-cores either, for the same reason I don't like the mismatched CCD thing. I think both are crap ideas. We don't know if his assumption is accurate about AMD pawning off crappy silicon for CCD2 to save a few bucks on each CPU, but I can't think of a better way to explain it. It makes little sense that they would sell a flagship product with a weak CCD with a lower boost clock as standard operating procedure. I hated that about the 5950X. You not only had a weaker CCD by design, but also preferred cores on each and it was a real abortion for overclocking, and the firmware probably made it worse than it needed to be. I agree that, conceptually and in practical application, it is equivalent in stupidity as having E-cores on Intel. Both companies got stupid on us in similar ways. I won't excuse either of them for it. That's why we no longer have a best option for everything; only an option of deciding what we think is the lesser of two evils that is good at some things.

I am not sure that Jay or the two Steves actually know what they are doing. If they are trying to test things on BIOS defaults like an average gamerboy, that will always suck no matter what brand of CPU. It seems clear the new gen Ryzen is a different product than the one it is replacing. It's too bad they are still pairing an inferior CCD with a better one instead of passing the inferior silicon down to one of cheaper CPUs. That drove me nuts with the 5950X and I felt the same way about it that Jufus the Dufus expressed. Maybe Brothers @Raiderman or @chew will get one and show us what a 9950X really looks like since they both know how to properly tune a non-X3D Ryzen CPU. At best you will validate it. At worst you will invalidate it. Either way you will have an insanely fast obsolete SSD that costs more that it is worth. 🤣

FYI. I saw JayzTwoCents talking about these not long ago and when I investigated the published static pressure and CFM, the CFM was the same but the static pressure superior to the Byski fans the person I bought the EK direct die AIO from had used to replace the better EK fans. (Not sure why he did that.) The Byski fans were actually decent, but have the modern stupid design where the fan chassis is not square. They have the silly tabbed corners providing a space for air to leak out in four places on each fan. That is OK for a case fan, but sucks for use on a radiator. Even if the static pressure was better, the design of the Bykski fan would defeat any high static pressure abilities. (It is a very stupid popular trend in computer fans to be made this way, but newer is always better newer.) I got them yesterday. They are affordable and I think build quality is good. My normalized coolant temperature is improved because more air is getting pushed through the radiator. I like the uni-fan design with the single power/RGB connection on the end. Probably not as polished as Lian Li, but the 3-fan kit is a WHOLE LOT more affordable than Lian Li and the CFM/static pressure equal or better. Super easy to install and look good. They have the infinity mirror on the two sides and on the fan spindle (which nobody will see with the fans facing down). They snap together securely. I like that they DO NOT use a proprietary controller and bloatware like some of the scummier designs from brand-name products that do. I moved the Byski fans to the front panel. The Byski fans look better and are more powerful than the Thermalright TL-C12C-S they replaced. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C5PY91W9?th=1

Good post. I agree with you. I stopped watching mainstream news about 8 or 10 years ago. ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, (and more recently even Fox News,) etc. is all agenda-driven disinformation for zombie sheeple. The media cabal's mentally deficient brain trust decides on what the message of the day will be for brainwashing the stupid people of the world. They don't even try to conceal it by using different wording and every channel is an echo camber spewing exactly the same lies, often verbatim, from a shared script. And, the idiots of the world accept it all on face value as being factual information based on the unmerited biases the media has created. It is starting to feel that way to some degree with many of the "reviewers" on YouTube. These "influencers" only influence people that can't or don't think for themselves., but rely on the talking heads to tell them what to think.

What the heck is going on? Is Jufus full of crap or is literally everyone that says it is crap is a moron that has no clue at all about what they are doing? He was right about Intel when most of them were wrong, so I'm inclined to think he might be right here even though I have no personal information to base it on. After pointing out what the other reviewers got wrong and moves to the cons it gets really interesting and it is like he is reading my mind about what makes it suck and why he is going to RMA it.

Yup, it applies to most of them. It's only relatively recent that the woke lefty fascist brain cancer has gained traction in the US. It started with B. Hussein Obama and he's still pulling strings in the shadows. It is hard to believe anyone can legitimately be that stupid, yet it is reality. But, NVIDIA needs to be kept on a tight leash and not allowed to play games with the rule. They should come down on them extremely hard, like a sledgehammer, if they're bending the rules to engage with China in any shape, form or fashion. China needs to be totally cut off from everything.

Our government is a joke, indeed. We will have an opportunity to correct again that later this year and I am hopefully enough people (legal voters) have had a gut full of the woke idiot nonsense, open borders and financial ruin the lefties have set in motion. A ban means nothing if it doesn't have sharp teeth and steep fines associated with non-compliiance and skirting the ban with loopholes. NVIDIA needs to fall in line or have their assets frozen and business license(s) revoked. We should be playing hardball with China and executing clandestine strategies against our enemies with extreme prejudice and an intent to do severe harm to them rather than misusing the FBI and CIA to try to eliminate political opponents at home because the current ruling fascist party can't win an election the right way.