Mr. Fox

I agree. And, I extend that sentiment to all members of big tech. Especially the Meta Morons and Alphabet Asshats. YouTube is part of the latter circlejerk. You can include Micro$lop and crApple on that list of contemptible degenerates. I have no respect for any of them. I value them less than the dirt stuck to the soles of my shoes.

Yeah, unfortunately it is common for idiots and ignoramuses to have YouTube channels and appoint themselves as self-anointed influencers. The mainstream media and social media platforms in general are not reliable sources of information. Most that are not simply spreading wrong information because they are ignorant spread wrong information because they have an agenda.

They haven't cared what their customers users want for nearly 10 years. How many businesses can get away with operating in such an unrespectable manner? They (Micro$lop and crApple) do not deserve to remain solvent based on how they operate as corporations. I am not sure why so many people willingly tolerate it. There should be serious and dire consequences for each of them as a company.

Yeah... it's time. Micro$lop just needs to crawl off in a dark corner and die. I'm sick of having to deal with the poking and prodding of their digital trouser snake OS. There is already little or no difference between how they operate as companies. Neither crApple nor Micro$lop deserve any of our respect or money and I'd like to see both companies become insolvent and get blown away as dust in the wind.

Yet, people that live in a giveaway government welfare society complain about having ludicrous taxes, LOL. Got to pay for the nanny somehow. Robinhood economics become a necessary evil to bankroll the dole. Personally, my preference is to pay less in taxes and decide how, when and where to spend my money and not be forced to involuntarily contribute to a public kitty slush fund to help those that don't help themselves, or pay the salaries of those "public servants" whose jobs exist for the sole purpose of administering those welfare programs. Too expensive and not a good value for those stuck with the responsibility of paying for the bulk of it. It also has the undesirable consequence of fostering a sense of entitlement among those that contribute least or contribute nothing.

Here is what it looks like where I live if you can find a place that is not under construction.

Really? That seems like a very long time. Your employer pays you while you are off for a year?

Both guys seem to have difficulty articulating their thoughts without an insertion of profanity. Kind of sad and makes them both seem less intelligent than they may actually be. It's difficult for me to take people like that seriously. He's not quite as depraved-sounding as Dufus Jufus.

Well, I put that 14900KF that I recently bought with the excellent SP ratings and SA bug into my mini-ITX Munchkin PC and it's doing quite nice. The only thing holding it back now is the 360 AIO. It can't cool more than 57x all P-core and 46x all E-core effectively even after a delid. I ordered an EK CR360 Direct Die AIO to replace this CR360 Dark AIO so we will see how that does when the IHS isn't holding it back. That won't be arriving until sometime in May (on backorder). I was able to get the memory overclock to 8200 with tight timings. Now I will start pushing the cache and see how much it can handle so I can pull that latency down. If it can manage 51x cache with the 1.130V VCCSA that should bring it down to around 51 ns. I'm getting better results with this little guy, in spite of its thermal and power handling limitations, than some folks are getting with a much larger and more robust platform. I put my Byski RAM jackets on the G.SKILL 8000 and my generic aluminum heat sink strips screwed to the top of them with a Corsair RAM fan blowing on that and now I can finish long memory stability tests without the memory overheating like it does with the crappy stock heating blankets. I just played a little over an hour of MWIII and with enjoyed ~150 FPS with maxed out settings at 1440p using the ARC A770.

Why bother with patches? All they do is hinder performance and provide a placebo for people obsessed with fear that the boogie man is coming for them. Best to disable updates and not allow the idiots at Micro$oft to screw with your system.

Just keep using it anyway? As long as you can get drivers, who cares if Micro$lop Mafia supports it? I don't want their support and don't care if they provide any as long as I can get device drivers. It's not important. Drivers, of course, are. The day will come that Linux is the only acceptable solution. It is already a better product and has been since the Mafia's criminal interference with driver development for Windows 7 began. If not for the lack of excellent software, I would have nothing to Linux installed on everything. Since it looks like I am on the path of likely abandonment of benching as a hobby, ditching them will become even eaiser. I cannot find anything nice to say about Micro$lop and I no longer look for an opportunity to find something. They don't deserve recognition for anything. There are few companies that I wish bad things for, but they are on my short list. And, the things I wish for them are extremely unfortunate and tragic. Hard to believe I once adored them and hoped to one day work for them. Now I wouldn't touch an opportunity to work there with a 10-foot pole. It would be like working for the Church of Satan.

Nice family for sure. That's great that it can take care of his parents and make their golden years easy. It's great to see someone pull themselves out of the gutter and turn their life around like that. Even though I'm not particularly fond of rap music I love what he does, especially the lyrics.

What features is that one adding? I did not see any release notes. Maybe it's foolish to assume there's actually a meaningful reason behind it, but perhaps MSI is being smart by deciding it's better to let ASUS and their zombie hurry-up-and-flash-it fanbois sheeple herd to be the guinea pigs when new firmware is released. Sometimes not being first at something can actually make you the winner.

New release from Brother Tom MacDonald... @ryan

Don't quote me on it because I haven't looked to verify, but I believe the FHD 1080p and lower resolution are 30-pin and the 4K is 40-pin. The best way to verify that is to look at a replacement eDP cable online (like eBay) and zoom in to count the connections.

Yes, I have two 14900KF R-batch CPUs. The first from snakeeyes111 and this one from Andy1981. Both from Germany. Seems like the Germans get most of the good silicon samples for some reason. The nick in the PCB doesn't break the surface and I think he mentioned it in the spirit of full honesty and disclosure, but after receiving it I would consider it inconsequential and is hard to even see looking at it. (I was intitally a bit apprehensive for the same reason you were.) Had he not mentioned it, I am not sure I would have even noticed it. It's that minor. I am glad it is already delidded. Since I am running it bare die one less hassle and I don't have to use any of my QuickSilver. If I put it in the ITX system I am going to order the CR360 bare die AIO to replace the CR360 Dark AIO. I have to be honest in that I am very impressed by that little Munchkin PC. It perfoms far better than I would have imagined considering its size and low phase count. It wouldn't be ideal as a benching rig, but for anything else it is very good. It does everything I hoped it would, and more, extremely well. Being bigger and having more robust power handling capabilities wouldn't provide any advantage with an AIO cooling solution.

The thread was created in February and there has been only one response, on the date of the article by TechPowerUp. Other than 14900KS poor quality silicon (and for a period leading up to KS bin scavenging causing shopper to not be able to purchase a decent 14900K bin) I am not aware of the issues mentioned. I find myself wondering to what degree this is TechPowerUp clickbait. That said, if the SA bug (for lack of a better term) is common, it could be that BIOS default value for VCCSA is too high for the processors that use freakishly low VCCSA. I haven't turned the small errors away yet, but I was able to move from 8266 to 8400 memory overclock last night with only 1.130V on VCCSA with no lockups. This could be what many are experiencing, not knowing their BIOS default is setting for VCCSA too high. I also can't help but wonder if it is why some believe they have a weak IMC that keeps them from running 8000+ and they are simply mistaken, meaning the only reason they can't is because their VCCSA is set too high by default and they don't know that is what the problem is. I am not sure it is a bug in the truest sense. It may be the low VCCSA is what was intended and "normal" is higher VCCSA due to poor silicon quality being common and those that use very low VCCSA are the ones that are the best samples. These are usually CPUs with very good SP ratings on P/E cores and IMC SP. Perhaps the problem is more accurately described as incompetent firmware engineering by motherboard OEMs and lack of R&D/QC on their part. Assuming status quo is going to work today exactly as it did yesterday, instead of actually verifying it does is what I would categorize as incompetence and an absence of R&D/QC on their part.

This CPU might be ideal for the Munchkin PC's Z790i Edge with its pedestrian 360mm AIO and limited power phase capacity. I'm not pushing that past 8000 on the memory, so maybe the perfect match of CPU to system. On my benching rig I can just turn on the chiller and force more voltage down its throat to get it where I want it. That said, I am more impressed by the ITX system's abilities than I have been with the more costly builds. It's not equivalent, but better ratio of cost to benefit. Sometimes spending a lot more to get a little more is a tough pill to swallow even though doing more with MOAR is my favorite approach. Nobody likes getting screwed on overpriced products. The ROG Maximus mobos are a classic of example of paying a whole lot more and only getting a little more in return. You do get more, but it is not scaled against the price.

Not too bad for a CPU that I initially thought wasn't good enough to keep, even if it can't be push to 8400 or higher. I'm probably going to keep it. It's in my work PC, not my benching rig. Passes TM5 and 100% on MemTest Pro Dang Wang and all four passes of MemTest86 Pro with Parallel/HT enabled. SA voltage bug, so this 8200 C36 is totally stable with only 1.120V manually set on VCCSA. Leaving VCCSA set to Auto or manually setting higher than 1.120V causes lock-ups in Windows. Edit: Just tested 8267 and that works fine as well. No changes to voltage or settings, only goosed it a bit from 8200 to 8267 with VCCSA 1.120V.Edit: Just tested 8267 and that works fine as well. No changes to voltage or settings, only goosed it a bit from 8200 to 8267 with VCCSA 1.120V.

Yes sir. And, the talented "influencers" and spreaders of falsehoods are very deliberate in choosing the information that fits their narrative. They are more like salesmen than technicians.

It can certainly help with these monstrous air coolers we are seeing. But, that might depend on which waterblock though. The Kingpin, Optimus and EK dual-sided (active backplate cooling) waterblocks are extremely heavy compared to an air cooler. Also, if you have an older Gigabutt GPU with the big notch cut out on the end of the PCIe connector that creates a weak point that requires special caution because of their inherent design flaw. The new Gigabutt design (which is normal compared to competitors) should not be any different than other brands.

This is a cool project. Will be interesting to see how it turns out. Would like to see an ATX version.

Interesting trend. This customer must be letting his GPUs sag with no support.

They have to spread misinformation. How else can they legitimize mediocrity? 🤣

Windows 11 is an atricious smartphone OS for yes-men and sheeple that believe the Redmond Reprobates know what is best for everyone. These intellectual indigents are willing to lick their boots and they embrace their wickedness and abominable behavior. If installing StartAllBack (an amazing tool that I love) prevents Windows 11 updates, especially build version updates, everyone should install it even if they like the ugliness and functional deficits of the OS.