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Yeah, that same guy. I got that golden 10900K sample and Supercool block from him. The CPU worked fine for a few days, but I did not even have a chance to do any serious benching with it and it just mysterious died during normal use. He was trying to sell an Apex motherboard that had burn marks on the PCB as a bundle and nobody wanted it. I never said anything to him or anyone else about it because it was working when I installed it. When I looked at it under my digital microscope it looked like there were a couple of pads on the bottom of the CPU that were burned, but I don't know if that had any direct relation to it becoming non-functional. Because I never examined it under the microsoft before using it there was no way of me making any accusations, but there is no question in my mind that it was like that when he sold it to me. I think it had been rode hard and put up wet a few too many times before he sold it to me, and I was just the poor unlucky person that had the privilege of owning it when it gave up the ghost. It was fully functional when I installed it. Can you access the forum with the VPN uninstalled? I used Nord VPN for a while and decided that using VPN wasn't worth the loss of internet performance and stopped using it. I bought it as a 3-year subscription and stopped using it within 30 days. I have never been one to worry much about internet security and there was no way I was having any part of the slower connection and higher latency. I use Adguard on my phone. The VPN slowdown is not enough to bother me because I do not do anything serious with a smartphone. I only use it when I have no option of using a PC because I absolutely hate smartphones. There are times that I have to disable Adguard because of the VPN, privacy and annoyance filters blocking access to legit web sites. I need to to try to finish my formal review on the Sabrent 4-drive NVMe add-in card this weekend. That thing is really sweet. My next product review may be on a Dark Base Pro 901. That should be fun. Looks like a really nice one if it works out.

Maybe your hosts file got jacked up? Have you looked to see if something got blocked in the hosts file or in your firewall by accident, or due to malicious intent? If you are using Adguard, something may have gotten added to their block list by accident. There have been a couple of times over the years where an accidental right click got something added to a blocked URL list on one of my systems.

Well, it is good that you pinged @Recieverto alert him. That is very strange. It may be an issue with the hosting service. I can no longer upload any files. It gives an error message when I try and I have to upload anything somewhere else and only link it here. I haven't been on the forum much yesterday or today, and probably will not be tomorrow, because things are super busy at work and I just don't have much discretionary time at the moment.

I had to go back 8 years to find the first comparison. It was on page 62 of 92 pages of thumbnails, LOL. Buried among 5,477 images. After Windows 7, Windows began to age like the finest quality of milk. It hasn't improved since July of 2021, but I haven't formally measured the degradation. It is a lot of effort to go to just to prove the obvious for people that are blind and gullible. Now more than ever, people believe what they want to believe, even if that means ignoring facts and disregarding truth because it is convenient than changing course. Or, because foolish pride precludes their ability to admit that they were wrong. (Sounds like people are getting dumber, just like Windows, LOL. I think that is much truer than I would like to believe. We live in an era of unprecedented stupidity and corruption.)

No risk using a trash-free OS. If you want the best performance, using a fully debloated Windows 10/11 ISO mod is your only real option. There are some things that become difficult or impossible to correct on a fully installed OS. Only you can decide. Don't use the 2H22 though. Stick with 21H2 if performance is your goal. Newer is not better. Exactly that. 100%. This needs to be done on any system if you want to avoid wasting time installing drivers and software when you already did it once before. I consider it silly and foolish to not do it.

Did you use the recommended Windows 11 Oprekin mod I suggested in a previous post? If you are running a 2H22 version of W10/11 your performance is likely going to be stunted. You're already doing all the right things. It comes down to how cancerous the version of Windows is that you are using and what kind of performance-limiting filth the laptop manufacturer has spewed into their firmware. Unless something has changed since I had the 3090, you will possibly get better results from a driver in the 470-480 version range on a 30-series GPU. The Green Goblin started poisoning their then-current GPU lineup close to new product launch like they usually do. It helps widen the gap between old and new.

Afterburner will probably automatically create a new one for the Intel GPU but it won't affect the CFG file for the NVIDIA GPU. Here is what is in mine if you want to try copy and paste of that content. It will not cause any harm. 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Did you mod both of the CFG files? If you did not you may have accidentally modified the one for the Intel graphics and left the NVIDIA file stock. Not sticking generally indicates that the voltage was not unlocked correctly in the CFG file. If that is not the problem then something else is wrong or the firmware has been modified in a way to emasculate the GPU. The fact that your voltage won't lock with +100mV is why clocks and voltage are bouncing around. You won't need to do this with a desktop GPU. The +100mV castration problem is a mobile GPU issue. EDIT: Try copying and pasting the code below into the CFG file for the NVIDIA GPU. You can tell which CFG is Intel vs NVIDIA based on the HWID, or you just can modify both of them. It will simply be ignored on the Intel iGPU. You also need to max out the power limit slider. The modified code below should max out the +100mV by default. I don't know what your powerlimit slider maxes out at. The code below is set for 120%. If your slider maxes at less than 120% it should push that to the max allowed. If it is less than 120% it should max it out at whatever the cap it. (Or, you could replace the 120 below with whatever that limit is.) Delete all of the existing lines in the CFG file before you copy and paste the code below. When you save the file those should be the only lines present in the CFG file. (More lines will appear later after you launch Afterburner, and more add when you save Afterburner profiles.) [Startup] Format=2 CoreVoltageBoost=100 PowerLimit=120 ThermalLimit=90 ThermalPrioritize= CoreClkBoost= MemClkBoost= [Settings] VDDC_Generic_Detection=1

Did you remember to first max out the 100mV slider, too? Shift+L is not needed, only click the dot that corresponds with the highest allowed voltage value, slide it up and press L, then apply. Need to max out the slider first to lock the voltage at the max allowed value. If you do that in the correct order the clock speeds should not be bouncing around. They should be locked and only go down in relation to the temperature based on the firmware algorithm. If you do not max out the slider first you will be locking it at 100mV below the maximum allowed voltage.

Yes, you are correct. Give me time to find it. It is in my imgur account.

Smart kid. The notion of being an advocate against racism by promoting racism is ridiculous and absurd. Good video. Calling stupidity into question and casting light upon evil intentions is always a good thing. If you don't want to watch a 17 minute video, the meat of his message starts at about 10:35. Spot on. This guy is pretty sharp. He calls proper attention to nonsense and casts the lies in proper perspective. The reason truth is no longer taught in public schools is because the truth is at odds with the evil, idiotic, woke, socialist, anti-America narrative. They cannot brainwash our kids if they teach them the truth. Their agenda would die and their mission to create division and conflict would not succeed. The truth will set you free. Through deception, twisting facts, omitting important details and re-writing history to fit their agenda, they make our children slaves to their lies.

Probably a firmware algorithm causing clock speeds to not hold. If you are using Afterburner, make sure you choose the options to unlock the voltage and move the slider all the way to the right for 100mV or the clocks will not hold. You can also lock it down on the voltage curve graph. That makes a HUGE difference. In case you are not sure what I am referring to, I demonstrate it in this video. You will actually want to OVERvolt and lock the voltage at the maximum the vBIOS allows. On a laptop you also have to modify the CFG file for it to work. That is also demonstrated in the video.

I knew you could do it. Congrats, Brother @ryanon the victory.

The RAM might have an issue staying in the slot without the lock, especially if the motherboard is vertical mounted. I would insist on replacement or refund. It was advertised as having no physical damage, so it was misrepresented. If it is the SSD the OS is installed to you can do a clean install and let Windows Setup do the work for you. Just run a diskpart clean command and a convert GPT command and reinstall Windows. If it is a data drive, you can do the same thing or just reformat it and it should not hurt anything as long as Windows did not goof up and install the bootloader to that drive instead of the one Windows is installed to. You can confirm that is not the case by taking the drive out of the system and confirming Windows still boots normally without it. If it does, you can do whatever you want to do to that drive and it shouldn't affect your Windows installation. If you are going to do a clean install, download all of the drivers to external storage media first then the installation should be uncomplicated.

This is really messed up. Even if the guy actually was racist, it is none of Amazon's stinking business and they are totally out of line in their actions. If it is OK to be all of the other things that are offensive to 95% of the country why single that out based on their skewed definition of what that means. Can't have it both ways.

@ryan- Port Royal and Speedway are heavily ray-traced and run at 1440p. That may be a reflection of your GPU model to a great degree. I think it would be unrealistic to expect good results on either of those benchmarks, or a smooth experience with Cyberpunk, unless you have a very potent GPU. My 6900 XT does great with rendering, but quite poorly if ray tracing is thrown into the mix. Bumping the resolution to 1440p throws yet an extra monkey-wrench into the works.

Yes, but we still need and emojis... Just to accurately document our reactions, LOL.

Here is what four 1TB 2.5-inch SATA SSDs perform like in a striped volume. A review will be posted soon. I received a Sabrent 4x PCI-e 3.0 Quad NVMe M.2 card and it's working nice. You can catch a glimpse of it in that video above. That gives me a total of 7 NVMe SSDs, 5 SATA SSDs and a 3.5-inch HDD currently in use.

Yeah, he's a good guy. Maybe tagging @sweeperscwill poke him enough to convince him to join us. He has given me, @Papusanand @johnksssa run for the money on HWBOT. Glad he is on the PremaMod team. OK Brother @Custom90gtI found that old video and didn't like it, so I made a new one. Time to hit the sack. @tps3443did you ever get that vColor memory you mentioned? If so, how did it work out?

That's right. Thank you. I was drawing a blank.

Yes, this. ^^^ 29 threads versus 32 is kind of the sweet spot for compromise on Fire Strike. If you use the Intel Legacy Gaming feature in the BIOS it will allow using Scroll Lock to turn off the Atom cores during graphics test, hit Scroll Lock again to toggle the Atom cores on again for the physics and combined tests.

One of the moderators at the old notebookreview forms kept banning him for some reason. I don't remember what his last username was but you would recognize it. He was a member of that community for a long time and he bought my my first Praxis Wetbench with the angled top. He lives in the Philippines. I think he and I both threw in our towels on the laptop trash around the same time, but he was a longtime Clevo overclocker and Prema supporter.

Yeah, most of it is just entertainment. That's all I expect most of it to be. It is almost as worthless as what is presented to us as "news" from the brain-dead mainstream zombie sheeple. The Tiki is an interesting SFF. Everything from FalconNW is, and always has been, grossly overpriced and focused on aesthetics more than performance. Anything SFF is a compromise when it comes to performance. On another subject, last week I helped one of my sons upgrade his antique gaming PC with a Gigabutt B650 Aorus Elite AX mobo, 7700X CPU, Trident 32GB DDR5-6000 and a Dark Rock Pro 4 BK022 cooler (none of which I would have recommended had he asked for my opinion, but it was a massive increase from the AM3/DDR3 boat anchor he was living with). Building in his NZXT Phantom 410 case (circa 2012 when he built the entire system) was very difficult. The air cooler has like 3-5mm clearance from the side panel and cable management was quite painful. But, he is in love with the case, and there is essentially no way a decent AIO would have fit. The air cooler was kind of an unavoidable and necessary evil. I immediately noticed the mysterious Windows user profile and disabled it. I was like "what the heck, Gigasuck?" when I saw it. Steve talks about that in this video. I'd never recommend anything from Gigabytme and I wish he would have asked for input before ordering parts. His original components and his 3060 are all from Gigabutt. The fact that he was still gaming on a quad core AM3 CPU with DDR3-1066 (4x4GB) in 2023 really highlights the fact that uber-expensive high-end components is not an absolute necessity. Most of the titles he plays were still very playable with low or medium settings. He was having issues with a few newer titles like Far Cry New Dawn and is excited about Diablo IV, so an upgrade was unavoidable. Now he can play everything with pleasing graphic settings and most of the eye candy. He is 100% PC gamer to the bone, not an overclocker, and it was an inexpensive upgrade compared to what I would have recommended. He's happy, so I'm happy for him.

For our buddies that like SFF, this prebuilt is interesting. I like the unfinished base.