Mr. Fox

Dang it, why is it so hard to find normalcy, decency and goodness is this goofed-up spinning chunk of rock? Open source and closed source, both vessels of wicked machinations and degenerate, ignoble underlying agendas that do not serve the greater good. I was using Thorium as a Chrome substitute (on Chris's recommendation) and it turns out to be filled with Easter eggs planted by their sick-o developer. Kudos to Chris for posting this video to retract his previous recommendation. We're waist deep in crap and surrounded by filth and it is getting worse, not better. All of the off-grid survivalists and anti-social hermits that have been unjustly labeled as "tin foil hatters" are making more sense than they ever have before.

It's funny, I almost posted a comment on his video about him moving to Texas. That shows a tremendous amount of wisdom on his part to escape from New York. New York and California are two of a number of very horrible places, because of their utterly insane, absurdly incompetent government "leaders" that are not content with destroying their own states, but want to bring their corruption, destruction, depravity and psychotic dystopian world view to the rest of our nation. The only reason I did not comment is he chose Austin, which is about as nutty, far left and woke as it can get for Texas. It truly baffles me to think there can be fellow human beings with a pulse that don't care about the causes he champions. It is all common sense stuff that adversely affects all people, that anyone paying attention should care about. But I digress... paying attention is something not nearly enough people do. A growing number are too stupid to know they should.

It seems to be becoming more and more common that things that are stated or claimed bear no factual semblance to reality. It feels like sometimes they just make stuff up based on what they think people want to hear. It makes matters even worse when they are full of crap and their assumptions are way off base, or reflective of only what a like-minded segment thinks.

I wonder how long until the leftist deep state lunatic fringe orders a hit on Vivek to silence the truth? The demonstrations of journalistic incompetence on the part of goofball, degenerate, government-sanctioned disinformation cabals like CNN and MSNBC are truly astonishing.

If the OEMs and technology sponsors want their Chosen Ones to get money they should just give them money because they are "special" or favored people. It is nobody else's business and they have every right to do that. It is a marketing tactic and should be seen as that. However, creating an impression that they "won" the cash or merchandise in a competitive event using special hardware and firmware that is not available to all is specious, if not outright surreptitious. Likewise, changing the rules to benefit select participants during a competition and only making modified firmware available to the general population at HWBOT after an event has ended, or so late in the game that it cannot be leveraged by all contestants, is just dishonest and immoral. Nobody likes playing a game when the outcome is rigged. No one should have a surprised look or their face or scratch their head in wonderment about why the sport is dying and participation is at an uprecedented low point when their behavior is what caused it. When it was decided that ECC needed to be enabled on 3DMark submissions with 4090 they were swift to disqualify submissions by the general public, but deleting submissions by the Chosen Ones that did not have ECC enabled did not occur swiftly.

It's unfortunate that certain groups want to silence voices and opinions they do not agree with and characterize them as evil, crazy, spreaders of disinformation and other things. It reflects more poorly on those haters than it does those who are the victims and their objects of hate. I think it is fine to think whatever they want to think, but trying to silence them with mischaracterizations that are an ironic reflection of themselves fits the cliche of the pot calling the kettle black. It probably terrifies them that the Jones they want to cast as a lunatic has been so freakishly accurate with his information, forecasts and predictions that they have worked so tirelessly to prevent from becoming public knowledge.

Truthfully, I think it was the last version that did. Everything they have produced since then sucks it instead of kicking it. They haven't managed to do anything right in the grand scheme of things since then. Only varying degrees of worthless and a relentless pursuit of failure. They are approaching the threshold of mastering incompetence.

It would make no difference to me if they worked better and/or looked better, or both. I will not pay $30 each for a fan. I don't care how good it is. None are worth that much. That is just far too expensive. I will not purchase a fan that costs more than $10 to $15 each and I shoot for about $5 each. Those Apex fans would cost about $540 on my MO-RA 360 and $270 for my Nova. Not enough benefit if the fans cost that much no matter how great the fan performs.

So, on 14900K a P-core SP109 voltage is essentially equivalent to voltage for a P-core SP120 rating on a 13900KS. At least for now, based on that table. It is too bad they are not tracking the voltage requirements for the E-cores by SP rating. That would have made it even more useful. It looks like the average 14900KS has P-cores with the same silicon quality as both of my 13900KS and worse e-core silicon sample. So, if I purchased an average 14900K it would not be an upgrade due to the frequency/prevalence of lower quality e-cores.

Congrats on the CPU. It looks like the voltage requirement is about 0.040V less than my second 13900KS at both 6.0GHz and 5.8GHz on P-cores (SP120) and about 0.025V more on your E-cores than my 13900KS (SP97). Overall SP ratings are 107 and 112, respectively. Comparing your SP107 (SP117/88) 14900K to my other 13900KS SP108 (SP120/88) the voltage requirements are even further apart. So, the scaling is drastically different and cannot be directly compared (which we already expected).

Oh, I totally agree. And, I am not making excuses for them. QC is no longer something anyone in tech does right. QC is in the toilet. But, we also shouldn't penalize a company for being transparent and providing a detailed change log or release notes. Contrast that long list of things they fixed (which should be expected, not viewed as being special,) and the transparency of information with change logs and release notes that are empty, incomplete and meaningless, or even totally non-existent. Release notes that say almost nothing like "improves memory performance" or "support for next gen processor" that we so often see are essentially worthless and may omit things that matter a lot. It makes me suspicious and raises questions about what they are hiding.

vomi 🤢🤮👎 um... no.

Most of the "supporting software" we see from the OEMs is buggy, bloated garbage. If I had to identify something positive (like the needle in the haystack) it would be that they fixed a lot of broken stuff. We should expect them to. If I contrast that with extreme trash like Armory Crate it seems positive on the surface. iCue seems better, in the same way that that polio is better than brain cancer.

These kids are pretty talented. Liliac is a 5-piece Atlanta-based, family Rock/Metal female-fronted band consisting of all siblings ages 16-24. The lead singer has a nice set of pipes.

Correct. No. In fact, doing it should be prosecuted as a felony if it happens in a public venue. It should only be acceptable in a private club or organization designed to be an echo chamber exclusively for like-minded individuals. In that scenario, expression of a differing view is trolling in a place you have no right to be and are not welcomed.

A770 has no problem tearing up Gears of War 4 or Gears 5.

These products are for a very special market segment. So special, in fact, that Tom wrote a song about them. Interesting metal case fans from Alphacool... I like how they are made but $30 each is too expensive.

I am glad to see more and more examples of public dialogue occurring against the cockamamie idea of an EV world without an infrastructure or desire for it. I think it is time to take back the ground we have lost by letting goofballs control the narrative and push their lies. $7000 is still too much for something you don't want even if it were being offered for free.

Yes, I agree. Now, if (and only if) you can get a good pair of the 16GB modules they are better... much tighter timings and lower latency, but they are hit or miss. I've got the 48GB G.Kill kit dialed in 24/7 stable at 8600. It works great, but my 8200 profile with the 2*16 generic sticks with much tighter timings performs on par with 8600 speed with the looser timings and has lower latency. Seems like everything today is a silicon lottery crap shoot. I am starting to get sick of the amount of nonsense we have to deal with in terms of PC components. There is too much chintzy junk, or grossly overpriced parts; or the deadly combo of chintzy and grossly overpriced junk parts. If I am totally honest, I am also starting to find it hard to identify any major components that I am interested in buying even if I had tons of disposable cash to blow on anything I wanted. This is particularly true of video cards and motherboards. In a very undesirable manner, it is reminding me of the reason I abandoned laptops. There was nothing available that was special or good enough that I would be willing to waste my money buying it. Not quite there yet, but dangerously close. We are surrounded by lots of tacky gamer e-waste designed to titillate the senses of the RGB fangirls.

Congrats. You got a good kit. I RMA'd that exact same kit a couple of weeks ago. It was defective. Couldn't pass any memory tests using the XMP profile with defaults or after giving it more voltage. And, it was unbootable using a saved profile that worked flawlessly with other modules. Edit: I take that back. The trash kit I RMA'd was 2*16GB not 2*24GB. The 32GB kit was rubbish.

My employer uses Google services for many things and at least once a week (at least it feels that frequent) Google makes a change that looks and feels repulsive. They continually dumb things down, bloat the UI, create ugliness and do things that diminish usefulness and user experience. They make using a PC feel like I am using a tablet or smartphone and I despise them for it. Micro$lop isn't really any better. They are two turds in the same toilet. I'd love to flush them both down the drain, along with the third turd (crApple). All three companies are sewer rats.

Wow, that's just brutal. It's sad to see examples of a government financially assaulting its citizens in such a malicious manner. It is just so ethically perverse, wrong and messed up.

If may be as simple as needing to register it in Secure Boot or disabling Secure Boot so it will work. I hope so. You can run in UEFI mode with no CSM support with Secure Boot disabled just fine. I do that on all of my system because Secure Boot will prevent certain types of Windows software from functioning and often does not play nice with Linux. It also was not supported by Windows 7 and I was still using Windows 7 until I could no longer get working drivers (4090 and Arc A770 have no drivers).

Nice write-up, brother. Any idea what "misc" voltage is actually for?