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@Raiderman newest Adrenalin drivers from AMD blasted my 7600x fsb OC into the stars. All I get is artifacts at 2200 now. If I roll back to the older drivers everything works. I can disable the integrated graphics and just use the 7900xtx, but whatever tightening there is in the newest, integrated at 2200 is a no go. Newest are a must as they finally fixed WoW and with RT off, performance is actually pretty good! Looking forward to running some new benchmark runs to finish collecting baseline data before the 7600x/7900xtx OC commences.

I loved my Alienware mALX! I took it with me in 2008 when we went to Florida for vacation and Tropical Storm (nee Hurricane) Fay hit while we were down there. We camped out in our condo room and I leveled a priest from 1 to 40 in EQ II on that AMD behemoth. 🙂 Fun story, about half way to 40, my mALX wouldn't boot due to a bad memory module. We traveled in the torrential rain to the Best Buy about 15 miles away to buy a set of new memory to swap in for the remainder of vacation. 🤣 I would love the return of an 18"+ display full DTR monster.

Looking forward to you're results and so glad you brought it back from the dead bro. 🙂 I really like the color selection and look on that Asus card! I'll have to see if I can get the steam gift card too. That would really make it a super deal, thanks for the heads up bro. 🙂

Welcome to the Jungle.... .....We have fun and games. 🙂

Absolutely agree. This is what John J User would most likely get out of the box. Down the road, I'll end up swapping the 7600x into my main rig along with the 7900xtx along with swapping my 7950X3D into the Team Red build for comparisons. I always set baselines of a typical setup/user (well, maybe this is a little tweaked on the memory but that's it at this point) before I start to dial in the PBO and push the GPU for benching and run a stripped down W11. Just like my 4090 score was pure stock (except, again memory tuning). I had to click everything back off, dial everything back down and load up my "just_memOC" profile in BIOS for that stock run. I'm just happy to see WoW is finally working as intended now. I'll end up retesting flight runs in my main rig with the 4090 vs 7900xtx to gather a new set of data.

Just tested WoW on the Team RED build and the rumors are true. WoW now is back to 100% working after AMD's last driver update. RT still sucks as always and works better off. Still hilarious that 15 months ago, nothing had changed with the WoW code base. AMD releases a new set of drivers and suddenly 7000 owners were having all types of problems. They kept pointing fingers at Blizzard and now finally over a year later their newest set of drivers fixes all the DX12 issues. Reminds me of Nvidia when Shadowlands dropped and for months everything worked great till the CP2077 drivers dropped and suddenly there was flickering all over the place in certain regions. Go back to older drivers, no problem. New drivers? Flickering. It took them a year to fix it but somehow it was Blizzard's fault...... I also ran Steel Nomad total stock on everything w/ DX12 @Raiderman. 7900xtx not exactly setting the world on fire here but still scores 30k+ in Timespy GPU Steel Nomad:

@Raiderman X870E Taichi looks pretty righteous. I just wish they offered it in a 2-dimmer model Even the Taichi Lite non RGB with less beefy heatsinks looks really nice:

Yeah I was wondering if a forum member ended up with it. You also have to realize once kitted out with good hardware, the cost will shoot to over $1000 quickly total cost so that always comes into play.

So true. 🙂 One thing I like is the only "new" component in the entire system is the case. Everything else was picked up used and/or open box. I ended up saving over $600 slowly amassing the pieces of choice and finally putting it all together.

Heading down the home stretch with my daughter's Team AMD system with the P2 850w passing everything I could throw at it. Cablemod cables are handling everything so far. Had to chuck an aRGB hub that wasn't working properly. Another on the way back because the pictures said and showed full PWM control but the fan lead only had two wires and zero control. I'll install and run Steel Nomad later. Rumor has it the last driver update fixed WoW and suddenly DX12 works even though AMD was saying it wasn't on them but Blizzard so we shall see. Top fans aren't aRGB and won't be even if/when I swap out the 2x Arctic PL12's with white versions. It has enough RGB as is lol. Case is so white it makes the white edition shroud on the Powercolor 7900xtx look off white. Hyte Y40 mdie tuned 2x16GB w/ custom heatsink/aRGB covers Asus Prime B650 AMD 7600x Asus Ryujin III 240mm AIO Powercolor 7900xtx Spectral White Edition Samsung 980 Pro 1TB EVGA P2 850w PSU Cablemod Custom Red and White Cables

I like the new updates to the Nvidia App coming. AV1 fully embraced and auto overclocking. https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-app-gets-built-in-automatic-overclocking-for-geforce-gpus-which-will-not-invalidate-warranty This will take the auto turbo out of box experience which can be conservative and the app will take up to 20 minutes even finding your optimal OC to extract even more performance from your GPU. Manual OC'ers are running out of even more room......

I'll have to spot check my cables. I didn't get a chance to test it last night. I was all wrapped up in testing some Sonos Ace headphones watching the last 3 episodes of AppleTV+'s Foundation season two lol. (TL;DR I've had them for almost a week now and they're pretty awesome). I need to pull my desktop and give it an overall and some TLC along with the MSI PSU. I was thinking the same thing and like I said before, I knew the 30% uplift rumors were a Cheech and Chong moment for many with AMD. We'll have to see when real testing takes place but in light of Intel's new limits and stock vs stock (OC's don't count. My biggest pet peeve testing OC A vs stock B), I'll be curious to see what it brings to the table overall. I'm excited for Intel and hope they can bring the thunder and lightening again. 12th->14th++ just felt like Skylake all over again to me with an absolute banger out the door and then AMD slowly eroded their lead especially power consumption and keeping AVX-512 while Intel kept stretching it making it get hotter and heavier cramming more cores in there but unlike Skylake it's those efficiency cores. I just want Intel to get to a point they can offer a full fat 16 core monster someday. I'll believe 38-68% uplift when I see it. Just like with AMD, launch day always brings us back to earth. I'm pretty sure still I'm going to hold off till 9950X3D and that gives me time to see what Intel brings to the table. Running two Asus Vivobook Ultra 7 and Ultra 9 notebooks, the efficiency and better cooling performance per watt overall is definitely there compared to their 13th and 14th mobile parts. In the end, AMD drives Intel to not harken back to the day of only releasing marginal upgrades and keeping plenty in the tank for fatter margins and longer shelf life. The same holds true for AMD too.

Funny how I went from no OLEDs to my main display being OLED and 3x of my laptops have OLED displays (Acer OLED 16 AMD, Asus Vivobook Ultra 7 155h/3050 OLED, Asus Vivobook Ultra 9 185h/3050 OLED). After using this Alienware 3225QF for several weeks, looking at other displays is downright painful now how washed out they can look nevermind those nice inky blacks (I keep my computer room lights low when in use). As for the MSI PSU, it is smaller but man it is dense and heavy lol. They packed a lot of stuff in that little chassis. The P2 1600w in my main rig is quiet but times change so in with the new and out with the old because newer is ALWAYS better....right @Papusan ? 🤣 Adorable little cats but I'm allergic to them unfortunately. 😞

Amazon Warehouse MSI AI1300 has arrived. Looks and smells brand new. Box was hammered a bit. If you see on the news a small domicile going all Chernobyl in Jersey later you will know it has failed spectacularly during testing....

Asrock seems to be turning a corner and really wants to be taken seriously lately. They already have the best AMD GPU board designs and like I said before that B650 HDV 2 dimmer motherboard I picked up for $74 had no problems hitting 8000+ and it actually scalled higher than my x670e Carbon wifi. One thing I like about Jufus is he goes for bang:buck not name brand when reviewing. On the other hand, I notice when all is said and done only the creme de la creme components end up in his own personal rig. 🙂

Just throwing a little dark humor on it. 🙂 I know that feeling when a pricey piece of electronics goes bye bye. Reminds me when I was boxing up a $1700 Surface Pro to return to amazon and accidentally dropped it shattering the screen and had to pay $400 to fix it only to then sell it off because I didn't want it and took an overall $600 hit. Told my wife what happened after I dropped it and her response, "Nice job Thumbelina" 🤣 I find NWR and his work to be more exacting than the other popular guy when dealing with GPUs. I think he is the one who repaired @Mr. Fox's 2080ti and has decent rates.

Damn.... So what now? Fix it yourself? Try to get warranty repair? Send it to Northwest Repair? Pick up an open box Asrock Taichi 7900xtx? Go with another brand? Use Integrated as punishment for the thermal tape mishap? 🙂

Where was the tape placed and did it cause some overheating and/or a cracking issue? Man, that does suck.

w00t! Uh oh..... time to crack it open and take a looksy

Nope, I was on the previous one. I'll definitely try this one and see if boot times improve. While I finish fleshing out my daughter's Team Red system, I'm fighting the urge to order an open box Asrock Taichi 7900xtx white and sell the Powercolor Spectral White Edition7900xtx for more aRGB control lol....

Definitely worthy having skipped a generation. The 5090 will be a monster upgrade. I plan on picking up a Battlemage considering I liked what I saw with the A380 and A770. My nephew is still rocking the A380 I built for him but he's ready for an upgrade now. After price shopping bang:buck, he's looking at a Radeon 6800xt since they're 429.99 on Amazon now. That is insane bang:buck performance right there. Sometimes knowing your worth is walking away in all aspects of life especially your work life. You seem to be a really nice guy and bosses and co-workers can and will take advantage of the nice guys and hard workers. You try to follow all the proper channels to correct the issues (especially if you overall like your job), but at a certain point enough is enough. Hopefully you've enacted in place the means to support your self while you look for another job and you handled it properly giving your notice. A notice will sometimes give the company time to reflect on your worth and they may correct their ways both in work environment and compensation. Good luck!

I routinely have both platforms going over here at "House Electrosoft" at one time or another. When Intel drops their new chips this fall, if I like what I see, I'll end up picking up one of them to slap in my workbench/test case for funsies. Kinda like what I did when I was running my 5800x and scooped up an 11700k and MB to see what it was all about (and eventually 11900k). The only chip it looks like I'm going to skip from intel is 14th gen and that's because I can't stomach paying more than $600 even for a binned chip for what is really a glorified 13900ks which I had before and was a fantastic specimen. I passed on an SP108 14900KS that was actually decent for $800 because it just wasn't worth it to me at this point. I haven't skipped an Intel chip since the original Core when I was on AMD FX-60. Nice! @Prema Any chance you can enable 13th/14th gen support for the NH55 of is it basically impossible due to hardware restrictions?

Seriously, if that is the pricing I will just extend my 4090 from 2+ years (when I would buy a 5090 in ~January 2025 having bought my 4090 in January 2023) to well past that and be content. It's not like it isn't holding it down in WoW and Fallout 76. At 4k, the 4090 still isn't fully saturated yet due to the CPU. Same even moreso with Fallout 76. I literally have 5 laptops on the shelf so I'm not sure where I'm going there. Absolute end game for me with this Alienware 3225QF. It is just a monster. Going to wait for 9950X3D so that means nothing till next year (Unless Intel surprises us and drops the bunker buster). I starting to think the NH55 can support the 13th or 14th gen and may hit the same wall as the X170SM-G that can't do 11th gen. I'm not sure what's going to fill my tech toys itch during the next year or so. 🤣

*Taps mat* "I'm out" Even if it comes in at $2k, MSI, Asus and others with good models will easily be $2200+ if not more in the short term... Ugh $2500 for a 448-bit variant and not the full 512-bit like @Papusan is alluding to and in the wings a most likely $3k 5090ti down the road?! Nvidia has zero competition this time around.... Intel is staggering into their Battlemage like a drunken sailor during fleet week.... AMD has tucked tail this cycle with shades of the 5700xt on deck while they focus on AI too on top of it.... AI focused companies are snapping up everything Nvidia can sell price be damned so Nvidia doesn't even need gamers.... If any of this pricing madness comes to fruition, I'll be skipping this next cycle and living vicariously through @Talon (aka back to our regularly scheduled program 🤣)

Yeah, no way I'm paying $300+, but sub $200? Sure and yep with AW, if it isn't working back it goes. I'd say I'm ~85% hit with AW. Some misses have been 1x PSU, 2x Motherboards and 1x AIO that I can recall but I've ordered from them for almost 10years now when the situation is right. The savings can be pretty substantial.