*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[Papusan]

9 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

I watched that video earlier today and baking a video card to reflow is a terrible idea. This video showed a great example of why it's a bad idea. But I'm not sure about the accuracy of whether or not that is how an EVGA refurbish repair is handled. I suspect Tony is going off of what the owner told him. The decal could be a forgery as well. 

 

What I know is that he found same pattern with his several attempts to fix Evga refurbished graphics cards. He have more videos of the problem. Maybe EVGA had other fixes for the more expensive Kingpin cards. Who knows. An awful way to reduce costs. 

 

EVGA have done a lot scummy the later years. MB that don't work with later gen processors and graphics cards. Then go stealthy and try milk extra on the mining boom... For higher profits. Of  course they went so far they would bake cards to cut costs. 

[Mr. Fox]

3 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

What I know is that he found same pattern with his several attempts to fix Evga refurbished graphics cards. He have more videos of the problem. Maybe EVGA had other fixes for the more expensive Kingpin cards. Who knows. An awful way to cut costs. 

I doubt there is anyone working at EVGA at this point that know anything about GPU or motherboard repair. Probably handled by another company now. I would not send anything to them for warranty repair at this point because of that. 

[Mr. Fox]

 

CachyOS installed without a hitch on the X870E AORUS Master. Working great. Still rocking Kubuntu on the Strix X870E-E. Week three without using Windoze except for in a VM when it is unavoidable. Not missing anything Micro$lop has to offer, which is close to nothing.

 

 

 

[electrosoft]

5 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

 

CachyOS installed without a hitch on the X870E AORUS Master. Working great. Still rocking Kubuntu on the Strix X870E-E. Week three without using Windoze except for in a VM when it is unavoidable. Not missing anything Micro$lop has to offer, which is close to nothing.

 

 

 

 

I've been dual booting for years now with originally RH and then mint and using Kali as needed for work. I prefer a pure Windows environment when needed and a pure linux environment as needed but I can see also using Linux primarily and Windoze in a VM too.

 

Point is to use Linux whenever possible IMHO and WIndows whenever necessary.  

 

 

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

6 hours ago, electrosoft said:

 

I've been dual booting for years now with originally RH and then mint and using Kali as needed for work. I prefer a pure Windows environment when needed and a pure linux environment as needed but I can see also using Linux primarily and Windoze in a VM too.

 

Point is to use Linux whenever possible IMHO and WIndows whenever necessary.  

One of the reasons I have so many drives on my computers is that I loathe partitions and multipurpose drives. Both of my desktops have drives with a W10 LTSC NVMe for my work OS, a W10 LTSC NVMe for my "not work" OS, a W11 NVMe crash dummy OS to occasionally re-validate my hatred for W11 and a Linux NVMe. Beyond that I single-purpose other drives as well. A drive for storage of work-related files. A drive for personal file storage.  Drive(s) for games. A drive for Macrium Reflect images. A scratch drive for temporary "garbage" files.

 

My personal preferences rarely ever change, but my "needs" have and now I need Windows less than ever. There are only two applications my job requires that only run on Windows (Excel and PowerBI). They only function on Windows and there are no fully functional Linux equivalents. My needs for work have changed over time. For a very long time (about 35 years) almost everything I did for work necessitated the use of Windows. But today (the past 5 years) the vast majority of my work is performed in a web-based environment. I'm not benching any more. I seldom game, and I am losing interest in that. In no small part because I have a narrow preference in genres and there are very few titles released that hold any interest for me. 

 

We are all creatures of habit with preferences that are often shaped by bias and opinion. To some degree, some more than others, we equate preference with need. Distinguishing the two is often challenging for us. My extreme contempt for what Windows has become is a major driving factor behind my pursuit of a Windoze-free life. This has brought about significant shifts in my personal preferences that never would have occurred otherwise. Being a rebel that thrives on resistance and rejects anything resembling command and control, that derives a high degree of personal satisfaction in defiance of status quo and deliberate in demonstrating malice and extreme prejudice toward ideas and concepts I do not approve of, I am finding Linux is a better fit. It nurtures that rebel beast inside of me, whereas Winduhz is evolving into a source of antagonism, wrath and rage against the machine. By nature, I actually like that.

[Papusan]

On 7/15/2025 at 6:02 PM, Papusan said:

Won't happen as you can see. Not even with Trump. The US government with their administration have no intention to stop Nvidia floding China with expensive AI chips. You said all nations should cut off China... And here you see the Us go in front. But not the way you hope for. Greed and corruption will always win the in the end.

 

The fun facts... Now as Nvidia can continue do almost whatever they want, the US citizens will pay the price. RememberTariffs is pure tax on own citizens. This on top of even higher prices (inflation) due nvidia can flood China with US made tech. And US made AI technology will also help the country to reduce their costs even further, making them even more competitive than they are today. So double tripple bad for the land of the free. 

 

On 7/10/2025 at 3:27 AM, Papusan said:

And China make fool of the US Chip ban. As long the US government with their administration don't stop Jensen nothing will stop China from getting all the needed chips from nvidia...... Worthless without fining Nvidia so hard that they go back 5 years in revenue. 10% of nvidia's revenue in fine would be a good start. 

 

On 3/9/2025 at 5:50 AM, Papusan said:

Mr Jensen know how to go around the US sanctions... Just let some other smuggle in needed server chips. None care. And no one will ever know who'm smuggled in the servers for nvidia. Even Jensen laugh at the helpless and worthless US chip ban.

 

Why should Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang bother with who'm help them increase profits? Jensen continue circumvent the US chips ban. 

 

NVIDIA’s GB200 “AI Servers” Are Reportedly Being Smuggled Into China, Even After Jensen Claimed They Weigh “Two Tons” and Can’t End Up There

 

The Trump administration has been concerned about US AI chips ending up in China through "shady means", and they are working towards regulating the flow, but even after the recent export controls, NVIDIA's AI equipment is consistently available in Chinese black markets. Based on a report by Financial Times, it is claimed that AI products worth at least $1 billion have ended up in China's AI markets ever since the US administration imposed the export controls, and even as large systems as GB200 AI servers are available in China.

 

 

And Nvidia have hurry feeding China with consumer cards. China is everything for Nvidia. If they could they would prefer ship all their cards into this region.  

 

GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 With 24 GB Memory to be Unveiled a Week Before the Official Launch

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

9995WX scored a whopping 173K in Cinebench R23, LOL. 🤣 Around 26% faster than its predecessor. 5.0GHz on 96 cores.

[Papusan]

 

Intel will continue cutting their workforce. And it will sure help on the bottom line when revenue continue sink as a stone and the investors start being impatient. Intel have right now also lost the battle in the server market. Yup, AMD have now reached 50% of the very lucrative Cpu server market and will continue increase sales. So nothing work for team blue. They can't even make own products anymore in their chip foundries. They need TSMC for that. 

 

The consumer market for processors down the drain (both for Jokebooks and desktops), and they have lost the HEDT battle. Nothing left now to save. Only try to survive with sinking market shares for every day, week and months. 

 

The sad truth...

 

Intel's Recent Steps Are Towards Achieving Financial Efficiency In Order to Boost Shareholder Value. 

Of course they don't need so many employees such as factory workers and engineers anymore when sales and production going down the toilet. Just send alll out the door and close.

 

Intel Plans to Lay Off Up to a Whopping 30% of Its Workforce, Cutting Over 15,000 Jobs as CEO Lip-Bu Tan Declares That There Won’t Be Anymore “Blank Checks”.

 

Intel Will Drop Out of the Cutting-Edge Chip Race If It Doesn’t See External Customer Interest, Possibly Marking the Fall of a Key Custodian of Moore’s Law

 

 

Hmmm. Can't have it all. If the rumors is correct then you need to buy the lower core count Cpu for gaming. I wonder why Intel don't offer bLLc for their bigger boy with 16-32-4 cores. Even AMD offer 3D v-cashe for their 16 core/32 threads flagship chips. Is Intel going stupid again to reduce costs and maximize profits? Maybe because the power scheduler going bananas with all the extra baby cores and the tile mess?🤔 Yup, most likely the reason + reduced costs.

 

Intel Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs could finally answer AMD's V-Cache — Nova Lake could boast massive 144MB L3

 

The only core configuration stated by both leakers to come with the bLLC features eight P-cores, 16 E-cores, and four LPE-cores. Although one leaker (Haze) believes a slightly lower-end eight P-core, 12 E-core, four LPE-core configuration will also be available. Regardless, Nova Lake is rumored to have a 16 P-core, 32 E-Core, four LPE-Core flagship model that won't have bLLC.

 

On 7/24/2025 at 5:09 PM, Papusan said:

Why should Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang bother with who'm help them increase profits? Jensen continue circumvent the US chips ban. 

 

NVIDIA’s GB200 “AI Servers” Are Reportedly Being Smuggled Into China, Even After Jensen Claimed They Weigh “Two Tons” and Can’t End Up There

 

The Trump administration has been concerned about US AI chips ending up in China through "shady means", and they are working towards regulating the flow, but even after the recent export controls, NVIDIA's AI equipment is consistently available in Chinese black markets. Based on a report by Financial Times, it is claimed that AI products worth at least $1 billion have ended up in China's AI markets ever since the US administration imposed the export controls, and even as large systems as GB200 AI servers are available in China.

 

 

And Nvidia have hurry feeding China with consumer cards. China is everything for Nvidia. If they could they would prefer ship all their cards into this region.  

 

GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 With 24 GB Memory to be Unveiled a Week Before the Official Launch

 

 

 

Yup, China laugh of the US Administration and Government. And Jensen Huang know very well where their chips going... But should Jensen bother when he know how stupid and useless the US leaders are? Stupid has to be this weekends word.  

 

RTX 5090s get ready to blow with AI-focused makeovers in China — industrial production lines transplant GPU and memory from gaming cards onto server-ready PCBs with blower-style coolers

 

 

 

See the whole video bro @Mr. Fox. Everything with help from Nvidia. A well known US based tech company. China is miles ahead of US. And nothing can stop them. Zero or nada.

 

LOL

The best 5090(D) dies go into server chips in China. Gamers don't need the best. They only need a working GPUs for games, HaHa

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Px8wzuEQ4?t=24.9

 

Of course stupid US leaders let China's own engineers (in China mainland) code the software for the whole US defence. Just the normal when you are almost born stupid. 

 

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The US chip ban have infact created new well paid tech jobs in china while etc Intel layoff/fire 10's of thousands of jobs in US.... Amazing.

 

Reuters reports that there is a booming underground industry focused on servicing high-end Nvidia AI GPUs that are officially restricted from export to the country.

 

One firm charges between $1,400 and $2,800 per GPU, depending on the repair complexity. Another service provider, which previously focused on GPU rentals, now repairs about 200 Nvidia products monthly, pricing work at approximately 10% of their retail value.

 

Underground China repair shops thrive servicing illicit Nvidia GPUs banned by export restrictions — companies resurrecting banned AI accelerators at a rate of up to '500 per month'

[electrosoft]

Looking around this Alienware's BIOS and it looks like it has some overclocking functionality. I flipped the switch to see if it was enabled and it is so that's the next fun time seeing how stupidly cool this CPU runs even in overdrive mode. Dial in the CPU and AB and see where this modest 5070ti (aka 4080) can go.

 

No option to disable BIOS updates (just option to disable downgrades), so for now I'll have to put a stop to that through update settings.

 

[Papusan]

 

Is this the way it will go forwards in the future for gamers?