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Nice and comprehensive runs ! Here is my 5950X / Radeon 6900XT combo from my daily productivity system. The 6900XT is running the stock bios (no 200 W boost via MPT, may be later ).

Recently got 2x 24GB of GSkill 8400 ('for future reference') to join my 7200 kit and ran them as 96GB CL30 6400 without any issue. Then it was time for fun and use just the new kit for some gaming and a bit of benching at CL36 8200

Most of these kind of cars only come with run-flats (this is my 3rd X5). Over the years, run-flats have greatly improved compared to their early years - and so far at least, the new Pirelli Scorpions are super-smooth even over rougher roads yet handle well.

...new Pirelli tires (run-flats), synthetic 5W40 oil change and brake fluid flush...not cheap, but maintenance items that had to be done

There is a new Final Fantasy Benchmark called 'Dawntrail' available > here Here's a quick run with my 7950X3D / 4090 water-cooled combo for DLSS and FSR versions (clocks held the same)

...on sale, just in time

Watt's a 'low power market' ?

...feels like storyline by committee

...very much an arms race, with AI fueling both 'attack' and 'defense' in the near future - or how about Quantum computing in tandem with AI ? ...I've got a paper map of the Yukon for a reason

Wow, nice !

...7950X3D with 96 GB at CL30 6400; matching tPHYRDL in spite of 'mismatched' kits...48 GB at 8200 is still faster, but nice to know there are options for extra RAM Some previous performance results (7950X3D, DDR5 6400 - 8200, 48 GB to 96 GB ...

...finally got around to try out 4x 24 GB / 96 GB on the 7950X3D...four matching tPHYRDL Some previous performance results (7950X3D, DDR5 6400 - 8200, 48 GB to 96 GB ...

@speed_demon ...don't know if you know this channel or not, but you might get a kick out of it (never mind the H2 1000 Kawa 4 Cylinder 2 stroke as a sample below). He also built a bike with a Viper V10 - and a whole bunch in-between...I find this channel strangely relaxing in a gear-head sort of way...

AI has rung in another round between Microsoft and Alphabet / Google, with the former now taking a (temporary?) lead, and the latter responding to the impact on advertising revenues - one could write a book on both corporations' ugly behavior towards '''private''' data... IMO, at the end of the day, it is about maximizing the individual account's value as a potential purchaser and credit entity, a.k.a. information monetarization, for both corps, with us being the casualties in a world where politics is just a matter of $s spent...somewhat oddly enough, 1984 with John Hurt was on last night.

...Being in the computer business software development field, there are periodic surges of updates re. home-office equipment whereby one upgrade leads to another, and another, and another...sort of like dominoes falling. Below is a quick pictorial of the latest changes which led to a RAM_up across the boards (pardon the pun)...whereby I am not talking about our commercial rack servers (and the racket they make...) but far-faster, yet less-stressed, ex-gamers pressed into productivity dev service after their time in the OC gaming sun is over... Back in late January '21, a then-new Asus CH8 Hero Wifi joined the line-up along with 32 GB (4x8) of 3866 Samsung-B and an Asus Strix 3090 OC along with related custom water-cooling equipment. Its domino affected my prior TR2950X, 2x 2080 Ti setup. A few months later, a 5950X / CH8 Dark Hero / Radeon 6900XT joint the fray, per pic below for a dual-mobo single-case project...then the 4090 arrived along with its w-block...replacing the 3090 which left only to re-appear in another pic sequence below... In October '23, another re-shuffle in the dual-mobo build happened, now featuring an Aorus 670E Master, a 7950X3D and the 4090. In early March '24, the original 2x 24 GB DDR5 running at 8000 was replaced by a 2x 24 GB 8400 set running at 8200 (and beyond 8400...). 96 GB is only a question of time now...the 5950X and the migrated 6900XT are now the daily beast of burden for non-dev work... In the meantime, the prior gamer-now-home-office 2950X backbone added the Strix 3090 OC to its dual 2080 Tis, and also got 32 GB back which earlier seeded the 3950X - so back to full strength with quad-channel DDR4 64 GB, and its 8x8 sticks of Samsung-B with matching tPHYRDL...it still is a great platform for ML-type work, now with 3x NVidia GPUs and their combined tensor cores... Finally and most recently, the '21 gamer - a.k.a. the 3950X - got promoted to premier development web / SQL server, now sporting 128 GB of new DDR4 3600 CL18...of course I confirmed that oc_CL16 would also work but this being a pure development & SQL server now, I only tightened rRFC a bit before running extensive AVX2 and other RAM stability tests. 6TB of fast storage round out that update project ...very pleasantly surprised how easily the 3950X AM4 platform accepted 128 GB 3600 XMP w/o a fuss or a single WHEA. On top of that, also yields matched tPHYRDL across four sticks... ...more dominoes will fall - 128 GB R-DDR5 7200 is just a question of time now for the home office...

...cheap 2nd hand mining mobo/GPU frame, 5x Arctic P12 pst pwm and DeepCool 10 fan pwm controller - all works well & cost less than tipflation these days

The recent introduction of Zen 4 Storm Peak Threadripper 7ks could be negatively affected by this news since Zen 5 core Threadripper must already exist as well and are socket-compatible at least with Storm Peak mobos. I also wonder when AMD will introduce some X3D versions of Zen 5 Epyc...64 or 96 full Zen 5 cores with X3D must be real monsters. R-DDR 5 now up to 6000, with some vendors offering R-DDR5 up to 7200 already. Put differently: I would love to see a release of Zen 5 Threadrippers sooner rather than later, as they seem 'out of phase'. Presumably, the next product line to receive Zen 5 cores will be the desktop (9000 series).

DDR4 fallback...upgraded the CH8H-W 'beast of burden' to light dev and sql server duty...installed latest bios (4702) and then mounted 128 GB GSkill Ripjaws 3600. Glad to say it was relatively painless. Currently on stock timings and voltages - may do a bit fine tuning but this is a sql development server now, so no crazy stuff (that's reserved for my 7959X3D / DDR5 8200 (8400)

...light server setup for proof of concept; 128 GB (4x 32) GSkill Ripjaws 3600 plus assorted WD NVMEs and SSDs. 2x 64 GB thumb drives for $11 per packet

originals are 4K png

14900KS is, ahem, inadequate...

...if you got some liquid helium at home (and who doesn't), it'll do 9.1 giggles at - 231 C (for a few seconds) THW

Dune's ornithopter at night in Finland --- sometimes upside-down...but no matter what the orientation, super-smooth at 4K max w/4090, 7950X3D and DDR5 8200...CPU sips power, GPU guzzles it...