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My Microsoft XBox controller is still hanging in there (~ 2 years) but I mostly use the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro for FS2020 (in conjunction with the XBox controller). BTW, I have three of those Logitech joy sticks (10, 3 and 2 years old at this stage) and they all still work (different rooms & machines) but are useless for certain other games where you need a reliable controller pad

...Solar Bay is supposed to be 'cross-platform'. I does have a certain amount of run-to-run variance but no worse than Port Royal and Speedway. My VRAM cooling is working against me as VRAM would need +55 C or so to really oc into the +1650 range but at the same time Solar Bay GPU at 600 W+ also likes good cooling. From what I have read, artifacts in Solar Bay will actually reduce scores significantly, so that's an improvement over earlier benches. I haven't posted this at 3DM yet but this run was at 27 C instead of 29 C ambient for the water-cooled 5950X and 4900. ...I like that older AM4 / DDR4 setup. I am using Win 10 Pro in daily trim and w-cooling...hottest day of the year is not 'ideal' for any of this

@Bastiaan_NL @Avacado @Mr. Fox @Sir Beregond ...interesting new 3D Mark bench which challenges both CPU and GPU. Also, lots of ray tracing. Over 600 W GPU usage for my run which (for now) is at #1 at HOF. I am still learning about this bench and others will do the same so I don't expect to stay there for long, but my 5950X result could hold on a bit longer in class...

...the hotter it gets for real outside, the colder my FS2020 destinations... Close to Mt. Asgard on Baffin Island

Yup, another price war between Starbucks and Kicking Horse at the London Drugs; loaded up appropriately with both

...fairly accurate, judging by the temp it shows vs another thermometer.

R.I.P.

...always loved J. S. Bach , but who knew....?

...usually yes, but gotta wait for London Drugs to spark another round of $ wars, like C$9.99 waiting, hoping, waiting...

...time to go shopping soon; down to 5 pounds in the freezer - there should be another price war soon

...and another one of these to enjoy your OLED investments... btw, have been watching the price of a LG G3 MLA dropping just a bit

Out here on Canada's West Coast, there is a slo-mo price war going on in some chain stores (ie. London Drugs, some Safeways) between Starbucks coffee and Kicking Horse (I like Kicking Horse's Grizzly)...it flares up once a month or so and just in case, we got a steady back-up supply of both Starbucks and Kicking Horse Gr in the freezer

...need the high-test coffee to start the morning, so...

...yup, doing the same with my 2+ year old 48 inch LG OLED. Basic precautions = no burned-in pixels. I used to work with a 27 inch and 32 inch Samsung monitor combo and thought that was 'big', then added a 40 inch Philips for a multimonitor setup paired with the 32 inch...now its 40 inch and 48 inch at my main workstation. It's amazing how quickly one gets used to the bigger sizes - if/when it is time for an upgrade, 48 inch will be 'minimum' as I just love the big workspace area, never mind gamer and vid uses. It is likely that monitor prices will come down, judging by some recent economic data for Asia re. household spending. I have been keeping an eye out for price drops of the new 55 inch LG G3 w/MLA...it has come down a bit, but not nearly enough yet for the 55 inch model I'm considering if / when our 5 year-old media room TV (LG IPS HDR) decides to bid farewell; for now, though, it is still going strong.

I like oc'ing this beastie for the fun of it to max in GPUZ, but for real benching this card on ambient water, I have not gone above 3240 MHz - obviously don't want to clock it higher than that with any kind of serious load on it. With the high clock GPUZ, I am also establishing a base mark to compare to a couple of years from now, just like I did with the prior GPUs, such as the 3090. This allows to check for any kind of degradation over time. FYI, I still enjoy my oc'ed 3090 on another system in another room (powering a 55 inch 4K60). I went for the 4090 as well because I run more than one system also for work, the 4090 was available locally at the base intro price and because the two apps I spent most of my time on - MS Flight Simulator and CP 2077 - both had announced DLSS3 / FrameGen / NVReflex which is a great match for my primary system's 48 inch 4K120. FH 5 and F1 also benefit.

... concerning 'heavy' 4090s, another video released yesterday. BTW, I would love to have one of those machines which can lift / replace GPU and VRAM dies for Christmas.

...looking for the Loch Ness monster on a sunny Sunday afternoon

...washed it for the 2nd time this year, but dirt and road grime never sleep

...switched vbios from stock Gigabyte to Galax HOF; also lower ambient temps today , good for the water-cooled setup...

Given the latest semi-trustworthy rumors, the 4090 Ti is 'off again' and RTX5K 'Blackwell' not scheduled until late 2024 / early 2025. That means that my 4090 and its nice oc headroom will remain useful for quite a while yet.

Those are very nice ! I have Metro Ex not (re)loaded yet but I understand from another forum that at full-blast resolution and Path/Ray Tracing, it can slurp up well over 600 W (with the Galax HOF 667 W vbios) with the RTX 4090s. My Path/Ray Tracing fav is CP 2077; also not a wall flower when it gets to pulling the wattskies on the RTX 4090. FYI, CP 2077 maxed 4K with Overdrive (path traced) uses about 60 W more than the highest 'regular' ray tracing mode ('Psycho') on my setup.

...hairdryer, eh ? I could also just run 'memtest_vulkan' prior to a bench - that gets the VRAM into the low 50 C range, depending on ambient. Speaking of ambient, it is around 27.5 C in my home office right now, but did some extra run anyways....the RTX 4090 not only hit 3300 MHz on water / ambient, it actually made it to 3315 MHz before the driver said enough !! I did get a TPU GPUZ validation though for the relevant offset of +469 MHz...

...still trying to find the OC limits for the core of the 4090 without wrecking the card. VRAM need to be above 55 C to get that higher, but with a full water-block, that is harder to do (though I'm not complaining...)

...the VRAM 'idiosyncrasy' is kind of weird for sure. The 3090 and 4090 both have 24 GB of GDDR6X, but with the former, it is 24 x 1 GB chips (double-sided) while the 4090 has 12 x 2 x GB chips. The 2 GB chips are faster right out of the box but as you mentioned, in LN2, you can get a cold-bug. In an extensively water-cooled setup, they work just fine even when cold (at ambient) but there is a whole lot more additional OC performance to be had once VRAM is in the mid-50 C range. Below is a Superposition 8K run with normal temps per blue box - with the temps at 55 C and a bit more, it would have been > 12,200 MHz. At the same time, the core will start to downclock more at such higher temps due to the temperature link in the boost algorithm. This is why some LN2ers actually have heaters wedged onto the 2 GB GDDR6X chips I am looking forward to try alternatives to the TG-PP10 you mentioned when the time comes - not so much for the temp differentials but because I just prefer thermal putty and my supply of TG-PP10 will run out sooner or later. Thermal putty is near-foolproof regarding applications (unless one is insanely generous with it) to conform to whatever space there is. It also tends to cool the surrounding area a bit more - when I applied it behind the 12VHPWR area of the PCB, it also helps cool really hot VRM components near the 12 VHPWR; the putty there bridges nicely to the backplate with its own heatsink and fans. That whole area can see spikes > 700 W and sustained PL of > 600 W, all in a tiny, finnicky package...