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Updated the cooling system of the 7950X3D / DDR5 8400 / Giga-G-OC and am thrilled with the Honeywell PTM 7950 phase-change pads. GPU hotspot delta at around 8C ! originals are 4K png, sized down by 50% and converted to .jpg

...had a little break in posting in this thread - that is because I updated my 'gamer' and its cooling system, Honeywell PTM7950 phase-change pads on both the new Alphacool C1 Aurora CPU block and the Giga-G-OC / HoF bios / Bykski block. I also updated the housing of the system in prep for a 3-mobo setup . Finally, flushed the whole loop (3x D5, 3x 480 x 64 triple-core rads rads. The loop took about 4.25 liters of deionized water, along with a few drops of biocide. I very highly recommend the PTM 7950 for both CPU and GPU...excellent temps, including hotspot deltas of approximately 8 C for the 4090.

MPT (MorePowerTool) did that and a lot more for Radeon 5k and 6k models, but AMD blocked it for Radeon 7k...

See if quoting this paragraph works ...so that @The Pook can sleep easier

Yup...quote button is kaput ... @tictoc never mind the price, that is a superb PSU; there is also a 2000 W version but for that you need ~ 220 V. My guess is that Super Flower Leadex is prepping a ATX 3.0 version w/ native '12VHPWR' (or whatever those are called now) and giving great deals for current stock. I got my first ATX 3.0 PSU the other day on sale - it does seem to make a (minor) difference compared to Kraken and 2x, 4x PCIe cables > 12VHPWR on my 4090

@kaliz ...are you looking at CAMM2 DDR5 RAM (+ relevant mobo when they come out) ? --- ...'last chance' purchase of two little water features w/LED; ~ US $20 for both combined; something to enjoy while on long phone or Zoom calls

The 6900XT is on one of my machines - got it back in the spring of 2021, mostly for productivity as my gamer system runs a w-cooled 4090. Still, the 6900XT is also w-cooled (Bykski block) and with that I can let MorePowerTool/ MPT do its thing per sample below (Geekbench GPU run). MPT is great for a 6900 XT or 6950 XT as it allows them to get close to a 7900 XT - and MPT does not work with the Radeon 7K series anymore. As long as you can properly cool the 6900/6950, it has a lot of headroom. Its only real drawback is its 4K performance...but at 1440, it is a charm and still one of the best deals out there, IMO.

You are all set...now you can get that Rolls Royce Spectre ! 3 tons is (just) enough to lift a Rolls Royce Spectre completely off the ground... but put a few more napkins and a box of champagne in the trunk and the weight goes over 3000 kg

It was time to replenish my home office PSU reserves for units with 1200W and up (used the last one I had available in a recent work-related build). I checked the reviews on this TT and they are quite decent...and it was on sale for just under ~ US$ 200

...fortunately, my new PHEV has redundant analog switches and knobs for heat/climate and also sound system - but to reset trip odometer, I have to dive into the computer sub-menus ...great power and fuel consumption, though - and I like that the electric motor is integrated into the transmission; the 'feel' is the same as with my previous non-hybrid beemers.

...try a new car with its information overload . Never mind the 8 configs of the driver display, here (spoiler) are 6 out of 12 center screen options (before sub menus). No wonder we '''need''' autonomous driving aids because folks are too busy flipping through menus looking for an index for warning lights instead of looking at the road ahead. On the plus side, the software is based on BSD...

...I need to flush and update that CPU/GPU loop anyway; first put this loop together in early 2021 and with QD4s, just updated CPU and GPU / blocks without replacing fluids - fluids still look fairly good for 3 years +...just not sure yet if I will use the PTM7950 paste or pads on the CPU as well as the GPU

'''Cadillac tax'''

Finally, all the bits for maintenance / update of the 7950X3D / 4090 custom loop have arrived...now, I just need to find the spare time

...I got the Aorus 670E Master

...got to get a new office chair one of these days. I had a really nice IKEA swivel high-back office chair that was the most comfortable over the longer working/gaming stretch, but the metal neck underneath has been welded once already.

My fifth BMW; they start out as company car leases which I often buy out privately at lease-end...good to know how the car was treated and driven since new . The hybrid-battery range of this new one is listed as 50km - 55km, depending. But it now has just above 500km on the odometer and I have yet to charge the battery fully via chargers. Per pic below, most of the energy savings come from re-gen anyways, so for now without a separate full charge, it still manages just over 40% on e-power alone. That's with 2/3rd metro traffic and 1/3rd mountainous highway.

...very strong flavoured; we mix it with Starbucks Italian.

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...new PHEV, charging at no charge ...coffees on sale...RR napkins were free

...per vids below, some are better than others; too bad you cannot use the mothorboard NVME cover which usually performs very well

....stocked back up on our morning coffees' 50:50 mix. The RR napkins are there just for fun; backstory: ...Stopped by a regular old mechanic shop I've known for years; coffee was some non-descript label in a typical household 12-cup-filer-brew setup; cups were Styrofoam (technically illegal in this city these days), the coffee pot probably saw its last good scrubbing a decade ago and the napkins were those blue shop towels ...then went on to the beemer dealer near-by to plug in my PHEV (charge at no charge ); they had a modern commercial coffee machine in a bistro-like area with 15 or so options on the machine and a Starbucks sign mounted above...nice paper cups and politically correct napkins made from recycled materials rounded out the picture ...finally, made it across the street to the Rolls Royce dealer (RR is part of the BMW group) to chat with a good acquaintance who works there, while waiting for my PHEV to finish charging. The RR coffee setup was a gleaming single-cup Italian machine; no paper cups, only nice porcelain - and those napkins... As an aside, I can't get over just how huge the RR Spectre is, especially as it is a two-door 'coupe'. It even made the RR Cullinan next to it look almost normal-sized, and that takes some doing !

...took the beemer PHEV out to some of the mountainous roads after I disabled most of the annoying 'driver aids' ...just about a 600 km total on the odometer now - so far, plugged it in only a few times (at freebie chargers, zero cents paid so far for electricity), but re-gen has contributed significantly to a fuel consumption of about half of what the previous X5 used on the same driving cycle. Last pic = massive torque for speedy launches

Another look at UE 5.4 from a different technical perspective

^ Banned coz 2 in 1