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    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.
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    ...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
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    ...per vids below, some are better than others; too bad you cannot use the mothorboard NVME cover which usually performs very well
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    ....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 !
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    ...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
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    Another look at UE 5.4 from a different technical perspective
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    ^ Banned coz 2 in 1
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    ...new car smell at 00077km ; also vehicle was approved by both my fav Percheron horse, Mr. Grit, and old-reliable in one of my fav forests. This thing takes off like a banshee at the traffic light if in 'Sport' and 'Xtraboost' mode...just ask the undercover-cop I drag-raced in her police-pack Charger; she had a sense of humour, though, and let me off with a warning after I showed her the odometer and pled utter ignorance about electric boost
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    Le roi est mort, vive le roi...My 7-year-old X5 has gone out to pasture; so a new X3 Plug-in Hybrid has taken its place...
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    ...balance to a powerful system that has a top-end GPU and a fast multi-core CPU. This is a theme close to my heart as it addresses a fundamental imbalance in a fresh gaming rig build re. GPU and CPU. With other tech such as r_BAR assisting closer cooperation between CPU and GPU already, render parallelization by UE 5.4+ is a great step by a leading gaming engine developer.
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    ...getting ready for a major cooling-loop overhaul (new CPU block, PTM7950 sheets, basically the works for the 7950X3D 4090 combo)
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    RTX 4090 water-cooled = good
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    Time to get ready ...still have some TG-PP10 in the fridge but looking forward to try out Honeywell's PTM7950, and Fujipoly
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    FYI... 135 inch micro LED anyone ? Other interesting stuff as well...
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    @tictoc
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    ...more 670E / 7950X3D / DDR5 memory twists and turns
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    ...kept a pic from the last time I had it washed (fall 2023). Probably time for its spring cleaning soon...
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    I hear good things about the current Asus Sage TRX 50 4-channel also re. R-DIMM DDR5 oc - unlike the WRX 90 8-channel which probably needed more dev and bios tuning time before its release. BTW, I still run my old X399 MSI Creation (below) with a TR 2950X and 8 dimms now and 3 GPUs (3090, 2x 2080 Ti). That MSI board was (is) great but the 2950X is getting a bit dated, especially when compared to my Aorus 670E Master / 7950X3D / DDR5 8200 setup.
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    ...when I was youngish, more foolish and tooling around in a 2nd-hand TransAm WS6 TA 400 cid (Pontiac block, not the 403 Oldsmobile), I went through tires and brake-pads on a highly regular basis...now, I have my tires last for about 80k km and brake pads more than 60k on the X5, just by changing my driving style (and manual override on the tranny). ...speaking of that TransAm, it was a hoot to drive in and around Muskoka and around Trent Universty in Peterborough (snowbelt )...it did have Posi Trac diff and oodles of torque - a great way to learn winter driving in Canada
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    ...looking forward to your R-DDR5 4-channel results....Asus Sage mobo ? R-DIMM rated speed ? I have seen a few folks at another forum with 7960X and 7980X on the Asus mobo w/overclocking, including R-DDR5 to 7200. I am on the fence for a mew work-play system re. 79xx TR, or wait for the 99xx TR (Zen5 cores). This time, the socket should remain the same, so they say...
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