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Some odd variations for sure. Even still though, DF is noting the same performance oddities.

True, but the difference here is basically nothing. Some of the benchmarks even show the 9700x behind the 7700x.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2877-amd-ryzen-7-9700x/ I'd guess this is why the release was delayed. Something definitely went wrong here. The 9000 series are a lot more efficient, and produce a lot less heat, but that's the main difference it would seem.

Who knows. If I had to guess, it will be more than a year. Seems like some of the issues run deep. Before Ryzen back when AMD was well behind, it felt like Intel was iterating more than innovating just because there was no real competition. Back then, I would have thought Intel had some tricks up it's sleeve it hadn't used yet that they could play if/when AMD caught up, but they didn't really have anything special. Imagine how screwed Intel might be now if AMD hadn't been so far behind for so long. I think we all expected more from their attempt at GPUs by now as well. It's been years and they have essentially nothing serious to show for it. Doesn't feel like a particularly healthy company right now, and it doesn't seem like there are any quick solutions to their issues. Seems like they have a lot of pain ahead. I'm certainly no expert on any of this tho. Just my two cents.

This. As a small business owner, I've had to deal with Google ads to advertise locally. It's just a bidding war. Whoever pays the most, wins. The amount you have to pay in a particular area is based on what others are paying. If Google AI came along and was actually good at filtering through the noise and finding good listings without basing it on adspend, it would totally circumvent Google's main revenue flow. Their AI cannot be allowed to be good for exactly that reason.

Valve is working on Project White Sands; everybody thinks it's Half-Life 3 | TechSpot If true, it seems that Valve may want voxel physics to be the next big gimmick for Half Life.

Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules (msn.com) Took them 4 years to conclude what we all already know. In other news, this is not directly related, but is interesting to note here: https://www.techspot.com/news/104126-microsoft-edge-desktop-browser-approaches-14-market-share.html

Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell chip may be facing delays due to design flaws WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Nvidia's highly anticipated Blackwell series of AI chips is facing significant delays due to design flaws discovered... Seems like a lot of chip makers are having issues lately.

I wonder if they might feel the need to free up some cash to cover the cost of the 13th/14th gen CPU issues.

https://www.guru3d.com/story/intel-extends-warranty-for-13th-and-14th-generation-processors-due-to-crashing-issues/

Guru3D, TechSpot, various YouTube channels or just headlines from the new tab page on my browser, which knows what kind of news I care about.

https://www.guru3d.com/story/amd-launches-free-ai-image-generator-with-xdna-super-resolution-support/ Download: https://www.amuse-ai.com/

Yeah, like I said I generally don't post much there anymore. Almost never post anything myself, and only ever occasionally answer people's questions. But again, I'm just a regular user. I want this site to do well as I think we all do, but that's not why I don't use OCN much anymore. It's just because OCN is lame now, and if they are creating fake content over there, that just makes it even worse. Knowing a lot of us here came from there, it just seemed relavent to bring this up, and especially over there where it can serve as a warning to users who don't want to waste time going over fake content.

I used to be the main person posting news on OCN back before they changed the format and took away the news section. I usually post more news here, but I was sick lately. If you do post news, if you're on a PC it's a lot faster if you use multi-copy-paste which you can do with windows key + C/V. A news bot would be tricky because it would be hard for a bot to know what kind of news is actually relavent vs mindless clickbait. Side note on the site activity: I'm just a normal user, I have no stake in this site beyond just hoping it does well so we have a good place to talk about tech stuff. I don't know any details about how well either site is doing, but I just want to point out that even though the amount of active users here may not be that high, it seems like there are a lot of people visiting the site who don't have accounts. The other day the I happened to notice the list of people logged in where it also shows how many guests are on the site, and at the time there were like 5 users logged in and another 200 guests. Seemed like a lot more guest users than I would have... guessed.

https://www.ign.com/articles/gundam-requiem-for-vengeance-trailer-showcases-giant-robot-warfare-release-date-sdcc-2024 I watched Gundam a bit as a kid. Could be cool to revisit it. This is the first I've heard of UE5 being used for an entire film. Side note: I had covid lately which is why I didn't post any news for a while. Was just too out of it. Better now.

https://www.guru3d.com/story/amd-ryzen-9-9950x-overclocked-to-6-ghz-shows-multicore-performance-increase/ Not a huge OC, but looks to have a bit more headroom than previous generations perhaps.

Since you edited your comment, I'll reply to the part you added. I don't think this issue in regards to this specific example is a factor of OCN being a larger site. My best guess is that this bot is intentionally there to boost traffic/Google analytics. I've seen a lot of spam bots on OCN that just post links to random stuff, but I haven't seen this before, or at least not with such obvious real and fake threads on display at the same time. I suspect the bot messed up here by copying a post that was so recent, but it's entirely possible OCN has a lot more posts like this; that copy old content, alter it slightly, and repost it. Can't control, but I'd be happy to remove the link if you want me to. I honestly just thought it made sense to post an link to an alt site in this context.

Haha, nice. Welcome back

Not like I posted the link as an ad anyway, more like a logical response to the fact that OCN is filled with bots... try a different site.

Its very rare that I post a link to EHW on OCN. Pretty rare that I post anything over there that isn't a reply to a question. I hear your point, but frankly I do not agree. And really there's nothing to lose by posting a link. Even if you're right that it "looks desperate", if that just means no one bothers to use the link, no net loss.

So a spam account copies another thread almost word for word, posts it a few hours later, and hopes no one will notice? Sounds possible. I'd still call that a fake post.

https://www.overclock.net/threads/windows-7-pc-does-not-boot-after-disabling-driver-signature-enforcement-please-help.1811568/?post_id=29349200#post-29349200 https://www.overclock.net/threads/my-windows-7-pc-wont-boot-after-disabling-driver-signature-enforcement-–-need-assistance.1811570/?post_id=29349048#post-29349048 Looks like they're just inserting fake BS to boost activity. I have suspected this with OCN for a while, but now there seems to be clear proof.

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The contest is now over. The winner is... Fluxmaven! Congratulations, and thanks again to everyone who participated. I'm looking forward to having more of these kinds of contests here in the future! Winning post: https://extremehw.net/topic/3775-official-ehw-contest-giveaway-best-1500-build-specifications-vote-now/?do=findComment&comment=46939

If I were going to do something like this, I would go with a case that could fit a standard ATX PSU. SFF PSU are generally a lot more expensive and have a higher failure rate. Any one of these would work well IMO.