Sir Beregond

Speaking of AIB pricing, what is ASUS smoking?

We just upgraded our internet speed with Xfinity since last 2 year contract just finished. It was only $15 more to go from 800mbps to 1.2gbps so we did. It was cheaper to go with their modem/gateway with included unlimited, so we did. But it only had a single 2.5g ethernet, so went ahead and picked up a couple of 2.5g switches at Micro Center today for the rooms that needed it and upgraded some old cat5e cables to cat6 while I was at it. Pretty solid so far with the overprovisioning on the download speeds.

Yeah its odd. There's a reason I don't play multiplayer shooter games...I am so bad at them and I have really no desire to play or improve in those types of games. Just not my cup of tea when I want to play a game these days.

Ah I hadn't considered the difference between a single vs dual CCD config in that equation. Good to know. Yeah that's the plan. Think life is just going to have me wait for Zen 6

30% seems about right. They are both on the same process (N4) and the 5090 has approximately 32% more shaders and about 28% higher TDP than the 4090 (575W vs 450W stock). I know TDP numbers don't mean everything so will be interesting to see how these actually work out power wise in real world testing. Given the much lower increase in shaders on the 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070, but still an increase in power, going to be interesting to see where those land too.

Yes, real respirators and N95's are quite difficult to breath through, especially if doing anything strenuous. But its got Are Gee Bee!!!

Good information, thank you. I'm not on any DDR5 platform yet for my main rig, so other Zen 4/5 users can maybe correct me. On an Intel system I definitely wanted a 2-dimmer since the goal is to get as fast as possible. Not sure that matters so much on an AMD system. My biggest gains on my 5900X came more from tightening my secondary and tertiary timings. It may be different on Zen 4/5 now since I think you can do different ratios with the FCLK while on Zen 3 it had to be 1:1 with DRAM, but I think it's still a case of biggest gains probably coming from tuning the timings vs raw MT speeds like on Intel. Still a 2-dimmer is nice just for that reduced stress on the IMC. I certainly intend to look for a 2-dimm board when I get around to upgrading next. And I've been a little perplexed about the PCI-E lanes and where you can and can't use your nvme drives. Seems really confusing these days.

LOL, I forgot about those things.

The MSI and Asrock boards no good?

Interesting. Explains the power increase somewhat.

Seriously thinking about an external setup if I can make it work...i.e. where to put it, etc.

Hello! Welcome to EHW!

Nice to see a 2-dimmer come back. Need more of those.

Congrats @pio and @LabRat! Really happy to see the community continue, and looking forward to where this can go!