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Sir Beregond
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What kind of PPD you getting on that 9070 XT out of curiosity and how does that compare to your old 7900 XTX?
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Current socket only gets essentially one real gen / architecture is just bad.
Hopefully Nova Lake is much better and maybe they can have a longer lived socket with LGA1954.
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I cancelled the order. Upon further research, the PCIe bifurcation is all effed up on the Apex the same as the Hero. No longer wanted if I can't use the PCIe slots except with the GPU slot cut back to X8. Too bad A$$zeus can't get their act together. I saved $300+ and went with an AORUS Master since both of the extra X16 slots are untethered from the CPU and using them has no effect on the GPU. It's really unfortunate that 4-DIMM motherboards are so common and 2-DIMM so rare. Such a waste having the two unwanted memory slots on nearly every option available for purchase. The designers of enthusiast motherboards seem to be universally stupid and out of touch with the people that buy their rubbish. The Master has asynchronous BCLK as well.
This is good to know. Really unfortunate that PCIe bifurcation is all screwed up these days. I've never really thought about it before, but now it seems you have to be really careful.
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Requires system admin to facilitate. If someone has system admin the system is already compromised but this might allow for long term persistence. Just another reason to stay on top of updates.
But the later AGESA updates lower the max voltage I can set.
Honestly probably for the best. I should probably update. Been on the same 3801 BIOS for my X570 Dark Hero since 2022. Then again, I'll probably forget about this and stay on 3801. Lot of people hate the newer BIOS's for this board.
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Out of curiosity, how much electricity are those of you who fold using? What is the overall benefit of folding?
It's basically scientific distributed computing with the aim at finding cures and treatments for cancers, Alzheimers, and other diseases.
And along with it some fake internet points.
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Does your meshify 2 rattle all the time? Mine does, it's extremely annoying.
Falcon Northwest has the best reputation, but they advertise as custom gaming PC's and I'm not sure that counts as prebuilt.
It would. Just means they are using more off the shelf parts is my guess vs say a Dell with all their weird proprietary crap.
A pre-build is a pre-build.
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I heard from Moore's Law is Dead a while ago (6 months?) that Intel engineers had wanted to do 1 big core that was capable of doing multiple tasks, but that management had said that was a stupid idea.
Looks like Intel still haven't found their footing.
Royal Core?
Arrow Lake refresh seems completely unexciting as fundamentally the generation is kind of a dud. Adding more e-cores isn't going to fix that. Here's hoping Panther Lake is good.
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There has never been another game that is it's equal for PvP. GvG and HoH were on a different level for team coordination. I knew multiple monks that refused to carry infuse health, because any time someone died it felt like they should have stopped it. 1/4th second cast skill that would give someone full health, but more often than not it wasn't what would save someone.
I think the game started to suffer from buildwars after all the expansions were out. It was on full display for EvIL's split build vs iQ's turtle build. We used to friends list certain people for tournaments because their character name would give away the build they were playing.
The problem with GW 1 was that it was incredibly hard to watch a game and understand all the nuances that were going on. A mesmer diversion catching the defensive elementalist's blinding surge wasn't something that spectators picked up on unless they knew what to watch for, but it could easily change how defensive a team had to play. Sometimes it came down to stuff like blinding the ranger first so that the Mesmer's diversion wasn't interrupted for the upcoming spike. Too bad twitch.tv wasn't a thing back then for high level commentators to give a play by play.
GW 2 was/is great in it's own ways, but I wish we had a true successor to the original Guildwars.
Man I share all your same opinions here.
I've extremely mixed on Guild Wars 2. It's completely different from the original and the original deserves a spiritual successor.
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I used to GvG a lot back in the day. Such a sad day when iQ beat EvIL's split build by turtling until Victory Or Death. They had a glyph sac meteor shower elementalist, and a ranger who sacked himself to stack up the enemy NPC's, making it easy for the elementalist to kill them all. They also had a Blood is power Necromancer feeding their monks energy. Devs decided VOD would just end the game after that. In all fairness, watching iQ sit there for 20 minutes made for a really boring championship game.
I was never involved with high end GvG, but man that takes me back.
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Nice, nope. I've been playing Still Wakes The Deep & Currently downloading The Council, Beyond The Darkness, and Once Alive. Looking forward to playing them. I live in the light, so non-violent video games is my jam, broski.
How about you man? What's your system(s) specs? You should take some pics, lets start a thread showing off our Computer Systems Operations, broski!
I had quoted Kaz's post when I asked that.
Got my build log and specs in signature.
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Ok, so after about 10 restarts and a few of them being Linux from habit... Here's what I found.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Created by: Shawn Brink ; Created on: August 27, 2022 ; Updated on: September 1, 2023 ; Tutorial: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-default-system-font-in-windows-11.8590/ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts] "Segoe UI (TrueType)"="" "Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"="" "Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"="" "Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"="" "Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"="" "Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType)"="" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes] "Segoe UI"="Times New Roman"Gives me the first screenshot
and this code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Created by: Shawn Brink ; Created on: August 27, 2022 ; Tutorial: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-default-system-font-in-windows-11.8590/ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts] "Segoe MDL2 Assets (TrueType)"="segmdl2.ttf" "Segoe Print (TrueType)"="segoepr.ttf" "Segoe Print Bold (TrueType)"="segoeprb.ttf" "Segoe Script (TrueType)"="segoesc.ttf" "Segoe Script Bold (TrueType)"="segoescb.ttf" "Segoe UI (TrueType)"="segoeui.ttf" "Segoe UI Black (TrueType)"="seguibl.ttf" "Segoe UI Black Italic (TrueType)"="seguibli.ttf" "Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"="segoeuib.ttf" "Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuiz.ttf" "Segoe UI Emoji (TrueType)"="seguiemj.ttf" "Segoe UI Historic (TrueType)"="seguihis.ttf" "Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"="segoeuii.ttf" "Segoe UI Light (TrueType)"="segoeuil.ttf" "Segoe UI Light Italic (TrueType)"="seguili.ttf" "Segoe UI Semibold (TrueType)"="seguisb.ttf" "Segoe UI Semibold Italic (TrueType)"="seguisbi.ttf" "Segoe UI Semilight (TrueType)"="segoeuisl.ttf" "Segoe UI Semilight Italic (TrueType)"="seguisli.ttf" "Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType)"="seguisym.ttf" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes] "Segoe UI"=-Gives me the 2nd screenshot
So it is working, but my suggestion to include the names inside the quotations in my earlier posts was incorrect, that didn't work at all! I will probably edit the above posts so the wrong answers are not there in case someone finds this forum post later.
Off Topic: You play Guild Wars 1 too? Great game. Played it since 2005 and off an on every few years or so.
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Hmm last time I tried Linux was over 15 years ago and I did not have fun with trying to game on it.
Will have to give SteamOS a try one of these days, but sad you still need to basically dual boot Linux and Windows. Would personally love to ditch Windows Spyware.
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Go check out BH Photo Video. IIRC Day 1, they were charging $800-1k+ for 9070s.
[they're all OOS now]
Me too, but I cannot complain too much after observing 'market trends' 1st hand, the past 2+ decades.
At least @ Newegg, I don't recall seeing a Sapphire XT @ MSRP, ever. IIRC, XFX, Gigabyte, PowerColor and ASrock did tho. -they were gone instantly.
[The XTs took ~3mins to clear out, the non-XTs about 5-8mins]
Memory's a bit hazy; I stayed up until 6a release day.
At least you 'needed' a PSU, so it wasn't entirely a forced purchase.
The way I'd look @ it, $85 for the PSU and anything over that was premium atop the 9070XT.
Which, puts the RX 9070 XT you bought, at about $755 before tax and shipping....
Newegg|BHPhotoVideo|BestBuyIIRC, that Corsair Pio got, *should* be a CWT unit.
Wow, terrible pricing. I thought the 9070 XT at $600 was ok. $700-$800+ seems a what for considering these are technically replacing the $499 and $549 7800 XT and 7900 GRE respectively.
I think I'll wait around and see if sanity ever returns to this market.
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Well yeah, but its a modular 80+ Gold 750w. I can get a nice Cooler Master unit for $80 that's equally as good or arguably better since Cooler Master OEM's their own stuff, unlike Corsair. The Corsair unit is a good unit, don't get me wrong. I'm just upset that it was a forced buy just to get a card, and it was overpriced. The card was overpriced. But alas.....newegg "combo deals". -_-
Yeah I don't even know who OEM's Corsair's current PSU lines. All I know is there's great quality choices out there these days. The sailboat logo tax ain't worth it. Been really happy with the Seasonic I got last year and the BeQuiet (review unit) over the Corsair RM1000X I also have around here somewhere.
The fitment tolerance on the 24-pin on the RM1000X was shockingly poor compared to the other two PSUs I mentioned.
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Same here, but I blame Newegg and their "combo deals" moreso than AMD. There were MSRP cards available at launch, I just missed out on that 5 minute window.
I didn't really want a $120 PSU. I needed a PSU, but I was eyeballing an $80 unit. -_-Newegg is doing that again eh? At least that's a quality PSU and not a guaranteed to catch fire one like they were doing before.
Anyway, regarding the club. I'm not planning on upgrading anything until probably Zen 6 comes out. If we are still solidly on RTX 50-series and RX 90-series at that time, then I will look at going the Radeon route as I need more VRAM, but I am not going to pay Nvidia pricing to get it. That said I also have no interest in $700+ 9070 XT's. It's gotta be closer to MSRP.
Of course...tariff factor too, so I don't know. I might wait for UDNA and 60-series at this point.
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Along with the performance, I miss their b stock page. Being able to find refurbished warrantied products right in one place was awesome. The closest thing now I've found is Zotac's page for refurbs.
B stock was awesome.
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Local Micro Center supposedly had 700+ units today. By comparison each 50-series launch has been maybe 100ish units.
Honestly looking great. 20-25% better in raster s my 3080 Ti. RT seems about on par with 3090-3090 Ti-ish levels. FSR4 is looking to be better than DLSS CNN models but behind DLSS4 transformer models. Huge improvement over FSR3. And 16GB.
5070's are sitting on the shelves at my local MC.
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9070 $549
9070XT $599
9070 is supposed to be about 20% faster than the 5070. It also has 16 gigs of ram as opposed to 12. Nvidia needs to quit cheaping out on ram.
9070xt is supposed to compete with the 5080. Ray tracing has been greatly improved, although if it's enough remains to be seen.
Moores Law is Dead is predicting the 9070xt will sell out on launch day. It should have decent volume, but Nvidia's supply still isn't there and there is not enough supply to meet the demand of the market.
Tarrifs in the U.S. are supposed to go into effect march 4th. This might be another card where MSRP is only available on launch day...
Sounded more like the 9070 XT would trade blows with the 5070 Ti on raster. 9070 looks about 15-20% worse than the XT on specs.
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Depends if the 9070 XT actually sells at MSRP. If AIBs and demand drive price up, you may see 9070 sit at $550. Keep in mind Nvidia 5070 is at the same price with only 12GB vram.
Unless Nvidia responds by lowering prices and demand is satisfied, we may not see AMD react. Time will tell. It’s hard to gauge how much interest there is with all this artificial scarcity from Nvidia.
Actual revenue dropping from these companies in gaming segments make me believe there is less demand but who knows if that’s accurate. Could just simply be Nvidia / AMD redirecting inventory and wafers to different markets (data centres).
Possible. Another thing I hadn't thought of is the fact they 9070 and 9070 XT have the same die. If yields are pretty good, then maybe the 9070 was simply an outlet to sell the dies that didn't make it, but the 9070 XT is going to be most of what's actually supplied.
As for the XT, will have to see what the AIB models end up at since there's no reference cards.
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Maybe its just me, but Firefox has always performed like garbage anytime I tried it, so I never really used it. Looks like more reason to avoid.
That said, I am still in the market for a new browser so will be curious to hear what others end up using.
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$599 is decent for the 9070 XT. $549 would have been more aggressive, but it's not the DOA like I think it would have been at $699. If the performance claims shake out decently in line with what they are showing, then its looking like a great alternative to both the 5070 and 5070 Ti. Though it remains to be seen what the bulk of the AIB offerings will actually be price wise.
As for the 9070 at $549, it repeats the same mistake the 7900 XT did at launch in it's pricing. At $549, it's 9% cheaper than the $599 9070 XT. Yet it has ~14% fewer CUs at 56 vs 64. 38% lower stock power target (220W vs 304W), so in all likelihood this will be a 15-20% worse performing card against the XT. At an only 9% discount for 15-20% worse performance, this thing is going to be justifiably trashed on review day, give AMD bad press in the review cycle, and inevitably drop to the $450ish it should have been a few months down the road as they sit on shelves and people either buy 5070's or spend the extra $50 for the XT.
Outside the hardware, just remains to be seen is FSR4 against DLSS4.
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Had fun everyone, and seriously nice of you both @pioaand @LabRatto still do a prize draw. I definitely agree save the bigger prizes for a bigger event. Congrats @Sid098!
Got a bit close to @Fluxmavenwhen he eased up but I couldn't maintain the momentum. Nice job, the hotboxing is hell.
Can attest good stickers, so definitely grab one if you don't have one.