Sir Beregond

It certainly didn't draw me in.

Hey I'm still on 3801 on my 5900X/Dark Hero.

Good review bro! Admittedly as someone who is very little into laptops or handheld devices, I had never even seem this m.2 form factor before.

Yep, mine is now 13 years old and it is a tank. That said, back when I bought the Metro Datavac, they were more like $50. Kinda shocked to see over $100 now.

You shoulda seen how work shipped me my "new" work laptop. Talk about no care given.

Windows 11 is mostly the same as Windows 10 in my book. That said, while you could call the menus "cleaner", I'd say its just relearning where stuff is (example, copy/paste being pictures instead of line items on the menu), or sadly, adding extra clicks to get a full menu. Also they really dumbed some things down. Right clicking the taskbar has literally two options now. Task Manager (which wasn't there in earlier iterations of W11), and Taskbar settings, that's it. Just some examples of the differences and I find them annoying. But otherwise Windows 11 has been fine for me.

Pretty disrespectful language to say about anyone on their team or who joined their team who produced a BILLION points. Very disappointing to see. Very nice job @firedfly!

To think we had a few Model M's growing up and they probably got junked by my parents! Now I remember those keyboards being horribly loud, but I have to admit they were nice to type on. I just have this aversion to loud keys I guess. Would there be something non-clicky but maybe more tactile than Browns you guys would suggest trying?

Comments about PCIe not mattering usually didn't go from x16 PCIe 4 to x4 PCIe 3. That's a huge difference. It's also why there was a bunch of talk around AMD using x8 on say the 6500 XT because once again there was a big difference in performance between plugging it into a PCIe 4 slot vs 3 slot over the x8 interface of the card. Where you'd not see a big difference is between x16 and x8 PCIe 4.

Thanks. Will take a look.

I am also open to trying something that is tactile with a higher actuation, but just no clicking. I only referred to MX Brown because I know MX switches. I don't know all these newer ones that are out there. As for prebuilt vs build your own, no idea. I like keyboards with wrist rests. Tried a GMMK once since Micro Center here sells then and the thing was very much defective with hot garbage for software. Turned me off to them.

So I watercool for quieter computing as one thing. Why would I then want a loud ass keyboard? That said I might try some MX Browns

I like MX Reds What I don't like are MX Blues that are loud just to be loud. I'd be willing to try a non-linear switch again, but I don't want loud clicky nonsense.

Sorry to hear. Yeah will do. I replaced the plugs around 75k miles per the schedule. It uses iridium plugs. I got the tools and torque wrench to take a look. But yeah will start with the MAF. After being off for a solid week, the damn CEL came on again.

The public transportation in my city is called RTD. Around here the joke is that it stands for "Reason To Drive". I 100% agree with that acronym. Too bad most American cities just aren't setup with good layouts and transit. At least for here, it was clear Denver was developed with the car in mind and I suspect that's true for most American cities.

Thanks, will do.

I just started this game last night. Kinda just getting through the "tutorial" so to speak. Left the mining moon, had the small battle in space, and travelled to the other moon.

Let's be honest...Ryzen is nothing more than AMD consumerizing server architecture. I get how this multi-chip design has really saved their bacon in terms of being able to have a wide range of consumer SKUs built off of just an I/O die and one or more CCD's that both by nature of not being monolithic make it pretty cheap to build. But the drawbacks are certainly there. For the most part I feel AMD is winning in terms of value, price, power efficiency, etc. But they definitely lose in many areas too. As far as I am concerned the split CCD design of the 7900X3D and 7950X3D is some hot garbage that still doesn't quite work right with the Windows scheduler without some hacky workarounds. I get there are some who have found value in the split design, but I really don't know what they were thinking with these SKUs, especially the 7900X3D. Other than that, anytime you have to cross the infinity fabric between CCD's you definitely incur some latency penalties, and memory stability has been pretty well documented at this point. I don't know, AMD has a lot going right for them, but they got a lot of work to do in other areas. I think the other reason for AMD's popularity is also just the fact Intel dropped the ball and had too many mistakes along the way to try to course correct - if it was good enough, most mainstream folks were happy to ditch Intel given many years of mediocre releases with single digital gains and 4-cores forever following Haswell. As for me, I gave it a shot with my 5900X and I'm pretty happy with it as a daily use PC that I don't mess with too much. Power draw is good and not outrageous, thermals are good, performance is good, but good god I gotta say trying to do overclocking on AMD is quite boring as a lot of it just ends up being PBO and messing with curve optimizer and the infinity fabric limits what my DDR4 kit could probably actually do. So its great as a daily driver, but I don't care for tinkering/overclocking on it.

Well if I could I would good idea react your post

Yeah that was my thought as well. Plus EVGA has yet to release a new official BIOS for 14th gen, so made that decision easy. Next, I will at some point need to get a good DDR5 kit, but thinking December or January for that. Maybe see if any deals come up for Black Friday / Cyber Monday.

Very interesting. I sometime have a hard time reading the translated articles and understanding their conclusions, but seems like in general any 13th gen i9 produced this year seems to be worse off binning wise than those from 2022?

Well my 130k mile CX-5 has been throwing a check engine light. Based on the P0172 code "System to rich (bank 1)" but the fact that I can't feel anything wrong with it, its running quite normally, guessing a sensor issue. For the hell of it, I threw a bottle of Techron in my last tank of gas, and since then the CEL has turned off and back on periodically. So I may just run another bottle of that and see what happens. Really, next up is I'll check/clean the MAF sensor. Been kinda lazy about that.

Prices dropped on this so picked it up for the Z790 Dark.