Sir Beregond

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.

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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.

I think the consensus is that sooner or later EVGA is on the way out entirely given GPUs were basically the bulk of their business. I've also been watching the forums for the Z790 boards and people are loudly complaining about lack of new BIOS for 14th gen. So for now will probably get a 13900ks for the Z790 Dark board I got.

Given what you tried, I'm inclined to think dead motherboard too.

Forgot to turn the heat on last night. Was a bit cold this morning so had some tea. I don't drink coffee so I am not often drinking hot beverages.

I think the white one is definitely the winner here. Maybe it's the lighting, the red on the black one looks more orange.

Thank you so much. I 100% agree...one of the better brands out there these days

New snow tires today.

Yep...CEL came back. Guess will see if sensor issue next.

That's good to know. Will keep an eye out. Drove another 20 miles today.

Oh I cleared it with the reader and I checked it again today and no code is registering.

I think you'd almost have to do both. If the 70 or 70 Ti Super gets put on AD103, then that should be a 256-bit card. And I think you almost have to drop prices as the 7800 XT sells like hot cakes at $499 and the 4080 at $1200 doesn't sell much at all.

Well the good news is I switched out the engine air filter, cleared the code, and so far the check engine light hasn't kicked again and things seem to be running fine as far as I can hear/feel. No idea what was wrong with the old filter, I changed it earlier this year and it didn't seem clogged or anything. I guess if the CEL kicks again will move onto checking the sensors.

I don't know a thing about audio. One of these days I'll hit you up when I want to up my audio game and learn some stuff. Thanks for steering us away from junk!

I have not. Sounds like my old car. So I hooked it up and got P0172 System Too Rich Picked up another engine air filter in case the old one had an issue or something and cleared the code. Will go from there.

My car threw a check engine light for the first time, so picked up an OBDII scanner. Just passed 130k miles so not sure what's going on. Car still feels, sounds, smells fine.

I don't agree. The 4070 and 4070 Ti are both cards that are mis-priced and mis-branded, so Super refreshes can fix that.