Sir Beregond

It seemed like a good idea at the time I am sure to put Pat, an engineer, at the reins. And it sounds like he was well liked within Intel, but man, blunder after blunder after blunder during his tenure. Intel went from seemingly limitless amounts of money to a shell of itself in not too much time. Often times the blunders were just timing too. Intel missed AI, spent probably too much on Arc which doubt made them any money really, floundered with 14nm forever and getting back on track, lost consumer and data center mindshare and over time market share and dominance. Guess we'll see where Intel goes from here. I hope this leads them back to a better road. Competition is good, we need it still.

It perpetuates the financial ruin of the most vulnerable who would be drawn to an idea like this...just like places such as Aaron's or Rent-a-center. It's a horrendous practice. Of course they like it because its a way to generate a monthly income off stuff otherwise just sitting in a warehouse. But yeah, Gamer's Nexus is right. This is a thing that needs to be killed before it can take off. Corsair: I just replaced an RM1000x recently, otherwise just have a Corsair Scimitar mouse because I like MMO mice and its basically a choice between that, a Razer Name, a Steelseries, a Logitech (which I couldn't fine at Micro Center), and that's about it.

That V3000 is gigantic. Looking forward to it!

Oh did they? I haven't been keeping up. But would love to do the same basically.

Wouldn't mind getting my hand on one to play with, but also interested in the higher end models.

Haha, trust me, I totally get it. Its a weird time and I hope the same as you.

Lol. Chiplets for AMD started with EPYC server products, so not sure that is really the correct description. But I get the sentiment , and definitely monolithic is superior for latency purposes. And then there is Threadripper as well which is definitely not a gaming product. Intel besides first using chiplets for Meteor Lake also used them for Sapphire Rapids server chips.

That's good to hear. One of my biggest complaints with my 5900X is my RAM frequency is directly limited by my FCLK (fabric) frequency, since for Zen 3 and prior it had to be in a 1:1 ratio. My 5900X won't do any higher than 1866 FCLK so leaves me stuck at 3733 for the DDR4. Well, look forward to seeing how this progresses!

Huh that sounds like a bug for sure. Yeah I really don't like Ryzen Master myself either. Maybe just old school that way, but much prefer to manage all those settings in BIOS properly. Glad to hear you are enjoying it! Nice loop, love the functional nature of it. Looks like going to external rad? I thought it might be a good idea to try watercooling the RAM when I upgrade platforms to DDR5. How is the RAM working out on the 9950X?

Nice! Looks like you are having fun! With the fixed voltage (also what I do when OCing) and using a split CCD model of Ryzen, are you going about it with an all-core OC, or does your motherboard support per CCX all-core OCing? I found on my 5900X that the 1st CCD/CCX is descent enough binning (not great), but my 2nd CCD/CCX is pretty awful by comparison where the max all-core I can get out of the 2nd is at least 150MHz lower than the 1st. Being able to split my all-core settings between the two and pushing my better CCD to its brink is how I got my best score on R23 multi. Overall the bin I got as a package is kinda meh tier, but thought I might mention.

If I recall the RMx series (not to be confused with the cheaper RM series with no x) has the Japanese capacitors FWIW. Just going off that site, the Corsair warranty is 10 years while the MSI is 5 years. If these were my only two options, I'd go with the Corsair. Better warranty, and Japanese capacitors for the RMx model would make it just a better buy if these are the same price. But it would also be worth looking at options from Seasonic, Leadex / Superflower, beQuiet as well.

One correction: RTX 4080 had the $1199 MSRP. MSRP for the RTX 4080 Super was $999.

Ah, yeah did not mean that specifically for STALKER. Was more speaking in general how Microsoft has been buying up game studios over the past several years.

I don't like that Microsoft is buying up everyone. At the same time probably keeping the lights on for some places by doing so. Weird market.

Wow, either some serious pump out, or convexity.

I'd be curious the actual storage needs. What you lose with a single physical server in a house is dynamic scaling for increased activity / bursts of activity, redundancy for outages, etc. In my estimation of current site activity, probably not a big deal, but still things to consider.

I don't think they've had just one flop. It's been a long time since anyone called Ubisoft "innovative" or really putting out something new. They've in many way phoned it in a lot.

Looking forward to seeing what you can do with it. Also lol to the last line!

I would agree with this. GPU of course is going to be the biggest boon at 4K. CPU might benefit 1% lows if you are on an old enough chip. Otherwise your averages are going to be pretty much the same at 4K.

How do you like the MSI board / BIOS so far? Been mostly on ASUS myself with some EVGA sprinkled in for the bench (Z490, Z790).

You....built an AMD system? Last thing I was expecting to read.

To be fair, I haven't ben playing many newer games lately.

Hadn't considered the DLSS factor. Good point. Maybe I will upgrade once 9800X3D hits $300ish.

Is that only on average FPS? @Slaughtahousemakes a good point, I should look at some of these reviews and see where the 1% lows have seen improvement. Otherwise, averages seem very flat at 4K, agreed.

Also wondering if the cost to develop the site is not reflected in the current activity of the site. Which is a shame, from a feature perspective, great site.