Sir Beregond

Not sure I understand what you mean exactly. Maybe a picture would help? I have both a 48" C1 and a 42" C4 and they both feature image shifting which is one of those anti-burn in features where it periodically slightly moves the whole screen a few pixels this way or that way. Is that what you mean maybe?

That's pretty impressive. The DP Ultra or Koolance 702 was on my shortlist of what to get for my next teardown.

Heard and saw the latency charts for that a couple days ago. And yeah....something is very wrong imo.

Shouldn't have even launched yet. What was the point? Intel has been mired in controversy with 13th and 14th gen, along with their quarterly financial woes. What incentive did AMD have to release in such a sorry state. You can sure count on AMD to muck things up with product launches. Not the first time, won't be the last time.

Yeah seems like Windows is having issues while Linux is showing some good gains.

Intel's too big for their own good and as you say have a horrendous reputation for company culture. AMD: ~26,000 employees Intel: ~130,000 employees Now for the kicker... AMD: $22.7B total revenue for 2023 Intel: $54.22B total revenue for 2023 Intel needs to be doing way more than double AMd's revenue for having 5X as many employees.

None of them actually needed a $100+ liquid cooler. The 95C was just part of the boosting algorithm. How fast you hit it was the difference between the cheap cooler and the expensive cooler. You're hitting it either way.

Seems like the 9700X is hampered a lot by the 65W TDP and power limits. Baffling release by AMD. I was considering upgrading to X3D this gen, but I might just wait out for Zen 6 and see what that looks like. Zen 5 looks very iterative again with no real bump in clock speeds over Zen 4. Biggest thing seems to be the power/temp drops.

Makes sense. They have been going on thinking they are still the Intel of 2011 or so for far too long. Reality is that they've now had many years of just blunder after blunder and the bottomless pit of money actually has a bottom. Google search suggests AMD has around 26,000 employees. Intel has 130,000? Clearly a bloated company at this point. You can't be five times the size of AMD and only make about twice the revenue. Time they focus on righting the ship and facing reality. It isn't "market conditions" - Intel is fast losing marketshare to AMD, mindshare with many customer bases, and has had too many blunders in recent history whether the struggles to get to 10nm (Intel 7 now), the struggles they have recently uncovered with 13th / 14th gen and other things. And of course there is the company culture and other things standing in the way as well. Really hope Intel gets their act together.

Having tried the Cherry Brown and Gateron Brown, I'd describe them more using Flux's term of "scratchy reds". I'd say any tactility on Browns is barely there. The Panda switches I tried on the other hand are very obviously tactile. Not remotely the same as a Brown which I'd say is almost linear.

Wow - nice OC with the chiller!

Absolutely. I was perfectly happy with my 4790k and GTX 980 until I upgraded off of 1080p.

Thanks for sharing and I really agree with this approach as well. I do wonder sometimes about my 5900X using PBO, but seems to work fine. Static OC I almost have the same issue as P vs E core where I can easily all core 4.7Ghz on my first 6 cores (1st ccd/ccx), but the 2nd set of 6 cores does better at 4.5GHz (2nd ccd/ccx). The first ccd is definitely much better binned on my cpu. Benching I have gotten 4.8GHz all core to work on the first ccd, but it's not stable there. As for my 13900KS, I really appreciated your advice on Discord and videos. Overclocking felt a lot simpler on say my old 4790k and to say I was overwhelmed with all the options available in my Z790 Dark for the 13900KS would be an understatement. I look forward to playing around with it more. As for the Atom cores, would have definitely been interesting if they did a SKU that ditched those to either be a 10 or 12 Performance core part. I wonder if that was just using too much power and was too hot.

I don't know. I'm supposed to think linear are "garbage" by the mech keyboard folks, but I like them for reasons you described. I still think I want to find a tactile but I'm not worried about it right now until the car is fixed lol. Got a few to look into though. As I am learning more about keyboards and switches, I realized I hated the Pandas because they felt great as a tactile, but they were so loud and clacky it was very annoying to my ears. Something more low pitched would be better for me. So far linear are quieter than any of the tactile I've seen.

Looks like 45g actuation linear so probably similar to a Red. Though you say feels like a rubber dome? Wonder if it's a silent switch with dampening in the switch. I tried a couple silent switches at Micro Center and they felt like rubber domes when they bottomed out. $60 keyboard that features hot swap is kinda cool. Looks like you can replace the switches if you wanted to.

Spam bots posting crap like this, duplicates of real posts, or just ads have been on OCN for years now. That place has fallen far from the graces it once enjoyed prior to the sale to VS.

Yeah I put a DEL, PRT SCR, NUM Lock on my 75% board because all of those buttons ae useful. Some games for example use the num lock to toggle auto run for example, so its useful even though the board doesn't actually have a num pad.

Last GN video on the matter seemed to suggest there was possible defects in manufacturing too which if true, this wouldn't fix. Will be interested to hear what happens with that. As for the voltage, will be interested to hear by how much they are modifying it. If the parts no longer can boost to previously advertised speeds as a result of the update, that will be problematic. I know @Mr. Fox and @RageSet have been pushing their 13th and 14th gen i9's pretty hard from some Discord talks. Would be interested to hear if either of you have had degradation issues.

Yeah to be fair, the Arc build was more for the meme than a serious submission, though guess it could be applicable if you really wanted to. I wouldn't do it though.

9800X3D looks like a good upgrade for my 5900X, but we'll see how things go this year. Might just hold out another gen for Zen 6 since I haven't been gaming much lately.

Was definitely interesting seeing the different configs and strategies all around. 1. Fluxmaven - 7800X3D and 7900 GRE combo with great aesthetics. A build that gets cool aesthetics without sacrificing budget for RGB and other things to get top tier gaming CPU/platform and a solid GPU. 2. Damric - 7700 and 7800 XT is a good combo, rest of build looks solid if you are into that "gamer girl" aesthetic. That said, definitely some money went into the looks hence the 7700 vs getting a 7800X3D. 3. Slaughtahouse - 7600X and 4070 Super combo is a good combo. Definitely shows the price of entry for RGB though since the CPU/GPU is definitely a tier below say Flux's build. Still, solid foundation.

Yep, started today. Honestly more important to just have a submission then to have some super high score sub. Having one vs not having one matters way more.

Yeah, those do not have the watercooling support I am looking for at all and I have to question some of these case designs considerably. I mean where are those bottom fans even getting air from lol.

Evo XL supports up to 3 radiators. Not sure what case you looked at.

Yeah the original O11 Dynamic. I have a few complaints with this case though, so will probably swap it out for either a newer Evo XL, or something similar.