Sir Beregond

Mainly just want something lightweight that doesn't lag or run slowly or suck down RAM. And ad blocking would be nice.

I'm looking for a new browser. Not big on Edge or Firefox to be honest, but when looking at most of the options you quickly find they are all Chromium.

Maybe in one of those wood accented cases, but otherwise...

I still have the game sitting in my library. I've not really progressed past the intro part of the story.

That's the problem. Probably sat in a hot Amazon truck.

This isn't the first time AMD ditched the high end for the "sweet spot" market. This only works if they actually do it right and well, count on AMD to not miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, as far as the Radeon division is concerned. They need to do better than simply letting Nvidia dictate the entire pricing structure of the whole product stack and then just "slotting in". That won't gain market share and they still have to be careful in brand perception as the "second rate" company to grow their marketshare. Personally I think not having a high end product hurts that a bit. But...the majority market isn't the high end, so they really just have to do their mid-range and sweet-spot segments correctly and it could be a good strategy for them. Especially with Nvidia's largely overpriced and under-performing (not to mention 8GB lol) blundering of the mid-range with the 40-series. I'd say don't launch RDNA4 until FSR4 is ready, and really push the price war. Not this BS $900 7900XT garbage that the market later price corrects. Come out the gate swinging. If they can deliver a 8700 XT or 8800 XT (or whatever it ends up being called) that at least meets the performance of the 7900XTX / 4080 Super with much better RT than RDNA3 at say $500-$600, that would be a great thing for the market.

Unexpected news for sure. Life comes first, and I wish you good health (physical and mental), and I hope you find some peace in not having to manage a site in both the expense and time that I'm sure we all have some sort of idea about, but probably not the full extent of. I do hope you keep in contact though!

Ah gotcha. I haven't played FS2020 yet, so guess I misunderstood.

Well it's in the name. It's a flight sim. Games like Ace Combat are not and more akin yo an arcade flight shooter. I'd like to try FS2024.

It'll be interesting to see what they do, but I'm guessing stock it will not be 600W. 4090 certainly does gain above 450W stock, but it really is in the diminishing returns category for the amount of power needed to push additional performance. Hell, doesn't lose much dropping to 350W. The 450W stock was definitely choses because of the performance to power curve.

I've tended to avoid QLC for TLC drives, so would be interested to see how they stack up.

My experience with curve optimizer was that it hardly ever failed stress tests with load on it. It was usually during the idle part of the voltage curve where if it was undervolted too much it would freeze/crash. On Zen 3 anyway.

Usually in synthetics, the 13900k had a multi-threading advantage over AMD because of the sheer number of E-cores. Does that translate differently in other use cases?

No price is not fine. In past gens didn't the Pro usually come in at the same MSRP as the console it was replacing? Here you are instead getting a $200 increase and for your trouble they are taking away your disk drive. Not a good look or price imo. Definitely a money grab from the fact Xbox is floundering and probably Sony wanting to test the waters on what PS console buyers will tolerate for pricing. Personally my newest consoles I own are a PS2 and a PS3, so in the end I don't really care, I'm not buying one, but just my observations.

Are they going 3nm for Blackwell? Will be interesting to see how this turns out. Part of the massive gains the 4090 enjoyed over Ampere was due to going from Samsung 8nm (a 10nm node), all the way to TSMC Nvidia 4nm (a 5nm node). I imagine much more of Blackwell's gains will be underlying architecture changes in addition to the switch to GDDR7. In that sense, you guys are right that they could try to push more power again if they aren't gaining much from the move to 3nm from 4nm.

It's certainly possible, but I'd remind folks pre-release rumors of the 4090 also said "600W+ card" and it released instead as a 450W card.

Great pictures as always. I need to learn how to take better photos lol. If I could offer some feedback, with a CPU like a 14900KS, would be curious to see more CPU config details around these cooler tests. Would probably be helpful to indicate stock or how you have it configured.

Basically exactly what I did. The 48" is in the living room now and I use the 42" as my monitor.

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.