Sir Beregond

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.

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.