Minotaurtoo

Sooo... apparantly I started collecting matches. It started out innocent enough, just trying to get a few old school matches that actually strike anywhere. Mostly nostalgia, but a bit of actual functional use built in too. I posted that I was looking for some old matches... and well... this happened. This isn't the whole collection, just the best looking. Some of these I bought, some were given to me... not complaining, I've learned a lot about the history of matches thanks this little experience... like how matches used to be highly poisonous and sometime back red phosphorus was used instead of white to make them safer. One of my favorite brands as a kid for starting camp fires was Fire Chief, mostly because of how easy it was to make them waterproof and not effect the ease of striking them. Still to this day, one particular make of the Fire Chief matches is the only one I can strike with my thumbnail (ignore my damaged nail, accident years ago). VID_20221227_195828424.mp4

I'm a bit lax with mine... the important stuff, like family movies, are saved to the cloud and on a flash drive on my key chain as well as being on 3 different PC's in the house. The DVD rips, music and other replaceable stuff, I have on a 12TB drive in my main PC with a backup on my wifes HTPC. Most of my stuff is just recorded off air though, so no big loss.

ok.. this is a bit sappy, but I want to thank all the folders on here, even those who only do it when it's convenient, you never know what work unit might be the one to make a breakthrough. My wife's had cancer (she's recovered fully) and she has had many other issues. My dad, uncle and some of my cousins have Alzheimer's. The research being done here is important to me. I have missed a lot of folding time this year due to a few calamities in my life (storm damage, medical insurance/doctor changes, medical issues, shift changes and more). I'm glad to be back and until it's too hot, I'll be folding off and on. It's heartwarming to see that while I was gone, there were so many continuing the efforts. Thanks to all.

In as Minotaurtoo

I'm riding the 5700x train here. Then I'd ride that system out till I had to upgrade because the next upgrade would require a whole new system since it's not likely a higher core 5000 series would benefit you much.

I'm a rebel, I install mine..... horizontally ....

appreciate it.

thanks, lots been going on in my life lately. Health care changes, shift changes at work, and still waiting on the results of a biopsy on my wife.. Hopefully things will get back to some resemblance of normal soon.

finally smart bulbing my house....

to EHW

or roads LOL couldn't even hit a tree there

that looks familiar, by any chance was that on the blue ridge parkway?

definitely weather helped me out... will probably leave it folding again tonight just for the extra "free" heat... that and my uncle has Alzheimer's... as well as my Dad... and there is some research for that going on here.

thanks to my early start, I finished my first unit about 14 mins after the competition began, allowing for delay in accounting, it should have showed up about 40 mins into the comp.

yes 28 threads, I limit it to 28 so there is enough cpu left to allow me to use my pc normally and to keep the gpu fed. I remember a time when loading a cpu up like this would cause a pc to grind to a halt, but with better OS's and fancy hardware it runs as normal, with no lag, almost like it's not even working hard.

well, I doubt I'll catch you. I only have one 6900xt and one 5950x folding... kinda surprised me how many ppd that 5950x can put out with only 14 cores going... I do have PBO on, and turned lose... last I looked the cpu was pulling 170w and sitting at 65C on the hottest sensor... kinda wonder how a 7000 series cpu does now.

thanks for the well wishes! Same to you, so far so good on mine, I started early for the heat. temps well within normal, no melting connectors detected and room temp, comfy, which is great since it's freezing cold outside.

testing the latest drivers for AMD... no added performance from what I can see, but still pushing an estimated 4 million points per day so at least no regression. It's cold here and I'm already folding for heat LOL.

in as minotaurtoo Hope the weather turns cool, the last one it was still too warm.

way better than bedpan humor

The trick I found on FX was to overclock the crap out of the cpu-nb and not worry so much about core clocks. I found that 4.7ghz with cpu-nb at 2400+mhz to be better than 5ghz core and stock cpu-nb in some cases... I found out this by accident at first because I bought 2400mhz ram and that automatically forced the cpu-nb to go that high. I kept noticing that my gaming and many benchmarks were consistently higher than others with higher core clocks. I made a thread about in OCN, may still not beat out a phenom II though core to core because there was some regression in IPC in FX. It's not the best benchmark/test thread because I didn't have time to do much, mostly focused on one game, but here is the link: clicky Hope this helps or at least in interesting edit: fun fact, the cooler I used on that FX is the same one I'm using on my 5950x now...

I'll look into a roll back again. I can't remember if I tried that or not, it was 2AM at the time

Ok, weird topic, but it's happening on my wife's HTPC. I noticed the other day after the last windows update that the windows security app wouldn't open any longer. First after a bit of panic and some frantic checking I found that the actual anti malware executable was still working and up to date, it was just the UI that was failing. I tried forcing a windows update, nada. so I tried via power shell, nada. Tried resetting the app via windows settings. I tried the SFC /scannow, it did find something, but it wasn't the thing that stopping the UI from updating. I tried the DISM online fix... still nada. There are no other functionality issues with the system. The only thing that I've noticed that stands out is that the sechealthui.exe and other files with it are over a year old, while the ones on my PC are from last month. This issue seems to have started after the last big windows update on her system about a week ago. Any ideas other than a system refresh, I'm saving that one for dead last and maybe not even then as long as it's working. Edit: I just installed Malwarebytes and it found one tiny thing, but it was only a "suspicious" find and it was in the recycle bin already, nothing else. I'm debating on just paying for a home license and keeping it... opinions?

From the early leaked benchmarks I've seen, it looks like AMD is in for some serious competition there. I think you will do well with that cpu. In fact, if Intel keeps this up, my next rig will be Intel based, something that I haven't done in years thanks to them insisting that mainstream didn't need more than 4 cores back when Ryzen first came out. When you get it, please make sure I see any benchmarks you post.

Well, they changed it... and made it worse LOL gotta love their review teams. Also they seem to have tweaked how the scores are calculated...again...as my 5950x scores are actually higher than they used to be on the old benchmark runs I had bookmarked, but somehow that took the 7950 score I linked in the first comment down from the 140% shown in the screenshot to 123%. Not sure how they managed that, but just be aware when you are comparing scores that things have changed. Screenshot of new review included for posterity.