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I'd say get a few (new episodes) under our belts first, but yeah that was kinda my idea. We could always record the show during the day, have time to edit, and then upload it later in the evening (or next day).

I wonder if your failure has anything to do with my 6900XT's failing too. Did the 4090 have that Tri fan, triple slot cooler on it like the MSI AMD cards have? I know they used to reuse their coolers a lot.....if you have the same cooler as my 6900XT, there's a known issue with the contact pad not being flat, resulting in excessively high hotspot temps. In pioneerisloud. It'll just be with my RX 580 this time, can't afford the power bill and none of my AMD cards put out anything worthwhile anyway.

Oh of course structure would be required and cleaned up language. We could of course use editing tools to correct any slip ups in language anyway, that's not that hard at all. I've done that in the past, and it'd be super easy to do it again, so I could easily go through and clean up audio before its uploaded. I just thought it'd be a fun, regular thing we could start doing since we do it anyway. And with the structure in place, and some good podcasts uploaded, I figured we could try reaching out to company vendors, maybe eventually youtubers or something? IDK, just tossing ideas out there. Glad I'm not the only one thinking that'd be a neat addition (again).

I think we've had this feature long ago in the earlier stages of EHW. My question is, could we potentially revisit this in 2023? We could start off by doing say short 15-30 minute video "hang out" podcasts where we just have membership on (that want to be a part), and we just chat tech, overclocking, tech news, whatever. We kind of already do this on the discord server kinda regularly. Thought it'd be neat to have an official, structured outlet that we could use to further the site's potential reach and maybe company involvement in the future. It'd be really cool to be able to have a Q/A session for example with someone at, I don't know, Cooler Master or EVGA or any of our sponsors we've had, to allow the enthusiast buyers of their products a direct line of communication. Not saying company reps would be a regular thing, but there's plenty of youtubers that do these kinds of things all on their own. Maybe I'm thinking about this too late in the video podcast game? Idk, just shooting ideas off as I'm sitting here watching tech youtubers and thinking....we could do this, and we could do it better. -_- Personally, I think if pulled off just right, it could potentially benefit not only EHW, but it could also potentially benefit any companies that came on with us too. Who knows how to improve tech products better than the tech communities, modders, and overclockers? Maybe we're also not quite there yet with EHW. Maybe we'll never go there? Idk.....again, was just a random idea.

Only thing I've ever paid attention to was Cinebench because that was my stress tester of choice. I scored about 13.2k at stock PBO with one run of Cinebench R23, and about 16.2k fully tuned with RAM, IF Clock, and PBO boosting (undervolt).

Like Pook said above, the thread is linked on the subscriptions page. You don't have to go searching, its right there if you want to know more about the different options. I do see what you're saying with the subscriptions page not having full information, but the flow does make sense as is. When I joined EHW, there was a 200MB file limit TOTAL for the whole site (actually might've been less even, I didn't pay attention). That grew to the current 350MB limit. Basically, all I'm saying is, when the site is going well, the membership will be treated well. I wouldn't be surprised if free memberships looked entirely different in the future on the site (for the better). Is there perhaps some sort of Chrome script or something one could run on their own end to force a site into a Dark mode? Idk, just an idea. Seems like a silly reason to not like a site. Idk about you, but I'm here for the content. Then again, I'm always the first one to put Windows into Dark mode too, so I know what you mean. Also, just keep in mind its a growing site. Things will continue getting better as the site goes on.

I think part of what you're seeing MIGHT be an instability. You might very well possibly be not 100% stable at -0.100v. On mine, I tried a variety of undervolts from -0.025v all the way down to -0.25v, and settled on -0.100v on mine because that's where performance and benchmarks peaked at consistently. If you're unstable, then stock PBO, stock voltages WILL perform better even if the clocks are lower. Getting good RAM and IF clocks is honestly a lot more important. Tweaking PBO and voltages like this is honestly about the last thing I'd worry about with a Ryzen system. I'd be more concentrating on getting DDR4-3600 to 3800 ish, depending on what your IF clock can pull off, honestly will lead to a much snappier system overall, and it helps in a lot of gaming titles too with 1% and 0.1% lows.

Nope, I didn't mess with anything else. PBO enabled, +200MHz, DOCP / XMP enabled, I adjusted RAM speeds (and timings later on), but otherwise that was it. Oh and the undervolt too. I think I also maxed out my board's power limits too for the CPU, I think I gave it a +140% power capability somewhere in the BIOS too. Changing it to PBO enabled, +200, and XMP enabled 1:1 with the IF Clock, that's really about it for tweaking Ryzen. The undervolt is going to allow it to boost higher because the boost algorithm works off temperatures. Keep the temps lower, it boosts higher, so undervolt it for lower temps. The tricky part comes in when you're not giving it enough voltage and it doesn't want to run stable anymore, that's the only thing that's similar to older overclocking techniques. Having the RAM and IF Clock 1:1 is the most important part, and then tweaking your RAM tuning is the next important bit. You can certainly push for a solid all core manual overclock. They DO perform better that way. At the end of the day though, daily using a rig, you don't really need the performance of an all core OC usually though, and disabling its downclocking abilities, I'd worry about long term usage. Absolutely great to figure out though if you're into benchmarking / hwbot competitions. With an ACTUAL manual all core overclock, I can get 4.70GHz. But as I said earlier, with PBO I sit at 4.75 all core. It's so close already using PBO, its almost not even worth it trying unless benching.

I'm still torn on which one would be best for me now between the 7800x3d or the 7900x. *Shrugs, my 5800x isn't exactly hurting me yet to the point I care enough. But still, they're getting more affordable........ -_-

Try 3840x1080. That'd be 32:9 instead of whatever that is you're trying 21:9? I know Beam supports 32:9 fine, I'd imagine it'd support that res fine too. But 3840x1080 would be the same aspect ratio I run.

I set PBO to enabled, +200, turn on DOCP, and a -0.100v offset on my 5800x. Boosts to 5.1GHz single core or 4.75 all core, and runs cool and quiet. I'd just enable PBO with a negative offset and go from there. You can get a pretty good idea if its stable by running Cinebench R23. If your score goes up, the negative voltage is fine. If your score goes DOWN, use less of an undervolt.

Those videos were fun at 1440p + good 2.1 too. Yeah, definitely agree. Monitor is probably one of the most important upgrades somebody can make on a rig. It is what you look at 99.99% of the time when interacting with your machine after all. Sound upgrades should be a close 2nd in priority. Keyboard and mouse 3rd IMO. All 3 of those "upgrades" can last years or even decades if you find a really nice setup that you want to stick with. Then rig, since new parts are constantly coming out. Personally a giant 48" 16:9 just isn't it for me, I like having that extra width that only Surround / Eyefinity or Ultrawide can give. Maybe one day for a dedicated non racing setup or something, then maybe I might step back into a bigger 16:9 setup. I kinda want to try those videos out on my 4k TV though, and since I lack proper sound everywhere else in the house, maybe use my headphones to enjoy the spatial sound.

You can get really close with cable management anyway in that case, same as my Chieftec Dragons from the looks of it....or very similar. Lots and lots of zip ties. Might be useful to get those little 1" sticky squares with a loop in em to attach zip tie mounting points to the mobo tray or something too. At least that way you'd have a tie down point along the mobo tray you could use too. Either way, build's coming along nicely! Looking forward to finalized 110% done pics.

In "pioneerisloud" Want that cat hammock, think it'll hold a child? Somebody needs to get ahold of our 3dfx rep. Maybe we can get the new RTX 4090 killer, the Voodoo 3dx23? That'd be an awesome prize! https://www.dsogaming.com/news/3dfx-re-enters-the-gpu-market-shows-off-an-rtx4090-killer-with-30gb-of-vram-at-1000/

I haven't used any of the routers mentioned, however I've no complaints on all of my TP-Link equipment.

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@ENTERPRISE want to check into that?

Time to ask for some review samples! Those look very interesting......I've seen house fans that are kinda similar. Kinda neat. EDIT: Of COURSE it has to be an April Fools joke.... -_-

Not true at all. I cannot upgrade some of my systems that are on 7, missing instruction sets for Win8 and newer. The systems still work fine, play games fine, browse the internet fine. Yes, I'm aware this is a Chromium based limitation that is causing Steam to be shutdown on older systems. My argument is there's old versions of Chromium out there, its not like they can't create a "library only" version of Steam for old systems that has an old version of Chromium on it, no online features, and JUST the library of games that you've bought and paid for. Remember, there's still thousands of games on Steam right now, that state "minimum requirement: Windows XP", but yet you can't install Steam on XP. Some of these games don't work on newer systems either, so you're paying for a broken title. This is a problem. Obviously this is wishful thinking on my part and it'll never happen. Just stating why this is a problem. Also, there ARE modded versions of Steam available that one CAN run on systems as old as XP, even today. They're not 100% though, due to the way Steam launches and updates itself so its hit or miss. Supposedly one can potentially be banned for it too, as it requires modding Steam core files IIRC. This too, wouldn't even be a thing if Valve would just release one for everyone.

I'm aware of that. When I suggested the adapters yesterday, he was showing PCIe 2.0 NVME drives (non M.2). So I naturally assumed his board did NOT have an M.2 slot.

Ahhh, now I understand the conundrum here. Yeah, what you've discovered is correct. PCIe 2.0 drives have gotten to be stupid expensive, even used. There's absolutely no reason for it when (my above mentioned) adapters are like $12 and 1TB Gen 3 drives are like 50 bucks. If you have an M.2 slot already, you already know the answer. But yeah, it definitely sucks that PCIe 2.0 drives are so expensive. They really shouldn't be. It's the "retro tax", at its finest. -_-

Just buy an adapter, PCIe to M.2 is like $12.......

Steam REALLY needs to release a "retro" release of Steam, something with JUST the library access. Like now. This is going to knock out a ton of perfectly working machines from their respective libraries. It was wrong when they cut off XP, and its wrong that they're doing this now. -_-

Neat!

I didn't know there was custom modded campaigns for L4D2......that game's still quite a bit of fun! Honestly, most of Valve's titles are still fun today. I'd totally play some custom map L4D2 if anyone else still plays, never done that before. I've done custom mapped HL / HL2, and coop campaigns on both (thanks to Sven coop). And yeah, I agree with everyone else. We all know Valve can't count to 3. Such a shame too because Valve does make my absolute favorite titles. Too bad there's a handful of titles and that's it. -_-