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Just got a refund on my 2x 4TB 2.5" HDD's that were giving me POST problems on 2 seperate rigs, and ordered myself an 8TB and 6TB 3.5" drives instead to finish 2 rigs instead of one. Spinny rust is spinny rust, so I guess I don't "need" RAID......

Dude....again!!!??? I think its time you get a bigger car...... Something like this: If not, then you should most DEFINITELY follow Pook's advice: Seriously, start a gofundme for the bubble wrap, I'll contribute.......

Of course. This is why I'm obsessing over building all these......for the lol's.

Working on a couple of deals right now to score some Opteron 180's..... Why am I stopped at 939 and obsessed and getting 3x 3GHz chips? -_- Meh, the older rigs are going to get worked on after Christmas. Hopefully I'll have the AGP GPU's fixed by then.

Oh no, that couldn't possibly be what it is...... I won't buy another $1000+ card, I was talking to Sir B about this on Discord the other day. With how disappointed I am with my 6900XT (for the price), yeah that's not happening again. I'll wait till next gen and buy the previous generation used for half price.

Why would I bake a working card? Its been running benchmarks all morning. The card's fine. It's an issue with Folding@Home not wanting to work right with the card for some reason (or the driver).

@damric or whoever else is in charge of the Rat's Nest team........ I have absolutely zero clue why my 290x isn't wanting to fold. I just pulled the rig out from the bedroom (headless / folding before hand). Hooked it up. The rig is fine. The GPU is fine. It ran benchmarks for 90 minutes this morning, whereas folding@home crashes the system near immediately. I think I'm going to have to throw in the towel on this one and just accept that my 290x can't fold anymore. As soon as I get my Ryzen 1400 / FuryX system fully done up, I'll see about putting folding@home on that. Maybe that system will play nicer. Yes, I have the 6900XT, but I don't want to use that system for folding. And my 5700XT is too noisy, and the Vega64 is kiddo's rig (he'd throw a fit without his games). So yeah, FuryX is my next best choice for folding. Will update once I get that system going and folding (or attempting to fold anyway). Really wish I knew what was wrong. -_-

This actually looks like a pretty decent product, never would've thought to go for an external SSD before. I don't necessarily "want" one, but man that's a lot better than my external HDD setup I was using when I was desperate for games storage!

I'm in a similar situation. Back in June I fell asleep at my desk, in my chair, with my legs up on the desk. You know that "bolt" feeling in the butt of most cheap office chairs? Yeah.....that was poking directly into my lower back as I was sleeping. Woke up, and my entire lower half was numb. After a minute or two, it started getting a firey, insanely "hot" feeling burning pain. I tried walking it off, and it did eventually start feeling better after like 10 minutes or so and some Tylenol / Ibuprofen. Fast forward about a week, and my right leg "popped" out of socket and went 100% numb and it never properly popped back in right (feeling came back, but seriously bad pain too all the way up and down my leg). Ever since those two incidents, I've been diagnosed with sciatica / sciatic nerve pain. Went through PT recently, which seemed to help. The pain's back again now though, just as bad as before. Darn near to the point I can't walk again. -_- IDK what to do at this point, my doctor says I'm fine and I just have to deal with it. Sigh.....the joys of getting older.......

Canadian servers back online with OGC Map (West Coast, Derby, and Grid map all in one), and Dirty 4x4 which is supposedly as close as possible to real life Little Naches, WA state. Thank you @bonami2for getting those back online for us!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Especially you Jan. We're all thankful that you pulled through, you're doing well, and also that you kept in touch with us while things were going down. I'm also thankful for E today, for providing us this site to make some great friends (again). Personally, I'm also thankful for my family and local friends too. Much love for everyone today!

I have a Linux distro on my laptop and been enjoying Steam titles with Proton, you're right, super easy! I haven't quite figured out yet how to install non Steam titles on there though. Granted... I haven't really tried yet. I'll bet with Proton tons of titles off Steam are likely playable too since you can launch non Steam through Steam......... On topic, was playing FEAR for the first time in like a decade this evening. Apparently there's still people playing it online even. I love the fact that games with dedi servers are STILL active, whether they're "dead" titles or not.

Here we go...... microtransactions and DLC on hardware. -_- I can understand how it could POTENTIALLY be useful in the server markets, but still....c'mon Intel. -_- This is taking that "K" SKU they started back with Sandy Bridge to a whole new level. If they're doing it on server kit its only a matter of time before it comes to consumer kit.

Okay that Mac is pretty cool man! My first ever computer was a Mac Apple II, followed by a Centris 660AV, so same generation ish as that one. Awesome mod!

Sweet. I"m actually super stoked to be able to play on them soon, should have the old ones done around new years. Once I get things rolling, I might have to bug people for title names to look out for. I do have my old Win98 gaming collection luckily, but I know there's a ton of old games I missed out on being a child and all back then.

So long as we have a moderator at hand to make sure no spam comes through, I'm totally okay with allowing guests to post in review threads ONLY. I'm also okay with the review threads being "created" (manually or automatically) by the reviewer themselves. PERSONALLY, just giving the reviewers themselves the option (in their own review "thread") to delete posts as spam might also help ease the moderation load some too.......so long as we were all in agreeance that's the only thing it'd be used for. IDK, whatever is decided, I'm cool with. I just think allowing "guests" to comment on reviews would be potentially useful in driving them more into the site for sign up purposes, and potentially more engagement in total on the site. If they see that the reviewers themselves are actually engaging WITH them, they might be more inclined to sign up. Kind of like Youtubers, personally when I make a comment on a Youtube video, it absolutely incentivizes me to "subscribe" to that Youtuber if they actually respond, like, or whatever my comment. Engagement with the content creator, even at a "guest" level is going to be appreciated by other people not on the site I'd imagine. Just my 2 cents. Sounds like Jan's got the tables thing sorted. Again, wayyyy too far above my knowledge levels, but having a wider variety of tables WOULD be a nice thing to have available for us.

Still waiting for the motherboards and DDR5 pricing to come down as well.

You clearly didn't watch @Bastiaan_NL on stream very often.........

Also, when doing TIM, and I could be wrong, I'm no expert by any means. But I've found on all my Ryzen chips the X method using thin lines seems to be the best. Every CPU in the past I'd use the whole "small grain of rice" method, but due to hot spots as you mentioned, Ryzens seem to work better with a little more. And the X method seems to spread the grease out very nicely and fill in any irregularities in the IHS nicely. I tried editing this into last post, but forum wouldn't allow it. *shrugs

There's 2 PBO menus in your BIOS. Put those same exact settings in ALSO under "AMD Overclocking" under the "Advanced" tab.

Personally, for my 5800x, I used the following for PBO: +200MHz Enabled PBO (not auto) (I think I had two settings "enabled" but Asus board) I left the scaler options auto -0.05v offset vcore 1.125v SoC with IF "Overclocking" enabled +130% power limits Assuming you're stable at a very slight undervolt, the undervolt will keep it boosting higher. It'll boost as high as the cooling allows honestly. If you're getting too hot, it might not boost over 4.9. With my 240mm cooler I'd boost to about 5050MHz. With my 360mm cooler now I've seen 5150 for example (and 4.60GHz all core at best up to 4.75GHz all core NON PBO overclocks).

Now THIS suggestion I think should be more priority over new tables IMHO. You're right, a thread SHOULD be created that people can have conversations about the reviews. As is right now, the comments section is broken kinda (as mentioned above), and allowing "guests" to comment (even in a thread) would certainly help drive up more conversation outside of the community. I definitely support this idea. ---------------------------------- As far as the tables go, I'm not HTML person, and I absolutely suck in Wordpress, not going to lie about that. I accidentally published my thread trying to hit the preview button once by accident. -_- (Sorry E ). If we're going to be implementing new table options, could it possibly be implemented in such a way that its an easy copy / paste kinda thing like the existing table is that we use for pros / cons? Obviously not just one table, but yeah.....give us some options on tables we can copy / paste, and be able to experiment in our own reviews. It'd allow a LITTLE bit more artistic freedom. By all means, don't fix what's not broken....but adding NEW options for tables that we can implement for other purposes would absolutely be fantastic.

Okay so tested the Opteron 175's in my A8N32-SLI Deluxe. The better of the two will do 2.90GHz stable in THAT board. In the board I put it into to stay though, I could only get it up to 2.87GHz, but it has 8GB RAM. It replaced a 2.70GHz Opteron 165, so I guess its an upgrade? Was REALLY hoping for 3GHz+. Oh well...... I got to thinking, I can use the other 175 in the A8R32-MVP Deluxe once I get it fixed. The second chip won't do 2.90 stable in my "bench" board, but it definitely should do 2.8-2.9 somewhere in that range. So they should clock pretty darn closely. And that setup with crossfire can go in my Lian Li PC-60 I'm refurbishing. Then I can put SLI in the Chieftec Dragon with the other 175. It works! I absolutely NEVER meant to fully build up 3x Socket 939 rigs (and have a 4th for benching). But whatever, it was my favorite socket. So I'll end up with an "ultimate" single GPU Socket 939 setup, an "ultimate" SLI setup, and an "ultimate" crossfire setup. Sigh. Ebay is going to love me after the holidays........ Either way, progress is being made. Can't share pictures due to attachment limit on site. -_- Still have to figure that out still.

Honestly those benchmarks sound pretty promising considering their early early drivers so far on them. I was saying the same thing about the lower end ARC GPU, forget the model number. But its a solid comparison to the RX 6400. These midrange cards are just as neat of a value (considering). Glad you've got yours out and playing with it Flux!

As others already mentioned, try BCLK or SoC up some. I personally won't pass about 1.20v SoC, and on my particular 5800x, it doesn't seem to matter. I can run 1900 at 1.125v SoC, but 1933 is unstable no matter how much voltage I give it. I thought the same, 5800x should surely do 2000 IF Clock, so I bought DDR4-4000 to go with it. Yeah nope. And I came from a 1866 IF clocking Ryzen 3600. No point in returning it, you have to have a golden sample it seems to do 2000.