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The Opteron is okay for the DDR1 memory bench I do believe. For the AMD CPU runs (for DDR1 systems) it says no Opteron is the only rule, so your 3500+ would be suitable there.

Dood! Awesome job with the SLI 460's! Dont' get discouraged if Flux comes in and does runs, its all part of the game. If his run is invalid, which it probably will be because its Flux...then yours will still stay anyway. Read the requirements on the Socket 939 CPU runs. Requires an Athlon processor, NO Opterons. I can't find my x2. -_-

Here's another good "sub" song, much prettier song anyway. 30Hz range.

It totally depends on the setup I've noticed too. To be honest, my Honda seemed to do best with a remake of Melanie Martinez's Carousel. Song absolutely BANGED in that car with dual Dayton Ultimax 10's off about 2500-2700w RMS. In my SUV though, with three of those subs and a measured 2744w to them, it tended to do better in the 40Hz range. In a home setup though, especially if its tuned correctly for home theater, those subsonic notes SHOULD be present, and they should be felt and not heard. I wish I had a proper home setup lol. Stupid apartment. Note: This is clearly not "high quality" music. This is most definitely a good subwoofer test though if your setup can extend to 26Hz.

Okay but what about the 6900XT? It's great that he's doing this, but how does it work on the higher SKU cards too? If it works so well on the 6800XT, it should work on the 6900 and 6950 no? I won't be able to test this out on mine until MSI gets me my card back. Hopefully this will be released by then. I would be completely happy with an increase in power consumption, my PSU is hardly breaking a sweat as is, and my cooler keeps the card below 65*C load which is super cool for a 300-350w load. I just need that little TINY bit more GPU power than my card provides as is. If I could beat the 6950XT with my 6900, I'd be one very happy gamer. I'm really not THAT far down in performance from where I ultimately want to be. Honestly like another 5-10% performance, and I'd be set for YEARS to come.

Nice catch! Yeah SLI doesn't work in windowed mode.

192k mp3 I think is what the "HD" youtube has for quality, or somewhere around there. You're right, its not the greatest by any means, but its at least listenable. Personally, I grew up with the mp3 boom. It hit right when I was really getting into speakers and music. So sadly, my ears are accustomed to it. I do still enjoy a good vinyl though too, sadly haven't gotten to experience one of those in like 20 years though. Here's one of my favorites to play with for excursion of subwoofers. You won't hear the low notes in this. I believe the "peaks" are at 17Hz and 7Hz respectively with the main bass note being somewhere around 30Hz-36Hz.

If you happen to have an AM3+ setup (FX), we could REALLY use the pair of wicked high clocking 290's to join up with my RX 580's and Bastain's 590's. Link below for the rules on that particular bench. /img/logo.png Overclocking, overclocking, and much more! Like overclocking. HWBOT.ORG HWBOT is a site dedicated to overclocking. We promote overclocking achievements and competitions for professionals as well as... Ebay sells some IDE to SATA converters that'll get you going with a SSD no problem on Socket 754. Just an example is linked below, but they're regularly under like $9 or so shipped. SATA to PATA IDE Hard Drive Adapter Converter 3.5" HDD Parallel to Serial ATA US WWW.EBAY.COM Converts Parallel ATA (PATA, ATA, IDE) to Serial ATA (SATA). Features one SATA port, one PATA port (40-pin IDE), and one 4-pin...

To be fair, the REALLY bad offender I was originally thinking of when I ran into Blue Jeans was "Coconut Audio". Website's gone now, but back in the day that troll really did have a fully functioning checkout system. Not sure how many people fell for the scam. I remember banning Patrick off OCN several times for trying to sell his garbage. I mistakenly thought it was Blue Jeans. Could've sworn Blue Jeans was spamming OCN at one point too, but I could be wrong its been years. Again, they're not THAT bad, but they're far more expensive than cables really should cost if somebody shops around. Just like Monster. Idk, I usually default to Parts Express and Monoprice usually. Amazon basics too. Copper wire is copper wire. *shrugs Obviously analogue wires require certain things in certain scenarios, but yeah.

Dude...... Beldon 5T00UP is $2.25 per foot at Blue Jeans. Parts Express sells the same stuff for $1.79 / foot, or $143 for 100ft of it. Belden 5T00UP 10 AWG 2C Cable Hi-Flex In-Wall Speaker Wire CL2 Per ft. USA WWW.PARTS-EXPRESS.COM Belden 5T00UP 10 AWG 2C Cable Hi-Flex In-Wall Speaker Wire CL2 Per ft. USA. Part Number: 102-1190 by Belden. You're paying more just to buy it from a snake oil salesman at Blue Jeans. They make their money off selling their "ultra sonic welding" and their "color print out sheets". There's been people that have paid thousands of dollars for cables at that company, and had absolutely zero discernable difference from regular lamp cord. They're just as bad or worse than monster cable. You can even buy the stuff cheaper than Blue Jeans on Amazon..... Note the description: "We can cut to any length" https://www.amazon.com/Belden-5T00UP-Cable-Hi-Flex-Speaker/dp/B00CWEND4C I will admit, that they're not AS BAD when looking at their raw materials though. But their assembled cables, a lot of them (not all) are absolute snake oil.

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Hmmm, so I have the bus width to blame? Seriously though, as @Sir Beregondsaid above, this really feels like the GTX 680 release all over again with these RTX 4000 series cards. And the pricing on top of it is just a slap in the face to boot. I don't recall who said it or in what thread, but it really almost does feel like they're releasing garbage on purpose to push existing RTX 3000 stock and get that moved first before releasing the big card and calling it the 4090Ti, or maybe save it for the 5090. Guess we'll have to see how AMD answers this with the 7900XT to get a better idea of what's going on. Probably wait for the next "big" Nvidia card too, just to see if there's any reasonable explanation behind what they're doing this gen.

I thought we had figured out over a decade ago that solid copper loops were the way to go? My last loop was on a 771 converted 775 board with a Xeon X5470 and a HD7970 (so about a decade ago). Used full copper everything, distilled water, and a kill coil. That loop was fine for like 2 years with zero maintenance. The one before that was on my 2500k, also all copper with distilled + killcoil, and I ran that one I think for around 3 years with zero maintenance. The kid I sold the 2500k rig to used it as it sat until the rig was retired, so it was basically as reliable as a CLC. Idk, I don't run water anymore because of added cost. But if I did, I'd still be rocking the tried and true system I've always used.

Open the window and bench away my friend. It has to do with being below AMBIENT temperature and condensation amount in the air. If your ambient temp is 8C, and your CPU / GPU is say 10C (idle), that's fine. You can drop down to 0C ambient, or below 0 even, and still be fine. Condensation starts happening when you use ice buckets on radiators, dry ice, LN2, phase change, TEC, etc. And that's because you're making the component colder than the air around it. Think about it like when you pull a tub of ice cream out of the freezer. Inside the freezer (most of the time anyway), things are fine. Once you bring that tub outside of the freezer, you start getting little water droplets falling off the tub onto the counter tops. That's because the ice cream bucket is colder than ambient temperature.

Good plan. 5.4GHz+ on the FX and 1300+ on the 7970's should do nicely, assuming you can squeeze that much out of everything. Let's see if we can get enough people and junk running to get 4th place!

We need at least a 7970 x2 run (with AM3+ platform), or probably preferred a RX480, RX570, RX470, 290(x), depending on what cards anyone may have laying around crossfire run. Something strong dual GPU GDDR5 on AM3+, and AMD GPU's that's NOT RX 590's or RX 580's. /img/logo.png Overclocking, overclocking, and much more! Like overclocking. HWBOT.ORG HWBOT is a site dedicated to overclocking. We promote overclocking achievements and competitions for professionals as well as... Any takers? @Fluxmaven I don't know who else would have an AM3+ setup and GDDR5 AMD cards laying around. -_- I'd buy some RX 570's and run them myself, but I've already done the 580's. Somehow we went from 1st in that category down to third because we only have the 2 runs.

QFT. Another interesting tidbit here......As a 6900XT owner, the current gen AMD cards really aren't HORRIBLE at raytracing, its just "RTX" that they fall on their face with. The cards CAN do it, but "RTX" is moreso an Nvidia thing just like PhysX was. So that's my bet too, the 4000 series will still be better at regular "RTX", but the 7000 series from AMD should end up doing better than the 3000 series do now, or maybe worst case about on par with. Play Crysis Remastered with RT turned on, and the 6900XT performs just fine. Launch up Cyberpunk though, and yeah, slideshow city. Difference being "DX raytracing" vs "RTX" of course. Doesn't AMD already have DLSS equivalent with RSR and FSR though? Honestly, I like the openness of AMD's options better than Nvidia's DLSS anyway. Any card can use FSR in games that support it. And RSR is honestly pretty neat to play around with too on the AMD cards that support it (5700XT and higher). I mean they're not perfect, and I'm sure DLSS is slightly more fine tuned.....but they work and they work pretty well. FSR 2.0 is even better, so they're obviously putting effort into it. It beats playing things at native lowered resolutions anyway by a long shot.

RIP Keep us posted man. Maybe the next one will last another 260+k.

Awww dude, you've been missing so much without having the mods. We've just got to get you used to the layout of the menus in the game a little bit more. You can build any car you WANT into a mad max car with a lot of the mods (and stock cars). I already went 4x4'ing in the Naches, WA (Dirty 4x4) map with a "Covet" or a little Honda hatchback. I've still got to go through sometime and redo the mods list and get a proper update going again so we have a good baseline for the latest version of the game.

And what appears to be a Chieftec Dragon with side window!!!??? Not hwbot related, but dude...you scored IMO! The system itself probably isn't half bad either. K8N-E is a NForce board, just one of the "cheaper" models. 2800+ should do as well as any other Athlon64 I'd imagine, so 2.3-2.5GHz or so easy enough. FX 5600 is great for retro systems and retro gaming even though it was a joke back then. Just wow, that's a great score.

If I'm reading up on it correctly, the 2700+ is a mobile chip too, it might overclock really really well if his board is a good NF board. 1.6GHz stock and like 35w TDP, whereas the typical Newcastle and Clawhammer Athlon64's were I think 95w and 125w, and upwards of like 2.2-2.4GHz (stock). Got lots of room for overclock on that 2700+ if it'll do it.

FX 5600 is Nvidia. Might be able to use it in the Nvidia AGP round if there is one. But the AMD round its basically Radeon 7500, 8500, and 9000.

I will agree 110% that the DLSS tech is amazing, as is FSR and the one Intel is developing. I love this idea, especially for older or lower tier cards. One problem though. Paying $1600 (MSRP, we know it'll be more than that retail) for a GPU, I shouldn't HAVE to run DLSS or FSR even at 4k. It's 2022, these GPU's are 100 fold faster than the console counterparts. I could see utilizing DLSS / FSR in consoles and again lower model GPU's....but a 4090 or 7900XT? It shouldn't be needed, and they're promoting it on the high end cards in these videos like its gold. Sorry, I'm actually a little salty that I paid $1000 for a 6900XT and I absolutely have to run FSR in some titles (that are older than the card mind you). And Nvidia is pushing DLSS on the 4090 / 4080 series too in those videos. Yeah, the tech is great. Agreed. But show it off on say the 4050 or 4060 series where it should be belonging.

I think this is the most important bit in the whole article since $1600 MSRP....gross.... But Portal with RTX!? What!!!!???