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This got me thinking, so I had to go and take a look..... Intel Alder Lake Celeron G6900 Easily Achieves 57% Overclock | Tom's Hardware WWW.TOMSHARDWARE.COM Overclocker der8auer continued checking through the latest ADL-S chips to see which might have HWBot world record potential. 5.3GHz on the G6900 and 5.4GHz on all 4 cores of the i3 pinning the i3 nearly equal with the Ryzen 5600x. I agree, Intel really should just leave this one alone and throw the overclockers a bone. It's not like we're the majority of consumers anyway. All this will do is boost their sales. If somebody wants or needs more cores they'll still have to go for a higher SKU Intel or a Ryzen anyway so its not really going to take away from those markets even.

Doesn't really matter how you cut it mate, 90*C is too hot. VRM's at 90*C is usually the absolute upper end and VRM's are perfectly fine to run hot. CPU cores and GPU cores, that's way too hot. Laptops just lack the cooling capabilities to run sustained loads like that. When you're gaming, you can always enable vsync or a framerate cap to lower temps. Folding and other full loads there's nothing you can do except increase cooling. Yes....things CAN run that hot. Yes, VRM's CAN run hotter than even 90*C. It's just not good for them, as you're seeing with the dead laptops.

I've got Micca 4" bookshelfs, so yeah even a 45Hz 6.5" would help. Still debating on going up there and looking at it again, its only $8 lol. Kind of wondering if a Dayton 70w plate amp would fit on it. EDIT: Well, I bought it. Hooked up my B2 Audio car amp to it for now. My neighbors are gonna hate me now! Hopefully Youtube lets me post this. So annoyed that I can't record a video of music I paid for. -_-

I think E has a good point. I'll use my own laptop as an example here...... I have an Acer with a 2500u in it. From the factory, letting it throttle the APU down to just a measely 15w, the thing reaches about 82*C when stress testing it. If I overclock it to over 100w TDP, I've seen it hit 110*C near immediately (before I shut it off). I had to install the cooler off the Nitro laptop in there, and solder the secondary fan to a "Yeet Mode" switch off the USB header when I ran the thing overclocked. Doing so causes both fans to spin up to 100% fan speed.....at auto its just one fan on quiet settings. Using my "Yeet Mode" fan profile and liquid metal on the cooler I dropped full load overclocked temps down to about 72*C. Now the problem became the battery, apparently it can't handle sustained 145w loads. -_- It's a cooling problem mate.

I was so close to buying a mini subwoofer today. $7.99 at the thrift store. Was a Pioneer AJ soundbar subwoofer. For once, the driver was actually in decent shape for a thrift store find. Passed on it though as I didn't think I'd be able to get it to connect, apparently its wireless only for a soundbar and the rest of the soundbar wasn't there. -_- I had debated on just running a wire to it off a different amp, but meh was a 6.5" that can only get down to 45Hz. Didn't really think it was worthwhile to invest in an amp for that. Oh well, onto the next find! Bump for the audio club!

Well, guess its better than 6666Mhz at timings of 66-66-66-66 huh? At least with those speeds, maybe it can go back to the future!

Sweet, now let's see the price of 2TB NVME's and 2.5" SSD's come down some please!

So, my PSU arrived a week ago. Thank you Silverstone, and even bigger thank you to E for pushing them for updates during that time period! My apologies for taking a while to post it, packages aren't delivered to my home. I just picked it up a few days ago. I think this PSU and the AIO I won prior are going to wait for a new build to get me off this Ryzen 3600 / 5700XT. I love my build, but definitely still want faster. I'd hate to waste them on my dinky 3600.

Odd.... BTW, stocks are also down big right now too. Maybe that's because of Russia too? It's almost as if, money and stocks have a direct correlation to what crypto is doing regardless of silly policy bans that banks and treasuries try to put in.

So the Bank of Russia is against it, who'd have thunk it that a major bank would be against its competitors? It doesn't say Russia is, it says the Bank of Russia. They also state right there in the excerpt, and I quote: "Importantly, the Bank of Russia does not propose banning crypto for Russian citizens, so they will be able to use foreign exchanges to purchase cryptocurrencies." This is not why crypto fell recently either, it falls every January, Feb, March as people are cashing out to pay their taxes. There's also been a market correction that's been LONG overdue. It says so right in the article, "It is not clear whether the news will have an immediate impact on Bitcoin and other leading cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Cardano or Solana." The recent bubble was also bound to crash. A 2 year bull run is VERY unlikely to stick around, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did to be honest. People always say its the end of crypto every SINGLE time this happens, and yet.....crypto isn't dead yet. This is no different than the 5 different times China "banned" it. You can't ban something that's decentralized to this degree, best they can do is tax it into oblivion which is exactly what they're proposing if you read the article. It's like trying to ban piracy. In this case, they're actively saying they're going to ban hardware in so many words, since they're trying to attack 11% of the world's mining population. That's all mining is, just hardware running. And why is this so dangerous but yet folding@home is okay? Same thing, its sustained loads on the electrical grid from computers crunching numbers.

Oh, and if you had actually read my projects thread.....you'd have recognized that I'm building my old systems for my kid. That way he can learn where PC's came from and how they've evolved over the years. I intend on teaching my nephews about them too. It's a learning experience for the younger generations, something that it really sounds like YOU could have a lesson or two in as well.

Actually yes its a VERY good thing I'm building retro systems to enjoy the games I've paid for. Thank you. Just played Quake again just 2 nights ago.....a game that got a FREE revamp recently, 26 years after release. Talk about customer service. It has absolutely nothing to do with platform of choice here mate. I used to play on NES, SNES, PSX, N64 too. Also played on DOS and original Mac systems too. I had an original Gameboy as well. I quit consoles after the original XBox and PS2, never owned either but my friends did. It had nothing to do with the consoles it was more....why should I keep buying boxes when my PC can already play the games I enjoy? Back then, the exclusives for the consoles didn't really tickle my fancy too much and the games I did want were available on all platforms. Only reason I switched to PC gaming was because I was already in love with building my own dream hardware from the ground up. But good job gaslighting my rage as "elitist" and "anal" for PC only.

And I'd argue that we've seen nothing but a decline in the quality of games since at least 15 years ago. To be honest, I think the last real good year of gaming in general was 2007, when things were still actually new and innovative. And this anticompetitive, day one DLC, subscription model, intrusive DRM for paying customers system we're into is directly to thank for that. Every one of the large companies in the industry is at fault here, not just Microsoft. There was a comment above about why are we complaining so hard about when Microsoft does this.......how about because this thread is about Microsoft doing it and not Sony? Sony is just as guilty here, but that's getting off topic. And yes, there are exceptions to my statement. There are some good titles here and there still. But they're getting fewer and further in between. Just because they put more pretties in the games doesn't mean the games are better. All they're doing is rehashing old ideas, and copy / pasting old games with new flair. I mean jeez, speaking of Activision, look at COD MW "Remastered". It's quite LITERALLY a copy / paste of COD4 from 2007, and that game sold millions. Why, WHY when the same EXACT freaking title was already available since 2007? And there's talks of them re-releasing MW2 as a "remaster". How about GTA III, Vice City, and SA Remastered? Again, titles that were ALREADY available.....and the remastered copies are actually worse than the originals even! And yes, as far as "console exclusives", that's been a thing since the NES and Sega Genesis days. It's expected. What's NOT expected is when you're literally splitting the gaming community in half with exclusives. They used to be the occasion not the norm, and today exclusives are slowly becoming a norm. Every generation there's more and more exclusives for one system or another. Exclusives USED TO BE very specific titles, usually released at launch of a console kind of like tech demos for the consoles themselves. Most titles were available on all systems back in the day. With one exception of course that I have not mentioned yet......Nintendo. They've ALWAYS had a large number of exclusives, but that's because they develop their own games.

Same here. Welcome to the forum all!

It's a Corsair RMX 550w PSU with ONLY a 24pin ATX power connector coming off the PSU. I need a 20 pin on the motherboard. The 24 pin will not plug in at all, I've tried lol. Thought I ordered the right adapters previously, but they were male to male, and obviously I need female 24 pin to male 20 pin (or 20+4). Found some extensions by Raidmax that'll do the job, they're on order now. I also found the additional molex cables, apparently I need "Type 4", but I'm waiting to hear back from Corsair first. They might have a better price than ebay does.

You still have yet to show me where one can purchase a HOME license of Office Premium with all the features of the subscription model mate. You say they're not doing these things.....but they are. You just keep comparing apples to oranges. You really think they're not going to do the same with games, when they've flat out stated they're going to?

Man, Rigs of Rods was freaking awesome back in the day! I haven't tried that out again in ages! Pretty sure I still have my installer for it laying around somewhere on my NAS. Let me know if you find some time. I'm usually playing it at night after kiddo goes to bed so he's not bugging me for a turn.

So I got that rig stable at 3GHz CPU, HT Link at 1000MHz, and DDR400 @ 2.5-3-3-6-2T timing. Took 1.52v and the CPU gets overly toasty under load, but its fine. This particular 939 rig I wasn't intending on playing on too much anyway, its too perfect to use. I'm going to swap the Xonar out for an X-Fi Xtreme Music here once I get the second 939 built, the other 939 build is for me to play with.....and I REALLY like that Xonar sound card. Going to start assembling my Athlon-XP build today. Let's see how that goes! EDIT: Sigh......and the build is on hold yet again. 2 reasons this time. Reason 1 and the main reason, I bought the wrong stupid 24pin to 20 pin adapters. So now I have to try to hunt a couple of those down yet again, which sucks because these were the only ones I found that were black. -_- Reason 2, nearly all the front panel clips on the case are broken and I require the front panel to be mounted properly so I can line up all the external drives and fan controller. I've already glued the clips back into place with gorilla glue, and I'll also be doing some hot glue on them after the 24 hour full cure time period is over. I noticed when I received the case that the front panel was a little loose, I didn't realize every single clip and bolt point was snapped off except for 2. -_- Just grrrr, its always something with these old builds. Ordered appropriate 24pin adapters. Waiting on Corsair to email me back about running extra molex leads off these PSU's instead of the SATA plugs, and asked them for extra molex cables. Figured better safe than sorry since everything in this rig runs off molex. Really don't think its safe to run everything off just one cable.

No, its a still in alpha game that's been actively in development since 2013. I think regular price on it is 20 bucks. They regularly release pretty decent sized updates, the game's came along very nicely over the years so far. "Beam MP" is a multiplayer mod for it. It's a sandbox crash simulator basically, but they've gotten so many things right for driving its quickly becoming (in my opinion) one of the better sim driving games out there. It's no longer just simulation for crashing, they have missions and races and stuff built into it now already. The AI has gotten better at driving. Idk, just thought maybe some of you guys might have had a copy already and we could do some multiplayer on it.

Welcome! We've got a pretty active folding community here. Things move a little slow because the userbase is pretty small, but our folding team is absolutely awesome!

Any of you guys have a wheel setup and want to start doing some Beam MP drifting or racing with me? Maybe we could go offroading? Let's go! Let me know.

Ahem, I thought we were talking about HOME Office here, not the $439 Pro version? And you don't understand how COD is relevant here? Dude, just nevermind. I've only picked a handful of titles that I personally knew off the top of my head for my arguments, there's many many more that I could complain about. Here, I'll make it easy for you, you're right and I'm delusional. K? K. Obviously you just don't get it, you said so yourself. I've only been involved in the PC community since about 1998. It's not like I haven't personally watched all of this evolve over the last 25 years or anything. Let me ask you a question, maybe this will make more sense. Why do you think we're all here at EHW and not over at OCN anymore? Do you think it has anything to do with the biggest media company buying a website and ruining it for a lot of people? Because that's why I'm here and why I haven't logged into the other site in years. You might not view it that way, but some of us do. There's a reason people don't like these things, it's because we know better because we've seen better.

I'm still waiting mate. You CANNOT buy Office 2021, only "classic". You CANNOT buy Office Premium. You skipped outlook, which again you cannot buy. And the "free" version of OneDrive that's included with Windows is gimped compared to the subscription model version. I've shown you evidence, I've given game examples even. You're just not listening. Go try to play MW2 online. Then go play COD4 online. Let me know what the differences are. I'll give you a hint, COD4 you can still play. MW2, you can't without installing mods, and even then there's just no community for it anymore. Go play GTA IV online, hint...you can't. Developers are nerfing old games so they can push their latest games, DLC, and subscription models. This has been happening for years.

Dude, that's like legendary Kentsfield clocks there. Most Core 2 Quad Kentsfields tapped out at 3.6-3.8 if you had a GOOD one. Dang. I remember seeing a few people hit 4 with their Q6600's and Q6700's, but it wasn't very many. 15 years later and you're at 4.1....... just wow!