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Somebody better at folding hit up @LabRat ? He really should be up there with my point output, and he's not. I'm not good at folding myself so I'm not much help.

Cool. In another 5 years, maybe the 4090 will be the price I paid for my 7900XTX on the used market.

Well? What's your excuse? C'mon man, catchup!

I'm with you there bud, I'm doing my first loop in over a decade again. I'm not an expert by any means at water loops, I've only ever built one real one before. But from the limited knowledge I do have, Avacado and Sir B are spot on with their advice. Good luck with your build! It'll be a lot of fun building a loop.

That is some REALLY fancy formatting in this review, wow man. Looks absolutely amazing! I need to play around with Word Press moreso it seems, because I have no clue how you were able to make your images like that, nor how you were able to wrap the text around images either. It looks fantastic! Review was great too as usual, but man you just keep making them look better and better every time!

Thanks E. My only regret is forgetting the lighting molex plug on the backside for ALL of the lighting, and my SATA SSD's. That made the wattage draw slightly different between the 2 units I was comparing. Sadly I didn't even realize my mistake until I was writing the thing. Oops, too late now. Not exactly easy to do with a rig that's over 100 pounds either. Power supply reviews absolutely are a tough one to do without having the proper tools at hand. Absolutely. Thank you again for the kind words. Thanks again to Cooler Master too, this unit is a fantastic addition to my PC collection.

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Can confirm I probably have the update (I install all updates blindly like a moron / since Windows won't let me avoid anyway). Windows 11 Pro x64, fully up to date here. Can also confirm, I've been having stuttering for a while now, since just after I tweaked and tuned my system. I did updates too around the same time and the tuning showed all rock solid stable results. I'm back to all stock now, and still stuttery. Which was really weird for me because this new system was soooo buttery smooth when I first assembled and installed it, and also for a few days after I tweaked it. Seriously debating on installing Linux at this point, but I REALLY don't want to deal with those headaches too. -_-

Can confirm, I've seen similar artifacting on Forza Horizon 5 as well, loading off a HDD on an older system. Those "artifacts" absolutely DO look suspicious, but if that's the only title doing it.....its likely not a problem, and I'd lean more towards the HDD being the culprit too.

I was NEVER able to get that feature functioning correctly myself. My fixes were using "Connectify" with Windows, or to just swap my "router rig" over to Linux, because Linux has a hotspot feature that "just works". I actually do plan on formatting and going to Kubuntu soon on my "router rig" soon, just don't want to risk the downtime anymore than I "have to", considering its literally my router for the whole network lol.

Really too bad about that Gigabyte model, but I DID warn you about that didn't I? TPU Link for anyone that would like to see what was going on with his Gigabyte card: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/gigabyte-has-fallen.320080/ TLDR: BUY A GIGABYTE CARD IN 2024 AT YOUR OWN RISK (Labrat here isn't the only one reporting MAJOR problems with Gigabyte cards). ------------------------------------------------------------ Glad you've got the Sapphire Nitro+ model now, I get the feeling you're in for a GOOD time with that card! Now, let's see your benches. You're probably the only person on EHW with one of these.

It's not JUST about BeamNG.drive, its about EVERY game I've bought and paid for on Steam, that I am no longer ALLOWED to play because Steam claims the CPU is too old falsely. I literally have damages from this, and it sucks because there's not a lawyer around that'd probably touch this case.

Steam itself will not launch on CPU's missing the CMPXCHG16b instruction set now. This is NOT a requirement to play games I've purchased on Steam, but it is a requirement to launch the Steam client itself now. Just tried on Socket 939 with Kubuntu last night. The system itself was snappy and quick enough to daily drive even (as a dual core with DDR400). But nope, can't install Steam even on Linux anymore. I was actually planning on recording a BeamNG.drive session on the Socket 939 system soon, that's why I was prepping the system for Steam on Linux, since Windows 7 Steam doesn't install on anymore. This is a system I've literally played the game on before just fine.

Update: Valve will no longer allow Steam to even be installed on older CPU's now, its not just a Windows 7 thing. They are now actively blocking Steam installations on Linux on older machines too. This actually is now directly effecting me, and youtube content I was preparing to make (playing games on old rigs). Literally cannot play games, I've paid for, on hardware that's officially supported by the game now.

In, pioneerisloud. I may end up at the bottom of the list this go around though. Will probably only be folding on the GTX 960. It's been getting hotter lately, and my power bill is already outrageous. -_-

No thanks. Can't play a lot of retro games on Windows 10 anyway, and Steam only works on Windows 10 and newer. I'll stick to GoG copies. You guys are more than welcome to be guinea pigs though.

There's a game with this benchmark?

So you're saying I have a shot?

I still have no clue what I'm doing with mine. So far, here's what I've done with my 7900x system: PBO enabled +200MHz Undervolted -0.90v 1.40v VDDQ / VDD (whatever the 2 RAM voltage settings are) 1.25v SoC Scaler set to 8x RAM @ 64x multiplier (stock was 60x) Timings set manually to XMP (slightly tighter now) 2100 IF Clock UCLK = MemClock enabled (I think I got the terminology right?) No clue what any of these new ratios and stuff means you guys are talking about. Don't know if I'm doing it right or not. But the system's noticeably faster than my tuned 5800x system. If one was to decide to step up into a 48GB kit for a 7900x later on, what ARE the proper tweaks to be doing on this platform? Do you want fast RAM? Shouldn't IF Clock be 1:1? What is a UCLK? Ugh, I was hoping this platform was going to be similar to AM4. -_-

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Woot woot! New mouse to try!

Testing stability on a bunch of "useless old cards" anyway. Why not fold on them?

I edited them in. Sorry, I should've typed it all up first lol. I'm done editing now.

There's so many to choose from, just 5? Here's what I'd say mine would be, and this is in absolutely no particular order. Super Mario All-Stars (SNES) On the list because there's 4 great games, sometimes 5 (depending on locality I believe?) included all on one cartridge. Rush 2: Extreme Racing (N64) Who didn't love playing the Stunt track on this? But even better yet, who didn't love bringing the arcade game Rush home on your N64 and CRT television set? I even had Dolby surround sound for this game, it was great! Quake (Win9x) I only ever had the demo for most of the time I played this, but I got REALLY really good at the first level at 320x240 resolution, software rendering, at like 10-15 FPS. SimCity 3000 (Win9x) Creating amazing cities and then blowing them up? Heck yes! Driver (Win9x) First game I had stumbled upon that "simulated" a good burnout in a car. The police chases weren't bad either. Like GTA games later on (I played this long before GTA), never really played for the story. Honorable Mention: NFS Underground 2 (WinXP): Do I really need to explain why?