Mr. Fox

It looks like the release date got pushed out another month. Again. I hope it ends up being worth the wait. I have loved owning the Z790 Apex. Best motherboard I have owned in a long time. I finally decided to sell it and the golden 14900KS. I love them both, but they are no longer useful to me since I cannot break any of my high scores or earn any more points with them on HWBOT.

Awesome. Congrats. I really liked the Arc A770 GPU that I had. It was an excellent value. Probably the best price to performance ratio I had ever seen before.

RX 9070 XT (received/in use) X870E Apex (pending)

ASUS A21 baby tower is what I think to be the best SFF case you can buy and also one of the most affordable. I'd have to say it is my favorite and I spent weeks looking at alternatives that were almost entirely a huge turn-off due to the sacrifice of function for form factor to the point that it just wasn't worth it; not to mention anything somewhat interesting was usually grossly overpriced and a very poor value. Second favorite, but borderline too small, is the ASUS AP201. Both will support a 360 AIO for better temps and quieter operation. I've owned both. You can find fancier cases that cost a whole lot more and offer a lot less functionality.

The industry serving PC enthusiasts has basically become nothing more than an organized crime ring that have extortion and collusion as their unspoken core values.

Sorry, I didn't understand what you were looking for, and equally sorry I've got nothing useful that I can share with you. Hopefully someone else can provide some useful advice.

I've never done much BCLK overclocking with locked or unlocked CPUs. The lack of a discrete CPU BCLK generator to allow asynchronous tuning can cause a lot of instability when changing the bus speed of everything rather than the CPU only. The voltage needs of the CPU might not be much different than pure clock ratio overclocking. Years ago, when laptops still mattered to me, I played around a bit with it on my Intel Extreme mobile CPUs and never found anything beyond about 101.00 to 102.00 to be stable. Running games and playing YouTube videos always ended in a BSOD or hard freezes with loud electronic buzzing noises regardless of the voltage applied. Because they were unlocked CPUs there was never much more than modest curiosity in playing with the BCLK. Elevating the core multiplier was easy enough. With a locked CPU multiplier it would have become more of an area of focus out of necessity. I do always bump it about 0.050 MHz so that the clocks I set are always equal or greater than the multiplier. If I set 6.00GHz I want to see 6.00GHz. I do not want to see something like 5.95GHz instead. I also disable Spread Spectrum to help with that.

Maybe we'll all get lucky and they'll start licking postage stamps with anthrax on them.

Are you talking about the overclock.net marketplace and the bad actors posting fake PC part advertisements using hacked accounts of legit community members?

Nice to see you, bro. Happy you're here. So sad about EVGA. Things immediately took a bad turn in the world of PC enthusiasts the moment they walked off the stage, and I do not ever expect things to be as good as they were when they were disrupting status quo with their overclocker-focused world-leading motherboards and video cards. They had no match in terms of product or service delivery excellence, and probably never will.

I think any "pledge" to do the right thing made by Google (or any other technology company for that matter) should be taken with a grain of salt. The notion that any of them are interested in doing the right thing for anyone other than themselves is downright laughable. They're going to do whatever they think will make them the most money regardless of whether or not those things are legal, just, respectable or beneficial to society as a whole.

AMD graphics cards need to be able to deliver equivalent or better ray tracing performance and offer a feature set on par with or greater than NVIDIA, at a better price, in order to gain meaningful marketshare. One of the reasons things are goofed up in GPU world is because NVIDIA doesn't have any serious competition.

That would be nice and appropriate. I stopped reading as soon as I saw it was for laptop CPUs. Zero interest in turdbooks. The iGPU in the 9950X isn't really suitable for anything other than the most basic display output. Very poor 3D rendering and weaker than the lame Intel iGPU in the 13900KS/14900KS.

That will/would be impressive. I am not sure I can believe that until I actually see it in the hands of an actual end user or some unbiased third-party reviews. I did not read the entire article. Hopefully it is not something only for turdbook processors. The results on unreleased products that we have seen published by AMD, NVIDIA and Intel are always suspect. I hope it is accurate.