Mr. Fox

At least you can play the lullaby CD to relieve the stress about them taking all of your money. That would be great, especially if it's weaponry were still functional with lots of ammo included. Perfect solution for the 85,000 armed IRS agents Brandon is sending our way.

Funny, I was going to say that if you beat them I wouldn't try harder. 3060 Ti is a really nice and affordable card for gamerboyz. It is absolutely not an enthusiast product. The only reason I have it is because I needed a replacement GPU on my work computer fast and cheap. Under normal circumstances I would never entertain the idea of buying consumer-grade sheeple crap below the flagship product. Sometimes I wonder if it is possible to have both.

@AvacadoBrother @Bastiaan_NL has several now that he will need to get busy one, not just that one. Now I need to see what (if anything) can be done about a voltage mod on this gamerboy GPU. Now that power limits are no longer an issue, it runs out of voltage way too fast. The Green Goblin sures knows how to gimp their junk.

Shunt mod... no more power limits... just gimped on voltage now. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti video card benchmark result - Intel Core i9-12900KS Processor,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI WWW.3DMARK.COM Intel Core i9-12900KS Processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti x 1, 32768 MB, 64-bit Windows 11} /img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s 3DMark - Fire Strike score: 33541 marks with a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (GA104) HWBOT.ORG The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (GA104) @ 2175/2075MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the 3DMark - Fire Strike benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #null worldwide and #2 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

Hey friends! Happy Thanksgiving. Even for those that are not in the US and this is not a holiday, all of us have many things to be thankful for, even though life is very difficult sometimes. Blessings to all of you!

Crysis, Crysis 2, Crysis 3 Remastered (my favorite franchise, rebooted)... on KDE Plasma. Very smooth experience (as usual). Proton makes it so easy.

I think there is some merit to kicking around the idea of allowing guest to post, but I think the answer to the above is yes. I would recommend removal of the option to comment apart from the designated thread to avoid fragmented discussion, even if unregistered guests are allowed to post in it. Does the forum software allow that? I would think anyone that had something important enough to share would become a registered member of the community. On the flip side, if it is not important enough to them to register, do we actually care about what they want to share? It's only my personal opinion, but I am leaning toward a no on that. If what they have to say isn't important enough, why give them a platform?

Just to be clear, I would not be an advocate for anonymous posting. Creating the thread and driving readers of the review to engage in discussion would require that they create an account (also a very positive thing) before they could post anything. That may not have been clear in the suggestion.

This above current verbiage could modified to contain a link to the associated thread and be changed to read something like: A thread related to this product review can be found at this link in the ExtremeHW Forum. We cordially invite you to participate in the discussion, provide feedback on the review, share your views or personal experience with this product. Likewise, the opening post wouldn't need anything more than a hyperlinked text bearing the title of the review above boilerplate language that says something like: Cooler Master HAF 700 Review and Build by pioneerisloud After enjoying the above review, we invite you to participate in this discussion, provide feedback on the review, share your views or personal experience with this product. Alternatively, although probably unnecessary, the opening post could include the opening paragraph from the review, like this: Cooler Master HAF 700 Review and Build by pioneerisloud Today we have been given the opportunity to review an entire “half” a computer package, if you will, courtesy of Cooler Master. This review will incorporate the newly released HAF 700 “Berserker” PC chassis, the XG850 Plus Platinum power supply, and their MasterLiquid PL360 Flux AIO water cooling kit. Cooler Master was founded in 1992, so they’re definitely not new to the table when it comes to PC components. They produce computer cases, power supplies, PC cooling for both CPU’s and GPU’s, laptop cooling pads, and computer peripherals. They’ve also produced cooling solutions for other major brands in the industry, and they’re a major sponsor of eSports competitions. Do these components we have today stand up to the ExtremeHardware standards? Well, let’s dive in and see!

Really nice thread, @iamjanco and a conversation worth having. I really like the idea of enhancing the styling, and improving the size and format of tables is a good place to start. Also a challenging one because visual variance between browsers is always a wildcard. I have tried to address the unpredictability in the past by making tables offline, saving them as an image and posting the image. Then the visual outcome is nearly guaranteed whether the review is read on a PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or whatever. There was another matter I had mentioned to Brother @Avacado a while ago that I was going to suggest to @ENTERPRISE and never got around to it. Now could be a good time to raise the idea and incorporate it into a "reboot" of sorts. This appears at the end of each review: Want to discuss this product or give your views and feedback from your own usage ? Discuss now on the ExtremeHW Forums The link dumps you onto the landing page of the forum. There is no associated thread. The comments at the end of a review require a separate disconnected user authentication and there are seldom any public comments. It is usually us telling a peer they did a nice job on the review. Most visitors are not going to create an account and start their own thread, but they might be more inclined to engage with the community if the thread already existed. It would be better if a thread was created for each review where the public could engage with questions and feedback about the review and the product itself. I think it could drive more traffic to our community and improve engagement related to the reviews. It would also be more consistent with what we see from competing reviewers. Most of our competitors/peers that do product reviews have an associated forum thread linked at the end of the review. It could be moderated like any other forum thread, so it would not require a special process or workflow to manage it. This could also enhance the value of our reviews to the OEMs that send us products for review. Sometimes public opinion on products, or the experience of other users, does not mesh 100% with a review. Technical issues or special benefits can surface that were not identified by the person doing a review. That could be hugely helpful to the OEMs.

A couple of recent music video releases... Dang, I totally forgot about how much I like Nita's music.

Looks like you were fortunate to get a good CPU sample. Based on casual observations, I think I got an average sample. I haven't decided whether to keep it or roll the dice on an exchange possibly turning out better. I am just getting started tinkering with mine and I don't know how far it can go on the chiller. 5.9GHz on P cores was surprisingly easy, so it will be fun finding out where the brick wall is for chilled water. If I decide to keep it I will delid it. What are you using to cool yours? Edit: I just noticed only 4 cores enabled, LOL. Maybe someday I will try that for CPU benchmarks. Cooling is probably much easier and it makes good sense for single-core and benchmarks that only take advantage of a few cores.

I don't usually burn any calories worrying about it. Everyone that has a pulse likes the idea of being a winner, but I think it is highly overrated unless it means you're getting more money. But, I am not a competitive person by nature. I do get a mild sense of satisfaction knowing it bugs competitive people that I mostly don't care. Sometimes it bothers them more if they discover that the accomplishment they worked so hard to surpass represented a half-hearted and casual effort on my part. That probably qualifies me as an agitator more than a contestant.

What kind of reward? /img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s 3DMark11 - Performance score: 40448 marks with a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (GA104) HWBOT.ORG The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (GA104) @ 2070/2050MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the 3DMark11 - Performance benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #null worldwide and #3 in the hardware class. Find out more...

So, a bit of an update. This 3060 Ti FTW3 was purchased to replace my record-setting 2080 Ti FTW3 that was shunt modded and running a 2000W vBIOS. I knocked my tower over by accident while cleaning my office and when I turned it back on again it had code 43 and "space invaders" artifacts. I was just sick about it. I love this GPU. It spent 3+ years running in almost perpetual beast mode. It ran like a top at 2250 MHz core, +1600 memory at 1.200V and pulled 950W~1050W in Time Spy, 3DMark 11 and Port Royal, and over 1100W with Furmark testing. (Yes, that is how it melted the insulation on power cables.) I tore it apart and bathed it in alcohol and visually it has no defects. I tested it with MATS and Samsung chip B0 has either failed or the BGA was fractured by the shock. I am hopeful it will be repairable and nothing else wrong with it. mats version 400.184. Testing TU102 with 20 MB of memory starting with 0 MB. Read Error Count: 0 Write Error Count: 717805 Unknown Error Count: 0 === MEMORY ERRORS BY SUBPARTITION === SUBPART READ ERRORS WRITE ERRORS UNKNOWN ERRS ------- ----------- ------------ ------------ FBIOA0 0 0 0 FBIOA1 0 0 0 FBIOB0 0 717805 0 FBIOB1 0 0 0 FBIOC0 0 0 0 FBIOC1 0 0 0 FBIOD0 0 0 0 FBIOD1 0 0 0 FBIOE0 0 0 0 FBIOE1 0 0 0 FBIOF0 0 0 0 FBIOF1 0 0 0 Failing Bits: B000 B001 B002 B003 B004 B005 B006 B007 B008 B009 B010 B011 B012 B013 B014 B015 === MEMORY ERRORS BY BIT === P : Partition (FBIO) READ 0 READ 1 READ ? P BIT READ ERRORS WRITE ERRORS UNKNOWN ERRS EXP. 1 EXP. 0 EXP. ? - --- ----------- ------------ ------------ ------ ------ ------ B 000 0 776620 0 595624 180996 0 B 001 0 688440 0 271326 417114 0 B 002 0 806002 0 655095 150907 0 B 003 0 776706 0 180896 595810 0 B 004 0 688386 0 417028 271358 0 B 005 0 747347 0 210980 536367 0 B 006 0 688395 0 417049 271346 0 B 007 0 776663 0 180955 595708 0 B 008 0 629617 0 298088 331529 0 B 009 0 747307 0 211014 536293 0 B 010 0 776535 0 595472 181063 0 B 011 0 747350 0 210957 536393 0 B 012 0 776594 0 595601 180993 0 B 013 0 747319 0 211022 536297 0 B 014 0 688416 0 417131 271285 0 B 015 0 659160 0 301303 357857 0 report.txt

Changed my mind again. I have a friend that lives near a Micro Center. /img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s AIDA64 - Memory Read score: 119052 points with a DDR5 SDRAM HWBOT.ORG The DDR5 SDRAM @ 7200MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the AIDA64 - Memory Read benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #12 worldwide and #3 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT. /img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s CPU Frequency score: 5900 MHz with a Core i9 13900K HWBOT.ORG The Core i9 13900K @ 5900MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the CPU Frequency benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #1460 worldwide and #2 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT. /img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s Cinebench - R23 Multi Core with BenchMate score: 43623 cb with a Core i9 13900K HWBOT.ORG The Core i9 13900K @ 5900MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the Cinebench - R23 Multi Core with BenchMate benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #16 worldwide and #13 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

/img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s AIDA64 - Memory Read score: 119052 points with a DDR5 SDRAM HWBOT.ORG The DDR5 SDRAM @ 7200MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the AIDA64 - Memory Read benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #12 worldwide and #3 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

2.03 seems good for me. No issues I have found so far. Intel Core i9 13900K @ 5900 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR VALID.X86.FR [9241s2] Validated Dump by Mr. Fox (2022-10-28 03:35:08) - MB: EVGA Corp. Z690 DARK KINGPIN - RAM: 32768 MB

In that case maybe I will make an exception and join you for some mid-range GPU overclocking rivalry. I do plan to do the shunt mod, and was going to do it with or without any plans for overclocking just because I can and because I like doing things that make OEMs and ODMs very unhappy or nervous.

You probably won't get a great deal of effort from me to compete since it is on my work computer. The only reason I purchased it was because my 2080 Ti died. I am going to try to fix it, but I needed something to use for work. The shunt mod would be more of an experiment driven by curiosity about how well it handles it.

Once I have the external cooling solution in place on Banshee (this work computer) I am probably going to do a shunt mod on the 3060 Ti, then there will be no need or benefit to flipping between the EVGA and ASUS firmware. I have shunt-modded most of my GPUs except for the 3090 K|INGP|N and the benefits are significant. Power limit is eliminated as a performance impediment and leaves only thermals and voltage capping as a performance limiter. I really do not understand the logic behind having a power limit on a CPU or a GPU. I think the concept is stupid and I always try to effectively eliminate power limits so I can focus on increasing voltage, clocks and improving thermals. The CPU or GPU should be able to run wild and free and implementing a power limit is more like deliberately castrating your hardware. Controlling voltage and thermals are necessary for durability and optimal results.

Thank you. I bought the block and backplate as a combo used on eBay. The Strix vBIOS works well except for DP #1 has no output. ASUS cards have 2xHDMI and 2xDP. I use a 3-display setup for work (this is my work computer) so I have one monitor with both HDMI and DP connected to the GPU and it automatically flips between HDMI or DP depending on which firmware is applied. The Strix vBIOS is really only useful for maximizing benchmark scores. For gaming and daily use there is no benefit to using it. For the record, the 3060 Ti FTW3 GPU is using the EK-Quantum Vector XC3 RTX 3070 D-RGB and if fits perfectly.

Man, what a difference water makes. Really a no-brainer, but another example is always nice. I hate air cooling so much, LOL.