Mr. Fox

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I didn't know we had a place for that. I might post some of my videos as long as there's a proper category for them.

Indeed. That is the crux of the issue... far too much consumption of system resources. Also kind of useless to have replication of function. If they made it to where the end user could install only the part(s) of the software package that they plan to use, that would be ideal. That would be good. I do not generally have enough spare time for gaming, but when I do it is almost exclusively FPS titles. It is rare that I buy or play any other type of game.

Nice review, brother. Well done. Very thorough and professional. It's unfortunate that you need iCUE installed and running to use features. Corsair should have kept it a simple RGB control software application. The inclusion of so many features and gimmick like the bloated hardware monitoring really sucks. Sadly, the thought process behind the bloatfest isn't unique to Corsair. It seems to be a common form of dementia in the industry, with Armory Crate being the worst example of trash software known to man. At least iCUE is still a win32 app and not a UWP/Micro$lop Store piece of crap like Armory Crate. (At least that was true last time I checked,) I can't imagine spending this much money on a mouse. I never have before and it is unlikely that I ever will. Nobody makes one durable enough to consider it and I find those in the < $50 price range the most intelligent for me. I usually get 1 to 2 years from a mouse before it needs to be taken apart and have new button switches soldered in and I just don't have the time or desire to deal with such nonsense. It's not hard, but it's just not worth the hassle.

Welcome. Glad you joined the party. Better late than never. We will take and the new friends we can get. The more the merrier.

Thank you. I am pleased that you enjoyed the review, or found it useful. In normal use, and probably most gaming scenarios, the reduction in GPU performance would not be impactful. It was definitely measurable though, and would have a negative influence on benchmark scores. I care most about that since it is my main hobby, so running them at Gen5 speed at the sacrifice of GPU benchmark scores is something I am avoiding.

The guy still hasn't responded for like 12 hours, so if I don't hear from him within the next hour or two I may decide to save $150 and get a 13700K from Best Buy to tide me over until 14900K drops. Congrats on the Dark mobo. The best for sure. My Z690 Dark is much better product than my Z790 Apex. ASUS stuff is just chintzy overpriced junk.

Thanks, bros. Now I am on the hunt for a decent 13900K/KF/KS. My 13900K in the Z690 Dark stopped working for unknown reasons. System runs normally with my Celeron test CPU, but the 13900K just endlessly cycles through POST codes when I power on the system. No idea why. I am assuming a power surge or ESD spike or something similar zapped it. Waiting for @Agent-A01 at oc.net to reply if his is still available. Using a Celeron sucks real bad.

Thank you both. Excellent product. Crucial always produces good product. It's awesome to see them bringing something cutting edge and appealing to performance PC enthusiasts to market.

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More cowbell...

Very awesome. All of it. Love. It. And, who doesn't dig gigantic moths and spiders? The dead ones are my favorite.

There was a problem with that yesterday that I believe is resolved now. Nobody else has said anything but I was having the same issue. You might try dumping your browser cache and see if that helps. It's displaying correctly for me now. Hopefully if anyone else sees the same issue they will say something. Thank you for saying something. Thank you for the kind words brother.

Thank you. Yes I agree with you that it won't matter to most people. And I would also love to have four of those to put in it.

Thank you. You're spot on in your assessment, too. Thank you. Yes, I agree about that 2-NVMe limitation. Such a costly motherboard should have offered more... at least 4 (2 on the PCB plus DIMM.2 would have been nice). I really like how M.2 (both SATA and NVMe) drives take up so little space and have no cables or wiring clutter to have to fuss with. Makes for a much nicer, cleaner build if you have enough slots. The added speed of NVMe is appreciated, but I think I appreciate the compact wire-free aspects of them even more than the speed.

Thank you for the compliment. I'm glad you enjoyed it. For anyone that wants to replace SATA with NVMe I think it's a truly killer option. I had a couple of people remark to me that it's too slow but if your extended storage options without it are limited to SATA then there's really no downside. Massive upgrade from SATA. I'm now running eight NVMe and just one spinner HDD for file storage. I eliminated four SATA SSD by using this add-in card.

It is a Gen 3 card so I doubt installing Gen 4 drives would yield any gains. The PCI edge connector is X4. If you put it in an X8 slot I doubt it would run any faster but it would cut your graphics card bandwidth from x16 to X8 on most motherboards. It probably would not affect the GPU slot bandwidth on x299 because there are plenty of pcie lanes to go around.

Thank you. It is a really excellent product. Probably among the most useful system add-ons that I have ever seen. I love it.

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Maybe this will inspire some craziness...

It would be really hard to beat anything from the Crysis game franchise. It's literally my all-time favorite in one of very few games that I have played over and over again from start to finish. But this title looks like it can give it a serious run for its money. Hopefully it's not prophetic in terms of where things are headed with AI.

MSI Afterburner no longer supports AMD graphics cards, even if you do the tweaks that used to work. It is totally worthless with my 6900XT. No point in bothering to install it.

The sheer complexity of your build makes it an amazing work of art. And, it makes my head hurt at the same time, LOL. I also have tremendous respect for your patience. Looking back to my younger days as a third-generation auto repair technician, I always hated doing collision repairs because I didn't want to have to look at the same car for more than one day. Always preferred doing the mechanical work and knocking out more than one job in a day. I haven't changed with age and that same kind of impatience found its way into my PC building adventures. I want it done yesterday, with an order of fries, to go. Thankfully, I haven't been a car guy for about 35 years. I don't miss being dirty and having busted knuckles. Now I won't even do my own oil changes, LOL. Better to pay Walmart or Jiffy Lube.

Totally. If nothing else, it ensures the sport we all enjoy will survive and their elitism will have a reason to exist.

Certainly. I really wish NVIDIA had not exposed the option in NVIDIA Control Panel. Brother @J7SC_Orionnailed it. There was one elite overclocker in particular that was pushing it really hard. I agree. Had NVIDIA not exposed the option in the Control Panel, this never would have had an opportunity to be a point of contention. It would have remained a non-issue as it always had been, and as it continues to be for those that do not own a 40-series GPU. Absolutely. While I still enjoy overclocked benching, even more than PC gaming that was my gateway into being a performance PC enthusiast, I am really not OK with the favoritism and politics and the unfair advantage given to the elite group. They already get access to non-standard and special binned hardware and unlocked firmware and tuning software that everyone else is denied access to, which is really lame. Having rules changed to make it more challenging for those without access to compete is just as lame. All of this is beginning to diminish my interest in participation. It is not as much fun when the winners are predestined and receive special treatment to help facilitate that. It is essentially a rigged outcome. Anecdotally, the non-ECC scores submitted by the Chosen Ones were not removed when the scores of the peons were being deleted, and it wasn't until some of the peons began chirping about those scores remaining on the leaderboard that they got taken down. What is interesting is the fact that some of the Chosen Ones haven't submitted new scores with ECC enabled. It seems the only people freaking out about the possibility a few people might win by cheating are those chosen to live in the Ivory Tower. It is sad that some are so afraid of losing to someone that wasn't granted special favor through a benefactor.