Mr. Fox

3DMark 11 Physics Score https://hwbot.org/submission/5187366 | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/15562679

I forgot to mention, run as admin.

Sure. Happy to share that. I don't remember where I got it, so I can't give credit where it is due. Edit: run from admin command prompt Remove Defender.zip

I use that for my daily driver OS. I just remove Winduhz Defender completely using a script (I use Panda so Defender is worthless other than for stealing CPU clock cycles) and run Chris Titus' debloat script and remove all worthless services (like Intel ME garbage - not an issue on Ryzen, Windoze Touch/Tablet services, etc.) and it has no impact on functionality and performance other than improving both. Even services that are necessary for some things like Micro$lop Office (click-to-run crap) I temporarily turn off with a single mouse-click using ESO. This is a really nifty utility. You can create 4 profiles with varying levels of garbage disablement. Easy service optimizer v1.1 WWW.SORDUM.ORG Easy service optimizer (Eso) is a portable freeware to optimize Windows services , By disabling unnecessary services, the performance can be improved

GPU Score: https://hwbot.org/submission/5187355 | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/88212231 (same run as above)

Looks like you need some serious Windows debloating. That is a butt-load of CPU overhead going on there.

https://hwbot.org/submission/5187340 | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/88212231

https://hwbot.org/submission/5187322_ | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/88182771

https://hwbot.org/submission/5187315_ | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/88209742

I hadn't done any benching for a while. Figured I probably should scratch that itch. https://hwbot.org/submission/5187310 | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/88209265

They have what they have. I don't dislike the white, or this color. I avoid light-colored hats (and other clothing) because I can't avoid staining them with my grimy way of life, LOL. Hats and caps, especially, start looking rough quickly for me. I generally wear them out in the sun, so they end up with a sweat stain across the part covering my forehead. It only takes a day or two in the Arizona blast furnace to look kind of nasty. Even though they are machine washable, they never look the same again after washing. This should not affect everyone else though. Only sharing why black (or dark colors) are better suited to my needs. I really like that design though. It looks very good.

I watched that video right after Steve released it. It was an excellent video and I am very sad that we have lost EVGA in the graphics card space. With a couple of rare exceptions, every desktop graphics card that I have purchased since the time ATi was acquired by AMD has been made by EVGA. I feel lost without them as my go-to GPU provider. I have low confidence in the product quality and warranty with other brands. Whenever possible, I choose EVGA for my components because their warranty and customer service is unmatched. Their competitors almost universally have a lousy warranty / RMA process. Their chief competitor in the enthusiast space has an atrocious and painful warranty support program that takes weeks to run its course and sometimes with unacceptable outcomes. That has never been my experience with EVGA.

Love the black shirt. Would go for a cap in black. The white looks nice, but it wouldn't after a day or two. White never stays nice and clean for me. I like the graphic on the cap a lot. Good stuff.

We don't know what we don't know right now. But, something is certainly not right. That is too many nearly simultaneous failures. The frequency seems too high to be coincidental regardless of what the underlying cause is determined to be. I don't think the exact cause has been determined. The only thing consistent between GPUs in an extremely strange frequency of identical failures was the driver version. That was actually brought out in the video. Nothing else could be identified (yet) and they are asking for info to help identify both cause and frequency. That said, I do not rule it out as a possibility. We have seen numerous examples of NVIDIA doing things with drivers, including making small adjustments to firmware without disclosing it in release notes. For example, overclock blocking and removing access to voltage controls. This actually just happened with Maxwell GPUs. If you are running the latest drivers on a 980 Ti, you will likely find you can no longer overvolt or undervolt the GPU. I can still remember severely throttling on Kepler SLI systems I owned that was 100% triggered by nasty GeFarts drivers. It never got fixed. NVIDIA did not care. They were selling Maxwell. The only solution was to use an outdated driver if you wanted SLI performance, or buy two new Maxwell GPUs. Those were deliberate acts on NVIDIA's part, but accidents and unintended consequences can also occur. The fractured die can result from extreme overheating or a freakishly high voltage spike, so it is possible (although maybe remote) that physical damage can result from a driver update, especially if it is carrying a special payload of "extras" in the package. Purely speculation now, but not outside the realm of possibility... AMD might have released something in the December driver that was designed to push 7900 XTX performance to make it more competitive against 4080 and 4090 that had unforseen consequences for their last generation GPUs.

Hard to know for sure if it is heat related or something else. Probably not if heat has always been a challenge. Kind of scary though whatever the issue is. It can't be a coincidence that suddenly that many dead GPUs show up in a single repair shop with the same problem and all using the same driver. That's way too many to be a coincidence.

This is what I am referring to, in case you haven't already seen it. By dead I mean non-functional with the GPU core and some of the circuitry destroyed.

This has been a really bad couple of years for GPUs. Crypto-scalping Post-crypto scalping Supply/demand manipulation Unlaunched inferior version of the 4080 NVIDIA 12+4 pin connectors burning Misrepresentations of 7900 XT/XTX performance Continued manipulation/suppression of 4090/7900 XTX supply Relaunched 4070 Ti (the inferior 4080) grossly overpriced Defective AMD vapor chambers AMD drivers killing last-gen GPUs I likely forgot about something that should be on the list.

Wow, congrats on the accomplishment. I bet you have played Cyberpunk more hours than I have played all games in the aggregate for the past 5 years. I don't remember the last time I hit 100% achievements. I think I can count on one hand how many titles I have actually played through to the end during that time span, and a couple of them are the same title. I usually end up losing interest before finishing.

/img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s Memory Frequency score: 4100 MHz with a DDR5 SDRAM HWBOT.ORG The DDR5 SDRAM @ 8200MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the Memory Frequency benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #56 worldwide and #56 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

/img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s AIDA64 - Memory Read score: 134496 points with a DDR5 SDRAM HWBOT.ORG The DDR5 SDRAM @ 8200MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the AIDA64 - Memory Read benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #12 worldwide and #6 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

Thanks, Brother. I hope you had a nice Christmas and New Year.

OK, I think I got this dialed in now for my 24/7 overclock. It's so easy to run these generic green A-die sticks at 8000 MT/s. It's ludicrous in light of how many retail kits I RMA'd with RGB rainbow vomit and sloppy loose gamerkidz XMP profiles that cost double, were pure garbage and would barely even boot at speeds like this. Consumers are getting screwed real hard.

My generic naked green A-die sticks arrived today from AliExpress. Seem to be working well, so I will put the jackets and water block from the M-die on them this weekend.

I am finding v2.05 to be pretty decent now. My generic green Hynix A-die modules from China should be here late this week. My M-die modules definitely work better, so I am eager to see how those modules run. The memory I used in making this video are the Sabrent modules that I did the ExtremeHW review on. They are bench stable at 7200, which is pretty impressive for M-die.

Mr. Fox`s AIDA64 - Memory Read score: 129455 points with a DDR5 SDRAM HWBOT.ORG The DDR5 SDRAM @ 8000MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the AIDA64 - Memory Read benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #14 worldwide and #7 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.