Fluxmaven

As much as I'd love to say I've owned at least one Ryzen 9 of every gen, the 9800X3D would make more sense for all I use it for... 9900X sounds cooler and the ole Microcenter will have them on sale a lot sooner though so I might end up going that way again

My comment was mostly just meant as encouragement. I'm glad that Jan can still enjoy photography even if it means leaving the good gear at home. I'm pretty sure he has an S23 or S24 Ultra which in pro mode gives enough flexibility to capture pretty darn decent shots. I also wouldn't call myself a good photographer even though I've taken both film and digital courses as part of my BFA. My digital course was mostly taught by a graduate assistant. They were of the newer train of thought of shoot bracketed and just fire off as many photos as possible and find the best thing to work with in post. The film instructor put more emphasis on "doing the editing with the camera". Taking time to meter and get the exposure as close as you could and putting thought into every shot to spend less time in the dark room. I do enjoy photography and it might make it's way back into my list of "non-PC hobbies". I totally agree in getting decent gear to make yourself the limiting factor. That said, It is still kind of sad when you see someone with a nice camera set on auto that will never be used to even 1/10th of it's capability. (Grandma that got sweet talked by the Best Buy salesman into the latest EOS Rebel kit)

Shhh don't go telling people about our special encounters

I've tried electric kits as well as mutes, mesh heads etc. nothing feels as good as the real thing. I don't play as hard as I used to, but I've cracked and keyholed a few cymbals over the years. If I get to a point where I'm playing more I will slowly upgrade, but I'm happy with what I have for now. Most spare funds have been going into car stuff lately

You've got a really nice setup. Our drum line in high school was all Pearl. We beat the hell out of that stuff and it took it like a champ. I also have a "standard ATX kit" in the attic After I pieced the little kit together I bought an entire setup just for some of the cymbals and hardware. The high hats are the one thing that have survived multiple moves and downsizing over the years. Vintage Avedis Zildjan that are probably older than me. Sabian B8 splash, crash, and ride are honestly not bad for entry level cymbals. 10" SJC snare. 10, 12" Gretsch catalina maple toms. Hero drum works 16" mini bass. Pdp double pedal. With how good cell phone cameras have gotten, it's a lot easier to skip lugging around the "real" cameras. The important part is to get out and take pictures. If you have a good eye for composition, you could take better pictures with a baked potato than a clueless person with a Leica.

Some beefed up monster GPU sounds neat but I wouldn't be a buyer. If they focus on efficiency with decent bump in performance and keep the prices the same, I might be replacing my 3090. If the 5080 was a bit faster than a 4090 with ≤ 300w power draw at $1000, I think they would have a winner. That really shouldn't be much to ask for, but Ngreedia just can't help themselves.

Outdoorsy stuff like cycling, kayaking, and target shooting. These have been out of the rotation for a while but I want to get back into them. Can also toss walking/hiking into the mix. I enjoy thrifting and antiquing. Now that most stuff is built with planned obsolescence and designed to be disposable, I really enjoy finding neat older things that were designed to last. I love music. I still have collections on vinyl, cassette, and CD. Enjoy going to concerts and festivals. I have played drums off and on for over half my life at this point. I have a compact drum set in my bedroom that I'd like to play more, but acoustic drums are ignorantly loud and I don't live alone. 16" bass drum next to an ITX rig for a sense of scale. I'm also into cars and motorcycles. I like modifying things and also do my own maintenance and repairs. I haven't owned an actual motorcycle in a couple years, but my roommate and I bought the cheapest 50cc scooters we could find to fart around town on. My current fleet of projects: 2015 Ford Mustang 1997 Mazda Miata 1984 BMW 323i 1996 Yamaha Razz

Send me the bikini and I'll model it

I also don't want 1000W+ in every PC. Bedroom rig still rocking the AX760. I went from 10850K + 2080 to a 7800X3D + 6950XT. Wanted a faster GPU but needed a more efficient CPU to keep the overall draw down. Been very happy with it for a 1440p machine. Like seemingly everyone, I also had a 4790K that I held onto for a long time in my main rig. Went 4790K -> 3900X -> 5900X and will likely get a 9900X once those are out.

I almost never drink coffee at home but I still like having cool mugs

^ I need to dust off my record player. I have a lot of good 70's vinyl. I have the Paranoid album War Pigs is on as well as the Schools Out Alice Cooper album that folds out into a little school desk. As for what I'm listening to right meow...

Could be... That build is all consumer hardware and if it do be like that, no big loss. TrueNAS was just being silly not wanting to acknowledge that it did in fact see the iGPU that it was utilizing. Tryna act like "no u cant pass dat 4060 thru bcause its ya only GPU". Had iGPU set as primary display output in BIOS and literally connected a display to it that had video output and the web UI still said nah dawg that iGPU don't exist so you can't isolate or pass through the 4060. With some more fiddling I probably could have gotten it to work but that rig is just a sandbox to play with stuff so there wasn't any need to waste time figuring it out.

I haven't touched Virtualbox in years and probably wouldn't since I'm not looking for a hosted hypervisor. Homelab projects are mostly just to tinker with stuff.

They do 3.5 to a little over 4mil ppd and pull around 100w. Pretty much the same as my 2080 at half the power draw. The higher end 4000 series is when the PPD gets really good. My 4070 Ti usually averages around 12mil at just over 200w. I'm loaning it to my roommate though so won't see it folding this month.

Since I'm not planning on fighting heat running all the powerful cards this year, I decided to get another low power card. I have this spare rig for tinkering with software in a 2u rack case. Really limits the GPU options unfortunately. Ended up snagging a used 4060 LP off ebay. I was testing TrueNAS Scale on the machine and was just going to add a folding VM, but was having issues with GPU passthrough. Nuked that and just tossed Mint Xfce on so I could get it folding. Will eventually put Proxmox on it since VMware is ditching the free version of ESXi.

Speed can take the food, but you got anything to drink?

Welcome! A lot of our members jumped ship from OCN to come here, myself included. Unfortunately you couldn't escape Pook and Avacado since they are here too.

Good to have you around. Joe speaks very highly of you.

Throwback time. My first bike 1972 Suzuki TS125 Enduro. I've had a handful of bikes since this one and go back and forth about getting another street bike. Honestly think another 2-stroke would make me the happiest. Might have to get a tiny trailer and a 90s RM125 to pull behind the Miata. and just the tip of my first car. 1976 Dodge Aspen SE coupe. I was the only kid in my high school parking lot with an 8-track player. 2nd biggest purchase of my life back then was saving up for a sweet Pioneer deck and new speakers for it.

I'm a fan of Thermalright. I'd go with a fanless and rely on case airflow. Those puny little fans on the others will either move almost zero air, or make a ton of noise. That Gen 5 slot placement on your Ace is really nice since it would be in the path of intake airflow on most cases, and a RAM fan would also get some air on it. Not an issue with your setup, but an issue I see with a lot of motherboards is that they put the only gen5 slot right above the primary 16x slot where people stuff a huge GPU... So those m.2 coolers with the side fan would be pressed right against the backplate of the GPU in a lot of builds. In that regard, the Graugear you linked would probably perform the best for most people. Curious to see how the review turns out. Those m.2 waterblocks that have been a gimmick all these years, might finally be starting to make sense

Nah, but I'll drive it down to Asheville and we can pick up your sister/cousin in the backwoods of NC. Stephens hooptie drives itself so we divert all of our attention to getting rejected by women

Meanwhile... I got really drunk Friday night so I spent most of Saturday being hungover and didn't work on any of the cars. I did drive both of them to do other errands and still might manage to wash at least one of them today Edit* I washed 1.5 cars.... Moostang got actually washed out in the alley. Mi-otter got the front half washed off. I back it into the garage, so I just washed the front half off since I got some overspray on it with the foam cannon. I'd have washed the whole car but the top and windows were down and I didn't bring the keys out with me.

Growing up in the forum era, it kills me that nearly all forums have died and were replaced by garbage facebook groups full of people asking the same questions every day because they have no idea what a search bar is. ExtremeHW has risen from the ashes of forums past to provide us with a safe haven of knowledgeable people that love the hobby and are always willing to help. I'm extremely thankful for all the amazing friends I've made on this site. Many of which I'd actually interacted with on another site which must not be named. that said, I'd never met up with and went on adventures with anyone on the internet (outside tinder) prior to EHW. Love all the friends I've met on here and look forward to many more years of disrupting the enthusiast PC space with our presence.

I'll show you some hardware to get excited about... Back to the topic on hand... Between the confusing name change and thread counts, I'm expecting AMD to be the hero this gen with 9000 series. Which I will likely buy. I also don't get as excited about hardware news these days. When we finally broke away from quad core CPUs, I was blown away. Now high core counts are just expected. Before people call me some AMD shill, I was almost exclusively Intel + Nvidia for the past 20 years and still own 3x more Intel CPUs and 2x more Nvidia GPUs than AMD.