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I agree, but the main issue is, that it brings a lot of misconceptions to the mainstream market that I'd want to see eliminated, sadly up to this point I haven't found a reliable reviewer that would post all of the data.

I know about that, fan size and RPM are linked directly, fan shape directly changes noise, airflow and pressure, I also know that airflow optimized fans(Kaze Flex comes to mind) actually are almost always rated at 1.5-2mm H20, meanwhile pressure optimized fans can do many times higher pressure(pretty much any Delta fan comes to mind here). I myself am annoyed that people that do fan and cooler reviews have no idea what metrics they should use and use the popular crap CFM and dB, which tbf has no meaning without pressure for both airflow and sound and frequency for sound, low humming fans like Noctua are pretty inaudible even at higher dB, meanwhile something with higher frequency will be really annoying even at low dB, so dB(A) is what makes you love or hate noises coming from a fan, while most reviewers use dB and misleadingly write the dB(A). (here is a lot of good information about A-weighting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-weighting ).

I'm sorry to bring the bad news, but NVLink/SLI won't be scaling in games, nVidia has been killing it off in gaming, the same is true about AMD's Crossfire.

Oh well, I was just hoping that you'd be the one person that knows something more about airflow vs pressure optimization, etc than what I know and I've been able to find online, well still, I hope that we can learn from each other

From the latest info, I've heard looks like nVidia is quite worried about the competition at this launch, so they are trying to hype it up.

Hello, taking your background in air cooling as something related to designing fans?

It doesn't require hardware access, but it does require elevated privileges and some registry trickery, he managed to pump 1.7V while CPU was thinking it was getting 1.2, so my guess is if anybody weaponizes it, that's a whole lot of dead intel CPUs. Fortunately from the discussion we had I understood that Ryzen CPUs wouldn't be affected and it is not possible to repeat it with it with current knowledge, but Ryzen APUs might be affected in some way, further investigation is still required.

Any TLC SSD with DRAM cache should do okay, SX8200 or the Pro both will have pretty decent performance as well.

QLC as a cache drive is a bad idea and damn you already are 34TBW over the 100 it's rated for, won't live for long now, probably will begin to throw write errors within the next 15 TBW I'd get a MLC/TLC SSD with DRAM as a cache drive, with this kind of write pattern will live much longer.

well, one lad that I spoke with has found new vulnerabilities in intel CPUs, that can easily kill them, from what I can tell works on any Core i CPU and it wasn't fixed by PlunderVolt fixes...

2080S and TI only bring RTX to the table, which tbh is why they won't age well, Ampere will perform much better with it and Turing will become obsolete. I'd go for the 1080Ti and upgrade in 3-6 years

GDM must be enabled due to the odd timings you have, anything that doesn't divide by 2 will need GDM for stability. Again I'd rather see people test their luck with manual OCing than use the Calculator, it's not good and manual OCing isn't that hard if you do some reading in Integral's guide.

FM sockets are kinda hybrid sockets something they have used between generations in the past.

XPG is ADATA's Gaming branding.

Intel 660P is a QLC drive, pretty much any TLC will have much larger lifespan. I did the math on the average QLC and if you use it as a main game drive with games like COD:MW constantly getting large updates you can realistically get 8TBW per month on a 1TB SSD, which is enough to wear it down in 2 years, TLC drives like SX8200 PRO at the same 8TB per month would live 6.67 years before it reaches the manufacturers set EOL TBW. Overall I don't want to recommend QLC SSDs to anybody who doesn't build some kind of quarterly back-ups on them where they would serve long and well. Speaking about backblaze, I haven't heard that anybody is running something like that for SSDs the main cause probably is that there are way too many models in the market.

I'm running one myself, can't say anything bad about it, let it serve you well!

I mean worst case scenario they will use a FM socket

nVidia Shadowplay is also enabled by default, there are quite a lot of people that use them, so it kinda makes sense. The old CCC was much better designed than Adrenaline software is now, but it still is better to overview nVidia software...

Tbh, AMD drivers are more sensitive to RAM stability which is why a lot of people with enabled XMP(unstable and untested) will complain about random issues. nVidia drivers have never been superior as nVidia tends to ignore quite a lot of driver problems that have been there for generations(mostly related to multi monitor systems), there is a reason why they are called novideo and why it's true up to this day.

Please don't go for used 20XX, they won't age well even nVidia themselves said that.

Zen 4 and 5 should bring the support with AM5 socket, but that atm is still on question mark as if AM5 doesn't bring DDR5 that would be the first time socket doesn't match it's naming scheme, as AMD names their AM sockets with RAM generation in the name.

From the looks of it, Intel will need a miracle to fix security problems in their architecture and downscale it to 10nm and 7nm.

1.45V is max I'd recommend for most dies, B die however can go up to 1.8V with no additional cooling, but I only recommend that only to people that know what they are doing.

As I said I consider the DRAM calc a problem on top of a haystack of problems rather than a solution, if you decide to use it then please stress test everything with TM5 to make sure it's actually stable. Speaking about motherboard recommendation list, that's simply validated to work with mobo and should have no real impact on how the RAM performs, but the combinations of CPU and mobo and some luck will have a lot of impact on what your RAM will achieve, for example I on my first gen zen can't go over 2933C14, but if I'd change mobo or CPU I'd probably get either higher or lower clocks depending on my luck.

I think I've already said this, but I am strongly against the usage of DRAM calc, it is a bunch of stolen XMP profiles. XMP on its own already isn't a great thing as in around 60% systems it's not stable and people don't stress test XMP!!! When it comes to memory OCing the best approach is to set loose timings like 22-22-22-50-80 and search for the highest stable frequency if needed raise voltage up to like 1.45V, then drop primary timings and go down to secondaries and tertiaries following the general guidelines, here is a guide from Integral, it's very well written: https://github.com/integralfx/MemTestHelper/blob/master/DDR4%20OC%20Guide.md