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Supposedly a few degrees difference from the NH-D15 which is enough for me to upgrade because I'm not going watercooling anytime soon.

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Would this BIOS be a good match for a Sapphire Pulse Vega 56? My main concern is the memory clocks, this card never really liked overclocking it...

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Max overclock on the 6900XT (non liquid cooled versions as the LC versions had 18gbps) is 550GB/s stock being 512GB/s. However, most people usually only get it stable around 537GB/s. The 6950XT can be pushed over 600GB/s which helps a lot in some instances, especially higher resolution gaming. That said, another card you may want to consider is the 7900GRE if it's in your price range. 16gb also with comparable performance, less power use and newer features.

Great news to hear considering I just purchased a TP-Link Tri-Band BE9300 Wifi 7 router. I expect early adopter woes especially with such a "cheap" router but it's only going to have a few devices at most on it and having all 2.5G ports was another selling point. My other Wifi 6 router will handle the rest. I was going to pick up a Wifi 6e router instead but the price difference wasn't large enough where I couldn't stand not "future proofing" despite me knowing I'm probably going to be disappointed. Yup, Ubiquiti is good stuff, especially if are using it for business use. Every IT company I've worked at over the last decade either migrated to them or stuck with them as the price/performance is hard to pass up.

Me perhaps? Well I bought it for my girlfriend as she makes pizzas. Unfortunately she hasn't used it yet... it's been over a year lol. She does have a pizza stone which worked well and I had previously bought her a steel version which is excellent but cumbersome for obvious reasons. Still trying to get her to use the Ooni pizza oven for a proper wood fired pizza one of these days...

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No difference aside from higher clock speeds for the core and different memory which gives a nice bandwidt bump. I'd imagine that would help with this type of work but I'm talking minuscule numbers here. I only bring it up because 6950xt's are usually around the same price.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind about the filters as I can easily cut the right size out for it instead of ordering the overpriced cartridges. As far as the Nano thank goes, it's actually due to space constraints of where I'm putting it. The tank is going to be in my office area and is going to serve as a decorative piece more than anything. I've had larger tanks with success but being we are renting the home I don't need a larger potential for water damage. I'd love to do a salt tank again but the whole renting thing is another reason I can't. I'm just hoping to find plants that are nice on the eyes or unique. Wish they'd flower underwater but I know when that does happen it's not normal and they don't last.

All good. 6900XT's are getting hard to find so do consider the 6950XT's as well, they will close the gap even further on the 7900XT.

@UltraMega On the initial topic of freshwater tanks... I'm actually repurposing my nano 3.7 gallon tank and instead of subjecting a single fish to it (a punishment, even for a betta IMO) I was going to make it a planted tank with nothing else. Going to use substrate, a small heater of course and it has a built in filter w/ carbon cartridges. Light is LED (but either white or blue so not full spectrum). Are there any specific plants you'd recommend? I'm mainly looking for a tank that pretty much runs itself with minimal effort. I've grown anubias, amazon swords, etc. Are there are anything unqiue or colorful for that matter that are fairly easy?

Welp used the electric pressure washer as I normally do to get bugs off the car and it's not decided to rip paint off the front bumper (there was a chip that's now decides to flake off and take other paint with it). Good times. $100, a case of beer and cost of materials paid for if anyone wants to paint my car lol.

Not a big difference between the two considering the 7900XTX was barely faster... if you already have the 6900XT I wouldn't bother with the upgrade to a 7900XT and that includes for every task outside of Topaz as well. That said if you are considering both of these over your current Vega 56, I'd go with the one you can get at a better cost/performance. 7900XT does have other benefits though such as AV1 encoding and newer features plus the extra 4gb of vram.

I just want a card near 4090 performance with 20gb+ of vram and a 300w or less tdp and I'm sold. What I feel like I'm going to end up with is whatever midrange AMD GPU they put out for their next gen since they aren't going to have a proper halo card. I'm hoping it's closer to a 7900XTX performance wise with a much lower power envelope. If neither AMD nor Nvidia deliver I guess I'll be riding with my 6900XT yet again. I took a 290X from 2013 to 2019 or so, I can hold off another gen if needed. It also helps that there aren't a ton of games that I actually care about that require more horsepower...

I used to be a percussionist but gave it up years ago. My GF bought me an electric drum kit to light that fire again but it's just not the same, I'm sure my neighbors wouldn't appreciate a proper kit anyways though.

And Rock Auto / UPS have either lost my package or the shipping just isn't updating (per support it's probably lost)... good times. At least I got the rotors in faster than expected.. Picked up the box and complete forgot how heavy plain old blank rotors are, thankfully I didn't do a twist while lifting with your back move when picking them up from the ground.

Thanks for all the help everyone, I've actually not deployed the setup as I just upgraded my my ISP plan from 500mbps to 1gbps for an additional $5 a month (If I'd known the price increase was that cheap I would have did that a year ago...) Upload is still crap at 40mbps but it's better than the 25mbps on the prior plan so this is helping the cameras a bit at least when they back up to my Arlo camera's servers. I'll keep you all posted with what I end up with.

It's funny, the longest lasting Betta I had was a Veiltail rescue from Walmarts piss poor treatment. The little plastic container was brown to the point you couldn't even see the fish. He lived many years in a 10 gallon tank. All my "special" and expensive Betta's since have been a disaster. As far as my tank, I unfortunately do not have any pics at the moment and it's certainly in no condition that I'd be proud of to show at the moment with no inhabitants. We are going to try another Veiltale Betta in the coming month or so so I'll follow up with pics. That said... here is a pic of Mr. Cranky face (that wasn't his name, but I did call him Mr. Fishington) in the tank when I was adjusting the lighting schedule, so please excuse the disgusting excess hair algae at the time of the shot. He looked angry but he was by the far the smartest and most lively Betta we've ever had, but again, unfortunately taken too soon as have all lhe recent Bettas.

Funny, my first vehicle was a 1987 SporTruck with the same config, 2wd with the BA10 5 speed. That transmission was made out of glass though. Unfortunately a drunk driver tboned that truck while it was parked in the drive way, launched it a good 30 feet and if it wasn't for a large tree it would have went right into the bedroom where my elderly neighbor was sleeping. Oddly enough the drunk driver that hit it was the wrester "Bam Bam Bigelow's" niece. It took the police an hour to get to the scene and she very much was sobered up by then so no charges were filed and I think she got wreckless driving at most. She had to be going at least 70mph around the curve (35mph speed limit) to understeer across the yard like she did. Anyways, that's how I ended up with the 1988. Same config, a SporTruck model with the 4.0 but it had the bulletproof toyota AW4 4-speed automatic instead. I get offers on it all the time but sentimental value and all that, plus it's a Florida rust free truck (besides some surface rust).

I grew up in basically a zoo with a dog, multiple cats, salt water reef tanks, amazon river style fresh water tanks, bite you badly fish tanks (lionfish, niger trigger fish, wrasses, etc.) amazon parrots, parakeets (bred them as well), cockatiels, turtles, anoles, ferrets... I can go on. That said, since I've been out of my family's house I've only ever had fresh water fish. Unfortunately I have not had luck aside from an amano shrimp that I swear was related to godzilla because it survived everything and anything. My girlfriend has a thing for bettas (tangerine kois especially) and we've had multiple but it's like over the last few years the ones being sold are extremely inbred and they die very easily. I've never had such problems in the past. Right now we are down to a micro tank (3.7g) with nothing in it but drift wood. That said, I've picked up gardening recently and aside from my cherry tomatoe plant not doing well in the humidity down here all are doing well. Ghost pepper, Cubanelle pepper, hungarian hotwax pepper, orchid, peppermint, basil, snake plant, dusty millers, and I forget the rest off the top of my head. Aside from that, anything automotive... but my budget doesn't let that hobby thrive outside of just fixing issues that come up with my daily driver. I've got what is now a project 1988 Jeep Comanche but again, money is the reason it sits.

Glad I'm not alone in this... when it comes to electronics I'm a bit of a hoarder.. I swear this box full of IDE cables will be of use to me in the future as will the hard drives manufactured in the 90's....

Thanks. Stock routers as far as OS on them goes (new one is TP Link, original is Netgear). I'll assume setting it as an AP will still allow switch functionality from the four ports on the back? I'd like to eliminate the 5 port switch and replace it with this router. Also, currently setup as a single subnet. Perhaps I've read wrong info online, but wouldn't the addition of the second router create a separate subnet? As you can tell, I'm VERY rusty with networking.

Regardless, it comes down to the individual and some people are unfortunately mentally unstable (and dare I say evil) regardless of parenting. I was the kid you speak of playing games I should not be playing (having much older siblings plays a big role there), but I also have good parents that instilled good morals. The amount of outrageously violent games I played at a young age had zero effect on me as even to this day I feel bad stepping on a bug unintentionally.

Came here to simply see if you had ublock which is the only thing I run these days... I'll keep an eye on this thread. That said, does Adblock Plus not interfere with ublock or cause unnecessary slow downs?