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Weather has been unseasonably cool in the Northern Midwest for like a week. Around 75f-80f tops. This is strange for mid to late July, usually we are around 85-95f with high humidity. I bet we'll have a really hot August instead.

Yay, I *might* be able to get 3rd place this time.

Awesome. Proud of all your guys hard work. It's amazing for such a relatively small site and group of benchers.

Good work everyone, sorry I can't help (I don't generally participate in hwbot competitions for numerous reasons)

I have a portable usb DVD/CD reader and burner that I use. this one Might be worth the investment and its easier than pulling a rig out of storage and hooking it up. Probably shouldn't say this but it burns Saturn games no problem and didn't even need to use a low speed for it. Generally they recommend you burn old Sega games, especially Sega CD at 4x speed but the lowest that drive can do is 10x

Hope this turns into something good for you. Best of luck. You should keep doing the redbubble thing too. (Make sone cyberpunk city designs with printing on the sleeves like the one you made for EHW and I'd buy one). Best wishes man.

Hi guys. I have a 77" LG CX series OLED TV for modern (and some not so modern) gaming and console gaming as well as home theater. My question is simple: we've had the TV since June 2021, so that's two years of owning it. In the menu for the TV there is a pixel refresh option. I am wondering if I should use it or not? The picture quality and brightness and color are all okay and I haven't really noticed a difference compared to when we first got it. There aren't any dead or stuck pixels that I can see... Do I need to do a pixel refresh or not? Thanks in advance.

You are restricted to using Balanced power plan while gaming if you want the V-Cache to work. The chipset driver modifies the Balanced power profile and if you run a game in windowed mode and check Ryzen Master, you should see cores in the 2nd CCD parked (it will say sleep), to enable the 1st CCD to run as fast as it possibly can without throttling for the best game performance. If you turn PBO on and set boost override to +200, you should see the 1st CCD topping out at 5150MHz. Mind you, Ryzen Master might not say so (it doesn't in my case) but HWINFO64 or Afterburner's OSD should show you hitting those clocks. The Xbox game bar thing, I have no idea about, just know that it has to be on. I think AMD and Microsoft worked together on this for the Windows scheduler to properly place gaming threads on the 1st CCD. They have said it is less than ideal, but what they've come up with for the time being and future updates may remove this requirement. If you set it to Ultimate Performance the 3D V-Cache will go unused, and instead you should see the 2nd CCD hitting 5625-5650MHz (with +200 boost override). Some games need the higher clock speed, some games need and will run faster in Balanced with the V-Cache. Despite my complaints about my jacked up system not boosting, it was still worth it even so- I mainly play Forza Horizon 4 and 5 and in the ingame benchmark on Forza Horizon 5 on my 4090 I got 160fps on my 5900x I upgraded from, 192 fps with the 7900X3D, and 195 fps with the 7900X3D + highly tuned memory (6200MHz cas 30). As I had suspected, my 5900x was bottlenecking the 4090. I was able to redo all the 3D benchmarks (3dmark, Superposition etc.) with the 2nd CCD when it was still boosting, and also all the relevant processor benchmarks as well, so I still got a lot more global points on hwbot as well as many hardware team power points. I am still pretty unhappy about the situation but hoping the reason a BIOS update for my board is taking so long is that they are fixing it. Here man, this is the video I watched when I first got my setup and did the 4 things I mentioned in the earlier post. He does a good job explaining things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yOYfT_r0xI

Ok, I will go through the list of things you need to do to get the V-Cache working correctly in games: 1. Set CPPC preffered cores to >Auto< in your BIOS. 2. Download and install AMD chipset driver 5.02. Make sure it installs the 3D V-Cache Optimizer service. Don't use the latest one as it runs the chip like 20c hotter for no performance gain. 3. Change to Balanced power profile in Power Settings. 4. Enable Xbox Game Bar. You don't need to use it at all but for the V-Cache to work in games it has to be on. I think that's it. Hope it helps. For any single core tasks you will want to change to High Performance power plan.

This is what I'm hoping for for Zen 5. It's long past time to increase thread counts. A 16c/32t for $500 would be nice.

I just wanted 1. The best of both worlds as I explained, and 2. Same thread count I already had with a 5900x even though I don't really do anything that requires it So I didn't want less threads.

Are you going to get a 7950X? With my experience, I would highly suggest avoiding the 7900X3D or the 7950X3D... What my issue is is that my first chiplet maxes out at 5150MHz with PBO no problem, and that's the chiplet that has the extra L3 cache and runs games. That's all fine and good. However, for benching for hwbot, my 2nd chiplet worked fine at first and was boosting to its max speed of 5650MHz and I was getting great scores. I could switch between having the 1st chiplet run at 5150mhz for games (under the Windows Balanced power plan), which parks cores in the 2nd chiplet. For benching, I could change to High Performance power plan and that would make my 2nd chiplet hit 5650MHz. So I was getting the best of both worlds. Unfortunately, this lasted for maybe a month (I got the setup in March) and now my 2nd chiplet will not boost above 5100MHz no matter what I do. So I can't bench. One time, a BIOS update fixed it but then one day a few weeks to a month later it stopped working, and no bios updates since have fixed it. I would not recommend the ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming as that is my board and I think it may be the culprit. It's also been nearly two months since I've gotten a bios update. I want to buy a normal 7900X and say screw the V-Cache but my wife has suggested I wait it out and see if a bios update fixes it. Sorry this is so long winded but I just wanted to let you know or keep you from getting ripped off. And yes I've gone through Asus as well as AMD tech support and tried a bunch of things and none have fixed the problem. Hope this helps. EDIT: Also if you need help with Zen 4 memory overclocking, pm me. Try to get a kit that does 6000MHz as that's about the fastest Zen 4 will run.

Sir Beregond and Ultra, thanks for your personal experiences. And slaughtahouse, thank you for reading what I linked in the other thread and your kind words. If I could "mark as solution" in this subforum, it would probably be The Pook's post saying no one has ever heard of the Coursera/Google IT Professional cert. If I had no pain, I'd jump at the chance for the Corsair position that Fluxmaven linked. Unfortunately, working on interpersonal skills or really any skill is sort of not doable right now for me. Though I suppose I've been making a big effort to be more mature and more positive on the forums and Discord. As well as PC. The road to employment for me is going to take quite some time, here's where I'm at now: I had a CAT scan recently and have a hip cam and pincer impingement, osteoarthritis, bone spurs, and a femoralacetabular impingement, and that's just the left side (the one that hurts worse). Currently, I am waiting for a call from my hip doctor's office saying they have a 3D model of the left hip which is done by Stryker in Germany, and made from my imaging. It was supposed to take two weeks after the CAT but it's been almost 3. Then I will get scheduled to see my doctor and find out if he can do surgery or not. Then I will have to wait for surgery, I will be surprised if it will be before Autumn. Next, after surgery I will have to do physical therapy for 6-12 weeks until my left hip recovers (since it's a bone thing, and I smoke, it might take 12). Then my doctor will put in a request for a CAT of the right hip, and then again lots of waiting, surgery and 6-12 weeks of physical therapy for the right side. With a lot of waiting while my pain is still poorly controlled. After all that, there is still the issue of my neck pain and messed up neck. It is basically a long standing whiplash injury from electroconvulsive therapy gone wrong. Anyway, on the left side of my neck the vertebrae at C3-C7 are crushing the discs slightly on my left side. So I will have to get a referral from my hip doctor to a pain specialist at the same place who can do something for my neck. Oh, and of course there's the prerequisite physical therapy before anything else can be done because insurance requires it. My back doctor who did my microdiscotomy had also gotten my neck imaged, and unlike my low back where the discs were being crushed and sticking out, the same thing is not happening in my neck, so he told me he can't help me because he can't go in and remove the squeezed out discs that are putting pressure on nerves and causing pain. I still have Degenerative Disc Disease and 3 decaying vertebrae and 2 crushed discs in the low back too, and it's somewhat arguable how much the back procedure has helped. On top of all this, I still have Chronic Pain Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, which aren't curable and are treatable but the meds I take leave me in a daze all day every day. So this is the mountain I have to climb before I can even think about getting certs or getting a remote support job at a hardware company. It may be a year or more with how slow the health care system is before my hips and neck are addressed, and there's nothing they can do other than what they did already for my low back. I hate to bring all this up in a different thread from the pain thread, but it's what's limiting me from working right now. Since everyone else is sharing personal experiences and histories, I figured I should explain where I'm at. I sincerely appreciate all the advice and encouragement, as well as personal experiences, and the realization that I may not actually need any certs for an IT job. Thanks guys.

You are correct about Ryzen being mostly about RAM overclocking and then just turn PBO on and you're good. It's the same with Zen 4. You are also correct that there's a sweet spot for memory; it's about 6000MHz. If you're lucky you can do 6200MHz (like me) or if you're very lucky, 6400MHz but anything past that is limited by not the Infinity Fabric, but the Memclk (it runs at half the RAM speed) which doesn't like to do much more than 6000/3000Memclk stably.

I looked into it a little bit more for you, unfortunately I didn't see any capture devices on Amazon with RF. If your VCR does have RCA, here you go.

Hi slaughtahouse, I really appreciate the time you took to make that reply and describe your own success, and how it was achieved. Unfortunately, the "inter-personal skills" thing is something I lack, I was even told this (the teacher said it out loud in front of the class) when I went to school for IT in 2012. I also lack political correctness, I mean I generally know what's acceptable and what's not nowadays. I can also be pretty negative or pessimistic which is a result of my life experiences though I won't go into that here. Those and a few other reasons were why I was fired as staff for this site, I was a Staff Content Creator and graphic designer but only for a month and a half or so. Since then, I have been doing my best to be positive on the site and on Discord. I also dislike or wouldn't want to "white lie" or fudge my way into a job I'm not prepared to handle. And with a helpdesk position being so forward facing and requiring people skills, I might find myself unprepared for it. Also please see this post in this thread for what I will have to go through for my hips over the next few months. Then, I will have to probably do physical therapy for 6 weeks for my neck to be able to get an MRI of the neck and see what my treatment options are. It doubly doesn't help that I'm a 2-pack a day smoker and I would probably need to quit outright to be able to do that job as I can't walk away from the PC every half hour to smoke. Also, I take fairly high amounts of multiple pain meds as well as a blood pressure med (helps anxiety) so my memory is poor from one of them, and I'm always relatively stoned, but life without these medications is hell (whole body throbbing all day long). Those may interfere with my ability to work. Apologies if this all sounds like excuses, but I do appreciate the encouragement and your personal story. I'll definitely keep it in mind when I get to a place where I can apply for a job.

Does your VCR have an RCA out (yellow, red and white) or is it RF only? I used a cheap $30 Amazon capture device that had RCA as well as S-Video to transfer and get a digital copy of a particular tape. On the backlog is to get another (I threw it away when we moved; I wanted to use it for old video game streaming, and all of my old systems can do S-Video, but they had terrible combing artifacts) and transfer all of our home movies to digital format before the tapes fail. I would not be surprised if they make something like this but with an RF connector for specifically this purpose, if your VCR lacks RCA out.

Thanks guys. Trying to keep up on my terminology. Just memorizing "12VHPWR" took me like a month lol

That's what I thought too, but then what's the WR stand for?

I have a pretty comprehensive knowledge of computer and IT acronyms, but just Googling the title of this thread got me nowhere. I tried looking at a Wikipedia page about PSUs and it didn't spell it out there either. Anyone know?

Congratulations Ultra. Hope your next build goes for more. P.s. if you need graphics for your Etsy storefront, let me know in a pm and what you want and I'll try to help you.

That's great but reading it, I'm not sure I'm capable of everything they're looking for. Also, they do provide health insurance, but that might be a big no because my current insurance provider has paid for a special CAT scan and eventual surgery on both hips. If their insurance doesn't cover the place I'm going to, I'm essentially screwed on getting help for my pain. Perhaps I will look again and see if they have a similar position like 6 months down the line when I've had my surgery and recovery. Thanks so much for finding that for me though.

Yeah I think it's that one. I was under the impression it was a 6 month thing. My goal or dream job in this, as tedious as it sounds, would be to work for Corsair, Thermaltake, or another PC building related company answering tickets and arranging RMAs all day. And to do it remotely. Thanks for the response E, and the encouragement, but based on what Flux said as well as Pook I probably won't waste my time and just continue being a bored, depressed NEET. Lol

Thank you flux. I should add I went to school for Systems Administration in 2005 and 2012. In 2005 I had to drop out because I couldn't continue as I was under 25 and they counted my mom's income so I could not get grants. In 2012 I went again, and have a Cisco Certification for PC repair as well as a document stating I was on the honor roll and got a 4.0. I dropped out because I realized that an associate's in Systems Administration would probably not be enough to get a job, and most companies would want a Bachelor's in Comp Sci, which I cannot do because 1. I am terrible at math and 2. I would have to take out loans. It's a good thing I didn't in retrospect because being bipolar, I could not trust myself to be able to work consistently to make the student loan payments. So I don't know if the Cisco thing and the honor roll document would help or not. Do you think they would make little difference?