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Requirements for an X3D chip to work correctly with the V-Cache in games: 1. CPPC preferred cores set to "Auto" in bios. 2. AMD chipset drivers installed with the 3D V-Cache Optimizer Services installed. 3. Use the Balanced power plan in Windows. After installing the chipset drivers it changes the Balanced power plan. 4. Xbox Game Bar enabled (you don't have to use it in games) I own a 7900X3D because I had a 3900x and a 5900x and didn't want to lose cores going to the 7800X3D, but also couldn't afford the 7950X3D. My advice: return the 7900X3D. Mine has a problem where in high performance power plan it won't boost past 5150MHz on the 2nd CCD. (It won't hit 5650 anymore under load). It did when I first got it, then stopped working after a month, a bios update fixed it but only for a month, and it has not worked properly since last April. You're supposed to be able to use Balanced power plan which runs games on the 1st CCD, then switch to high performance power plan for games or benchmarks that require high clock speed. So best of both worlds. Doesn't work for me. I would do what other people are saying, especially whoever mentioned getting the 5700X3D and using the savings to get a better GPU.

Firefox with Ublock Origin, Ghostery, NoScript, Privacy Badger, YouTube High Definition, HTTPS everywhere, and CanvasBlocker. On Linux. Also went to about:config and searched Media Peer and there's a setting called MediaPeerConnection and you need to disable it. Otherwise you can possibly be tracked on a VPN. I get warned sometimes about cross-site scripting or data leaks between pages. I think it's a pretty hardened browser. I use the same setup on my phone as well.

Off topic but I hope you feel better bud. Taking it day by day is all I can do too, and takes a lot of learning and proper self care. Regarding the 19% improvement: somewhat impressive but I think its not really worth the upgrade for me, if it were on TSMCs 3nm node I would be more interested.

So what I'm curious about is: is this actual Zen 5 or is it just Zen 4+? My current 7900X3D is 5nm, will the 9900x be on a smaller node? If it's not then its probably just Zen 4+ like the 3000 series had the 5000 series. It might only be a very incremental improvement if it's still 5nm. EDIT: looked it up and Zen 5 is on N4P TSMC. 1nm less than what I have and only a 15% performance boost. Reminds me of Intel with all the early i7s. It's probably not worth the money for me.

Paid $10 for it complete from Japan. Now it's worth $100 complete. Great game too.

Good man. I have a PSU you can swap in. It'll work great, I promise you.

Did you get it all folding? @Memmento Mori

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I'd say, don't get too excited over the PTM7950. I used it on my waterblock and had 10c higher temps compared to Prolimatech PK-3 Nano that I swear by. So off went the PTM and back on went my PK-3. Your mileage may vary but I hope it works for you Orion.

Maybe you should try Windows. Install Nvidia drivers and install f@h with the Advanced Control and add slots on that through the GUI. See if you can get all that hardware folding

Correction. You did play in fighting game tournaments, and placed higher than me. Lol. @bridgypoo

I didn't read reviews, I had a 3900x and a 5900x so I didn't want to lose cores going to a 7800X3D and the 7950X3D was too expensive. My rig is not air cooled sweetie. It's got a 360mm AIO and the best one on the market. So if we're talking about just CPU cooling, it's water cooled.

I'm sick of my 7900X3D not boosting on the 2nd CCD, making my benchmark scores way lower. I will be picking up the 9900X to replace it and it better damn well boost as well as be stable (though I don't have problems with stability currently).

No problem, glad to help. If you could get them both + cpu folding you'd probably have a shot at first place in the foldathons! Nice stuff!

Well considering the activity here, seems like it was worth making.

I thought we had a "post your other mistress" thread already which was essentially the same thing. My hobbies include art, basketball, yoga, martial arts (those last three I can't do anymore because of my pain), studying philosophy (especially Chinese), learning Linux, listening to music on the stereo I built, systems and network security snd administration, soldering, retro gaming and collecting retro games, and probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting. Anyway, my biggest hobby is art. Watercolor, colored pencil, pencil sketches of faces, etc. Captions below each. Tiger lilies. Watercolor and watercolor pen. Memorial for my Grandpa who passed away and had orange roses on his grave. He grew squash and strawberries and every year he'd give us some. Colored pencil. Peonies. Watercolor and watercolor pen My Assassin Cross in Ragnarok Online. Colored pencil and ink. A character I made up named Aines Ray Allen, Milwaukee Bucks player Aines in full water color. This one was very meticulously done. Tupac. Cheated and used a lightbox over a print off of it in grayscale My soldering workbench. I don't do SMD for now. Just used occasionally to replace game cartridge save game batteries. I have recapped whole systems but desoldering with wick or a cheapy vacuum pump is a pain in the ass. I need to invest in a desoldering gun. Also I have even more art than this in a folder, some of the work goes back to '01. Crazy that it's 23 years old. I can even distinctly creating each one, and so much time has passed.

Which version is better? Sabbath for me.

If I helped you, thank me lol. Hit that button. Here's hoping you work something out.

Ok, sorry I misunderstood that. My bad.

I am not sure I can help with your setup. A user here named keeph8n had a Asus Sage board but Intel, and also had two 4090s in it, and experienced the same issues with PCI in Windows as well as Ubuntu. He was having trouble getting more than one GPU recognized and folding. I suggest trying to install f@h again, it should be as simple as installing a .deb package with gdebi, then entering your username, team and key. It will install as a system service and run in the background, by default it will fold on your CPU not GPU. To make it fold on (one) GPU and not your CPU, add or change the CPU slot in /etc/fahclient/config.xml: <slot id='1' type='GPU'> <pci-bus v='1'/> <pci-slot v='0'/> </slot> Replace your CPU slot with that. However, you will need to open a root file browser, or use Ubuntu's text editor to open and change it. For me the terminal command is: sudo xed /etc/fahclient/config.xml. However, this will only add one GPU and I'm not sure how you add others like if you just change the PCI slot to '1' to add your second card and add it as another slot. nvidia-smi might help and you can use that to check and see if both cards are working or not. Also, this all depends on you having actual Nvidia drivers installed, which you should be able to do through the GUI. You need 525 or 535. You are also going to need to look into changing coolbits for each card for fan control through the Nvidia X Server Settings. After you change your GPU slots, reboot for the change to take, then go to in a web browser: http://127.0.0.1:7396/ to see your GPU slots and control them. (If all goes well.) Also, I might recommend installing Linux Mint Cinnamon edition as opposed to mainline Ubuntu. Mainline Ubuntu is pretty clogged/bloated and is less than ideal. Linux Mint might pick up both your GPUs, and just go to Driver Manager to choose the Nvidia 525 drivers instead of the open source Nouveau (which you cannot fold on). Linux Mint Cinnamon edition is also wayyy more user-friendly than mainline Ubuntu and works essentially like Windows does, with a taskbar on the bottom, start menu, and icons to the right of it that you click on to multitask. Hope this helps. EDIT: make your first priority getting the Nvidia closed source drivers installed and coolbits set for fan control. Check nvidia-smi in a terminal to make sure both cards are present. (Just type nvidia-smi and hit enter)

I don't see why, he made a thread clearly labeled Ubuntu under the software section. Unless you think he'd get more help there or something.

No problem. Just make sure you can cool CPU+GPU folding at the same time. I have a monster RTX 4090 overclocked and just that running causes my CPU socket and CPU to heat up to between 52C~67C. I have no idea how hot it would get running folding on the CPU as well- probably in the 90s and it would downclock my CPU anyway making it pointless. You can also try Unix Bytebench which has been around since the 80s, it'll tell you your processor speed in MIPs and it might also have a loop option. It needs to be fetched with git and compiled from source though, so that assumes you know how. Out if curiosity- what version and WM of Linux/Ubuntu are you running? I think I'm the resident Linux guy around here though I don't know my way around the terminal that great (I'm no Linux Guru) but there's a lot I know how to do.