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[Sir Beregond]

21 hours ago, CoolGTX said:

So, did you have to do a new 2 year contract to get $85/m rate? 
That same plane for me is $99.99/m & I never see anywhere near 1.2 Gb download speeds, even with a new Nighthawk 2.5 Gb modem & my PC connected directly to the modem for a "clean speed test" ... maybe 900 Mb is the best I'm seeing  Comcast sucks, cant even go back to only 800Mb and save any money - it would actually cost even more ????  Comcast = monopoly + bad customer service & automation hell to try & get any help / Live body on the phone.

back on subject: bought some Bird seed for the cat TV

Yeah want to say it was 1 year contract with 2 or 3 year price lock.

 

Yeah don't get me wrong, I hate these pricing games. If fiber or other comparably fast services hit my area, I'll happily ditch Comcast.

 

For now my only other options where I live would be DSL that they can't reliably deliver more than 30mbps with, or something dumb like mobile 5G or satellite or something.

 

The service itself though has been fine for us. We pretty much always have 10-20% faster speeds than what we are paying for regarding the download. Upload is what it is. As for outages, been some but usually they tell us ahead of time if planned which my old service never did, so I honestly can't complain at all about the service itself.

 

 

Edited February 10 by Sir Beregond

[J7SC_Orion]

Asus RT-BE 88U / dual 10G wifi7 mesh router

 

 

[Sir Beregond]

I bought a share of Nvidia when it was at $118 last week. 

[Alex]

19 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

I bought a share of Nvidia when it was at $118 last week. 

lol same, I'm kicking myself for buying airline shares in the post-covid dip instead of Nvidia. Airline shares havent gone up....

[CoolGTX]

Several CAT8 network cables, to build out my network upgrade.

I only needed CAT6A; but, the price was so close that I decided why not.

 

I've discovered a bad CAT6 in my existing setup & decide to move to full support for 2.5Gb speeds that my hardware supports to improve the movement of data across my network. 

Also am trying to figure-out if my ISP 1.2 Gbps service only being ~.900 GB is on my side

I am only getting ~0.900 Gb at modem w/  1Gb laptop (should be .940-.950 on 1Gb card) & (the 2.5 Gb PC rigs are behind 2.5Gb  router, on Cat 6)
 

So is it my network cables or Comcast as the root cause of poor speed?; just decided to remove the network cables as a potential bottleneck, currently using Cat5E & Cat 6 network cables.

 

Will test with these new cables before upgrading any more cables & see if it delivers any improvements on network or from ISP

 

These are the Brands popped up when searching the web / never used them before

 

DbillionDa Cat8 Ethernet Cable, Outdoor&Indoor, Heavy Duty High Speed 26AWG, 2000Mhz with Gold Plated RJ45 Connector, Weatherproof S/FTP UV Resistant

 

UGREEN Cat 8 Ethernet Cable, High Speed Braided 40Gbps 2000Mhz Network Cord Cat8 RJ45 Shielded Indoor Heavy Duty LAN Cables

 

(edit for clarity)

Edited February 12 by CoolGTX

[pio]

[Fluxmaven]

I like quirky hardware. Finally picked a 12490f. China exclusive model that's basically a 12400f with a higher base clock and 2MB more l3 cache. Got it on AliExpress so I was excited that it came in the black retail box. The 5700X3D I bought a while ago just came in a plastic tray. Also grabbed a Barrow direct die block for it. Totally unnecessary but they were having a sale and I needed to spend more to use the coupon.  

 

 

Also got some new boots. 

 

[neurotix]

Those boots look really nice. Jealous.

[damric]

4 hours ago, neurotix said:

Those boots look really nice. Jealous.

Gay

[Fluxmaven]

2 hours ago, damric said:

Gay

[damric]

13 minutes ago, Fluxmaven said:

hey i like my cowboys like i like my boots, black

[Fluxmaven]

11 hours ago, damric said:

hey i like my cowboys like i like my boots, black

I keep these tired old RO Search boots under my desk for when I need to go get into trouble. These things are old enough to vote  

[rUNbYrATZ]

 

 

[J7SC_Orion]

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

[Slaughtahouse]

Twizzler Super Nibs and a 6 pack of beer.

 

Simple pleasures in life… and definitely not jealous of the above two purchases. At all.

Edited March 19 by Slaughtahouse

[rUNbYrATZ]

2 sets of ATX 3.1 PCIe 5.1 H++ 12V-2X6 675W cables:

 

 

...the additional charge was for 'yesterday'  shipping.

[J7SC_Orion]

Aorus 870E Master for the 9950X3D / 48 GB 8400.  7950X3D will get back the Aorus 670E Master (once I fix some bent pins, oppsie)

[Mr. Fox]

RX 9070 XT (received/in use)

X870E Apex (pending)

[Fluxmaven]

Picked up an open box Arc B580 to play around with. Went ahead and just built a rig from spare parts for now. Too hot in the office to benchmark currently.

 

Tossed it on the living room TV and it runs Rocket League great in 4K. I don't really play anything else on controller but I'll try a few more demanding games just to see how it holds up. 

 

[Mr. Fox]

3 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

Picked up an open box Arc B580 to play around with. Went ahead and just built a rig from spare parts for now. Too hot in the office to benchmark currently.

 

Tossed it on the living room TV and it runs Rocket League great in 4K. I don't really play anything else on controller but I'll try a few more demanding games just to see how it holds up. 

 

Awesome. Congrats. I really liked the Arc A770 GPU that I had. It was an excellent value. Probably the best price to performance ratio I had ever seen before.

[Fluxmaven]

14 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Awesome. Congrats. I really liked the Arc A770 GPU that I had. It was an excellent value. Probably the best price to performance ratio I had ever seen before.

Thanks. I also have an A770 that I got at launch. After a few months of driver updates it became a great card. Currently loaned out to a friend thats saving up for a new card. Runs surprisingly well even pushing an ultra wide display. 

 

Looking forward to seeing what you can accomplish with that Apex. I have a Gene which is already more board than my lack of skill requires lol. 

[Mr. Fox]

On 03/04/2025 at 06:09, Fluxmaven said:

Looking forward to seeing what you can accomplish with that Apex. I have a Gene which is already more board than my lack of skill requires lol. 

It looks like the release date got pushed out another month. Again. I hope it ends up being worth the wait.

 

I have loved owning the Z790 Apex. Best motherboard I have owned in a long time. I finally decided to sell it and the golden 14900KS. I love them both, but they are no longer useful to me since I cannot break any of my high scores or earn any more points with them on HWBOT.

[Andrew]

[J7SC_Orion]

...productivity back-up machine - Aorus 870E Pro Ice and 128 GB of GSkill Flare X.  

[Mr. Fox]

On 03/04/2025 at 06:09, Fluxmaven said:

Looking forward to seeing what you can accomplish with that Apex. I have a Gene which is already more board than my lack of skill requires lol. 

 

On 05/04/2025 at 15:40, Mr. Fox said:

It looks like the release date got pushed out another month. Again. I hope it ends up being worth the wait.

 

I have loved owning the Z790 Apex. Best motherboard I have owned in a long time. I finally decided to sell it and the golden 14900KS. I love them both, but they are no longer useful to me since I cannot break any of my high scores or earn any more points with them on HWBOT.

I cancelled the order. Upon further research, the PCIe bifurcation is all effed up on the Apex the same as the Hero. No longer wanted if I can't use the PCIe slots except with the GPU slot cut back to X8. Too bad A$$zeus can't get their act together. I saved $300+ and went with an AORUS Master since both of the extra X16 slots are untethered from the CPU and using them has no effect on the GPU. It's really unfortunate that 4-DIMM motherboards are so common and 2-DIMM so rare. Such a waste having the two unwanted memory slots on nearly every option available for purchase. The designers of enthusiast motherboards seem to be universally stupid and out of touch with the people that buy their rubbish. The Master has asynchronous BCLK as well.

Edited April 14 by Mr. Fox