Recent content by bobzdar

Pretty cool tbh - gaming loads are only in the 50's and 60's, all core only jumps to mid 70's. It may have seen 80C once or twice when I was doing photogrammetry, that's the only situation I've pegged both cpu and gpu at 100% utilization and the only time it runs sustained 100% load on the cpu...

Yep - I waited until prices came down on boards and ram and then jumped in - bonus was they dropped prices of the x3d chips as well. I was surprised at the jump I got from my previous 5800x3d setup tbh. Will wait and see on the next gen, but if we're talking 20% I'll probably have to go for it...

They're good at innovating, not so much on executing...

I'm very lucky that my wife is understanding. I only risk getting beaten when she goes out to the garage....

Updated my sim cockpit with a new frame over the winter and added a 7950x3d. My home built wooden frame wasn't quite holding up to the direct drive wheel and gseat.

Yes, you need to install the chipset drivers, then set to auto in the bios so the drivers can control which ccd things run on.

It's faster than anything but the 7950X in non-gaming workloads, and faster than anything in gaming workloads. It'd be even slower if it had vcache on both dies in non-gaming workloads and no faster in gaming workloads. So it is the best compromise possible with current technology, which is...

This, it's a best of both worlds situation. Basically for clock sensitive apps, they start on the non vcache cores and spill to the lower clocked vcache cores only if needed (in which case the clock drop is much smaller than if they started the other way), while also providing large cache for...

Why have you not pulled the GPU and used the onboard video of the CPU? Have you tried running it with just the cpu, one stick of ram and NO gpu? Then use Q-flash to flash the bios? If that works, then add the gpu back in. If you haven't tried that yet, not sure what you're waiting for....

I don't think the B650's are on the ladder yet, my aorus wasn't but there are two board revisions and I didn't realize it and grabbed the wrong bios and it wouldn't flash, couldn't figure it out until I happened to read the bios version on the box and it didn't match any of the versions listed...

Yes, follow the Q-flash instructions and let it do it's thing. If cpu and memory are coming on then it's not completely dead. Also, try it with no GPU in and the onboard chip. These are very easy so no reason not to do them before sending it in. Make sure you have the correct bios if your...

Yeah, it will depend on the actual card itself (Intel/Realtek etc.) and has to be configured properly. If the Quest connects at a lower speed it will not work well. I have only tried on two and both worked well, but both used the same Intel wifi module iirc.

If your computer has a wifi card, you can turn on hotspot mode and connect the Oculus to it directly and skip the router. This is what I do on my laptop, just make sure it connects on 5ghz and not 2.4ghz (you can toggle in the hotspot options in windows). It will also depend a bit on the wifi...

Um...Techspot and HUB are the same folks (Steve Walton), so the Techspot articles are basically the script for the videos on HUB. And yeah, there are definitely games that benefit from more than 6 cores, but 6 x3d cores are still significantly faster than 8 non-x3d cores...ergo the 7900x3d and...

Yep, it's just another option. 7800x3d if you just game, 7950x3d if you want to game and do workstation type tasks on the same machine and don't care about budget, 7900x3d if you want to do the latter on more of a budget. For $20 more than a 7800x3d it's a really good option tbh. Yeah it...