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Oh yeah I want a P5800X but as you say...if you think standard NVMe costs are high... I'm sticking with my 375GB P4800X, my 750GB P4800X and my diddy 118GB P1600X (which I use exclusively for my pagefile).
https://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/nvme/intel-optane-p5800x-pcie-4-nvme-ssd-review/...
Just dont bother. You said what you have works fine...dont give in to over priced FOMO.
However, knowing what forum this is, enjoy getting reamed at BestBuy.
I hardly bother updating the firmware on mainstream SSDs now and I dont think ever on a HDD. I only bother if there is some major panic over bad firmware bricking drives. It's not 2012 anymore...unfortunately.
My other half is still carrying on with my original 11th gen vewrsion. If she needs more HP then thats an easy situation to deal with. Just buy last years/gen board at discount.
My Corsair DDR5 3000 CL30 kit runs at EXPO but with tREFI at 65535 and the ram voltage set at 1.39v rather than 1.4v. Works for me.
The 9900X runs at -20 offset and PBO switched off.
As a 55 year old Brit I love going through the "Whats New" and its masses of South Korean Teen romance. There is a lot of stuff on Netflix but it seems less and less is being made to entertain me. Stuff that does appeal goes downhill rapidly due to the 20 something writers thinking they know...
I bought one of these when they came out it was fine. It ended its days slotted into a AST laptop. that had a 200Mhz Intel in it. It ran underclocked at 300Mhz or something (as high at the laptop dipswitches went) but with much larger cache.