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Remember, some EPYC CPUs have vendor locks burned into them...

Gonna listen to the latest from Gersploosh and their many teenwave hits to prove how young you still are? P.S. that episode of South Park is just shy of being a dozen years old.

I think you mean 20-30 years ago (more closer to 30). Back then One programmer or a small team could still make a hot game the fully leveraged the latest, most powerful everything. 10-20 years ago is the early 2000's to the early 2010's and even as far back as 2004 (19 years ago!) is when the...

Like the guy who made SoftSoap and bought all the small plastic pumps that could work with liquid soap and all the production capacity for those pumps in the country.

Samsung or anybody else can always offer to pay more than Apple for 20-50% of the first run capacity on the new node...

For those who switch from 7950X to 7950X3D, what do you think the used 7950X's will be listed for? It has been repeatedly and conclusively demonstrated that Ryzen's "sweet spot" for RAM as originally called during the AM4 launch is DDR5-6,000. Anything slower than that is leaving a significant...

I don't use flash drives for "long term" offline, cold storage. However, as a grab and go drive for 20-100GB of critical files in the event of an oncoming hurricane or to sync the contents of non-networked storage folders in discrete computers every week or two then USB 3.0 and 3.2 drives are...

I use 3/8"x1/2". Need to be careful of the tube kinking, but it bends easily as has roughly the same outer diameter as my fittings.

Clamps instead of compression. That's something I haven't seen in a long time.

I'm sure EK will have a "Vector Quantumania Suprim Lux-O-Gold Edition Plus" block with pads you need to cut yourself, mediocre fitment, at-best mediocre performance, and at a price between $275-$575 before options.

Ray tracing can, if well implemented make things look slightly more realistic. However, and while the physics and math behind it are amazing, the apparent visual effect is often at best about as noticeable and gimmicky as what TressFx did for hair in some games. Ray tracing is nowhere near as...

And all the 3080s were pre-sold out it seems... Only higher end 30XX series showing up in stock for me is an EVGA 3080ti for $1429.99

It's been reported that stock is sticking around longer with 4090's even for reference models, but especially if you are willing to pay an AiB markup in the $200+ range. Also worth noting how that stock tracker shows Best Buy has not gotten any new Founder cards since 2022.

Deuterium, for all reasonable intents and purposes (until fusion plants are located every few blocks like Edison DC power plants in late 19th century Manhattan), is essentially unlimited. Tritium is the scarce resource. As a child, before I understood more about fusion, I though deuterium +...

Difference between German precision over-engineering and Chinese good-enough. Sometimes the precision can lead to impracticability. Thermalright also sells a contact frame for AM5, that likely does more as a CPU guard for the IHS cutouts than as something necessary to prevent motherboard...

But would you really trust Nvidia not to put all sorts of extra limiters and nasty bits of code in the program? Afterburner works with AMD and Nvidia products and that would certainly stop going forwards. Additionally, the company has a long track record of being hostile towards its AiB...

Is Sapphire Trixx still a thing?

How thick are your 360 rads? are you using 25mm or 30mm thick fans? Are you using push or pull or using push & pull? with that many radiators, volume occupied by the radiators and fans starts to matter.

I'd expect the 120w part to run hotter than an easy bake oven... what with those being traditionally heated via a 100w bulb. The 3D line is still probably a lot more voltage sensitive than the regular chips, but the extra 50w of TDP is something that was not giving AMD too much benefit while...

Well that's due to the lack of lanes from the chip. Sure the CPU has 28, but 4 are reserved for m.2 and 4 more for miscellaneous io. Can't run 24 lanes if only 20 are available.

Update with preliminary testing.

The MSI X670E Ace has three 16 lane slots that are wired for 16x, 8x, and 4x respectively and all gen 5. Of course, you still have the same limited total lanes from the 7950. I can see the argument because the one 7XXX series selling well is the 7950, but AMD does have the big ask of pushing...

Is only one CCX getting the V-Cache on the 7950X3D? If the the single CCX 5800X3D and the upcoming also single CCX 7800X3D have 64MB of added V-Cache, then shouldn't the two CCX 7950X3D have 128MB of added cache? Single-core boost speed is the same. AMD may have been saving some of the better...

If you can find any of the old "Magnum" lines of cases from CaseLabs, those should all definitely fit a 4090... though to be extra sure try and find a TX10-D model.

The monolithic die portion of the GPU has partially doubled FP32 cores (which is why the core count is listed as 12,288 / 6,144) and the description of how they function in very similar to how Bulldozer was billed as working in which if the programing is absolutely custom and functions just...

Does anybody else get the feeling that AMD's "doubled" cores that require very special programing to even come close to possibly working right are just Bulldozer's mistakes all over again?

Some archival, ultra-durable, and "industrial" SSDs are pure SLC. But beyond just the capacity decrease, there is a large cost increase in using SLC compared to even MLC let alone TLC or a variant of QLC.

I'm a Samsung 980 Pro user, which I bought because the WDSN850X hadn't been released at the time. Used mainly as an OS and temporary holding drive, and being about 1/3 full most of the time, I've had zero performance issues with it. The Western Digital is slightly faster and both run hot to...

Have you tried taking UPS "1" wholly offline and then trying any of the workarounds with UPS "2" first? Sometimes weird conflicts can emerge with identical settings (one reason I try to avoid networking anything as it's like dark magic to me). An example would be a mrantz stereo receiver's...

This late comer is far dumber than in the old days when mining companies would pay you to host their rigs and deal with the resulting waste heat. Then again, there is probably a greater who is willing to pay for one of these.

If I was guaranteed an old video card (or better) at the $20 level, I'd have bought one just to have a no-pin or six-pin spare GPU for testing CPU and RAM installs.

In theory? Each CCD has its own top-mounted hat of cache?

And now people are back to "leaking" or rumor spreading that the 7950X3D is back on after all. Presuming Amazon actually delivers the 7950 I ordered then it might be going up on the used market if that's actually the case.

And the kicker is the 1060, at least not the cut down 3GB one, is generally better in games than a 1650.

Two things: 1) people have already been jeering at AMD for the dumb naming scheme, though doing so is not much different from calling a card ti vs the baseline; and 2) there is a long history of graphics cards that have alternate amounts of RAM listed on the label differing ONLY in the RAM...

The best overall fan in the 120mm form factor (barring ultra high speed ones like a finger slicing Delta!), though not technically 25mm wide, is the Phanteks T30 at 30mm wide and ~$30 in price. Noctua otherwise normally makes the best fans at about $30 each... plus an extra $2 not to get them...

Buying a premium-priced fan that isn't a Noctua, the Phanteks T30, a new "old stock" Nidec Gentle Typhoon, or maybe a Be Quiet or Lian Li's Unifan seems like a bad deal.

Bought two. These should be a good replacement for the 4TB WD4000FYYZ drives that I bought back in 2014.

I initially got vetoed on purchasing Best Buy's $1,100 deal on an Asus laptop with a 5980HX because it did not have a built in web-cam and "only" had 16GB of Ram. Just because the senior partner was pegging ram well north of 80% from mismanaging her computer doesn't mean 16GB is insufficient...

I was, but since AMD cancelled the 5950X3D, and the rumor was going that the 7950X3D might not be coming any time soon (if at all), and the price of a 7950X dropped to $550 I bought what was available now.