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Got my 3950X, didn't get a $30 discount on my B450 motherboard :( But a good day none the less.

Thanks! Got one reserved now.

I know people want their CPUs, but don't pretend paper launches haven't been a thing for a long, long time... Though I wish AMD would be more clear about availability.

I'm in the "3900X if I can't get a 3950X" club at this point. Will find out tomorrow. Gonna be smug as hell if I actually pick up a 3950X that's for sure.

I remember reading about the 3950X having a "65W" mode but I don't recall any of the reviews actually testing it. 105W TDP, actual power consumption is well above that. But it's VERY close to the 3900X because of binning and how AMD handles power limits.

Haha yeah sounds like there might be a mini [H] meet if MC actually has any in stock lol I called Duluth myself. From the sounds of things I'm not optimistic about either having any in stock :(

Should give him a ring, I'd rather not drag myself out to MC at 10am if they're not gonna have what I need in stock. :( I'm assuming they ACTUALLY know by now what they'll have in stock come Monday.

Called my local and they basically just said they didn't know. If they don't I think I'll just pick up a 3900X and be done with it, not willing to wait another 2-3 months for a CPU. Would also be very disappointing to see AMD do a paper launch, particularly when they had a time gap between the...

Hoping microcenter has some in stock...

Isn't this the same fake leak from months ago?

Intel finding new and "exciting" ways to re-release the same chips and get more reviews to attract clicks. It's all just mildly refined 2017 dies, be it this or the HDET refresh. But reviewers need the clicks too, it's not like they're gonna say "meh it's a clock bumped 9900K, not worth a review".

Maybe not on it's own, but it's obvious that BOTH AMD and Intel aren't able to just leave clock speed on the table like they have in the past. As soon as AMD started being competitive Intel went from selling chips with 500-1000mhz of headroom to selling chips with more like 100-200mhz of...

Or or or, we could all chill out and wait for launch and real reviews with real overclocking numbers instead of angry typing on the internet? Hahaha just kidding. (Also why would you argue with someone whose profile says they're Anti-AMD, just ignore it lol)

Plus or minus a mandatory motherboard update :)

Could use pastebin or something of the sorts.

Do you mind posting the full output? It sounds like something is blocking apt from removing it.

The instructions you've read include using apt?

Maybe it's been mentioned before... but back to the OP, asking MS to just make 10 more 7-esque. There's another topic in the forum right now about how MS has tacked a bunch of telemetry onto the side of 7. Nowhere near as bad as 10 I imagine, but still pushing 7 in a bad direction. But, let's...

I've seen hardware reserved memory for IGP before, but you don't have an IGP in that setup... Have you dug around in your bios?

And I guess that's what I'm worried about the most, sticks using adhesive strong enough to actually damage the chips when you try to remove them. It's increasingly hard to find decent speed sticks without gaudy massive heat spreaders on them that make cooler compatibility tricky. I still...

Sure enough, look what got posted today: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clearlinux-main-desktop&num=1 I don't imagine it'd be fun to run that in the long term, with having to upgrade all of your packages at once...

Has anyone tried removing heat spreaders from modern ram? I'm willing to bet they aren't really needed to keep the ram cool, but would help a lot for cooler compatibility, ignoring those weird super tall sticks that some companies make... Were they hard to remove? Did you see major temp...

There's also a good chance that ram prices will continue to fall, if you plan on upgrading to Zen 2 already.

Ah, that makes sense. Kinda foreign... but makes sense. It seems to perform well on AMD as well, based on stuff done by Phoronix. Surprisingly doesn't seem to bias Intel CPUs, from what I recall.

I wonder how clear linux gets compiled? They do some crazy optimization with that but the last time I read about how they build the OS, it sounded very strange.

It does look quite good, I want to say there was some water effect in the trailer that looked super nice... I wanna say it was Yoshi. The resolution isn't fantastic... but framerate is important.

So, ignoring all of this die size talk, I think the 2000 series are just priced as such, at least partially, to help clear out all of the old pascal stock without dropping prices too much. Now how they want to go about doing that without driving people over to used cards, I don't know. I think...

Not to mention most current NVMe SSDs are only running 4x lanes, not the full 16x. If bandwidth was that big of an issue for consumers you'd see a ton of 16x SSDs.

Intel has kinda sacrificed their lower end lineup production wise to focus on high margin stuff. Makes business sense, but sucks for most consumers. What's the big draw of PCIe 5.0 for you? Historically, PCIe bandwidth hasn't been a huge factor in gaming performance, and I can't think of any...

Sounds a bit too good to be true... perhaps some testing with Prime95/OCCT/Your synthetic stress tool of choice is in order? Your cooling is still the custom loop listed in your sig?