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CP2077 Phantom Liberty... really enjoying revisiting this game. Plus the Full Path RT and Ray Reconstruction look absolutely amazing...

I'm not sure if you can do this with AM5, but on my 5950X the answer was an All-Core OC (not using PBO), CPPC off & SMT off. Removed all "stutter" I ever had and improved performance in a very measurable way (another thread on this forum about that). Not sure if you are able to do the same...

The 5950X is a remarkable chip. For gaming, All core OC, SMT disabled for me (smooth as butter, 0 stuttering). Productivity? Run a PBO curve with SMT on. The versatility of this chip is amazing, plan to keep mine as a main use rig until Ryzen 8000 or Intel 15 series.

In terms of Frame Gen, have you actually used it? Everytime I hear "input lag", I laugh and assume said comment has come from someone who has never used FG before. I have a 4090 and have no trouble driving 4K, but I have used FG in FH5, Portal RTX, CP2077 and SW Jedi Survivor... 0 input lag...

I have only the 66Mhz CPU left....

When HBAO+ and VTAO were introduced, wasn't that nVidia exclusive?

I've been PC gaming since the mid-90's, and while the past details are fuzzy (or maybe I did not care back then), but was there always this much uproar on new graphical features being added to games? Why is everyone clamoring for rasterization when NVidia is actually trying to make it where...

Bring on all the DLSS 3.5+ technology... I love fully maxing out games at 4K with all the eye candy. The article has a lot of good points in favor of their focus, and I tend to agree with most of them. RT + DLSS + FG is going to be the future. The point that stuck out to me is rasterization...

One 5950X having a bad IMC? Possible... 3 of them though? Extremely unlikely. You should not need anywhere near 1.25V of SoC or 1.4V for DDR for 3200Mhz. I run my B-Die sticks of 3200Mhz at 3800Mhz with only 1.38V DDR and 1.05V SoC. I'm guessing your memory is simply not compatible with the...

LMFAO! :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: So, I am all for buying AIB cards for better components, more power phases, etc. to get that OC headroom (It's who I am, first thing I did with my 4090 was find the max OC). But as over-engineered as these cards were for cooling on just air, why would...

Half-Life: Alyx

Bourbon and Forza Horizon 5 online.... good times.... :D

On my specific setup, multiplier is 47x, BCLK is 100.50 and vCore is at 1.35V with LLC @ second most aggressive level. 100% Prime95 stable, I have had 0 crashes since going all core OC route, whereas even after a year+ of tweaking PBO, I'd still get a random crash now and then. System runs...

Seems like I am right where I want to be! :) I use my 5950X different than most, with an all-core OC locked with no PBO and SMT turned off.... makes for an extremely smooth, stutter-free and seamless gaming experience. :cool:

I saw a Sony trinitron on the curb 2 weeks ago when I was walking in the neighborhood. I thought about picking it up to see if it still worked and keeping it if it did. Was probably about 17". Sadly tho, not sure where I would have put it, plus the wife was with me walking and was already...

I currently have an ASUS 24" 1920x1200 monitor hooked up to my true retro build (the KT7A one). It's the only LCD I have that has DP, HDMI, DVI and VGA, and at 75Hz! Plus, it has a ton of scaling options being an "Art" monitor, so I am using 1:1 on my true retro build so it looks correct to...

Did I have a "need" back then, not really, but anyone who knows me knows I get as much fun tweaking/pushing hardware as I do playing any games on it. I have pushed things to the max ever since I got into PC gaming, straight up when I buy it too... lol. That specific LGA775 setup served me for...

Truer words have never been spoken... :cool:

Enjoy! Here is my Q9450 setup... have some massive cooling on the CPU and Northbridge because I have been pushing a 450Mhz FSB on that quad chip since it came out... lol.

I mean, what's your end goal? The Q9650 will all around be a better CPU than the Q6600 with more cache and newer instruction set. Even with the higher FSB, they still overclock really well if you have a good motherboard and good DDR2.

Luckly, I have been 100% remote work for 3 years now (I was only 1 of 2 people left who kept that ability, mostly because I would just have quit, screw pointless commutes). Plus, our company got bought earlier this year (fun times) by a company that has at least 50% of their workforce remote...

I still have a Q9450 running on an Asus P5BDelux (P965 chipset) at 3.6Ghz with 8GB of DDR2 and a GeForce 1080. :) It's just a web/YouTube/Photoshop PC my wife uses these days, but outside of gaming, it holds up surprisingly well for modern tasks. It has an SSD in it and is quite responsive...

Also for that retro feels... I added UV lights... LOL. 😆

It's like the Northbridge lottery of old with FSB/Memory speeds... only now, it's on your CPU and you get to roll the dice with cpu speed and memory speeds on a single chip! :)

Custom 100% of the time.... not sure why anyone would ever switch this if it's stable?

Yeah, got it around the time of my Soyo KT880 and Athlon XP 2800+. This mobo had the mounting holes, so figured, why not! CPU hasn't even gone above 35C under full load testing... lol. Decided to use some Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on it too. Might OC it, but its hardly a limiting factor for a...

True Retro PC build complete! Plays 3DFX games smooth as butter so far! :) My Voodoo 3 3000 AGP from the late 90's fired right up! Specifications: ABit KT7A v1.3 PCB with last bios to gain Athlon XP support AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.73Ghz 768Mb of SDRAM PC133 @ 2-2-2-6 (I OCed these) Voodoo 3...

Yeah, beat it in its entirety. Love that game, was a lot of fun! Dirt Trax FX is the next one i need to get.

Yeah, never heard of this game as a kid in the 90s (and I loved mech warrior on PC back then!). Now its a must play for me. Just beat Doom SNES so this is next on the list. I gave it a quick shot and its so unique, surprised it was so dirt cheap to pick up a near perfect condition one on...

Vortex on SNES... once beat, I think I only have 2 "3D" games left to go through on the SNES. For whatever reason, I decided to collect all 3D SNES games and play through them. Heard Vortex was hard, should be "fun". LoL

LoL... crazy. Wonder if my old Samsung SyncMaster 17" CRT is still around somehwhere. Sadly I have the feeling it got junked a decade ago.

Yeah, I feel the same way. Does not bother me that the rumors are the 5000 series will be a year later than normal. Like sweet, I will still be top of the line for a record amount of time for once! This card is generally like "Is this the best you can throw at me?" lol.

Silly question... of COURSE I'll snag a 5090 when it comes out... lol. Hopefully sometime in late 2024, but probably sometime in 2025 based on rumors. Although it's hard to believe needing anything more than my 4090 right now, even at 4K. As newer games come out, I am sure there is bound to...

What's that card at the top left that looks like is it PCI? I would be interested in a PCI graphics adapter...

Playing some "Portal Prelude RTX"... :)

I'm on a 4090 paired with a heavily tweaked 5950X and it's been the best video card experience I have had since I jumped to my 1080's in SLi back in the day. Half these "benchmarks" just leave configurations on default (as that's what most people do). If you are using PBO and loose memory...

I use the TOSLINK on my sound card in my TV streaming PC to my Denon receiver (on top of HDMI). HBOMax removed bitstream audio from HDMI unless you pay more (screw that, worked for years), but I can get 5.1 still when streaming using the TOSLINK with my SoundBlaster card in that PC so it still...

Not to mention, the Xeons and memory would be "slow" for gaming... If you really wanted SLi 4090's for gaming, you would throw it in another other mainstream Intel or AMD platform and it wwould perform better for games.

I went over this in alot of detail in another thread as well as this one... it speaks for itself... take a look. I even tagged the post to make it easy! https://hardforum.com/threads/x3d-or-is-it-amd-single-core-torture.2028234/post-1045665053

Vortex on SNES :)