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Hi all. So in a thread post I made in the video card section I mentioned 1 of my tech deals I got from Amazon during this year Amazon Prime Day/Week. The 2nd deal I took advantage of was nearly 50% off on an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU. Currently I'm running a Scythe Mugen 5 Rev. B CPU air cooler...

Hi all. It's been a while I know. I've been quite busy with life and all. Over the summer during Amazon Prime Day (which for some products stretched into Prime Week really) I took advantage of 2 AMD tech deals. We'll get to the 2nd one later as I just want to focus on the GPU. Being tired...

Hi all. So in browsing the Black Friday Deals at Newegg I discovered that amongst their deals they have an LG 27" Ultragear 27GP850-B on sale for $299.99 which for the research I've done on it today...is nearly a steal. Now, I'm currently using an Aorus 27" FI27Q-P monitor which has served me...

Well I'm 42 going on 43 in September. While I am single and have no family of my own I still game wherever and whenever I can but...it's a but harder to find time now. I just went through a family tragedy about 2.5 months ago now and had to help said family member through her trials as best as...

So, 2 weekends ago now you may now count me as an XBox Series X owner. Picked 1 up at my local GameStop downtown in a bundle that featured the console and a $50 gift card to the store. I think there was some luck behind it as with where this GameStop is located in my hometown? Half the city's...

Just installed what Terje_P reported in his post a couple of days ago. Not a bad driver if you ask me. So far, so quite good. Out!

Just upgraded to 4004 this morning. So far so good. 1 of the BIOS revisions before this one for the Crosshair VIII Hero (version 3702) sets up the board for Windows 11 compatibility. If what I've learned of BIOS revisions that means upgrading to 4004 included this feature. All that being...

Thanks for the responses. So at the moment I am using none of the ARGB headers on the mobo at this time. Might try to flash this tomorrow morning but if not then? Sometime this week and see what happens. I liked to see that some people in the forum post owcraftsman shared reported lower...

Hi all. So there has already been talk of ASUS releasing a BIOS for the Crosshair VIII Hero, Hero Wi-Fi and Dark Hero on the 4002 BIOS which uses the AGESA 1.2.0.6b version. Well, ASUS just made it a non-BETA BIOS at ver. 4004. Here's the notes on it: ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO BIOS 4004 "1...

Yeah my system can easily handle it. Can't wait for Friday the 25th. It's gonna be epic! Out!

I've had Shadow Warrior 2 on my PC for the longest time. Me thinks I need to finish this game before launch to get ready for the 3rd one. Out!

So I'll first comment on the Minimum Requirements for this game which were revealed and this disappeared again. I know the kind of system I've built up over the years and that system should run this game just fine. I find it strange that they'd reveal the Minimum Requirements and then take...

I think my 1st reaction would be based on what caused Nintendo to go 3rd party and stop making consoles altogether. Nintendo still to this moment has a ton of operating capitol available to them and the last time someone approached them to buy them off (Microsoft nearly 20 years)? Nintendo...

For me? It's been an interesting turn of events since the announcement and what has transpired in terms of news coming out about the Expansion Pack itself since. When the announcement first hit my initial belief as to why the price hike was so large was because Animal Crossing: New Horizons'...

I watched the whole thing myself. Only 5 games interested me at all: Star Wars: KotOR Remake, Project Eve, Marvel's Wolverine, Marvel's Spiderman 2 and God of War: Ragnarok. Of course, if/when comes the day I get a PS5 the issue I run into big time is the fact that for me? It's a larger...

I downloaded and installed the update the day it premiered on the site. No change on my end either. Still, good to have the newest chipset driver all the same. Out!

While you got it mostly right Archaea with your explanation you missed answering 1 question here: where is someone who is unemployed getting the funds together to start and get their 1st card? I think I have an idea how that happened. Many, many people have lost their jobs during this pandemic...

I agree with the statements of Blackstone and Armenius about the Neo Geo. It was way too expensive for its time and it wasn't marketed towards kids. It was more marketed towards college graduates (21-26 year old range) who wanted the exact arcade experience of SNK and had the money to afford...

So I saw this in my email this afternoon/evening from Newegg for those looking for the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X CPU. Newegg has it in stock. Sold and shipped by them. It is discounted and not in the Shuffle. Let me see if I can pull up the link again to confirm availability. Hold on...yep. They...

Of what Carlos M says deathhorse he might be dead on, dead eye right. To give you an idea of what bot wielding scalpers are doing with Switch OLED consoles if you all are wondering? It's been about 6 hours since preorders went up for it? On eBay there are already 825 auctions for Switch...

It very well still could. But again, many current Switch owners online are saying they won't budge for the OLED edition. That takes a lot of people right out of the scalper's customer pool right there. Sure, there will be some current Switch owners getting the OLED edition but there will...

Agreed. This is the console everyone was waiting for on the PC Master Race side who refuse to get a Nintendo Switch and what Nintendo feared would happen down the road. And if anyone was going to do it? Of course it would be Gabe and Valve Software! Out!

Yeah, one of the initial thought paths to what you're saying is the Lovelace CPU/GPU SOC meant for next gen didn't get into this Switch OLED version. This is because Nintendo wanted to produce this new Switch en masse and due to concerns with the semi-conductor and chip shortage in SE Asia they...

I've played a lot of the games you all speak of on 3DS. 2 more I can recommend that are diamonds in the rough: Metroid: Samus Returns and Kid Icarus: Uprising. You should be able to find Metroid: Samus Returns physically on Amazon and Best Buy online and also the Nintendo 3DS eShop. You can...

So today's announcement where I see it is interesting. They added an Ethernet LAN port (which isn't the biggest selling point on this model really) but we don't know how capable this port will be. Is it a Gigabit Ethernet port (at the very least) or a 10/100 Base T Ethernet port? Also, the...

Very interesting eVGA is getting back into the motherboard game with AMD at this time. I too bought a motherboard from eVGA in 2007. It was a (remember this?) nVIDIA nForce 590 chipset motherboard. It was DOA when I got it and I got a different board to complete my build at that time. Would...

So final update on this post from me: the Ryzen 7 5800X CPU I had has been RMA'ed to AMD. They have accepted the RMA and the old CPU passed their inspection. The replacement CPU was shipped today from I believe Miami, Florida and should arrive within 5 days. Thanks so much everyone for your...

So by all the messages I'm reading here from everyone else it all ties into the 1 big thing for me too: mandatory TPM requirement either by TPM 2.0 chip or TPM firmware on CPU. Why this is so interesting for me at least from the standpoint of my job (IT help desk professional at a global...

I think right now in the situation of GPU prices and availability? It's too soon to tell. Yes, China cracked down really hard on cryptocurrency and crypto-mining in their own country recently so that take some of the demand away for now which means the scalpers temporarily has lost some big...

Hi all. 1 more question on my mind concerning this issue: when my friend and I did the initial upgrade to the new CPU I left the DOCP memory timing profile for my memory set to its DDR4-3600 timings and not reset them to the default 2133MHz speeds memory runs on if you don't set the DOCP...

New ROG Crosshair VIII Hero BIOS went live a couple of days back. Details below: Version 3601 Date 6/16/21 1. Update AMD AM4 AGESA V2 PI 1.2.0.3 Patch A 2. Improve system stability There you have it. Out!

primetime...coming right up. Now my friend did his best to reset each pin he bent...all 4-7 of them. See the attached. Thanks. Out!

So one of the knights of my technician's court (which includes me) just finished troubleshooting. We found that with the Ryzen 7 5800 CPU that took a drop it would only boot with 1 stick period. When we installed the older Ryzen 7 3700X CPU, everything (including all 32GB of my memory) worked...

Alright so in my troubleshooting I have flashed the BIOS of my motherboard to the most current non-BETA version and the issue with dual channel and slot 2B still persists. I also moved the memory to slots 1A and 1B and the issue still popped up with Q-Code 0d and a Yellow memory error light...

Okay, there's one other thing I wanted to do now that I have this new data (thanks for it by the way). I'm thinking of flashing the motherboard's BIOS to the latest, non-BETA version and try running both sticks again. One thing I didn't do before I changed out the CPU was default the memory...

Hi all. So at long last, I upgraded my Ryzen 5800X CPU today. It did have some events (like dropping the CPU into the case [don't worry, he properly repaired all the pins that were bent]). We did one into one rather annoying issue: when booting the machine with the new CPU, the machine will...

That's awesome. I plan on going in and upgrading from a Ryzen 7 3700X to a Ryzen 7 5800X myself tonight or tomorrow. Hope to see a good boost in performance from that. We'll see. Thanks and until next time I am out!

Now hold on HockeyJon: as of this message you now know of someone who does shop at GameStop...on rare occasion. 2 reasons really: let's start with one of the elephants or 800 pound gorillas in the room which is what they do with new games in-store. Yes they'll open up the box of each one, put...

I think for Mario Kart 9 it's still going to be awhile until we get it. Reason? Simple really. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the biggest selling game on Nintendo Switch throughout its life cycle right now. Nearing 40 million copies sold now. As long as it still continues to sell well Nintendo has...

I've seen a few of these Switch sized handheld PC's now over these past few months. They all have promise but the one issue they seem to have that would keep them from being a true Switch competitor is the price. To get one of these Switch sized handheld PC's, you're paying as much as you...