Recent content by Bloax

People claim a game like Dominions 5 is overpriced, yet I've sunk thousands of hours into cracking that nut. Was it a worthwhile investment? Oh yes, very enlightening experience.

I do no official work, I barely play things. however I have only spent the past week or so relentlessly digging away at this silly stuff as if I'm paid to do so alas!

Based on quickly toying around with restricting an instance of Memtest to a single core, and Prime95 small FFTs on another; Per-Core PBO Curves work weird: The maximum frequency for any core is dictated by the most heavily worked core and its (negative) curve offset. i.e. if I'm running a Max...

L3 cache speed seems to improve at 1900 FCLK between 1.18 >1.2vSOC and 1.03->1.04vIOD, as well as 0.88->0.85vCCD/VDDP (both VDDPs) hmmm

Who's ready for the RTX 3060 10+2 GB?

My advice as far as Curve Optimizer tomfoolery goes, is to first do some Manual Clock/Frequency measurements; What is the highest frequency you can run, at what voltage, in the most demanding workload you regularly find yourself doing? which to quote past me, was x264 encoding @ 4775 mhz/1.28v...

Auto-OC is the Ryzen Master term for having a Max Boost Override above 0, it is all still PBO. I spontaneously found myself with an Engrish source of info on the topic; Along with some info on Vermeer having aggressive error-correction on the fabric. Now, the takeaway is that high FCLKs...

As chips get more dense, it becomes more of a problem to get the heat out in time than it does handling the total heat load. Which is why his water temperature is rather low, despite the ""high"" max-core-hotspot-temperature - the only reported core temperature on these processors. With that...

After a little episode where I had to spend over 20 minutes doing something as simple as plugging out an ethernet cable, plugging in another one, then plugging the old one back in, it's starting to get obvious that my current case does not fit my current room situation. It is also very annoying...

the Moore's Law is Dead pay-to-play place and hardware_numb3rs' place aren't too bad in my experience I'm strongly considering quitting the PC world for half a year and just work on my physique like crazy, 2020 has been a horrendous year with six months spent too sick to train - and most of the...

The "numbers" for a process node have been pure marketing-metaphor for a long-*** time now A "6 nm" process is merely (at least, I think so?) Intel's 7 nm, fixed and refined, and instead of slapping ++++++++ as on 14 nm+++++++, it is instead going away from the tainted "7 nm" name that is...

Here's some guy's water-cooled 3090 :- )

So we have a thing like this, looks great and all - dual-rank 8 gbit Sammy B running at a chilly 1.63v Bit of a pain to set up, requires a fan, questionable long-term (12+ hour high-intensity workload) stability. Thus I raise a question to the folks that peruse the place: How much performance...

BOOBA They seem to have a decent portfolio of videogames for those who play videogames. lucky me i am not among them

For a short round-up: PBO is now a super useful tool; It always tries to hit the power limits you have set, which can get very hot. If things get very hot, high clocks get unstable. Ergo, try to keep the limit somewhere around where your cooler performs very well (around 75 C seems fine?) -...