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MSI has a key note scheduled for 2pm ET/11am PT at their CES room today... Might be related?

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As we’re getting our bags packed to head out to the airport later today to venture to Las Vegas, whatever Intel is up to is a bit of a mystery. We’ve got their keynote on our calendar for Monday, January 5th at 3pm PST, but unlike most keynotes, they’re not providing any information to the […]...

It could also be that they are using Seasonic as their OEM.... I'll ask about that....

Don't have test equipment for it.... In related news, Seasonic was showing off a thing called Optiguard at Computex this year that would give you voltage and amperage read outs and do things like this other gizmo. TBD on release date.

It's a cost thing - a bunch of brands grab suites along the strip to not have to pay for the CES booth/ballroom. Bellagio is annoying because they have to come down to escort you up as it's a guests and their visitors only thing.

I see this article and think "oooh, maybe they won't be holed up in a suite on the 30th floor of the Bellagio this year". Then I click through to the press release and see that they are.

I thought this was... the chimp challenge? Or the memorial bigadv challenge?

Probably like the pictures in the case review - https://www.thefpsreview.com/2025/12/29/msi-project-zero-msi-mag-pano-100r-pz-gaming-pc-case-review

Only tweak from stock bios is setting Expo mode on GSkill 6000 MT 2x16gb kit - i think timings were 36-36-36-36-36-36-36 (and so on). Cooling is a Deepcool LS720 (or Castle 360, can't tell by looking at it, lolol). No GPU installed. Running memory in non Expo mode put the score down to 9100.

I suppose one can now shuck systems for ram instead of GPUs....

We’re currently working on a review of MSI’s RTX 5070 Ti VENTUS PZ GPU and Rick put us on notice that the NVIDIA 591.44 driver kicked in some serious VTEC, yo, on Black Myth: Wukong. It seems possible that NVIDIA is correcting for a Windows 11 update that dropped last month where users were up...

I don't think there's enough differnetiation between the 9800x3d and 9850x3d for them to exist at the same time. I would expect the latter to replace the former at about the same price point. If anything, it makes way for a 9700X3d at a lower price point, basically setting up battles against the...