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Wow. I never noticed there was a separate mode for NVMe either. I'm going to have to check that out. The high queue depth RND4K (Q32T16) read numbers for this drive are beastly, but the low queue depth RND4k Q1T1 appear somewhat stagnant. They have been at 85MB/s or thereabouts for 2-3...

Yeah, I was looking at this only because I already have the motherboard, and figuring a drop-in might be cheap. But for most people - even those doing CPU compute - I bet a AM5 9950x is a way better buy. Its 16 cores should definitely outperform the 24 cores in my Threadripper 3960x, and...

I've been considering that. The $500 pricetag is a little steep. Maybe I'll do it as an upgrade once the rest of the project is done. I have a host of NVMe drives already that I can use. The combined system right now has the following drives: - One 800GB Optane p5800x (Boot) - Two 2TB...

As an aside, For ****s and giggles, I decided to check eBay to see if there were any cheap 64C/128T Threadripper 3990x CPU's available. I don't really need one, but I have habit of when a platform starts getting older, just picking up the top CPU and dropping it in for ****s and giggles. I...

Figures. I went to Microcenter last night, and while they still have plenty of 9950x3d's and 9800x3d's, they are out of the MSI MAG x870e MAG Tomahawk motherboard. They had 50+ of them according to the website when I last checked, but apparently they included them in a bundle, and apparently...

There's been another little setback. Not directly related to this build, but it has taken some time away from it. I should have taken pictures when working on this, but I was frustrated and just plain forgot. You see, ever since the pandemic and hitting my 40's, my sensation of time passing...

Yep. I'm picturing a hybrid design. Client binned cores at high frequencies, but with that massive 768MB or whatever it is cache the EPYC chips use. There is probably a limiting return on cache size at some point, but I bet 128MB is not it :p

While I understand this in theory, and the X3D cache is huge by cache standards, it is still only 128MB. Certainly that can't fit everything needed by the render pipeline. It would be funny to see how one of those massive caches from an Epyc X series chip would perform in a gaming SKU :p

Ah, I was considering going less. 32 or 48. While I can find DDR5-6000 at CL28 and DDR5-6400 at CL30 in 2x16GB kits, anything larger than that seems to go up to CL30 and CL32 respectively. I have read that CAS latency isn't as big of a deal as it once was, so maybe I shouldn't worry about it.

Another weekend, another limited amount of progress. I spent some time trying to duplicate my brackets for the second radiator. No pics here. There is nothing new to show off, and I have a little bit of trimming left to do before it will work just right, and I ran out of daylight before i...

Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was making accusations or anything. I don't have enough information to say one way or another. Just that most review sets out there I have seen have the two trading blows, and maybe even having the 9950x ahead by one or two percent on average. Most...

I have to admit, your results seem a bit different than most others I am seeing now. Did you guys confirm that you had proper core parking working during the game tests?

I'm having a hard time deciding which one I want now. 9800x3d or 9950x3d. Considering I'll have a separate workstation, and my AM5 system will pretty much only be used for games, I'm leaning towards the 9800x3d, but the draw is strong.

5u+ cases aren't exactly super common or cheap either. Silverstone has a few, but they are ridiculously expensive. I'm not familiar with RackChoice, but they have one that is not terribly priced that may meet my needs. It's probably better to not have to deal with the complications from a...

Looks like I should have bought the Motherboard for phase 2 (the game system) while I could. I have only been able to find two x870 or x870e motherboards that have two Ethernet ports and at least one of them is 10gig. The Asus ProArt X870E (1x 10gig + 1x 2.5gig) and the Gigabyte AI Top (2x...

Good review, thanks! Looks exactly like I suspected. The multi CCD penalty in gaming is still real, so it consistently performs lower than the 9800x3d in games, but on average the penalty seems less than in the past, maybe because of slightly higher clocks. It would be interesting to see how...

Alrighty, here's a little bit of progress. I'm actually a little embarrassed how much time this took me, but it has been a game of trial and error, and then one of repeated assembly and disassembly to see if the hole I just made lines up and everything fits, only to do this over and over and...

Interesting. I'll have to look into that. I had not heard of it. I usually don't connect my TV to the internet though. It is only used as a monitor. Maybe if I firewall it off from the WAN, and just connect via local IP it is fine.

Interestingly enough, another difference I have noticed in going from the 4090 to the RX 7600 is a big quality of life improvement, at least in Linux. With the 4090, since I use an LG OLED TV as my monitor, whenever the screens were asleep, I'd have to be careful to turn on the TV using the...

As a side note, I am really liking this little RX 7600. I mean, it's no 4090, but it sips power and on the desktop it is every bit as snappy as the 4090. In Linux, I think it may even snappier than the 4090. It feels especially responsive when using my Windows 10 Virtualbox VM under Linux...