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Should depend on pricing and availability more than anything. My guess is that we'll see the 9800X3D chips start drying up leaving the 9850X3D as the only choice and/or the price point will be so close that the extra $10-20 might as well be spent. My original theory is the 9800X3D will go away...

Brent can probably speak to this better, but there's a ton of variables that go into power consumption - including the game, the game resolution and game settings that are selected for testing. We don't typically do far ranging power analysis - Toms, for example, seems to be running all their...

Fairly sure for the Intel side, the ram is soldered to the package and not changeable. This was true for the Core Ultra 1xx series, and I'd imagine it is for the 2xx as well...

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...

Amazon is set up for US only right now. It gets a bit complicated because the link has to be formed for each country dynamically and they require a minimum level of sales to keep the account open. I set it all up maybe 5 years back and all the non US ones got closed for lack of sales. If there...

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