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I'm not sure I agree with the Thermaltake floe recommendation considering it has a 2 year warranty, vs a Corsair equivalent (5 year warranty) or NZXT (6 year warranty). Was there a specific reason for not going down this road?

While I don't like super-fast boots (due to being unable to easily get into the bios), outside of that I've noticed boot times sped up significantly since I moved the swap file to the optane memory (32gig) drive I have.

Is running well the benchmark? I mean Origins ran well. Heck Batman games work fine in my computer but are universally seen as poorly done. Fallen order has the frame rate parry bug thing ..

I think 50gb (give or take) is ok for a AAA game, but anything more is getting a bit ridiculous unless there is a very good reason for it.

I think optimised is a difficult term to define. Sekiro is optimised, it is 12 gb or so and has tremendous graphics and speed for the size In contrast The latest Jedi game is 55gb and a slight downgrade in graphics and sometimes stutters. Only one game I have played really uses all 8 cores of...

Hardware (especially processors) in Australia is notoriously overpriced in comparison to in the USA. One time I was over there I got myself an i7-3770 for about $270AUD from microcenter, same processor locally was about $500AUD. Too early to call it. Question becomes - what does the market...

Are you sure this is not a voltage thing? I have heard reports of 3900x chips hitting higher voltages when boosting

This is crap. Asus really need to just stop telling porky pies. They have turned me right off as a result of this and their pricing. they are 20-30% more expensive (than Gigabyte or Asrock) for 20-30% worse equipment here in Australia.

This isn't software geekage so much as hardware. There is probably a hardware counter in a microcontroller somewhere that can only count up to X, at a certain point because someone has not implemented an autoreset and because of a hardware mismatch problem, the easiest way to deal with this is...

I hate it when Bioses break things. I have had new bioses break things on every board I have had in the last 20 years.

Hey @Dan_D nice update The reason you see gains in the After effects test is because some parts of it run single threaded code. Sometimes you need to figure out B before you can run a+b and b+c concurrently. It’s a really interesting test cause it stresses both single thread and...

It is probably one of the reasons I currently have a gigabyte board now too :)

The Gigabyte K8NS-Pro https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-K8NS-Pro-rev-1x#ov It was the budget board for overclocking at the time. It doesn't compare with the new stuff in terms of overkill VRMs and style (it's kind of kiddy) but it was a lot of board for the money, and it was well supported.

Currently playing a fair bit of Warhammer 4k Inquisitor Martyr, I got it cheap in the steam summer sale and I'm really enjoying it. I have shadow of war queued up as my next game, same sale.

Zotac 1080ti AMP edition. A remnant of my mining days (it is an RMA warranty return from a card that failed). It's REALLY quiet for what it is.

First of all, massive props for listening @Dan_D re the after effects benchmark, the content creation crowd will be chuffed. (You are the first person who has included an After effects test for the ryzen 3900x on the net! - huge!) Second, I thought the 3900x was a 12 core chip.. you’ve listed...

Can't start with the D15?

Works fine, I don’t need to touch it the majority of the time.

Home/Work i9-9900k (I work from home) Home server: i7-4970 Laptop: Pentium N3710 (I don't do much on the laptop)

Some of you will know I recently traded up my 9700k for a 9900k. What I have observed is that the 9900k uses exactly the same amount of power, for a given clock speed. It does use a lower voltage, but it must use more current at that voltage. This doesn’t seem to correlate with any of the...