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Can't you call them on Monday and straighten it out?

I enabled PBO and also a few other changes in the BIOS. The PBO only makes a slight difference. The main difference is separately selecting the TDP, which is not useful over 95W (142W peak) since it is hitting 95°C on the low profile cooler. With Enh 3 also on the PBO, it is a bit less than...

So here we go with Passmark 11 of the R7 9700X default settings with 32GB EXPO DDR5-6000. CPU single-thread: 4726 CPU Mark: 37481 The single thread is quite good. We will now attempt to jack up the power somehow in BIOS...

The BISO flashing is the bullshit, so I must swap the CPUs. Meanwhile the new low convexitity Noctuals is HUGE, i.e., even taller than the NH-D15.

How do we boot with the old BIOS? CPU not in or out?

I hope you are better by Monday. Do you have staff that can be delegated a bit more work?

Supposedly the max PBO is worth 10-15% for the 9700X and less for the others.

I'm not an expert in the "Leakers" theory, so maybe that guy has a PhD in leaking; I would not know. It sure would be easier if they just jacked up the power in a simple BIOS setting, but even without it the PBO should make the 9700X a good CPU for a few years. I'm hoping for about sqrt(2)x...

Do you put the Toughbooks below the Getac, but above DELL Rugged?

But isn't it going to have the same old lopsided cache? I suspect we will need Zen Part 6 for a significant improvement and it will require a new mainboard with faster RAM and fewer free PCIe lanes yet.

If you want a rugged laptop that works under all sorts of environmental conditions then you buy a DELL Lattitude Rugged, Getac or similar. They are bulky, heavy, and built to MIL STDs to withstand impacts and the elements. If you are just worried about spilling a cup of coffee on the keyboard...

It would be good to get more out of the 9700X, but I'm not hanging any hats on "Leaker Chi11eddog on X tells us that both the 9600X and 9700X could get their TDP upped from 65W to 105W with an incoming BIOS update." Maybe he is buddies with the silly BrianSlug. ;) I'm thinking that 9700X CPU is...

But it's not there. Is there some secret command to identify the status?

Many people are dealing with familiy issues in earlier years, and only travel after the kids are through or done with undergrad studies. You went to Princeton?

Bastards. :mad: Is there is no way to disable it, e.g., in the Registry?

Nope. There are some specific deals, but not with 99x0X. There is just the usual $20 off for adding a motherboard. I decided not to buy a 9950X for now. Maybe I'll decide what to do this weekend. 9950X or 9700X, that is the question.

Are you saying that the XBOx Kegl is automatically installed, even in Win 10? I don't have the XBOX or other games humanly installed.

There is nothing wrong with that. Many people are interested in different things. I was stationed many places in my career, from the snowy mountains in some "European" countries with different names now, to a high rise right on the beach on a tropical island. In the 21st century I generally...

Another BIOS was released today and it is the final (non-BETA) version of that sequence.

This part about PPM is confusing from the Thompson hardware. The feature requires four components: a new chipset driver, updated BIOS, Windows Game Mode, and the Xbox Game Bar (make sure to update it through the Microsoft store). The Xbox Game Bar contains a KGL (known good list) of games that...

The slight difference between the two CCXs (without any lopsided gamer-cache) is probably less than the delays of switching around more often than necessary to distribute heat. It won't be 5 or 10% for sure. That's like some bad driver on the highway constantly changing lanes and getting...

From what I understood even the regular (not X3D) 9000 series with two symmetrical CCXs underperforms because there is a drastically greater latency between the two and Windows drivers are suck. Is that the problem that is dragging down the non-gaming performance also or is it some other stuff?

But if Windows does it will almost certainly be under 11.

I had the strong feeling that Zen Part 5 was going to be a clunker, though I was not expecting it to be that bad. :(🤢🤮 I'm not convinced that the X3D version will be any good for the vast majority of programs, at least not in the asymmetrical kludge configuration with the same old IO die. The...

I'm not reinstalling Windows; that's for sure.

I have not had a CPU in over a decade that was not completely stable. Are you running some crazy OC speeds or voltages?

What are you doing that really requires more than 16GB in a laptop and needs to be rugged? Mostly those are sold for LE, construction, some military, etc. A modern laptop with 16GB will run circles around an ancient laptop with more RAM. You can get a nice Pelican case and various water...

I would not touch an Intel for another generation. If you buy a DELL then they will deal with it, or is a DELL so slow it doesn't cause failure?

My policy is not to RAM computer parts, especially mainboards. Perhaps I would with the defecative iNtel CPUs. I wonder if people have been returning them yet.

I thought you were getting surgery this summer after they had ruled out neuropathy. Maybe that was somebody else.

How long does a BIOS remain a BETA and do you continue to use BETAs months later? I wonder if they are waiting for the retail 9900X and 9950X to drop or perhaps there a certain timeframe.

WD bought Sandisk in 2016, so many WD and Sandisk SSDs are now the same if they sold them in the same configuration. There are fewer SanDisk SSDs nowadays - mostly some SATA III and a few NVMe. Due to the silly, inconsistent SanDisk brand nomenclature (Extreme, Extreme Pro, Ultra, etc.) it's...

I don't have your quantities, but over 50 WD hard drives since the He era and no outright failures. I'm only using >8TB He-sealed drives, mostly 8-14TB from new retail Elementals and lately 18-20TB WD DC drives. I don't count the slow and hot, <12TB 2020s air-powered drives or older Blue and...

Is your CPU damaged such that the lower, safer settings from the new BIOS are not adequate to drive it now?

Is your defect rate high with the recent AM4 and AM5 boards or some older technology? You have demonstrated an unnatural dislike for the WD HDDs based mostly on ancient history. Is this a similar scenario?

I tend to avoid Europe as a transit point. I'm not assigned to travel there anymore, but sometimes go through Amsterdams, Oslo, Frankenfurt, Heathrows, etc. OTOH, you can get from more southern areas to Central and South America more easily. Otherwise it is ATL, MIA, LAX, DFW or something.

I used Asus many years ago until they started dying, then started using the Gigabit, then MSI. The last six have been MSI with no problems yet. They have been the practical choice for me now on AM4/AM5 due to the inadequate number of slots/lanes/ports on the others. I suppose the GB brand...

It would be over 1000 in the main cabin for me anywhere. Chicago goes directly to EUros though.

The Blacks are always enthusiastic grade consumer drives. I'm just irritated there is no availability date, so it could be too late. 8TB M.2 is not new and Corsair has extended the MP600 series to 8TB already. I'm not sure about the Corsairs and definitely rejected the Sabrents. The Koreans...

Somehow I thought that was for work or is it not? I'm flipping back to internal storage. All of my NAS just seem too slow for all but backups. Maybe if I could justify a TB NAS with SSDs and also connect it with the X870E series, but that is over $10K. 4 days are remaining to ZEN Part 5...

If you don't make a change, there will be no change. Have you made progress towards your goals in 2024?

After 3 weeks the WD site still proclaims 1-2 weeks availability for the bare SSD sans heatsink. Who knows if it will be many months?

It's really good that you are socializing and in a better place than years ago. Hopefully pedople like JTR can see the possibilities. I'm not sure about the young GF, but maybe later you will find someone else, get a house and settle down. You are still young enough for that.

I suppose they will use belts and suspenders with Windows and the firmwares. If I understand all that correctly, there might be a slight startup delay, but not a constant penalty like with the Meltdown/Spectre vulnerability. The impact is all through the internet, is that right?

APPLE is very appealing to normal people that have a few extra bucks for nice products and spend their time productively outside of using the computer as a tool. It's not the bargain basement machine and I understand the argument that the lesser APPLEs are not a good value. The limited...

I suppose some people would be horrified at what I usually dispose. I put the 3950X and other components (DDR4/570X board/Nocturnals D14) in storage about 18 months ago and will dispose of that eventually. Typically I would be decommissioning the old 5950X and X570 board with 64GB in August...

If I understand correctly the PSP is like the iNtel ME and that has it's own tiny FW that can be updated. I guess the problem is that there is not such an easy way to prevent that PSP from screwing up. I don't think this risk concept is new at all.

I don't care about security, but performance. I don't want an patch that slows the computer down. Is there any way to avoid it? I'm still not seeing who is installing this stuff and getting into the colonel.

I thought APPLE was gaining the marketing shares for client computers in the 2020s, so is not likely to fade away. iNtel is still about 3:1 over AMD for the Windows client systems. It seems to me that most all computer hardware would be depreciated down to zero in 5 years or less, or is that...

In July, when it is so humidly disgusting? I thought that area was most popular for the debauchery around Mardic grass for Lent.