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I believe it only allows negative values so you won't gain much - but iirc Asus boards have it (my b550m tuf gaming did), can't remember which others do.

Depends on your current system and how often you are willing to upgrade.

Pretty cool tbh - gaming loads are only in the 50's and 60's, all core only jumps to mid 70's. It may have seen 80C once or twice when I was doing photogrammetry, that's the only situation I've pegged both cpu and gpu at 100% utilization and the...

Yep - I waited until prices came down on boards and ram and then jumped in - bonus was they dropped prices of the x3d chips as well. I was surprised at the jump I got from my previous 5800x3d setup tbh. Will wait and see on the next gen, but if...

They're good at innovating, not so much on executing...

then you must need to practice more to get better so you dont lose.

I'm very lucky that my wife is understanding. I only risk getting beaten when she goes out to the garage....

Updated my sim cockpit with a new frame over the winter and added a 7950x3d. My home built wooden frame wasn't quite holding up to the direct drive wheel and gseat.

Yes, you need to install the chipset drivers, then set to auto in the bios so the drivers can control which ccd things run on.

It's faster than anything but the 7950X in non-gaming workloads, and faster than anything in gaming workloads. It'd be even slower if it had vcache on both dies in non-gaming workloads and no faster in gaming workloads. So it is the best...

This, it's a best of both worlds situation. Basically for clock sensitive apps, they start on the non vcache cores and spill to the lower clocked vcache cores only if needed (in which case the clock drop is much smaller than if they started the...

Why have you not pulled the GPU and used the onboard video of the CPU? Have you tried running it with just the cpu, one stick of ram and NO gpu? Then use Q-flash to flash the bios? If that works, then add the gpu back in. If you haven't tried...

I don't think the B650's are on the ladder yet, my aorus wasn't but there are two board revisions and I didn't realize it and grabbed the wrong bios and it wouldn't flash, couldn't figure it out until I happened to read the bios version on the...

Yes, follow the Q-flash instructions and let it do it's thing. If cpu and memory are coming on then it's not completely dead. Also, try it with no GPU in and the onboard chip. These are very easy so no reason not to do them before sending it...

Yeah, it will depend on the actual card itself (Intel/Realtek etc.) and has to be configured properly. If the Quest connects at a lower speed it will not work well. I have only tried on two and both worked well, but both used the same Intel...

If your computer has a wifi card, you can turn on hotspot mode and connect the Oculus to it directly and skip the router. This is what I do on my laptop, just make sure it connects on 5ghz and not 2.4ghz (you can toggle in the hotspot options in...

Um...Techspot and HUB are the same folks (Steve Walton), so the Techspot articles are basically the script for the videos on HUB. And yeah, there are definitely games that benefit from more than 6 cores, but 6 x3d cores are still significantly...

Yep, it's just another option. 7800x3d if you just game, 7950x3d if you want to game and do workstation type tasks on the same machine and don't care about budget, 7900x3d if you want to do the latter on more of a budget. For $20 more than a...

I mean, any recent game (last 10 years) won't be able to keep the whole game in cache. If the whole thing fits in it will really fly, but that'll only happen in old games that already are pulling hundreds of fps.

2d cards, man. I remember my 486dx2 66 had a Boca 2d card, then a Trident svga in my pentium 120 before moving to 3d accelerators. Before that a Tandy 1000 and ibm ps2 which both had built in video. The ps2 was at least vga graphics. That dx2...