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ICE-DWB12 - got it second hand with already delidded 13900KF. Currently running 5.6GHz on six cores, 5.7GHz on two and 4.5GHz on sixteen at 1.32V. It is not optimal at all and I will probably drop to 5.6GHz all P-core as that needed much lower voltage or perhaps add +1 on some multipliers or do...

Definitely liquid hellium overclockers will be interrested in 14900KF to break some records... https://hwbot.org/benchmark/cpu_frequency/halloffame Otherwise not sure who will have cooling for this CPU I run my 13900KF with direct die water cooling and I cannot imagine running this CPU at stock...

It is funny people don't mention PSU Power supply is fundamental system component - especially for these CPUs Imho it is Intel's design flaw to release 300+W CPU especially given motherboard manufacturers on one side cut costs on good components and on the other side use "throw more voltage -...

From what I noticed some people are completely oblivious to effect called gamma shift. Personally I see even the most miniscule amount of it and it ruins image. Especially the only aspect of VA panels where they are supposed to be better - black and near black. Even worse with VA panels I...

Personally I won't be putting NVMe drive to my Pi5 though PCI-e. If anything USB3 is fast enough for larger disks - it only needs to be as fast as ethernet and currently its 1GBit in my home router. With 2.5GBit LAN I would need ethernet card. USB 3.0 is 5Gbit so either its 5GBit for two USB...

This software is very finnicky and I remember having issues as well. Unfortunately my memory of this isn't very good because I just fiddled with things until it worked and then because it looked correct ever since I forgot about the whole topic. I didn't need to redo calibration again. I did...

Recently I acquired Dell P1110. So now I have a backup plan should flyback transformer in my FW900 fail 😎

Playing with RPi5 8GB since few weeks and so far I am quite pleased with it. CPU is really fast compared to Pi4 - no longer it feels like underclocked Phenom I but more like early Core i5, especially OCd to 2.9GHz we are talking early Core i5 levels. Compared to how it all worked in the past...

Wow I remember my brother having P1110 and I borrowed it from him once (also to fix G2 issue) If he didn't sell it yet I'll pick it up from him or just notify to never let go of it just in case my FW900 needs resuscitation

At least people won't be able to complain Intel supports this socket for only two generations 🤪

Brother got Pioneer Kuro 5090 and I also saw bunch of Panasonic plasmas. Panasonic always have some banding issues and later "600Hz" models have irritating dynamic banding where it is seen when you move eyes quickly. Pioneer on the other hand has perfect gradation - it uses dithering which up...

Preordered RPi5 about before Jeff's video on it finished playing. Don't really need it as but faster CPU and more ram (vs RPi4 4GB I own now) will be a nice upgrade when I do use it - maybe I'll get less irritated by Linux if it runs faster :)

Definitely it won't If TV's had simplest to implement integer/point scaling it would be roughly true but unfortunately they almost exclusively do not (there were some exceptions) and rather use some kind of blurry upscaling. It is less of an issue on modern GPU's as they can do integer...

If you have RetroTink you can use VGA CRT - much cheaper than 15KHz CRT with good resolution tube. HDMI to VGA converters do not add latency.

DLSS3 should be good on 500Hz monitor Myself I find 138Hz OLED good enough for modern games For 2D games still nothing beats CRT Don't be silly Any Q3 player knows this game is best played at exactly 333Hz

13700K sounds like reasonable choice. 13900K will have slightly higher boost clocks and 8 more e-cores. Each E-core is faster than your 3930K... actually each E-core it wipes the floor with Sandy Bridge cores. 3930K even OC'd to 5GHz would loose with 0 P-core 6 E-core Raptor Lake 🤯 8 E-cores at...

1 - 1.3m or 3.2 - 4.3 feet on 27" 4K without scale. It is at times too much in some programs with already tiny UI elements but I never force my eyes to focus better and keep them relaxed so my brain/eyes has to improve to keep up and somehow eyes keep improving. Even from these distances I can...

Imho it had nothing to do with best chip on the market (especially that at max OC these Pentiums were faster than fastest dual core Core 2 Extreme) and simply C2D already weren't expensive. You could snatch CPU with Core 2 Duo name for price of these old Celerons. Pentium Dual-Core didn't...

Maybe your manual skills are so bad because you try to do all the things yourself, make each hand movement, etc. You have to let your brain handle this stuff. Doing things consciously is usually first step in learning anything. I noticed especially with things which we think we are not good at...

Second shot reminded me I need IPS Black panel on my desk. Much more than 8K panel. Even if its only ~2K:1 rather than inf:1 it would be huge improvement. I once saw this monitor on sale barely used for less than $2000. If that thing ran on single input I would already have 8K monitor. It is...

Frustrating? LOL Build 286/386/486 PC and then build your 3090/9900K again and tell me then it was frustrating 😋 Or even 13600KF to not have to ever see anything related to iGPU in either BIOS or OS and to save few bucks. Really the only beef I have with this CPU is typical Intel socket change...

1.5v is "fry your CPU" voltage 😋 Hopefully these Intel CPU's do not explode but in either case it should not be needed for anything than extreme overclocking with better than custom water loop cooling. Best to first set some reasonable all-core clocks and find lowest stable voltages and then go...

Great video, had a laugh at Asus - they did the worst things at the worst time and they are just getting what they deserve 🫣 Engineering mentality its maximum what AMD said it could be but let's add 0.1V for a good measure is what made them main focus of this particular AMD's fiasco...

Even funnier thing is that people were putting 9900K in Z170 motherboards with DDR3 memory I would say Intel might make refreshed Raptors not work on previous x6x0 chipsets and say only x7x0 chipsets are supported. Hopefully not. I do not think they are in the position right now to continue...

Playing with VIA C3 Nehemiah 800MHz with 256MB memory Have ISA backplate for it and tested so far with ESS sound card and it works gloriously. I only have to figure out how to connect keyboard to backplate to get normal AT keyboard connector working. Also I need to work on cooling as default...

Not sure how all OSes and/or programs behave but surely there might be some unexpected behaviors if OS cannot figure out it should schedule threads to P-cores first. That would depend I guess on kernel/system version. It is definitely something people experienced on Alder Lake in the past. For...

If you use Hyper Threading on P-cores then each thread isn't much faster than E-core so in that sense with HT enabled you get similar performance out of each thread if you use all of them. Personally I do not like HT/SMT because of performance issues this tech can cause. Existence of E-cores...

E-core is normal core, just slower than P-cores. Still not terribly slow and actually comparable in performance to Skylake CPUs. On my 13600KF with E-cores overclocked from 3.9GHz to 4.3GHz I got performance between Core i7 9700 and 9700K in Cinebench on E-cores alone. Games also run fine on...

There is little reason any LG OLED owners of anything C9 onward to upgrade to newer TV. Improvements do not come fast enough to accumulate enough for bringing new quality. Heck, LG still didn't resolve near black chrominance overshoot on their TVs despite some other manufacturers using their...

I have a feeling that AMD decided to cut corners in their CPU development process to get products to the market faster and win metrics which win them market share and earn money. To have issue-free BIOS shipped in motherboard you have to resolve issues way before you release processor and this...

FYI Athlon X2 were incompatible with NT5 and I of course mean XP. Trying to use these CPU on XP caused users headaches and created perception (at the time) that dual core systems are problematic with workarounds needed for some programs and games. This coupled with the fact that Windows XP was...

CPU set to 5GHz P-cores 4.3GHz E-cores. Power plan set to best performance to avoid pushing background tasks to E-cores* Game Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra RT but low resolution of 720p with FSR Ultra Performance to make it CPU limited 7-zip is 32MB benchmark running on all available hardware threads so...

I would say typical 4K@120Hz Personally I wouldn't mind this solution if such display used integer/point scaling for 4K. It would make it good for desktop because all the desktop space while also making it great for gaming. That said I personally do not care for >4K gaming. Not at the point...

If game uses all CPU time of all cores then without HT background process will stal. With HT it will execute normally albeit at reduced performance and at the same time it will reduce performance of the game. High priority tasks are different in that they execute no matter what and in this case...

Actually the reverse would be true - the more background processes the higher chance Windows will schedule background process on the same core as one used by game if you have SMT/HT enabled. This is also the only explanation. Yeah... there is also lots of talk about 'productivity' in...

Yeah its pretty ridiculous we get these unicorn product years ahead competition at "please do not buy!" price point and then instead of iterating improving tech (especially connectivity!) and reducing price until product catches on they are discontinued without anything to replace them. Other...

Your settings might as well be most optimal - but only if you overclocked your CPU and found disabling these 12 E-cores actually hindered getting maximum clock at lowest possible voltage. HT I would not even consider enabling - more (potential*) issues than benefits. E-cores imho you should...

These Celerons were very good and provided clear upgrade path for Pentium/MMX owners. Still nowhere near best value CPU proposition that Intel had. Its release price was $149 and had OC from say 300MHz to 450MHz typically. For comparison Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2140 1.6GHz cost $74 and easily...

It all depends on your visual acuity. Seeing everything clearly and effortlessly from distance at which you can still use only eyes to see on every part of the screen. Visual acuity itself is result of having working eyes, proper muscle control and then being to do all necessary data processing...

For brightly lit room on good IPS I would say picture quality is not terrible and rather completely adequate. Not great like on OLED or even plasma but adequate. Black level in this scenario doesn't bother me because black still looks black. Similarly generally bright content doesn't require...