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I just saw another discussion start about how many threads one needs for gaming on the 9000 series. An issue which has been much discussed in respect of previous and current CPU generations. But undoubtedly the 7900X3D suffered against its 3D brethren for having only 6 3D cores. Will this...

Looks like a line has been drawn to counter Nvidia's dominance in AI and their attempts to entrench that position going forward. Time will tell how this changes things, if it does.

If you have Core Isolation and Memory Integrity enabled in Windows Defender, disable it.

Not good for gamers.

Just a heads up that this may be an issue if you are having driver timeouts, freezing or crashes. For a couple of months, I was battling something with my PC just not sure what it was. I would get occasional and random freezes requiring a startup. I'd get driver timeouts in some games (not...

I pumped 300 hours into Elden Ring but I have no clue what they are talking about in this trailer. It seems like they are being mysterious to the point of being indecipherable. I'll probably still pick it up :banghead:

A PC usually includes a discrete GPU. Just saying.

Yep, those settings make an easy setup. I have the same but negative 15 on CO. As an aside, my boot times are 10 seconds or so, so I'm not really getting what the fuss is about. Of course, if there is memory training that is longer but that's usually a once off when upgrading the bios or...

I have the Kingston FURY Beast Black EXPO DDR5 and it's fine. Good balance of cost against performance. It has two EXPO profiles along with XMP profiles. Yes, EXPO activated through the BIOS. Stability is maybe why the OP went 36CL rather than 30CL. I can't comment on the Corsair RAM.

I'm shocked the gap is still this big.

Not to be trite but all GPUs are different, even within the same skew type. For temperature, some just look at edge temperature others look at the delta between edge and hotspot. Sometimes a particular hotspot on the GPU is of concern and needs investigation. But average temperature is an...

I have the 1TB KC3000 for my windows startup. Seems fine. I did recently notice it's now at 99% health.

If it's just the 5090 then definitely a paper release. No question.

For those in China who don't feel selling a kidney is worth a 4090.