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Issues with zen4 While AM5 is a better platform than Z790 by offering significantly better connectivity and isn't end of life according to AMD the zen4 CPUs hasn't been great. The 7950x lost to the at first cheaper 13900K in gaming and single-threaded productivity. The 7800x3D does perform...

Sapphire rapids: expensive, poor overclocking headroom, very power hungry The single-threaded performance is pretty bad due to the CPU being limited to 4800 Mhz by default 13900K in geekbench6 2963 in single-thread performance, 20021 in multi-thread performance. 2495x in geekbench6 2373 in...

Low end desktop raptor lake isn't that great It used to be the case that high end desktop CPUs were fairly affordable. i7-3930K had an MSRP of 600$ and then you actually got 40 pci express 3.0 lines and quad channel ram. Now instead you have to pay 600$ for the low end desktop CPU 14900K...

Intel refuses to provide more than 8 performance cores unless you go for their super-expensive and outdated alder lake HEDT lineup. Instead they waste space for estrogen cores which is not want you really want on desktop. AMD instead pushes chiplets down your throat despite how much...

7600 MT/s y-cruncher stable with 7600x u/LastUsernameWasBaned claimed it was stable in y-cruncher mixed in addition to the y-cruncher benchmark. LastUsernameWasBaned wrote: I didn't use DDR5 nitro option on my x670-p board. No special voltages and no CPU overclock in bios. I do CPU overclock...

1200+ Jews in israel dead because of democracy The israeli government has had many chances to get rid of hamas but for political reasons those terrorists were allowed to keep preparing for slaughter with predictable result. Egypt did warn israel but was ignored and now there are maybe 1000 dead...

The PS5 slim is a massive disappointment The diskversion will be very ugly. The version without build-in disk-drive will now cost 50$ more with external disk-drive being another 80$. only 175 GB additional storage...

One big advantage with air cooling is not having to worry about leaks. Watercooling is a bit messy, i still have not put my custom loop back up running. Adding more cooling to ram doesn't typically help much since you are usually limited by the memory controller on the CPU, expensive ram is...

I use a fan to help cool my DDR5. If the room gets too hot i just open a window which solves the problem.

2x16 GiB testmen5 stable at 7200 with Ryzen 7600x The following overclock was posted on r/buildzoid LastUsernameWasBaned wrote After extensive testing i managed to set up timings to get best performance i could out of this ram kit. G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series CL34-45-45-115 1.40V...

Judges appointed by politicians In order to become a judge in the US you first need to please enough politicians to get appointed in the first place and you then need to continue pleasing them to get promoted. Judges who fail to please politicians will not get promoted to higher offices and...

Reentry The most promising upcoming game in progress might actually be reentry. Main issue i can see is that it might take longer time to get into it than some other games.

Antony Davies debunked He made a libertarian presentation claiming that government worked way worse for people than private businesses due to "public choice theory" which he only presented theoretical evidence and anecdotes to support. Most of his video is basically him pointing out issues...

Special interest groups pushing through harmful laws Corporations will have a big financial incentive to push through legislation that will benefit them. One common method for buying influence is legal donations to politicians to help them get re-elected.

Flight of Nova Most spacegames today have very limiting speed caps preventing you from experiencing anything close to actual spaceship travel. Flight of Nova however is one of the few games who actually implemented proper newtonian flight physics, air resistance and orbital mechanics...

There are some games who push beyond mediocrity to actually achieve greatness and one important key here is advanced physics. Despite the massive potential it's hard to find games that actually utilizes physics well. Most games even today have worse physics than the original crysis (2007)...

No hyperinflation doesn't happen without excessive money printing. High interests generally results in less inflation.

Lawfare The american legal system basically allows anyone to sue anyone for any reason resulting in a lot of innocent people feeling obliged to pay loads of money in legal fees in order to defend themselves against these nonsense lawsuit. A lot of states have attempted to 'fix' this by...

Innocent people being pressured into taking plea bargains In the US people are often given the option to plead guilty in favor of a much more lenient sentence. This is great for criminals who can get off much easier while it screws over people who are actually innocent. Even if you are...

Microsoft to go all digital with the brooklin? The xbox series x does at least have a disc-drive but it very much looks like microsoft is going to axe that. Unclear if people will be able to use external bluray player(s) to still play physical media, i wouldn't hope for too much in that...