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New GBD:R! Almost felt like I was watching .hack again this week!

Guys Axiom Verge 2 got announced. I wanted RT to know that.

Almost 10 million exp in an instant? Jesus lol

i'm not a fan of catfish. it's ok, but there are like at least 5+ fishes i'd eat before it.

For all my fellow nerds, I spent a lot of the day fine tuning my Area-51m. Ended up with some pretty satisfying results.

Got the 9700k to run stable at 4.8GHz with a pretty massive undervolt (-100 on offset, 1.08 base voltage on core+ring). The result is approximately 15-20C cooler operating temperatures at load for a pretty minimal performance hit compared to the max I've been able to get out of this chip (5.1GHz, which takes a shitload of extra voltage to achieve).

The 2080 is experiencing no issues ramping up to 2.1GHz at stock voltage (vBIOS is flashed to limit the GPU to 180w instead of the standard 215w TDP for now, and quite frankly I don't feel like I need the rest) and hanging around 70-78C under load. Very happy with this result.

This resulted in some pretty incredible benchmark scores.

3287 in Cinebench
11237 in Firestrike Extreme
9983 in Time Spy

Never thought I'd see the day that I'd be this impressed with a laptop's performance, but here we are.

i miss my cat when i'm at work ; ;

but yeah, you should try some red snapper or sword fish. amazing.

something something special sauce

And the front page is less stupid again, yay!

Odd, it should be running hotter at a lower voltage as it's pulling more current for the same amount of power...

I've never done customized overclocking, always let it do the auto. Although, I just recently upgraded something to liquid cooling, very impressed with the difference.

It pulls less current for less power. Undervolting is done by reducing the TDP of the chip as far as it'll go while still remaining stable at the desired frequency. In this case I pushed mine as low as my BIOS would allow and still maintained 4.8ghz at around 45-50w of power draw as opposed to the chip's standard TDP of 95w.

Also saved a profile in the other direction; 5.2ghz at 120w,but that runs far too hot to be usable outside of benchmarks.

The screenshot was taken from the end of The Praetorium, it's a story dungeon with WAY too many unskippable cutscenes so to compensate, and so vet players still run it and help new players, it gives about half a level upon completion via roulette once a day.

Ah yes, reducing the power draw would definitely lower the current :D

Swordfish is really nice, a very greasy fish. You want to cook it like tuna. we sear it on a very high temperature for a short period of time and then roll it through a marinade of fishsauce/good soysauce and roasted sesame seeds. Its very nice that way warm but also afterwards enjoyable cold in a salad or in a sandwich.