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@mettelus I was just typing this and saw your message pop up. Good timing. I installed MSI Afterburner to show onscreen temps of Fallout 4. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to take screenshots with the Afterburner overlay onscreen. Afterburner is set to 0 overclocking. 2K: GPU 53C CPU Core's 28 ~ 35C (Ultra Settings. All eye candy on.) 4K: GPU 68C CPU Core's 35 ~ 45C (Ultra Settings. All eye candy on.) GPU Fans ramp up but not as high as when I OC'd on my i5 system. Framerate: 59fps 2K & 4K FPS Drops: 0 On my i5 I had to OC my GPU and couldn't run in 4K without significant fps drops. In 2K I had to turn off a lot of eye candy settings, but it ran a rock solid 59FPS. There's technical reasons to run Fallout 4 locked at 59FPS. In Afterburner it says my memory is only using 12GB. If I pull up Task Manager and look what Fallout 4 is running it says 45GB-ish iirc. Not sure what it means or which one is more accurate. I dunno. Don't ask me. Lol I understand that it all happens in the GPU and the CPU shouldn't matter this much, especially for a 10 year old game. Maybe there was something wrong with my old i5 or I had something set wrong and it should have been working this well on it. Anyhoo. I'm a happy camper. (Yay. The forum saved my post and I didn't have to retype it after the 502 error.)

I'm 100% certain if the roles were reversed we would have heard the exact same amount of criticism of his comparable comments. /sarcasm Not saying he would have taken similar jabs. Just pointing out the dual standard and hypocrisy that's abound. I'm trying to find something nice to say about Meathead, but I honestly never cared for his acting. Never saw one of his movies, so I can't comment there. What happened was horrific and very few deserve that, and he certainly didn't, based off what the public knows so far.

One thing I really like for work is the cell phone link. I tried 10 ways from Sunday to get it to work on Win 10 but it just wouldn't work. I had it up and running in seconds on Win 11. It almost feels like they gave up on Win 10 and fixed a bunch of issues I was seeing in 11. I just fired Fallout 4 up and I noticed not everything was set to Ultra when I hit the 'set all to ultra' setting. I manually switched everything. It crashed so I went into Nvidia control panel settings for the fallout4launcher.exe and set those to match the in game settings and the crashing went away. I'm dumbfounded by this. Everything I read said I would have to trash this 3060 and it's working better than it ever did. I know full well that this build is way overkill for my everyday needs, but it was worth it not having to upgrade the video card. If your a Fallout fan, you know the downtown area of the game is notorious for dropping down to 24 ~ 30 FPS. I haven't seen a single drop. I had the temp monitor up while I was running it and it never cracked 28C. It throttles at 100C. One thing I did do ... I used NVCleanstall to load the Nvidia drivers. You download it, point it to the Nvidia driver installer, and it rips it apart and only installs the basics of what you need. It recompiles the driver into a custom installer with only the options you pick and you run that. I have none of the bloatware that comes with the official driver. Same with my printer/scanner. The drivers are 600MB and it installs all kinds of unwanted crap against your will. Win 11's generic drivers found it, wirelessly, and I didn't have to do a thing. I can print and scan and the quality is better than with the OEM drivers. I think I have about the cleanest and leanest install I possibly could. It appears as though they resolved issues where if there's a wireless device on your home Wifi network, it just finds it. In Win 10 I had to manually enter IP's. Win 11 also found a bunch of Blutooth devices in my house which kind of freaked me out. I know the previous owner was a police officer and his family were big into security. They asked me if they could take the smoke detectors because they had Blutooth microphones in them. It makes me wonder what may be hiding somewhere. Lol.

I do the same thing forgetting to hit send. Lol. The only reason I went with this cpu is I got such a great deal on it. I don't know why. I was ppkong around Amazon one day comparing prices and it was almost $200 off regulat price. I checked everywhere and nobody's sale price even came close so I grabbed it. I should have bought more and threw them on ebay at near regular price. Irt fallout 4. I don't know why I see such a huge difference. I had to turn off some fx and overclock my 3060 on my i5 system to get it to run smooth. Just as a benchmark I set everything in fallout to ultra on the i9 and didn't even install afterburner. It's running full 60fps and the fans don't even ramp up. My monitor only does 60fps. To me that's a significant change. And it hasn't even cracked 33c. It makes me wonder what everyone who says these things are melting down are doing? The real reason this all happened was my i5 didn't meet hardware requirements for Win 11. Win 10 gave me a year extension on security updates but I decided to juat do it now. But I've never seen the cpu get anywhere near close to what I paid, otherwise it would be a lesser cpu. And it was brand new factory sealed. Sorry for typos. On my cell and hard to tap all this out.

Got ya to read it! Haha. Jokes on you! I finally got all the parts for my new build and got everything all set up done last night. I was freaking out because an I9 14900K based system and everyone was scaring me to death saying I'd be able to percolate fresh brewed coffee on my PC case. So far I haven't seen it go above 33°C. My ultimate test was running Fallout 4 with all ultra settings. Not a single hitch. The fans don't even ramp up on the CPU, GPU, or case. The test for me was running Fallout 4 in 2K and comparing it to my old i5 PC. That's the only game I play. I read on the internets that my RTX3060 would bottleneck severely because it's not paired properly with the new Gen i9's and it's a Gen 4 PCIe GPU. The internets was dead wrong on that one. It runs significantly better. I had to overclock it using MSI afterburner and ramp the fans up to keep it just below the overheating point and turn off a lot of eye candy on my old i5. On the new build I didn't have to do anything and the fans stay at idle speed running in 2K Ultra settings. I did see that it appears as though the entire game is loaded into system memory. It says it's using 46GB Ram. My i5 never utilized anywhere near that much memory. Maybe the new 5600 Ram is faster than the old Vram on the GPU? I'm at a loss. All I can say is, I just saved a grand by not having to buy a new GPU just to play a 10 year old game. The parts I got for this build run full speed Jedec 5600 without overclocking and no lane splitting between the 1st pcie slot and the 1st m.2 drive slot. It was kind of hard to find a mobo that would support all that. IOW I'm running my GPU and Boot drive directly controlled by the CPU and not the mobo controller at full Gen 5 speed for both. System Specs: i9 14900K Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite X Wifi 7 (Gen 5. No lane splitting between 1st PCI-e and 1st M.2 drive slots.) My old RTX3060 12GB GPU (Base card. Not the Ti version.) Kingston Gen5 2T M.2 drive Kingston Non-OC 5600 Ram 64GB (2 x 32GB) MSI Mag A750L PCIE5 PSU CoolerMaster Atmos 360 AIO Cooler Thermalright Anti-Buckle plate. Fractal Design Define R5 Case (Comes with 2 fans and 360mm AIO support) Windows 11 Pro (Retail Ver.) A couple of notes on some things I ran into, in the order I should have done them, but didn't irt to step 2 and 3. 1. During assembly install an Anti Buckle plate. It replaces the CPU clamping mechanism on the mobo. It holds the CPU in place and prevents the metal housing from warping. Do not overtighten. Watch some youtube vids. Very slowly turn the screws in multiple times in an X pattern until the plate is fully seated on the mobo. Then, barely do a final tightening not even doing 1/16 of a turn. If you tighten one screw fully then do the rest, it angles the plate and may damage something. 2. Put it all together and plug your monitor into the embedded graphics port on the mobo. Before you install Win 11, put the latest firmware on a thumb drive and update your bios. There were problems with default bios settings being set wrong for the I9 series and some bios updates fixed that for some manufacturers. Look up the settings online and verify the bios update changed them and made them default and if not manually change them. There's lots of articles and youtube video's about these settings. 3. After updating the bios go back in and set your graphic card settings. Mine had the Embedded GPU setting set to Enabled by default and it was also set to look at the 1st PCI-E slot for a GPU. Set the Embedded setting to Auto and leave the PCI-E setting to 1st slot, if that's where your GPU will go. I didn't install my GPU until after everything was set up and all my software was installed. When I hooked my monitor up to the GPU I wasn't getting any video and I was locked out of being able to access my bios. I couldn't even enter bios through the UEFI method. I was totally locked out. I took the GPU card out, plugged my monitor into the Embedded graphics port, set the embedded graphics to Auto, put the GPU back in, and it worked and I could enter bios normally again. 4. It's super easy to download Win 11 and make a bootable thumb drive. Make the bootable thumb drive on a working PC, then download your Wifi and LAN card drivers for your new build, create a folder on the bootable thumb drive, and put the drivers in it. 5. Install Win 11 and if it can't find it's own drivers for your Wifi or LAN then click your way to the folder you saved them in. You can't move forward with the install until you have it connected to the net. If the drivers were only available as EXE files, hit Shift + F10 when Win 11 asks you for the driver and a DOS box pops up. Using DOS commands navigate to the thumb drive and manually execute the EXE. Make the folder you save them in a short name and rename the EXE files to something simple when you download them so you don't have to type a bunch of dashes and numbers. I didn't and it was a PITB's. Example: Folder name "DRVRS". File Names "WIFI.EXE" and "LAN.EXE". Don't leave the 48 letter model/filename/fileversion/date name they give the EXE's when you download them. Lol. All that added a lot of time and stress, but it was all simple stuff that if I had known ahead of time and been prepared, I swear the entire bios and software installation phase of the build would have only taken 20 minutes. If you need a case that has mounts for an optical drive and AIO, the Define R5 was the cheapest option I could find, but they don't tell you in the online ads you can only use up to a 240mm AIO and the optical drive at the same time. All the ads online say it supports a 360MM AIO and optical drives. You don't find out otherwise until you RTM. Which I should have done, but didn't. The mobo has all the LED light controllers embedded on it. The AIO came with a controller box and a trillion wires, but it wasn't needed. I'm not into that anyway and with the case together I can't see them even if I was. I had a lot fun building it and so far it's running fantastically and far far cooler than what I expected. Don't believe everything/anything you read on the internets. Maybe when I get my BluRay authoring software installed and buy an external 4K drive (grrrr), then try to render and compile a 45Gb disc, it'll heat up. But comparing how Fallout 4 made smoke come out of my i5 to this new PC, it's not even cracking a sweat. What I saved on a video card more than covered what I paid for in extra horse power under the hood.

I watched FudX drive in and out of my driveway 3 times with a guitar I ordered from them that was supposed to not require a signature, before I could get outside to catch them. They had a note in hand already, ran up to the door, stuck it on, and flew off. I called Sweets and said just cancel the order. The next day the FudX guy pulled in the driveway with it and sat it on my porch and I told him to take it back. By then they got the message that no signature was required and I could have just kept it and said I never got it. But here I am years later and still don't have that guitar. In cases like these you really can blame the messenger/deliverer. It's not the vendors fault. That said, FudX has some quirks about them where if you want anything altered about the delivery, you have to create an account, sign in, and do it all online yourself and it's sent real-time to the driver. The vendor has to send an email to their shipping department, hope somebody reads it, then hope they log in to their vendor account and notify FudX. It's best you just do it yourself. You can even sign digitally for packages that were shipped "Signature Required" and they'll just drop it off. But how many people know that? It took me screaming at Sweets to be told that was the best way to handle the situation.

I'm a big fan of Windows 11 Pro so far. All of my OneDrive accounts and all of my MS software loaded up and just worked. It was a nightmare setting it all up on Windows 10. I tallied up the cost. June: $1306.66 What I paid in December: $1740 The MOBO dropped or it would have been another $90. Everything else stayed the same except the RAM/M.2 skyrocketed. Sys Specs: I9 14900K, 64GB 5600 RAM, 2T Gen 5 M.2 Drive, Non-PCI lane splitting Aorus Mobo, 360MM AIO Cooler, 750W PSU, Case to fit the cooler Win 11 Pro. Prices are only going to go up, so if you want or need to build a new system now is the time to do it.

You just jogged an old memory. I ordered an amp one time. They only had the floor model at Guitar Center and I wanted a new in the box one. It was in stock at the warehouse in the same city. Waited and waited, no amp. So I called and asked if I could just drive there and pick it up. The kid got snotty with me and asked why I wanted it so bad. I said, you know, your right sweety, I don't want it that bad. I cancelled the order and I haven't bought a single thing from Guitar Center since. That was a good 7 or 8 years ago. Maybe more now that I think about it. The amp wasn't the only reason I stopped buying there, but it was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. That said, I did take them for a like new condition hollow body with matching hardshell case w/logo for $240 bucks that normally sold for $1000 w/case. This was before the amp debacle. They said they couldn't get rid of it because it was left handed so I helped them out with it.

They're handing out CDL's to them here like they are candy. They can't speak or read English, which is kind of important, you know, when you're reading signs on the highway. Maybe they taught them to recognize the important ones like "One Way" and "Stop". Why they allow them to drive 18 wheelers is beyond me and it's becoming a deadly problem across the country ... I work at an apartment complex. The number on our street address happens to be the same as one of the apartment numbers. I would say that 85% of everyone's deliveries go that apartment because they don't or can't read the packages when they label says 15 xyz St, Apt 30. They just see the 15 xyz street and drop everything off at Apt 15 even if it says a different apartment number.

Well this feels weird. I got this overpriced behemoth put together and Win 11 Pro installed and activated from a thumb drive without a hitch. The only hiccup was Win 11 couldn't find my Wifi drivers. I downloaded them and put them on the install thumb drive but it was an EXE. During install, at the point where Win 11 says it can't find your internet adapter and asks for drivers, you have to pull up a dos box and manually execute the EXE, then it finds it. Other than that, it went really smooth. That was the first time in, geez, 30 years?? that I had to manually execute an EXE file. I can't believe I remembered how to switch drives and find folders. It's so quiet I have to keep checking if the pump thingamabob is working. I literally hear nothing. Windows 11 feels like a cross between a Mac and my Android cell phone. It's different, but so far it's running fine and I like it. Same shtuff, different layout if you know what I mean. The 10,000 LED's inside are kind of neat. Win 11 and the mobo is set up to let you control them. It looks awesome, but as soon as I put the side on the case I might as well turn them off. These fancy cases with cable management are a joke unless you get extension cables. I may not be able to get my GPU in because the pump cables are so short they aren't long enough to go over, let alone around, the GPU when I put it in. I have 5 fans and they are all running and I literally can't hear it. Things sure have advanced. Maybe once I get my GPU in and do some stress tests it will be different, but just for normal stuff it's completely silent. I thought for sure the pump or the radiator fans would make some kind of noise, but I can't hear a thing. So other than the highway robbery for the ram and m.2 drive, it's a pretty good day. I can't complain.

I recently watched a video on YouTube by a lady that cured her lactose intolerance by bombarding herself with dairy. It was youtube so take it with a grain of salt. But your story reminded me of that. She said it was awful the first day then her symptoms faded away, and now she's no longer lactose intolerant.

That's for DDR5. DDR4 is a bit less. I read an article that said there's a shortage because of AI and bit mining farms popping up all over and they are buying up all the RAM and chip based drives. SSD, M.2. The estimate was the prices will continue to go up and then stabilize some time around 2029. But nothing is set in stone. So it's hard to say if you should wait. I bought 64GB of DDR5. I know that's way overkill for most tasks, but I do do heavy video editing on rare occasion and I thought it would help when I get back into recording and using large sample libraries. 100% of everything will run fine on 32GB DDR4, even 16GB DDR4. Games may suffer a frame or two drop if you are a hard core 4K gamer. Maybe. But this is my last build and I wanted to future proof it so to speak. I bought all parts so they would run native 5600 and full pci 5 lanes without splitting lanes between the GPU and M.2. So when the I eventually have to replace my rtx 3060, I can put in a full pci 5 GPU and not cut/split the speed with the m.2 drive. I've always built my systems this way and I've always had rock solid performance. I can't remember a single system based crash in 10 years on my current pc. I have to do this now before the end of the year for tax purposes. I was going to wait, but since I started putting together a parts list this past summer, prices have been steadily going up. If I would have built this when I originally started, I would have spent well over $1000 less. I'll post the original pricing and what I actually paid now later. I have all the original prices in an excel spreadsheet somewhere. I'm upset, but it isn't the end of the world. I got 10 years out of my old PC and it still runs great. It just won't run Win 11 without a few hacks and I don't want to get into that. This new build will be all stock speeds at jedec standards. No overclocking. You pay a premium for non overclockable full 5600 ddr5 ram. That's part of the cost for me. The trick is finding a mobo that will support the cpu/ram and drive controllers all at full jedec speed in a world where everything is sold to be overclocked ... .. .

And today's price .... $840. If my maths is correct, that's a 500% increase from the pricing a couple months ago. As Roy Orbison once opined ... it's over, it's over, it's over! It's ooooooooooovvvveeeerrrrrrrrrr Lol.

I thought he was referring to the bottle neck stuff I read about the gpu/cpu. But I wasn't sure. 🙂

Just for kicks and giggles I just checked the pricing on the 2 sticks of ram I bought. Original Price: $168 I Paid: $486 (1.5 weeks ago) Today's Price: $619

No. The internet. Lol. I did a lot of reading before I pieced out this build. I even emailed a couple of the manufacturers and got quick responses surprisingly. But I never officially asked about the bottlenecking of a pci 4 gpu on a new pci 5 compatible system. I got a mobo that supports full lane width for the gpu and m.2 drive., which is hard to find actually. That said, I can run this rtx 3060 in 4K with no problems with the 1 game I play now. I just have to turn a couple of eye candy settings off that I dont care for anyway and would never have on if I had a system that could handle it. I can live without the game if it won't run properly so it's not that big of a deal to me. 99% of what I do would run off th3 3mbedded gpu. I read there will be significant dropped frames and others say it will run even better. I take the net with a grain of salt so time will tell. I got the final pieces yesterday. I'm so disgusted by being forces to do this because of windows 11 and the astronomical price increase that I just threw everything in my.office and have no motivation to put it together. Normally I'd be up all.night as soon as I ot rhe final piece, but I'm really feeling crappy about this build for several reasons. I don't like being forced into it then being robbed at checkout. Sorry for the long rant. LOL. I'm sitting at work waiting for an inspector and I'm bored and completely burned out. I worked 7 days a week for the last 4 months doing gut and remodels and as soon as this guy gets here and leaves, I'm outta here till 1/1/26. Unless it snows or something breaks. Then I'll be back. 😔

I can't explain why without "going there" but I do believe there is a process in the works to, uh, undo the halt that was previously implemented. It wasn't an overnight process to rebuild our buffer so to speak, but it has started. And by the time it gets fixed, a different idiot will move in and undo it again. I've lost faith in all of them to be honest. I no longer support one or the other. I just want to be left alone to live out my few remaining years in peace 'cause there ain't a darn thing I can do about any of it. I'm really sick to my stomach over this memory thing. It literally happened overnight while I was busy working and didn't have time to watch. But it wouldn't have mattered anyway. It literally happened overnight, not gradually. At least from what I've read. I have a spreadsheet I created months ago when I finally decided which parts I was going to go with. $1305 for the fastest pc you can build. I don't know if Amazon screwed up, but I got a steal on the cpu and I've never seen it that low again. I should have bought 10 and resold them on ebay. Because of the memory, my great deal DIY build went up to almost $2300. I didn't listen back in June when everyone said there is something coming and ram prices would skyrocket and nothing would be available. Yeah, I could have built a less powerful pc, but at the time the deal was so unbelievable on the cpu, I built the system around that never dreaming this would happen. Anyway, it's all been purchased. All I'm waiting for is the RAM and case, which I got screwed on too. It says in the specs that the case supports a 360mm top mount aio and bays for 5.25 drives which I have to have, but what it didn't say was they both couldn't be installed at the same time. The only case that allows both at the same time that I could find, and I had to use AI to help, is $450. I'll leave the freaking sata wires and power supply wires hanging out the side with the drive dangling there before they suck another penny out of me for this garbage. Lol. Btw, that price does not include a video card. I'll be using my old 3060 which everyone tells me will bottleneck on my cpu and run worse than it does in my current system. I'm going to have to wait until the vram price hike hits before I can even think about a new gpu.

I bit the bullet and bought the ram and m.2 last night before stock ran out again. I paid as much for it as I did for all the other pieces of my new build. I'm building my dream PC and could have often away with a lot less, still doesn't make.me feel any better. I did my research and this thing will scream for a very long time, but it really is a terrible time to build a PC.

I was reading about the memory prices skyrocketing. From what I've read it's due to all the AI and bit mining farms popping up all over and there is a shortage on ram and its only going to get worse. The memory I was going to get was $84 each x 2. Now it's $234 each x 2. And the m.2 drive more than doubled as well.

Melda's EQ's have a saturation section built in. I think it may be there on most of their plugins but I can't honestly remember.. I really like their Auto Dynamic EQ. I prefer it as a de-esser over de-esser vst's. Stand alone de-essers seem to shave the entire top end off. With a dynamic eq you can zero in on the problems and leave everything else alone.

Thankfully mine is still appraised at the pre-housing crisis assessment. That said, they just raised mine this year here in NJ. To put it in perspective, I had a 2200 sq/ft house on 5 acres in MO. I also had a 1200 sq/ft Morton building. They also tax you on your vehicles. FF to being back in NJ. I have a 1500 sq/ft house on 1.25 acres. 1.25 acres here is a luxury. 5 acres in MO is bare minimum. My property taxes in NJ are over $2,000/year more than in MO. I can count on 1 hand the amount of times my power has been out in the 25 years I lived in rural IA and MO. Here, it's out at least 3 times a month. Schools, utilities, roads, law enforcement, hospitals, jobs, quality of life, the people, it was all vastly better in MO and even better in IA. I don't know who is benefitting from my tax dollars here, but I assure you it is not the citizens. I got 1 of the 3 parts I was able to order for my new PC build. I have no idea where the h e double hockey sticks this AIO is gonna fit that I was told I had to have. Lol. At least it got here before the below freezing temps hit tomorrow. I was a little worried about that.

I saw some great software deals, but everything else was a joke. I've been watching pc part prices. They jacked everything up, then gave a discount to what the original price was. And on memory, better get some KY while it's on sale. It's gone up 200% plus (ram and drives) and none of it was on sale. If I want to build the system I've been piecing together for months now I literally have to cut the memory and m2 drive capacity in half to get slightly higher pricing then I could 6 months ago on double the capacities. Frustrating.

What they didn't think about back then was ... wood swells and contracts and those nails eventually come out. I've seen that video too and its amazing watching that guy. I do a lot of drywall repair. 99% of what I do is caused by nails popping out, mostly on the ceilings. Only at the coffee house can we go from digital eq's to 1950's drywall. Love it.

Same here. I loved the Sonitus plugins. There were a few others that were really good too. There was a clean amp sim that was just a basic screen with a few knobs that sounded great to me. I think it was a dx plugin. The only eq I ever purchased stand alone was the melda dynamic eq because of its dynamic capabilities which does help a lot, especially with bad recordings and as a de-esser. There's a lot of hidden features in that eq as well that can makes things sound better like saturation and filtering. All that said ... I started using all the stuff that came with Ozone Advanced, and now I don't think I'll ever use anything else. I got it for its mastering assistance, but tried out everything that came with the Advanced package and it has everything I could ever possibly need. But I think you and I are alike in that stock works great for us. I was more than happy with Sonitus and then the stock stuff that came with S1. Especially their stock reverb. The controls are mislabelled imo on S1's stock reverb. I don't get the results I expect based on the knob displays, but if you just start tinkering you get what everything does and it sounds fantastic, to me. I remember getting into a discussion about it on their forum one time. Maybe they laid it out differently by now. I'm 3 versions behind iirc.

I pulled this up on my cell, clicked the 3 dots, clicked share, and pasted here like Craig said. And sometimes it works, and this time it didn't. Lol. So to answer your question, I guess we don't know. Lol. https://youtu.be/TmaQl8eeelw?si=WxcTGcZr7EQqPWNd