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    News SMI CEO says no PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PC "until 2030" as Nvidia demands 100M IOPS — Wallace C. Kou on the future of SSDs

    800gb https://www.ebay.com/itm/157084426091?_skw=p5800x+800gb $789 not new, but for fraction of the price on a product that is harder to damage, I feel like it's ok.
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    News SMI CEO says no PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PC "until 2030" as Nvidia demands 100M IOPS — Wallace C. Kou on the future of SSDs

    You're right, and I noticed it after I posted and was too lazy to go back and re-edit. I wish they'd just do a single pass with CDM to see the 4k rnd q1t1 latency results. I know it's not exactly a server benchmark, but still. I can get 1tb of p5800x for as low as $800 for the drive itself. So...
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    News SMI CEO says no PCIe 6.0 SSDs for PC "until 2030" as Nvidia demands 100M IOPS — Wallace C. Kou on the future of SSDs

    From what I've seen it looks like they want to actually have a product ship with XL-flash mentioned in the article. But Kioxia has talked about XL-flash many times in past with nothing concrete to show for it, so we'll see I guess.
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    SSD Benchmarks Hierarchy: We've tested over 100 different SSDs over the past few years, and here's how they stack up.

    IMO, the chart should have a dedicated chart for q1t1 4k rnd read.
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    News The Zen 5 Gaming postmortem: Larger generational gains than many reported, game-boosting Windows Update tested, Ryzen 5 7600X3D gaming benchmarks, too

    Normally cpu reviews are done without overclocked ram, but in the CPU hierarchy it looks like it is. So are tests run twice then?
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    News SSD Usage In Starfield Is Causing Stuttering Issues: Report

    I traced the load from Starfield via Windows Peformance Recorder and tried to analyze the load via Windows Disk Trace Visualizer. For traversal from one end of New Atlantis to the other, in terms of disk service time, almost 100% of it were 64kb random read and 64kb seq read. A 990 Pro will...
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    Best Thermal Paste for CPUs 2025: 90 Pastes Tested and Ranked

    Hope we will see mx-6 tested soon.
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    Review Seasonic Prime TX-1600 Power Supply Review

    ax1600i is more aggressive with fan curve vs Seasonic.
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    Review Intel Core i9-13900K and Core i5-13600K Review: Raptor Lake Beats Ryzen 7000

    AMD seems to perform well in pcmark10's application startup test. Interesting
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    Review Thermalright LGA1700-BCF Contact Frame Review : Can it tame Raptor Lake’s heat?

    Clock vs temp scaling would be cool to convert temp drop to perf gains.
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    News Intel Core i9-13900K and Core i5-13600K Review: Raptor Lake Beats Ryzen 7000

    Nice review. Only thing I wish was there would be 5600x.
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    Review AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X Review: A Return to Gaming Dominance

    What is the thought process behind benching ADL at DDR5 6400 but zen4 at 6000? Thanks
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    Review ViewSonic Elite XG321UG Review: Mini LED With Superior Contrast And Color

    There are no high refresh rate 8k displays and I claim to game at 8k high refresh rates. How is this possible? It's easy to infer it's DSR. DSR is DOWNSCALING. You RENDER at 8k and DOWNSCALE to 4k. You have it ass backwards because you are totally lost and have no idea what I was saying. Next...
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    Review ViewSonic Elite XG321UG Review: Mini LED With Superior Contrast And Color

    Not sure if sarcasm, curiosity, or genuinely never played old games? Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout NV, The Last Remnant. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory can do x4 SS. Yes, 16k gaming. I'm sure there are many other old games out there beyond whatever I happen to play. Minecraft without raytracing...