Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post
I gave all the cpu's a quick run over the past couple days. No outliers imo. avg or below avg at best. I'll dig in more over next few days.

One of the things I am interested in testing is 5950x 16 cores smt off versus 5800x in games to see if there's any uplift to be had there.
what board are you using?

Have you checked out the curve optimizer?

Quote Originally Posted by chew* View Post
"I'm disappoint in the, PC enthusiast, PC gamer's "PC master race" as whole lately just impatient and the unwilling to wait for stock to fill up, but ok with buying things as soon as they release.
people where ok with buying $1,200 RTX 2080 TI's when it's MSRP price was what $800 now they want to complain about it during a world wide a pandemic. after production was stopped for a few months.
All you have to do wait three months and not buy anything, stock volume will pick up by then."


I agree, I got lucky with my case and artic freezer II 280 and patiently waited till in stock and not scalper pricing but i'm fairly certain i just got lucky. Otherwise i wait. Me first usually comes with bugs....
yeah now it's luck because it's Fomo (fear of missing out) on everyone.