Time for an upgrade. The AM4 and Ryzen 5600X has served me well, but the system is having an increasing number of weird stutters and simulations are slowing me down. Going to see if a double-up of RAM speed and CPU cores will fare better. It did. Definitely double up on compilation efficiency with only a fraction of time spend on compilation and simulation startup times.


Been waiting and postponing the upgrade from AM4 to AM5 a long time, because of the surge of prices and marginal gains to boot.

I was expecting increased productivity, but not so much in regards to gaming and even less in regards to Synthetic benchmarks, but it surprised me... (Also from the general lack of results it's clearly no a preferred gaming platform)

Best 3DMark (demo) benchmark scores in the World with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and AMD Ryzen 9 7900 in
- Steel Nomad DX12
- FireStrike
- TimeSpy
- Night Raid

It's total misinformation of course, because there is only like a handful of comparable data from just as few other users - maybe 20. Well, my scores are nonetheless TOP of the world for this combo.

It comes at a huge immaterial cost, especially because of the ASUS TUF GAMING B650 which was quite a pestilence to work with. This board should have it's own ROS prefix for REALLY OLD SCHOOL. It's incredibly SLOW (because of RAM timings and retesting) It takes up to 3 minutes to restart and more than a minute from cold boot and it can't even be put to sleep. There is a Memory Context something that helps a bit, but even at its fastest is slower than the old system. First NON-MSI board and it stinks. I wasn't too hot on the idea of going for less than the best chipset for AM5, but a little upgrade for more than a $1000 seemed a bit much, but I regret the choice of cheap.

I eventually fixed all the issues, but it would have been nice if the TUF Gaming board had been defaulted to "nice" and humane settings so I wouldn't have had to poke around in all the vague and taciturn descriptions that left me with a wobbly impression of the board.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900, that I picked also because a cooler was included, came with the AMD Wraith Prism, which is only nice when the computer is off, started to sound too much like a busy airport and was replaced with Be Quiet's Dark Rock V, which is really nice and pretty quiet under load. The noise is more like moving air than a tsunami. There are times that I instinctively reach for the power button to turn on my computer on even though it's clearly visibly running... I have a peculiar disregard of my eyes over my ears... The day I have to buy an electric Car I really hope that they will be so evolved that I can download or setup my own engine Sounds to play whenever I interact with the car, so I will be able to tell when it's actually running... Otherwise I would feel like a sitting duck...

Apparently dual-channel memory configuration is either not working on the ASUS Board nor registering itself with CPUID.

Infernal
OS: Windows 11 Pro
CASE: Spire Supreme 1614-X *
PSU: Corsair RM750i 750 W Modular (80+ Gold)
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI
MOTHERBOARD: MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900 on air with Be Quiet Dark Rock V
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
GFX: ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER ROG STRIX 8GB GDDR6
GFX: ASUS GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER ROG STRIX Advanced 8GB GDDR6
RAM: Team Group T-Force Vulcan DDR5-6000MHz 64GB (Kit 2x32GB)
RAM: 64 GB G. Skill RipJaws V DDR4 3200 MHz (4x16GB) **
SSD (Boot): Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCIe 4.0 (M.2) ******
SSD (Steam): WD Blue 3D NAND 1 TB (Sata3)
SSD (Storage): Crucial MX-500 2TB (Sata3) ***
HDD (Backup): Seagate Desktop/Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2 TB (Sata3) *****
External
KEYBOARD: Logitech MX Keys (Rechargeable) / Deltaco Membrane Gaming Keyboard (DK120)
MOUSE: Logitech MX Anywhere 2S (Rechargeable)
WEBCAM: Logitech BRIO Ultra HD
HEADSET: RAZER Blackshark V2 X
MONITOR1: ViewSonic XG Gaming XG2705-2K 27" 144Hz QHD iPS (1440p)
SOUND: Logitech Z-313 50W 2.1
NET: TP-Link Archer T9UH AC1900 USB Adapter (Wifi 6)
NET: TP-Link Archer AC2300 Router
NET: ASUS AX3000 RT-AX58U

OS: Windows 10 Pro
CASE: Cooler Master CM Storm Scout ATX Miditower
PSU: Raptoxx RT700P 700W
MOTHERBOARD: MSI PC MATE B350
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
RAM: 2x8 GB G.Skill Ripjaw DDR4-3200 (16GB)
GFX: MSI GTX 1650 Super 4GB Noventus OC
SSD: A-DATA XPG SX8200 PRO NVMe 500GB
DVD: Samsung Super Writemaster DVD RW
NET/BT: TP-Link Archer TX50E Wifi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 (Intel Wifi 6 AX200 160Mhz)
MONITOR: Philips E-line 275E2FAE 27" iPS (1440p)
Keyboard/Mouse: X-Striker no-name flamboyant RGB setup

Upgraded from Windows 10 to 11 and ... Well ... D'uh. I wonder what the hell Microsoft is thinking. Windows is only the biggest and most popular OS in the World and Microsoft want it to be more like MacOS which is very old by design, retarded, lame and clunky as hell ... weird.

I hate Windows 11, but I hate Mac even more. Same relationship with my iPhone - it's total crap, but Android is crappier. Don't get me started on Google. The world litterally Sucks. This is the darkest of the dark ages.

Three years ago I wouldn't really recommend anyone working with App development in Visual Studio to get an AMD Ryzen CPU because it was a world of pain (at first) working with VirtualBox and Android Emulators that all seemed to be really tightly coupled with Intel CPU's, but it' miles ahead of Intels feebleminded CPU's, even though it's getting a bit old. The alternative to the free Android simulator solution carries a price tag, which is also vastly superior and integrates pretty easily, BUT a year ago they suddenly decided to cut off Indy developers and then a little later they were offering an Indy version for twice the price.. Scum.

The Corsair RM750i got a ten year warranty and it's totally worth it, at least with the CorsairLink ;)

*) The case looks identical to the 1614, except the front is mirrored, it got a Spire logo, there are two spots for 92mm fans on the side, it's lightweight and is able to fit inside a large suitcase.

**) The AMD Spiral Wraith got a bit too noisy for my taste at 3200 MHz with the AMD Ryzen 5 1600, but that has completely changed with the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, that seems to run really cool even though it clearly consume more power than it lets on.

***) I got this to replace the Seagate 2TB HDD, but cloning a mechanical harddrive that transfer at best 100 MB/s goes beyond my tolerance level when dealing with 2TB... Marks the end of 20 years of cloning discs, but perhaps a new age will appear with pure-bred SSD's...

****) Performance per Watt is simply outstanding and it's very cool and quiet too, but unfortunately it doesn't have hardware support for Ray tracing, which is a slowly emerging requirement, that already bar me from a few "Enhanced" versions of games I own. The card is simply the most powerful 100W card on the planet, but I've got another SUPER for sore eyes that raise the bar at the cost of 75% more power (GTX 2060 Super).

*****) Apparently one of the last disc to come out of Samsung, before the switch to Seagate as both their names are on this disc.I was actually planning to replace the Samsung Spinpoint with the Crucial MX-500 2TB , but cloning a mechanical 2TB HDD takes too long and I am beginning to suspect that even every SSD but M.2 is going to slow me down.

******) Replaced the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro. Cloning a 500 GB M.2 to another M.2 only took a few minutes. Hell yeah!!!


Idle: 65-73 W
Load: 150 W
Peak: 200 W

Fast and energy efficient... I've got more than 500W of excess :) Or at least I had before I upgraded my Ryz