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Shame. What Kaapstad did had value in making this forum attractive and interesting, and presumably this entire forum is only allowed to exist because it has indirect commercial value to OCUK by drawing a PC hardware enthusiast community here / converting people into PC hardware enthusiasts. I...

Still no sign of our beloved Kaapstad. Still not logged on since May 2023. Safe to say he's doing something other than just 'touching grass' because 'the hardware is boring'. So many benchmark threads / owner threads / etc left to lie fallow. Perhaps OCUK should assign a willing mod or two...

What happens when an AIO fails? Closest experience I've had is the fan failing, which I only noticed when my system was turned on while open. Otherwise I had no idea (was only on a stock Ryzen 2700). The pump -> heatsink was cooling it passively pretty much fine. I hope the CPU isn't going...

Now flogged my 5700X for £130, so was 'only' £100 lost going to the X3D, which helps ease my buyer's remorse. Looking at my Cyberpunk and TLOU examples, I might have gone from slightly CPU limited to perhaps having way more untapped CPU potential. TLOU: 5700X was 72% utilisation, dropped to to...

My Corsair Hydro H90 has been going 13+ years. Only had to replace the fan on it. Must be something special about the Corsair Hydros from that era :D

Some takeaways that are pro X3D from my above benchmarks: - Cyberpunk GPU utilisation went from 96% to 99% with a 5 FPS increase - TLOU GPU utilisation went from 95% to 100% with an 8 FPS increase - The Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark showed CPU frames rendered etc went up massively, even...

For anyone interested, I took a snapshot of my 5700X versus my 5700X3D in the games I had installed. This is extremely unscientific and at 3440x1440 resolution @ around ultra (so generally expected to be GPU limited). I don't even have MSI afterburner set to show 1% / 0.1% lows, just averages...