discussion Rants etc.....

[Sagath]

So I don't know about anyone else but so far the 12900k is not making me wanna jump ship at all. just wondering if anyone here is going from AMD to intel for this series of chips?

Benefits seems limited, and bleeding edge platforms always come with a penalty. Or multiple penalties.

Seems like a lot of $ to spend, for minimal gain. I'll wait to see how the 12600k drops, but cant anticipate a reason to move on from a very mature 5800x x570 platform, without waiting to see AMD's rumoured v-cache response & price cuts.

 

[FreeKnight]

So I don't know about anyone else but so far the 12900k is not making me wanna jump ship at all. just wondering if anyone here is going from AMD to intel for this series of chips?

I think anyone with a Ryzen 5000 series is probably not jumping ship save for the small group of enthusiasts that build in nearly every new chipset or those that had to settle for a chip they didn't want when the shortages were in full swing.

Personally, I'm not even considering jumping from the 5900x to the 12900k. I'd need to buy a new MB and RAM and I suspect that DDR5 prices are probably terrible, much like the early days of DDR4. I'm also concerned with the power draw. I'm running a 5900x and 3080Ti on a SF750 psu. I'm pretty sure I'm already skating the recommended power draw and the 12900k seems ravenous. TDP Watts are more than double the 5900x and it sounds like cooling is a challenge on the 12900k.

I'm glad intel finally moved off of the 14nm+++++++++++ⁿ. I'm also glad that there's competition at the high end of CPUs. I'm in no way motivated to switch right now though. Maybe in another gen or two when DDR5 prices are tempered. I got a great run out of my 4790k and while I'm not sure the 5900x will age quite as well I'm hoping it'll be a couple of years before I upgrade again.

 

[gingerbee]

couldn't have said it better Freeknight. but I think all my AMD chips have and will age quite well but probably not as good as most of us hoped they would.

 

[Valkyrie]

I'm actually very impressed with the single thread ability of Ryzen Gen 3. They have come a long way.

 

[gingerbee]

Omg for fuck sakes so I just found a pretty big leak behind my tub, it's a 3 piece insert and the second piece is not in there perfect and I thought it was ok cause they chalked it up well took a really good look today to find it leaking down the back cause they missed places with the chalk, thank god I have an access panel to get to the back of the water supply and drain for the tub. So I have spent the last 5 hrs cleaning out all the old chalk and started to re-chalk but had to stop to let a section dry and it also means come some point I will have to pull the tub sections to install them 100% properly. it never end any little thing they could to cheap or fast they did and now I am having to fix it all, but that home-owning lmao

 

[clshades]

Omg for fuck sakes so I just found a pretty big leak behind my tub, it's a 3 piece insert and the second piece is not in there perfect and I thought it was ok cause they chalked it up well took a really good look today to find it leaking down the back cause they missed places with the chalk, thank god I have an access panel to get to the back of the water supply and drain for the tub. So I have spent the last 5 hrs cleaning out all the old chalk and started to re-chalk but had to stop to let a section dry and it also means come some point I will have to pull the tub sections to install them 100% properly. it never end any little thing they could to cheap or fast they did and now I am having to fix it all, but that home-owning lmao

I've installed lots of 3 piece setups, cheap ones, decent ones, expensive ones. They all suck dude. Yours might have been an end-run form and so they don't line up exactly right making them impossible to get right. Hoping they installed those right to studs. If it's one of those over the drywall or old tile kits, good luck. Hard to know without seeing it 1st hand what type it is.

 

[Lysrin]

So I don't know about anyone else but so far the 12900k is not making me wanna jump ship at all. just wondering if anyone here is going from AMD to intel for this series of chips?

It's turning out to be more delays for me upgrading my main PC! lol I was going to move to a 5900x or 5950x, and I still might, but now I'm tempted to wait until the dust settles on this and Windows 11, and of course what AMD has coming next. Nothing wrong with my 8700K of course, but this round of CPU releases has me doing a lot more "upgrade now? no... now? no... now? no... NOW?!"

 

[gingerbee]

I've installed lots of 3 piece setups, cheap ones, decent ones, expensive ones. They all suck dude. Yours might have been an end-run form and so they don't line up exactly right making them impossible to get right. Hoping they installed those right to studs. If it's one of those over the drywall or old tile kits, good luck. Hard to know without seeing it 1st hand what type it is.

some who knows what they doing cause I sure as hell don't, never done bathrooms, done everything else, just not bathroom lol so it's to studs I can see them because I have access behind the water lines for the tub its some type of fiber material maybe glass I am not sure what there made out of.

So the one side doesn't line up properly and I have had to chalk the whole thing again cause it looks like the chalk has failed over time there isn't any water damage behind the tub that I can see I have ordered a boroscope to look at the other end of the tub I can't see, my question for you is there some type of waterproof tape or something like a tape I can also put over the chalk for the little extra protection. IE something like this

Caulk Strip PE Self Adhesive Tape for Bathtub Bathroom Shower Toilet Kitchen and Wall Sealing, Sealers - Amazon Canada

Caulk Strip PE Self Adhesive Tape for Bathtub Bathroom Shower Toilet Kitchen and Wall Sealing in Sealers.

www.amazon.ca

I am not happy with the chalk job I had to do because of all the chalk I had to use to fill that gap and of course, my wife will be having a bath in about 4 to 5 hrs which the chalk only had about 8 hrs to dry if that.

So your also saying pulling the whole bathroom apart to fix it lining up probably wont help at all thanks for the heads up

 

[Izerous]

I hope your not fixing it with chalk that kinda dissolves in water...

On a serious note I have seen tapes like the one you mention but I have never tried to use it myself. Caulk isn't that hard to work with and a little practice and it is pretty easy to put down nicely. It is one of those things though that you should be looking over once in a while that no-one does. Just like tile grout should be re-sealed pretty much yearly and people will go decades without ever doing such then complain when the grout starts to fail.

 

[sswilson]

I hope your not fixing it with chalk that kinda dissolves in water...

On a serious note I have seen tapes like the one you mention but I have never tried to use it myself. Caulk isn't that hard to work with and a little practice and it is pretty easy to put down nicely. It is one of those things though that you should be looking over once in a while that no-one does. Just like tile grout should be re-sealed pretty much yearly and people will go decades without ever doing such then complain when the grout starts to fail.

Definitely something that needs to be re-done periodically, and yeah.... given the choice (as in building from scratch), I'd insist on a one piece as opposed to multi-piece.

edit: My rant/complaint for the day revolves around unheated CP delivery vans during the winter months.... nothing worse than waiting for a shiny package to arrive and then having to wait an hour or two while it warms up to room temperature before being able to plug it in.