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Just got a phone call from officer Williams!
He wanted me to make a donation of $50. so I agreed and told him to just sent me an invoice and I'll make my donation through that.
I gave officer Williams the address to our local police dept to send the invoice too.
 
A new pic of the current setup. I updated my sig but will copy it here.

Montech King 95 / Asus Thor 1200W / AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / NZXT Kraken 360 w/Thermaltake SWAFAN EX12 fans / ASUS TUF Gaming X670E-PLUS WiFi / ThermalTake TOUGHRAM XG RGB DDR5 64GB (4x16GB) 5600MHz / AMD Radeon RX 7900XT 20GB / XPG 1TB GAMMIX S70 / Crucial P3 2TB / WD_Blue 1TB SN570 / Crucial P3 2TB / LG 45GR65DC-B Ultragear 45" ultrawide 5120 x 1440p 200Hz + Sceptre IPS 27"
 

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Love the setup, Trotter. Looks like you're about to head into a badass storm.
Dude! It's great to see you in here!

Thanks. It is, as always, a work in progress.

It looks like I'm just going to get some rain with a slight chance of a mix. Such is the way of living in the Tennessee Valley, we hardly ever get snow.
 
25mph winds from the blast from 2am till around midnight (all day Sunday), went to sleep and it was 25F, woke up and it's 21F. Haven't turned the heat on all winter and don't plan to. I fired up Luxmark GPU stress on my PC, wife's PC, and my personal server. Less wattage than a space heater and rose the house 6 degrees in 2 hours so far. (62 to 68).

Last Monday my toddler had surgery and it happened to be scheduled the same week the wife and I took off for the holiday season. I was bored and removed my 14900k and put my old 10900x in to see 4k performance difference with a 4090. In some titles there is an obvious CPU bottleneck, in other heavy hitters like Black Myth and Silent Hill (UE5 games with RT) there's no difference. But the bottleneck difference is around 10fps, 20 on one title that normally gets over 100fps. Kinda crazy considering it's a 6 year old CPU but still technically Skylake which is 10 years old. The funny thing is, I have a Gen 5 SSD on a Gen 3 M.2 port, but the IOPS are still the same so day to day feels the same too.

The absolute biggest difference is this thing sitting at 122W idle on the desktop as opposed to the 20W of the 14900k. It's funny how the "Covid enthusiasts" argue over 2 or 3% difference in titles between AMD and Intel, and power consumption when we were rocking 300-400W CPUs 5-10 years ago. We didn't even bat an eye at it, delid and liquid metal, clock to bejesus and pray.
 
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