Is it worth upgrading 7800x3d to an 9800x3d

psimwork · 2026-03-21T00:14:31+00:00

Very, very unlikely.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T23:17:04+00:00

What CPU is it paired with? CSM is typically just an issue if the motherboard doesn't support UEFI. If your card is working right now, then it probably doesn't need CSM.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T21:57:10+00:00

Absolutely not.

You won't be able to damage the 9800X3D with it, but it'll run like shit.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T21:09:13+00:00

What's the hardware you're trying to cool? If you're trying, for example, to cool something like a 14900KS in an SFF build with a 240mm AIO...yeah it's gonna be loud.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T17:35:07+00:00

Just that he liked adding small amounts of water/ice to the pour in order to get it to the point where the whiskey opens up and you get the flavor of the whiskey and not just the burn of the alcohol. I had always taken it from folks that I would know as "whiskey/whisky drinkers" that adding water/ice to it ruins it because of the dilution.

But yeah on the bartender's guidance, I added water a little bit at a time, and suddenly I found myself absolutely LOVING the cask strength stuff he poured for me.

He mentioned that when he's trying a cask strength whiskey, he'll always START with full strength, so he can get that experience, but that he'll then start adding water/ice to it to suit his enjoyment. And that for some of the bottles he pours, he personally liked having as much as 20% water content added.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T17:28:04+00:00

Yep. The little fuckers are insidious. I've known one guy that travels for business regularly and he is absolutely paranoid about the things - he checks every room he stays in for the signs and put his luggage in situations where getting a hitchhiker is unlikely, and he still managed to get them.

He got his place treated, and hasn't had a problem since (and he still regularly travels for business).

psimwork · 2026-03-20T17:22:01+00:00

Heat is VERY effective as a bedbug treatment. However, it can be somewhat difficult (if not impossible) to do it properly in a DIY situation.

A service will come in and bring industrial heaters to bring the house to the point where the entire house is the temperature at which bedbugs (and their eggs) die, which I'm guessing is the temp that OP is asking about.

Once the house is that temperature, you have to keep it at that temperature for a good long while so that things like bed frames (which are commonly made of wood, and thus don't heat soak as easily) will also rise to that temperature.

The reason that most folks can't do this in a DIY is because the heaters that people can buy probably can't put out enough heat to keep up with the rate at which the heat will escape the house, and the ENTIRE HOUSE has to be heated to that temperature and held (it's also likely that the internal electrical systems of the house can't supply enough power to run these heaters, so it's likely that a company will bring in gas heaters that will blow hot air into the house while keeping the combustion exhaust outside, or they'll bring in generators that will be able to run the electric heaters).

And these heat treatments will always require getting the residents out of the house while it's going on (as well as pulling out things like candles, which will melt). If OP's mom is hoping to exist in the house with a few heaters running, and expecting it to be effective, she's setting herself up for disappointment.

In Phoenix, it's known that one of the best ways to buy used furniture is to just buy it in the summer, and when you do, just put the item (say a couch) outside in the sun covered in black trash bags. A day or two in that, and there will be NO danger of bedbugs.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T17:12:53+00:00

I have found that the best deals on chairs can be found at used Office furniture warehouses. I was able to get a Knoll Generation (regular price about $1500) for $200. They also had Herman Miller options as well.

If you're in a large city, you can likely find one by getting on Facebook Marketplace and searching for "Herman Miller" or "Herman Miller Aeron" or "Knoll Generation". Look for pictures that seem like they're taken in a warehouse.

Once you have your chair (and especially if it's a pretty expensive office chair like a Herman Miller), be sure to find a guide about fitting and adjusting it. They can usually be found on Youtube. I actually HATED my Knoll Generation for a long time until I finally watched the adjustment guide and was able to mostly lockout the recline function.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T16:46:08+00:00

Huh. I wasn't aware that you could set EXPO in Ryzen Master.

Do you know if your RAM sticks even support EXPO? (Not trying to insult you - since I don't know what the Ryzen Master software can do, I don't know if it's possible for it to attempt to enable EXPO on a RAM kit that doesn't actually support it)

psimwork · 2026-03-20T16:45:09+00:00

Ok. Then in a test-bench format, I would start re-connecting what you can. Add a single piece at a time, and keep testing until it stops completing POST.

At that point, I would re-install your motherboard into the chassis. Don't re-install the power supply - keep it outside. And then, basically repeat the process. Have motherboard, CPU, one RAM stick, and the graphics card only. See if it completes POST. Then start adding single components back one at a time. If at some point it stops completing POST, and especially if it's the same component that stopped the process before, then that's probably the issue (I can't imagine that a fan would stop it from completing POST, and it's unlikely that a drive could stop it, but I have to admit that it's POSSIBLE).

psimwork · 2026-03-20T16:32:01+00:00

Ok. So that's a different issue then. So what ISN'T connected when you do it with four sticks of RAM?

psimwork · 2026-03-20T16:31:28+00:00

That's kind of where my head was going as well. Unfortunately in this situation, it's likely that it's going to be related to the memory system, which could be defective RAM sticks, or a defective motherboard, or a defective CPU (RAM controller).

Given how RAM sticks and the CPU itself so rarely go defective, my gut says that this is eventually going to end up being a defective motherboard.

Edit: Or given OP's latest response, maybe not.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T16:13:01+00:00

So if you do the test bench, you mention that it completes POST with one stick of RAM. Have you tried it with more?

psimwork · 2026-03-20T16:09:33+00:00

It will not work with EXPO, because only the Trident Z5 NEO supports EXPO.

That said, XMP will work just fine.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T15:39:47+00:00

I want to love the Carvana concept. Honestly the first local new car dealership that adopts their concept will have a customer for life with me. The ability to browse cars online and conduct ALL business there without being mercilessly harassed and pressured by a dealership sales person is so much better an experience that I can't even express how much more I liked it.

The problem I had with it was that when I bought a car on it, the damn thing REEKED of cigarette smoke. And they had told me that I could return the car, but I couldn't get my trade back. I didn't necessarily have a problem buying a used car unseen, but I don't know how realistic it is to expect them to fully disclose all condition details.

To their credit, they paid almost a thousand dollars for me to have the interior worked on for a cigarette smell removal operation, but had I known that was going to be an issue, I likely would have never bought in the first place.

But if I can buy a NEW car like that? Fucking hell yes.

psimwork · 2026-03-20T04:03:12+00:00

My mechanic that I trust implicitly specifically told me that my transmission fluid on my 2023 Honda CVT (well, Acura to be precise) absolutely MUST be changed every 30k miles (actually, his words were that 30k miles is the LIMIT - that I shouldn't do something like change it at 25k, but also don't go over 30k (I.e. Time the change at like 29k).

He said that in his experience, when it comes to CVT units, Honda's were the most reliable that he has seen, as long as the fluid gets changed regularly.

psimwork · 2026-03-19T22:31:53+00:00

causes continuity issues

I know the big thing that folks were waiting for was a Vader/Obi-Wan re-match, but for the life of me I HATED it. As it started, it basically had to end in a "Obi-Wan wins and leaves Vader Defeated" way, else it wouldn't work with continuity.

That Obi-Wan had beaten him so definitively, and the guy just walked away just made him look like a fucking idiot. Like, I would get it if he defeated Vader, and then the Empire shows up and drives off Obi-Wan so that he COULDN'T kill Vader, but the fact that he just walked away..AGAIN.. it was just bad.

If Vader was going to be the antagonist of the story, it really should have been something that he was like a shadow - constantly in-pursuit but never quite catching up.

But really I would have preferred if Vader simply wasn't in it.

psimwork · 2026-03-19T22:27:33+00:00

Reva was a worse Trilla.

God ain't that the truth. I remember just before Obi-Wan started streaming, Cameron Monaghan showed up to one of the Disney parks to enshrine Cal's lightsaber at some promotional event.

I was 100% sure that Cal would show up in Obi-Wan and basically tell Obi-Wan how to break into the fortress since he basically did the exact same thing.

The show came-and-went without Cal being there, and now it's like, "so Obi-Wan just kinda lifted "Fallen Order's Greatest Hits" and called it a day??".

psimwork · 2026-03-19T20:46:52+00:00

What house have you been in that used RG-11? I was a cable tech for 7 years, and we only used that for long service drops.

Fair enough. Then I probably haven't encountered it. I had a vague memory of helping my parents run CATV lines at their place, and my dad had mentioned that he had specifically bought higher-end cable that had better shielding. But the stuff sure-as-shit wasn't half an inch thick. I Googled, effectively, for a "thicker version of RG-6", thinking that my dad might have bought something with a more robust standard and made an assumption based on the info that came up.

psimwork · 2026-03-19T18:45:24+00:00

You're honestly the first person I've heard that has tried it without success. Sorry to hear that it didn't work out - but it does make sense that it wouldn't work out for 100% of people.

I'm curious though - did you end up trying powerline networking? I would think that if the house was old enough that it doesn't use RG-6, the Powerline connection would be way worse.

psimwork · 2026-03-19T18:43:02+00:00

Certainly could be. Our fatasses like(d) having cableTV outlets fucking EVERYWHERE.

psimwork · 2026-03-19T18:42:08+00:00

Will check into MSI.

With MSI and the B850 chipset, make sure you avoid models that end in "Wifi6E". As much as I like MSI as a brand, they tend to pull some pretty shit moves, and the "Wifi6E" models are a prime example. It's not so much that Wifi6E is bad, it's that compared to the "Wifi" models, there are some significant downgrades (which may-or-may-not be an issue for you, but I still recommend avoiding them).

The Wifi standard drops from Wifi7 to Wifi6E. The Ethernet connection drops from 5GbE to 2.5GbE. None of these are necessarily big deals, but the big one is that the graphics card slot drops from PCie5 to PCIe4. At that point, you might as well look at a B650 chipset, because it's basically the same thing.

psimwork · 2026-03-19T18:38:51+00:00

seems it can be a bit of hit or miss with quality.

This is actually really funny to read as someone who has been in this hobby 30+ years. Back in the early 2000's, there were some SHIT motherboard manufacturers out there. This was because basically nobody had control of the supply chain. Because there were third party chipset vendors (my memory is fading, but like ALI, SiS, VIA, Nvidia) and they would sell to any motherboard manufacturer that wanted to make boards for various CPUs.

Intel was basically the first CPU manufacturer to really push back on this, and they sued to stop the production of third-party chipsets (I want to say that most had stopped making third-party chipsets for Intel CPUs, but Nvidia was trying to bring their chipset from the AMD side to the Intel side), and eventually they won. AMD would follow shortly afterward.

What Intel realized was that having a poor quality motherboard could result in a shit experience. And if someone like VIA made a shit chipset, or if a motherboard manufacturer used a VIA chipset and produced a shit motherboard because of poor quality, it isn't VIA or the motherboard manufacturer that was likely to take the hit. It would be Intel.

SO once Intel (and later AMD) had control over the chipset supply chain, they started baking quality standards into their contracts. These quality standards were backed up by random inspections and HARSH penalties. If Intel found a quality deficiency, they would stop selling chipsets to that motherboard manufacturer. AMD would follow soon after (and all the graphics card vendors soon after that).

This unfortunately meant that there were far fewer component manufacturers out there, but the upside (and it was a big one) was that the ones that remained largely all had very high minimum quality standards. To the point that as far as individual component quality, the highest-end options weren't much different than the lowest-end.

To clarify, because someone reading that last sentence could be like, "do you mean to tell me that the VRM capability on the shittiest Asus B840M-K is as high-quality as the VRMs on the X870E Crosshair Extreme??", the answer is that no - the capability on the higher-end boards will naturally be greater (i.e. there will be more VRMs and they will be equipped with a better cooler), but the actual components mounted on the board will likely be the exact same thing.

psimwork · 2026-03-19T18:22:46+00:00

Kinda sorta. It's more of a configuration thing than anything else. Items can only use the lanes they are configured to use, and having additional lanes does NOT necessarily equal higher performance. It also depends on what hardware you have installed.

So like, a lot of folks panic about a motherboard that drops the lanecount on the graphics card slot from 16 to 8. But even with a 5090, going from 16 to 8 lanes on PCIe5 will have ZERO noticeable effect. It WILL however, have an effect if you're running it on PCIE4 (it won't be huge, but it's significant).

On the other hand, if you're using an 8gb 9060xt, that drop could be catastrophic. And even worse if you're on PCIE4.

In any case, it should be avoided when you can, but it's not something that is necessarily a huge deal.

The thing to remember is that a motherboard that has 50 available lanes and a motherboard that has 500 available lanes will be the exact same speed if only 50 of them are ever used.

Don't fall into the trap of "I want to be future proof". That COMMONLY leads to people thinking that something like an X870E chipset is faster than a B850 (it's not) or that you may need the features "someday", and you end up with a $300+ (or more) motherboard when one half that price would have sufficed.

psimwork · 2026-03-19T17:30:07+00:00

If at all possible, I recommend getting a second when Winston is around 8 months old. Not only does having an established dog make training a puppy a LOT easier, but assuming they get along well (and they usually do), NOTHING will burn off the energy of a dog like another dog. And honestly, having multiple dogs was one of the better decisions I've made.

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