Z790 APEX Availability Overclocking and Playtime Thread : )

[iBruceypoo]

Newegg listing November 2nd and 3rd:



Newegg listing November 4th, today:



Did Newegg sell out their known incoming quantity of boards as Pre-Orders in 48hours? OR did they simply change the purchasing status?

Who knows right?

Did anyone grab a pre-order?

[iBruceypoo]

On this side of the pond John, turtles are fresh water and sea water. Tortoises are larger longer living land only.

lol

[JohnAb]

Aha, very good. So do you know if the Ninja Turtles are fresh or sea water turtles? That would clear it up 100% 😂

[JohnAb]

We always thought that in the US tortoises were called turtles. Clearly not! 

Mel just explained where our confusion comes from. When we've seen US shows refer to a tortoise, it often gets  called a turtle...

[iBruceypoo]

LOL. Fictional turtles vs Scientific nomenclature. 🤣

[JohnAb]

This is the thing, we've seen shows where someone is holding a tortoise and somebody says "can I hold your turtle". You see our problem lol

[Hopper64]

Wouldn't your video go to x8 due to lane allocation? And is that random speed that much better than gen 4 that you will see a difference? I am not sure. I can't remember the random specs on my 990.

[JohnAb]

Haha, of course. It's a yes for sure 🤣 We've worked out the turtle confusion by the way, found out some articles, one was by a vet discussing Ninja Turtles for fun. He says that based on their anatomy and the fact that they do stuff on land, they should really be called tortoises but that they actually appear to be Terrapins from their appearance (freshwater turtles in the US). Anyway, as you say, they are only cartoons so who cares...

It seems that in the US small tortoises can be called turtles and the term tortoise is reserved for the big ones like from the Galapagos Islands.  So he summarises by saying that in the US, all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises. Glad we cleared that up (well, we might have) lol. Oh, I'm confused again but I think we need to move on from turtles 😊

When are those speedy M.2 NVMEs available?

[Hopper64]

Fine. I am still thinking you will drop to x8 running that, but I am not sure.

[Hopper64]

Yea. Should be fine. I might look at doing that as well!!

[Hopper64]

Yep. You are right on. Negligible difference in this GN data:

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2488-pci-e-3-x8-vs-x16-performance-impact-on-gpus

Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!