Got a new pair of headphones in with three different connection options: USB receiver, Bluetooth, and aux. Don't need multiple headphones anymore, thank god.

Notebookcheck has a Ryzen 9 7945X preview out and it's close to what I predicted last year (in this article: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ryzen-7000-could-be-a-serious-threat-to-intels-mobile-chips/). I'm pleasantly surprised that Intel's best chips in the best laptops can stand up to AMD's, but the 7945HX consumes nearly half the power. A Ryzen laptop can have equal performance to Intel's best while being much smaller and perhaps even cheaper. Not good for the blue team. https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-strikes-back-Ryzen-9-7945HX-beats-Intel-Core-i9-13980HX-despite-much-lower-power-consumption.698349.0.html

Personally I wasn't expecting there to be any cases where the 7950X3D was slower than its non-3D counterpart, but there are a few. These seem to all be lightweight esports titles so presumably the amount of cache and memory they use is so minimal that losing the frequency is actually a net loss. Increasing the clock speeds on the other CCD didn't seem to really do much, but maybe AMD can somehow optimize the 7900X3D and 7950X3D on a per game basis?

Interesting side of V-Cache I hadn't considered before, it improves frame per watt metrics significantly (at least in Linux). Cache > frequency is definitely the new normal for gaming oriented products.

Seeing alot of people disappointed with the leaked Ryzen 7000X3D reviewer's guide and its performance claims. V-Cache is providing a smaller performance uplift for Ryzen 7000 but that's because Ryzen 7000 already did a ton for improved gaming performance: higher clock speeds and greater L2 cache. It's not surprising to me that X3D this generation is only marginally ahead.

The interesting part about this is that the 3nm components may not even be the ones that are actually delayed, but some other chip. If one tile is late, might as well delay all the others too. https://www.pcgamer.com/intels-reported-3nm-chip-deferment-hints-at-a-delay-to-arrow-lake-cpus/