Swiftech’s Apogee TR4 water block has been running overnight and turning in solid results on the ASUS ROG Strix Threadripper motherboard ($386)…no BSODs yet anyway. It is not looking like getting a TIM-mate up to HardOCP standards is do-able with stock mounting hardware but I need to kick it around a bit more. We have the re-lidded 8600K up and running a solid 5.2GH on the Gigabyte Aorus Z370 Ultra Gaming ($170) with the XSPC RayStorm Pro block to facilitate CPU-bottlesneck-less performance for Fallout 4 VR testing this weekend. Still wondering if AMD will actually send me a game code or I will have to buy it. Fallout 4 VR excites me. Paying another $60 for the game does not. Can’t really bitch though, as I spent 175 hours playing through the story line on the desktop while not actually dicking around a whole lot. 34 cents an hour for entertainment is not bad. If I could get those rates in Vegas I would be a god among men, or at least Ted Waitt. (Still no codes from Bethesda’s partner, AMD, and is not signaling confidence for the VR frametime scores on the AMD side of the tracks, Antal.) Yesterday we got in the first TPCast wireless interface for the HTC Vive. Anyone know anyone at TPCast? I need a contact over there for tech support! I want to put four of these wireless TPCast setups at a LAN event next month for live head to head VR deathmatch and I have no idea if these will play nice together in the same space. Help a brother out!?!?



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