Loved the sarcasm on 13/14th gen BIOS settings!! Radeon does have RT accelerator, just it's part of each CU rather than in a separated out block. Falling console sales were hit YoY, and Radeon down too but last year had new releases and lower prices. The high end RDNA4 was likely dropped because of packaging constraints, MI300 was in short supply, so ditching a hard to make fancy gaming chip needing the same advanced packaging fits. A thing to watch was the good laptop sales, later in the year Strix Point seems well timed.
I have a maxio ssd 2242 that came in a mini pc and honestly its pretty great even at a simple half tb. As far as speeds and function it works pretty good.
Don't buy a FiiO deck, get a refurbished Sony or a new in-house one, Retrospekt CP-81, from Retrospekt. They make them and refurb Sony's etc. still in Milwaukee, mostly from US-sourced parts.
There's a strong correlation between a failing company and a company that is tone deaf to the consumer. On an unrelated topic, Intel are gluing CPU's together.
My 13700k was also giving me problems for about a year. I posted to game forums, computer forums, and tried time after time to troubleshoot the issue to no avail. For now I built a new system with a Ryzen 7900x with a 4090. That seems stable. My 13700k I paired with my 3090 in another PC. I have all cores clocked at 5.2ghz. And it has been doing ok Although I don't use that PC as much now. So I'm not sure if the problem is fixed. But I was having the random crashes, shader compile crashes, etc. I thought it was my GPU or RAM at first but after a while everything just pointed to the CPU. I was so confused. I'm glad now that there is some information out there about these issues so I don't feel like I'm going crazy. 😊
