Killing time (more window-shopping)

 Window-shopping because my BIOS could (quite possibly) not handle the 5950X.
I mean, no one is actually *saying* that, they're paid to get you to buy the latest, and old-stuff just isn't on their radar.
But, what if someone plugged one in, no new BIOS? 
The worst that could happen is, it wouldn't boot, but BIOSes are so sophisticated now, you'd think they'd take a guess, but nevermind.
MSI Tomahawk is plastered all over the web as "good for the money" except, it isn't.
Some reviewer somewhere liked some dusty feature, and suddenly the price is higher.
So anyway, a reviewer on Amazon (a richer-than-god-reviewer, or a store maybe)
says he also owned a $100-more expensive motherboard.
I'm pasting pictures...it's confusing at first because at the tail-end of a compatible motherboard is a name, such as "Elite" or "Master" (or "Tomahawk")
Now, you're all wondering, "why two different boards, one $150 more?"
And I'd tell you, if I knew...You'd hope it had something to do with quality vs what's-on-sale, or an additional port of some kind,
(Bah humbug) and not knowing gets expensive.
Can you do without the framistan and the enhanced thingy?
Or is it more of, uhm, ???

Actually, uhm, I would need an m.2 slot that can do "NVME" Or "SATA",

Unless I wanted to shell out even *More* money for a new m.2 SSD, and I don't.

It's sort of why I'm having this dead-day-do-nothing conversation in the first place, how to save virtual money without being stewpid (Like I was with the m.2)

Nnnnnnooo...I don't think so.

(Oshit) whut? (O, man...)

I ALMOST understood that (o, who'm I kidding) I think they're saying MSI beats Gigabyte for what I would need.

The bling-laden MSI "Godlike" might be what I'd want, maybe,

MSI Global

For it is written (see the link) that it can handle several models of M.2 SATA drives.
I'm editing this to include (and erase):

I think I'm in love.
(and I haven't even read a decent blurb or a review yet)
It can handle SATA-M.2's, it looks as good as a weightlifting woman,
What's not to like?

My current motherboard, with all of the bios revisions and my endless tweaking, works fairly well. It isn't as flashy as a middle-aged man with a limp (the middle aged man has inner qualities, or so the TV show says)

um,

but there are more tweaks to go.

VDDRSOC, 1.05, as opposed to 1.1 (some guy said that)

VDDG (there's two) uh, 1.01 (because it seems to work)

VDDP (now, that one I'm not sure of) 0.75-something, according to 

"Ryzen Master")

The "phy layer" and the other unreadables don't make any sense to me.

ProcODT is 36.9 (instead of "40" or higher because some guy spent late nights in a lab testing it)

And damn, if the thing isn't cooler right now running Prime95 as I type to myself in this usually-hotter room.

So maybe it's the room?

But I am envious of newer motherboards and more better tweaks,

or am I looking at it wrong, am I missing the bottom line of most of these companies, "how can we make more with less (silicon, manufacturing costs?)"

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Not sure it's relevant to this discussion, but a good writer would make it so,

So here goes:

 my sims, an old game, keeps getting tweaked by the makers and by what expensive game-accessories I buy.

"Eco Lifestyle" is a game-pack-addon that I've been preoccupied with for a few weeks, especially since one of my more sensual mods is stalled (It won't start but no one knows why.)

So, I told my sim to buy a house, a very tiny one, on a Big lot.

Not as big as I'd like, but it has a hillside now, some jungle-plants, and enough generators and water-collection-devices to power and water a large apartment complex.

 Unfortunately, there are diminishing returns to doing this, because despite all the work my sim does, refilling all the gas tanks and repairing the wind-turbines, the power output is remarkably small.

*Knowing* exactly how many machines are needed for maximum profit, is not a skill I've learned yet, and so much of my game-time is wasted on improving the slum-type house, where my currently celibate slut lives.

She transmits thought-balloons that she hates small houses, and the game has reduced my (her) eco-status from "green" to "neutral" because of all the machines.

She's profitable, like the Captain of the "Bounty" was a captain...

(I don't expect she'll mutiny or anything but I need to be a better captain, work less, produce more)

And that's how it is with motherboards...Knowing you could win marathons and scale peaks does no good if you sit there eating chips and watching TV...

I *think* a newer motherboard would make my CPU's life better, or conversely, a new CPU would make my current motherboard happy (I could never buy both)...

But why? 

I'm playing "Sims," dammit, and not very well, it seems.

I think I had more (but *why*?)