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My Android Auto wireless dongle (a venerable Carlinkit A2A) entered the next phase of existence over the weekend.
IIRC, it cost ~£60-80 in 2020, with no updates available since 2022. Figured I got my money's worth.

Then on the daily deals page of the rainforest, this popped up for £15:-

Don't let the size of the pic fool you. It's only about 20mm square x 10mm thick (USB plugs for scale)
Seems to be a lot faster to boot than the Carlinkit, too!

 

Another monitor arm, Project Yeet Them Stands goes on
Dinky USB 2.0 extension so I can have mobile broadband as backup for main connection

 

Feels good to have this back, a few days of using a corded mouse on a mat, shudder.

 

Gareth, Nice But Dim!

 

I'm fairly sure someone on here had similar woes with a 4-stick Ryzen setup - might have been @Pete J ? I think the conclusion was 2 sticks good, 4 sticks bad for Ryzen and DOCP/XMP.

 

Oh, apologies, thought you'd doubled up with a second pair

 

Android Auto... wireless... dongle...?

[interest piqued]

[interest piquing intensifies]

Bum, no bueno for my 2013 shitbox then... At least the car supports the iPod protocol - I'm amazed there's still native support for that in iOS. Plug it in, car sees iPod, phone pipes audio over USB, and I get to be distracted by the vast array of media content available via my phone.

 

a 12 core 9900x might be that much faster that 16 cores of 5950 can't keep up anyway

Always surprises me how much Zen got better each generation, my handheld has 4 proper zen5 and 8 Zen5e and it runs rings around my 5950, whilst multicore is better in stuff on 5950, you are looking at 16 full cores using 4x the power vs a handheld efficiency cores that back clock down 60%ish because they only have 20w to play with.

A 12 core full desktop zen5 should be a beast.

Just geekbench 6 on my CPUs 5950 (16/32 pretty well tuned ) vs non tuned play things zen4 mobile (8/16) and zen5 zen5c (4 + 8 )

 

Most mult-core benchmarks I looked at (was brief, mind) show the 9900X to be at least 17% faster than the 5950X. Older Ryzens (Zen and Zen+ in particular) had pretty weak memory controllers. Zen 2 and Zen 3 were better, I've got 2x32GB 3600MHz on a Ryzen 9 3900 (non X) and it's happy. A BIOS update may help, but no guarantees.

 

If you have carplay then it is likely you can use some of these things despite year

 

I had loads of similar problems with my DDR4, I have been using the same sticks since Zen 1, Zen 1 and Zen 2 topped out for me at 3400 too for 4x8 sticks, but on my 5950x 3800 was no bother, mem controller loads better, I could even run my 3600C16 @ 4000 but I had to down clock F clk or something so 3800 was the performance sweet spot.

 

So a 9900x puts out ~3400 single core and nudges 20k multicore, it is indeed a beast, my old tweaked out 5950 is slow at 15.6k In the Processor Benchmarks - Geekbench an average 5950 is listed as 12k multicore so mine is doing well, don't seem to have 9 series results in the chart for some reason?

 

Nope:

No bueno because no CarPlay, wired, wireless, or otherwise . The only USB socket is there for power (which is so weak it won’t even charge my phone) and iPod only - believe me, I’ve tried

 

Half-wifey's birthday is coming up, thus a present

 

Is it an expo kit? If not I don't think it's guaranteed on an amd system to run at those specs, it shouldn't but not 100%