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You should be getting more than 44K in CBR23 at those clock speeds. Like 46.5 or 47K. This is with dynamic oc switching (MSI version of it) with my 4585PX.

Yes, I am using PBO. It does clock down in R23 to around 5.4Ghz on 1 CCD, and 5.3Ghz on the other CCD. When I was referring to these running hot, I remember many people reporting these Ryzen chips just run like 95C or something lol. Or I remember reading something about they intentionally run and target warm temps like that? I want to go tinkering in this bios. But this motherboard is a PAIN. I may wait until I get this swapped out first. But yeah, the platform is excellent. Several games that I play have never ran well on anything. Ark Ascended, or Oblivion Remastered. And these games are constantly skipping and dropping GPU usage. And seeing this 9950X3D2 run those smoothly at crazy high frame rates is shocking to me.

I am glad you are enjoying it. If you are using PBO it won't get too hot because the voltage stays low and it clocks down to around 5.1 GHz all core in Cinebench and other all-core stress tests. If you use Dynamic OC Switcher or set a manual OC and manual voltage (necessary for fixed core clocks) it will run much hotter. If you set 55x on your preferred CCD and 54x on the lesser CCD with enough voltage to hold those clocks in Cinebench, your temps will go way up and you will have about a 48K or 49K score in Cinebench R23. PBO works great for gaming and light workloads. SP118 is about average (probably the most common SP rating) and a totally decent silicon sample that is worth keeping if it will run 2200 FCLK stable. As I mentioned before, the SP rating changes based on the CPU temperature at the time the BIOS is flashed. If you were running chilled water and flashed the BIOS and it hold SP118 that is good. If you got the CPU toasty (like a Cinebench 10 minute stress test) and immediately flashed the BIOS it might show 119 or even 120. The per core voltage shown on the same screen as the individual core SP ratings is the more reliable measurement on AMD because of the fluctuating SP ratings that vary based on temperature at the time of flashing.

Mine is SP118. I’m not really sure if it’s good or not good. That’s about 30c idle in bios. I have it running R23 doing 44.2K at only 225 watts. And 67c max. I thought these bad boys were supposed to run hot or something. 😎 I’m liking this AMD platform though. Quirks aside. It’s obliterating FAST. Being honest about it, I wasn’t really all that excited immediately after buying the 9950X3D2+Dark Hero and I had the boxes sitting under my couch in my office. But dang! After running the system, I am over joyed by this system.

The Darkness - I believe in a thing called Love Because....it's weird kewl New(ish) music with an old skool familiarity.

Well first of all you need the backlight mod v2 cable. Secondly Cicichen sells them on ebay for 165USD and your upgrades are complete!

Where i can get the modded heatsink for p870tm support RTX 4090 ?

Yeah that was kind of miserable day. I was in DC and Richmond all week. I had direct flights from Phoenix into Dulles and back. I had to return the rental car at noon to avoid adding an extra day. I already had to wait until 5:00 PM (expected) for my flight home, but the added 3-hour delay due to a mechanical issue made it that much worse. Had they not been direct non-stop 5 hour flights I might have ended up spending the night at the airport and being put on a standby due to missed connections. So, it could have turned out a lot worse than it did. Yes it'll be something new and fun to play with while we wait and see what happens with Nova and Zen 6. I expect the overall performance to be remarkably similar to my AMD builds. From all I have seen as an observer they trades blows and come out close to the same in most benchmarks, one randomly beating the other depending on the benchmark or game being run.

I used to use the Virtual Machine to make the mod packs. It was easier for me to do it at the time, without damaging the OS I was using at the time. Especially when testing the original scripts for Installing and Uninstalling.

How did you end up with an 8hr layover? 8hr layover for a ~5hr flight = fun. What problems and what SP rating did you end up getting? I do like the look of the RGB panel on that Dark Hero though.... Something new and fun to play with. That was my logic to fill the time till Nova.... Yep, just checked and they're still $249.99.....

I got an RTX 4080 MXM to work on this laptop with the backlight mod v2 and a custom heatsink from Cicichen. The temps were excellent and performance too. The 4080 is a big improvement over the 2080 in terms of performance but this MXM GPU costs like 800€ alone. You can get the RTX 4070 for cheaper, for 500€. They are brand new cards with 1 year of warranty from X-VSION and ZRT. The max CPU you can get is the I9 9900K/KF CPU or the Xeon E-2286M (modded CPU). The Xeon is the cheapest option. The I9 9900K/KF are like between 150-200€. Meanwhile the Xeon one is below 100€.

Finally landed in Phoenix so I should be home in about an hour. LONG day. I arrived at Dulles at 12 noon EST.

This AMD 9950X3D2 is madness! Excellent platform. I’m having some board troubles with this open box Dark hero, but I’m happy with the platform overall.

Having a nice Friday sitting for 8 hours at the Dulles Airport waiting for a flight home. *not*

I'm upgrading to 32gb RAM (have a stick coming in that is exact same model #). System has done well for me since around 2008/2009, although I've gone through 4 screens!! Based on below, what recommendations for extending this system's life. Would like extra capability to handle some gaming and a 49" monitor better. I've done some research on 2080 cards, and i9-9900 and seems like there is no sweet spot for doing upgrades for a few hundred vs several hundred with little bang for the buck as well as BIOS upgrades, risk, etc. Not sure I'm hunting in the right holes. Appreciate any good pathways in advance. Thanks! Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz 3.70 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB)

How kind of them!. Especially how PCs are very expensive because of the AI craze with rising costs of RAM, SSDs, GPUs, and anything that uses memory chips. We're living in the dark ages!.

I turn bitlocker off, you wont lose any data but it'll take an hour or more to decrypt your data depending how much data you have on your drives. Its really stupid for Microsoft to force users to encrypt their data, i understand for business users but not for the average user.....

I believe the issue you had was using a regular display in an "oled motherboard" or something like that, you need at the very least the regular "eDP cable" that's not made for OLED display

Hello. I got the RTX 4080 and 4070 to work in the M6700 in eDP without iGPU. In UEFI with legacy OPROM disabled. DP and HDMI out are working, it depends in the VBIOS DCB Yes embedded MXM RTX cards display in eDP with my backlight mod v2 cable. It also fixes the issue with the ADLINK, PNY and Aetina Turing cards, where these card don't display anything on the eDP display.

To fit a regular eDP 17.3" you basically have to cut the bottom mounting system from the display, then you need to center/wedge the display at the correct place, it's pretty simple. I never tried that but I believe so since it's the M6700 bios figuring out what to do with the "new" legacy oprom from the dGPU iirc

Via china I can get the following new, just not the red bottom assembly in red. new nebula red lcd lid - $7.50 new palm rest - $8 new bottom access cover - $4.80 so overall very cheap, will be a little more after the agent purchases each item then shipping out via china. I’ll keep an eye on that display listing for the time being and see about getting it as it will definitely make a huge difference.

Don’t worry about the color. You can buy the lcd lid by itself for like $20 on eBay/AliExpress brand new. See if you can find any right now. 120 isn’t too bad if it’s the complete assembly. You can try making an offer for 100. the 3D 120Hz panel on the R3, R4, 17 is actually a good display. Good colors, viewing angles are best on 17 due to anti glare panel, but still, the 1600x900 panel is trash. During my testing of 500+ bios files, switching back and forth between lvds and eDP made me realize how much better the 120 panel is

Nice, the 1600 x 900 display is awful with really poor viewing angles. ive got a bunch of new outer casing parts lined up, just struggling to find the nebula red frame. there is a full 120hz assembly for sale at around £120+

My AW17 had a 60hz panel so I bought another one with 120hz panel. My plan is to swap the display since my 17 already has new palm rest keyboard motherboard etc. my M17xR3 was also a 60hz model. For that one I was lucky enough to find someone selling the whole assembly. I kept the LVDS panel which was a good thing because it allowed me to make those BIOS files. I’ll probably hang on to both 17s until I do my 17 bios mod too.

Just a normal Alienware 17? Not a M17X R3?