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Your score looks perfectly fine. I only wish you had run a Time Spy benchmark with the RTX 5080 in this setup too — it would have been great to see and enjoy that Time Spy score as well

Got the overlays set up... Using CPUSetSetter for the 270K and the 4585PX to specify P-cores and Cached CCD utilization. You can create profiles and switch on the fly for both Intel and AMD using hotkeys. So, for example in Fire Strike, you want to use only P-cores or only the 3D V-Cache for GPU tests but on the Physics and Combined Test use all cores, just punch the hotkey. For gaming you can instantly see which is better in realtime because your GPU framerate will go up or down, depending on which works best for the game. Also have the WireView Pro II critical metrics showing.

Sorry just dawned on me that I prefer to run Hyperthreading off. Turned it on for the synthetic boost.

Will do. Will test more later tonight or in the morning. Thanks for the help. I tried it on my 5080 and it is not working even after enabling the DLL. The hardware ID should be G1B3 = 2C02h (forgot to add the h) Maybe there is something different needed in the DLL for 5080. Correction: also working on the 5080. I forgot to add the "h" after 2C02 for the HWID.

Set XTU to 50x all cores at -0.110v Maybe I just have a bad CPU. Hit 93*C & no throttling @ 4990mhz It was crazy inexpensive on ebay.

Whew!! Good stuff, let me know how it fares for you if you don't mind! I was seeing around 10-13c Hotspot Delta, with a spike to 17-18c in transients but they were rare.

After it began working the dll file changed from 6kb to 7kb somehow. Weird stuff. But, it is working now. The part missing in the instructions is adding a checkmark to the pluging to make it active.

The checkmark is required to make it work, will update that in a new simple guide. Sorry that needs to be added and clarified.

I deleted the profile and force Afterburner to create a new one and edited this time. Now it is working. However, it does not work if I do not add a checkmark to the pluging to make it active. Something wrong with the profile must have kept it from launching with the dll enabled.

For some reason your HotSpot.dll is only 6kb and mine is 7kb (actual size is 6.5kb). Something might be wrong there. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tFywxgBq7HzfNxhAV3MqSKXizgKnEhUP/view?usp=drive_link That is a direct copy of my .dll that is working. Try this.

Yup, exactly like that.

Did you do this to your GPU profile? [Settings] LowLevelMonitoring=0 Otherwise it will fail to launch. Edit: Also to answer your earlier question, just the normal latest Beta 3 MSI Afterburner works with this. I've tested it on both my RTX 5090 D and RTX 5070 Prime systems. Another user on OCN.net reported it working too. Sorry the instructions are just way to complicated and non-sensical. I will go back and have the robot make a clean and simple PDF. Way too much fluff.

Time spy score my old cpu 9900k freq 4600Mhz all core Link: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/55977594

The dll is show there. I did not know I needed to look on that page. If I add a checkmark to the dll in that page Afterburner will not launch.

Hmmm. The .dll isn't even shown? Let me go back and look at what the robot typed in the guide.

Yes. I added it as shown in your screenshot. There is no new sensor in the Monitoring tab. I followed all of the instructions exactly as you presented them. Does not work. I uninstalled Afterburner and tried again and no dice.

My score intel XTU 2 benchmark Area51m-R1 cpu 9900ks freq : 5100 Mhz all core Link: https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/xtu_2.0/submissions/6029701

Nice score 😍

Did you import the sensor? Under monitoring tab, go to "Active Hardware Monitoring Graphs" -- the ... at the right of that. Checkmark on the BlackwellHotspot.dll and hit Ok then Apply. You will then have both GPU 1 Hotspot Temperature and GPU 1 Hotspot Delta at the bottom of the monitoring tab. Might need to restart Afterburner to get to populate after you enable the .dll Apologies for not being more clear. I'll update the guide. Also this is how the RTCore.cfg file should look.

Given my amazing results with liquid metal on the CPU in my other systems, I decided to go ahead and repaste my Alienware 17 R1 with liquid metal. Man, it runs even better than it did when new! As predicted, it significantly increased my thermal headroom, which increased my indefinite sustained power envelope from 55w to greater than 75w. I haven't tried pushing it yet, so I don't know the actual limit yet, but this is exciting. Having the Chichen upgraded heatsinks for this laptop also helps a lot. Perhaps I can beat my previous winter benchmarks at 4.1 GHz all core and do that during the summer now, plus more. It's crazy that a 13 year old laptop is still useful for a lot of things even today. Backstory: since my memory requirements have increased due to my development workflow, I needed more RAM but didn't want to buy any, so I opted to instead reuse old hardware, and thus bring my Alien back into daily service. I'm offloading lighter tasks to it that I know it can handle, as ultimately I needed to unload web browsing from my desktop onto my Alien instead, freeing up 12+ GB of RAM for making builds of the games I develop (yeah I have lots of tabs open). Easy reuse of the 32 GB of RAM in my Alien. I think it enjoys being out of retirement. I missed it too.

I have followed the instructions in the PDF but I do not see the sensor in the Monitoring tab in Afterburner. Edit: I uninstalled Afterburner and started again from scratch, followed all of the instructions precisely and still no new HotSpot sensor(s). Do I need to be using an obscure version of Afterburner? I am using the latest I can find for download on Guru3d.

BlackwellHotspot_v1.2.dll.txt Use this new version of the .dll I've added Hotspot Delta which is the delta between the coldest and hottest sensor. So now you'll get not only the hottest hotspot, but the delta between the 6 sensors. Edit: Make sure to download it as all files, and save it as BlackwellHotspot.dll

Correct, this is my Area-51m result from 2019. Haven't tried recently but should go but now since I have 2933Mhz memory clock. https://www.3dmark.com/spy/7167581