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Just realized you cant see the connector, its definitely PCIe 2.0 sorry about that lol The 5700 XT gave him a 100% boost in performance and double the VRAM. I just needed something else that was "newer" mainly for the HDMI 2.1 connector. The card may not be able to handle 4K Frame Gen but didnt want to buy anything until I could figure out what works for me. Gives me something else to submit into hwbot also I gave up the 3090ti for FG, installing the drivers for both vendors is such a huge headache and Microsoft likes to muddle with settings without user input. Keeping to one vendor should eliminate that hurdle but i'll know more tomorrow when the 100mm ribbon arrives I traded one of my Gigabyte 3 fan 5700 XT's for a 3 fan Gigabyte 6500 XT. Cant recall the last time I used a GPU that only had 2 I/O ports outside of maybe laptops.

Nice trade. I think you made out better than your coworker did. First GPU? Man, that's a hard one. There have been so many over a long period of time. I'd just have to take a wild guess and say something like an 8800GT or maybe a Radeon Pro / All-in-Wonder Pro (both were AGP, before PCIe was invented). Maybe I am dating myself by guess one of those oldies. I can still remember running Voodoo and Matrox cards before NVIDIA or AMD.

Couple of new additions to the roster. Traded one of my 5700 XT's to a coworker for his 6500 XT. It'll act as my frame Gen mule on the TV and main gaming monitor. The second was my first real GPU. Anyone care to guess what it is?

It's mine. I am going to sell the Strix build with the 4090 locally.

Sheesh, that's a powerful micro atx build right there! What is it's final destination? I was just looking at that MSI B850M Edge MB for the Jonesbo Z20 I have. It is a portable SFF but supports MATX and I was just fighting an uphill battle trying to stick to an ITX board in it. I like that it is a 2 dimmer too.

Any timeline on when it will be finished?

Say hello to the newest example of silly things we want but don't need. Phanteks XT M3 MSI B850MPower EPYC 4585PX CPU Lian Li GA II LITE RGB 360mm AIO 32GB V-Color Manta XSky 6000 CL26 ASUS Prime RTX 5080 OC Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W PSU 2TB NVMe x3 on mobo 2TB NVMe x4 on Sabrent Quad 4X card 1TB SATA SSD and 2TB SATA SSD Cougar single-frame 360mm reverse-blade fan trio in case floor I am updating the BIOS now and will reach out again to Svet about doing a BIOS mod for it.

A more indepth deep dive comparison from BBT 9070xt vs 5070ti. Trading blows, showing the massive improvements in RT, actually beating the 5070ti at 1440p and more.... Again, if priced equally, I would give the slight nod to the 5070ti, but at current prices (cheapest 9070xt 709.99 vs cheapest 5070ti 965.99) I would go AMD all day everyday. Unfortunately too much Nvidia bias in the market and it shows by Nvidia just dominating consumer sales scarily so.... Hopefully next gen with the rumors swirling around, AMD is going to finally produce a card that will compete not only with the 5090 but 6090. This feels like the 5700xt (which I rocked solid for a full year) all over again and the calm before the 6000 series storm that had them draw even with Nvidia in raster and in some cases beat them at 1440p on the flag ship models. The gains in not only fsr but ray tracing have been absolutely massive for AMD and they really have caught up quickly to Nvidia up to the 5070ti/ 5080ish level at least this generation. 9070xt does run hot and heavy though. They need to work on that. Seeing those 600w+ transient spikes on the 9070xt in OCCT was pretty eye opening..... so much so I restarted testing with GPUZ and HWInfo running to confirm.

Try Custom with maximum settings / fan boost and Overboost Extreme.

OK, so no undervolt and CC Performance profile set to Overboost/Overboost extreme I hit 17969 CPU score as a custom run. What profile are you using in CC?

Time Spy is an older benchmark and doesn't scale well with Core Ultra CPUs. Furthermore, memory makes all the difference in CPU scores, and it seems that with the i9-13900HX you used 6400MT/s modules while with the 275HX you used 5600MT/s. With VBS disabled, stock memory (5600MHz CL46) and stock CPU, I reached up to ~17700. Everything remained the same, but with CPU undervolting and an IETS GT600, the CPU score increased to ~18500. And finally, with memory adjusted to 6400MT/s CL36, I now reach up to ~21900. I've seen scores of ~24k with faster memory. Regarding the GPU, its score with the 4090 is good, slightly below its maximum overclocking potential (up to ~24.5k), but its score with the 5090 is not so good... With a well-tuned overclock, it should be able to exceed 27k and perhaps even 28k with a good cooling pad

How did you for the FN key layout? Xmg dont have same layout as yours

The problem with xmg bios is the FN key layout which are not the same as ours.

My settings were all tested in several tests over a few hours. Everything is 100% stable until then... Regarding the cache, initially I kept it at 3.8GHz with an undervolt of -80mV, but I realized during testing that the undervolt on the cache delivered practically no benefits (maybe 1 to 2W less at full load). Then I tried overclocking in XTU and discovered that for 4.0GHz it was enough to maintain the original voltage, without undervolting. With the ring at 3.8 GHz and everything else the same, I get about ~86 ns. I believe that with Hynix A-die single rank it's possible to achieve 7600MT/s CL36 and latency below 80ns. We'll see... I'm waiting for a reasonable price to buy 2x16gb Fury Impact 6400MT/s CL38 and test it. As for the BIOS update, I haven't updated to the XMG BIOS yet for fear of something going wrong, but I've seen several reports that it works.

It is most likely that it is not making good contact with the GPU chip. This could be due to using thermal pads that are too large for the GPU, although it is a hot GPU it should not get so hot in the first few seconds of power-up.

So far I have found that increasing Cache to 4.0Ghz actually increased latency. There is a VF Curve applied by default, but Cache overclocking only works with VF offset and needs higher voltage to be stable. I think its only offered for Eluktronics laptops. From what I was told Bootguard is enabled by default with most OEMs so flashing an unsigned bios would not boot regardless. I was even told to not load the XMG bios (while I was waiting for Premamod to become available) as that would fuse Bootguard and lock out any modded bios on that motherboard going forward. I cannot even take advantage of the 250W limit without the liquid cooling addon, but do appreciate all of the other adjustment options. As it stands I think yours still has better latency number than mine, and I have yet to even approach the sub-80ns range I have seen from Legion 7i Pro G10 users.

I think i need to reflash my bios, Im using mechrevo CC but same as dream machine, Screen calibration is not working mux switch too, the switch need to be done in bios. If not for fn key mismatch i would flash XMG bios. Hydroc g2 has same fn key layout

I'm currently using the XMG CC, but it's identical to the Avell one. I haven't noticed any differences...

Thx for the reply, I booted on 6800mhz but my xmg control center is broken, its not working anymore, Reinstalled it did nothing. Tested eluktronic one, same think. I think my bios is interfering. What CC do you use? Any other one that i can test? Found the dream machine (std) works, but options are missing and mux switch is not working... Any idea how to fix this? Edit: tested in another windows installation same problem

how many seconds do you actually get how much power? As the PL1/2 can be a bit unrealiable. But yeah great that you already have the new 2026 model fans. My Gram Pro doesn't have them yet - but was manufactured in early 2025. Mine came however with a much smaller power adapter (65w EU) - but it's still bigger than others being 3 connectors instead of 2 only. It must be an UK problem. Some 10-20w chargers will actually work - others won't. Mine is okay on 5v/2A (but yeah 10w charging may mean you still lose power if you use it for demanding things). As for battery power. Things you need to do. Enable lowest for the NVME drives in power manager (the setting where you can select HIPM+DIPM but lowest is even less). Use power saver windows profile by default on battery - but then increase the PL1/PL2/power limits for that to your liking with Throttlestop. Set EPP to 220 or even 230. Use Bitdfender Free as Antivirus and switch of browsing protection and similar things. Otherwise Windows 11 is draining battery way too quick. You can get into some more detailed power saving things via enabling them in the power profiles via windows registry, but they will not change much (HIPM/DIPM stuff needs to be activated in registry too). Your Cinebench 23 score of 16.000 does show it has quite liberal power usage. I think the version with older fans only reached to 15xxx points. On the Lunar Lake with liberal power settings (if you find in bios the setting that actually unlocks it - I cannot anymore) I got 12xxx - but with the default 40/30 it's only 10600 or so. Panter Lake H could get around 20.xxx but only with high power. I guess with 40/30w it gets around 18000 - it's using a bit less power vs Arrow Lake - but the biggest difference is that at 0.3-3w package power it gets much more work down vs older Intel chips. They really optimised how it can switch off parts of the CPU and the management about cpu power moved away from windows mainly to the CPU deciding if cores should sleep or not because Windows 11 still messes up the management which core should compute what to pure chance.

So I "upgraded" from the Neo 17 E23 with I9-13900HX and RTX 4090 to the Neo 16 E25 with Ultra 9 275HX and RTX 5090. Timespy score from Neo 17 - 23644 Timespy score from Neo 16 - 24474 Detailed comparison. So it looks like the 5090 is ~11.6% more powerful than the 4090 but the Ultra 9 is 33% less powerful than the I9-13900HX. Advice, suggestions, help please.

168 = 5600 192 = 6400 204 = 6800 ...

@CowDontMeow If you do find where you can get BOE09D9 screens, let me know, as I am also in the UK. I do have a Non-Gsync one currently installed, but would love a GSync version.