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Thanks! I can see some areas to flesh out, but once I started tightening up my Corsair Vengeance 9200 sticks even at 6000 temps shot to 76c and errors so I plan on testing no fan (obvious overheating) vs with the included ram fan to see where it tops out vs the 140mm blaster master. Corsair heatsinks are just the worst.....followed by Patriots. Middle of the pack are G.Skill heat blankets and Kingston (HP). Best I've seen so far are KingBank and TeamGroup. Good call. That setup was just not delivering. Did you check Gear 4 just to remove the MB from the equation? The fact it was open box always leaves a "why was it returned?" on the table. 2200 fclk, 6400 and 8000 are the minimum entry bar for being "acceptable" in my book. I've binned ~7 9800X3D CPUs and sent back 4 and sold off 2 to guildies who don't care about that criteria. You would have to really remove the GPU wrong and it would take at least 50-60+ insertions and removals to notice anything. If you picked up the newer revision with the AIO power connector on board, it has been corrected on that model. It sucks that we sometimes have to parts fish, but for us PnP doesn't cut it. I assume you kept the Astral? Time to play around with mVolt+ with that big 'ole heatsink on it. I've been working with the eval x870e Dark Hero for ~3 days now and 2200/6400 and 8000-8200 is no problem on this delidded 9850X3D. I can't stabilize 8400 but I'll keep trying but I'm asking for unicorn magic sooo....yeah. I really like this motherboard as it is basically the Extreme bones underneath this time around vs the normal Hero and it shows. I may kick it into gear 4 so I can see if the Dark Hero can truly do 9200 since it is rated up to 9600 and I've already tested these Corsair sticks up to 9066 on the z890 Strix-A once in Gear 4 I do the no fan vs included Dark Hero fan vs 140mm fan tests as outlined above. On the other hand, I am also a firm believer that eval and review samples may get an extra bit of QC too..... Hopefully this 9950X3D2 is a 8400+ monster!

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I ended up with it by accident. I was purchasing a second X870E AORUS Master (also a fantastic motherboard) and it arrived damaged. I ordered it from Central Computer. The large NVMe heatsink had come loose in shipping and slammed around damaging all sorts of stuff. I asked Central to open the box and check the replacement and they opened all 25 boxes they had in stock and the same thing was wrong with all of them. They offered me the X870E-E Strix as a replacement at no cost (normally about $50 more due to the A$$zeus ROG tax) and I accepted. It served me well alongside my first X870E AORUS Master mobo. They performed identically, but the ASUS BIOS is much better than Gigabyte's BIOS. One thing that seems universal with Gigabyte is their BIOS never has a way to disable the onboard WiFi/BT module, and I just hated that. (I do not use either one and the WiFi/BT driver bloatware impairs CPU and memory benchmark scores when that crap is enabled.) I ended up removing the VRM heatsink and pulling out the WiFi card on the Gigabutt mobo as a workaround.

Yeah I liked my setup, but it was kinda weak. Booting 7600 1:2 was a miracle scenario maybe 1 out of 4 tries in that platform. I was kind of bummed about the 2167 fclk, but not a deal breaker for me. That's really good to hear about the motherboard!

If you get a good setup, like what I sold to @Reciever and offered to you, the 9950X3D2 will be great. I do not know why, but is seems like with the X3D chips (all of them) it is harder to find one that has an IMC strong enough to handle 8000 and 2200 FCLK. I had the Strix X870E-E motherboard for a good while and it was a very good motherboard. I think you will like it. It overclocked the memory as well as the X870E Apex does with a good CPU. Ran it 8000-8200 daily. No issues.

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I returned all of my stuff to BestBuy a few days ago, I came home spent a couple days browsing and I decided to try some different parts instead. More or less the same setup. (1) 9950X3D2 (Really love this CPU I bought it again could not resist) (2) Asus X870E Strix E-E (This one has Debug LED, does not have a quick release PCIe though and these can damage GPU's with improper removal apparently? (3) Gskill DDR5 2x16GB 6800C34 (This was the same cost as my Corsair kit) Hopefully this setup can hit the measly DDR5 8000. 💀 Almost went 270K Plus route, but I found my self splurging much more on Z890 motherboard cost and Z890 ram cost, which easily bridged the gap from 270KP to 9950X3D2 cost. So the savings of 270KP were just getting stuffed in to fancier board and ram to run the 270KP. I really liked the 9950X3D2!! I ran it for a solid 2 months. Gaming performance with 5090 Astral OC was excellent, it really impressed me so much. I just wasn't happy with my combination of parts, or quality of parts, so it all went back. My original open box X870 Dark Hero was questionable, my CPU bin was questionable, and even my Hynix A-Die SR ram was very questionable. Would like to play around with 8000-8200 Gear 2. Or daily 6400 Gear 1. 😁

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Hi SuperMG, Yes, this method always works for me. The only thing is that the battery on my laptops has to be fully charged; as soon as Windows shows the "Charging" status, it doesn't work. Glad to hear you found a solution that works for you 👍 P.S.: You got a really high-quality chip—the power consumption and temperature readings are fantastic!

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Unless you want to pay me 400USD then yes. I sold all RTX 30XX/40XX heatsinks. I have the CAD files and schematics for the heatsink. I contacted Ythermal manufacturer for that. Since Cicichen couldn't do it. 5090 compatibility is unknown. 5080 can work the same as the 4080/4090.

Are there any plans to design and manufacture a heatsink compatible with the RTX 5090 for the P570WM?

It's the same VBIOS. Same eDP on B rather than on D. The only difference is the wattage. ZRT VBIOS does 115W and X-VSION does 150W. @DynamiteZerghas one ZRT 4090 MXM. It has a sticker that states "150W" but the VBIOS he dumped was a 115W one. ZRT VBIOS is good for weaker heatsinks.

Yes, it is made by X-Vsion. It is not that I have given up on buying from ZRT, but using an import agency would make the cost too high, so I cannot purchase it. By the way, is there any difference in performance between the ZRT version and the X-Vsion version?

This and the previous two WireView Pro 2 I bought on Amazon for the same price as ordering from Thermal Grizzly directly. Roman seems to be leveraging Amazon for distribution of many of his product offerings. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H83WL9JW?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 I never really tuned 6000 to the max. I got it stable and then focused on increasing speed with the same timings, but here is the 6200 C26 settings I have tuned on the B850MPOWER now using the weak V-Color dual rank 48GB trash kit. You might be able to run the same timings at 6400 with a good single rank kit. If you are using 16GB modules you should be able to tighten up tRFC. This is all I really have so I hope it helps. Edit: the WHEA error above is because I had too much CO negative offset to maximize CPU clock. This hits the 3D cache harder than a non-3D cached CPU. Below (without WHEA error) is the same memory settings with a less aggressive CO undervolt.

You sure that's ZRT... It's X-VSION design lol. The VBIOS chip should be in front of the card not in the back.

I also purchased an RTX 4090 MXM from X-vision. I haven't been able to verify its operation yet.

That was quick delivery. Are they available stateside for the wired version? Do you happen to have your best AM5 6000 2x24GB zentimings tune on hand? I'm in the process of tuning the Vengeance 9200 2x24GB sticks at 6000 now so I want to see how they stack up while dialing them in. I'll then take a small break to benchmark the 9070xt's and 5080 for comparison to the 14900KS / 270k data I've collected in WoW and FO76. Then head on to 2133/6400 and 8000 after. My ETA for actual Hero to Dark Hero swap is probably a week to ten days from now.

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I had a dickens of a time figuring out where I could mount the WireView Pro 2 Wired version in this small case. It does not look nearly as clean as it would attached to the GPU and I am not "thrilled" with the mounting location. But, I think it is better to have it than to not have it. Maybe in a week or two when I am bored and want something pointless to do I will route the EPDM tubing a slightly different way so it looks less "busy" than it does now. At least it is easily viewed in the current location. Looks like the shunt mod is working, so that's good. MrFox's 3DMark - Steel Nomad DX12 Score 10202 marks with GeForce RTX 5080 @ 3435.00/2250 MHz

Yes.

@SuperMG I'm from Iraq. And is this what I need my friend?

Where are you from? USB Ch341a is easy to use, - clip the VBIOS chip - read the VBIOS - do a backup of the old VBIOS rom - erase the VBIOS - flash a new VBIOS rom - recheck if VBIOS flash was successful - start your laptop

@SuperMG Cheeers friend🙏 It's really hard to get any kind of mxm gpu in my country, so I really hope a champ here would find a solution.. As for programing I have zero experience with it🥲

Use a CH341A soic8 flasher, 1.8V or 3.3V depending on your VBIOS chip or buy a newer gen MXM for better "performance". I got the 4080 MXM to work and got 16.1k TimeSpy graphics score.