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I'll try it on my M4800, but not until tomorrow. I haven't run Time Spy in a while. We'll see.

Test with TimeSpy. Happens on 2 laptops. M6800 and M4800.

No, that's not normal. I haven't noticed this kind of behavior on any of my laptops. The TDP remains the same until the laptop is shut down or the power plan is changed... that reminds me—when I unplug the power adapter, the TDP setting also reverts to default values for me. Could it be that your power adapter or power supply is causing a brief interruption under load? I usually test the temperature and power consumption in Throttlestop using the built-in benchmark....

That was a very challenging design that I had underestimated at first! The flexible PCB has impedances that are difficult to calculate—which is almost impossible. I'll make the external flexible PCB right after this and then have some produced!!!!

So the AM5 and KingBank issues persist but I'm pretty sure I've narrowed down what is going on even further. I tried to pop them in the Dark Hero for heatsink / air cooling testing only to be met almost immediately with an "A6" error code and a bright yellow dram error light. AIO fans kept revving up and down in the oddest pattern. I know they work in my x870e Hero since I just posted and booted with them last month right? So I popped them in there and exact "A6" error code and bright yellow dram error light along with AIO fans revving up and down. I drag out the Microcenter combo deal Asrock B850 board and of course they don't post in there as expected but why not throw another data point on the pile..... They did post in the HP Omen 35L w/ 8400f but that drive is wiped atm so no further testing..... As a final checksum, I pop them into the 270k build and of course they not only boot right up but blew through TM5 looking at me like I'm the nut job in this scenario 🤣 I KNOW these sticks posted and booted in my x870e Hero last month, but in the interim I had updated my BIOS as I was running 2103 from March. Updating to 2402 updated Agesa from 1.3.0.0a to 1.3.0.1b. The HP is actually running a BIOS from earlier this year. The Dark Hero I updated upon initial install as it was running 0502 to the newest so it too is running 1.3.0.1b. I'm thinking if/when HP updates to a newer BIOS supporting 1.3.0.1b those sticks might stop working in that system too. On a whim, I rolled back the Asrock BIOS from 4.43 to 4.10 which supports 1.3.0.0a and the sticks still gave me a big middle finger but with the reported incompatibilities with these sticks on Asrock boards, I wasn't expecting them to work. Last gasp I popped in my TG sticks and set a loose 6000, 8000 and JEDEC profile and saved all three and sat there loading in each profile on the TG sticks then trying to get the KingBank sticks to boot using those known, working profiles but nope right to "A6" DRAM error light on both boards..... Can't roll back on the Asus boards but at this point I wouldn't anyhow. I'm just done with these KingBank sticks on AM5. I'll stick with the Vengeance 9200 and TG 8200 sticks which continue to work like butter no matter what. I picked them up June 2025 and outside of some quick testing on the x870e Hero at the time, they were primarily used in benching and testing my SP109 14900KS before I sold off the Z790i lightning and moved the 14900KS into the wife's system. It is only recently they're getting attention as they were slated for my SFF build. I know in my 270k they could post up to 8933 (maybe squeeze more out of them better cooled) so I'm just going to tune them up there around 8400-8600 and keep it moving or look to trade them for a set of 6000-6400 CL26 sticks or similar. Fun times!

I am not using the chiller yet. (It needs thorough cleaning due to about 10 years of sediment build-up... don't want any more trash added to my loop. Working on that today). But, I've managed to get my ambient down to 66°F running my mini-split at 60°F. Broke 18K. With the chiller I will be in the top 25 (current #26). https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/6065553 | https://www.3dmark.com/sn/15796279 Chiller has been rinsed out and is sitting in the garage with the tank filled with white vinegar to bust up the rest of the white sediment build-up. Will have it back in service probably later today. Got to run to Walmart and grab a few more gallons of distilled water.

Did you get higher performance out of this vbios? For me higher clocks would be reported, but it seems like it never actually ran at those clocks. The card always performs like it is running at 1695.5

Hopefully some 8000+ sticks under those heatsinks.... Yeah, I didn't expect it to perform as well as it did. I was pleasantly surprised. I really like this board. Would I recommend someone with a Hero to upgrade? No, but if it was my first board pick for an AM5 build and I wanted an upper tier MB, I would go with the Dark Hero. DUDE! Nice! Best Buy pulled an Amazon! 😂 Hopefully one of those is a beast 2200/8200/6400 and you can sell off or trade the other one for some killer ram if this kit is a bust and send in a monster payment or apply it elsewhere. Make sure to post up both so we can see what you're packing. I never get lucky from best buy. I'm the same one who: Received an empty box with no camera in it A 7950X instead of a 7950X3D in the box Three lost GPU orders that suddenly went missing at my local Best Buy (IE, "we're preparing your package for pickup" = It has arrived at our local store) then POOF gone....coincidentally, they were very well priced, routinely out of stock GPUs I managed to snag. Good thing my 5080FE was sent directly to my door..... Seriously though..... As predicted from Nvidia the anti-hobbyist police. When they needed us, they let us do almost anything but as what happens the bigger they got, the more control they exerted. They forgot who got them to where they are today to be able to dry hump the AI bubble..... As for memory, there will be no easing. There is zero reason to open up or expand other fabs. As long as AI demand is sufficiently met (which it is), the residual trickle leftover can continue to be marked up to disgusting levels for normal consumers... Until companies realize the race to AI doesn't need to be done at the current pace and still be viable, Nvdia will continue to capture record level income and profits along with AMD and now even Intel which contrary to many reports, is very much alive and well and profitable....

Mind confirming to me those are the right ones?(those are the only shunts on whole 2070 lol

Next I hope I'll try the Alienware 17 R1 120Hz. Haswell systems are known to have a TDP instability and bugs. Well on the Dell Precision M6800 and M4800 the TDP were stable. 150W for the M6800 (4080) and 115W for the M4800 (4070). Both laptops use an eDP display in PEG With Haswell systems: 4080: Between 16000 to 16500 TimeSpy graphics score 4070: Between 12100 and 12400 graphics score If it was bugged, the score would be below 5k... 248FPS and 280 FPS in heaven benchmark 1080p. The bug appears only for iGPU in SG with Turing and above from ADLINK, PNY, Aetina, X-VSION, ZRT...

Data center backlash isn't about AI, it's about who pays the bills (and the noise) Water disputes in Georgia and Wyoming have also fueled local opposition.

the SPD data on these chinese modules is pretty uncertain, because the reported latency in miliseconds contained in the SPD is lower than the official specificacion by micron in that PDF... even the jedec profiles are very uncertain because they dont have a 1866MHz jedec profile when the DRAM chips are officially of 1866MHz

i leave the official PDF of those DRAM family chips, the -107 revision (D9RVX) are rated for 1866MHz at 13-13-13, a jedec profile that matches with the DRAM oficial specificacion isnt specified in the SPD of these fake DIMMs, so probably you need to adjust primary timings and secondary ones manually to make them working at 1866, right now i managed to make them working at 2133MHz, but i need more research into the official PDF to make a fitable timing table at 2133 according with the oficial specifications of the DRAM modules to avoid stability issues micron4Gb_DDR3L.pdf

I got it working, a bit of a iffy thing but it works now. The scripts that are in the tutorial didn't work for me, I had to remote into my laptop and run the scripts manually... Could be my fault bug I'm not complaining.

The Dark Hero fan works amazingly well. I ran it full blast on my test bench. I'm going to miss that feature. I noticed the fan would blow air strongest at a certain point on the fan, and I rotated the fan in the orientation where the ram sticks were getting hit with the best breeze. PS: For some reason BestBuy sent me (2) 9950X3D2's. 💀 I guess it's meant for me to find a 2,200FCLK unit! 😂 Still waiting on motherboard.

Hi, I have some news. The cable connecting the desktop card to the display is almost finished. It's an accessory for my MXM PCIe board!

Nasty finger salute to the Green Goblin, with both hands. People that care just won't use their cancer drivers that block mVolt+ from working. I'm still using 576.28 and I generally won't play games that require that I install a specific driver or newer. It's a matter of principle for me, and that matters more than falling in line with their wishes. Same reason I won't play the crapified new games that require Secure Poot and TPM to be enabled for some garbage anti-cheat bloatware to work. They can kiss my post-defecation, smelly, unwashed posterior orifice.

Have seen similar before.... I look at my older Maxwell series GPUs sleeping in the drawer. This bring back old bad memories... Half crippled due beautiful driver love from Nvidia. NVIDIA neutralizes MVolt+ on the RTX 50 series: its 616.56 driver blocks the power limits of the GPU and GDDR7 memory NVIDIA has wasted no time in shutting down one of the most interesting features of MVolt+ software for the RTX 50 series. The new GeForce 616.56 WHQL driver blocks and prevents the use of MVolt+'s independent controls in... The memory shortage won't end as soon as expected: SK hynix extends it until the end of 2030 Forecasts that predicted a possible easing of the memory shortage by 2028 are starting to look insignificant, and very bad news is coming from South Korea. Kwak Noh-jung, CEO of SK hynix, now asserts that the market will remain strained... NVIDIA breaks all records: it approaches $100 billion per quarter thanks to AI NVIDIA continues to break its own financial records and is now on the verge of reaching a figure that just a few years ago seemed unthinkable

I was wondering if you were gonna catch that reference 🤣 Looks like that monster SP chip is working out quite nicely! 5.9 benching and 8800 locked in tight....nice. I know your rig would provide some bleeding edge data for WoW out in the Xpac where it counts (I'm looking at you Eversong Woods). Just spectacular results @Mr. Fox! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yet again, do not sleep on the 9070xt:

At least not hdmi

It doesn't seem to

My ram has arrived. This stuff has got to be better than that Corsair 6000c30 A-Die kit. I sure hope so at least! This stuff was $500.00. These sticks were manufactured 12/2025. Since this is much much later Hynix A-Die, I'm hoping 8,000+ will be easy for it. All of the reviews of this ram are from 2022/2023 when Hynix A-Die was in its infancy. (Fingers crossed)

Yes battery should be at 100%. But I have an issue on TimeSpy. Before TimeSpy, I test the CPU max TDP. It does 68W as I set and after timespy, the max TDP is now 44W max. What?? Something triggers in the TimeSpy and resets the PL values. Is that normal? The average clock speed for the entire time was 3GHz. Rather than 4-4.1GHz. Average CPU temperature was 78C. After, I put it in sleep mode and wake it. The max TDP is now 68W...

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