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Sometimes this is why I love this hobby. O it's no supposed to work Intel? Lets see about that.

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I am not going to lie, this would be me (anyone that knows me, would agree). Practicing my soldering skills on a VERY expensive mobo or GPU. I did that for years and I was able to repair the majority of my mistakes. LMAO, the owner should have tried on a 2K or 3K card first...

Got second place for 5080 leaderboard... MrFox's 3DMark - Fire Strike Score 68585 marks with GeForce RTX 5080 @ 3187.00/2250 MHz hwbot.org http://www.3dmark.com/proxycon/images/futuremark-fb-mini.jpg I scored 68 585 in Fire Strike AMD EPYC 4585PX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 x 1, 49152 MB, 64-bit Windows 11} www.3dmark.com

Well this weekend I installed the Crosshair VIII Dark Hero, AM4. Luckily it had flashback as the firmware did not support the 5800X3D when I got it, one flash later and it POSTed. Though the extra memory modules I purchased were no good, seller is attempting to replace but we'll see on that front. I also traded the 3090Ti for a 9070 XT. I just didnt have a use for it and my server needs dont justify it at all. Also added an NVME to 10Gbps Eth adapter. With the 9070 XT sitting in slot 3 under pcie 4 x8, acting as the Frame Gen mule. I am able to sustain 60 FPS at 4K with Monster Hunter Wilds, with Frame Gen via Lossless Scaling carrying it to 120 "fps". I have to say, this method is quite viable. At 2x Fixed with both GPU's I am using less power than when using the 7900 XTX alone. I'll try out some FPS titles eventually to see if the latency is perceivable. Under Monster Hunter Wilds and GoW: Ragnarok I cant perceive the latency. Ideally I would like to use Adaptive so that if the FPS drops under a threshold the Frame Gen could fill the gap but I could feel the delay on the mouse hand. Under this scenario and the "improved" ducting from the A/C, the GPU was running at 22C, with the Ambient temperature being around 16C from the A/C unit. There is still gaps in the ducting but it would make the system less accessible as well. Pretty happy with the results glad I kept chasing down this experiment. Hate that its needed for certain titles to play well but I do appreciate that its there.

A valid comparison would me 9700x vs 9800X3D to really see what X3D brings to the table. I do know in FO76 the 9800X3D toasted the 9600x I tested worse than the 14900KS so X3D is magic sauce for some games. Still haven't had time to work with the 270k I picked up from @Talon but I'll get to it soon. The testing I did on the 265k and 5090 was so smooth closer to 13th/14th gen. At 4k the lows are, as always, equal or better than X3D. That has always remained consistent in WoW but not Fallout 76. My wife took my Alienware 4k OLED as an upgrade from her 1440p Asus IPS and I started using a new 3rd gen Asus flat matte OLED which I prefer over glossy curved (she actually prefers curved). So having been running WoW at 4k on both, even with details dialed down the 9070xt is almost constantly pegged at 99-100% everywhere in WoW but what I do notice also is the 5090 spends a lot of time well above 80% utilization and many times close to 90% so WoW is definitely giving it a workout on the level that would make a 4090 or below GPU bound at 4k in many instances. The 9950X3D2 is useless for WoW and DOA for the vast majority of price/performance tasks. $900 for 2-3% better performance on average over a 9950X3D..... At this stage of the game, 270k is the price/performance king overall and depending on games/resolution and some tuning, it is even the better pick over X3D chips for gaming (situational gaming scenarios notwithstanding of course). It isn't pretty over here..... I keep exacting YoY budgets and the cost difference from 2024 to 2026 in what I'm paying across the board is pretty telling from groceries to eating out and more. Yeah, I used PL on my 7950X3D and MSI 7955HX3D. Never heard of CPUSetSetter since I haven't been on a dual CCD in quite some time. Let's see how AM6 pans out..... Looks like Galax might be safe.....was always part of Palit since 2007... https://videocardz.com/newz/palit-releases-statement-galax-kfa2-and-hof-brands-are-to-stay

Its usually not targeted persay. Lots of bot farms out there just raining hell on any IP address range they decide for that day of the week. Internet is closer to the real world than people care to admit

Stock before tweaking: After Tweaks, small undervolt and Windows 11 debloating: Gen 5 SSD: Still getting used to this beast of a laptop, Wish Windows 11 didnt suck so much...

Relying upon Windoze scheduler, GameBar/XBOX bloatware or AMD drivers isn't going to produce consistent results. I don't even try. I decide for myself and choose the behavior manually using CPUSetSetter. It works fantastic if you haven't already tried it. I create hotkeys and can test on the fly to see in realtime what CPU core mask works best.

Finished testing the Matrix 800W vBios yesterday, basically grabbed top spot in all included benches except for like 2 or so, very consistently beating the Gigachad vBios! All in all, Im currently looking at +71-72% above 4090 stock and roughly +16-17% above 5090 stock, not bad! Gotta love the upgradeability and tuning ability of desktop systems 😄 Now moving on to the Lightning vBios versions, not sure yet if ill also test the XOC versions from Asus and MSI... Monitoring and logging via the WVPII makes things way more relaxed tbh 😄 so far looking good, connector stays very cool, max ive seen thus far was like in the mid 50s, with the inbuilt fan barely starting to spin at that point. still have to do a deepdive on the data collected for the Matrix vBios, gonna do that for every vBios tested so I have a good overview of what kinda wattage my cooling could manage long term 🙂

Sorry I hadn't notice the forums lack of responsiveness, been busy on my end. I have sent for the issue to be looked over, hopefully tomorrow morning. Sorry everyone!

I was about to ask the same. I had to return a WireView Pro that would not work with my 5090. I had similar issues. But, zero problems with the WireView Pro 2. It has been awesome. I am going to buy another one for my 5080, but have been waiting to see if they will become available on Amazon. I think maybe the original WireView and WireView Pro may not be up to the task of handling the extreme power draw of a shunted, overclocked and EVC2-modded 5090 or one with a high power limit like the Matrix vBIOS.

Trondheim! Was actually there a while back to visit a friend, why didnt u say something? couldve gotten some beers 😄 LOL boy am i glad i upgraded my storage setup when i did, i paid less than 500 bucks per 8TB SSD (WD SN850X/P pcie 4.0). I have been summoned! thanks for the headsup, havent checked the forums in a while. was on my own this week with our little princess, mommy on a business trip to italy. and OF COURSE its the exact week that the little one was going through youngling daycare (9 months to < 3 yrs) to kindergarden transition (3-6 years). so needed to juggle work, household and taking care of the little one cuz during the transition shes only staying in kindergarden for 2-4 hours at a time..... SO ready for some sleep this weekend! 😄 btw, absolutely LOVE this 😄 ive been thinking for quite a while now, whether i should get my lady a 14900K(S) or maybe wait and go for bartlett lake. either way, id need to do extensive testing iterations with a bios mod with bro @Prema (if hes got time), so very curious to see how this compares to the standard 14th gen. keep us updated bro!

@Papusan Also, this is the time for your country to shine as you can now say.... "Welcome to our world!" You now have prices better than the USA. After so many years where this was not the case. 🤣

They've priced things beyond reason, to the point that even an idiot that has money to burn and is typically frivolous and lacks discretion with their wallet is starting to pause and recognize that things are simply not worth the asking price. What will likely happen next is that manufacturers will begin to complain about sales being off, b*tch because nobody is buying, whine and moan about low sales and revenue being down. But they won't be smart enough to figure out that nobody is buying because the prices are beyond stupid, not because they don't want the products but because they are not stupid enough to pay what they are asking.

Better now.

I know Brother @Clamibot swears by it and it has gotten more traction lately in some YouTube videos. I need to order some new fittings to replace the XSPC fittings I am using on this now. (The outside collars are too tight for this tubing.) But, the little monster is now a custom loop with the IceMan bare die block and the Supercool direct touch memory blocks. When the new fittings arrive I will see if I can figure out a better place for the in-line trash filter.

Intel's Samsung trashphone moment.... Intel BOT Optimization Tool Uses Vectorization, Raises Benchmark Fairness Questions Better. Last week OF THE HOLIDAY with full Calima and bad lung capacity. Now back home. 5C and icecold wind. And it continue....☹️ Edit. 1.7C now and it feels like 1.9 minus showed by the weathercast. But thanks bro @Mr. Fox. Appreciate your consideration 🙂 Now the weather is great outside Africa. 23-25C in the days. I ordered the holiday for the wrong week (Worst Weather in years). We wanted to visit our Danish friends when they was there. The problem was to get different time for the flight from where I live. Hence we travelled 1-2 weeks before we wanted to see them. Hence fiasko for the first 1.5 weeks (Worst Weather in years here down in Canary). Our Danish friends avoid the bad weather because they arrived two weeks later. Luck for them. And bad for us. If we ordered the flight to go from Oslo (500km away) we would need to stay in trashy Oslo 2 more days. When we travelled from Trondheim (home) it was the last chance to avoid that. Now we have paid the full price because Norways is a small country that prefer profits over what people want/prefer.

Kryptonfly over at overclock.net did this BIOS mod using AI. Imagine that, AI did something useful for a change LMAO. He managed to do the BIOS edits using Claude which is just incredible and crazy. It's still a work in progress, getting into the BIOS menu is only possible on first boot, unless you CPU swap/re-insert 273PQE. This will hopefully be solved soon as it's making tuning/testing things a pain as you get one shot and if it breaks the boot, you cannot get back in until you do the process over again. I'm thinking about just getting a heavy metal pot and resting on the CPU while testing. I think that might work and would make testing much faster. So far I've only tested Battlefield 6, and it works beautifully. All cores boost properly to 5.4Ghz locked which is more than adequate for this chip. Speaking of boost, right now single core boost to 5.9Ghz is not working, but that might just be me needing to change a bios option. Will keep testing. I got a little heavy handed on first boot and wanted to change everything, and it got fussy at either C-States or XMP, my guess is XMP. It might be one of those FSP-M issues where I can only use manual tuning for memory, XMP might be a no fly zone. As long as I can tune memory, this chip will be awesome. So far I've booted 5600 Jedec 2x32gb, which is nicely above the 4800 I was locked to on my Industrial W680 board. Guess I can send that back lmao. Will report further findings as I figure them out. For now though, am loving this chip on Z790.

Hello eveyrone, Ok so this problem applies only to MXM gpus that have a "pwr" limit (as well as "thrm" limit sometimes) in GPU-Z when doing a benchmark. This is also known as the "40w power bug" Such example : Notice this is not due to hitting the power limit of the card (33% of TDP). Symptoms of the low power bug is a TDP usage around 50% = 40w if you have a TDP of 80w. I think I found the issue. It has to due with a digital signal that is sent to the GPU, the PWR_LEVEL signal : A previous fix was to block the SMB_DAT or SMB_CLK signal so that the EC chip of the laptop wouldn't be able to communicate with the MXM dGPU. This has the disadvantage of stopping all data communication between EC and MXM dGPU = no more thermal data coming in = EC usually ramps up the GPU fan to maximum. According to MXM 3.1 documentation : This signal is not mendatory and it does apply some kind of power reduction when enabled. Therefore I took a gamble and decided to cover it up and see what happens. My fix is to block off the PWR_LEVEL pin with a bit of tape. - I first put some normal paper scotch tape on my plastic desk (to get it nice and flat during cutting process) - I cut it into a thin strip with a very sharp cutter(width of MXM pin) - I removed it from my plastic desk, then applied it with tweezers. The pin is the 9th counting from the first "thin" pin, on the TOP of the MXM module aka side of the MXM gpu where there is the actual GPU die : It's okay if you cover up the 8-5th pin as well as these are reserved pins (no connection inside a laptop) I did this on my dell precision 7720 with GTX 1060M and this has so far resolved the issue, my card can now boost to 100w thanks to the modded bios. Hope this helps someone !

165fps does seem pretty high unless he is light on addons or not active during the really busy times. I also cannot really buy the 142fps (9800X3D) vs 98fps (9950X) either. I wonder if WoW had its threads across both CCDs. Back when I tested the 7945HX3D it seemed like the drivers + Game Bar mode did not always pin the game to CCD0 so I resolved to just using Process Lasso. 285K in simple 200S boost mode continues to outperform any laptop or desktop chip I tested in the past. No lag or stutter even in the busy areas or raids. His article also has no mention of Arrow Lake which was a pretty mature platform by late 2025 so at least worth a paragraph of discussion in my opinion.. I guess a 9950X3D2 is probably not going to give a meaningful performance boost in WoW either.

Even NWR was impressed with the level of dedication to pass off a clearly stripped 4090 as legit.....visually. You've got to test hardware, period. Unless you know the person, test test test and implement a few other safety measures too like location, access to power to test and securing the item once tested good to avoid a bait and switch. If you can meet at a public swap area at a police station, always use that location. Back during the Cryptodemic, buddy was all excited about a killer 3090 Asus deal on local FB. I told him to insist on meeting at his local police station swap area and he agreed. Seller tried everything possible to NOT meet at the police station even though he was local too so he smartly passed on that one. I've also used Starbucks before to meet up and test hardware because they have plenty of outlets inside. It helps if it is a local Starbucks and they already know you. I used Barnes and Nobles a few times too to quickly test hardware. Let the seller know you WILL be testing the hardware on premises in your own hardware and it will be staying in there after testing and payment (Zelle, PP or Venmo FF) is then tendered. Unless it is a safe area don't use cash or you end up like my college roommate's friend who lived on campus too who met off campus to buy a Macbook Duo and ended up getting robbed. I tried to warn him to do it on campus in the common areas but nope.....off he went and received a pistol whipping and $2k lighter pockets. I remember being in Hong Kong years ago and watching an American lady who was traveling in our group get baited and switched on a high end camera at a downtown store. Funniest thing was watching the sales person who was speaking very passable english suddenly couldn't speak english when she called the police. Police told her there wasn't much they could do as it was her word against his. Lucky for her she used an Amex and was a long standing member. I helped her call her credit card right then and there from a payphone, explain the situation and they immediately put a hold on the transaction. Found out later when she got home they sided with her and told her to mail back the camera with proof of delivery so she did. The store actually called her from Hong Kong and tried to curse her out and insist she had to repay the transaction.....lovely yelling at a 65yr old lady.....classy. Welp...... 🤣

Cost per performance is grossly in the 270k's favor vs both the 9950X3D and 9950X3D2..... Hey, at least MSI didn't angle it to the side like Sapphire did with the Nitro+ 9070xt introducing a needed bend to work in an already fragile connector...... -------------- I am on Intel's side with this one. Just like GPU optimizations where we sometimes have a clearly slower GPU like the 9070xt sometimes hanging with even the 5090 in some instances due to a lack of optimizations along with being optimized for AMD. Even if they went back to monolithic, that doesn't mean games couldn't be optimized to target the subtle (and not so subtle) nuances of each chip and quite frankly just in general. Too many sloppy ports not putting in the work till after release if at all.... Matrix is the sweet spot and I agree. WIth the WVP2, it gives you a sense of safety and monitoring both visually, audibly and within HWInfo. The wired shutdown function if desired is also nice. I do like seeing the little fan icon start to spin.... 5090 is clearly a beast as is vs 4090 and with the Matrix vBIOS it just extends that quite nicely. I do tend to run at stock during the warm times because the 5090 can quickly turn my computer room into a sauna just like the OC'd 4090 and 3090ti did. Plus WoW and FO76 rarely cap out the 5090 especially FO76. Who would want to DDOS notebooktalk? That's odd........

oh cmon, why even bother to attack our cozy little forum here....

Was another ddos attack but things should be back to normal

Man, so far GrapheneOS seems amazing. We grow numb to the hooks companies like Google, crApple and Micro$lop get set into us and we stop even noticing until it's completely gone. I have to use some of this cancerous crap for work, but having it quarantined in a sandbox and in a completely separate secondary user profile that I log out of and Google Services having control of nothing at the OS level is sweet. GrapheneOS even has its own geolocation service that Google can't touch. You have to deliberately opt-in for the Google Nazi surveillance stuff and you can change your mind later. https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play Looks like Motorola phones will soon have out of the box support for replacing consumer Android with GrapheneOS. That will be nice since right now the only phone supporting it is Google Pixel (which still seems incredibly ironic and may not last forever if enough people start saying yes to a Google-free phone). Edit: here is where I screwed up on the Micro$lop account that I am locked out of... I use MFA and passwordless accounts. On my other three Micro$lop accounts I had three recovery emails and my phone for proof of identity. On the account I am locked out of I had only one recovery email listed. To reset the authenticator you must prove your identity two ways, create a password to access the acount and then change it back to passwordless access after the authenticator is working again. You also get a recovery code with the passwordless setup. For whatever reason the Micro$lop service that handles phone codes and the static recovery code are "not available right now, please try again tomorrow" and today is the third day. The other accounts I was able to get codes at multiple email addresses to reset the authenticator. When I regain access to the account I am locked out of I am going to add at least two more recovery emails to that account like I have with the others so that I do not have to rely on a recovery code or phone text code.

WVP. I ordered the WVP2, but not sure when that will show up. Maybe.... I also noticed my ram was supper sketchy with it plugged in as well.

Original WVP or WVP2? Glad it wasn't the card but still 😞

Thanks. I like it a lot and my wife loves her Pixel 10 XL Pro, too. Yeah, I don't have time for tinkering either, especially not for smartphone crap. This was super fast and easy. The only tinkering I had to do was the Micro$lop and Google Authenticator migration, but that would have ended the same even with a stock ROM. Getting them going on the new phone with a stock ROM was equally inconvenient. Installing Graphene OS was just as easy as a factory reset, minus all of the garbage I don't want (much of which cannot be removed). No need for hacks or rooting. It felt good to boot to an OS with only about 15 open source Android apps installed and nothing from Google. I am only having an issue with the one Micro$lop account and it's a glitch with the Micro$lop account, not the phone, OS or Authenticator. That problem is still not resolved, but thankfully it is only of my disposable accounts and if I cannot regain access to it I will just abandon it.

congratz on the new phone, shes a beaut! 🙂 and lulz thats funny timing, i actually just switched the other way around and went back from custom to full stock 😄 just dont have the time to tinker with custom roms anymore... yeaaaaaaah.....nope

While it is by no means a definitive or comprehensive review, (and may not need to be,) this is shaping up as I expected it might. Not a bad product, but definitely a bad value. The juice ain't gonna be worth the squeeze. https://www.techspot.com/review/3114-amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d2/ Roman seems to have a similar opinion. $900 is a lot of money to spend on something that doesn't matter, or shouldn't matter, to most people. ...and Wendell...

Yup, I changed it, from 8560w to zbook one. Fixed problems I had, but needed a little diy - screw holes were too small, so whole board didnt fit in dedicated place. And btw, those dc screen board electrically are all interchangeable. Same story with cables from that board to display panel. Good job with fan! Better than I did, haha. As for cooling, greatest weakness is not enough pipes and exhaust fins (I mean in original design) No problemo! Feeling better, so if I get little more free time will make schematic for edp cable

Yeah it's crazy. I went through my orders and I officially started AM5 in April 2023 with my original MSI Carbon x670e Wifi and ran that 7800X3D then 7950X3D, switched to that SP113 13900KS for a spell then back to my AM5 rig before Intel finally won me back over in Summer 2024 for a spell with the SP109 14900KS then AMD dropped the 9800X3D that pulled me back in and that's where I've been since. Exactly. Throwing another X3D CCD in there without improvements elsewhere to help with performance seems like a useless chip. I'm, personally, hoping for an Intel 11th gen scenario where the 11900k was clearly a Frankenchip with a lot of the transitional tech that made its way into 12th gen in the best way. AM5 + 2x X3D CCDs + some preliminary AM6 love in regards to the fabric would be a fun chip to play around with. It may give us a portend of things to come with AM6 in that regard but we will see... If somehow it turns out to be a gaming behemoth, I would probably give one a whirl if only to feed my 5090 better than the 9800X3D can in WoW or Fallout 76. Top of its class, but so many times even at 4k the 5090 is twiddling its thumbs and yawning 🙂 The trick, as always for laptop DTRs running desktop CPUs, is going to have a cooler running, non leaky power efficient bin which is almost always a higher SP chip especially with the limited cooling on the NH55. I had always planned to put the SP109 in the NH55 because it runs stupidly cool even at 59/45/50 an AIO keeps it cool. I have it capped at 253w though as that is more than enough for its needs but then a couple of modern free laptops sent for eval and it didn't make any sense at that point performance wise and off she went. 🙂 I'd say bin on a cheap desktop board and lesser cooling to get a good chip. I did this when I was binning 12900k chips for the NH55 and used an ID Cooling mid grade air cooler to at least simulate similar cooling conditions and the variance in chips with heat and pull was pretty insane. It gets even more insane with the 14900KS chips. I did the same for the X170SM with a rash of 10900k chips. The X170KM was hilarious because I bought an 11900k model and it had one of the sweetest, cool running 11900k chips I had ever seen in it. I cleaned up the thermal interface on it and it literally ran full tilt out of the box with no adjustments needed. One and done. Same process used for the glory years of the P870 too from 6700k up to the 9900k tons of fun binning to get them tamed for D2D use. *Sigh* we need another real DTR ASAP....

Ha yup AM5 longevity ftw! been on it with the X670EE since Oct 2022 😄 exact reason why i got it in the first place and went all out on the mobo, enjoying the platform longevity to the max! im definitely curious about the X3D2 and how the reviews will turn out on it. however, im cautious, a mere 10% in productivity and/or gaming will not be enough for me to pull the trigger on it. for that, Zen 6 is already too close to release. my previous upgrade coming from the 7950X to the 9950X3D made much more sense, productivity wise it was in the range of +10-15%, with gaming at a whopping 30-35%. compared to that, wouldnt make sense to switch over to an X3D2 for single digit gains... bro @electrosoft brought up a good point with the IF though, if either that or the IMC is in any way improved ill be very curious to see what kinda extra gains we could get out of it. im a bit doubtful though, since zen 6 is gonna bring updates in those regards anyways, so wouldnt make sense for AMD to push their last zen 5 chips up, would eat away at their perfomance gap to the next gen.... btw guys, anyone with a 14900K(S) willing to part with it for a good price? think might be time for my lady's machine to get an upgrade 🙂 lemme know! im hesitant to pay full price for a new part since its already a bit dated, at the same time i wouldnt trust second hand due to the degradation issues with RPL...

Hello, This guide will explain how you have to actually modify a pascal/turing vbios with pascal mobile tdp tweaker in order to not get error 43 and black screen. latest vesion 1.21 : https://github.com/LaneLyng/MobilePascalTDPTweaker/releases/download/1.2.1.0/Mobile.Pascal.TDP.Tweaker.1.21.zip tools needed : any hex editor -> HxD for example I have embarked on a long vbios modding adventure. End goal : custom display tables in vbioses utility -> Extremely useful for MXM gpus -> looks quite possible thanks to released nvidia documentation but I must invest lots of time in research into this (my time allocation will vary greatly week to week...). Side goal : create a core + memory overclocking utility -> Possible as well, simpler than the display table Anyways, early on I noticed a flaw in the pascal bios tdp tweaker in the way it calculates checksums : it only corrects the checksum to the correct value if your vbios has no header ! If you use a vbios with header the app will calculate a wrong checksum and you will get error 43 or black screen as the security chip on the GPU will refuse to post. Step 1 : Check if your vbios has a header -> Open it in a Hex Editor and see if the starting string is "NVGI" -> if no header, you can mod the base directly in TDP tweaker with no extra steps. example of a vbios with a header : Step 2 : Remove the header and keep it in another file, select all the first lines of the vbios untill you see the string "UxxxK7400". In my case the actual vbios data starts at offset A00 -> Save the modified vbios as "vbios_mod_applicable" Step 3: Open this "vbios_mod_applicable" in mobile TDP tweaker, apply your edits and save the bios, now the checksum is correctly calculated automatically when you save this modified version. Step 4: Open the TDP moded vbios in a Hex Editor and reinsert the header at the very beginning of the vbios. Make sure the file size matches between the OG vbios and the TDP modded one. Step 5: Flash the modded vbios with an external programmer -> nvlashK and OMGflash will not work. You need to have a flasher handy anyway if you are attempting a vbios flash that risks bricking your card. Step 6: Enjoy higher TDP/other changes you applied

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/6007736 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/155931816

My SP109 14900KS + Z790i lightning 8400 was a beast and is now still going strong on that Z690 D4 for almost a year now in the wife's system rock solid and error free. You can't deny there were issues with the microcode and there are still some stray systems out there from unknowing users that need to update their BIOS (and that doesn't even guarantee a save) but the "crisis" has been over for quite some time. I absolutely love 12th-14th gen. My personal favorite is still 10th gen, Intel's last monolithic design. With Intel opting to extend LGA1700 now, I hope they "officially" embrace Bartlett and let it fully sing. An all P 12 core chip? Heck yeah.... The real star is the Asus Z690 Strix-A D4 that has been in service since December 2021 and has seen everything from the 12900k to the current 14900ks and keeps on truckin'. Rear USB ports are a little loose now, but that's it. I also realized I've been running AM5 now since December 2024, so 16 months in service on this Crosshair X870e as my main driver. That might be a record for me. 🙂 I definitely plan on giving Nova a shot while I continue to play around with Arrow Lake atm. Unless reviews are amazing, I am not seeing the upside to the 9950X3D2 unless it has some of the reported fabric improvements slated for AM6 in play to let those dual X3D CCDs truly shine in unison especially in gaming. The increased PPT and overall power draw potential bodes well but we will see.

I just tested it to see and yep. Trash. All that noise about wanting the XOC bios and it's just as I suspected. Give people the warm and fuzzy's so they can say I pulled 1200W from the wall, but yet....nothing else to show for it.

Hummmm.... Well I do have my water block, I was just trying to make sure I have a better sample to start with than I did the first time around. I'll probably do the evc2, resistor and shut mods later today, then block the card back up. Did anyone manage to get the software that goes with these vbios files?

Not sure, but all SSD prices have increased by at least 200% to 300% Now that remains to be seen....The week has just started.🙂 indeed. We had been stocking up as well. It's replacing my last Astral. It had been going straight to black screen every time I tried to run a benchmark. My problem was trying to catc Microcenter with A card in stock. Right now they are selling for $3899.99. $600 above what I paid for it.

I miss EVGA quite a bit at times like these. Still have my EVGA Nu Audio Pro 7.1, 1600w T2 still rocking hard and hoping EVGA might be able to provide me with a replacement when warranty nears so I can extend it's life, and my EVGA Z690 Dark KingPin which I'll just keep.

Correct me if I am wrong, and all joking aside, why would someone need to mod this supposedly "KINGPIN" like card that is ready for DICE/LN with the "right" vBIOS? I know this card, apparently, doesn't have an actual binned GPU core, but MSI did appear to go all out on the engineering side in regards to the PCB and components. Unless this is one of the many cases where the marketing doesn't actually match the engineering and you do still have to shunt mod it even with the special vBIOS.

I think there are a number of us that would fall into that category if we are as honest as you are being. For me it would be something like a shunt mod. It looks like the owner of this GPU damaged the GPU being reckless (knocked off memory circuit resistors) and then tried to fix it. I suspect the ripped pads were caused by ripping the resistors off the PCB rather than novice soldering skills.

Nice little documentary on EVGA, why they were awesome, etc. They did what they wanted and it was what we wanted. They did not play by the rules, just like we would not if given a chance to break them. They were great because they didn't play nice and refused to obey the "rules" of the hardware cartels.

Mumford and Sons - The Cave

Those YouTube videos are mostly garbage claiming more FPS. You aren't generating frames via raster and if you set the multiplier too high you get visual distortions or worse, input lag. When set up correctly with the appropriate hardware it can be really good, I'll test some multi-player fps tonight though as those titles are more sensitive to latency. Having a 6C delta for gaming gives me the warm and fuzzies though The sapphire Pulse, seems to work pretty well. I may be looking to get a block for it so that the radiator and it aren't pulling air from each other. Would also free up the space needed to plug in the thermal sensor too. If I do I may as well just block the cpu too. Truthfully just wanted to play Monster Hunter Wilds @4k120 Next on to do list is figuring how to cool my network switch a bit more. My eth to sfp adapters overheating preventing me from being able to use 10Gbps :( Last night was able to hit 260MB/s on the network. I put an sata ssd in the server and some iso's so I can run a VM to house all of my steam library, future downloads will come from it instead of the internet.

I agree, they let me know my old PSU was indeed failing when I asked and an RMA exchange was authorized and on the way. Didn't expect to open the box and find a Titanium. I only sent the PSU back, so now I have a massive swath of P2 1600w cables. I'll have to check to see if they're compatible with the T6. I know they're compatible with my EVGA P2 850. Sounds about right for EK.... I am genuinely curious to see what the 9950X3D2 can do but the fact they're not really touting it has faster than the 9850X3D is pretty telling. That was a good pick up I saw over there. Hope you had a good Easter brother @Mr. Fox! Love seeing the 12 core monster get slowly unraveled and working on real Z790 boards....hopefully you get over that cold on your YT video sooner than later bro. Probably a bit of fear of voltage issues again if left to run on consumer boards that allow it to overclock and push more voltage. The 13th/14th overvolting issues really did some damage to their name brand and consumer confidence. As @Talon showed, that industry level board he tested the Bartlett on initially was locked down like crazy. They need these P core chips to slot in and run locked in. On the other hand, Intel is boasting that Raptor Lake is alive and well and more boards both DDR4/5 are on the way.... https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-says-raptor-lake-is-not-going-anywhere-hints-at-more-ddr4-ddr5-hybrid-boards Now they need to officially support Bartlett Lake-S on current and future boards and open the floodgates. Depending on where it eventually lands, I wouldn't be adverse to picking one up. A 12 P-Core only chip is just yummy. What a cool rabbit hole you've gone down @Reciever on many fronts from the AC ducting to using a 9070xt for FG support. Which model did you swap the 3090ti for? Nice! All that's left is to block the GPU..... Industrial white with all black is always the slickest look IMHO. ------------------------------------------

Very cool. This makes me wonder if Coreboot could boot this chip too. I still have the MSI Pro Z690-A that supports Dashero. Might try hacking support in once summer hits and things calm down at work. Why Intel did not make a 10 P-core 12th Gen chip and 12 P-core 13th+ Gen chip is beyond me. Its not like 10850 and 10900K were poor sellers so far as I remember. Their team even binned that set of Golden Samples for LTT. It really shows just how much the company has shifted in the past few years. I guess Sapphire Rapids could have been considered a viable alternative to this but then you have to deal with mesh binning and the extra latency from registered memory.

I snagged a great deal on a G.SKILL 8400 48GB kit and another Supercool direct touch memory cooler for $435 shipped. I popped the sticks in place of the Kingbank 8400 48GB kit running in the B850MPOWER and it booted right up and runs flawlessly. I think I am going to order a cheap 360MM radiator on Amazon and use my IceMan AM5 direct die block and run a custom loop instead of the Lian Li AIO on my SFF monster. I've got a spare Alphacool D5 pump and res that I am confident will fit between the GPU and front panel fans. Running a custom loop in such a small chassis is going to be pretty sweet. https://www.overclock.net/threads/bunch-of-48gb-ddr5-kits-accessories.1819174/?post_id=29575067#post-29575067 Everyone have a pleasant holiday weekend. Happy Easter.