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I appreciate that!! I’m not getting another regular job though, I was building this business model up right before I was fired, but right now I’m free from the 9-5. I do what I want these days 😴. Just being careful too though. I buy and re sale all of these junk cars. I will pay $50-$200 bucks for rotting junk cars in people’s yards and haul them to salvage yards who buy them based on what it is for much more money. The best thing about it is you come across so many running and driving vehicles with titles that I can sale private party for a much larger profit. Those cars will all be gone in no time, and different ones sitting in their place. 😃

Hey @Mr. Fox I would buy your parts, but I actually bought my 9950X3D2 and Dark Hero and Ram with the BestBuy 0% store Credit Card. So, if I were to return it all, it just goes back to the card. I used the card because I was not sure if I was going to even like or keep the setup. So it was a way for me to give it a good run in and test it daily. It seems pretty solid, other than being a weaker sample. And, I still might return it all. If I do, I’ll maybe be going for a 270K Plus. But I have really Moved away from overclocking and XOC. I just play games when I have time. I’m so busy with buying junk cars these days. I pretty much just keep it simple man! Congrats on the binned 270K plus purchase! That is a very nice chip! This is a picture of my yard full of cars from a days work. 😂

Id love to splurge on this. Great deal! But, I have to be smart. I don’t have a job anymore, so I’m completely self sufficient these days since May 2026. Things are going well, but I feel like bad luck can happen at any moment. So I have to be smart.

Yeah my Astral wasn’t even that great of a deal either lol. At the time they were brand new for $4,329.99 + tax and they had a single open box for like $3,779 or $3,889 + tax in the Best Buy store, I’m forgetting exactly how much it was. The box was kind of ripped a little, coil whine is not as quiet as my 5090 FE was (That one had a tiny bit, but you had to like put your ear against it to hear it, 1.2KW per limit certainly amplified it just a little bit) But the quietest GPU I ever owned was probably the 5080 Astral OC, it did not make any sound under load, even with your ear right against it lol. The 5090 Astral isn’t bad at all though but it makes a deep buzz if you lean in and try to listen to it. You won’t hear it in a closed case or anything though. Not a squeal or anything annoying at all which Is perfectly fine for me. I think most high end GPU’s will make a buzz under heavy load if you lean in close and listen to them. Too many check boxes these days to be super picky on GPU’s. Max Voltage, core overclocking ability, are 1% lows impacted with +3,000 memory OC, coil whine?, are the core and memory chips actually soldered on the board? lol, does it even work? lol. 😂 Unless something is making a high pitch squeal noise, I don’t care! Two prior products come to mind where I did care!!!. My Z590 Dark Kingpin motherboard, and EVGA power supplies lol. But yeah the Astral overclocks really well, and that’s what made me love it and decide to keep it. Excellent GPU. I’d probably long return my 9950X3D2 and Dark Hero X870 before that 5090 Astral goes anywhere!! Speaking of which that return period is coming up FAST on the AMD chip!! I may swap it out.

It’s time for custom loop with these rising AIO prices and as they become more and more premium in design! I have a single 480 GTR on this 9950X3D2, I’ve never even felt the air try to blow even remotely warm. Its such overkill .It’s pretty nice though. Funny thing is, this 480 GTR was a brand new one I had that fails leak test, but interestingly it doesn’t leak water at all. But seeing some of these newer AIO prices has me surprised.

I’m wanting to try another memory kit. But, I want more ram. I’m not exactly content with 2x16GB. I’m wanting 2x24GB or 2x32GB preferably. Maybe even 2x48 but prices are INSANE!!! lol. The Gskill 2x32GB or 2x24GB 6000c26 kit looks great to me. I’m more inclined to go with the 2x32 6000c26 Dual rank kit for PEAK performance. I’m probably going to sell my Xeon system here soon and help fund the next ram kit. I had to buy new tires for my tow vehicle which was an unplanned expense. So unfortunately new ram right now isn’t in the budget. But very very soon! 😃 I’d like to play with some high bin Dual Ranks on Ryzen dual X3D 🎊

Man, I’m shocked on 5090 power…. I popped in the 5080 Astral to check things on the 9950X3D2 and grab some rendering video of it, since it’s being sold. Playing Crimson desert 4K leverages the 5090 to a new level completely… CRIMSON DESERT 4K, Cinematic graphics, DLSS Quality, Ray Reconstruction ON. RTX 5080 Astral fully MAX stable OC: 83-84 fps W/ 2X Frame Gen. RTX 5090 Astral fully MAX stable OC: 80-81 fps W/ 0X Frame Gen. (Frame Gen is off) 💀💀💀 PS: GPU Tweak III has a cool GPU hour counter that I actually use. Probably the coolest thing in the app.

Getting 1,000+ FPS is something I have never experienced before. Below is Ark Ascended doing just that on all low settings and 1080P. 6000c26 with 65k tREFI, all tuned to the max with 2167fclk. My son took a picture of me with my phone while I was in the bios breaking things (So posting it here! lol. 😂 )

Well I’m only running DDR5 6000c26 daily, so I don’t have to push high VDD’s like that. But yeah 7600c38 32k trefi needed like 1.700v when I was messing with it yesterday. 1.650 doesn’t work. This gave me the feeling that IMC is weak.

Seeing how well ram tuning posting and stability responds to adding memory voltage, I am definitely pointing to a weak IMC. It’s like 6000c26 boots fine with auto 11K tREFI with 1.435v VDD. EASY EASY. 32K tREFI? It won’t attempt to post, adding 32k tREFI puts a much heavier load on IMC, but adding voltage to VDD. Quick and easy bump up to 1.450v VDD gets it done! 65k tREFI fully tuned timings? Similar situation. I need 1.480v VDD. Probably can get away with 1.460vdd. But it’s all too familiar! And it put me right back in the seat of tuning on Intel with DDR5. Weak IMC’s loves high or too much VDD/ VDDQ. And that’s my system to a T lol. 😂 @Mr. Fox I’m going to swap it out for another. I’d like 2,200FCLK AS WELL. I’ll see how the next one runs. It’s a BEAST in games doing one thing at a time producing a high FPS though. That’s its main benefit. It’s not as fast as my Xeon doing brute work handling multiple things at a time. Like leaving a game minimized and doing other things simultaneously etc. it’s just not as fluid as my 28/56 Xeon 3175x is. That could be partly due to lower bandwidth, maybe higher latency, or merely due to being two CCD’s? Either way. Gaming performance is great! And that’s what I wanted to see.

I think my 9950X3D2 has a weak IMC. Different bios doesn’t help. Max 1:2 speed I can boot is DDR5 7600. Either weak IMC, or my 6000c30 A-die kit is just at the limits? I’ve tried like 1.5v VDDIO LOL 😂 1.300v VSOC UP to 1.650v VDD/VDDQ. Nothing helps. 7600 max, and that’s hit or miss, 7400 posting works every time. I tried to use some preset timings. And that did not help either. Is it possible to have a crazy weak IMC on my 9950X3D2?

Yeah this thing is funny, it likes those higher 1:1 speeds better than higher 1:2 speeds. Based on what I am reading, I am seeing that some of these IMC’s may like faster 1:1 speeds, while simultaneously NOT liking faster 1:2 speeds. 6600@1:1 is not actually stable. But I can try and see if I can get it stable, probably can’t. But maybe with voltage tuning, tuning timings etc. I was really pushing the FCLK, and I hear that also impacts your 1:1 max edge speeds stability as well. But I have been just gaming with running regular speeds. As far as easy stability goes like set and forget. 2167 fclk and 6000c26 @1.450v VDD, or 1.400 VDD with 32k tREFI works, with a 65,535 tREFI. This setup runs very easy without tuning voltages or anything. I may swap the CPU for another. But being honest. I don’t mind too much. I’m pretty much okay with how it performs even stock. If I return anything, I may try a 270K Plus as well! 😄

I almost bought that Vcolor kit! I thought it was suspiciously priced low. I suppose that’s why? Because it’s dual rank 16gigs? Have not tried the bios yet. But, I will soon. Being lazy. I am testing a 6600c28 though!

What about the faster 1:1 speeds? Im testing 6600c28 right now. How would those compare VS. like DDR5 8000+ in 1:2 speeds?

So I’m pushing 1:1 speeds to check IMC limit and fabric limits. I can run 2,167 fclk which seems to work well, and DDR5 6600c32 1:1. Right now I’m trying to dial down to C26 or maybe c28. The lil ram fan helps too lol!

Looks like fun to me! I almost went with one of these. Multithreaded performance is really good on these.

I’m shocked they started doing dual rank 16GB DDR5 sticks lol. That’s so cheap of them! Lol. 😂 So these sticks should be good for 8000 at least is what I was thinking, I’m going to try a different bios. If that does not help me, then I may exchange the motherboard and CPU at the same time, the 9950X3D2 has pretty high SP’s on both CCD’s. Whatever I get after that, I’m just going to roll with it. 😎

These are single rank sticks. I specifically bought these because they were Hynix A die 5.43.01. Hopefully they are alright OC wise.

Okay, I’m going to try that bios! And @electrosoft I may try another 9950X3D2. If I’m feeling up to it. Memory tuning is very fun. But I learned that it does not help much in real world gaming performance, I suppose IPC is the real king for high fps and pushing fast GPU’s. My Xeon w3175x is a memory performing beast. When I would run only 6x16GB (96GB total) I can do 1T stable, and this does like 172GB bandwidth and 45ns-46ns latency. And it just cannot hold up to anything modern with the words X3D even with a single stick of DDR5 4800 lol. It’s a powerful rig, and still did well in many titles especially those more uncommon “Well Optimized titles”. 😂😂😂 These X3D chips are ridiculous in gaming. I did not realize how many CPU limited games I do play. Almost everything is CPU limited with a 5090 Astral, even with 4K. Rust, Oblivion, Ark, blasting some crazy frame rates with 9950X3D2. @Mr. Fox Are you thinking my Dark Hero should also run 8000c34 just like your Apex can?

Okay! I will try that. Let me check the memory as well.

I don’t think 2200fclk works. But I haven’t tried really messing with it much either. I do see 2,167 fclk works at least. I feel like I really suck at messing with this thing lol. I saw DDR5 7600c34 posted up and works. But couldn’t get anymore. Need to loosen timing or add more VDD/VDDQ.

I cannot get any Gear 2 memory speeds beyond 6000 to run at all, just fails to post. What am I doing wrong? I have set these settings: Asynchronous mode fclk 2000 DDR5 6200/6400/6600/6800/7200/8000 etc. (I tried all these speeds slowly working down) bclk 1: 100.00Mhz bclk 2: Auto uclk Div1 mode=MEMCLK/2 loosest timings imaginable. I cannot get a post. CPU SOC Voltage: 1.200-1.260v tried these ranges. CPU VDDIO/IMC voltage 1.300-1.400v tried these ranges. @Mr. Fox EDIT: I got it!!! I just posted DDR5 7,000. Will slowly work up with some loose timings, then try to tighten. 2nd EDIT: I am having a hard time posting past 7,000 3rd EDIT: I GOT 7400c34 To post and train. 4th EDIT: I got 7600 posted. Still slowly working up in frequency.

I’ll mess with it some more. When I enabled high priority it does hit 46K at least. Not sure if that helps, as I’m just using a stock retail Win11 OS. Anyways, I’m messing with ram tuning right now. I just let the chip run stock for the most part trying to memorize and learn AMD things. Good news is my ram booted right up at 6000 CL26-36-36-36-96@1.435V. My motherboard seems to be responding a little bit better as time has gone on. It might be okay after all. I see training and posting with high tREFI is much easier with more VDD/VDDQ voltage. So, like 6000c30 with 65K tREFI won’t post with 1.400v VDD/VDDQ. But it will post with 1.435v VDD/VDDQ. I know how DDR5 was with Intel, and it was heavily dependent on your IMC quality. Like one CPU may do 6000c30@1.35v and another CPU wants 6000c30@1.400v. That’s what I learned with Intel anyways, the CPU IMC quality determines how much voltage your DDR5 rams would need. This made it incredibly difficult to bin ram sticks in my opinion. Because an amazing IMC would make average DDR5 look like super sticks or something.

Yes, I am using PBO. It does clock down in R23 to around 5.4Ghz on 1 CCD, and 5.3Ghz on the other CCD. When I was referring to these running hot, I remember many people reporting these Ryzen chips just run like 95C or something lol. Or I remember reading something about they intentionally run and target warm temps like that? I want to go tinkering in this bios. But this motherboard is a PAIN. I may wait until I get this swapped out first. But yeah, the platform is excellent. Several games that I play have never ran well on anything. Ark Ascended, or Oblivion Remastered. And these games are constantly skipping and dropping GPU usage. And seeing this 9950X3D2 run those smoothly at crazy high frame rates is shocking to me.

Mine is SP118. I’m not really sure if it’s good or not good. That’s about 30c idle in bios. I have it running R23 doing 44.2K at only 225 watts. And 67c max. I thought these bad boys were supposed to run hot or something. 😎 I’m liking this AMD platform though. Quirks aside. It’s obliterating FAST. Being honest about it, I wasn’t really all that excited immediately after buying the 9950X3D2+Dark Hero and I had the boxes sitting under my couch in my office. But dang! After running the system, I am over joyed by this system.