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So, this card doesn’t have a very amazing core unfortunately 🥲. I use Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K for testing. And I can run 2,955 solid! Anymore is a no go. Even just 2,970 will crash lol. Temps are warm about 69-72C. But that’s its limit using auto fan or even 100% fan. Now, the memory is absolutely solid at +1700 so far, maybe can do a little wee bit more. My 4080 Super could handle about 3,060-3,070Mhz pretty dang well. Anyways, it is what it is. I’m still happy with it! I imagine chilled water will help quite a bit. I know Cyberpunk at 4K puts a “Real” limit for the most part. Those RT cores either can or can’t it seems. Testing was done with Galax HOF 666 bios.

It’s sold 😃 (Going to Canada) I was very tempted to just keep it as a backup or spare high end GPU. But then that didn’t make much sense. Plus, I’m not that rich. Haha. The 4090 is nice! I like it a lot so far. It’s strong. I saw a 42% higher Superposition score over my 4080 Super. 🤩 Also. What sort of memory overclocks are people getting out of 4090’s?

The RTX4090 landed today. And I love it. Massive step down in quality compared to my Suprim-X. But I don’t mind. No fires or melted connectors so far, even getting close to 600 watt GPU power with an overclock in Nomad bench and some games. I run this same little MSI Gen5 PCIe dinky PSU, with a single power cable for the GPU, and it’s performing like a champ! Even powering (5) D5’s, Z790 Apex, 14900KS, and a 4090! That tiny little 1KW PSU gets it done without making a sound. (Quick peek behind the desk reveals the tank and chiller) 😄

That’s a nice CPU so far. I would also be after that new Asrock ITX Z790 motherboard for sure, and not even consider anything else. I think with the right CPU DDR5 8400c38 can be done on one of those. It’s really just about the CPU’s ability. Honestly, I have heard of people hitting 8600+ with those little dinky Asrock ITX boards with water cooled ram and gold IMC.

You know, when I was gaming playing Cyberpunk, I turned off/on my E-Cores out of curiosity in the video below. So just a straight 5.9P 8/16 CPU essentially. I noticed some hitching periodically and some GPU usage drops periodically too. Turning on E-Cores fixed this right away. I had consistent GPU usage when E-Cores were on, and it was just crazy smooth. But not with them E-Cores off . Really makes me wonder if there actually is an advantage with Intel and these E-Cores handling windows back ground stuff in certain titles that no one has mentioned as a possible problem for these 8/16 chips. I mean, if my 14900KS with E-Cores disabled and only 8/16 at 5.9Ghz and DDR5 8600 and a 4080S can’t handle the heat, then a 7800X3D certainly cannot with a 4090+ GPU right? Enabling these E-Cores alleviates this dropped GPU usage and smoothness. I caught this in my video below. And just found it interesting. It always made me think a 5800X3D or 7800X3D AMD CPU would never be enough core wise for some of these well optimized newer games, where 8/16 is just not enough running a 4090. This leads me back to my memories/experience with the 11900K chips (Those were not enough either with a 3090 at times) This is 1080P so it’s the ultimate CPU test lol. But still I have to give props for the 14900KS performance as a whole. In the video I start out with E-Cores on, then I work them all! Then I re-enable them.

I tried the Patriot 8200 C38’s when they first came out. I loved the easy disassembly with screws and they have a PMIC thermal pad too. Very nice kit. But the big misconception about ram is I think all the 3Gbit stuff is equally good and capable of 8600+, and any kit is only as good as your IMC. Even at lower speeds. My G.Skill 8200’s required 1.500V to run 8400c40 on my R-Batch and other CPU, but my current chip can run them at 8400c40 at 1.350V. I think all of these ram kits are equally good up top though, and all of them can probably reach similar speeds. We’re just IMC limited.

Yes, I actually owned that one already (I was thinking it was the 2nd one or something) I’ll give it a test though with my 4080 Super and see how it compares. Can you share the graphic settings?

It does look good. The Eisblock is still available though, and may get it just because it’s less expensive. Alphacool is stepping it up for sure though. All of their GPU blocks are less expensive than the EKWB, Heatkiller, and Optimus. And based on the comparisons they perform almost as well as the Optimus in GPU temps, and actually better than the Optimus in VRAM temps.

Have you seen the Alphacool Core V2? I’m gonna get one of these. It looks pretty nice. It wraps around the whole GPU, and the actual block is longer and covers the PCB. As for the terminals, it’s made to the block so the terminal and block are one piece.

Hey, @Mr. Fox I notice you bought a Alphacool Eisblock for your 4090 Gaming OC. But did you buy the V2 version since you have a 4090 Gaming OC V2? I’m looking at three blocks maybe (3) versions Alphacool makes for the 4090 Gaming OC. #1 Alphacool Eisblock Gaming OC #2 Alphacool Eisblock V2 Gaming OC #3 Alphacool Core Gaming OC V2 I really like the Alphacool Core V2, it wraps around the whole PCB but it’s a little more expensive. I think since you had a solid experience, I’ll grab one. Don’t think I’ll leave the 4090 on air 🤣

Not sure why the P5810X is so expensive either that is an interesting one though. But price to performance the Intel P5801X wins. A lot of guys in China are running these E1S P5801X gum stick style Optanes. There is a website called Bilibili it’s like Chinese YouTube lol. Many videos on there about the P5801X, some even show its performance in benchmarks. See this one video below, and you can see an unboxing of P5801X and it shows off that very hefty heatsink they have, and the really well engineered design. And they still get very warm. But they are a nice quality looking piece of storage. They are very tall and thick. I am assuming this is to keep them from throttling since they consume so much power for something so small. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Qp421y7N5/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click The drive below is Gen4, so you’d have those super fast speeds. But the latency from these things are so low, and such high IOPS would make this drive absolutely superior in speed and feel using Windows daily compared those traditional Gen4/Gen5 M.2’s.

I thought the new Gigabyte Z790 ITX motherboard was really good at ram OC? I’d go for that.

Intel Optane is the best. I’m going to get a P5800X still. They are expensive like all get out though. I really want an 800GB as an OS drive, and those are just way too much right now. I almost pulled the trigger on a 400GB P5800X a few times If you want to see a good deal though, go check out the Intel P5801X on eBay. It’s a M.2 style, but uses E1S connectors, these are actually faster than a 5800X and can consume 20+ watts of juice easily. You can run a E1S to PCIe or E1S to M.2 adapter. They also have higher write/read speeds and more IOPS than a traditional U.2 P5800X. They have a massive heatsink attached to keep them cool. There are two sku’s on eBay. “BEF” or “BF1” the BEF is an Engineering sample. BF1 is retail sample. But they are blistering fast and only $460 for a BF1 usually. I’m gonna snag one next week or week after probably, and an adapter. I got side tracked with another hardware purchase, so I held off. PS: If you didn’t know. The E1S connector will essentially be the replacement for M.2 connectors we use now. They are hot swappable, and capable of much higher power draw. Newer enterprise seem to be using this. They are really cool though. I did a lot of research on these below.

So if a 4080 Super can do the above, just imagine what a mid-range GPU is capable of. Something still very impressive I’m sure. I think if one is gonna running a mid range GPU and 1080P, CPU+RAM helps a lot.

Nice! I’ll go get it. Thanks. Take a look at the monstrous performance of a stock 14th gen Intel chip, tuned DDR5, and on a clogged up “non-modified” Win11 install lol. This kind of blew my mind seeing 1080P render at such consistent GPU usage even with FPS over the 300’s. I think these chips can easily handle whatever next gen Nvidia can throw at them comfortably. Also shows how much the E-Cores really help. Keeps the game smooth, and the GPU usage high.

Alright awesome! And good luck! Maybe it will have a IMC like this one.

I am sort of a patreon supporter for this guy named “Pure Dark” anyways, the guy makes mods for games that do not initially or never support DLSS, or Frame Gen etc. Some of his stuff is free, while the rest of it is behind a pay wall ($5 dollars per month, you can just pay once download everything and cancel lol). But, I think it’s worth it. Game devs are slow to incorporate the best Nvidia tech in some of these titles. And I think that’s where the Pure Dark modded comes in useful. I am using his mods in Avatar Pandora game, it added Nvidia DLSS3+FG and it worked 100% smoothly. He’s also done a lot of other older games, that were pre frame gen. He also did Starfield DLSS+ FG before Bethesda added it to the game officially like 4-6 months later lol. Anyways, I still have a subscription to him and I need to cancel it. @electrosoft Dis you snag that SP109 (14900KS) for $599? 😂

I tried something like that with those DLSS+FG mods for games from Pure Dark on Reddit, but I don’t think it works on RTX3000 series. Never worked for me anyways only the upscaling would actually work. I remember trying on Starfield and the Pandora game. No luck though. Unless something has changed. My son has a 3060 12G, it’d help him out a good bit 😀

We’ll probably see something similar happen with RTX5000 series. I just hope it’s not as drastic though. It was pretty sad seeing an RTX4070 straight outpace these heavy OC 3090/3090Ti’s in ray tracing games with their frame gen.

Yeah the 4080 Super is very nice. Primarily with just how efficient it is. 90% of the time my 4080 Super with the 450W bios is literally 80% of a stock RTX4090 (Most of the time) It’s pretty fast! My old 3090KP was also quick for a 3090, it was substantially faster than overclocked 3090Ti’s. I believe the biggest advantage is the 4080S feels faster in real world when using RT/FG/DLSS3. Not to mention Cyberpunk 2077. Mainly because of Frame Gen. I can play Cyberpunk with 4K, DLSS Quality, Ultra RT, Path tracing off, and average exactly 100FPS. My 3090 would be high 50‘s here. So it makes the 4080S feel and seem like a monster in comparison all thanks to Frame Gen, better RT performance, and all at a fraction of the power cost lol. And it’s just so much smoother. When I was playing CB2077 on my 3090KP I had a profile that was pulling about 580-620W range on power. And it was barely maintaining that 54-60. I actually did buy a 4090. So we’ll see if it’s able to offer me more than 20% uptick. Possibly 25%. 😬 I’m hopeful though. The 4090 seems like sometimes it can just demolish in these rare scenarios, but other times it only offers a smaller boost over the 4080 Super. I know the 4090 is strong. But when I see my benchmarks compared to a stock 4090, I’m a little hesitant. But then I think about how much I enjoyed just 18%, whereas if it is something in the realm of 20-28% that would be a very welcome improvement. Anyways, I always thought going from a 3090Ti to a 4080 Super is pretty much like a half way mark to the full on 4090 performance boost. Some people may not think that’s good enough though, and that certainly makes sense.

@Mr. Fox I’m wondering if you could help me with this. I wanted to ask a question. I cannot find this answer anywhere about burification on the Apex. If I had a X8 lane PCIe add in card and wanted to run (2) x4 NVME's on this add in card using my 2nd PCIe x16 slot on my Z790 Apex, would that work? I know it would drop my top GPU PCIe to X8, but I'm wondering if the 2nd PCIe would see both of the x4 NVME SSD's in my 2nd x16 PCIe slot. I can’t seem to find this information. I see people reporting that it may only see (1) of them.

Man I really like this! I love the skull on it looks really cool. This would honestly be a great way to get in to direct die very affordably. Someone could chop in to it and splice in to this loop with more pumps and bigger or more rads. 😎

Yeah I’ve been doing a lot of research on these drives. I’ve decided I am going to get an Intel Optane. I’m on the hunt for an Intel P5800X to use as a OS drive only. I’m trying to find a good deal. If I can’t find one here soon, I will probably just settle and grab a Optane 905P which are only $300 on sale. I really want the gen4 Optane though. I want to see what that ultra low latency feels like as an OS drive. I was also looking at these Intel Optane P5801X these are like a M.2/gum stick version of the U.2 P5800X. I have seen those for much cheaper but I’d need a E1.S to Gen4 PCIx4 adapter card. Which I may go that route as well. All of this is purely for fun of trying something different, but also because I keep hearing people say how amazing these Optanes are as an OS drive because of that crazy low latency and very high iops .

@Rage Set I know you are big in to storage and was wondering if you know anything about these drives, or maybe had any experience with them? The Intel 5520 U.2 SSD. These seem like an amazing deal for what you are getting. And I’m trying to figure out any downsides I’m not aware of. (1) 7.1GB Read speeds (Very fast like Gen4 M.2 (2) U.2 can be used in a U.2 to PCIe X4 adapter or even raid two of them together. 🤩 (3) 7.68TB of storage space. (4) Can be had for as cheap as $600 USD (Maybe lower if you look harder) (5) Most 8TB M.2’s are much more expensive, and slower unless you can find a Gen4 8TB M.2 which is usually much more expensive. (6) They also have an insane write per life span, I believe the 7.68TB model has a 14,000+ TB write per life. I believe my 2TB M.2 has a 160TB write per life lol.

This IMC has been blessed by someone. DDR5 8600 C36 sending 1.570 VDD and 1.450 VDDQ. Easily the best memory controller I have ever had tried on any LGA 1700 CPU. I have heard this as well. I see many people using them as OS drives. Even the smaller ones just because they can extract/transfer files super insanely fast compared to a traditional M.2. It removes all of the problems that regular drives suffer from. Plus, they kind of look cool as a bonus lol. Below is an Intel 5800X but they are crazy expensive.