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So guy on OC forums said Intel could not replace his 13900KS under warranty because they didn’t have any, so they offered him a refund instead. What in the heck…🤯These things must be gone for good then.

I have no idea, this was a while back when I was considering getting a 4090 laptop. I think it was actually a video on YouTube. But I was researching and investigating the crossload thing a lot, and I was able to see some advantages where a 7945HX CPU would spare more overhead for your 4090 somewhere. This was part of what kinda turned me away, because I had my mind set on the faster clocked intel chips. I don’t doubt your machine is fast though.

You know how all of these machines have a combined CPU and GPU max limit for both component loads? Some are 200 watts, others are 250 watts maybe. Well, I saw somewhere during testing with Battlefield 2042, and with the Ryzen 4090 machine it was straight whooping the Intel 4090 laptops. And this was because 4090 and Intel CPU was scaling back during gameplay because power consumption. The Intel chips were using much more power. While the Ryzen chip stayed clocked higher during gameplay, and it allowed the 4090 GPU to use more power too. I don’t think they can lock that 175 TGP watts during gameplay. Not even a GT77 can do that (Maybe games like Dying Lite 2 or low cpu power games). Because the CPU can hit just 60-70 watts in plenty of titles, and it starts throttling back the 4090 available power to the 130’s and 140’s range. It kind of sucks that they do this. But they just stay inside of that 230ish combined CPU/GPU power range. They have to power other components with the 330W brick like the panel, keyboard, trackpad, fans RGB lights, motherboard, storage, and other items.

I was impressed as well. It’s actually a little faster than my 3090 desktop. And to be a laptop, that is just crazy. Only that laptop has benefits of DLSS3, frame insertion etc. Not bad at all. I think the GPU score is really good because the CPU uses less of the available max system power limit. So on average that 4090 will be a little quicker in GPU bound scenarios than the Intel/4090 laptops.

I thought this too, but the Unify was a (4) Dimm model, and the Unify-X was a (2) Dimm model so we had both options. They did not release either models. Then to see the Gigabyte Tachyon Z790 2-dimm release right on schedule was just like “Garbage lol”. Not just that but we had a 50% bump to our system ram standards with the new 2x24GB and 2x48GB sticks. The overclocking community bleeds for the MSI Unify-X Z790. But what can we do. At least the new Apex is good and not a broken paper weight.

MSI is really great, I just don’t understand where their head is at. When something is good, we should keep that going and keep it updated with new models. I loved my Unity-X Z690 so much. It was just fantastic. The updated Gigabutt Tachyon Z790 2 dimm released The updated EVGA Z790 Dark 2 Dimm released The updated Asus Z790 Apex 2 Dimm released. The updated MSI Unify-X 2 Dimm never came 🤷‍♂️ Why would MSI not release something that is so awesome? It was and still is a massive success. Most of their new Z790 boards are catered to cheaper priced gamer crowd.

I’m never buying another EVGA PSU. I bought a brand new EVGA 1300G+ which was a newer design from them. I bought it right off their website. It popped and smoked by flipping the rear switch off and on too quickly. My replacement was a 1300P+ (More expensive platinum model) both of these units were released in the middle of 2020, and bought new. So they are not very old units. The 1300G+ failed after a very short period, maybe a week or a month I cannot remember. Now, my 1300P+ screams at me if any load of 200+ watts is placed on my computer, it has done this since new. The higher the load the louder it screams 🙂. I really need to get a 3rd power supply I suppose.. How can they miss this screaming noise when they tested this unit? I will say my 1300P+ works fantastic and handles any load I throw at it for nearly 2 years now. But it just screams and squelches like a beast. 😂 I am tempted to give a 1,000 watt unit a try. But I’m not sure if it’s enough with all of my pumps and accessories. I think it can work though. So I may go for a higher quality 1,000 watt unit. I am open to suggestions, preferably a white PSU. 🙂

Someone buy this! RTX3090 24GB with EKWB block and backplate for $485 amazing deal. https://www.overclock.net/threads/asus-tuf-oc-rtx-3090-with-ek-water-block-installed-and-ek-backplate.1806878/#post-29209309

I think it runs alright. Not as good as it should for such an old game with bad graphics lol. Below is 4K resolution “Can it Run Crysis” graphic setting. No DLSS, no tweaks. If you are getting 24fps with your setup, then it’s safe to say if you had a RTX3080 right now you’d be getting a good decent bump I’m frame rate. Sometimes we can’t really use older performance numbers though. Faster CPU’s, new drivers etc. I know the RTX30 series has gone through a vast improvement with driver improvement alone.

Which remastered version of Crysis? I actually do own them on Epic Games! Intel gave me all of them when I bought an 11900K back in 2021. I see all of these: Crysis 1 Remastered Crysis 2 Remastered Crysis 3 Remastered Also, what graphics settings?

Yep, it’s crazy. I tested a very very similar profile, and discovered that exact thing with 2x24GB. It can run passive at 8000-8200 and pass anything with temps even in the 60’s lol. It is really something. My Team Group 7200’s would be beyond a BSOD at only 50C+ with no OC using just XMP and maybe 5,000 on the tREFI. PS: You can bump the tREFI and still get them really really hot without much trouble.

The last of us (Shader Compile) and gaming at 8800. I have not seen a single BSOD, WHEA, or crash on this profile. 🤷‍♂️ https://youtu.be/C3jRRKQuw1g

I have been running DDR5 8800 C40-52-52-52-135 for several hours now for gaming. I’m amazed this is even game stable. No WHEA errors, everything is solid. I’m seriously impressed with these 48 gig G.Skill 7200 sticks. Bios 1203 is solid! I couldn’t get 8800 to post before on 0904 bios. Now, 8800 posted very first try. Not only that, but it’s stable. “Stable enough” 🤣 I started out earlier today with 8800 C40-54-54-54-148. And I have been slowly tightening it up a bit.

Something seemed really wrong with Mr.Fox performance when it was in Gen4 X8 mode, it was far worse than even PCIe Gen 1.0 in that 4090 Bandwidth link.

I am wondering if PCI-E X8@Gen 5 can fully provide the bandwidth for a overclocked RTX4090. I imagine it probably can. That’s one nice advantage to the Z790 Apex. At least both X16 slots are Gen5 capable. So if you do use the expansion card, your bandwidth to the GPU should be just as good. @Mr. Fox Maybe you can test this with the 3DMark PCI-E bandwidth feature test. It’s a quick test. And see what Gen5 X16 vs Gen5 X8 provides. It may be identical. You have a 4090, so this would really demonstrate if you lose any frames or bandwidth at all. I think even x8 Gen4 would be enough. I’m seriously curious.

Only one way to find out! Give it a go. I’m sure it’ll work pretty well.

I would love to have this GPU. But I would never pay $2,000+ dollars for it LOLZ. I know they’re super rare. And I like the white PCB as well, with the single sided memory. More than anything, I would just like to play around with it for a bit and see how it clocks. I really wish there was a 4090 HOF with the HOF waterblock included or available.

I loved them! I wanted one back in the day. I thought they were cool. Massive and huge gaming laptop. Today a MSI GT77 Titan is a far better option though for half the price and Mini LED display.

I would absolutely love to throw in another 3090 Kingpin HC. That would be a cool setup. Especially if it worked!

I had two 2080Ti’s in NVLink in 2020-2021. The 2080Ti was a bit of an odd GPU. So it had the full bandwidth SLI link some Quadro cards had at 100Gbps, but all of the Nvidia GeForce NVLink adapters were limited to 50Gbps which was what a normal RTX2080 could do. So, I ran (2) 2080Ti’s with unlimited power bios, and a Quadro 100Gbps NVLink bridge so I could get their full potential. I really tried to make it as good as it could be. And it just really sucked. The first issue was the power consumption. Each card could easily draw 450 watts. Then my 7980XE was capable of like 1,000 watts in R23 benchmark alone. So feeding this gaming beast with even a 1,200 watt platinum PSU resulted in constant power shutdowns. The 2nd issue was making SLI work and scale. And even when it did perform and scale 100% with games like RDR2 that use Vulkan API, the 1% lows and latency was the absolute worst. Like 30-70ms frame times. Super high max and average frame rates with minimums in the teens. It was really a difficult experience, every now and then it was fun, but that was too rare an occurrence. My 3090 Kingpin rolled in and dogged those 2080Ti’s in everything. 🤣 while being so easy, and so much smoother. And, no messing around in the Nvidia profile inspector for hours and hours just to make something work. The dual GPU idea was amazing! And it can absolutely work. I would love to run (2) 3090 Kingpins and just go smash on 4090’s lol. But that idea is just not very likely. Maybe in synthetic benchmarks, but not games.

I’ll definitely buy the refresh CPU’s for Z790 later this year. But I’m okay on GPU’s for now. I game a few hours a week usually. Maybe 3 hours per week. I mostly work and use my CPU more 6-8+ hours a day. I did game a lot more in the past and really have thousands of hours on my 3090. So much so that if it stopped working right now I would not be surprised one bit, mainly because of the constant high wattage it has ran for so long now. EVGA really does make a good GPU. But yes the addiction is real at times. 4090 Super could launch at any time, and I would be like 🧐 🥺 haha, even though I really don’t need it one bit.

I don’t believe I have ever installed armory crate before, maybe with the Z690 Apex just to see how bad it was. So many bad things I have heard though. I leave it be and don’t mess with it. I never installed it with my Z790 Apex. PS: The new FW and bios is absolutely solid solid solid though. DDR5 8600c38 worked perfectly for hours of gaming yesterday, and all day today while working within virtual machines and apps. This specific 8600 profile is just a base line profile to fine tune those timings your self. But once dialed in it is very low latency and very very fast. Your 2x24GB DDR5 8000 kit should be able to take full advantage of that.

You know there was a guy who melted his connector on his 3090 and his plug was not connected all the way, he even admitted to that on the overclock forums, that his plug wasn’t fully seated. So is all this 4090 connector stuff just from the plug not being seated properly?

That’s really awesome. I’ve been waiting years for this game. Bethesda is the absolute best. I played the Morrowind elder scrolls when I was like 12 years old and I loved it so much I got hooked, the. Years later Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, and Fallout 4. I hope it’s good. I feel bad for the guys on Sony though.

What’s funny is Starfield was gonna be a Sony PS5 exclusive lol. Then Microsoft went and bought Zenith/Bethesda studios just to prevent this. So now it will be on Game Pass for PC and Xbox on launch day 🤣 consoles are all on AMD hardware though so FSR2 being in Starfield makes sense. It still works on Nvidia though right?