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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.

I’d be okay running my GPU at Gen5 x8 lanes. I think it would be equivalent to Gen4 x16. But I’m not running Gen4 x8 lanes.

I always thought our best Gen3 and Gen4 drives today are not all that great. They sell us on some write-speeds that are not realistic. Maybe realistic for transferring a large single file type like a video. But using these drives for real world stuff, like extracting files, extracting apps made up of hundreds of different tiny file types, transferring large game files from one Gen4 to another Gen4 is very slow and tedious. One good example of this would be downloading and extracting R24. It is very slow even on a 2TB Gen 4 drive. This becomes even worse when transferring large games that are 10-20GB or maybe even 200GB made up from thousands of tiny files. I think we need better/faster than this. I can download the file in 10 seconds but wait 10 minutes to extract it lol. And it's a fairly smaller file 1.3GB in size. Now I am kind of curious how a Gen5 M.2 would handle the R24 extraction process. 🙂

So is waterchilling an M.2 maybe becoming a useful thing now? 🤣 I’ll probably keep this Apex and 14900KS for a while. So I will swap to Gen5 M.2’s when I have a Gen5 PCIe supported graphics card. Our motherboards have Gen5 PCI-e support. But using a Gen5 M.2 will only let our GPU’s run at X8 lanes. I think X8 Gen 5 would be satisfactory.

My first attempts at stabilizing 8600C38 "Tighter Timings" with only 1.470V VDD/ 1.450V VDDQ 🥰. I'm going to guess and say 1.450V VDD will pass as well. (Have not tried yet) But this IMC is freakishly strong. I am finally in a place where my ram IC silicon quality will be at play for sure. Ram Kit: G.Skill 2x24GB 8200@1.350V M-Die DDR5@ 8600 Timings@ CL38-49-49-49-84 131,071K tREFI VDD: 1.470V VDDQ 1.450V Bandwidth and latency are really good considering the CPU is 100% stock, and the ring is still only at 4.5R 😄 This is usually a good sign. In my experience strained IMC's will usually show not so good performance.

Man, I really want to try new Intel 15th Gen 285K Ultra when that drops. But I highly doubt I will be coming off of my current setup anytime soon. Apex A04/14900KS/DDR5 8600. It’s too dang good right now. The speed/stability/reliability aspect is pure golden.

OLED will ruin other panels visual appeal like IPS/TN for sure. I might be down sizing when I move, and it’ll probably be something like a 32” 240hz oled. I have complete faith in the technology though.

Nearly 1,700 hours of screen on time with this 2021 OLED 48” monitor now. I’m amazed by Oled still. I’d confidently recommend any OLED monitor/TV nowadays especially. I am using the MSI A1000 (Little dinky thing it is). I bought it from the MSI store for a pretty good price. The new car smell on these is so strong it almost smells like burned electronics lol. VERY strong smell. It had my whole house smelling like that. I’m amazed that I’m using this 1,000 watt baby PSU though. It has been extremely reliable, everyone was laughing at its size on here if I’m not mistaken. It powers my entire PC and cooling setup. (5) D5 pumps, (0) fans, 14900KS, Apex, and 4080 Super Suprim X. I’ve had absolutely no problems with it, even with extreme 6.1P/4.9E benching I did on my prior chip with direct die. This little thing is a beast! It’s an MSI so no complaints. Bonus pic of my two kittens by accident. They are brother and sister. 🤣 On another note, I have to add this in. That big expensive EVGA 1300P+ unit was a screaming coil whining mess. This dinky MSI 1,000 is completely silent and surprisingly it’s a better product. No matter how large of a load or what game I am playing I have zero electrical noise when moving my mouse, or when gaming anymore. Just stability, and no noise. I put the 1300P+ in my son’s build since his RTX3060 12G doesn’t make it scream. 😎

I think with the price of GPU's. It is worth repairing them! Even if it's a $200-$400 dollar repair. You are going to spend way more buying another 7900XTX anyways. Anyways, check this out everyone. This DDR5 8600 with 1.400V is definitely stable. 8600@1.400v is so impossibly hard to run. Never owned a chip that can actually do this.

I’ll be grabbing a used 4090, or probably a RTX5080 I guess they’ll still be like $1500 lol.😂

These 14900KS chips are true Lava Monsters when paired with traditional cooling. But they can be tamed down nicely without actually taming it down. This stock 14900KS idles at 10 watts, and loads up at 290 watts. Even with DDR5 8600 and 6.2Ghz boost, using auto voltage and LLC4. It is very efficient for an Intel chip, even compared to AMD I think it’s still pretty crazy efficient for its performance it puts out. 😎 Chiller rarely cycles when working during the day. It’s quite nice!

Over here enjoying this 14900KS. Great dang chip have about 40 hours on it. I’m going to share some screens momentarily here, but so far I have it setup with 5.9Ghz (8P) 6.2Ghz (2P) all auto voltage, LLC4, ACLL 0.20/DCLL 1.00 the E-Cores are at 4.5Ghz stock, and even with a 320 watt power limit set in the bios, it doesn’t go past 290 watts in Cinebench R23 or 239 amps 🤯 and that’s with DDR5 8600 and 1.400v vdd/vddq set in bios. The VID’s are set perfect, so it essentially idles and boost to 6.2Ghz with 1.350’s VID’s sitting in desktop, and under heavy load it drops to 1.190’s matching the load vcore. 😃 CPU temp says 60C max, but cpu package temp is actually 68C. It feels like my R-batch but with better IMC, and maybe a little more temp resistant up top in the 6Ghz range since it’s not delidded and all.