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There is a Z790 Dark on overclock forums for $625. There is also a 13900KS for $600 shipped. (Unknown SP)

Yes I bought the refurb model. When I bought it yesterday, it was actually only $480 dollars on newegg. They have been slowly bumping the price up. I could not let it go by, I ordered before I even read refurb. 🤣 Fingers crossed. PS: It has the vesa mounting on the rear. I really didn’t think $800 was bad at all, and. OLED panels are kind of expensive, just like Mini LED panels. You also have KVM switch built in so you can use two computers with the monitor simultaneously with Picture in Picture.

You know if the new 4090 was labeled as “Titan” it would literally be $3,000 dollars lol. The “Titan” moniker drags around some big balls behind it 🤣 lol. Even if they aren’t drastically faster than the gamer GTX/RTX variant that ran 3-5% slower (Or some performed even slower lol). The word “Tiiiiiiitannnnnnnnn” “Oooooooooo ahhhhhh” magicallllllllll

The 4080 Super looks good if it’s 20% faster for $1,199. The $1,999 4090 Super does not appeal for a 10% boost. Wouldnt this make the 4080 Super only about 10% slower than a normal 4090? Future GPU competition looks amazing!!! I’m ready to see the competition from Intel and AMD.

This is probably the best deal in gaming monitors today for under $500. Mini-LED 27” super bright, 576 dimming zones, great monitors. It’s fantastic to see Mini-LED reach mainstreamish price range. https://www.newegg.com/p/3D4-007C-00010?Description=Mini LED 27”&cm_re=Mini_LED 27”-_-9SIBK6TJNR5469-_-Product

Do you have any personal experience with OLED’s? I have never owned one besides my smartphones. I would prefer Mini LED. But I actually got the Aorus 48 for $550, so I could not pass it up!

I just bought a new toy. My dream monitor. Aorus 48” OLED 120HZ Monitor. 🤯 I’ve held off on upgrading my GPU and decided to replace my monitor instead which is more useful to me than a faster GPU. I work from home 8 hours a day on my rig and I’m kind of tired of these dual 27” (2560x1440) panels. I keep hearing one single large 4K panel makes working within multiple apps a lot easier with it being all on the same screen. Plus, my 3090 Kingpin excels best at 4K resolutions anyways. https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16824716003?item=N82E16824716003&source=region&nm_mc=knc-googleadwords-pc&cm_mmc=knc-googleadwords-pc-_-pla-_-gaming+monitors-_-N82E16824716003&utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid+shopping&utm_campaign=knc-googleadwords-pc-_-pla-_-gaming+monitors-_-N82E16824716003&id0=Google&id1=19482411089&id2=153453153308&id3=&id4=&id5=pla-1445639081205&id6=&id7=9009661&id8=&id9=g&id10=c&id11=&id12=EAIaIQobChMI9KWE25qy_wIVJCfUAR3dgwKnEAQYAyABEgJRffD_BwE&id13=&id14=Y&id15=&id16=643825081351&id17=&id18=&id19=&id20=&id21=pla&id22=8438988&id23=online&id24=N82E16824716003&id25=US&id26=1445639081205&id27=Y&id28=&id29=&id30=3770041879072566394&id31=en&id32=&id33=&id34=&gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9KWE25qy_wIVJCfUAR3dgwKnEAQYAyABEgJRffD_BwE

The video @electrosoft posted above was made before the HOF 4090 existed, so the 4090 SG was the world record holder at the time. I think the KFA2 4080 SG still is. Unless of course the HOF 4080 wiped it out, I wouldn’t be surprised lol. I’d love to have a HOF 4080/4090.

That’s really interesting. I thought their Galax KFA2 4090SG, and even the KFA2 4080 SG were both the record holder before the HOF models were introduced of course. I see the Strix is #4 on your list, but doesn’t everyone say they suck? I’m so confused. 😭

I think I’m gonna grab one of these. Anyone have one? This is the basic KFA2 Galax SG 4090. But it looks beautiful! And for $1,649.99 that’s really a nice GPU in stock 2 day shipping! 450 watt TGP, and 2580Mhz boost. Looks like it has some sort of vapor chamber cooler that will work alright considering. I may even just leave it on the stock air cooler and let me cpu and ram be waterchilled only. The chiller would certainly run a lot less lol. Yay nay? https://www.amazon.com/Galax-GeForce-1-Click-Feature-Graphics/dp/B0BWNFZJNZ/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?hvadid=568647870446&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9010024&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=16276173527777476158&hvtargid=kwd-1429632458579&hydadcr=22535_11318315&keywords=geforce+rtx+4090&qid=1685727115&sr=8-1-spons&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.17f26c18-b61b-4ce9-8a28-de351f41cffb&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyNUVZMDlZVDVQS09HJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjExOTE4MVk4WDVZVzhHNVNIMCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwOTc5NjY4MVlCQ0JVQkIxWkwxUyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

Intel can keep inventory pretty well with CPU’s. And this has been the case for a little while now. So I think if Intel did make silicon for Nvidia it would work out just fine, because there would be an abundance of GPU’s during launch. Obviously “besides the 13900KS” but that is a limited edition CPU. So it is what it is with that one. “While supplies last type of deal” I would be curious to see how this goes.

Imagine if we died suddenly, our significant others would clear out/ sell all of our parts for “What we said we paid for them” “Hey honey! I got the new 4090 it was only $300 honey!!” ”I got it on sale, couldn’t pass it up” “Dies in a car crash” “4 months later” ”4090 for sale only $200 was $300 new” 🤣

@Mr. Fox That is crazy about the G.Skill 7200’s. Everyone I know with those is running 8200-8600 fairly easily. But these people are on Apex Z790’s. I’m not sure how they would run on a Z690 Dark The Team Group (2x16GB) 7200’s I sold you could barely stabilize 7600-7800 on my Z790 Apex with this bios. Posting 8000-8200 was not even possible. However, the same sticks worked great on the Z690 Unify-X at DDR5 8000 and could bench 8400. Makes no sense sometimes. My bios is well optimized for the 2x24GB/2x48GB rams. Not sure if that makes a difference. But some rams won’t work well on some boards/bios. Someone is sending me the V-Color 8200c38 2x24GB ram kit. I am guessing these will be a tiny smidge better than my 7200’s if at all. Anyways, if they show up I’ll send you mine and you can try these G.Skill 7200’s. I’m not 100% sure they are coming.

I would say G.Skill 1st, Team Group probably 2nd for sure. Avoid Corsair like the plague! Corsair does not like to take care of their customers at all when it comes to memory so they solder on cheap Micron and other random memory dies to their 48GB/96GB kits. I have the $250 dollar G.Skill 7200 (2x24GB kit) and it’s at DDR5 8600c38 daily with 1.550V. So yeah the G.Skill 7200 (2x24) is really the bee’s knee’s for ram today. @Etern4lEDIT: My 7200 kit runs at the full speed of the more expensive DDR5 8000c40 kit with only 1.335V. So that tells me the kits are probably binned the same. And G.Skill wants people to buy these 🤣

I think many Z690/Z790 2 dimm motherboards are better than a lot of people think. That 7600-7800ish range is really the IMC limitation on many 13th gen CPU’s. Even my own SP110 13900K could not “Truly” stabilize DDR5 7800 with my Unify-X. I thought it was my Z690 Unity-X motherboard the entire time. I popped in a 13900KS with a superior IMC and BAM! I am benching DDR5 8400 easily without even touching my CPU IMC voltage or CPU IVR TX voltage. Funny thing is, you also don’t see many people mentioning this either. I didn’t realize the chip had a weak IMC until after I got rid of it actually lol. Even when I had my KS in the Unify-X, I ran 7600-7800ish for a bit. Until one day I got a wild hair and started messing with memory overclocking again. And then I had a revaluation of a moment. 🤯when DDR5 8000c34 was so easily daily stable. I got me a great IMC on this KS here. I really love it. Make an all the difference in that fine tuning.

Seeing all of these new and crazy expensive slower GPU’s is really why I have been happy with my 3090KP for so long. I’ve had it for almost 2 years now. I have never kept a GPU this long in my LIFE!! I usually dump them after 3-6 months. But what can I say? It’s been fast! Nvidia released some optimized drivers that improved performance in a lot of titles. And when you feed it 650 watts in games, all backed by a 13900KS and DDR5 8600 It’s really really quick in 1440P haha. Hard to believe people can pick these up for $600 ish throw a waterblock on, flash bios and gain another 18-20% in performance. That’s a bargain. Especially with DLSS and all. Once I do upgrade my GPU, it will be exciting! Because I am bored to death with this thing 😂. This 3090 Kingpin Hydro Copper has sat on top of numerous builds. 7980XE+X299 Dark 3090KP 10900K+Z490 Dark KP 3090KP 10850K+Z490 Dark KP 3090KP 11900K+Z590 Dark 3090KP 13900K+Z690 Unify-X 3090KP 13900KS+Z690 Apex 3090KP 13900KS+Z790 Apex 3090KP 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

That’s awesome. Much better cpu that KS is. Once they are all delidded and on direct die, no matter the SP they all are in a similar range with one another. I would push the ring and see where it goes. Some odd ball KS can run 5.4 ring perfectly fine. Several of my 13900K could do 5.3 ring even. May as well max it out lol. My KS can only run 5.1 tops stable. But yours can probably go 5.2 or even 5.3.

NEVERRRRRR MUWAHAHAHAH!!!!! lol. Kidding. Honestly, I’m just waiting to upgrade. This 3090 is super fast still, 16,200ish Port Royal with my current profile. I launch titles and max them all out perfectly fine at 2560x1440P 80+ to 100+ FPS easy with even the most demanding titles. I’m waiting for the 4090Ti or 4090 Titan to see what happens with regular 4090 prices. I’d like to grab a cheap 4090 HOF. Or maybe splurge and grab a full on Titan of 2023 for $2,999. I will say this though. For the first time I saw a game push my GPU pretty dang hard, this was last night. I was cruising through steam and I bought “Callisto effect” on sale for like $30 bucks. And I maxed it out 100%, ray tracing, and no down scaling enabled at all, it was averaging about 70’s 80’s. But I did see my system dip to 51 fps at one point in the game. I was pretty surprised. The graphics looked amazing though.

Test benches are just so good! That’s why @Mr. Fox keeps going back to it. No matter what new case he tries, he always goes back to that trusty old test bench😂

These new 7200 G.Skill sticks are just madness. Anyone else running these new 2x24’s? Mine have been at 8600 c38-52-52-52-139 for over a week now. Solid as a rock! I slowly worked my way up on these. First 8000 for some days, then 8200 for some days, then 8400 for some days, now 8600 and I tell you after 7 days of daily use you no BSODS, no WHEAS. Just solid as a rock!! I work on this system 8 hours a day as well. It’s really surprising to be running this. 😂 DDR5 8600 138.900 MBPS bandwidth 50.7ns latency. These are my timings below. I run these voltages. 1.350 CPU IMC 1.350 IVR TX 1.550V DDR5 VDD 1.500V DDR5 VDDQ PS: The 6.3Ghz is just (4) core loads, 6.0Ghz for all cores. I keep my water at 18.3C daily, but it does reach 24C at times during gaming. This KS is really not picky of water temps like my 13900K was. I had to maintain a SUB 18C cold temp with my 13900K for 6Ghz daily, whereas my 13900KS is like whatever…. “I like bath water” strange silicon these KS chips are! They have something special in them 🤷‍♂️🤣

Anyone try one of these liquid devil 7900XTX? They cost $1,399.99. I think it’s cool looking. https://www.microcenter.com/product/664356/powercolor-amd-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-liquid-devil-overclocked-liquid-cooled-24gb-gddr6-pcie-40-graphics-card

Testing DDR5 8600c38 with my G.Skill 7200 2x24GB sticks. Looking great so far!! Man oh man! I got a good IMC, I got a good motherboard, and I have a good ram set! This trio combo really makes it too easy. CPU IMC voltages are at 1.350v CPU IVR TX voltages are 1.350v DDR5 VDD is 1.530V DDR5 VDDQ is 1.500v I had a feeling my IMC was good because of how well the chip could drive high DDR5 8000+ speeds on just a Unify-X Z690. You can be IMC limited on either Z690 Dark, and Z690 Unify-X.

Man, I have been sick as a dog forever now. I had like COVID or the flu 🤷‍♂️. Funny because I took vacation from work, and been sick all this time, perfect timing I guess 😂. I have lost 16lbs in a week by just laying around in bed being sick!! That is insane.

That sucks. I would have just paid the extra $70. It’s definitely a great motherboard. And it would be a really fun project to swap everything over. And in the end you’d have a unicorn Z690 Apex.

Great results! How’s the Apex treating you? I think not bad for the money! It’s like only $699.99 compared to the Z790 Dark $799.99. I’m loving mine man, especially with these 2x24GB dimms. Stabilizing 8200 on air cooling was a walk in the park with only 1.350V. Passes right through Ant777 extreme. I’m not quite done yet, I’ve just been too busy this week for any serious tuning. I may be able to get 8400 on air cooling. This is hopeful thinking. But these 2x24 sticks don’t run quite as tight timings as traditional 2x16 kits, so faster speeds are much easier I think.