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Hey everyone! I was hoping to get some opinions on this. I want to get (2) new monitors or (1) new monitor. I’m gonna finally be replacing my 2560x1440P@165Hz G-Sync TN and IPS units. These panels have been nice, but I want better colors.. I think deep blacks and good colors is the key for a nice experience. Anyways, With all of the options we have OLED and MINI-LED available. Both are capable of some crazy deep blacks, but I feel like Mini-LED would be more reliable. If you were to spend $1,000-$1,500+ on a panel or panels. What would you prefer? Monitors last me years. So Ideally I’d want something that’s good for 3-5 years with good performance. Any thoughts on this? I’m worried about OLED, but maybe I shouldn’t be.

Windows 11 Spectre is the best! Ghost Spectre makes a custom catered OS for Gamers/benchers. No bloat, no excess resources burning in the background. My system idles at 0% cpu usage. And the E-Cores are being used now in gaming. Regular Windows 11 just parks them. Run any benchmark before and after and see the boost right before your eyes. Higher Memory bandwidth, lower memory latency, higher 3DMark, Cinebench, CPU-Z bench. They all score substantially higher. Cutting the excess fat off of an OS provides better gaming performance. Less waste, and lower power consumption. Back doors? Who knows Lol. I’m sure windows 10/11 already has those. I’m gaming and working. I don’t keep anything personal on my computer anyways. https://youtu.be/KFDxB_tmxKw

Same, that’s so funny! I was having a blast playing, then I read through the reviews afterwards thinking, what in the world? Game ran amazing on my rig. Even with older 3090. Such consistent GPU usage, it runs even better with Spectre Win 11, games now uses all P-Cores and E-Cores. It’s really great.

This is just hilarious! The Last Of Us was a Sony exclusive title forever now. And it’s funny that PC is so popular now, that Sony ports their best games for us 🙂 Well, “The Last Of Us “ was a MAJOR failure!!! The game is absolutely amazing, that is not the issue at all. The issue was the early launch version would compile shaders on launch sucking down lots of CPU power and GPU power all at once literally maxing your PC. I mean, your GPU and CPU are gonna max out and run like that for about 10-20 minutes lol. (The game would crash peoples systems within seconds of launch) the reviews were overwhelmingly negative due to these crashes, and saying exactly what I describe. (Now Here is my point and issue) I was able to recreate this on my very own Z690 APEX “Turd edition” the board had weak memory dimms, and even DDR5 7000 was a stretch. My system was not stable at all!! And “The Last of Us” crashed because of this instability. It wasn’t the game, it was totally fine. It was my computers own stability causing this. With slower memory speeds it was fine on the Z690 Apex. Even with DDR5 8200+ on my MSI Unify-X this would crash. (8200+ was not stable) so it makes sense. Sony released an update that fixed this crashing, but this makes me wonder… is everyone’s system really so unstable they are actually blaming it on the game? I knew “The Last Of Us” did not work on my system with DDR5 8200 with my Unify-X because well, DDR5 8200 was not stable. But, since updating the game and applying their magical “”Crash while building shaders fix”” I can now play it with DDR5 8200… The issue was not the game, but the fact that If your PC was not 100% solid solid solid, it was gonna be wiped out by The Last Of Us during the initial launch version with its heavy load Shader compiling lol. This was actually one of the best stability test around. Because if it closed on compile immediately if your system was not stable lol. Not sure what they did, but they essentially fixed a problem that wasn’t even a problem with the game at all. Too heavy of a load for the average computers I suppose is the only problem. And people are still blaming the game for being crap even though it has been fixed. It is made like this was the developers fault entirely. This is really interesting to me, because the game was always fine so long as your PC was legit stable. Sugi0luver said the exact same thing, when this title first launched. And I quote: “YOU’d better be STABLE for this one” 😂

I think very many 4090’s were sold. It has always been pushed as the, grit your teeth and just buy it now type of GPU. It’s super fast and not a horrible deal if you really think about it. I think the 3090/3090Ti wasn’t a terrible value either if you paid normal retail. The 3090/3090Ti was only bad because it had powerful sibling(s) for so much cheaper below it. But look at those GPU’s today with their limited VRAM, we can clearly see which models lasted the longest. 3090/3090Ti/4090 GPU’s should last years and years!

Yep!!! 😂 The exact motherboard Rev A04. This guy in China has got access to all the great and hard to find cool stuff. He can get Galax HOF 4090 for $2,300 USD. Which is so extremely tempting and it include a Galax HOF 1300 watt power supply with the GPU as a package. It’s all white and has hookups right on the PSU for dual 16 pin pci-e power connectors (No dongles)

It’s finally happening! I have a fresh off the press ROG Apex Z790 rolling in from Malaysia. This one is as new as they get manufactured (03.2023) Rev A04. It will match my test bench and chiller too 😁 Now I just need some 2x24GB DDR5 8000 sticks!

Who the heck would have ever thought, my favorite cpu ever would be some random 13900KS P-SP114 direct die LOL. Man I’m having a blast with this chip! I’m so content with this chip.

My 13900KS SP104 is a crazy chip. My chiller got all the way up to 80F liquid because my breaker tripped some how, and stability was not phased at all during BF2042. So I turned my water temp up. The only thing getting warm is my memory!! It reached 42C with DDR5 8000c34 and it’s still stable. 🥳 This below average chip continues to surprise me. PS: Z790 Apex Revision A04 gets delivered to buyer in China tomorrow, then he’s gonna mail to me. From what I understand not one person has one of these A04’s in the US. Kind of strange Asus keeps these so limited. I’m so happy with how stable my system is right now. Never been this happy. And now I’m swapping motherboards 🤦‍♂️ If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and here I go again 🤪

I‘m having the exact same stuff happen with DDR5 8200, it runs. Battlefield 2042 for a little while, and then black screens. I’ve got DDR5 8000 stable though, I can run BF2042 for an unlimited amount of time with DDR5 8000c34. And my 8000 profile is sub 50ns latency with full tweaked timings. I’m so happy with this. Especially with a Unify-X. I’m calling this a livable overclock, for a few days at least until I’m chasing a dragon again. 🤣 DDR5 8200 benching and running lighter stuff is stable though.

So, DDR5 8000C34 is 100% stable on my air cooled ram Hynix A-Die sticks. I’m glad these sticks did not suck like many of the gamer boy RGB/XMP ram on the market today. This stuff cost hundreds of dollars and manufacturers are selling you the crap that doesn’t OC well. DDR5 8200c36 is not stable all the way. PC just restarts when playing BF2042. I’m going to try and stabilize it. Maybe I can add some more voltage or adjust timings. But this is a long shot here guys. Even DDR5 8000C34 is a TALL order on any Z690 motherboard lol.

Guys, why is my Unify-X running DDR5 8200? Is this even normal? 🤔 Same as before, no effort at all to boot with this, I just guessed with timings, I bumped them a little to hopefully compensate for the DDR5 8200. I did not try C34 but it may work, I just assumed C36@8200 is right. I am unfamiliar with DDR5 overclocks so high like this. 🙃 The trace quality, and KS IMC quality is blowing my mind right now though. This is with auto SA, auto CPU IMC, auto CPU TX.

If you want to play, it’s the only way! Lol. When EA took over Origin I felt the exact same way. But good news is, you don’t need Origin anymore. So you’re just replacing one for the other. Just disable it as start up and services afterwards.

Low settings is just to strain the cpu and memory! More cpu power, heavier load. I do not play like that. 🙂 But 300FPS with the old 3090 at even 2560x1440P is possible. Though, I am using DLSS to my advantage. Battlefield 2042 is very demanding, so I wanted to demonstrate CPU wattage. This game is far more difficult to run than something like R23.

Battlefield 2042 “300FPS Low settings test” 13900KS@6.1P/4.8E/5.1R MSI UNIFY-X DDR5 8000c34

What kind of laptop did you get? PS: I tuned out DDR5 8000 C34! This Unify-X is a GOOD ONE!!! This is crazy. I have never been able to do this so easily before. 8000c34 like its nothing. This KS has totally transformed this motherboard somehow. 🤗

I don’t think the KS is a waste, I think it’s worth the extra coin over a standard K any day if the week. This was my whole point, because I tested (2) KS SP117, and SP104 and both were incredible chips ( both hit the same limits) I cannot say the same for K chips. My SP104 KS is better than my SP110 K. 🥹it’s better by -0.050MV I think any KS is worth it over K if using an AIO. Because my SP104 does 1.200V for 5.8Ghz you could easily tune out a nice ultra low power stock boost on an AIO. Probably delid first then put on AIO. Something is different with the KS. They love power, and don’t mind heat as much. Hold that stability easier, when things get heavy. But I see what you mean 100%! Spend less get almost the same lol. I guess if someone did not care if their chip was burning hot and OCed badly then yeah definitely a K is way to go. Or better yet just a 13900F.

I tested all chips under the exact same conditions. Chiller is set the same everyday and the water is 15 low 18C high. Direct die Supercool Gen13. The SP117 was always -0.050 better at the same frequencies. If I had to pick SP117= $1,500 6.1/4.8/5.2 SP104= $803 6.1/4.8/5.1 I would take my SP104, it overclocks just as good with only a bit more voltage. It may do better on an AIO. But, overclocking a 13900KS on an AIO seems silly to me. I would run one stock and be happy with it, if I had an AIO. @Talon I think so! I’m over the moon with the low 104 SP KS lol. Amazing chip man. I’m content.

I never checked it’s MC SP.

You're right! I had no IDEA I was IMC limited! I was thinking this earlier as well. I thought I was motherboard, or even memory limited all this time. And seeing my 13900KS just boom bang, what's up, DDR5 8000, posted and in windows gaming/benching/working no effort at all lol. 🥳 This chip is MC79, did not check IMC on my 13900K, I pulled that crappy Apex out already.

@Mr. Fox Ghost Spectre Windows 11 Superlite Version | TechLatest (tech-latest.com) Click that ^ Link scroll download and download this one. It’s all versions, and during install lets you pick Superlite, or compact, with or without defender. And it has a company prompt on desktop that lets you simply add features like DirectX,.NET frame work. Etc. I have Win 11 Spectre Superlite without defender installed. And I added Xbox game pass from command prompt. It’s really nice! Performance is amazing. UPDATE: if you see an error during the install just go back and retry it will work the 2nd go around.

It’s absolutely stable at DDR5 8000 so far. I’m still working right now actually on several virtual machines and 6.1Ghz and DDR5 8000. If I run a ram stability test, it’s just gonna overheat and error out though once it hits 45C. My memory is air cooled 😔

Gaming. Playing Battlefield 2042, and shader compile on The last of Us. I honestly feel like my 13900K may have been IMC limited now seeing this. I can hit 8000 from a full bios reset and not touch any supporting voltages. Just DDR5 8K and boot to windows! Shocking. Is it truly stable? I have no idea. I’ll find out.

Yep! I do not doubt your motherboard friend, I was just quoting a review site, I copied and pasted lol. Any Z690/Z790 should do the trick!

MSI Unify-X DDR5 8000 is throwing down! First attempt with the KS, can’t believe it’s actually stable so far. Amazing board.