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No money lost. This new CPU is just a better sample than my last one, so I had to come out of pocket slightly more than what my last chip fetched. This new 13900K has SP121 P-Cores 😳 So I’m gonna just run this one long term. In the end I only paid $100 dollars for it, because I sold my Force 134, and my Force 124.

I hate to influence the market and say how much I paid. But I will say this, the guy was so nice, because he held the chip for (4) days while I dealt with PayPal holding my funds for no reason. During those days other people were continuously messaging him the entire time and offering more money, while I sat here wanting to murder PayPal HQ 😂 It was $50 more than what I sold my last CPU for.

Looks like my tracking for the SP110 13900K shows it will be here on 12/12. Gonna be a long little wait.

SP106 is a very good chip. I had a feeling your chip was good because you had mentioned a while back that your power draw was less than 300 watts stock during R23. Not many 13900K’s can do this. Of my (4) tested only (1) could do that lol. I know of course we can fix voltage lower and manipulate them to use a lot lower wattage. So when I say stock, I mean like auto voltage/ bios reset and run.

@electrosoft is @Talon binning chips too?

I swear I was thinking of doing this exact thing last night. I play a lot of games, but I think I have more fun messing with CPU’s and memory anyways. And, I could give up some graphics power. I’d end up paying more than the $350 asking for one though. I couldn’t find any in stock.

I’m extremely excited to test it. I’ve already ran (4) different 13900K’s. I’m keeping this one for the long haul. 😃

I just bought a 13900K (SP121 P-Cores /SP88 E-Cores) Skipping the KS model for sure. I’m impatient, and I am absolutely addicted to good silicon. I wish I could go back to when I could care less about cpu quality. Dreading next gen. 😂 It will probably be 1P-Core 56 E-Cores lol

I just roughly used what people are paying on eBay to obtain these GPU’s. Strix 4080 is $1,800 Strix 4090 is $2,800 Any 4080 is $1,500 Any 4090 is $2300

The 13900K is actually very very efficient! I had mine pulling 213 watts max running 5.5Ghz-5.8Ghz boost while hitting 41,300 in R23. That’s max power during R23. Now, imagine actually down clocking a chip like this to 12900K levels, it would really sip power. Now, that wattage isn’t realistic because we’re not always running R23 (24/7) but during games it would use about 20-100 watts. Even bad chips can be brought down to low power levels equivalent to the Flagship Ryzen chip while still breaking that 41K R23.

It’s crazy how the RTX4080 is like the worst value in GPU history. And anyone buying one is essentially bending over for Nvidia. However on a side note, even if we did want to get pounded by Nvidia for $1200 USD for a cut down GPU. I can’t seem to find them. I find it hard to believe that this many people are actually wanting to buy a RTX 4080. Who is it that uploaded these videos talking about “4080’s rotting on the shelf” is that actually real? It looks like the market is very scare for 4080’s. Another thing is the 4080 has essentially take the price bracket of the RTX4090. That’s so crazy how Nvidia has actually artificially inflated prices on these by trickling inventory. Low end RTX4080= $1,500 High End RTX4080= $1,800 Low end RTX4090= $2,300 High End RTX4090= $2,800

I hate PayPal… Who else is with me? They never hold my funds. I sold some items last month immediate funds available, and now PayPal is picking on me left and right by holding my funds. I sold something for $150 USD, and they finally released the money 76 hours after delivery 😂 I shipped and sold a CPU to Germany for a lot more money. Wonder how long they’ll hold those funds for? It has already been 36 hours since delivery. Do you guys think PayPal is trying to draw interest or what are they doing? Their policy says payments released 24 hours or 1 day after delivery. But they’re not honoring that policy at all. Seems crazy to me that they can even do that.. They literally just tuck your money in their crack and sit on it. It’s so frustrating. I’m super off topic, wanting to vent frustration lol. Anyone ever deal with this before though?

I think the more efficient PSU’s are better at simply making us feel better lol. Kinda Like, “hey I have a super high end, high quality unit” I feel great about squeezing tons of power from my components now! It will be as reliable as it can be! That’s what they do for me anyways. They don’t really do anything else for me beyond that point lol. Who doesn’t love a really nice PSU though!

You’re only 60? I am 32 years old. Honestly 60 ain’t old in 2022 though lol. But I feel your pain about the other stuff. I have (2) kids and a wife and it’s definitely expensive to live! Having fun with computer parts keeps me occupied. And it’s a lot cheaper than other hobbies like drag racing cars etc. One more thing, It’s absolutely crazy that Corsair is selling people garbage A-Die for $300+ dollars that they have already tested to not be good. They are binning that stuff way too tightly and leaving you nothing. They even sell a 7000 set.. Very greedy of them. I assure you my Team Groups are great. They are 7,200 C34 XMP and are reliably handling 7800 daily. I’m at my motherboard limits now for sure. Only a Z790 Dark or Z790 Apex would save me now. Which, I ain’t buying just to break 8,000 DDR5 lol.

No, I did not test that many CPU's. But I have tested (4). I have tested chips at the top, bottom, and the middle. The other Force 2 and SP ratings are from other people which coincidentally makes the chart work. So, I was able to come up with a conversion, and it works.

I have his Facebook messages saying he has received it.

Hey, yes I ended up sending that one to Team EVGA guy in Germany. He actually got it today, he made it a pressing matter to buy it. CEN was a very nice guy so I figured I’d help him out since I didn’t sell him the last one, because I received a message from Falk claiming he was a scammer etc. Now he has the chip in hand and he’s like. “Lowest VID’s I’ve ever seen” but apparently it doesn’t scale well at all. Normal PayPal too. Fingers crossed I feel the storm coming… 😕 I mean I didn’t guarantee any overclocking results with it, he’s on LN2 -200C. I merely sold the chip as a Force 124 that ran super well and that’s what it is. I should have kept it. I was so happy with it too. ROCK STAR of a CPU. I’ve tested (4) and it was the absolute best of all (4). I was running it at 213 watts R23 5.5-5.8. R23 Or (5.8-6.2) P-Cores, 4.7 E-Cores, 5.2 ring at 314 watts R23 (44,000 score) I mean the chip was so solid. I remember feeling regret and feeling just stupid on the way home after handing it over to UPS. Thinking I would not find another. It’s very unfortunate he’s not happy with it, I find that shocking to be honest. I’m running a Force 143 right now and it’s an absolute turd in comparison same cpu but feels like I’m on another planet lol they are worlds apart.

One thing I love about the EVGA bios, is how you can name and save like 10 bios different profiles and name them all something unique. I always made so many lol and went back and forward between them all. I miss that. Now I am writing down descriptions on a notepad and writing down a number 1 though number 6 beside it lol. I do like that the MSI allows me to hit ESC and "Exit without saving" and it immediately loads windows though.

This is how I am running my system right now. This is not a golden chip by any means. But I can do 5.7Ghz with a 6.0Ghz boost on (4) cores. I also have the E-Cores at 4.5Ghz, with a 4.7Ghz ring. Stable as a rock like this in anything! DDR5 is at 7800 C38 running very well like this. This is the fastest I can stabilize for daily usage. This CPU will do until my SP120+ chip comes through 😈

Just so we know our P-Core SP ratings is all. A lot of people have no idea, and only have a Force2 rating. So I decided to come up with a chart for it so people know.

With all of the CPU samples I have tested, and also looking at others Force 2 and Asus SP rating. I have created a MSI FORCE 2 CONVERSION for Asus P-Core SP rating. This is going by only “P-Core SP rating” P-Core SP124= Force 109 P-Core SP123= Force 112 P-Core SP122= Force 115 P-Core SP121= Force 118 P-Core SP120= Force 121 P-Core SP119= Force 124 P-Core SP118= Force 127 P-Core SP117= Force 130 P-Core SP116= Force 133 P-Core SP115= Force 136 P-Core SP114= Force 139 P-Core SP113= Force 142 P-Core SP112= Force 145 P-Core SP111= Force 148 P-Core SP110= Force 151 P-Core SP109= Force 154 P-Core SP108= Force 157 P-Core SP107= Force 160 P-Core SP106= Force 163 I hope this helps!! I think the chart is accurate as it directly correlates with my tested CPU’s and other people CPU’s too!

This is absolutely incredible!!! @Mr. Fox I would return the Corsair 7200 sticks, grab some Hynix A-Die green sticks!

Well, you have really good Hynix M-Die memory, which is kinda hard to beat! In my case, I was coming from DDR5 6000Mhz which seemed a little touchy at 6600Mhz+ and not the best timings. But now I am running my Hynix A-die DDR5 at 7800Mhz. So it was a real solid improvement to bandwidth and latency. I was able to sell my other memory, so I own this Team Group 7200 ram for $250 which isn’t all that bad.

I didn’t realize the Z690 Asus boards gave you a IMC rating at all.

Looks like you finally grabbed some Hynix A die. That’s very cool! I’m curious to see where you can take it while on that Z690 Dark. So far I’m running mine at 7800 C36. The 13900K I’m using is not anything special with a fairly high Force 143 rating, but for some reason it stabilizes this DDR5 7800 very well. How is the Aqua Computer waterblock? It looks very nice!