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Congrats!!! You got those good parts! I’m curious how the 14900K is in your hands. Are you gonna delid that?

And it’s still not enough 😂. I have just over 20Ft of tubing on my build, and a chiller that needs 300-750 GPH 😃 I’m not even close to fulfilling its needs. It does work very well though. It needs tons of pressure for best performance when running heavy wattage sustained loads like games. The more you can pump, the better/faster it chills and easier it runs! I got it all up and running though. It blew out all that air in the lines in about 0.003 seconds 😂 PS: I found my air leak!! No more bubbles! 😎 the leaking air was from a section of two tubes I made together as one longer tube.

I know someone who has one with the Galax PSU included. He actually wants to trade for a weaker GPU. He wants like a 3090+$1,500 USD for the 4090 HOF and Galax 1300 watt PSU. I think shipping would be the biggest issue. Because he’s in Malasia. But, he does want to sell. And he’s legit, maybe you can get a good deal on the GPU only. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1733112490342366/permalink/3660462297607366/?mibextid=6ojiHh Send him a PM. Maybe he’d work something out. I got my Apex Z790 from him.

Only (5) pumps going in my build re-do. It might be enough. 🤪

I pulled the CPU, pulled the GPU, and pulled my DDR5. I had something weird happening with the Encore. And I wanted to be sure I could fix it. I was causing all of these issues my self, and with my own janky setup/install LOL. (1) My ram was not fully seated on one end. My ram is all 1 piece being inside a super cool ram waterblock. ( so It’s a tight fit plugging ram in as 1 piece) I pressed them in very good this time, while supporting the back of my baby so it don’t flex on me. (2) My 13900KS had LM droplets all on the substrate. (This can cause problems) not sure why or how. But it definitely does 😉 (3) The PCI-E slot on the Encore is lower down and further away from my ram than on the Apex Z790. This was causing the ram to pull my GPU at a strange angle like this \ towards the cpu and ram lol. My system went down hill very very fast, so fast in fact that it became a code 55 no matter what I did. Even when it was working, and I was first loading in the bios, I would sit on the ROG logo for about 20 seconds before it would let me actually get to the bios. Now, it happens immediately when I post and press DEL. So, that tells me right away whatever was wrong is fixed now. So far so good! PS: I fully lapped my 13900KS die (Like fully lapped it) 🤣 it is as flat as flat can be!! My LM application is superior. And let me tell you. 🤯 it’s freaking awesome.

The Apex Encore has been difficult to manage. I may be swapping back to my Z790 Apex White. That board was much more reliable. I’m having some troubles with the Encore. I get a lot of stuck code 55’s. And it seems just so frail and fragile with my normal memory tuning and memory overclocking. If you get something stable, better just leave it! It is very frustrating. I can go tinkering in the bios with anything at all, and boom it’s broke, gotta start over. I’m gonna try a ram and cpu reseat. Right now it’s code 55 on both bios. Pulling battery clearing CMOS does nothing.

It took ModMyMod’s 8 days just to provide tracking for my order 😂 turns out, they say they have something “In-Stock” but they out source it after you buy it. In my case, I ordered a Aquatuning dual D5 pump top. They turns around and ordered it from Germany and had to wait to receive it, before they could ship to me. I am not really a fan of this tactic. I could have ordered from Titan Rig, who actually had 1 of them in-stock and I would have had it the next day with $25 dollar overnight shipping option. You live and learn I guess. They finally shipped it today though. I just wish they were more honest about their inventory. (WARNING: There may be a long delay, because we don’t actually have anything in-stock lol)

You have a white Z790 Apex too though right? I will say this, the RGB lights are so much better on the Encore for sure (See the pic below) They look almost opaque in color and a solid light. They look sick! Also, that little memory cooling fan on the Encore is a screamer! It actually blows good amount of air. I reversed mine and let it blow on the back of my GPU. It legit WORKS. I was surprised. At 100% speed in bios, it gives off a server whine sound though. But It sounds kinda cool. And it puts out some air.

I am using the release bios that was pre-installed on the board. After setting SA voltage like my other Apex it is solid solid! DDR5 8600 is working very well. I think the included bios is probably okay.

@Papusan I’d watch that auto SA voltage with Apex Encore. It’s crazy low! I fixed that and all is well with Encore overclocking. But my DDR5 8600 profile was badly unstable at first with random BSODS. Then I see my auto SA voltage was 1.225v 😂 Maybe also check your IMC voltage too, it’s effective manual voltage keyed in, is substantially lower than what you may have typed in manually. So, I think this and SA is why a few people were reporting poor overclocking. Anyways, this is a new board and very first bios. That SA and IMC voltage were giving some trouble at first. Auto SA just does not scale at all. The Vanilla Z790 Apex has an abnormally high SA voltage out of the box, which helped with streamlined memory OC.

Encore installed!!! 🙂

I like this profile right here. 6.3P on (4) cores 5.8P on (8) cores. 4.4E like a 14900K, and DDR5 8600. Only 1.217V underload.

I’m not jealous one bit. Waiting on KS. Waiting on KS. 🙂

This ram is so cool! And it actually uses real thermal pads with a legitimate forged aluminum heatsink. (Not a stamped piece of tin 🤣) This ram is a great buy for anyone in the market for premium top of the line though. Corsair Titanium DDR5 8000 C38 and it’s (2x24GB) for $275 dollars. I feel ripped off by G.Skill for sure! If I hadn’t already gone water cooled and stabilized DDR5 8600. Then, I would own those new Corsair Titanium’s 🙂too bad they don’t work with custom ram watercooling due to their custom PCB. What a cool ram kit, for a very reasonable price. https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/memory/CMP48GX5M2X8000C38/dominator-titanium-rgb-2x24gb-ddr5-dram-8000mt-s-cl38-intel-xmp-memory-kit-cmp48gx5m2x8000c38?gad=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIip_OsoCQggMVfzfUAR3fDA6mEAQYAiABEgILrfD_BwE

Can you really mount a GPU like that in that case? That looks awesome.

It’s wouldn’t say it’s “Asus”. It’s probably has to do with meeting demand is all. I remember the first batches of Pascal had Samsung, but the 2nd wave of 1070’s to come in-stock had Micron on some cards. I think the micron met the spec and it was used as an alternative GDDR5 no?

The GTX1070’s are just such an amazing value is all, AIB’s we’re using anything in place of GDDR5, to meet that demand lol. They were beating the GTX980Ti by 3% in all games at any resolution and were selling like hot cakes left and right. Even peoples grandmas were buying them up simply because they were such a “Good value” 😂 Anyways, funny how Micron is the best now? Or at least my 3090 Kingpin has Micron, and boy do them things overclock like no bodies business. And even with our DDR5, Samsung sucks in todays standards! 🤣 It’s so weird, because you wanted Samsung ram with a GTX1060/GTX1070 any GTX1060/1070 with Micron was considered a loser.. But the best GPU memory was the new GDDR5X stamped on the new GTX1080 which was SURPRISE SURPRISE Micron and 10,000Mbps, and it overclocked pretty darn good! Then back around with the 2080Ti’s Samsung is best lol. Which I had a 2080Ti FE with Samsung and it was a GREAT clocker. Tech makes no sense at all to me.. 🙂

Why not just go with a custom loop with the revolt case? Would that work?

How come you have not been running that binned ks more? Is it slower than the Ryzen chips in the games you play?

I think the best value is the G.Skill 7200’s 2x24GB Hynix 3GBit m-die kit. I was super frustrated with my current ram just a few days ago, however, I updated my bios and lowered my expectations with timings because it is 48GB after all, and I’ve hit gold with my current sticks. Previously, I’d run some crazy high gaming stable overclock of like 8800Mhz+ on my ram it would be game stable but not actually stable stable, but now I’ve started pushing for “Actually stable settings” which is new to me. But I finally have that magical DDR5 8600 truly stable on my 2x24GB 7200 sticks with only 1.500V VDD/ 1.450V VDDQ. These are only $200 dollar sticks which ain’t bad for a 48GB kit. I was also running another DDR5 8000C34 profile that was very fast and also actually stable. I cannot get 8800+ stable for more than about 8 minutes on TM5. But then again, I’m also not all that great with memory overclocking and timings etc. You can kind of go both ways with this kit. High speed higher timings or lower speed with some much much tighter timings. As far as I can tell, I do not think the newer faster memory kits offer any better bang for buck. Just a ton of money wasted lol. If you can find the 8000 kit for around the same price or not much more, I’d also go for those too! I think it’s all about the same stuff though and luck of the draw.

I think it would be cool if a GPU maker would do a “Throw back” styled GPU from the era when GPU’s first started getting fans and styling and all that fancy stuff before it took off. Green PCB or blue PCB like BFG did back in the day. I dunno maybe even a red PCB lol. Use a clear heatsink shroud 🤣 so cool. I miss the days.

Mega Gamer? oh my lordy. That is some serious cheese. 🤣

I found some proper timings that work, and I am working from the bottom again on my 7200-memory kit. Check this out though! @Mr. Fox So, I got a hold of the 8600XMP timings for the memory kit that is not even out yet. I set these exact timings on my sticks, I bumped the tREFI to 131K set only 1.500V VDD, and 1.450V VDDQ. And it is 20+ minutes in TM5 so far. I am surprised by this one for sure. 😀 That kit will be $500 dollars no doubt lol. And it runs on my 7200's just fine. Now, my temps are 18C but, still this is flipping awesome. Gotta try these timings for sure!!! @Talon @Papusan @electrosoftthis would probably work for you as well if you have the Hynix 3Gbit M-Die 48Gb kits.

It’s not my screen shot of the Asrock app, I got it from someone with the 8400 sticks lol. But yes, I saw that too but I didn’t say anything to him about it oops 🤣