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I have always been interested in waterblocking a midrange GPU. When Jayz2cents did a video on a AMD RX480 and then watercooled it back in 2016, it was the most amazing thing I’d ever seen in my life with watercooling. He went from 200+ watts to like 98+ watts of power draw. I had a RX480 back then too. I got it on launch day. Then I got a GTX1080 on launch and it blew it out of the water. Lol. But either way. It has always been interesting to me watercooling a mid range GPU product. I’m very interested in your results once you watercool that 3060Ti. Anyone have a Rockitcool 12900K delid tool I can borrow? They are all sold out on their website. And they only show “Pre-Order” for some reason. I want to delid this 13900KF as soon as possible. I can’t afford to bin for a good one lol. So whatever the SP rating, I’ve got what I’ve got. “I’ll never know the SP btw” DAMN YOU ASUS! 😂 Rockitcool is scalping FLITZ polish BTW!!!

The launch samples of the 13900K’s and 13900KF’s are all looking to be great samples. I think the worst I’ve seen so far is an SP98 on the P cores. Another thing is, they all seem to be relatively close on SP rating. I’ll never know what mine is lol. The struggles of not having an Asus motherboard. I don’t know my 11900K’s SP rating to this day. And it’s a freak of nature. 😄

Surprise surprise!! Newegg did not let me down. I pre ordered on 9/27, and my 13900KF will be here Saturday. 😀

I bought a Corsair M600 Pro XT Hydro. They have 3,000 TB write life I think? It’ll be going in the new 13900KF build. While mine is the watercooled model and kinda silly, the air cooled model runs very cool too. Much cooler than the prior generation. The Corsair M600 Pro XT 2TB is only $219.99 USD. I did not do a tremendous amount of research based on the endurance of these SSD’s or other models. And that’s because I have (2) Intel M.2 660P’s in a Raid 0 configuration and they have lasted absolutely for freaking ever! I’ve had them over 2 years now, and both still at 97%. The thing is, I’m always uninstalling massively huge games and re-installing the same games or even new games on a daily basis and vice versa rinse repeat. They only have a 100 TBW rating which is like that’s it?? I can’t kill them it’s (2) little 512GB Intel 660P M.2’s in raid 0 providing a total of 1TB of storage. They both work wonderfully to this day. I would not over think TBW too much though. I will hammer an M.2 SSD really hard. Far worse than most, always reinstalling Windows probably 6+ times per year, and then constantly filling my storage and removing games to reinstall other games lol.

You think you are limited by the Unity-X really? Or is it just your A-die memory that’s limited? Does anyone have a delid tool I can borrow for LGA1700?

From the looks of it, I think his is pretty good. But I’m seeing a lot of other people with great samples too. I think the lowest I have seen is SP98

Corsair has some crazy unbelievably fast international shipping. I have ordered from the Corsair website a few times this year and they get a package from Taiwan east Asia to Tennessee United States in 3 days!! I wonder why their shipping is so fast? And it’s free. How is this possible? I don’t live in Tennessee, but it’s only like 1 state over. Corsair ships all memory and storage right from Taiwan.

I did not see this thread until now. This is a very high end build. What is that Lian-Li top IO kit?

One of the reasons I love my water chiller. I can get cold when I want. I’m excited to try this 13900KF. So far all of the sample people have are really really good! It looks to be a really great product from Intel so far. We really haven’t had competition like this in forever.

You swapped out your old 12900KS? You’ve got the right idea man. I’m gonna start doing what you’re doing for sure. I’m gonna start planning in advance with hardware launches. I’m always scrambling last minute. I got ahead this time with CPU’s fortunately. And Newegg had already shipped my 13900KF as of this morning. But RTX4000 series got the better of me for sure. I was not prepared, I decided I wanted one a couple days before launch. And it takes at least 9-34+ days of working on my wife before such a large purchase can happen. 🤣

Well for one, I do not like a Gigabyte/Aorus motherboards. Maximum power draw on any cpu generation. They really peg out the load line and voltage in my experience right out of the gate. Plus, their bios is a dang disaster!! I’m at the point where I would never own another even Gigabyte motherboard even if it’s free. And I absolutely mean that 100%. I don’t mind owning their GPU’s. I tested (3) 11900K’s on a Aorus motherboard notated their binning quality. Then re-ran them all on a EVGA Dark motherboard. You would think it was a different batch of processors all together. The thing is, you’ll see some variation in all motherboards really. Ideally you want to find that manual voltage sweet spot on your own. It takes hours and hours to get a new system just right. But it’s totally worth it in the end.

Okay don’t laugh at me. But I literally finally got 1Gbit internet in my home. For some reason no matter where I lived, fast internet seemed to always be unavailable in my area. I always had the usual suspects. Satellite internet, 3mbps DSL, or most recently I have been using 5G cellular through a modem with a SIM card from my carrier. This option was always the best. Decently fast at about 100+ mbps, and unlimited. Turns out the home I have lived in for the past 5 years has been “Pre-Wired” for 1Gbit internet. And the service providers just had me listed as “Non serviceable” what a nice surprise! So anyways I finally have 1Gbit internet! It’s so nice too! It has been a long struggle.

Me and my son both spent some time together coloring some pictures tonight. We ended up coloring dinosaurs. This is what I did. It was really a lot of fun. Knee dip in AMD red, crapping out Nvidia green, while fighting to survive! It is the Raptor Lake!

Okay. That sounds good. I pre-ordered on 9/27 as soon as I could. So I hope Newegg mails them out tomorrow. Maybe some people are just stirring the pot over on Overclock.net.

I’m hearing rumors the 13900K is going to be a paper launch tomorrow. Any reason at all to believe this to be true? Intel has usually been great with CPU inventory right?

What are you doing with the 4090 Strix?

I’m guessing inventory will probably be slow and back to normal after a month maybe?

I still play RDR2 to this day. And I run DLSS quality just because their implementation of TAA is poor and always has been. And DLSS Quality looks ten times better. The game didn’t always have DLSS though. I’m glad it does, and not just for the performance benefits, it fixed that crap TAA cartoon looking garbage they had implemented in the game previously.

I’d love to go ahead and get mine. Newegg ships items after release date though unfortunately. I am guessing they will ship it on the 21st. I’m assuming on the 24th or 25th I’ll finally join the fun. 😭 PS: 22 days waiting so far. It went by pretty slow lol.

Do the Intel 13900K reviews finally come out tomorrow? I found some new R23 benchmark numbers for the 13900K. It looks to just match the AMD 7950X with the stock power TDP, and outpace it with higher power limits. 13900K Leaked benchmarks https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-13900k-raptor-lake-cpu-same-performance-as-core-i9-12900k-at-80w/

What kind of 3090 do you have?

I know that the 3090FE’s with even just their 350-400 watt power limits. The memory TJMax which is a sensor inside one of the memory modules would run north of 100C-110C. People were re-doing the pads and getting that down substantially to the 80’s which was perfectly fine. Watercooling any of them helps drastically. Apparently this was fixed a while back though. I think any 3090 now a days is good to go.

FUN FUN FUN!!!! Memory at 23GBPS 😃 Great performance out of the RTX3090. I think 4K 60+ may be possible on one of these last Gen AMPERE GPU’s. I had all of my dip switches enabled on the back of my GPU. Cut down on power usage DRASTICALLY!!

If I restore defaults, and limit power to 500 watts. It runs about 30c. Same 1.1V. No under volting or anything.

Water is locked to just 70F. I use a switch for my radiator fans to turn them off. Condensation can form really bad. But I would have to set my water temp to about 53-55F to reach condensation. I usually keep it at 70F liquid temp though.