jaybee83

welp its been a while....and currently with the AI RAM apocalypse going down its even more difficult to track down specific sticks.

yup, this forum has barely breached 2000 users, many of whom are just ghost / lurker accounts with no real activity. that and the fact that laptops nowadays are super locked down, both from a hardware (everything soldered), as well as firmware / software perspective. many of the former NBR players have since switched to desktops and only use laptops on the side as tools, but not really for tinkering anymore (i count myself among them).

ha not with me they didnt! upgraded all the way from a 6700K to a 9900K in my Clevo machine 😄 suckaZ! and big thx to bro @Prema for that one 😛

youre probably referring to Zen 6? AM6 is still waaay waaaaay waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out... zen 6 on AM5 is basically set, with Zen 7 having a decent probability of also still being on AM5. so AM6 will only come our way once Zen 8 drops. Zen 6 = 2026/27 Zen 7 = 2027/28 Zen 8 / AM6 = 2029+? thatll be quite a solid run for my X670E platform here, 2022 to 2029, nice 😄 btw ill need to check my LM / TIM paste jobs, core deltas are waaaay too high for my taste. im guessing my LM application was a bit too thin this time around.

my dudes, we can consider ourselves lucky to have covered all our bases with regards to hardware. our 4090s/5090s will stay at the top of the pack until 2028, lets just hope they dont go up in flames / melt until then 🤣 boy am i glad that i got my 32TB of pcie4 m.2 ssds plus took care of the ram binning with 10+ kits back in the summer of last year. prices were at rock bottom then ("good old times"). and even though i overpaid for my 5090 at +25% above minimum pricing (3300€ vs. 2650€ incl. 19% VAT and shipping), a whopping two thirds of it (2100€) was made up by the sale price of the 4090 😅 besides, even when the suprim currently IS available, its offered at 4000+€, absolutely insane... long story short: i guess compared to other unlucky users who are currently planning on building a rig, were pretty well off at least for the time being...always good to count and be generally aware of your blessings 🫠 mixed news on the ram tuning front: still cannot reach anything above 7600 stable but at 7600 im now reaching way way tighter timings than before, actually best ive had thus far overall on this mobo. final results pending, as u all know ram tuning takes quite a while...

soooooo i used my last three days of sick leave to get some shit done at home, including computer stuff 🙂 > applied full backplate coverage TG Putty Pro - check! if anyone is interested, you need about 250-300 grams worth of putty to cover the whole backside of an air cooled 5090. > while the gpu was out, i used the opportunity to also install the wireview pro II and replace the gpu power cable (angled back to straight, both seasonic) > good news: both cable and socket were still pristine, not even a whiff of discoloration or burn marks. > good news 2: did a quick max OC test in alan wake at max. settings with the gigachad vbios, max. variance i saw between pins was 1.1 amps (7.5 vs. 8.6) under load, that i can totally live with! > also finally came around to delid my second 9950X3D and put it under the TG high performance heat spreader with LM > while i was at it, did some dusting and cleaned the tempered glass windows, clear views to the RGB rainbow puke once more 😄 still need to do testing with regards to gpu / cpu temps after the changes, as well as check how the RAM OC was impacted. you might remember that i suspected a suboptimal cpu mount for not being able to reach my previously stable 8000 setting. fingers crossed!

dayum! whats he got planned? edit: funny to see hes basically sitting on top of GN Steve in NC 😄

what did i miss?

damn, this is one club i didnt invite u to for a reason 😄 u had to come join anyways eh? hahaha. stilll recovering here, second week of sick leave from work. for me covid and the flu are actually very very similar thats why i took a test right away when symptoms started last week. aww nice to know i can still pull off some "youthfulness" 😄 unfortunately, the big 4 has already gotten ahold of me several years back.

wait, did that prospective job offer fall through? it sounded so promising!

awesome update, very valuable info 🙂 will save it locally to have on hand once i get to vbios flashing. /personal rant ive been out of order this whole week with the flu, completely knocked me off my feet. this has only been the second time in my life ive had the actual flu, and both times suuuuuuucked unbelievably. issue being that while other illnesses usually only have a peak that lasts about 1-2 days before tapering off this bloody thing keeps kicking me in the balls for a full week before it finally lets go, its exhausting! now at least able to sit at my desk again without toppling over.....influenza is a b*tch. one thing is for sure: ill never skip another flu shot round again, it wont get easier with age down the road. luckily my company offers them for free to all employees. and, of course, now my little girl started developing a fever last night...my wife remains the last woman standing here keeping the gears turning, i dont know what i would do without her. /personal rant

riiiight, because with 1000W at STOCK youll absolutely WANT to flash other vbios versions 😄 no but seriously, im looking forward to when the first Lightning owners post their 800W and 1kW vbios to TPU so we can all profit from them 🙂 ill wager the 1kW will have the same or similar efficiency (in terms of fps per watt) as the Matrix 800W but with 200W more headroom and thus even less reason to use the leaked XOC 1600W vBios. at some point the 2500W XOC will also leak. just you wait. but honestly, at 1000W im satiated anyways 😄 still havent gotten around to even unpack my wireview pro II, let alone install it, sigh...

ohnoooooo i never unplug it just to "check on it", same with the 4090 i had before. but sometimes theres no way around it, depending on what i need to do. thus far ive plugged my 5090 twice (4090 not 100% sure but max. 3-4 times for the total of ownership duration), number three is upcoming to install the wireview pro II, replace the power cable (cant use right angled anymore, so back to straight) and also add more putty to the backside. after that, the wireview will stay connected, no matter what.

at least not knowingly yet *lulz* its always a nice lil surprise when i unplug the cable to do any kind of work inside my case.... 😛

curious to see which one, if ANY, of my four gpu power cables (all by seasonic) will be inside spec at stock and/or evenly distributed across the pins at higher wattages...

you juuust beat me to it 😄

Wireview got delivered today, but im still at my in-laws, will only get back home this sunday. lets see when ill finally get around to actually installing it LOL. work is gonna get crazy in january ugh...

still plenty of stock, albeit prices are continuously increasing and the low point waaay out of reach by now. out of 40 models listed, 6 are available shortly, with 29 directly available in stock. cheapest is, funnily enough, the FE at 2650€ 😄 at 19% VAT that would equate to 2227€ without tax or equivalently 2621 USD, again, thats currently the cheapest available, so seems like norway @Papusanhas some better luck now with 5090 pricing 😛 oh snap, say wat! didnt expect the next version to be out so soon already. @electrosoft btw bud, just got notified today that my TG wireview pro II was shipped out, hows it looking on your end? 🙂 guess now its time to also order me some additional pots of TG putty pro to completely fill out the backside underneath the backplate. every bit counts when flashing the matrix / XOC 😄

im tending towards the mount, i could do 8000 stable before with this exact cpu :) i only switched out case, fans, cpu aio and updated bios. no changes to the actual hardware. so with bios out of the way that leaves the mount, lets see how it goes.

did you go all out on the vcore of did u do some curve flattening. im wondering if most user reports over on overclock.net with the xoc being super inefficient is cuz they just flash and go full throttle and run into thermal limits right away. i was thinking to fully let the PL loose at 1200W but then manually flatten the V/F curve via AB and check mutliple vcore limits. im sure one can get better results that way. @Mr. Fox any new insights from ur side with XOC vs. Matrix vbios? this. even better if ure still able to snag the older TX-1600 version with 2x 8 pin connectors on the psu end for the two included 12VHPWR cables 😁 although its been going in and out of stock with prices nowhere near its original MSRP. seems to be in high demand, i wonder why.... 😋 @Mr. Fox so i updated my mobo bios to the latest version, this time once through ezflash and second time via bios flashback just to be on the safe side. still cant reach 8000 stable but looks like at 7600 i can go tighter on the timings than before. at this point im suspecting im having a suboptimal mount of the cpu, i remembered that i had some issues installing the arctic freezer III pro onto the cpu, since it only sports two(!) screw points instead of the previous LF II with four. since ill be opening up the case anyways once the wireview pro II gets here, i might as well do another cpu mount and also delid it while at it. maybe using the TG High perf. IHS might help with the mounting, since it sports a larger area and lower overall z height. so much tuning to do, so little time! but still tons fun 😁 and heck yeah, nvidia and amd take ur sweet time with new gpu gens, let the 5090 reign supreme for another 2-3 years, we dont mind 😄

niiice what card is that? 32GB HBM2 sounds sweeeeeet, wanna take off the cooler and show us some silicon pr0n? 😄

well dayum, looks like ill have two vbioses to play around with once my wireview pro II comes in 😄 so if i understand it correctly, the asus XOC vbios forces 1.15V at all times on the core? is there an option to lower it and have some control? otherwise id have to try and reign in the temps via power limiting but id prefer voltage tbh. in any case, nice to FINALLY have more options 🙂 is it just me or does it somehow feel like running the 5090 at 1kW+ is more dangerous than the 4090 at 1000W? with my previous 4090 suprim i just ran the 1000W XOC vbios as a daily without issues. and that was without any monitoring tool like the wireview i will have available now. sweet, ill save it up for future reference 🙂 want to get my DDR5 issues sorted first before i start properly tuning the CPU. but now with the Matrix and XOC vBioses out ill have to go back to GPU tuning too 😄 so much to do, so little time, argh! enjoy the bit of freetime u have now between jobs, im sure ull be in over ur head once the new position starts 🙂 keeping my fingers crossed for you on that btw!

the timing of your post is hilarious, ive been going nuts these past weeks since i cant get my kit stable at 8000 anymore, had to back down to 7600 ugh. the same exact setup hardware wise, only two differences being the new case / cpu cooling / fans and ofc i updated to the newest bios. imagine that i currently cannot even get 6000 stable anymore in synchronous mode, like wtf.... and even at 7600 with tightened timings the bandwidth and latency results are absolute garbage. theres definitely something funky going on here, and as of yet i have no idea what it is....

from what ive seen so far im expecting it to work on the Suprim, albeit likely not with all 3 fans functional (ive tried the Astral vBios before and it was only able to address two of the three fans), so id have to check and see if cooling would still be up to snuff for the increased wattage. @electrosoftwhats that "XoC debacle" ure mentioning? just the fact that it still aint available or was there smth else?

daaaamn nice! thx for the headsup and tag bud, much appreciated 🙂 now i know what ill do once i get my hands on the wireview pro II 😄