jaybee83

if the 7945HX behaves the same with regards to thermal max boosting and the stock thermal limit is the same at 95C then your chip should be maxxed out at 85-90C. but naturally, any additional thermal headroom could come in handy for additional oc 🙂

just sniped myself a Teamgroup DDR5-8200 2x24 GB kit, been waiting for 8200 kits to become more readily available here in europe. i was initially eyeing the respective G.Skill kit, but in the end Teamgroup was cheaper, had better availability and also tighter stock timings, albeit at a slightly higher voltage. normally i wouldnt have bothered to upgrade from my current G.Skill DDR5-6600 2x16GB kit, especially since ryzen 7000 can only go up to like 6200-6600 (mostly depending on cpu IMC). however, one of the G.skill dimms gave out on me with regards to its RGB strip, so wanted to avoid any downtime during the warranty process. funny enough, im actually using the dimms switched off without RGB due to temps, makes roughly a 10C difference between RGB switched on and off lulz. naturally, this has a significant impact on how far i can tighten the subtimings. im also using a 140 mm fan blowing directly onto the dimms for an additional 10-12C drop, so total 20+C less than stock with RGB. thanks for bro @Mr. Foxon providing a headsup on the fickle temperature dependency of DDR5 modules 🙂 the kit should arrive this week, if all goes well, looking forward to it!

haha HECK OF A WAY to introduce yourself, nice! welcome! 🙂 well i for one sure as heck hope that they actually DO improve something between gens, even if based on core count alone it would seem like the same product 🙂 although i jumped on the AM5 wagon personally, im still following the socket 1700 intel cpus closely fpr my lady`s machine. guess how happy i was to hear that 14th gen is still on the same socket, mwahaha. let's see how far we can take Clevo's last upgradeable laptop before they went full on BGA.... 😛 on the subject of HOF cards: i saw u got urself a 4090 HOF. how does it compare with the MSI liquid u had before? do the dual 16 pin connectors even do anything outside of subambient cooling? are you using the 666W stock or 1000W+ xoc vbios? what kinda clocks u getting on core and vram? curious 🙂 welp, first of all: aside from the 2000W+ psu ull need to get urself a postable AC unit and blast ice cold air into your laptop when u tweak / bench it (either that or move to norway in winter and bench outside during nighttime like bro papu 😄 )

very helpful, thanks for the input guys! since ive been out of the loop for like 9 months, whats the conclusions so far with regards to the honeywell pads? where does it slot in vs. high end pastes like kryonaut extreme / KPX / liquid metal?

on this subject...

oooh do i glimpse a 6900XT there? surprising to see that in a fox build 😏 mustve missed that during my absence haha

dude, you must be so proud and excited right now 😁 keep us updated on temps, clocks, performance, everything! u gonna do some tweaking to it, i.e. thermal pads, repasting, etc? huh! hows ur airflow set up? might be sufficient to add an extra fan or two for additional airflow over the heatsinks. also, are the firecuda and wd850x covered by a big fat gpu? mkay...hope this isnt some kinda new trend popping up with 13900K(S) cpus dying left n right 😅 thx for the info on the teamgroup modules 🙂

aw dude i SO wouldve gone for the 7900xtx instead...but hey, at least ure having fun with it 😁😋

ha, ddr5-8200 48GB kits finally available, in the end i went for teamgroup with a tad higher vdimm but also tighter timings vs the gskill kit. looking forward to tweaking it 🙂 bro @Mr. Foxi remember u having some positive experiences with teamgroup modules, right? havent tried them before.

thats basically the pcie 5.0 ssd to get, at least for the time being. i expect upcoming models to be able and saturate pcie 5.0 4x with seq speeds soon, lets hope 4KB performance will also show a nice bump 🙂 no reason for me to upgrade yet, still happy with my Firecuda 530 4TB. but its nice to know that my mobo sports a buttload of pcie lanes, so no worries on having to cap the gpu bandwidth for a fast drive 😁

haha using a thermal pad on the CPU, crazy times we live in 😄 nah, the frame doesnt do much for temps, "maybe" 1 degree improvement, if not related to measurement error. its more for looks and/or easier thermal paste cleaning 😛

what do you get when you combine bros @papusan and @mr. fox ? moderate climate 😋

hey dude, just saw your updates here, hows the 7950X3D treating you? Hope it hasnt gone up in smoke with all that SOC OV crap 😅 also, can you recommend the thermalright secure frame? i am also eyeing it for easier thermal paste removal 😋

in the end, what counts is that we have lots of options to choose from 🙂 whatever u go for, its always nice to have options. bad thing is when manufacturers artificially take that away...

sometimes its less about gaming, but more about productivity. i have a dual monitor setup at work but use my 32 inch display at home for work, as well, dividing it up in two. can also be a cost factor, using two smaller displays might be cheaper than one huge monitor. as for TVs, the situation has gotten better, but latency might still be an issue here and there. also, its not everyone's thing to have a gigantic TV right in your face and taking up desk space hahaha. so yeah, might be lots of things 🙂

best of luck! keep us updated on your progress 🙂

another one finds his way back to the fold 😃 welcome back bud, ull definitely find a lot of familiars from the old NBR gang here 😁

with the all soldered mobos the power delivery is usually designed for both cpu and gpu. so just cranking one of the two wont have much impact 🙂 thats how they design rhat whole power boosting / balancing thing, as well, combine cooling and power capacities to use whatever is best in a specific scenario (gpu for gaming, cpu for productivity).

yup amperage limit, could be hard programmed into the firmware to protect the mobo VRMs. laptop power delivery is usually designed very tightly around the utilized hardware.

impressive. what kinda downclocking, if any, do you see on CPU and GPU?

oh wow thats unexpected. here i thought that it would be as good as the previous Noctua 3070 edition...

agreed on the vRAM front. ive heard several game developers speak in the past weeks and the concensus is pretty much aligned: 12GB will BARELY get u by nowadays, with 16 GB being the sensible midrange option. 24GB as on the 4090 isnt even considered highend anymore, should only be viewed as upper midrange / performance tier... WE NEED MORE VRAM!

keep holding out as much as possible, teach those greedy bastards a lesson that we will not take such ridiculous pricing (says the guy with a 4090 build lulz) nope, still alive, but they axed it down going forward. for battlemage itll likely just be 1 sku in the midrange. but thats a good strat if u ask me, let them find their proper footing first, get the drivers fully ready, finetune hardware efficiency and then move slowly up n down the stack for future gens.

nice, thats 96% of my 7950X at stock, quite impressive 🙂 hows the cooling going with the 250W gpu and the 140W cpu? can u keep it under control?

much respect my man! tinkering away and enjoying some hardware fun while the war is raging close to you...make hardware mods, not war! 🙂