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at PCIe 3.0 4x u cant go wrong with the 970 Evo Plus, tbh. Samsung's reliability in all things SSD is still pretty much unbeaten to this day. @cylix the KC3000 wont help him much on PCIe 3.0 mate 😄

OMFG ive been wondering about EXACTLY this the whole time! cores are stuck at 5.5 Ghz at stock, like wth?!?! now it makes sense! unfortunately i cant go back to 0611 cuz one of the major updates in 0705 bios is improved compatibility with 40 series gpus 😅 but hey, still got the option of just switching off C state power saving measures entirely, problem solved.

lulz i know the feeling man, the upgrading / tinkering is sometimes the main part of the fun. the actual utilization is then underwhelming. i mean im currently running my 4090 at a measly 100-150W TDP while replaying the Wolfenstein series, thats all it takes for the games to be maxxed out at 4K LOL but nevertheless im having sooooo much fun, omg. loving Hyperion 😍

noice. and ha, looks like were sporting the same RAM, except me in black and the 6600 flavour. tbh i didnt really care about the design color, just chose the cheaper one at the time of purchase 😄 dude, very impressive. looks very "ice-cold" hahaha. but seriously, that's a showcase level build for sure! itll still take some time for me to do the leftover finetuning and order / install the parts im still missing, but thats ok. for now, me and the missus will be off to Mexico for our honeymoon, after which well be moving to a new appartment. real life getting in the way of hardware fun as usual haha 😛

great, now i got that song from Top Gun stuck in my head @goodnes gracious, great balls of fire! 🤣 but its good that Nvidia takes these reports seriously. what im hoping for is an improved connector with sturdier cables / 90 degree connector / thicker plastic isolation which will be offered as a free replacement by the Nvidiots and the AIBs. fingers crossed! lulz. the funny think about this is that they still do 4 via those octopus adapter cables. but in that case Nvidia and the AIBs can push the blame to the consumer for not being up to snuff with sub ATX 3.0 PSUs, such peasants who dare buy a 4090! but with native 4x8 pin would be an embarrassment, of course...who cares about safety margins, its all about thin n light baby! even with bigass brick style gpus 😄 yep thats exactly what i was afraid of, cheapass prebuilt systems with "pseudo-highend" hardware being sloppily slapped together causing fire hazards in unsuspecting people's homes, yay.... huh so A-Die silicon lottery spead is wider than M-Die but its peaks can reach higher levels than M-Die? loving me some hardware pr0n 😍 awesome temp improvements there! while we are on the topic of crossflashing vBios, i got a question for you and the rest: ive been trying to crossflash the vBios on my Suprim X 4090 and it results in a black screen every time. system still works, it boots into windows, but no display output. other users on overclock.net have reported successful cross-flashing on the Suprim X, so im wondering whats up in my case? along the same lines, i have noticed that display output comes up only veeeery late on my system after power on. basically, whenever i want to enter bios, i need to switch to the iGPU, otherwise ill always miss the right moment to press Del / F2 to enter Bios. funkily, it doesnt help if i just spam it the whole time, i can see via the Mobo Q Codes that Bios is successfully entered but display output never comes up. its only initialized once i am on the windows logon screen. so....what gives? could a manual switch to PCIe 4.0 on the gpu slot help out? ive read that "Auto" setting might cause some funky troubles sometimes. in any case, any input appreciated guys! yes id like one please 😛 are you though? 😄 similar to lots of tech youtubers, i could understand if after some extended period of time things tend to get....repetitive, i guess? basically, every new gen brings the same old questions, same perf gains, etc. plus, the added barricades from the OS side and crappier games tend to restrict actual use of new hardware. understandable if one gets jaded in that context. haha just like above, one might get more and more frugal as time passes. just being "content" and not crazily excited anymore like a youngling 😄

LOL i TOLD u that usually they allow u to split up 8 pin connectors to 2x4 😄 but im happy ure covered now! speaking of covered, Caseking replied and will get in touch with Phanteks for them to send me spare parts 🙂

another sign that u got quite the golden chip right there. lucky guy! 🙂 geez....i keep checking my 4090 connector like every day now, dammnit! 😛 this. doesnt even take an idiot for such a thing to occur. take any pre-built systems for example, like recently reviewed again by GN: cpu running at 100C due to upside down installed fans sucking the air from each other. plus, if u think how we normally treat power cables when managing them, i myself routed them neatly on the backside but then mashed them all together in the dead space next to the PSU. its how its done and cables SHOULD be able to take that. but this one is so fragile and finicky, urgh... i just feel lucky that i chose such a behemoth case as the Enthoo Pro 2 that is more than wide enough to let the connector "breathe" before the bent downward comes. right on, enough with the laziness! gotta gear up for the raptor! 😄 and i get what u mean, some things u do 100 times but stil have a funny feeling inside... i made the mistake of giving win11 a chance and now im suffering for my sins 🥲 can only hope upcoming updates will relieve some of that pain...currently like zero time to do a fresh install. can barely keep up here in the forum, hence the bigass multi-quote replies 😛 show-off! 😄 yep same here. as mentioned above, id say most enthusiasts just smash cables together when managing them on the backside, they should be able to take that and not burst into flames right away...

if hes in luck they might be out of the 2080S 😉

welcome back to the fold buddy! have a look around, im pretty sure ull find a lot of familiar NBR faces around 🙂

hope this gets sorted out quickly!

WHAT?! 600-700€ on the case, wth are u doing my man! focus on the function / performance, dont get lost in the looks / form! 😄 glad the bios update helped you out, its to be expected that RAM compatibility will improve over time. im currently also just running a ruick n dirty 6000 setting, havent started proper tuning yet on the RAM. i started ocing on the 4090, at present finetuning vRAM, looks like +1580 Mhz could be stable, resulting in 24.2 Gbps, not bad! next up will be the core, but im already frequently bumping into the 520W limit of the vbios, hm.... so far my attempts at crossflashing have been unsuccessful, black screen every time. at least dual vbios is helpful in this regard, easy to recover 🙂 in any case, 600 or 630W vbios is needed! but the Suprim X cooling is absolutely amazing, both for vRAM and core, even under heaviest loads like FurMark, core/vRAM temps only went to mid 70s with hotspot in the low 80s. mind you, this is with basically nonexistent case cooling yet since im still missing all my case fans 😄 regarding Caseking, thats good to hear. i dont mind waiting a bit, its not like its something urgent. as long as they take care of me, its all well 🙂

i think that price drop will come soon enough on AM5... plus Intel is already angering the vendors since they have to cut down the margins so badly that theres barely anything left for the shops. when was the last time that Intel actually competed on price and value, that u can remember? they only do that if they dont have anything else left to lose, should tell u smth...

lulz, knowing Fox OF COURSE hes gonna get smth like an SP150, the cpu wouldnt dare not to be good 😄 damn dude, first thing i just did was triple check the bend on my 16 pin connector 😅 yep, signs are good for uncle Fox to get his godtier 13900K 😁 holy guacamole, that SP increase is absolutely insane, 2.4x!!! 😮 ngl, if it turns out to beat the 4090 ill be the first to cheer AMD on, NGreedia needs a lesson in humility! dont u worry bud, in your hands such things turn out to be SP1000 rated compared to us others 😄 fun fact that wasnt mentioned a lot: the 7950X was actually the only Zen 4 chip that sold like hot cakes, as well. only the lower tier chips didnt find a lot of buyers. see? toldcha 😄 and so it begins...

could actually be that the new AMD cards will come close or even beat Nvidia's 4000 series. there must be a reason why the green team went SO overboard with power consumption and cooling on the 4090. raytracing will likely still be a win for Nvidia, but AMD's improvements will be higher gen-over-gen, so gap is slowly closing! btw, contacted both Phanteks and Caseking today, hoping to sort out the apparently defective LED strip. also noticed that the LED ring around the power button doesnt work, huh.... well lets see what they say. fingers crossed!

dayum, i think we have an Acer fanboy here 😄 is that a prebuilt or did u upgrade an existing prebuilt? can u post internal pics with the side panel off? im curious 🙂 whats the rest of the spec? cpu, ram, storage, psu, mobo? what are the spec on the monitor?

naturally, we want more pics of the finished build 😉 btw, i think sooner or later RDNA3 cards should be released in white. what u gonna do with the 3080 once u go nextgen?

the design changes actually dont really bother me all that much. just the fact that esp. 22H2 currently has huge performance issues with Zen 4. no bueno!

make sure that brother @Talondoesnt just give u the worst binned of his lot 😄 crazy stuff how far uve pushed win7, are u sure u wouldnt be able to do the same for the 4090? 😉 thx for those temp ranges, was actually wondering about that when i was monitoring DDR temps recently. currently in the low 50s under load, but my case airflow is not up to snuff yet, still work in progress. kool, thats good info. will come in handy once i get the Noctua IPPC3000 sorted out for my rad. id have to check again, but iirc the fan headers on my X670E mobo should be powerful enough to sport of these per header. but even if not, i still got an additional hub that came with the case, so all good 🙂

yeah im worried about that, as well. but it is to be expected that once adoption of AM5 is more wide-spread and they actually allow it to have a long support life, then itll go the same route and have similar popularity as AM4. its a long game! as for manufacturing cost vs. shelf price: well duh! manufacturing cost is only a small part of the total, what about R&D, marketing, logistics, etc? not that straight forward. also, same would go for Intel, as well. i could imagine their manufacturing costs to be even lower due to vertical integration vs. external production at TSMC. so nothing really surprising here 😄

geez, were talking 50-60% of the 4090 desktop cuda cores and that at half to a third of the available TGP. might be performing like a 4070, if not worse... they might as well use the desktop counterpart names to stop confusing customers. but i get it, customer is happier when he has a "higher number" in his machine, even works on a lot of us here in the forum 😅

nah wouldnt call HUB AMD fans, they just go for the most sensible hardware. which is usually NOT what the likes of us freaks aim for 😄 thats why his 13900K review was quite negative with regards to power consumption, efficiency and dead-end platform. with the 13600K the priority shifts more towards value in the here and now.

i feel ya, had pretty much the same, returned after a long hiatius only to find out NBR will be gone like a week later 😅

@Reciever any plans to get a facepalm reaction smiley? i think that would be helpful in such situations! 😄

every little bit helps! besides, its all in the fun and satisfaction to get a little bit more out of ur existing hardware without spending any extra money, just time on your hobby 😛 haha

damn, looks like u got a good chip on your hands right there! and i feel ya with getting to know the bios, im trying to dig a little deeper every day myself haha looking good. and as long as it stays below 95C and thermal throttle ure golden! shocker that theyre shifting towards Hopper...not 😄 and yep, theres the confirmation for my previous comment on the 630W Neptune card. Although from what im seeing so far, those additional 30W shouldnt do all that much. ive so far tried two different vBios versions on my Suprim X, one 600W from the Liquid Suprim and the other the 600W Strix OC. Both resulted in a black screen, machine does boot normally into windows, but no display output. luckily, with dual vbios its a piece of cake to return back to stock. just scratching my head as to why theres no output, hmmm... tweaking continues! btw, the Suprim X stock vbios goes up to 520W and i regularly hit that in benches. aaand there u go. 33k vs. 2k, done and done 😄 impressive temps at those wattages, whats your cooling solution? i saw others commenting on a potential chiller that ure running? were gonna be happy with whatever u provide us with bud, we wouldnt dare complaining. having way too much fun here 🙂 P112, dayum. and lulz ure offering a completely "selfless" service in buying 13900Ks for others, all the while testing each and every one of them and giving out the worst of the lot 😄