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Well to be fair I was using this board fkr a different purpose originally and even now still serves well under unraid. That being said it why I haven't considered it for use with gpu benching. At least the z390-a and aorus master are wired for 16x or 8x/8x. Just curious if it's worth the hassle versus the z97 krait Ali board considering it's age. At least it's 8x/8x just quite a bit older now. I'll probably give it a shot and see what the results look like

The board I have only does x8/x4 for CFX/SLI which is why I am not considering it for gpu benchmarking.

Hey guys so a bit of a privileged problem hoping you guys can give me some insight. I have an old SLI board with a system that is basically already running iirc z97 Krait SLI. Sits in the garage now. So heres the hypothetical. I still have my 9700F, 4x8GB 2666Mhz SO-DIMMS, some storage from my P750DM-G that has a bad GPU (MXM 1080). I was thinking to swap from parts around. Make the 9700F the new basis for a benching rig, if so then I would move the sodimms to the 10850K (using an adapter) on unraid to give it 32GB and move the 16GB 4400Mhz RAM to the 9700F. I would likely be looking at the Asus Z390-A or the Aorus Master since both can use x8/x8 for CFX/SLI. Or should I just not waste any time and effort, revive the old z97 system for purely GPU benchmarks? Not sure if the 4790K can effectively push GTX 690 Quad-SLI. Thanks in advance fellas

Make a thread in the correct sub-forum please :)

Its unfortunate that now the king of the hill sets the prices for the entire product stack. Since both are publicly traded, they are legally obligated to seek profits for their respective organizations so even if AMD were to somehow produce 80-90% of the performance for 50% (or less) of the cost they would be obligated to price it accordingly or open themselves to lawsuits from their own investors. The only counter argument they could make is a desperate need to gain market share, but they could likely only make that argument for 1 release before investors get itchy for the next fiscal quarter I buy both vendors to suit the needs or desires I have at the time, but I still have my leanings. That being said I remembered this 10-20 second portion of a farewell video which leads to the real problem. Gamers buy nvidia regardless and AMD cant seem to market their products appropriately.

I remember when people use to say that accelero's were too big lol 3090Ti from Brother Fox arrived today. It completely dwarfs the arctic cooler, not complaining. I have a bit of a soft spot for these kinds of heatsinks

Just bought myself a Sapphire 280X 3GB Tri-X should be here next weekend :)

There are merits and demerits to both. Sadly the demerits are more notable when the merit is a smooth running operation. I dont use Apple personally as their ecosystem doesnt suit my needs, if my interests were different then of course that wouldnt be the case. As much as I do enjoy the ease of access (and more importantly, familiarity) of Windows, I cant trust it to do what it is expected unattended, which is why I use Unraid for things that need to "just run" without persistent user intervention. Its just an unfortunate circumstance that benchmarking was made in large part to be relative to what you can expect in gaming. Gaming being largely on Windows, despite being a highly individual "sport" on an OS that doesnt really care to suit the needs of the individual. As such we get to spend a lot of time resisting broad stroke solutions. Pick your poison, as it were lol

There is nothing wrong with criticism, also, they have experience with using Linux as well.

Thanks Brother, looking forward to playing with it. Might send it off to Hiew as hes been having the upgrade itch but 9070 XT's are slim pickings where he's at. Its why I wanted to keep it in the family. I was really bummed out when I sold my EVGA 3090 to tide me over until my next income kicked in. Brother Fox is always fair in private dealings, so it was an easy choice. Probably too easy.

Sorry fellas some content was removed as its explicitly advertised as piracy.

While Reddit is infinitely larger than our humble platform, what I can say is our moderation here is much more fair. PM sent!

Anyone here know what kind of screws I should be looking to get for my Red Devil 7900XTX? Im open to buying a kit or something if its around 30 bucks or less

Middle is basic tune for gaming, benching stable doesnt mean gaming stable sadly. Middle score: 2900c/2650 mem regular timing @ 1070mv 7900 XTX is really held back pretty hard on the power. 600w would've been great but AMD likely made the right choice as people complaining about performance sadly is safer than people complaining about needing more power. I'll do a stock run in a moment, also ReBAR is disabled again somehow :/ I'll need to check my sBIOS again. Oddly enough the Network Stack needs to be enabled for Rebar to work on this Aorus ITX x570 board... #3 = Stock

3000Mhz Core @ 1000mv 2700Mem @ Fast Timing Max temp 47C but a 25C delta for Hotspot I was going to replace the TIM this last weekend but I forgot that the previous owner nearly stripped the screws, I need to get some replacements first before applying PTM7950 new threads (in the news section) as it allows for SEO scrapers to find the headline which leads to more people posting in those threads. It was in my view the main reason why OCN had the audience that it had in its hayday.

Here's a quick tune on 7900 XTX / 5800X3D for reference. Daily driver, no pruning.

Let me know if you end up splitting off that 3090Ti, might be interested in snapping it up. Last high-end EVGA card, worth keeping in the "family" in my book.

Diverse threads grants more exposure for the forum, and allows for threads to retain their topics. Only posting them to 2-3 threads reduces visibility and muddies the waters for parent threads. You clearly put in a lot of effort in posting news, All that I ask is that you make the attempt to put it where it can go. I look at it this way, if the current stuff is boring then it gives you a chance to go back and experiment with the older stuff, maybe pick up a tip or trick here and there which might serve you well in future XOC experiments. I have mostly been tied up with homelab related stuff but I still keep looking for stuff from 10-15 years ago to pick up. Hard to believe a 4870 x2 is around 200+ right now lol, but it ebbs and flows I suppose. I might pick up a single 5870 just for some tri-fire. Common knowledge of the era is Crossfire will be stronger than a 5970, perhaps the arctic cooler can allow me to OC it to make it a better pair with an HD 5870 at least until I can source another Arctic Cooling heatsink for another 5970.

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Post it in the news section

A bit of a bummer of the current GPU market is that it has even inflated the prices of older GPU's as well. Every now and then I like to look around for random older GPU's that I missed out on when I was younger or cards I had back in the day. Couple of years ago I bought a GTX 295 for 25 USD, now they want around 100 USD, GTX 590 at best is the same price. Cant even see that many HD 6990's. Settled for a Arctic Accelero Xtreme 5970 cooler for one of my 5970's for now. Was able to get a couple of arctic coolers for my GTX 690's a while back so I guess until GPU prices come down i'll revisit aftermarket coolers.

Same here, blast from the past

It would certainly be more interesting for me. Most of my finances have been tied up rebuilding my pseudo server rack but more importantly adding 4x 12TB drives and moving my data around + 10Gbps networking. Though I can only seem to hit around 6.1-6.5Gbps, using an NVME to PCIE adapter + ribbon extension likely the culprit, I can live on 6Gbps for Unraid OS. Its been my outlet of late while the GPU hellscape seems to endure for a while. Most of the expenses for going water for me likely would be the rad and fans, I use a Window AC unit which keeps temps really low, around 55c @ 430w so perhaps initial testing may not dictate going water immediately. In which case its probably around 50 bucks.