johnksss

Yes. 385W at 14C water. And you didn't get the Intel memo when they were the ones that came out and said it was fine to run up to 115C like since what, the 10900K days? Also in the grand scheme of things....it's not temps killing Intel cpus, it's the voltage. Now temps might kill an AMD CPU though, but then that is speculations on my part as I would never let an AMD CPU over heat, but an intel cpu, sure, no problem. as they dial back when they reach the set max temp, not just get hotter and hotter. This comes from past experiments and just plain user error when I found these things out. So no reviewer or surfing the net to get the answers. 🙂 edit: Also that 385W run was with 5.5Ghz/43 E core/45 cache/LLC8/1.4V/Load 1.288V

14C Water vs 28.4C Water

You thermal throttled because you did not change your max from 100C to 115C.... So that also means you would have pulled more watts... Not sure on the 5.4, but i'll check it in a few.

On the Hero it picks up at least 7 of the 8 fan headers. And it picks up 2 fan headers for the KPE. RGB Software seems to not work as intended.... I'll have to revisit if I have time left.

Yes, I do remember them being very adamant about air cooling and ac was for the birds and blah blah blah. I also remember a lot of this stuff that is now common practice I was doing way back in the day and was considered "wasting money" "I don't have the time for that" "No way my other half was going for that" "What sane person does this and that." "Who stands out side to bench a computer or use free cold air from a window to cool your pc" "or Mr Moo and his portable freezer." And the list goes on..... 😂Yet, I have seen that line of thinking completely change over the years. Where reviewers now act like that is the norm, when they were talking smack about it when they first came out with tech stuff. But.....as they say, the world is changing.... You either change with it or get run over..... So maybe they now use AIO cooling.😂 Also been using my Lamptron's 20Wx4 purchased in April of 2017 and 60Wx5 purchased in April of 2018. Right now it's only controlling the memory fan, but it's usually on my SS with 4X5200 RPM 30W fans attached. It use to control my fans for my laptop fan setup as well. Very good controllers. But when I'm not benching, I don't need everything to run redline. It just only needs to work as a normal functioning machine. And using easy to use software without having to change a bunch of things I'm cool with. My car does 156MPH, doesn't mean I'm going to be doing that every day from light to light.

Just did a 5.5Ghz test on the KS and it ran 385 watts.

That fan controller looks real promising. And already the replacement caps on a 7980XE, but those were from a cracked die 7980XE though.

Didn't pass brother @Papusan , but still a decent run though.

Guess what? What are the odds? 😂

This benchmark is a cpu benchmark so the higher the speed the faster it runs.

These are the gpus that finally made it off the ship from being stuck at sea for like over a year. And they threw in a few 3090 TI's for good measure.😂

I mean you are removing the CPU from the loop. Using just a heat sink or aio so the gpu can run free. And if testing just the CPU then just slap on a basic GPU with no water block. Best to keep one of those laying around for trouble shooting. Once the problem is solved then you can put it back to looking all nice and cute. lol Also to add...the scaling is different for CPU than it is for GPU. the CPU can run a lot hotter and keep the same clocks....Not so much for GPU. And if the water is 20C and your gpu is not about the same or lower (at idle)by a few degrees... You may need to take the block apart and check the tim spread and the thermal pads.

You don't have a normal heat sink laying around? I keep a AIO and a heat sink just incase for stuff like this. Or something you can remove the screws from or has open holes so it just sits on the mounting bracket and you just tighten it down.

You could also try just cooling the gpu by itself and see what happens..... Then comeback around and remount the block on it. Also to add...I have to check my filter regularly. When my flow drops to 3.4 I clean my filter. Those filter slow the rate of flow by like .5 to 1 per filter on the system.

It sure would suk if the guy with the 95 fps average was knocking the stuffing out of everyone else with a 100+ better average. All while the other guys are yelling hey look at me at a 135 fps, but my KD is .47.😂😂

I totally understand. Not a problem there. But going by your higher over all temps. CPU and GPU...From my experience means the water is not flowing fast enough through the system. Causes range from filters being clogged. CPU and or GPU blocks are blocked internally slowing down the flow of water. I thought about the manifold idea as well and was going to grab a y adapter version of a manifold to test the theory, but did not get around to doing it yet.

So that we are on the same page about flow rate...What does that 205 L/H translate to? On my screen it shows flow rate of 3.7 LPM to 4.7 LPM on a good day and warmer water. If I remove filters and the gpu something like 5.3 to 5.7 LPM. So right now about 4.3 LPM/1.1 GPM A while back my gpu temps stayed hot no matter what. I found that my LPM rate was .09 to 1.2 LPM. Once I fixed that no more really hot gpu temps. Edit: Had to find a converter... 205 L/H = 3.42 LPM 190 L/H = 3.17 LPM 4.3 LPM = 258 L/H 3.7 LPM = 222 L/H And the flow rate slows down when getting colder not go faster... Not sure how yours is working in reverse? Or I could be totally wrong and totally disregard. 😂

Short answer....your loop. Didn't you get like 55K gpu score with your 5950X?

Yes, until you need it....I did that and forgot I had benchmarks saved. lol

Ah, okay. got it.

Yes The score should be somewhere between 14000- 14600. I must be missing something because the first picture you posted had clocks flatline in the 15,6K run posted earlier? Well damn. LOL Glad you got it sorted out in the end. Now keep going with the stock 520W bios and see what you can do with it. Pretty sure you can get to or beat your best score with it. Edit: Here is a hot run as well. Not much improvement with water at 30.2C and higher clock 😂

Sorry to hear that! What is the batch number?

Yes, that's is about exactly what mine looks like. Now set the watts to max and run a port royal bench and see where you land with that.

Hummmm, my switches are still set to default and I haven't went above 1.2V with classy tool either. I had just assumed that those were set to default already to rule them out. Also check to make sure GPU is in fact running at X16 or X8 and not X4 or X1. And maybe lift the GPU out of it's socket and place it back in place. Edit: And it could be memory as well....

I would say, throw in a temp drive with fresh windows and only the nvidia driver, pe1 and port royal. and then see what it gets as a stock score. I have been doing plenty of reinstalls as of late due to unforeseen stuff happening in the background. Might have to do another reinstall as we speak. lol