johnksss

Okay, cool. Will check it out in a few. Looking good!! Yes, I do hear the coil whine on mine as well.... Not loud but I know its there. Let me know when you pass my 16080 score. That was the best I got on a few days of AIO. I see the top score so far is https://www.3dmark.com/pr/1502051 . I know you can beat him! LOL Side note: Your KPE was crap, just like mine. I had to seriously struggle to get to 15,7 for like months. Memory would only do 1394 on a very very very good day with a water block. And I basically beat all those scores on aio and nothing extra. All I could say was...wow!

So why not compare it to a comparable 3090....😒 Steve seems to do a better job though.

You know. I was seriously thinking the same thing until I got this GPU from RMA. It's been a long while since I had a KPE that actually was not a hassel to work with. With it's "dusty" AIO and missing thermal pad from the single memory chip on the front side....is a beast! I finally get to join you guys in the ranks of having a decent GPU for a change. With that being said...I'm cool on the 3090TI at least for now.(Need to see what it can do before jumping onboard) I could have grabbed one tonight from MC for testing, but was like...i'll hold off and let others find out what it does. Still trying to see just what this card can do. Also cant really say it devalues my card as 2% or a better example....I get 100 FPS in game and that card gets 102 FPS, is ridiculous to pay to upgrade. Going for records, yes...Anything other than that, oh hell nah!😆 And besides....near the end of the year the 4k cards will be out and your shiny new purchase will be worthless.....Unless..... they broker in another shortage of GPU's like the apparent growing trend with GPU's now a days. https://www.3dmark.com/pr/1503589

.... Better they sit on your 650 bucks than to spend it and not have it to give back...I always say.😄

Thanks sir! Yes, I know what you mean! That is a serious bummer to say the least, but in my defense I was not about to wait on that damn Optimus block that may or may not be made...made or may not be made and shipped in the near future. Block does look awesome though!

My HC also showed up today, but I have yet to install it. Looks brand new and never before used, so I'm pretty happy about that.

A few runs with new card still on AIO....

Why boot all the way to windows for that? You can see it without even leaving the bios? That was a feature I really missed the most.

Yes, you are right about it not being for the Z690 so I can't totally be mad about that, but one needs to be careful when one does not release what the software is doing on newer platforms. In other news. My Kingpin pump went out and this is my new card. It seems i have finally gotten a "God" roll on a card. Also found a Hydrocopper water block which says it should be here later today....but that is suspect on the arrival time.

Mine is locked at 1.435V. yes, that it does. Just wish you could do bclk and core at the same time. Also to add. The software seems flakey. If you change performance core it changes 4 of the E cores to the same speed as the performance cores.

Are you able to get past that 1.435 volts using that software? Hummm, mine is still sitting at default with a max of 3 drives, but I took two out for the time being. Still using the single fan though as the fan is for the ram. Love this controller! I had the 40W version, but when they came out with the 60W version I grabbed it as each of my fans can pull between 20W to 44W max depending on voltage coming from the PSU.

New personal best on AIO.

A couple of runs on Windows 7. https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/14877419 Physics score second place for the time being. https://www.3dmark.com/hall-of-fame-2/3dmark+11+physics+score/version+1.0.132

That is why they called, They were trying to give me my money back but I was trying to see if they would be getting more later. If they were, then I would hold out and be in the first group of folks getting blocks. But what I took from the conversation is....I think these blocks are going to be no more. And if so, I don't want to mod this one as I might put it up for sale as well. I'm still thinking on it. I did try ordering that block but the payment would not go through. It kept timing out. That block is going to be a keep for lots of gpus to come...

Well....EVGA just called and said they have no replacement block nor do they have a current ETA on getting any new ones in. Any one have a Block for sale?

I could have done that before, but our Microcenter has went through a complete overhaul with 99% all new people. I'm just now getting introduced to these other folks from the regular manager, floor and cashier people now.🤦‍♂️

I may pay a visit to MC Tomorrow and see if they have some from around that batch....Only problem is I don't have an Asus motherboard for verification.😟

I got mine from Microcenter. It's and EK, but also my other blocks fit as well. This board I haven't added the backplate just yet.

As long as it's turned on in the bios it will work. It controls either bclk or multipliers, over clock retry and over clock save boot. Also clear cmos. Yes, was thinking about auxiliary power. Cool, thanks.

I left out that part about going to the restroom. lol Yes, there is quite a bit to go though. I'm wonder if not having the extra power to the board is going to make a really big difference. Did you cpu come with the original box? if so, does it have any numbers on it? Edit: did yours come with the over clock module?

I hear ya. I was a bit under the weather for the last few days, but nothing serious. Just a common cold. Hope you feel better. I already like this board better than my extreme, not so sure against the Apex or the Kingpin Dark, but time will tell.

I haven't had a lot of time to tinker, but ran this real quick...

Well... you can do 6600mhz (My kit only - 6400Mhz G.Skill Trident Z5) on this board with 1.3V/1.3V/1.3V and basically their timings which are slightly above XMP. Out of the box. I couldn't get 6400Mhz stable with all the voltage or no voltage in the world. lol

I need to get caught up in here, but i did read where brother fox is getting the msi unify-x board. my board just came in today. the extreme is getting packed up and sent back to the store. my ram booted first try on this board with no tinkering what so ever. facepalm!

🤦‍♂️ Sorry bud, mine was 609.00. The 6K was 489.99