Talon

Wasn't that long ago that getting 7000 CL32 Single Rank was a challenge. 7466 CL34 DUAL RANK no big deal. They get pretty warm fast, the dual ranks are pretty difficult to keep cool. I need water lol. Edit: Those temp readings are in error on the RAM. Temps were 49-50c during entire stability test after heatsoaked. It's a temp reading bug that has persisted across numerous D5 dimms, various brands, no idea where it comes from.

grab the latest version on GitHub. Looks cleaner and is actually labeled ReBar.

Did you close the deal with an epic handshake?

Thought I would add a stock CB23 run. This is out of box "Performance" mode, with fans on AUTO, flat on kitchen island temps.

So far I am loving the new Legion 7i 23'. There are a few quirks here and there and I'm still learning how to tame the bast, but so far this thing check plenty of boxes for me. I really love that Lenovo included options in the BIOS to enable overclocking support and ability to disable Realtime undervolt protection. Something a few other brands are completely neglecting! Looking at you ASUS! Because these options are available, you can undervolt, overvolt, tune and tweak to your liking! No need for a custom BIOS, or "hack" of the bios to enable said features. I love it! Thankfully the cooling system they provide in this 16" beast is actually very good. Not even close to my max, just a relatively tuned for low voltage/power run. For 159w I am blown away by this perf. This was run with in regular priority, not real time run lol. I just got the laptop this afternoon and have been getting things setup and trying to learn the laptop. I'll update if I find some glaring flaw in my testing.

I've got the Pro 7 Gen 8 coming this week, hopefully by Wednesday or Thursday direct from Lenovo. After the Rakuten cash back, 5% off coupon and other work discount I managed to get mine for around $2500 out the door, tax, shipping and their 3 year premium warranty with next day on-site repair. Will update with my thoughts and testing.

Honeywell PTM pad works fantastic for direct die application. I’ve been using it on my Omen 16 for over a year and temps haven’t gotten worse a single bit. Core to core temp differentials are tight and it provided for me near LM results with no risk. I also put it on an AMD 6750XT and had huge temp improvements there as well. They do NOT work well on desktop CPUs. My hypothesis is that the IHS does not get hot enough to “melt” the phase change thermal pad. Where direct die gets hot and will melt it. This melting is necessary as initial temps will be terrible! When you first install it expect horrible near thermal shut down temps. This is completely normal as the pad is thick and needs thermal cycles to Melt and meet optimal thickness. This can take 20 minutes of load/cooling, a few hours or a day to reach full potential. I’ve found a couple hours and it will be a max potential. It will never need to do this again, only on initial application.

Returned. None available to swap with. Asked them to just order me one or put me on a list and they can’t. So dang annoying. Now I’m back to the F5 squad as this laptop seems to be pretty popular given the specs/price compare to the rest of the pack. And 18” screen has now ruined me. I just could not accept 2 decent large dead pixel clusters on a brand new device. I saw someone else got them. I’ve had it happen on a few laptops and usually a swap gets you one without. Right on about about the silicon. This one seemed pretty cherry. Over 33K in a laptop at 172W and not thermal throttling is pretty crazy. I already miss it and want it back lol.

It's a Strix 18 with 4080/13980HX. Honestly a pretty incredible deal for the package overall. Unfortunately I have to return it in the morning as mine arrived with 2 dead pixel clusters/dirt under the display right next to each other almost top/center area. Pretty annoying TBH. But the display itself is pretty incredible and for 18" display area, 6-7lbs isn't bad at all. Too bad it's all BGA, but damn this thing is fast for a laptop. Now I have to wait for BB to get another unit in since they're sold out. I wish they would let you order a replacement and keep current until then, but nope.

@Mr. Fox you got a 4090?! Awesome. Which model? Sorry haven't jumped through the backlog of pages I have here. Picked up a new BGA toy.

A single cable out of the many thousands they've likely sold does not equal not good. The cable was not fully seated, plain and simple. It's been proven and tested to be the cause of the fried cables. There is a reason why the issue has mostly disappeared after those findings were shown, and the masses figured out they needed to seat their cable. This guy stated he was regularly checking the cable over a couple of months and likely managed to finally not seat it fully.

Will do, I'll update in the thread. At this point I am convinced getting 8200 stable is my weaker IMC on this particular CPU I have in the board. I think it's like a 67 MC or lower. I'll test with a 77MC and see if that gets 8200 or higher stable. I had a black screen until OS load issue with this board and Asus boards until Nvidia released a vBIOS firmware update to fix that issue. Never had an issue since, and that firmware was released by Nvidia within a couple weeks after launch of 4090. I believe it was only when using HDMI to my OLED TV since my regular monitor never had any issue. EDIT: I forgot to add I have a 4090 FE in the Dark setup. I've definitely seen the whining! Expecting a 4-dimm board to perform like the 2-dimm setups when pushing the edge is just ridiculous. They make the 2-dimm setup for a reason. EVGA was pretty slow to get their A-Die running properly, and I felt like giving up on their board, but I'm glad I still have it. I have Talon2020 as my name on EVGA forums.

Thanks!!! This BIOS is SOLID for me so far. Finally got 8000 CL36 with my green dies and a terrible IMC stable. Going to test 8200, maybe even swap in another chip to see if I can get it stable. Very happy with 8000 CL36 though. Happy to see EVGA still supporting this board and getting A-Die on track finally.

My chip is a total DUD. I've been testing it for the last couple of hours and this thing is pure trash compared to my 13900K. Of course I got a really decent "K" sample at P SP115. This chip overall is SP104, of course no idea if those are 100% comparable but the more I test I actually think it it might be. At first I didn't think so because I am able to pass 56x CB23 at vmin 1.128 which my 13900K passed at 55x, but my 13900K did this stable. Once I put the 13900KS under a 10min test it failed eventually, sometimes within a few min to sometimes towards end of test. Even then I heavily reduced the undervolt and same thing which is something I've never seen. I think it has to do with the temps going up and causing more instability. Super odd. Y-Cruncher at stock voltage stock clocks manages to crash! It hits 100c under my 420mm AIO, pulls 360w and crashes the test lol. Of course this is unlimited power, but still, something I've never seen. My 13900k can pass this test no problem at above stated voltages. I think it's going back to MC and I'll swap for a different chip or just return it all together.

@electrosofthttps://skatterbencher.com/arc-oc-tool/ Get busy! I am keen to know if this really unlocks any real OC potential. I honestly want to go buy an Arc A770 just to tinker a bit.

Damn that is really incredible!

Actually more than half of the 4070 Ti models prices are within $50 of MSRP, yes that includes Asus. https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntt=rtx+4070+ti&Ntx=mode+MatchPartial&Ntk=all&sortby=match&N=0&myStore=false 3/13 cards are $799 and more than half are within $850.

Finally got around to rebuilding my living room rig with my Z690 Dark yesterday, flashed latest BIOS, but unfortunately still stuck with 7800 CL36 as max stable for my green PCB A-Dies. Might tinker a bit more, but I think it's just where the road ends for me with that board. It could be that if I used my other 13900K I would have better results now as the MC score is lower than my main rig's 74 MC, at least that's what I gather looking at Igor's findings. https://www.igorslab.de/en/intel-13th-gen-raptor-lake-binning-over-500-cpus-tested-part-1-i9-13900k-and-13900kf/6/

Feel better soon man.

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Excellent! I hope to get my Z690 Dark built again this week/weekend. I've been down for the better part of this week with the FLU. Thought I had COVID again, but turned out to be FLU A. The kicker is that for the first time in a long time I got the FLU vaccine and then I get a nasty bout of it for the first time in years. Yay.

Its just a quick test, definitely not a stability test at all lol. But if it can't even handle the clocks being set at the desktop, it ain't gonna handle them under any load. Then of course you have to check for error correcting kicking in and scores regressing even with high clocks.

It's the second Zotac MSRP 4090 I've seen that easily hits 2000+ VRAM. Another guy I know can do +2200 on his Zotac.

6.3Ghz, Jesus that is insane. My theory on the Intel Raptor Lake Refresh is that were going to see higher clocks, more cache?, and likely lower power overall due to DLVR that was fused off by Intel even though it was there originally. Asus has left DLVR in the BIOS in case of "future chip support". Well, now that we know Raptor Lake Refresh is inbound, it would seem Intel plans to use DLVR for desktop refresh.