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If the chip is really that good, I'd say $1200-1300 is a fair offer. It really comes down to how many do you have to buy to get something similar in quality and from what I've seen you do have a pretty golden chip. I would ask for $1300, and have to be happy with just getting an average K or KF chip, not that that is a bad thing. Honestly these chips even at stock settings are so blazing fast that pushing for the last 2-300mhz for most just isn't worth it. For overclocking fun there is value, but for a daily/gaming rig it just isn't. Look at it this way, you could buy another chip and set the cash aside for next gen or put it towards a new GPU and fire extinguisher.

Currently working on 7800 CL36, basically XMP so shit timings. But damn for mostly plug and play this is not too shabby and crazy bandwidth. Going to try 8000 next. Edit: Both 7800 and 8000 work at 1.435v DRAM VDDQ/VDD, incredible. Unfortunately only 7800 will get long term stable so far. Ok I think I may love the Dark again. Holy hell. 8000 CL36 easy. Well It seems 8200 CL36 wants to have a go too. Not sure where it's going to stop just yet. I really need to go to bed. 8200 CL36 takes 1.455v VDD/VDDQ minimum as 8000 CL36 took that to run MSFS 2020 stable. So likely higher for gaming stability, etc.

I have the T-Force 7200s in my Hero living room PC. I wanted to replace my A-Die Green PCBs that were annoying me with no accurate voltage since it's PCMI unlock isn't precise it seems. So far so good at XMP I 1.4v. I'll let you know how far they go.

Picked up some 7600 CL36 GSkills on the way home. MC in Chicago had them in stock the other morning so I reserved them. Testing them now at 7600 CL36 on the Dark. XMP I booted right up. I'll see how tight/high I can get them to go later.

12th gen laptop CPUs outside of the HK or HX are 100% locked down. No overclocking, no voltage control at all.

See if you can get the 4090 FTW3 Prototype. 😎

I backed my sticks down to 7200 on my Hero, mostly so I could keep voltages down. I like 1.3v max for IMC, unfortunately on most CPUs that does mean lower stable memory clocks. 7200 runs great though. My Dark Z690 is honestly more trouble than my Hero board with high memory OC. I don’t get it. Asus worked some magic in recent bios that allows for much higher memory OC on a 4x dimm board. Also I saw that those 7600 sticks were in stock at a few MC this morning but I’m debating still if I really want more DDR5 laying around

Nice job! These chips are crazy, still a decent amount of tweaking left in the thank for those that go looking for it. Seems the bend might not be the issue, but rather the failure of the user to fully seat the cable.

1.4v both in bios. I haven’t tested lower but 1.15v VCCSA and 1.3v vdd/IMC. Again at BIOS, as actual is a bit lower. Wow some can’t even boot 4266. That’s crazy good IMC then.

From what I'm hearing IMC is still a crap shoot at least with DDR4, some getting an extra bin or +133mhz over previous DDR4 stable. 4133 Gear 1 would be pretty monster though, 4266 likely a golden chip?

Those are actually really strong P cores. Edit: Test it and let us know! I expect since you're using high end water cooling it should go pretty far on those P cores.

@Mr. FoxIt seems USPS came through a day early, shes out for delivery. 😀

So strange as I had no issues at all with my BIOS update and I updated to 2.02 while others had it brick thier machines. EVGA LOL. At least the BIOS is good.

Works great. My flash went off without a hitch. I flashed from version 2.01 to 2.02 inside Windows with batch file as Admin. Rebooted and began tweaking.

I'm convinced that guy bent that power cable trying to fit it into his case. It's extremely easy to mess that cable up, which is definitely on Nvidia and this crazy new cable, but if you follow the instructions included in the box or some common sense this should not happen. When putting the FE 4090 into my Lian Li O11 Dynamic (non-XL) the cable would not fit. I attempted a small angle to make it fit but I quickly discovered the pressure it was putting on those cables and the tip. Plenty of idiots are just going to smash it in there and then cry foul when their cables start on fire. Right now I think Nvidia should be thinking seriously about a cable adapter that offers an easier 90 degree angle for attachment. This would be a relatively cheap and simple fix for the end user. But I guess a few lawsuits might be even cheaper in the end.

Stock 13900K undervolted with 420mm AIO. Quiet fan curve. I wonder how low I can get my vmin, this is my SP106 chip. Finally messing around with it a bit more now that the BIOS is fixed.

Dark BIOS 2.02 is out!

Damn that SP99 hitting 5.8Ghz all core. That is really good, one of the top chips I've seen. Most of these 13900K are all so damn close in perf, super binned by Intel it seems.

@Mr. Fox not sure if you've been following the 13th gen/13900K issues on Z690 Dark. Basically can't train anything over 7200 CL32 and various other issues. But it seems their BIOS engineer has finally got it ironed out and we should be getting our new BIOS today or sometime early this week. It's currently being tested. 8500 DDR5 CL34 🙌 Looks like Z690 Dark is going to be ab absolute unit with 13900K.

Curious how it will perform with adequate cooling. Leaky chip might end up being decent with good cooling. My local MC are selling 13900K like hot cakes. Launch day 25+ gone by end of day. Then another shipment of 25+ plus yesterday all gone. Of course I took 4 of them haha. Still that is pretty good movement of a halo chip.

😄 He's getting a factory sealed 13900K haha. It was staring at me on the desk last night, mocking me saying how it's an SP120. 🤪 Shipped it off to him this morning, he should have it Thursday according to the nice lady at the front desk.

Agreed 100%. I had a 3070 for a long time in my living room PC and even for 4K gaming with use of DLSS in many titles it was a great experience for me. The 13600K is the real star of the show this gen as usual. I knew the 7600X and 7700X were going to get destroyed this gen, but damn.

SP101 with P112 and E81. Running to MC to grab yet another 13900K (not for me) lol. Trying to think up a good disguise before the manager at the CPU cage gives me some sort of side eye look. "Limit 1 Per Household" lol. I might be pushing that a bit.

My local MC go ta shipment this morning, ran over and grabbed my third 13900K LOL. SOLD the SP99 to my brother instead of returning to MC. I refunded the replacement plans on it and my SP106 chip. Got an SP101 chip this time, luckily it's extremely weighted towards the P cores with kinda crap E cores. Perfectly good for me, can run it at stock 5.5ghz all cores with a 280mm AIO and graphite pad and still not thermal throttle at stock in CB23 which was my goal for this rig. Now I'll finally use real Gelid Extreme on it and get to tuning it. The SP99 was fine and would have been fine under real paste for daily loads, but this chip definitely has some much improved P cores. $569 is a very reasonable price for this insane chip. AMD is out of their minds with the 7000 series.

Damn I wonder how many my store had today. I see no MC have any in stock anymore.