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Was available online last Friday at a retailer I use regularly, I bought it and it arrived this morning from FedEx 😀 Honestly I was pretty shocked when I saw the "shipped" and a FedEx tracking # arrive in my email so quickly. That said, even with modded INF driver, the card runs essentially in a low usage state until official driver support arrives for gaming. But for creators and professional use, the card runs full tilt and produces normal performance. It's very odd, anyone have any ideas on how to bypass this limitation? I can run games/benchmarks but they run hella slow or produce less than half the expected result. I modded the setup file for the latest driver, disabled driver enforcement and installed without issue. But like I said, it won't run properly in games. It shows up fine in device manager, NVControl panel all works properly, even g-sync and pendulum test. Production tasks work and render fine, but gaming or 3D benchmark loads seem to be the issue.

Well I have a serious hardware problem. I need rehab. I have a 4070 Super FE, 4070 Ti Super arrived today (early) and I think I'll grab a 4080 Super FE because why not. I'll keep one and sell the rest. But more toys to play with vs one single 4090 FE.

All clear on mine. What is this supposed to show? Is it an issue with the card if it had logged errors?

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/2760784 Think I got a pretty decent card.

4070 Super delivered today! Beautiful card, honestly awesome looking little card. +2000Mhz to the memory looks to be a go lol! I got the new MSI Afterburner, card locks out at 1115mV on voltage which is nice to see I can push it up a bit. Will test stock vBIOS and then flash unlimited powwah.

Already preordered, shipment locked down. 😄

Buy cheapest card/MSRP and flash higher TGP vBIOS from the "super duper" cards. Profit. Sold my RTX 4090 FE yesterday after using it for about 5 months. Grabbed a little baby MSRP RTX 4070 Super FE from Best Buy this morning. Free overnight shipment. Plan to flash the 350w Gigabyte vBIOS to it with the unlocked flasher. A 4090 in a secondary rig was a total waste of a card. Glad I was able to sell it for what I paid to a nice guy that was building his first rig.

Have the apps on your phone. So Best Buy, Newegg, and possibly Amazon (usually Amazon sucks and won't have day 1 stock from my experience). Be logged in with your payment information and shipping address saved to your account. I also use Apple Pay which makes check out even easier as you can just hit a few buttons and your on your way and it's usually much quicker than trying to go through multiple pages of a swamped server on launch day. Good luck! The Super series actually look to be a nice refresh.

Dang, ya I'm done trying my luck with any 2x16gb A-Die kits. The 2x24gb new M-Dies seem to go further. These things can boot 8800 CL38 and I'm trying to stabilize 8600 CL38 right now. Will see if I can get it stable tonight or tomorrow. Otherwise 8400 is worth the price.

New TeamGroup TForce Xtreem 8000 CL38 1.4v 2x24gb kit. Plug and play auto voltages, set to 8400 and set VDD/VDDQ ram to 1.435v. 8400 CL38 easy peazy.

Nice work! That is a substantial improvement. 30 series coolers were just OK. The 40 series is a pretty substantial improvement. The lack of backside vram on the 40 series is very helpful too.

Dang, I have a 4090 FE in my other rig and I love it. It runs ridiculously cool on my end, but I'm not on an open air bench. I have fans blowing over that chonky boy.

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Higher performance with APO, lower power consumption. Intel being a bunch of di**s not giving this to 12th and 13th gen though. I am happy to see HWU shit all over Intel in this case because they deserve it. APO, if implemented into enough games moving forward should be on all of their LGA 1700 hybrid CPUs. This type of anti consumer behavior is BS and needs to be called out as such.

Wow Newegg is sold out basically, and my local Microcenters have almost no stock left, just a few cards. Here we go again!!!! Again, again again...

I edited the BIOS for the Z690 Dark to enable Intel Dynamic Tuning Technology in the BIOS, and therefore Intel APO or Application Performance Optimization with 14900K for BIOS version 2.13. As it stands, this is not available in the default BIOS and therefore you cannot enable APO or use the required DTT driver. I used the Asrock Z790 Nova Intel DTT driver as all mobos are using a generic Intel driver package so can be cross installed. https://imgur.com/iSJMx2Z I tested Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, and it's working 100% like my Z790 Apex with 14900K. APO ON: Average Framerate (99th percentile): 176.03 Max. Framerate (99th percentile): 272.78 Min. Framerate (99th percentile): 97.92 APO OFF: Average Framerate (99th percentile): 150.81 Max. Framerate (99th percentile): 231.70 Min. Framerate (99th percentile): 94.0 Works a charm! Apparently were going to have to fix these issue ourselves going forward with EVGA completely MIA. Thankfully it appears we can at least fix some of the issues and big thanks to them for leaving the BIOS open to custom modded BIOS flashing. I'm going to try and get the newest Microcodes added to the BIOS and flashable without brick like this fix. Unfortunately I am learning as I go and really have to rely on other peoples guides. Hopefully I can get it figured out.

When are we setting up the notebooktalk/NBR squad lol?

Awesome! Love this haha. I'm about to punt my Z690 Dark right out of the window. EVGA is not bringing updated BIOS for 14th gen, and while that isn't a huge loss, it sort of is. It kills some of the resale value, it won't have support in the future for any issues that may arise with future hardware. We had plenty of those with new RTX 4000 series that needed BIOS updates to correct. I think I'll drive over late tonight or early tomorrow morning to grab one of the few remaining APEX at my second local MC. My closest MC sold out last night. So I gotta drive a tad bit further to get this one.

I know, my jaw hit the floor when I first got it working. I was like the first person outside of Intel to test this feature? Like WTF. Not a single reviewer looked at it, some specifically mentioned they weren't looking at it on launch day. That is somewhat BS but somewhat on Intel for not explaining that this feature really does work, albeit limited in scope right now with a somewhat annoying installation process. I almost gave up on getting it working myself, but through some persistence I figured it out and got it working. The Verge did some testing about an hour ago and also saw large gains, but not as large as mine. The reasoning for that is they used the Very High preset which isn't as CPU limited, I specifically used the low presets to look for the CPU difference. Additionally I am using stupid fast memory/ram setup which helps extend that lead. Once you remove the governor that has been in place, the high speed ram can now scream it seems. Either way they got pretty decent gains. The hardware scheduler that Microsoft is using is really that bad which is why Intel is fixing it. Then there are some games that don't like the loading of E cores or are inappropriately assigning tasks to them. This driver fixes that issue. It seems Intel is sick of their CPUs under performing and are likely going to go through and test/fix each game, similar to ARC division and their driver improvements. AMD already does this with their 7950x3D driver requirements. This serves 2 fold. First, it fixes the game performance for consumers, and it also shows the Intel CPUs performance properly. Some had made the argument you can simply disable the E cores and see the same uplift. Wrong. I've tested this and in Siege it does help quite a bit, about half actually, but it still does not reach APO performance. In Exodus, performance suffered terribly by disabling E cores. In both cases, APO was the clear winner. So there is more going on under the hood. Moreover, hardware reviewers are not going to go through games and turn On/Off E Cores, they're not going to mess with thread affinity or priorities. So even if gains be had by doing this, they won't do it, they won't report on it, and this can show an Intel CPU in a worse light than what is possible. Again, this APO fixes that issue and some or all of those gains AMD CPUs have enjoyed might now get clawed back. Best of all, APO is a driver. It's listed under the chipset section as Intel DTT. You install that driver and it's automatic. Nothing else needs to be downloaded or done by the end user. The Windows APO OSD app is not necessary and APO is on by default with driver install. The App only serves a purpose to disable APO or ensure it's on, but not installing it would not prevent it from working. This driver setup makes it apart of Intel's motherboard/setup. Meaning reviewers can't simply say they aren't going to use APO, or not install a required diver for the motherboard. That would be like saying they're not going to test a new Nvidia card with the proper driver, or they're going to test a CPU without installing chipset drivers, etc. APO is a default setup for the system after required driver install. It's actually genius. The part that pisses me off is the gate keeping here. This should be for ALL LGA 1700 CPUs. Keeping this for only 4 SKUs is complete and total BS.

Intel now offering DLC FPS upgrades for their CPUs in the form of Intel APO -- Intel Application Optimizer. Only works on 14th gen i7 and i9 K KF CPUs, ain't that nice? Reminds me of the days when you could buy Intel performance cards in stores to get HT on non HT CPUs lol. I've tested it in the 2 games they support so far, more 'profiles' to come. Rainbow Six gained 200~ fps for me at 1080p low settings. Went from 667 to 857. Metro Exodus went from 273 to 339 fps. Like what the heck. Downloadable FPS, Now I've seen it all. 🤨 https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/intel®-application-optimization/9NZ98VNK5X1S?hl=en-us&gl=US

7000MTs on the DDR5 is insane lol. Nice work!

My Microcenter has it in stock, I reserved one. Now I'm sitting here debating driving over before they close to grab it, or waiting and sleeping on it. I hate myself. But I'm sitting here wanting that ENCORE baby. lol. Why, why do I do this to myself. I will torture myself, FOMOing that board, and then do it all again when Arrow Lake drops. I need hardware rehab.

This is fake news. At least from what I found. I updated to latest BIOS for my Z790 Apex and 14900K today after I snagged one. My long term PWL was set to 253w with 14900K. Odd. I of course removed that and went about my business as usual.

These cracks are ridiculous. It's happening on all cards. They're too heavy unless you use the brace. I have a brace under my cards since launch and haven't had an issue. But they need to make it clearer to consumers that the card needs this to be used. To be fair, all of my cards, except for the FE had a brace in the box.