Raiderman

They are their own worst enemy. When they actually listened to the end user, they produced some good OSes, and some fairly good peripherals. This is what happens when people in high places think they know whats best for everyone else, and sadly we are seeing it in every facet of life. From the type of cars, to the type of governing they think is appropriate. Sadly the younger generation thinks this is the norm, and have no clue what real choice is.

Even though I don't have an abundance of time lately, I've been milling over purchasing this Bykski water block. Is anyone using a water block from them? How does it perform?

A little off topic (a lot), but I was watching some college football yesterday, and looked up and saw my name on the screen. I've never seen someone else with the same name. Thought it was kind of cool 🤣😎

Bro @electrosoftjust got bang for the buck 😁

I have a set for you, check your PM@electrosoftJust collecting dust on my desk. I would rather you have them, and share your settings. Its an inexpensive set to tinker with.

I am pretty sure its the board. It doesn't matter if everything is set to auto or not, it just does weird sh1t. Resetting cmos does strange things too. It does not even reset to defaults, and starts in a weird power saving mode, where all the RGB's are dark, fans don't spin, and that just started recently. It has been flaky since day 1, with odd behavior. I like the board and its features, but am getting tired of messing with it to keep it running. How the morning went. Reply to your post here, remembered that you posted about a new bios. Thought...ok lets flash it and check it out. Enter the M flash utility via the bios, looking at my phone while loading....3 or 4 minutes go by with a blank screen.. Hmmm, better hit the reset button, once, twice, three times...all go to code C5. Ok, hard reset via holding the power button down. Still C5 code. OK, reset cmos...starts in some "power saving" mode, enter bios, load my profile....Boot normal/

I may switch back to the AsRock board next go around. Loved my X570 from them on the 3900X. This MSI board is really starting to torque me off. Tried to enter the flash utility to flash the new bios, and it locked up with this code. Has to reset cmos again

I'll be abandoning my 7950x build next year for a 8950x build. 🤣. Been reading about the new ground up architecture on the 3nm node. Should make for a good upgrade 👍 How about you bros @electrosoft@jaybee83?

Thanks for the heads up bro! I will grab it tonight, and check it out.

The Accelerated Graphics Port was the bomb back then, otherwise you were stuck with onboard MB graphics, or a standard PCI slot. My 16mb Nivida Riva TNT card was the shiat! Yes, for the younger gen, motherboards came with onboard graphics sometimes, and you think Intels onboard CPU graphics suck?

It has always done weird stuff, and I've checked event viewer. It just says "system has had an unexpected shutdown" or something along those lines. It's been a pretty flaky board since I've had it. Some of the bios updates have actually helped it, like the last two updates eliminated the restart hang I was having.

Yes, as soon as I hit the reply button to the above post, my screen went black, and rebooted. Fresh install of Win 10 22H2 LTSC. I leave my system running all weekend, and it will reboot for no reason. I figured I was having stability issues with the 8000mhz ram. I think I will set everything to auto in the bios, and see if it happens. This board has been a little sketchy for me, doing some weird stuff, like images showing the drive order in the bios being corrupted, not saving certain bios changes, hanging after hitting "save and reboot", resetting cmos not loading defaults.

@jaybee83@electrosoftSo, how is it that I am 10 loops stable with memtest64, but I get random restarts during a 24 hour period? Maybe its not a memory speed thing, and more of a bios thing still?

Some of you may remember from the NBR days, I posted some wallpapers that I had made....It is funny how this stuff gets stolen/shared.

Cool, I will try this out for sure!

I love ASRock and their products. Been using them for a while now. My AM4 MB was rock solid, and had a lot of features. Not to mention my Taichi GPU, which is fantastic!

Ya, I noticed that too.

I have done zero tweaking with Ram settings yet. All I have done is set the voltage correctly, and enabled Expo/XMP. Edit: I do not think its stable even passing 10 loops of memtest 64. While trying to decompress a 100gb file, it will error out. Tried several times, and checked file integrity multiple times, yet it would not decompress. Decided to check if the IMC was at fault, and sure enough, I lowered the RAM speed to 6600, and the file decompressed without issues.

Thanks buddy!

Does anyone know if there is a built in benchmark for StarField?

You wear your crocks as I do 😄 Mine are much dirtier though.

Umm, duh... Lack of sleep may have contributed to this. I have no idea what I was doing that morning. I pass 10 loops of memtest 64@8000mhz

If you can run PBO voltage curve at -30 all cores with CB 23, I would say it's your board and not imc. I am bench stable at 8000 xmp on, and 6400. I have benched 6600, but not stable. Of course that's only with very limited time playing with it.

I've known chew for a long time, and he's a rock star when it comes to memory tweaking. I'm glad he's posting his results for us.

@Mr. FoxDidnt you say you use a custom win 10 iso? If so could you link it to me please?