Raiderman

I have found the kit I want for around $320 https://www.performance-pcs.com/water-cooling/watercooling-complete-kits/rajintek-scylla-pro-ca360-kit-hard-tube-rjk-0r10b00216.html Cant make up my mind between a hard tube kit (never done, want to try), and a soft tube kit.

So I have been looking at some custom loop kits, and found a Raijintek kit that I like. I have read a couple reviews, and most are pretty positive. What do you all think? https://www.raijintek.com/en/products_detail.php?ProductID=153

I will be losing all the prime benching weather soon. Brother @Papusan(The Snowman), I think, has a much longer/larger window for overclocking.

I am using Office 2021 on my desktop, and have not noticed anything like that. I also use dark themes, including my custom theme. Do you use dark mode? I wonder if that would make a difference.

Now that you have bought a 4090, I have been thinking about a 7900xtx. Its nowhere near the card the 4090 is, but it would be fun to bench. I would have to go custom water as well, and sell the arctic cooler, and 6800xt. I would lose Windows 7, which I will forever love, but as you have said, the redmond nazis are choking it off to the point of no return. Do you have any recommendations for 360mm water cooling kits, such as the XSPC kits? I cannot seem to find any of those anymore.

Oh crap, that did everything I wanted, and fast too...lol Thank you!

A bit off topic, but what does everyone (if any) use to disable Windows Defender, and smart screen in windows 10?

Not sure what bug you have with office text rendering. Could you post a link to it? I use office quite a bit, and have not seen any artifacts. Is it on a specific version of office? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/settings/office-display-issues

EVGA has these on their website store, but they are not the same as the straps I had before. I think I sent a link to you bro @Mr. Foxa few years back. I found those on Ebay. Single strap without the loop, I love those too. https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=K00K-00-000004 Edit: was just going to order some, but not worth the time. They limit your purchase to a quantity of 2 for a total of 4 straps...??

I hadnt actually tried sky diver on Windows 7 until today...haha. No, it is 3Dmark 11 giving me troubles by not clocking as high as Windows 10. Wattman kind of sucks, but I will try your settings. I see those settings get your vram up to 2334mhz @ 112%. What is the stock speed on that 6900XT? It is 2000mhz on my 6800, with the slider only allowing 2150mhz. This is what I get in Wattman, which gives me the results displayed in gpuz.

I had a Bykski water block on my Radeon VII, and it worked flawlessly. I was a little worried about buying it, but at the time they were the only outfit making one. If anyone knows where I can get some of those EVGA velcro straps (again) let me know please.

Windows 7 on the left, Windows 10 on the right.

Cinebench is a weak test of stability. I found this out the other day when running Indigo Benchmark. Cinebench used to tax the cpu to the max, but it no longer does, at least not on my AMD chip. It doesnt even make it sweat compared to Indigo. So either Cinebench is not optimized to run correctly on AMD, or its just a BS benchmark now.

I have to have a little color, so I swapped the plain black Lianli case fans for some 140mm rgb Phanteks. They move a good amount of air and look nice as well. Not a big fan of the "breathing" unicorn vomit, but just a steady single color.

I used Windows 10 built in memory tester, and zero errors were found. It runs two passes, and takes about 30 minutes to complete. TDP on the Ryzen 7950 is 95c, and while running Indigo I did not see it above 92c. Im hoping its more of bug in a first gen platform.

Sounds to me like someone was pushing the envelope, and received their due consequences. Anyway, @Mr. FoxI would like to see windows 7 running on that card!

What was the warning for?

Wish you could get windows 7 going on that 6900. I get 3300 more physics points in Win 7, but can not come close in the graphics.

Holy crap batman....You just described what I go through on a daily basis with this build. Constantly having to do chkdsk on the Windows 10 install. I was going to post what happened to me yesterday, and decided not to. Now that you described what you are going through, I think I will. @Etern4lhad me try out the Indigo benchmark, and I was impressed with how it stressed the cpu, however, shortly after running it, I experienced BSOD's in Windows 10. I couldnt stay in the OS for more than a few seconds, so I reduced everything to stock in the bios, and still had the same issues. So I thought I would try the Windows 7 disk, and it was BSODing before entering the OS, so I was left with nothing to boot to. I thought for sure I cooked the cpu or the ram, so I did a memtest, and it came back normal, I was like wtf! So, finally I went into the bios and disabled XMP, and bam, it booted to both OSes??? After booting back into both OSes, I have since enabled XMP, and my undervolt curve, and have not had issues yet. Another thing is, this build does not like to restart, or shutdown from either OS. The OS itself shuts down/restarts normally, but I think its hanging via the bios or something. Windows will shutdown, screen is blank, but all the power is still on, and the EZ debug LED is stuck on yellow, meaning its hanging. Usually at start up, I get two LED's, red, and Yellow. Yellow off first, then red off, then post... To say the least, I am frustrated. In order to get it to power down completely I must hold the power button, and push it again. Not sure if its the MB, or a flaky bios. But I feel your pain when it comes to chkdsk...I have to run it from within windows 7 to fix my windows 10 disk. Uploading video

Looks like you flashed the vbios? I have not done anything yet, been too busy. How'd it go for you? No issues? 2800 boost clocks are pretty good arent they? Not sure what the defaults are on the 6900xt, but in wattman the sliders go to 2150 mem, and 2800mhz clock. I have never been able to bench anything above 2670mhz. Anything above that will artifact heavily and crash. The Sapphire Pulse version, I think, is a slightly lower binned chip. For most runs, it has to be around 2600mhz.

Indigo is being a bit flaky for me. It will render the bedroom scene, then just quit. I must say, it is a very cpu intensive benchmark. Cinebench cpu usage is pathetic compared to indigo. I disabled my undervolt curve to see if that would help the bench render the super car, and it would not. It just quits. I was getting 5.3 on the bedroom scene before lowering it to the screenshot below. As you can see, it tasks the cpu much harder than CB.

Oh I see, you were running in a VM. I am trying the Indigo bench now. Ive been getting an "out of bounds" error. I will keep trying and post back.

How are you running Cinebench 23 on Windows 7? With 8 more cores than me, you should be above the 40k mark.

I almost guarantee that it is by design. Just as the last AMD driver for windows 7 cripples my overclock. 2560mhz in windows 7, and well over 2675 in Windows 10??? Hmmm