Raiderman

I am really glad you are happy with it! I wish shipping was a bit cheaper than it was, but I suppose it is because it is so huge. I wonder if you could replace the plastic window with a piece of tempered glass? I never went as far as you have with that case. It was just too big for my taste. I think it is kind of designed to sit with the wiring side to a wall, so it sits like a TV almost. Again, very glad you like it. 🤙

That looks sick bud! The 6900 XT looks like a gtx 1050 in there!

@Mr. Foxis busy swapping his build into the gigantic EVGA DG case he recieved Friday 🤙 I am so glad someone wanted that thing! One less thing I have to pack into a Uhaul. Thanks bro @Mr. Fox🏚️

No, bleeding is only required if you expose the pump to air. That would require running out of fluid. I think its more of a maintenance thing for people like us, because we are always changing crap. New water block, new gpu cooler, swapping cases, etc. Once bled, it will only require bleeding if you open the system to change something , or running out of fluid (unlikely)

There is not much difference between an external, and internal reservoir, and an internal reservoir is never above the highest line point inside the case. Air bubbles aren't a thing when the pump is part of the reservoir. All you have to do is open the fill port, and tilt your case one way or another. Once bled, your done. Bleeding water cooling systems is part of the maintenance with an open loop system.

So I double checked all the settings in 3Dmark 11, and they are the same with win 7 and win 10. I cannot achieve the clock speeds in Win 7 that I can in Win 10. Screenshot does not show, but I am set at 2577mhz in Win 7, and Win 10 is set at 2624. It crashes in Windows 7 at anything close to 2600. It has to be the driver causing this. https://www.3dmark.com/compare/3dm11/15610712/3dm11/15649756#

The asrock card has a P bios, and a Q bios listed in the specs, with the P bios having a boost clock of 2495mhz

Haven't checked the 6900xt, but the 6950xt XFX card has ~50mhz higher boost clock 2324 vs 2368 compared to the Asrock card.

I'll have to check that, plus I did notice that it runs full screen 720p in win 7 as opposed to a cropped/centered 720p in win 10. I wonder if I accidentally ticked a box in the settings of 3dmark.? Yes I run the windows classic gui, and set it to performance in advanced system properties. Looks like windows 2000 when it's all configured.

I wonder what the difference in the firmware is between my 6800xt and that 6900xt, besides the obvious? I know brother @Mr. Fox will have his hands full if he gets it running on windows 7. Not sure if the final AMD windows 7 driver is crippled a bit or the newer drivers for windows 10 are more optimized for the card, but I am a good 1000 points shy with win 7 in 3dmark 11. The better physics score in win 7 won't make up for the better graphics score in windows 10. At least that's what I found.

Brother @johnksssI snapped this picture while watching the golf channel. Carl Weathers doing the "Chubbs" character from Happy Gilmore for the pga store. I got a laugh out of it.

I did mod all of the voltage, and clocks. Very minor tweaks to test the waters since I am still on air. I had problems with RBE, and found that I needed to download the beta version. The standard version always said "not supported" when loading the stock vbios. I'm not too worried about bricking it, I just need to have another card to boot to in case I do. I used to flash ATI vbios all the time, it's just been a while. I think there was a bios mod back in the day, that would give you the next sku up HD3850 to HD3870 or something along those lines.

This is what I am getting ready to do. I just have to get some cahones, and another video card in case I brick this one. I have 2 crap GT 440's ( I think ), but they only have DVI connections, and my monitor does not have one of those. Oh, and they are packed in a box somewhere labeled "Computer Room" 😁 All these cool pictures are giving me the itch to go open loop again...crap .and 6950xt's in stock at newegg for $699. Waiting for 7xxx series to drop in price. Everything is gonna hit the fan soon with these prices.

I kept scrolling back to that first pic, and was saying....man he looks like Carl Weathers.....lol. Then two posts later....

Wow, send it my way if you dont want it. 😄 Ive been pretty impressed with the little 6800XT. Its a pretty darn fast card.

https://hwbot.org/benchmark/wprime_-_32m/halloffame #16 in the world...👍 Of the Top 20, only two are not on LN2...brother @Mr. Fox and brother @Raiderman 🤘

https://hwbot.org/submission/5215247_ Now number 1 for Ryzen 7950X, Number 5 for 16x CPU, 19th in the world overall, 3000ms behind brother @Mr. Fox Thanks Windows 7 👍

Nickname for the black box...Boeing, or Airbus 🙂

As I am in the process of moving, and packing crap, I thought I would snap a pic for my bro Papusan 😄

Whats funny, is I just got home from work, reading the posts here about Windows 11, rebooted to the windows 7 drive and benched WPrime. Smoked my Windows 10 runs easily without any effort. I really haven't had any time to have a good ole bench-fest yet with this rig. Ive d one some auto submissions via benchmate, but haven't had time to really tweak on it yet.

Another difference between Windows 7, and 10. WPrime 32mb Windows 7- 1.171, Windows 10 1.393 Knowing my luck there is probably some rule about using Windows 7 and WPrime. https://hwbot.org/submission/5214589_

Ive yet to install that garbage, I'll probably VM it first to see how ridiculous it is. Luckily there are ways of changing the gui to something that resembles a functional OS.

Thais why I haven't seen any, they are Intel boards. I know EVGA makes a two slot X570 chipset board. Haven't checked in a while, but last I looked, still no X670's.

EVGA is the only company that made 2 slot MB's, right? I cant remember ever seeing anything else. Back in the day, I had a socket and slot 1 Mobo for the CPU...lol

What in the world would you need a laptop with a 128gb of ram for?