Raiderman

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

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.