Raiderman

@electrosoft @jaybee83 45% is a whopping statement! I'll believe it when I buy it! https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-9-9950x-16-core-zen-5-cpu-aida64-benchmarks-ddr5-8000-45-percent-faster-7950x/

Looks as though you had a successful trip...lol. Nice work bro!

Nearing 8000 in steel Nomad on the 7900xtx. Vbios makes all the difference 💪 https://hwbot.org/submission/5584594_raiderman_3dmark___steel_nomad_dx12_radeon_rx_7900_xtx_7996_marks

I'm just the opposite, as the gaming side doesn't interest me as much as the multi threading of the X series. I prefer benching cpu intensive tasks more than 3dmark feces. I don't game as much as I used to, so it doesn't interest me as much.

I agree, on the boards not being ready by launch, but what's going to be new? USB 4? Some already have that, and this gen's boards already have pcie 5 also. I take all this pre-launch hype with a huge grain of salt nowadays. I do get caught up from time to time, though. To say I'm not excited about the 9950X would be a lie. My inner geek is ready for some more benching.

That is because they are not the x3d sku they are comparing. My 7950x will not beat the 7800x3d in gaming either, but it will smoke it in multi threaded work loads. The X architecture cannot overcome the cache advantage of the X3D in gaming, even in the newer generation.

UL server was down yesterday. Pulled up my saved scores, and validated instantly. Haven't hit legendary yet, but will keep pushing.

Looks as though you could not validate online either. So I'm assuming their server was/is down.

Rebooting did nothing, won't validate the saved scores. I guess I'll have to DDU, and reinstall drivers, or I wonder if the server is down. Smh BTW, navi48 xtx spotted https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-8000-rdna-4-graphics-card-flagship-navi-48-xtx-gpu-spotted/

I love this freaking vbios. It's boosting to almost 3.2ghz, and running 2800mhz on the memory. Firestrike extreme score of 41k. Timespy was just over 30k

The validation button comes up instead of the "compare results online" button. I click the validate button and it does nothing. I saved the results, and restarted 3dmark, and it does the same thing. I'll try rebooting next. 🤷‍♂️

So I ran timespy, and firestrike extreme, and crushed my old scores, but they won't validate??

Did a quick steel Nomad run last night. I'll take a 250 point increase! 7631 to 7893. Can't wait to run some other benches. https://hwbot.org/submission/5579052_

Looks as though the camm2 standard may be the next memory interface 🤷‍♂️ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/kingston-unveils-new-camm2-ram-modules-at-computex-bold-new-ram-form-factor-comes-to-pc-on-msi-and-asus-boards

After much trial and error, I've finally succeeded. Special thanks to @Mr. Fox for keeping me grounded, and @electrosoft for convincing me to get the taichi (the pcb withstood some serious abuse)

Well, I now have taichi's stock power bios and taichi's standard aqua bios installed. Now I need to usee DDU, and uninstall the driver, then use the .exe file to update the aqua bios to the extreme variant. At least I'm done taking the waterblock off and on. 1.8v, and the proper vbios from techpowerup. Now to find some time to torture it, as if the poor thing hasn't been through enough. 🤣👍

@electrosoft https://videocardz.com/newz/rumor-suggests-amd-ryzen-9000x3d-is-launching-sooner-than-expected

Well, I still have not had any luck getting the aqua vbios to work, but I did flash the Asrock taichi power bios, and my card is almost back to normal. Come to find out, I was flashing at 3.3v. I'm lucky I didn't cook one of the chips. I will double check and make sure I downloaded the correct aqua bios from techpowerup, and try again.

I'm all for innovation also as long as the industry as a whole adopts the standard. If it's proprietary feces, then I want nothing to do with it. If it runs cooler, and clocks higher I'm all for it too.

Kind of cool https://www.tweaktown.com/news/98668/msi-z790-project-zero-plus-motherboard-adopts-camm2-memory-for-extreme-overclocking/index.html

4xxx didn't make the top 3. 58% still gaming at 1080p.

That'll save some disappearing cash from my wallet.

I guess that's a saving grace when living in "hell on earth", you can get nice cold temps with the chiller, and no condensation 🤣

Well, I finally got the aqua bios to verify. I'm sick of tearing the waterblock off this thing, so hopefully the bios is all good now. Just need to put it together, and try it.