Raiderman

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.

Welcome to the forums, and to the dark side 🤣. You'll find many knowledgeable people here, and everyone is helpful if you have questions.

Obviously your not setting her system up to be a Benchmark machine, but still respectable. You could get much more from that card if you wanted, and you know that already. I've never run anything stock, so I don't have anything to compare. Need to get my card up and fully running again. D***ING with the bios' takes so much time, time that is hard tocome by.

I'm not sure if there is a 2 dimm board for AM5? If there is one, I think it'd be a low budget model. I stand corrected, but it's Asus. I won't buy Asus, and haven't since 2006ish. Mini-itx Check this out on @Newegg:ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-I GAMING WIFI 6E Socket AM5 (LGA 1718) Ryzen 7000 mini-ITX Gaming Motherboard (PCIe 5.0, DDR5, 10 + 2 power stages, ROG Strix Hive, EZ Mode PBO Button, Two M.2 Slots, Two USB4 Type-C Ports) https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-x670e-i-gaming-wifi/p/N82E16813119592?Item=N82E16813119592&Source=socialshare&cm_mmc=snc-social-_-sr-_-13-119-592-_-06042024 On a brighter note, at least for me. It's definitely bad flashing on my 7900xtx. I was able to get the stock performance bios flashed and triple verified. I'm still trying to flash the aqua bios, on the low power bios chip, but I can't seem to get it to verify. Not quite sure what happened, as I verified all writes. Now it's quite difficult to get a verification, where as before it verified easily. 🤷‍♂️

That will be my next board. The Taichi line is righteous 👊

Looks like it was a fun build. Of course they're all fun 😁

As we always said...there is no replacement for displacement for horsepower, same can be said for cores.

And 24 cores vs 16. Disable 8 cores and give me your cb 23 score.

So, I have a question. The picture I took of my gpu reading zero's, was still plugged into my monitor! I just thought the on board graphics took over. In fact when I switch the bios to the low power, gpuz only reports Raphael as my gpu. I may take everything back apart and flash everything again. @electrosoft

Yes those are the 8npin connectors. I love your optimism. I should have known to not rush something like this during nap time 🤣😭

Bro, you're cruel. I don't know. What is northwest repair? Just sent Tony at northwest repair an email.

Tape was supposed to be where the red circle is. It was just below it when I took it apart

I've had it open 4 times. Flashing bios'. Was in windows when the screen went black. I noticed some thermal tape was in the wrong spot when I took it apart. Really sucks 😭

Anyone want to do a gpu repair? Was in windows when it went black. I'm assuming a misplaced thermal pad.

I think I have everything ready to flash the aqua bios on mine. Love this card for the $1099 I got it for. $1200 is the most I've ever spent on a gpu (Radeon VII). I don't plan to go any higher than that anytime soon.

@electrosoft don't know if you tried the latest bios dated 5-28? I may not.

Glad to see ya, stranger. Great scores! Hoping to get close to 8000 in the cartoon steel nomad, if I can find some time to flash my vbios.