Raiderman

Well it was accurate 😞 I immediately tore it apart, and found that the screws had come loose on the waterblock. Not getting good contact would create such a hotspot. Took alcohol and cleaned everything up, and put new thermal pads and a fresh coat of mx-6. Hotspot is down to 80c-85c. I had my ch341 out and ready, but can't find a decent guide on the procedure. From what ive read so far, you must flash the standard aqua bios, then upgrade it via asrocks utility. 525w, 3ghz extreme bios. I also need a refresher course on using the programmer. I last used it trying to unlock a bios on the hp probook I purchased on fleabay.

I'm not sure if that can be accurate. Doesn't make sense that the die is 47 with a Hotspot of 111. That has to be wrong. I think I used arctic silver thermal paste when I put the waterblock on. I guess if I'm going to flash the bios' with a programmer, I might as well repaste.

I am setting it to 3200 in wattman, I am not seeing anything close to that when I monitor it in Aida64. I don't even see it hitting advertised boost. I guess I should run hwinfo while benching, and confirm this. According to hwinfo, I am getting close to 3ghz. 47c doesn't seem very hot to me, but who knows. Seems like I am leaving a lot on the table. Gpu hotspot looks a little toasty ..lol

So I did some research on flashing vbioses on AMD cards. It appears that AMD has locked them down, and in order for me to flash the 3ghz taichi aqua rom, I need to disassemble my card, and flash 2 bioses using a ch341 programmer. (Which I happen to have) Question I have is, would it be worth it? My card boosts to 2750ish, which is as high as I've ever seen it go, even at 3200 in wattman. I'm assuming it's hitting a thermal throttle point, even on liquid. The new bios should remove that correct?

Congratulations bro @chew 🤙🤙

7608 on steel Nomad. Won't go much higher without chilled water. There is a bot submission of 8442 on a chilled 7900xtx.

Vulkan doesn't run as well as dx12 on Amd. At least that particular bench doesn't.

I didn't read the article, but are they going to make it I to a system Benchmark? Like time spy or firestrike?

Anyone have experience with amdvbflash? I want to flash the taichi aqua vbios to my card since it's a 3ghz stock bios. I get device mismatch and am directed to use the -fp command (force flash) but it doesn't work.

Ya, it's just another speed way Benchmark. It's not a time spy replacement for sure.

I've run it, but have nothing to compare to it, since the bot doesn't have it listed yet. 7557

I like the 56K warning 🤣 Have not seen one of those remarks in quite a while. Not to be off topic...lol

I bought it also, but will have no time to play it 🤣

Unfortunately you will never get a laptop that doesn't overheat, IMO. Unless a revolutionary cooling design is invented. Thin and light, with today's hardware = half as hot as the sun.

Isn't it odd, that back in the day, we couldn't wait to install their latest OS. I remember running pirate copies of early XP betas as daily drivers. Now they must force everyone to their next gen OS, as if they know their product is pure crap. Such a shame they went in the toilet. AMD just happened to be the first of many to follow, I'm sure.

A pre-built 4080 desktop is $3,700? That's crazy

It's all about having fun with your hardware, regardless if its a laptop or not. I used to have fun with laptops too. I just much prefer the upgrade, and expand ability of desktops. And I can sit it right next to me on the desk, and look how pretty it is 🤣

Mini room air conditioner? 82f is way too hot to even be sitting in there. I used to run one in my office, it was like a meat locker. Electric bill was a little high, but it was fun for benchmarking.

Need more air flow for that extreme heat you have coming soon 🤣

And from everything I've read, Arrow Lake is going to lay a big turd. AM5 is the only path forward that I am reading. Clock regression, no hyper threading, only sounds like a step backwards to me.

Because it's no longer about what the end user wants anymore. It's about ad revenue, and shareholders needs.

We were saying the same things comparing Windows 7 to Windows 10, what, 6 years ago? What would happen if Windows 7 source code was released? Just a hypothetical? Massive 3rd party driver development, and a jump to first in marketshare...lol

It would be unstable with default bios settings, and overheat of course 🤣

For those that use AM5, and Msi @electrosoft here is the fix for the new bios and 8000mhz ram. Looks like the high voltage setting was broken. https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/mpg-x670e-carbon-wifi-bios-7d70v1g1-bugged.396406/post-2255508

Another huge black stain on Intel, and you know as well as I do, they did this on purpose with full knowledge of what they were doing. That trash should have never been released, and they look foolish and desperate for doing so.