Raiderman

Man, I miss all this tuning talk. The most I've spent tuning on my rig, is installing turbo tax, and doing our taxes. 🙄

Looks like Intel caught cheating again.... https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/spec-invalidates-2600-intel-cpu-benchmarks-says-companys-compiler-used-unfair-optimizations-that-boosted-performance

I have not kept up very well lately. Is the 14900k subpar? Does anyone have one in the forums here? Being a somewhat loyal AMD guy, I've been used to subpar cpu's for a number of years. I guess I've been kind of that way since the K6 days. The last Intel system I built goes way back to the Pentium III Era.

That has not been my experience. I've seen them get trapped in bends of the tubing, and I have also seen them travel around the loop, in an endless cycle. Until you "burp" the radiator/loop, they will continue to form. This has been my experience in nearly 100% of my builds

Bubbles do not show up in the reservoir, and a flow meter will not determine everything specifically after a hardware swap, as the flow will change. Bubbles can and will sit in pockets in your lines and radiator. If you have colored lines, you have to guess when you have purged the system. As I stated before, the reservoir will have a little foam, but you will not see bubbles. Here is my Koolance Phenom II rig circa 2008 All these years, and I just noticed the cat photo bombed me in the lower right 😄

You cannot see air bubbles with solid black tubing, which is why it makes sense for AIO's. (Closed loop) You can see slight foaming in your reservoir, but you will not see air bubbles traveling through your pump without clear lines.

Custom loops can be a pain sometimes. It helps to have quick disconnects and drain valves. Otherwise switching hardware is a messy ordeal.

Not sorry... it's an excellent gpu! @jaybee83 It's a custom Raijintek loop. It's been 8 or so months since installing it. Definitely needs repaste and flush. I do the undervolt on all cores negative 30 via PBO.

Nearing 40K. My system is ready for a coolant flush and a repaste. Really never saw temps above 90c, like in that screenshot. https://hwbot.org/submission/5193156_raiderman_cinebench___r23_multi_core_with_benchmate_ryzen_9_7950x_39605_cb

Here is my Ryzen 7950x after a CB23 run

I read this too, and was disappointed. Was hoping for a nice overhaul.

I'm either going to get the smaller version, or try hard tubing. I would need the smaller version in order to keep the reservoir/pump in the case. I did some research and they have one that mounts in the place of a 120/140mm fan. I have all the fittings and tubes to switch to hard.

...and thats your reservoir laying on the bottom of the case? I really like that look, well done 👊 any links to these? Titan PC? Frozen CPU? Performance PC,s?

@Mr. Fox sorry if you mentioned it already, but is this one of those EK Pro manifolds?

Not hardware related, but check this out for Aeroglass lovers !! https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/nostalgic-windows-7-and-vista-memories-for-windows-11

Lol @ 10% slower than full speed for silent 🤣

True that! Plus, I will be spending that again on the next gen 😄 Already have my eyes on an X870 motherboard, and the next gen Ryzen, of course.

I am sorry, but it's just nuts talking about $1700 graphics cards being a good deal. Maybe it's just me, but I can't seem to muster the ca hones to pull a trigger on a card for that amount of mullah. I know full well the addiction, though. 😄

I'll just leave this here. @chew 💪👊

@electrosoftNot sure if you mentioned it, or knew about the new bios. Thought I would go ahead and mention it. Dated 1/26 https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/MPG-X670E-CARBON-WIFI/support

I remember grabbing an EVGA 1080Ti the same way. Checking the forum for when they were going to drop, then doing the F5 refresh about every 60 seconds 😄

Happy Birthday bro @Mr. Fox, may you have many more! Mine was the 12th! Just ordered a 48gb kit of trident Z's @8000mhz, hopefully find some time to tune them...ha

Had to pop in and post a picture for our Bro @Papusan🤣

If I dont get a chance later, Merry Christmas to all my NBT brothers!

Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate it! Thankful to have this community to get away from some of life's BS!