Mr. Fox

Anyone that wants to try The Riftbreaker benchmark, the game demo is free (or cheap to buy) on Steam and you get the benchmark either way. It seems pretty demanding, like Ashes of the Singularity benchmark. This pulled 535W on the 5080 and about 650W on the 5090. 5080 #1 5090 5080 #2 This is the 5080 in the B850MPOWER running the 4585PX. This is not 5K like the others. I use CPU Set Setter to force selective utilization of the 3D V-Cache CCD based on the .EXE file that has been executed rather than relying on what AMD's sketchy 3D cache drivers think.

I figured out a better mounting location for the wired WireView Pro 2 that the radiator fan screws. I did not like it where it was. I had not noticed that the distro block had holes that went all the way through where the screws attach the distro block to the chassis. I used those holes with screws to attach it to the distro block much lower than before. The fan mounting bracket included with it aligns perfectly with the holes in the distro block. Now it doesn't have the ugly long "snake" for the 12VHPWR cable. This is aesthetically more acceptable.

Unfortunately, most local yokels buying computers and computer parts are monkeys that have the Facepoot Marketplace mindset. Most of them have totally lost touch with reality. Those selling think their legacy garbage is worth a fortune and those trying to purchase current hardware are idiots that expect to pay legacy hardware prices for cutting edge. When I list anything there I get bombarded with low-ball offers from morons. They say "that's too much" and I say "if you can find it cheaper, buy it... if you want what I'm selling the price is already below average and not negotiable."

Nice to hear from you, brother. And, glad to know you are doing well. I think PC building is a huge mess overall. Prices for anything used by AI are totally unreasonable to the point of absurdity. I think it is hurting all consumers, SI companies and manufacturers of other component products (cooling, case and PSU) that are selling a lot less merchandise now due to the ridiculous costs of the key components that are keeping consumers from building or buying new systems. I was running all AMD but just went back to Intel with two Z890 Apex and 270K Plus builds. I moved the 4585PX and B850MPOWER and 5080 Prime into a SFF living room build for my wife. I sold the X870E Apex and 9950X3D2 to Brother @Reciever for his next beastly build. It's Brother @Talon fault that I moved back to Intel. It feels like I am back home again.

I ended up with it by accident. I was purchasing a second X870E AORUS Master (also a fantastic motherboard) and it arrived damaged. I ordered it from Central Computer. The large NVMe heatsink had come loose in shipping and slammed around damaging all sorts of stuff. I asked Central to open the box and check the replacement and they opened all 25 boxes they had in stock and the same thing was wrong with all of them. They offered me the X870E-E Strix as a replacement at no cost (normally about $50 more due to the A$$zeus ROG tax) and I accepted. It served me well alongside my first X870E AORUS Master mobo. They performed identically, but the ASUS BIOS is much better than Gigabyte's BIOS. One thing that seems universal with Gigabyte is their BIOS never has a way to disable the onboard WiFi/BT module, and I just hated that. (I do not use either one and the WiFi/BT driver bloatware impairs CPU and memory benchmark scores when that crap is enabled.) I ended up removing the VRM heatsink and pulling out the WiFi card on the Gigabutt mobo as a workaround.

If you get a good setup, like what I sold to @Reciever and offered to you, the 9950X3D2 will be great. I do not know why, but is seems like with the X3D chips (all of them) it is harder to find one that has an IMC strong enough to handle 8000 and 2200 FCLK. I had the Strix X870E-E motherboard for a good while and it was a very good motherboard. I think you will like it. It overclocked the memory as well as the X870E Apex does with a good CPU. Ran it 8000-8200 daily. No issues.

This and the previous two WireView Pro 2 I bought on Amazon for the same price as ordering from Thermal Grizzly directly. Roman seems to be leveraging Amazon for distribution of many of his product offerings. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H83WL9JW?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1 I never really tuned 6000 to the max. I got it stable and then focused on increasing speed with the same timings, but here is the 6200 C26 settings I have tuned on the B850MPOWER now using the weak V-Color dual rank 48GB trash kit. You might be able to run the same timings at 6400 with a good single rank kit. If you are using 16GB modules you should be able to tighten up tRFC. This is all I really have so I hope it helps. Edit: the WHEA error above is because I had too much CO negative offset to maximize CPU clock. This hits the 3D cache harder than a non-3D cached CPU. Below (without WHEA error) is the same memory settings with a less aggressive CO undervolt.

I had a dickens of a time figuring out where I could mount the WireView Pro 2 Wired version in this small case. It does not look nearly as clean as it would attached to the GPU and I am not "thrilled" with the mounting location. But, I think it is better to have it than to not have it. Maybe in a week or two when I am bored and want something pointless to do I will route the EPDM tubing a slightly different way so it looks less "busy" than it does now. At least it is easily viewed in the current location. Looks like the shunt mod is working, so that's good. MrFox's 3DMark - Steel Nomad DX12 Score 10202 marks with GeForce RTX 5080 @ 3435.00/2250 MHz

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/6063003 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_time_spy/submissions/6062987

Thank you. The Bykski block looks and works great. My hotspot temp is like 8°C more than core with liquid metal. I wish a PC enthusiast vigilante would find the people responsible for it and exterminate them. Maybe if we pooled our resources and put a bounty on their heads, LOL. https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/6062828 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/6062831 That silly 3DMark "Estimated game performance" measurement is so hokey. "Less than 20 FPS" LOL.

That is the new normal unfortunately. I don't believe it's going to end well. The technology is impressive but it is already being abused and that is only going to get worse.

Finally got the 5080 block from AliExpress. Now the WireView Pro won't fit. The 12VHPWR is recessed about 1.0-1.5MM too far for it to seat in the socket. I guess I will have to buy a wired version.

Yeah, these absurdly overpriced GPUs should be shipping with all of the things unlocked. They will never be worth what they are selling for, but getting screwed on price and again by locked-down Nazi crap is a double-whammy. Doing stuff like shunt mods and EVC2 mods stroke one's inner geek in a fun way, but having to do it to address the absence of functionality ruins everything.

Got my new thermal pads and back on liquid metal now. 5090 shunts were removed and so was the EVC2. Just using the mVolt+ utility and this is maxing out the Matrix 800W vBIOS power limit (pulling about 810-815W). I'm pretty sure I will have no issue breaking 18K on the chiller.