Mr. Fox

Decided to fire up the chiller since today was over 95°F and my office was a bit too toasty. Got a couple of personal best scores. Steel Nomad was pulling 1650W from my 1500W UPS that was screaming about "overload" the entire time. To keep the WireView Pro II from shutting things down I had to max out the current limit in the software (25.5A per wire, 150A total). https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/5991752 | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/154125943 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r23_multi_core_with_benchmate/submissions/5991744

So, now the trolls come out of the woodwork. Entitlement is a serious problem. That's one reason why @Prema changed his approach. Good guys are always hated, LOL. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29569920/

Several already, LOL... I added a post to explain the process. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29569667/

We need more heroes like the kid that snuffed out this piece of crap. He deserves a medal.

I love this guy's work. Always awesome. His messaging is great and I love his style of heavy metal. Another new truth bomb gem from Brother Tom...

I wonder how many people are going to send me a PM asking for this? https://www.overclock.net/posts/29569587/ I decided not to sell the Strix and 4090 to pay for the new SFF build. No interest on Facepoot Marketplace, just lots of stupid emojis because it was out of nearly everyone's league that trolls there. I gave the entire system to one of my sons that is an avid gamer, took his system that I built a couple of years ago and gave it to my daughter. She developed an addiction to Baldur's Gat 3 and played almost 600 hours in the past 90 days using a system I gave her with an X79 mobo and CPU and RX 580. So both got an upgrade. The system I took from my son and gave to my daughter has a B650 AORUS Elite AX, 7700X CPU and RTX 3060 12GB. So, both of them ended up with nice upgrades. This was the ExtremeHardware review video on the system (case and AIO) I build a couple of years ago that I gave to my daughter today. After cleaning it up, repasting, fresh install of Windoze and adding an extra 2TB NVMe for her Steam library it looks and runs like new. Both kids were thrilled. (They're middle-aged adults but still my "kids" and always will be.)

Agree with every statement you made. MSI > ASUS as a company, but MSI < ASUS for firmware and overclock focus. EVGA had them all beat, but now they are irrelevant. What is so stupid is MSI marketed this motherboard as being targeted for overclocking, especially memory overclocking, then they do something extra stupid and gimp the firmware options related to memory overclocking. What the heck? Nuts. Conceptually same as the Lightning. "Hey guys, here is this extremely expensive GPU designed for extreme overclocking. You won't find out you're getting screwed until you buy it. Core is not binned, and no... no XOC BIOS for you. Only our chosen few. Hurry... buy it... quantities are limited." Screw 'em. Scammer losers. And, now there is this... the good old days are gone for PC enthusiasts. At least until the AI bubble burst and they find out they actually DO need us. Right now we're getting shafted left and right. Gee, thanks Lisa Su. Witch. Speaking of AI... LFG...

MSI, in typical MSI fashion, has dropped the ball on their BIOS development. They mysteriously omitted the AMD CBS menus and sub-menus, so there are lots of tweaks that were not accessible with the stock BIOS. It has taken a couple of days worth of mods and testing to get them added back. So, basically restoring expected function and features. It's really ridiculous that it was not present because it is an AMD firmware default menu option AFAIK. Couple this with how they behaved with the 5090 Lightning BIOS and insisting that Techpowerup take it down from their GPU BIOS database makes it hard to respect their brand in my mind. The MSI brand is all about show, not go. There was a recent article on this that got little attention. I tried to contact @flashhez and @chew and got no response, but Svet (the MSI Forum guy) came to the rescue. The world needs more people like Svet and Prema. Enthusiasts have unlocked hidden overclocking menus on the MSI B850MPOWER motherboard

Have been working with Svet for a B850MPOWER BIOS mod. It's shaping up quite nicely. Will have to see how 8400 works.

Someone at oc.net said the same. It works normal for me. If you tried it more than once and it does nothing it may be something Windows is blocking for some reason, or maybe a BIOS setting. Hard to know. It works for me on the B850MPOWER, Strix and Apex.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/153759825 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/5988575 Not too bad for the cute little guy.

Well, now this is a nice new feature added to the latest update of Winaero Tweaker. Does the same thing as the script I have been adding to the right-click menu. Just check the box and it's ready to use. Very awesome.