Mr. Fox

Shipped! I'm super happy for you, bro. Please let me know when the package arrives at its destination.

On another note... not sure how I missed this a year ago, LOL.

You're welcome, and thank you, too. You will find the shipping options in your PM. It is all boxed and ready to ship as soon as you let me know which option is best for you. Package includes: Strix Z690-A D4 mobo with original box and accessories 12900K with original retail box and clamshell Thermalright CPU Frame and Torx key 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws V with original and aftermarket heatsinks EKWB Velocity2 CPU block with original retail packaging Alphacool 360 Crossflow radiator XSPC 240 thin radiator Generic 240 thick radiators (2) XSPC 170 X4 pump/res Generic axial pump and reservoir (new - never used) 256GB Samsung NVMe (OEM) in M.2_1 slot Misc barb fittings and clamps

Brother @electrosoftI have been meaning to ask... how do you like the Arc A770? I am very interested to hear what your experience has been and see some benchmarks.

I nicknamed them the "Green Goblin" for very good reason. Making the best video cards doesn't mean that they are good people or good products. (Being the best only means you are the lesser among evils, not that you are good, honest or reliable.) Excepting for maybe EVGA (and even they are a little bit suspect sometimes) none of the technology leaders are trustworthy entities that care about the people that purchase their products. Anyone that thinks Intel, AMD, NVIDIA or any of the manufacturers that sell their licensed technologies are good or honest companies are living in a dream world.

Sold to Brother @1610ftw. 🙂 Working out the shipping details and the kit will be on its way.

Got it! 🙂 Thanks, Brother.

Yup... Satanic and nefarious at its core. Guess who will pay for the messed up motherboard when the BIOS update from the Redmond Retards goes wrong? ASUS makes products for sheeple. Sheeple trust dishonest goons like ASUS and Micro$lop to do the right thing for them, but they do not. ASUS do not make enthusiast products. They sell products to people that view themselves as enthusiasts. We are a merely a duped commodity. Look no further than the Armory Crate abortion and you can see what kind of imbecile clown possee is running the show at ASUS. Aqua sells digital garbage to the same group of misguided children. Those silly kids believe they need the bloatware. They are willing to waste money on trash software they don't need because they believe they do. At least the garbage bloatware from Corsair, NZXT, ASUS and other vendors is provided for free (if you do not count data harvesting as a price). Aqua is "special" so they can charge their silly end users for the privilege of renting software they do not need.

Price: $650.00 (package deal for CPU, mobo and RAM, see optional add-ons) SOLD Condition: Excellent Warranty: None from Seller Reason for sale: Upgraded Platform Payment: PayPal, Zelle Item location: San Tan Valley, AZ Shipping: Lower 48 US - Negotiable - varies with desired optional items (will discuss with buyer via PM, phone or text) International shipping: Actual cost plus any taxes, duties, VAT, etc. I am unable to estimate these costs. Handling time: Next Business Day Feedback: eBay Profile; OC.net MarketPlace Combo Package Specifications: ASUS ROG Strix Z690-A WiFi Gaming D4 (original box with accessories included) Intel Core i9-12900K (original retail packaging included) - nice bin quality, delidded and lapped Thermalright CPU Frame (replaces ILM to prevent CPU bending - original ILM also included) G. Skill Ripjaws V 16GB Kit DDR4-4000 C15 with aftermarket heat sinks for improved cooling (stable @ 4400 - see screenshots) (Note: original heat sinks and retail packaging included. Stock RAM heat sinks are aesthetic only and worse than no heat sink.) Optional Freebie: EKWB Velocity2 CPU Block (barely used - if buyer is planning a custom loop will be included because I want to reward that behavior) Excellent performance, same as OptimusPC CPU block, but focus on aesthetic. Rear mounting was inconvenient for tinkerer like me. Designed for LGA 1700 specifically. Please be honest. If you are going to air cool or use an AIO I can sell this to someone else. Optional Not Free: Alphacool 360mm "Fat" Crossflow Radiator - $70 XSPC 240mm "Thin" Radiator - $35 Generic 240mm "Fat" Radiators - $25 each (2 available) (The generic 240mm radiators are a round tube design and work as well as most 360mm radiators I have owned.) XSPC X4 170MM Photon Pump/Res Combo - $0 will include with crossflow or both generic 240mm rads (The X4 has not been used for 2+ years. I am not sure if that affects the pump or not, but Performance-PCS sells X4 pumps for $30. XSPC reservoirs are thick glass and much better than the plexi garbage many tube reservoirs are made of.) Radiators will be washed, flushed and dried prior to shipment. They have been used with automotive antifreeze, so they have no corrosion. If you want all of it, $700 + negotiated shipping cost to a US address will buy it all. Here is the obligatory time stamped ownership photo I have two of these...

Love the opening comments. They apply to many aspects of the OS.

I will check that when I take it apart again. I don't use sealant, only one tiny drop of SuperGlue gel under each wing so I can easily re-delid by dipping the CPU in acetone (dissolving the glue). If I make it have a wide air gap then the SuperGlue gel won't work because it can't fill a wide air gap. That is how I have done it for years with fantastic results. Edit: I mentioned before that the design of the copper IHS had changed. I forgot where I had put mine when I stopped using it because it would not fit the CPU frame from Thermalright. I found it. Here is a photo of the original design for 12th Gen. Note the notched sides and wider top surface. @tps3443

I am glad it only looks blue in photos. I like blue, but not my favorite for PC lighting. As we all know, that's white. 😄 Also, glad to know your cable wasn't melted. That's great. I have some Alphacool paste on order and will receive it whenever my Aquacomputer Cuplex Kryos NEXT block arrives. I will pop the lid off the IHS when it is time to set that up. Maybe I was too stingy with the liquid metal. It is totally mysterious to me that the temps didn't change up or down after the delid. It's kind of freaky in a way, and certainly defies logic. I am not sure I understand the correlation of the comments about the water temperature sensor if you are measuring CPU core temps and not thinking there was a difference.

Yes, they work really well. I had one of those and, if memory serves me correctly, it went to Brother @Rage Setwith a Corsair memory kit that it originally came with. The cost is comparable to a waterblock since I already have the water cooling jackets on the modules. (If I had to buy those as well, the Corsair fan would be a lot more affordable.) I could also bolt an aluminum heat sink to the top of the water cooling jackets as I had done before. Decisions, decisions. I ended up replacing the Barrow red and blue QDC fittings with some threaded Alphacool fittings I had purchased some time ago and never used. I actually like them and may purchase them again. I'll decide next time I take them apart based on whether or not they leak, and how much. I think the Barrow QDCs were restrictive enough that they were contributing to the wet noodle Corsair tubing collapsing on itself on the return line side of the loop. I think the QDCs were not able to pass as much water as fast as the pumps were sucking it up.

OK, I guess I had better hit the sack. I still need to do something about the RAM cooling. It is getting too hot for 6800, so I dialed it back to 6200 with 1.400V. Either a fan or a block. At this point I am thinking a block for the permanent solution and a fan for temporary measures. But, CPU and GPU are running much cooler now. Ran an AIDA64 stress test for a half hour and it's looking real good. 72°C max core temp sucking down 400W+ for 30 minutes ain't too shabby.

Thank you. Yes, I have cut my fingers on the fins, but not in a long time because they are covered with fans on both sides now. But, they are like razor blades. I used a 300W Flex ATX PSU for the external setup. That worked out pretty well. I am tempted to cut off all of the wires I do not need. But, other than the excess wiring I think it turned out nice. For now I am keeping it in front of the case rather than moving it behind the case as originally planned.

Maybe it is the blue antifreeze I am using in the loop is affecting the camera rendering. It is definitely only white lights when viewed in real life Weird having to relearn everything, but gettng thetr little by little.

Thank you. They are all white. -?- Do you see another color that I am missing? The only thing not white that I can see is the ASUS trademark ugly red Q-code LED. I wish that was white like EVGA. Here is an ASUS "AI Overclock" LOL. Good, but not great. Got to love that gamerboy AI crap.

I would expect nothing less. The target audience puts up with it. As always, we will have whatever the lowest common denominators are willing to tolerate. Laptops suck. That is never going to change. It is what it is. You shouldn't buy a laptop unless you absolutely have to have one. Even then it is a waste of money, just a necessary evil.

Yes, it would be great. The problem is I do not think anyone makes a bare die frame yet. I don't want to leave the CPU loose in the socket because the risk of bending pins is too great. And, I don't want to strap it down with Kapton tape. Even though that will work, I don't like the ghetto duct tape, bailing wire and chewing gum can fix anything approach. Based on how well the 10th Gen Supercool Computer bare die block worked I was excited about using it for 12th Gen, but the 12th Gen version of it sucked. Probably tried to repeat the design for 10th Gen on 12th Gen and it didn't cool the CPU worth a darn. OK, a bit of an update. I am learning to how overclock DDR5 on an ASUS mobo and that's not as user-friendly as MSI and EVGA. Work in process on that. I stayed up all night (haven't been to sleep since Thursday night (LOL) modifying everything. Almost there. I love how much room there is in the 5000D now. It should be large enough to have this much space loaded with dual 360 or dual 480 radiators in push/pull with two pumps and reservoirs. Small cases suck real bad. I know some people view the 5000D as "big" and they are entitled to have an opinion, but it is a mid-tower and they are never big enough. Nice case, but small enough to make it suck. I need to replace the tubing on the return line with something more rigid. The Corsair soft tubing is super soft, which is nice to work with. But, it is too soft and collapses on the return line with both D5 pumps running. I guess the flow is high enough that the tubing is too soft to hold its shape. Also, the way I was planning to power the external radiator pumps and fans didn't work. It couldn't handle the power draw needs. So, I am going to have to use a separate PSU like I did on the MO-RA setup. I ordered a cheap one on Amazon for that and should have it tomorrow. For now, I ran a spare SATA and molex cable from the internal PSU outside of the case for the pumps and fans and have the side panel off to accommodate that until I have the cheap PSU from Amazon. Here are some photos. Once I have everything the way I want it I will post more. The radiator will be behind the case instead of in front of it like it is at the moment. The 1080 Nova is a nice setup for the price. It lacks the quality of the MO-RA, but based on price I cannot complain. The housing is both good and bad. I am glad I bought it, but it's kind of rough around the edges (literally). The scratches showing on the desktop were cause by those sharp edges. You get what you pay for in terms of finish quality.

For the first time ever, for me, none that I can identify. I have always seen measurable benefits (10-20°C cooled in severe overclocks conditions) from it until now. I would love to think that it is because Intel finally mastered the soldering process and totally nailed it, but I'm not certain that there is a reason to believe that. It's very weird that it didn't change anything except avoiding my warranty and an IHS that got damaged (repairable) in the process. I would have been happy even if it were only 5°C cooler. The lack of change is weird and unexplainable. It was very beneficial on 12th Gen.

It looks good and I have no doubt it is going to be great. I won't know with 100% certainty until it is hooked up, but there is no reason to expect anything short of excellent. Getting ready to swap out the mobo now and pull the pumps and rads out of the 5000D.

Getting a little bit closer. Banshee isn't going to have to swim in his on own radiator farts too much longer.

FWIW I have always had better temps with the stock IHS than I have with the Rockitcool copper IHS. I have used them to avoid destroying the markings on the stock IHS, but the temps are usually a degree or two higher. I always looked at it like I already shaved 10-20°C off the load temps by delidding, so I can afford to take a step backwards 1 or 2°C for the purpose of keeping the stock IHS like new.

We'll talk about the people that told you that it fits right... How smart are they? Yeah you lost a little bit of money but I think it probably sucks more to be them. Did the delid tool bugger up your stock IHS like it did all of mine? It almost seems like Intel improved their soldering process because delidding helped my 12th Gen processors as much as it did all the prior generations.. Just put the stock IHS back on and be done with it.