Mr. Fox

https://hwbot.org/submission/5113085_ | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/15355153 https://hwbot.org/submission/5113080_ | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/15355078

It is also good for people buying and selling last generation GPUs. I wanted an A770, but couldn't buy one if my life depended on it due to no availability. I settled on the 3060 because being cheap was more important than owning the best. If I were still gaming and gaming important to me, the 3060 Ti FTW3 on water would be all I would need... for less than $400. Spending 400-500% more for another 10-15 FPS when everything is already 60+ is beyond foolish, especially when bread, eggs and milk require the donation of a kidney or the soul of your first-born. 2080 Ti FTW3 is on its way to Gig Harbor for repair. Nice guy. @electrosoftMr. Dufus has yet to reply and probably won't. This guy is such a pompous prick. He sometimes does produce very useful YouTube content, but his attitude really sucks. I bet he doesn't have many friends in real life. He loves himself way too much to have any left for others. https://framechasers.org/faq/ I was planning to ping him directly to ask, but he wants $500 to answer a question. His life must be extremely challenging, and probably of his own doing. I bet he thinks his own poop doesn't stink, LOL.

https://hwbot.org/submission/5113130_ | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/82394562

Any idea what delid tool he is using? I have not seen it before. I asked in the video comments. Hopefully he will answer.

I am going to send my 2080 Ti FTW3 to this guy for repair. This video shows him fixing a 2080 FE with the same exact problem and the same exactly memory IC location (B0). My GPU has Samsung (not the crummy Micron IC shown in the video).

We spent the day just hanging out together and enjoying one another's company. We went out to eat at a nice restaurant, which is something we seldom do because of the high cost and less than ideal caloric implications. Awesome honeymoon getaway in Mexico. Congratulations on making your commitment official! Have a wonderful time. I hope you enjoy a lifetime of love and friendship through the good times and hard times. It is as much, perhaps more, decision and covenant than it is a feeling. Feelings can fade, but real love and real commitments do not... otherwise, they are not real love and commitments... only feelings that were mistaken for the latter. The concept of having the display for system monitoring is wonderful. Using it as a USB device is ideal, because then it does not interfere with your configuration of graphics display output on a monitor that serves a limited purpose. Having an eDP port on the motherboard like a laptop is a gimmick that adds a proprietary element to the ability to use the feature when any other solution is totally non-proprietary. One of the many reasons laptops suck is proprietary garbage... why go down that retarded rabbit hole with a desktop if you don't have to? I shudder to think about what kind of configuration nightmare that getup is going to look like on the A$$Rock abortion, and how that display will be driven at a hardware level. Totally unnecessary complication and added point of potential failure. This looks most interesting to me because the TEC is cooled as part of a normal custom water loop. That has potential to work a lot more effectively and efficiently than a normal TEC that is not part of a custom water loop. With the water cooling added, probably will get and stay colder and be less prone to condensation because the temperature delta between components is smaller... in theory anyway. I have not seen a more clear example of this than the G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 memory in my Strix Z690 D4. I ran it at 4500 stable on multiple Z490 and Z590 motherboards with 10900K/KF processors. But, it could not boot above 4000 reliably with 12900K. I assumed the Z690 D4 board was the problem. Wrong... way wrong. Runs like a top at 4600 with the 12900KS and 13900K. Everything works together. If one element doesn't play nice with another, it is going to present an impediment.

Interesting...

I ran into that a couple of times on the Unify-X and the solution was to press downward slightly on the end of the M.2 with the retainer while attempting to rotate it to unlock the clip. Something about the design of the retention mechanism seems to get misaligned and not allow the plastic retainer to rotate freely in the notch on the end of the M.2 PCB. It is kind of a chintzy design. I don't see any way that simply using a screw and doing it the old fashioned way isn't a superior approach. The "new and improved" latching mechanism is a perfect example of why adhering to the KISS principle is the best approach. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." It seems that there is never a shortage of stupid gimmicks.

Thank you. We had a good day. I took the day off from work to enjoy her company. Congratulations on the new CPU. Looks like a decent bin. A great wife is certainly priceless. Congrats on that, too. Condolences on the brutal and abusive taxation.

Funny you mention that. I discovered this today. I noticed while playing with the Luumi, Kingpin and CENS profiles they always set it lower or left it on "auto" and that worked better for me, too.

It's really difficult to view the performance of M-die as anything short of excellent. It doesn't take you quite as far as the A-die that costs a lot more, but where it does take you is pretty stinking sweet. @Recieverhow is the memory working now with the modules installed in the correct slots? All better?

@tps3443 look at this post and check the photo of the IHS. This is EXACTLY how my delid turned out on the 12900K. I mentioned that I had to lap it to fix the damage the delid caused to it. The 12900KS sustained similar damage to the "wing" that sticks out on the side. I was able to repair that by sanding the underside (CPU-facing surface) flat. I have not delidded the 13900K yet. It looks like his got a little bit of damage in both places (highlighted yellow). I warmed the CPU the first time. Waste of time doing that. According to Roman (der8auer) it is actually detrimental because the soft solder smears instead of shears. He recommends doing it to a cold CPU to cause the solder to shear more easily. I have done it cold since and it was easier. No need to push it back the opposite direction because it was already loose. It wasn't loose the first time because the solder smeared or stretched. (The heating may have also softened the IHS... not sure on that.) The lapped IHS works better, but it's ruined in terms of identification markings.

Thank you both. God blessed me with a great wife. More than I deserved. @Talon you're a quarter of the way there. 😄 It's surreal and it doesn't feel like it though.

Here is another amazing value on M-die modules. I really prefer buying non-RGB without heating blankets. They run much cooler totally naked due to the utterly worthless crap the OEMs use to smother them, and it makes adding actually functional aftermarket heatsinks or water cooling jackets so much less complicated. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09P3SF82F I want some A-die, but I think it is severly overpriced and overrated like everything else is, especially when it is new. I am not willing to pay double, or triple, for it though. It provides too little benefit for the added premium. I suspect the price will come down to reason, just as it did with M-die, once the new wears off.

Well, 36 years ago today I tied the knot with Mrs. Fox. Doesn't seem possible it was that long ago. A lot has changed. A lot has not changed. I have made a lot of stupid mistakes in those 36 years. Marrying her was the smartest thing I think I have ever done. I'd be lost without her.

It could be z690 won't take you as far as z790, but it can also be the CPU. You can have a great silicon sample that doesn't have a great memory controller, or vice versa. The difference between M-die and A-die is silicon revision, and there is variance among samples in both revisions. Anything stable above 7000 is something special. It is easy to misidentify exceptions and anomalies as normal when you want luck to grant you the privilege to own a silicon sample that is exceptional. But, look at where we were a few months ago. Even normal and below average is a big upgrade.

Tell him to send $2500 direct deposit to your checking account using Zelle and you will ship it next business day air for free.

I like to boil things down to the simplest terms and not muddy the waters with philosophical drama. Bottom line is, he is asking you to do him a favor that he is willing to pay for. You did not seek him out offering to sell a golden chip. He's either serious about it or not. If he is not willing to pay an idiotic price for it, then he is not serious. And, unless you can fetch an idiotic price for it, why sell it? There is no incentive for you to want to sell it unless there is something major to be gained from the sale. You certainly don't owe him (a total stranger) any favors. And, just because he is famous within his elite overclocking clique doesn't mean you need to give his request any special thought. If the tables were turned he wouldn't likely be offering any favors to a total stranger, especially a stranger that lives on the opposite side of the planet and is not part of his special interest PC overclocking group of influence.

I don't know. Haven't checked yet. Thanks.

I will obey, but it's not politics IMHO. It is repudiation of evil foreign governments that do not allow politics. Nothing political about that. It's actually anti-political in their world of rule by dictatorship.

Yes, that China. The COVID-developing one that Uyghurs and the people of Ukraine love so much. The one in partnership with Russia that wants to eliminate freedom, democracy, free-will, free-speech, capitalism and religious expression in the rest of the world. Isn't it interesting how things work in countries where the government is a fiat that is not a true reflection of the people it seeks to serve rule?

It only applies to submissions that use Benchmate, and it still supports Windows 7. I don't understand what they mean by update the benching OSes, other than only use the latest version of Benchmate. Updating a benching OS is a great way to lose since updated OSes generally perform poorly compared to those that are not updated. Using benchmate is not required for all benchmarks. There are plenty that do not (and cannot) use it. I really don't like it. It is convenient in some ways, but it's just an extra piece of bloatware gumming up the works.

Since you are into low power consumption and gaming more than competitive benching it would be silly not to take it. You can live with whatever you get as a replacement if that is how you use your systems. K or KF... whatever... as long as it is not a defective sample that sucks. Of course you can respond with "I am not sure if that is enough. Let me sleep on it and get back to you, because I am amazed at how good it is." He may bid against himself, or he may patiently wait.

GPU standing at attention now, LOL...

@electrosoftnow I am running the G.SKILL DDR4 in the Strix at 4600 CL17-18-18-32 1T using the 12900KS. I had to add a powerful fan to keep it cool enough to pass TM5 testing. It starts to error out around 45°C (as expected).