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Thanks. 🙂 The more, the merrier. As long as temps don't get in the way of having more.

I am not sure what country he is from, but our world in general is in an unusual amount of turmoil and there aren't any places left that don't suck for one reason or another. If he is in Russia, Ukraine or an affected neighboring country, he may not be able to respond or he may have more important things to think about.

Both look fantastic. I wish I had the extra dough on hand and I would have gladly taken that nice KS sample off your hands and upgraded Banshee with a Strix D4. I am looking forward to seeing what you do.

Considering that I have ordered a Supercool Computer Direct Die block for the 12900K, I figured I might as well go ahead and install the one I had and never used for the 10900K. So, now Banshee is running bare die. Before/after posted below.

I have not. I have seen it featured on some air cooled video cards, but I have not seen an option for aftermarket fans to select a direction of rotation. I assumed they are standard and rotate clockwise. Interesting idea, though.

Maybe something for thermal management. A thread for memory tuning would make sense, too.

That doesn't surprise me at all. Ryzen CPUs suck at overclocking and their GPUs have sucked at overclocking since Radeon 6000 series. Azor has always been a traitor to PC enthusiasts. A good salesman knows all of the right ways to lie to get the sale. It is the perfect marriage of sucky hardware with "Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions" focused on providing crippled trash for the kiddos to get their gaming itch scratched. No need for the product to be any good as long as it plays games OK and costs less than Intel and NVIDIA. It makes sense that consoles are powered by AMD "DNA" because they do not need to be special or do anything impressive as long as they all behave the same and require no knowledge or skill on the part of the end user. Consistency: Push the button, pull the chain, out comes chocolate choo-choo train. "AMD silently gave the Radeon RX 6400 a retail launch last week. However, TechPowerUp's review of the Radeon RX 6400 purportedly revealed that it lacks overclocking support, meaning there's no way for owners to boost the Navi 24-based graphics card's performance." "The Radeon RX 6400 initially targeted OEMs, but AMD eventually decided to unleash it for the retail market. The graphics card apparently performs like Nvidia's three-year-old GeForce GTX 1650 from the Turing days. According to TechPowerUp's results, even the Radeon RX 570, which debuted in 2017, is faster than the Radeon RX 6400." Perfect solution for Alienware and XPS, Omen and Legion branded gaming trashboxes. On sale now at Walmart. Hurry kids!!!

I looked though all of my files and YouTube videos and I didn't save any screenshots or anything else relating to the Strix mobo that might be useful. I was certain that I had, but I cannot locate anything, so maybe they were deleted. If you still have a BIOS profile saved, apply that profle, then change the RAM settings to default profile, then save and exit the BIOS. This will apply the CPU overclock but not the RAM overclock. Then save the profile again before you begin tweaking the RAM. Make note of all of the CPU settings on all of the menus (F12 will take screenshots and save them to USB). I have attached ASUS TurboV Core that you can use for tinkering in Windows. It is lightweight and a much better tool than XTU. It is useful for dialing things in to later apply them in the BIOS. It will not work with newer versions of Windows 10. I know it works with 1809. (Same is true for MemTweakit. Both are broken by newer versions of Windows 10, just like all good things that are actually worth having are.) This video might be helpful as a good starting point for the CPU overclock for 52x core, 49x cache. The menus should be the same. I always have overclocked using an all-core fixed ratio and fixed cache ratio. All TVB options disabled, power limits and current limits maxed out, and turbo time limt maxed out. I do not recommend using any AI overclocking features. TurboV_Core_1.10.08.7z

Still about $800-$1,000 more than I am willing to spend on a GPU, but it looks nicer than the prior couple of generations of hybrids did. Although I am not a fan of air-cooled GPUs and wouldn't want to use one that way, I think going forward I am going to try to confirm the GPU I am planning to buy has a couple of options available for aftermarket water block support and then buy the air-cooled version to make things easier. Although I seldom sell my used graphics cards, having a stock air cooler makes it easier to resell to people that are scared of water cooling. As difficult as I find it to relate to, I know that some people actually prefer air cooling. The hybrid AIO thing and no air cooling unit would also make it not a usable product for the people that plan to stuff it into a SFF easy-bake oven with no room available for a GPU radiator. It somewhat annoys me that PX1 identifies my KPE a hybrid due to the firmware even though it's no longer that. It would be nice if EVGA stopped including that in the GPU name/description in the vBIOS. Just call it a Kingpin, FTW3, etc. and skip the hybrid naming convention.

I agree. I don't like using software for fans and RGB, or for most other system controls. A mechanical control mechanism is best. I have been using a manual hardware fan controller on the desktop for several years and that is my preference. It is how I control the external fans and pumps. I don't have a hardware controller that I can use internally, but I don't really need one. All of the fans are set to run full speed 24/7 except for the loud 3000 RPM Noctua fan I use for blowing on the RAM. I have that one set to change based on temperatures in the BIOS. I think I am going to get a water block (waiting for a cheap price) for that and then I won't need to even use the loud Noctua fan at that point. Until then, I am going back to using the BIOS.

I changed my mind. I have had the fans randomly not work until opening the software and manually changing something with the sensor to make them restart, so I am going to remove it and go back to using the BIOS only. Reminds me of years ago using HWiNFO64 for Alienware laptop fan controls... which worked great except for when it randomly did not work.

Yes, it is an extraordinary 10850K sample and that voltage 52x all core with 1.375-1.400V is right where it ought to be. You may be able to run a little bit lower voltage with lower core temps and higher LLC. If the LLC is too low the voltage will drop too much under load and crash. I would run the LLC at Level 6. The Level 4 (default OC for ASUS) allows too much vdroop. Most 10850K won't even run at 52x, some use that much voltage at 50x all core.

Looks like it is going to force me to install the latest DCH GeFarts driver filth in order to launch it. It's pitching a fit about me not using a DCH cancer driver. Edit: Spend a fair amount of energy trying to figure it out and I can't get it to work right, so I will have to wait until it is in a distributable runtime format.

Incoming... http://www.supercoolcomputer.com/en/product/39/direct-die-intel-gen12 Thanks, bro. I will check it out.

Probably so. I normally do manual timings and memory clocks. If you go into the BIOS and change it to XMP it should override the manual memory overclock. You may have to set it to memory default, save and exit, then select XMP to get it to apply the XMP profile correctly.

Sweet. Looking forward to seeing more. 👍 Looks like you got one of those build-your-own square aluminum frame chassis, too.

Awesome. It makes me super happy to hear that. Have you posted any photos yet (I haven't looked, but will). Another thing I am happy about is I finally got rid of the blue 200mm front panel fans. I couldn't get any in white at the time I completed this build, but the ones I wanted came back in stock. Now it's all black with white lights, just how I like it.

This should come as no surprise to anyone, but it's good that Steve is calling the balls and strikes. That's OK. As they say, "imitation is the greatest form of flattery" and as long as proper credit and public recognition is given for Dell's moral, ethical and technical failures, that's what matters most.

Yup. And, it is only a "touchy" or sensitive topic to those that are outraged (and intimidated) that anyone would have the gall to dare to question their supreme authority or speak against their agenda. As we have seen, more prevalent than ever since COVID-19 surfaced, "science" is no longer scientific, logical or based on evidence. It starts with a wild guess, it becomes popularized to fit somebody's narrative, then it is dubbed "science" by the group with an agenda. If you say anything logical, scientific, based on evidence or present data suggesting truth or fact is anything to the contrary, they label it dangerous disinformation, then censor, shadow ban, cancel and/or attempt to cyber-bully their way to compliance. "Follow the science" is modern code for "fall in line" but it doesn't sound as mean to the sheeple that don't use their brain.

At the end of the day, it's all about the turdbook muppets and what they think we can all do to advance the global warming hoax. They can't produce castrated trashbooks that weigh nothing and run for a week on coin cell watch batteries as long as people like us exist. I am sure they would poop their pants and try to "cancel us" if they saw us talking about 1.4V and ~300W benchmark runs. The 100°C+ doesn't bother them though. That's normal for their trash. It's also pretty cool temps compared to where they are going to spend eternity, LOL.

Probably my fondest benching experiences of all time were with the X299 Dark and 7960X/7980XE CPUs. There are still quite a few benchmarks that 5960X and 12900K can't touch with those CPUs. Those are the only CPUs I ever owned that could handle a 100% overclock (double stock speed) and pulled over 1000W. Wicked to the core. Certainly will be remember in history as the greatest CPUs ever made even when something is released that beats them by a mile. It has taken years for anything else to even come within striking distance. Good luck with the sale and your business venture.

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