Mr. Fox

Has anyone see what benchmark scores look like for Z690 / 12900K with a mobo that accepts DDR4 memory? I am curious to what degree DDR5 is actually moving the needle on performance at this early point in its development. It is hard to get used to looking at such high memory timings and think of them as being good or normal.

That is getting very close to X299 quad channel memory performance. Nice! What sticks are those?

Yes, that is great news. I have been running the 50/50 automotive antifreeze for a while and it seems to be good for me, too. I have noticed on this and several other forums that uploading an image to the forum servers causes it to be downsized and will not zoom to the original image size. So, when being able to view details is important I upload them to imgur and use the tags img and /img enclosed in brackets with a direct link to the full sized image so that it will zoom to the original size.

I can't really tell from the image because it doesn't blow up to full zoom. Is there any damage you are showing? Are you using 50/50 automotive antifreeze? That is what I am using in my loop.

Brother @Papusan is such a lucky guy. Maybe we should have him buy our CPUs for us in Norway and ship them to us. The Viking gods smile down on him from Valhalla. 🙂

Certainly. My pleasure. It's not hard to want to hang out with people you have enjoyed being around for more than a decade... some have been friends for about 15 years.

Thanks. I can't give you a rep for the prompt reply for the reason I asked the question, LOL. But, it's the thought that counts. I would have if I could have. 👍

Oh, yeah... it is way lots worse on Home and Pro version. Bloat City. Unacceptable. Hey Brother @Reciever can we do away with this limitation? It is pretty annoying to not be able to give a reaction after using up a daily quota.

This is the second time you have had a Hydro Copper KPE block to RMA if memory serves me correctly. Didn't one of the 2080 Ti KPE Hydro Copper blocks spring a leak on you as well? Sorry to hear that this happened, Brother John. Glad it didn't destroy anything else in the process. I took apart my own 3090 KPE Hydro Copper to clean the inside of it this weekend. It was a terrible pain in the butt; almost as horrible as the 2080 Ti FTW3 Hydro Copper was. It really feels like EVGA does this on purpose to keep people from taking them apart, which makes no sense at all. People need to be able to maintain the products they buy and taking apart a waterblock for cleaning is normal maintenance. When I needed to clean the 2080 Ti FTW3 Hydro Copper block a second time, I learned from EVGA that they did not sell replacement o-rings for Hydro Copper blocks, so I sold it and replaced it with an EKWB GPU block. Unfortunately, the Kingpin model has only two options available, both difficult to acquire because of limited availability and both overpriced. Getting the o-ring back in place was a complete nightmare. The plexi has a shallow groove for it and it tries to pop out of the groove. The groove would be better in the metal block rather than in the plexi. The o-ring is also very thin, which is why the groove is so shallow. The first time I reassembled it and leak-tested it had a leak because the o-ring slipped a tiny bit. Everything turned out fine in the end, but it was far more hassle than it should have been. This makes me angry, and causes me to think it would be best to avoid buying enthusiast grade video cards in the future and stick with less expensive generic reference PCB GPUs with multiple waterblock options and just shunt mod and voltage mod them for better overclocking. I canceled the order I had for the OptimusPC KPE block because I got tired of waiting after several months and no ETA being offered. I am considering ordering one again and waiting as long as it takes, but the leaking problem @fragility_V1 mentioned in EVGA forum about his OptimusPC KPE block is a bit concerning. Trying to decide now, because I don't want to have to take apart the Hydro Copper again. I am scared I will end up with nothing if the o-ring is damaged and EVGA won't sell me one. One thing I noticed when taking apart the 3090 KPE Hydro Copper is that none of the screws on the front of it were tight. I wonder if yours leaked because the screws are loose or because of a crack? The o-ring is so thin and the groove that holds it in place so shallow that loose screws could allow it to move out of place under pressure.

Have you checked to see if there is any kind of BIOS setting that can be disabled related to detecting a "non-genuine" AC adapter or battery.

For $20 or less, a USB micro-dongle would fix that for you in a jiffy. If you can disable the WiFi 6 hardware in the BIOS it will also free up some system resources that the inconspicuous USB solution doesn't require.

If you haven't rolled back already, using StartIsBack for Windows 11 will fix a few of the unforgivable aesthetic atrocities associated with the taskbar, Start Menu and context menu. Rolling back to Windows 10 is probably the better solution though. I use StartIsBack for Windows 10 as well, because I don't like the Windows 10 Start Menu.

Same here. I was quick to adopt it, and gave it plenty of time to show me it was the right choice. It wasn't, so I kicked it to the curb. I view it as trash, but it certainly wasn't for a lack of hope that it would not be.

If they did a video on what doesn't suck about Windows 11 it would be shorter than a YouTube commercial, LOL. For Windows 10 it would be maybe 10 seconds longer. They both suck, but Window 11 sucks more. Aesthetic atrocities aside, the people that like it are only looking on the surface. The payload of utter trash and worthless bloat these digital abortions carry is nothing short of phenomenal. Roughly half of the 120+ services running in the background by default are unnecessary. May of them are present to support the Redmond Retards' stupid sheeple gimmicks, data collection, spying and control freak fetishes. Debloating newer versions of Winduhz 10/11 helps to minimize the feces, but still isn't enough because the trash is too deeply embedded. Both of these are debloated and optimized, but look at the payload of filth that remains on the newer trash OS.

I have the Strix on Banshee and I have owned more Asus than EVGA. I probably will going forward as well. Find the setting in your bios to disable Intel Management Engine. Also find the BIOS setting to disable the download of Armory Crate. I also disable the second NIC, WiFi and BT in BIOS, as having them installed wastes CPU clock cycles. I use the drivers that come with the mobo and generally never update them. Choose one of your BIOS chips for testing firmware versions and leave the other position alone using the firmware that shipped from the factory with your motherboard. Firmware updates are generally unimportant and of no value, but with DDR5 being new you may need them. With dual or triple BIOS you don't have to worry about firmware screwing up your system. Although you should be leery and try to avoid IME firmware update filth. Better to just disable it in BIOS PCH options if you can. It provides absolutely nothing of value in terms of functionality and having it disabled seems to give a minor improvement in performance. If the menu to disable Intel ME is hidden in the stock ASUS BIOS a mod may be needed to expose it because ASUS is not trustworthy when it comes to kissing Micro$lop's butt. Intel ME does not serve any useful purpose for us.

Spamming F8 during POST before the handoff from BIOS to OS should bring up the boot options menu to select the bootable USB.

Looks good. I am looking forward to your overclocking results. The AIO pump/block looks like a very tight fit near the VRM heat sink.

I did and got it all tweaked so that it very closely resembled Windows 10, but I was very displeased with it for numerous reasons and went back to only using Windows 7, Windows 10 LTSC and Linux. I have no plans to give it another chance. I get idiot trash like this in an email and I can see why Windows 10 and 11 both suck. This kind of stupid crap is what they think is important and valuable, LOL!!!! Give me a break.

Cooling mods are always a must, because they're never as good as they can/should be the way they ship from the manufacturer. Most are pretty horrible stock, unless you think the CPU hitting 90-100°C is acceptable.

Thank you. I do like it a lot. I appreciate the compliment. I have never owned a Clevo with a 10900K. I had an X170 developer unit that I did some modding POC work for zTecpc, but that belonged to them. My only laptop is a seldom-used Tongfang turdbook and I do not plan to ever purchase another laptop again in the future. I recently obtained this 10900K from a fellow in France that said it was a golden sample. It doesn't have a crazy high Asus SP rating, but it is the best binned sample I have owned in terms of overclocking. It is not delidded and runs 5.5GHz with reasonable voltage and good temps, so can't hate that. As far as the GPU clock... Unfortunately, everything with Turing and Ampere gets spoiled to some degree by low temperature thermal throttling, even with a K|NGP|N video card. It probably got colder near the end of the benchmark if the memory load decreased, which would make the core clocks automatically increase by a bin or two.

I don't watch lots of TV, maybe 1 or 2 hours in the evening and a couple of hours on Newsmax on weekends. At other times I tend to binge watch. My wife and I enjoy action series and good sci-fi shows. We only do streaming on Roku, no cable or OTA. While the list could be much, much longer. Off the top of my head some of our favorites that come to mind have been: Yellowstone 1883 Longmire Into the Badlands Virgin River The Sinner Hannah Blacklist Jack Ryan The Americans Grimm Gotham Justified Wu Assassins Lost in Space (remake) The Mandalorian Supernatural The Originals Legacies Vampire Diaries Van Helsing Wynonna Earp Sabrina Netflix Marvel Series (Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Arrow, The Flash, Daredevil, Punisher, etc.) Travelers Ragnarok Sweet Tooth Another Life Looking forward to starting this one in the near future...

Wraith: one 2TB HDD for data with a 4TB USB HDD enclosure on USB 3.0 for backups. For everything else, two 512GB NVMe and four 1TB 2.5-inch SSD. Banshee: one 2TB HDD for data, two 512GB NVMe, one 1TB NVMe, three 1TB 2.5-inch SSD. Wheezer: none - no place for it because it is a modern turdbook. One 1TB NVMe and one 2TB NVMe with no place for a HDD unless I go with the Tongfang small battery option.

Just need a few more points to break 16K... https://hwbot.org/submission/4921897...90_15967_marks | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/71699843

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