Mr. Fox

Thank you. I love it. When I saw this GPU for $799 on NewEgg I could not resist it. So much better than spending the same amount, or slightly more, on a 4070 Ti Super. Such a compromise. This is way better. They have more of them. I could not use my Corsair RAM fan with the EK 360 Direct Die AIO due to the fitting placement, so I decided I may as well set it on the backplate and blow cool air into the opening around the x-bracket. It actually dropped the temps a couple of degrees. Speaking of beautiful and backplates, GPUs without a backplate are so stinking ugly. And, the naked PCB seems unsafe to me. All of those contacts, circuits and exposed SMDs. The Titan cards had no backplates, which was common in that era. Well, to fix that I found a new open box XSPC Titan backplate, complete with thermal pads and screws. Unfortunately, the screws included are the wrong size. They include M3 x 11MM and this GPU uses M2.5. I have the M2.5 screws up to 8MM and I need 11MM long for the fours screws around the core. But this looks WAY better than a naked PCB. I will have to order some M2.5 x 11mm screws on Amazon. The M2.5 x 8MM were long enough to use everywhere else. I am temporarily using the 8MM screws around the core under the backplate instead of going through the back plate.

The 3090 Ti FTW3 Black arrived. It is an EVGA refurbished and looks like brand new. Looks fantastic in the A21 case and runs nice.

Each time I see that picture it is more disgusting than the time before. Truly repulsive. All he needs is horns and a tail.

So, I put the Z790i Edge into a slightly larger case (ASUS A21). The 3090 Ti FTW3 should be delivered tomorrow. I put the Rampage IV Gene into the smaller AP201 that the Edge used to be in.

Probably a case of incurable stupidity mingled with technical incompetence. Maybe further complicated if he is a loser by all measurements. Or, the leader of losers. Either way, the buck stops with the CEO. It was on his watch.

Thank you. Yes, I was also impressed. X79 motherboards do not support DDR4. DDR4 was not released until later (2014). I believe X99 was when DDR4 became a thing. I checked my HWBOT submissions and the read speed was almost as fast as my DDR4-4600 dual channel speeds. Also worth noting, my wPrime benchmarks are almost as high as my 8700K HWBOT submissions. The temperatures are also impressive. I was expecting it to be much hotter than what it is getting with such a significant overclock. Sadly, decoding above 4G and resizable bar are not supported. I was able to add the rebar module to the BIOS, but without the above 4G decoding rebar cannot work. So, I cannot use the Arc A770 on this because it requires rebar to function. While I am not planning to drop the 4090 in it, I did buy a 3090 Ti FTW3. It will be here in a couple of days. This will allow me the ability to bench Windows 7 on my work PC. I do have the 2080 Ti Waterforce GPU, but this is not on a custom loop. That said, I am thinking about buyng a cheap radiator on AliExpress or eBay so I can use the 2080 Ti Waterforce. I already have a spare D5 pump/reservoir I can use to make my own GPU AIO. https://hwbot.org/submission/5604008_ Here are a couple of lists for perspective. Considering the age of the CPU, which was released in Q2 2013, this is pretty darned impressive. Faster than what a lot of people, including many gamerboys, are still using today. The build quality of the Titan GPU is also impressive. It leaves A LOT to be desired in terms of performance (780 Ti era GPU), but the cooler alone weighs a ton. It has a vapor chamber, too. The guy I got it from said it was never repasted. I took it apart yesterday to replace pads and paste. The pads still look like new. Still very soft and sticky, so I left them alone. And the thermal paste was still good. Not dried out or anything. It basically looked like new after I removed the air cooling module. Considering it was released in Q1 of 2013, that's crazy to even think would be true.

https://hwbot.org/submission/5603947_

Ryzen owners really should watch this video and apply the same process to overclocking. It really is the right way to overclock, regardless of brand. The preferred core boosting is a joke. The idea felt stupid to me all along.

Agree 100%. It is interesting that I (and others like me) have been looked upon unfavorably, even criticized sometimes by noobs that think they know everything, for selecting manual voltage and sync all cores as my overclocking SOP for years. I've done nothing different with LGA-1700 and have none of the problems the "gamers" are having now. In their infinite wisdom of doing massive undervolting with wild voltage swings and using algorithm-based (TVB) boosting they have created problems where none would have otherwise existed. Maybe I don't get 6.0 or 6.2GHz on two cores that bolsters e-peen, but I do get solid benchmark scores and a consistent experience. Maybe their observation is somewhat true that manual overclocking is dead now is, but so are their CPUs. PBO sucked for AMD and TVB sucks for Intel. Dumb is always dumb. Edited Funny how much we think alike. Although worded differently, our thoughts posted essentially simultaneously, our expressions are the same underlying message.

Nice to run a good version of Windows for a change. https://hwbot.org/submission/5603298_ https://hwbot.org/submission/5603299_

This...

Such a lovely OS with so many "special" AI features. Right @Papusan? I have been dual-booting for many years.

I am not sure. 8 cores is a low core count. About half what I would like to see, along with hyperthreading. Need at least 32 threads to be completely satisfied. But one thing I am sure about is eliminating the smartphone E-cores is a good thing. I have never liked the idea. They do add a lot of performance, but not as much as they would if the space they wasted was replaced by more P-cores. I am glad to see them pulling their heads out. Now they need to go find the dumb-dumb(s) that suggested it, their boss that allowed them to, and the biggest dumb-dumb of the bunch that approved it. They need to round them up and beat them nearly to death right before they are fired. They're not worthy of holding their positions at Intel, or anywhere else that allows them to work on computer technology. I hope they perma-scrap the e-core idea along with any notions about the retarded chiplet idea and go back to producing large die head-stomping monolithic masterpieces. In other news... "In 218 out of 250 games tested, Arc A770 passes with flying colors. This means a flawless launch with no graphical artifacts and playable framerates." Interesting that 11 of 12 games that failed to work well ran flawlessly after disabling the AMD iGPU in Device Manager. Those games were attempting to use the anemic APU instead of discrete GPU. Only 4 out of 250 crashed hard and refused to work. I am very much looking forward to Battlemage dropping.

Most people, sadly including gamerboys, are too forgiving and tolerant of the OS filth. It will easily cost them 1500 to 2000 Cinebench R23 points. But they are willing to sacrifice that in exchange for a few extra UWP turds floating in their breakfast cereal. I tried to tell them it was not chocolate milk, but they did not believe me. Anyhoo... I think I am going to dub this one Methuselah.

Man, GPUs have come such a long way since the first Titan. Even the crappy ones are stronger. But, it's a nice trip down memory lane. Scores are similar to my Prema-fied 980M benchmarks. https://hwbot.org/submission/5602424_ https://hwbot.org/submission/5602422_

Seems like a nice CPU. Definitely worth $45 paid for it. Double core/thread count over the 4820K and runs stable with exactly the same BIOS settings, LOL. Will tune it later. "New CPU Installed. Press F1 to enter setup." Pressed F1, then F10, and *BOOM* just runs. https://hwbot.org/submission/5602395_

When I was still doing beta product testing for Dell/Alienware they made it very clear that they are dead set against memory overclocking and all-core overclocking for some stupid reason. They wanted memory left on SPD default and only single-core overclocking. This was back in 2010-2012. Well, we know how I feel about that kind of lame suckiness. Wasn't long after that I was no longer part of their program. No loss, really. Just look at what a joke Alienware is today. The kings of trash. You're better off buying some crappy "gaming desktop" on Temu or AliExpress. At least it won't be built with proprietary trash components. I'm a sick puppy. Four desktops now. Disgusting but also a gratifying mental illness. The E5-1680 V2 is out for delivery. Should be about double the peformance of the 4820K. (Double the cores and threads and unlocked. multipliers.) I have forgotten how to overclock these antique setups. Things have changed so much in some ways, not in others. I had forgotten that 1.575V Vcore and 1.650V memory voltage was not a big deal back then. It's also interesting how this EK 360 AIO can keep the 4820K so cool with 1.575V compared to a modern CPU with much lower voltage.

I got the BIOS mod with NVMe support for X79, which is not supported natively. (NVMe did not exist when X79 was released.)

Here are the old parts. I got everything working on the test bench after work. Traded a kit of 32GB Crucial Pro DDR4 (new sealed package) and an EVGA Z15 clicky keyboard (lightly used) for these items. 4820K Rampage IV Gene 32GB (4*8GB) Kingston HyperX Beast DDR3-2400 EVGA GTXX Titan GPU The Xeon E5-1680 V2 that I bought on eBay for $45 will be here on Monday. I am using the EK Nucleus Dark AIO on it. Using a spare PSU (Corsair RM1000e). Everything is working well. The GPU still had the clear plastic on it.

What is puzzling to me is that we are just now hearing about this. If it is a secret weapon that they had in their back pocket and only intended to release it if necessary to keep Ryzen 9 from taking first fiddle that kind of feels like an NVIDIA shenanigan. I don't like the idea of them holding out on us and only giving us something better when they have to in order to stay on top. But, I wouldn't be surprised by it. I think they are all dishonest companies. Honesty and integrity are foreign concepts in the technology industry.

I've never heard of this group before right now, but dang... awesome stuff. They jam real hard. Love it. 🤘

This is certainly interesting. I'm going to check it out. https://amdaputuningutility.com/ Edit: well... that was a waste of time. Pretty worthless in terms of features. Maybe it would be more useful for AMD or people that are primarily gamers (not overclocking enthusiast) but I'm not seeing any point of having it installed. I can't set higher than 400W on the CPU, which is just a joke. Everything is gimped with max settings that are way too low. Saying it is useful for Intel and NVIDIA shows a pretty massive disconnect.

The most important thing is that processors remain unlocked so you can do whatever you want. 125W, 150W, 170W TDP doesn't matter if you can push it to 500W-700W-1000W if you want and need to. I set my power limits at 4095W on everything, including turdbooks that would never breach 125W, so that power limits effectively never become a limiting factor, and I always have. I would be super pissed off if I couldn't do that anymore.

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