Mr. Fox

For those that insist on running the trash OS, here is this new Micro$lop account bypass... curl -L christitus.com/bypass -0 skip.cmd -then- skip.cmd

Having a Gen 5 NVMe, an X4 PCIe card with four NVMe and an X1 card with two NVMe may have just exhausted its resources. BUT, it does not have that effect on the AORUS Master or Strix. I had 10 NVMe SSDs in the Master (two quad NVMe X4 cards and two in the mobo) without any issue. I have 7 in the Strix (quad NVMe and three in the mobo). With a Gen 4 NVMe in the top M.2 (Gen 5) slot and nothing in the X1 slot it seems like everything is functioning correctly, but I want to put it through all the paces. I had to reinstall Windows several times on the Gen 5 NVMe SSD. It would get corrupted within a couple of hours to the point of BSOD and unrepairable. I am running that same NVMe in the Strix and it is working flawlessly. I have 7 NVMe installed (quad NVMe x4 card, Gen 4 in Gen 5 slot and two Gen 4 in the DIMM.2 and no more memory errors or OS corruption (so far). LOL. I am OK with other people liking rainbow puke. Just not on my stuff. Give me white light all day. I don't even like having a solid static color that much. Just white. But, that's me. To each their own. Rainbow puke on the RAM and mobo lighting sucks, but doesn't suck as bad as the software needed to control it. I'd rather have the rainbow puke than the cancer software bloat running in the background. Edit: Oh, another thing seems "fixed" now. Not sure if it was the Gen 5 SSD or the X1 slot being used, but the OS on the Apex no longer temporarily freezes when launch ZenTimings. Before it would lock up for about 5 seconds when I opened ZenTimings.

From the beta thread in their Discord. https://discord.com/channels/750797327874129930/752301932558942302 Alternatively https://www.overclock.net/posts/29518003/

So, I ordered another X870E Apex and thought I would give it a second chance. BAD idea. Horrible product and worse than the first one. I submitted my RMA this morning. Fought it for 3 days. It's a piece of garbage just like the first one that I returned. The AORUS Master and Strix both overclock better than the Apex. It cannot even run 8000 C34 stable and for some reason using a Gen 5 NVMe in the top slot causes constant corruption of Windows that cannot be repaired (even using JEDEC/SPD defaults). I tried two of them and both have issues in the Apex, but not in the Master or Strix. Super disappointing that two of what is allegedly the best overclocking AM5 motherboards are rubbish and inferior to less expensive options. I spend about 36 hours moving parts back and forth between motherboards and all work flawllessly except when installed in the Apex, then everything turns to crap. I considered the idea of exchanging it, but it's not worth it. Lost two days of my life on this piece of dung and considering it is the second turd Apex... how 'bout no. Two known good CPUs, two known good memory kits and two known good Gen 5 NVMe malfunction when installed in the Apex. I'm a two-time Apex silicon lottery winner. Ain't nobody got time fo dat.

Awesome. Looks great. Thank you.

I am trying to figure out how to run Cinebench in real time under Linux. The renice and chrt commands only seem to work on one thread and skip all of the child treads. Maybe it is because of wine being used to run it. Scores are about what I would expect for no tweaks.

Be safe, brother. Severe wind (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.) are very dangerous.

Yes, greed. Greed becomes more egregious when it is combined with not caring about the people whose money is being taken. This is how companies roll in the 21st century. The new normal. Greed is easier to dismiss or forgive when you get something great in return for having your wallet brutally ransacked. The naked backplate is an example of not caring enough about the product you sell or the people that buy it to do something the right way. IKEA was the pioneer of selling trash to people and making them think they are buying something nice. Now it is a universal business practice.

I doubt that the putty is cheaper than pads. It's probably a combination of them trying to market something that some people will erroneously think is better, while simultaneously allowing them to manufacture a product in a sloppy and imprecise way. No need for them to determine the correct pad thickness or employ any precision. Just put the putty on, slap it together and ship it. Let the person that buys it deal with the mess.

Where are all of the stupid people that said "telemetry is OK... I have nothing to hide" now? It's not about 'hiding' anything, but about protecting yourself and staying safe, not having your personal information stolen and activity monitored and used for finanical gain in the best case scenario. Ripe for abuse in the more nefarious scenarios.

AI has been, and will be, abused in growing measure as it develops. Embracing a future built around it is artificially intelligent (stupid) on the part of those that bellieve it is wise. It is useful to process data. It should be limited to that. Beyond that it becomes foolish and dangerous.

I expect stupidity and ignorance to be the norm. It seems like their eyeballs should work though, LOL. If they see the latch and still have no idea then the situation is truly hopeless.

I hope so, too. I am going to wait to desolder the wiring until I hear back from them on it. It was a real pain in the bottom to do. Did the Strix 5090 XOC vBIOS get leaked? I saw some chatter about it at overclock.net but did not see where it is available for download. That's kind of scary. The person that bought that GPU does not even know there is a latch to keep the cable from coming loose? 🤣

So, I did the EVC2 mod on the 5090. I never thought to check the I2C support list to see if the voltage controller is supported. It turns out it is not. Bummer. I emailed Elmor's Labs to ask for assistance. If they cannot provide an XML profile for that voltage controller I will see if the one on the 4090 Suprim is supported and use it for that GPU. I noticed a couple of posts in the 5090 thread at overclock.net where it was mentioned some other GPUs have an unsupported controller. It would be a shame if Elmor does not update the profiles to provide support for it. I ran into this with SPI flash tools for laptop GPUs at one point where the vBIOS chip was not recognized. I had to buy a second SPI flasher to get support across the entire spectrum of GPUs when I was working with Prema on vBIOS stuff.

Did you receive it yet? Share some photos. Even if the GPU was DOA it would have been worth grabbing it for the Morpheus 2.

I'm sorry all of this happened, brother. What a big mess. I will have you in my thoughts and prayers as you work through all of this. While there is a physical and emotion cost, are most of the financial costs going to be covered by insurance?

This is the original already delidded/bare die SP118 CPU back in the Strix. (I still need to delid the new one and put it in the Master, along with installing the EVC2 on the 5090.) https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/y-cruncher_-_pi-1b/submissions/5904464 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/y-cruncher_-_pi-2.5b/submissions/5904468

So the 6000C26 kit is fine. Modest improvement. Tighter timings and lower voltage, but not a remarkable change in overall performance. Now I need to decide if it is worth keeping considering my loss of 16GB in memory capacity.

Well, the new 9950X is close to an identical match to the better of my existing two. So, definitely not a lottery winner but good enough to keep. Look how close they are. Crazy. (#1 is the older CPU and #2 the one that arrived today.) The newer one might be just a hair better, but not enough difference to matter. So, now it is delid and bare die and then test the 6000C26 32GB kit (which is already installed and running the same custom profile as the old 48GB kit).

Don't care about the game, but it has always been too expensive to buy just for the benchmark. Now it's worth getting. Less than an hour until the sale ends. @Papusan - for $2.99 definitely worth buying for the benchmark. https://store.steampowered.com/app/507490/Ashes_of_the_Singularity_Escalation/ https://www.ashesofthesingularity.com/escalation/metaverse#/ladders/benchmark/overall/Crazy_4k

I've never been interested in this game because I don't care for the genre, but I always wanted the benchmark. It has always been too expensive, but now Steam has it on sale for $2.99 and I grabbed it. Hurry... less than an hour before the sale ends. @Papusan Here is a stock run on the 4090. https://www.ashesofthesingularity.com/escalation/metaverse#/ladders/benchmark/overall/Crazy_4k