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I hardly used it on air. Ordered the water block and switched it as soon as I could. I do remember being impressed with the air cooler's ability to keep it cool. It has never been benched on the chiller so I haven't really done any serious benching with it. Memory overclock on both 4090s is stable at +1700-1800 depending on the task. I use the Galax 1000W vBIOS on both GPUs. I did not have good results with the 666W vBIOS. Both GPUs worked better with the stock vBIOS than they did with the Galax 666W and both work best with the 1000W. For 3000+ on core you need to keep the voltage locked at 1.100V. At least it do. If it drops below 1.100V (the wimpy max) stability gets sketchy. I use Afterburner curve tool to lock it at 1.100V. I think the 4090 Suprim may have a slightly stronger core, but I've not done a good head-to-head comparison on chilled water. The 4090 really needs a core max of 1.200V to shine. The 1.100V limit is pretty wimpy. The OEMs and NVIDA are probably worried about the crappy 12VHPWR sockets melting and castrated the voltage to keep the watts lower. Nope. I don't really care about that. It's the least important measurement to me, and I don't do any single core benchmarks. When I consider the mentality of the people that do care and make a big deal about it, it makes me care about it even less. @Papusan I am working our a deal for a ASUS ROG Rampage IV Gene and 4820K with 32GB (4x8GB) Kingston HyperX 2400MHz quad channel and a Titan GPU. I am doing an even trade for some spare parts I am not using. I should have those parts in another week or two. I will initially install them on the open bench. I think I will use it with the CR360 Dark AIO since that is just sitting on a shelf. After extracting everything the 4820K can muster, I am probably going to grab a 4960X and a Xeon E5-1680 V2 to rack up some extra CPU hardware points. These CPUs are direct cheap on eBay. After I am done racking up some points, I might put everything into the Dark Base Pro 901 case, load it up with mechanical HDDs and stick it under one of my desks to use it as a Windows 7 machine or Linux server. Not sure yet, just an idea. If I do that the Apex Encore and Gigabyte 4090 will move over to the open bench. Since it is HEDT it has 40 PCIe lanes and will support X16 *2 GPU along with NVMe, SATA or NIC add-in cards. I might grab a second Titan or another 2080 Ti for some SLI benching if I can get them cheap enough. I am also thinking about grabbing a cheap 240 radiator to use with the 2080 Ti Waterforce GPU. I already have a spare D5 and reservoir I can connect to it. In a couple of years I expect X299 parts will be just as cheap as these X79 pieces. I still have my X299 CPU delid tool.

It was 113°F today. Tomorrow the forecast is 115°F with a nighttime low of 103°F. But, it's a dry heat.

De-evolving is how they succeed at sucking. When you make people stupid, it is easy to perpetuate lies and make them happy about being lied to. People that have a functioning brain and don't want to drink the Kool-Aid are nay-sayers. The tech space needs more nay-sayers and trouble-makers to stir up righteous levels of hate and discontent. The Goombah Gamers will believe what they are told. It reminds me a lot of this. Watch the clip... at least to 1:18.

This is why I purchased extra LGA 1700 CPUs that I do not need. I have two sitting on a shelf because, at this point, I am not planning to embrace next generation tech. I absolutely DO NOT care about gaining any energy efficiency unless it gets put to use as extra headroom. I do not support using more E-cores or discarding hyper-threading to use less power. I really only care about performance. If you can produce more performance using less power that's OK as long as you don't leave anything on the table by avoiding using up the power saved. We should always do more with more, not more with less. If new tech can use less power that is only nice if the response is to increase the clock speeds and add more cores and consume the same amount of power as we did before. Consume all of the extra headroom created. Treat power efficient gains in the same as you would lower temps. That is an opportunity to crank it up and use it all, push if further, not be happy about using less. I think maybe I am going to be holding the line and might be purchasing obsolete hardware going forward. TIme will tell. I am not expecting to be impressed. I am expecting disappointment because priorities are getting all jacked up by stupid people with an agenda I do not agree with.

Things will never get better as long as fake experts make lame excuses for trash that the zombie sheeple embrace. Mobile computing is perma-broken and will never get better. It needs a wooden stake driven through its heart. Absolutely hopeless lost cause And yeah... not enough axes... Nice example documenting exactly what I have always said... PC gamers don't need to be performance PC enthusiasts. All gamers need is something better than a console. Which isn't very hard.

As you know, I am married to a Viking. One of the most valuable things I have learned from my Viking bride is this...

I hope the weather improves on your vacation. Sounds less miserable that last summer's heat without AC though. I think the ILM lottery you refer to was more caused by a variety of third-party vendors producing them with poor quality control, which would not be the fault of Intel. It would be the fault of motherboard manufacturers cutting corners and paying less to get less for the sake of maximizing profits. Not to mention the fact that QC is in the toilet across the board for pretty much everything. Particularly true of products manufactured in China, the trash production capital of the world. The fact that some had problems and others did not pretty much negates the notion that the design itself is flawed and squarely places the blame on the shoulders of companies that produce sloppy crap. I have never experienced the randomness personally because I never use the stock ILM. Everyrhing has bare die or Thermalright CPU frame. I prefer it even if QC was impeccable. Much cleaner design with the frame versus ILM. Also, much better mess control for thermal paste or liquid metal.

This is his latest masterpiece (released several weeks ago).

If you have proof of the return take them to small claims court. You'll easily win and if they don't show up you'll win by default. It will only cost you time. Never buy Lenovo garbage. They are a trashy company that specializes in selling trash. Why did you buy two tablets? You probably could have built or bought an insane high-end monster desktop with the cumulative money you have spent on disposable rubbish portable electronics in the past couple of years.

Every person that files complaints and YouTube crusaders like Louis Rossman and Steve Burke at GN make a difference. Nice to see it finally getting some attention. All the governments of the world need to hold Chinese manufacturers accountable for their scummy behavior. Allowing them to get away with the nonsense makes it easier for them to sell defective trash and get away with it. They're not alone, but it seems like most of the time (excluding crApple) when this right to repair interference surfaces it is with a Chinese manufacturer. They need to also start forcing the issue with making service part specs, part numbers, service manuals and schematics available. One of the few things Dell has done consistently well and better than competitors is publish service manuals and made components available, and offered reasonable warranty service and not tried to void warranties of those that service their own computers. But, they haven't released schematics.

@tps3443 same settings as above only 4K. If you choose full screen instead of borderless you may find the benchmark doesn't read performance correctly for some reason. Not even close, but not sure why. (On my systems full screen reflects a single-digit average framerate, 0 FPS min and max about 100 FPS higher than actual, so there is some kind of bug with full screen setting.)

Sure, here they are: I have not installed it on my system with the 4K monitor, so 1440p is the highest resolution tested so far.

I agree. It ruins everything. But, Libtards are guaranteed the right to be ignorant and even allowed to place senile, geriatric, chimo, degenerate zombies with compulsive lying disorders in charge of destroying everything that makes our nation decent. It will be good to get back to Making America Great Again come November, and maybe send some of them to prison for their abuses of the judicial system, misappropriation of tax dollars, other conspiracies, high crimes, felonies and acts of treason. @tps3443 did you grab that Zero Dawn on GOG? I snagged some cheap old games on Steam as well. Mortal Kombat 11, Injustice 2 and Terminator Resistance. I was sad to find two of them capped at 60 FPS, but haven't looked to see if there are any config file hacks to uncork that silly nonsense. (I think that capped FPS is common on fighting games for some stupid reason.) 4090 A770

Yeah, I really like mine. No complaints. Spending a whole lot more for minimal improvement isn't very smart. I've had acceptable results from my Byski GPU blocks as well, but the Alphacool block is built better (and a little bit more expensive) and I like it better than the Byski blocks. This was my first Alphacool GPU block. Even if all things were equal, I think I'd prefer to give my money to a German company than a Chinese company. I really like the fact that Optimus is an American company, but I don't like their high prices and limited availability. They rarely have anything available when I am ready to buy parts. If it were possible to never purchase anything produced by a Chinese company, I would choose that option.

That is actually a pretty decent overclock. Have you tried bumping the GPU memory clock? That can be very helpful for gaming performance.

I do not think that it existed at the time I purchased my block. If it did, it wasn't available for my GPU yet. It does look very nice. One thing I really like about the Alphacool blocks is the o-ring does not have any goofy curves that make servicing the block more difficult. It's just square and installing a new o-ring should be easier to keep in place during assembly.

When I placed the order from Titan Rig the V2 was not part of the product description. I emailed them about it and they said it was the V2. They had to email Alphacool to ask because it was not clear to them and the V2 was a new release. https://www.titanrig.com/alphacool-eisblock-aurora-geforce-rtx-4090-aorus-master-gaming-v2-gpu-water-block-with-backplate-0320ac037101on.html? They have a promo for 15% off right now. Yes, I was able to run it at 8400 but could not complete stability tests like TM5 due to the high temps. It would start throwing errors when the memory temps exceeded 45-48°C but didn't have any instability evident at temperatures below that. I still have that issue even with the Bykski heatsinks and fans blowing on the modules, it just takes longer for them to get that hot, so I dropped the speed down to 8200 and lowered the voltage accordingly. Running with the side panel removed and a fan blowing cooler air into the chassis was helpful, but doing that kind of negates any basis for having the parts installed in a SFF case instead of an open bench.

Overclocking the GPU is safe under any circumstances. Modern video cards are so crippled that there's not anything you can do to harm them in terms of overclocking. They have thermal protection, voltage gimped and capped power limits. The worst thing that could happen is it would be unstable from pushing the overclock beyond the wimpy voltage limits, causing operating system instability. If it gets too hot it'll just throttle to cool itself down. Even desktop GPUs are castrated in the same way.

Losers. To put it kindly. 😖

Temps are the challenge with air cooling. I have landed on 8200 C36 (see HWiNFO in last post with screenshots) as the daily driver. 8400 and 8600 just get way too hot on air, especially in a restrictive SFF case. Even 8200 was too hot with stock heating blankets. The fan helps a little, but didn't with the stock trash covers.

I supported that guy (don't remember what nickname he goes by) that does the AMD stuff when I was trying to make do with the 5950X and I currently support the OCCT dev, but I don't game enough to support something like this for it to be worth it. But, I can see where it would be worth everything penny for someone that does. It was worth it for the two devs mentioned. Congrats. That was a good deal. For anyone interested, GOG has Horizon Zero Dawn on sale for under $15. I don't care for the game genre, but I bought it just for the benchmark, as I have done with so many titles. The first thing I had to find out was how to skip that stupid long intro video, LOL. SO Painful! Solution: At+F4 > No.

Posted in your thread, bro. Thanks. Intel Xe and AMD FSR work essentially the same in CP2077. No difference using the Arc A770. Probably wouldn't be good at 4K, but this is not a 4K GPU. Smooth and fine at 1440p. Intel Xe Performance Mode

It doesn't work with the turdbook Quadro or the A770. I did not think it would, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Thanks for sharing @ryan. It will be super helpful for anyone that has GPU that can use it. As an FYI, merging the .reg file and adding the DLL files did not break anything or cause any detectable change in game function, so don't be scared to try it. Intel Xe and AMD FSR work essentially the same in CP2077. No difference with the Arc A770.

Thanks. I did not see this until you mentioned it in the benchmark thread. I don't know if they will work at all with my laptop Quadro P5000 or my Arc A770, but I am going to try it just for giggles.