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  1. electrosoft
    Yeah that was a good run over there. I was a member since 2008/9 so 10+ years. Luckily after some clearing of the air with three potential forums as a replacement the other two went under but NBT persisted and is growing and thriving. Welcome back!
  2. electrosoft
    Jufes going in HARD on EVGA (JayZ2C a bit)..... EVGA is clearly living rent free in his head atm 🙂
  3. electrosoft
    $1149.99/$1199.99 for the previous $2149.99 and $2199.99 models for a FTW3 3090ti.....wow.... $1k price drop. They're even cheaper than their own 3090 meaning they ordered based on old market conditions that suddenly came to a screeching halt.
  4. electrosoft
    That is awesome to read! Progress! 👏
  5. electrosoft
    Final nail in the coffin for that ProSiphon Elite from der8auer @ ~245w (OC'd 11th gen):
  6. electrosoft
    Yeah all that hype to score the same or slightly worse than the NH-D15. I still keep one as a back up ready to go just in case.
  7. electrosoft
    I'm not sure if that was with stock BIOS or Prema but either way I agree. We're both in the same boat with 2080S so the 3080 upgrade is ho hum at best.
  8. electrosoft
    No one yet has tried it, but I can't see a reason one wouldn't work. Just swap in a KM heatsink or pickup a universal heatsink from Aliexpress and you're good on the hardware front.
  9. electrosoft
    Looks to be about equal with an NH-D15 in this extensive setup and testing review:
  10. electrosoft
    You won't regret it. For true, unbridled performance nothing beats a good desktop. Laptops on the go obviously or when I want to relax in the recliner but outside of that? Desktop all the way. There really isn't anything out there that tickles my fancy except maybe the NH55 which is as close as it has come outside of that BGA GPU. Hopefully an aftermarket HS will pop up on Aliexpress. X170SM-G is running calm, cool and collected. Low to no noise and no thermal throttling anywhere. I do hope Clevo will right the ship even more back to the P870TM'esque days with 13th gen but I'm not holding my breath.
  11. electrosoft
    Are you thinking 4000 series laptop or building out a desktop?
  12. electrosoft
    Yeah I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would but then again I played through and liked all the original games too from original launch so there was a very strong chance I was going to like this one too.
  13. electrosoft
    In theory yep when it launches late next year or early 2024. Expect the standard Nvidia roll out 4090 first then 4080 then 4070 early next year. Slight wait till the big fish buy the higher end cards then finally 4060 and 4050s limp in. Wait. Then refresh time. I hope that AMD is going to be enough of a threat that Nvidia comes right out of the block and has to offer the 4090ti flagship and like the 1080ti and 2080ti that is the top dog the entire life cycle.
  14. electrosoft
    I'm tempted to get a Classified. Killer price and would tie in nicely with my GPU. Throw in an associate's code discount and knock off another 5%. I'm just wary of 4 slots as I will only use 2. And true, launch pricing was high. It is quickly becoming an end cycle purchasing game now. Top tier boards at substantial discounts, new, with full warranties. I think Classified is basically the FTW in this scenario.
  15. electrosoft
    Agreed.... Only thing we can hope is the glut will cause 4000 series card makers to re-evaluate their launch pricing to realize the Pandemic pricing was an ad hoc outlier situation with so many things that could go wrong did exactly that (Pandemic, Mining, Tariffs oh my.....) and pricing needs to get back to reality especially towards the end of the cycle when I'll be eyeing up a end cycle 4090ti or skipping altogether and getting a 5000 series if needed. WoW Dragonflight apparently has a lot of optimizations and code clean up and runs even better than Shadowlands which did ok @ 4k full Ultra except for two areas known to bring GPUs to their knees (Ardenweald and Bastion). I'm also playing Fallout 76 full 4k max settings and my GPU isn't even going over 130w full load it is so non taxing atm. Even 13th gen doesn't have me excited in any type of way based on early results vs 12th. Early results show 4080 = 3090ti Full fat AD104 is rumored to be 4070ti (not 4070) not launching till late next year. Maybe AMD will bring the high heat this time? EVGA Z690 motherboards back on sale:
  16. electrosoft
    EVGA dropped the price of the FTW3 3090ti's down to $1399.99:
  17. electrosoft
    During the Steam sale I picked up Fallout 76 and put WoW down for a break till Xpac. So far, I'm liking it the 5-6hrs I have in but being a MMO(ish), I am seeing some scary levels on players who have clearly been playing for quite some time. I'm a massive level 4 atm. 🙂
  18. electrosoft
    There is absolutely no reason a system of that caliber with that chip should be thermal throttling at ~76w and hitting 100c everywhere.
  19. electrosoft
    Ditto with the MSI GL66 Pulse w/ 12700h. I went in there and attacked the anemic heatsink and was able to break 17k CB23 but even opening up the extra options in BIOS with this chipset and/or CPU you can't do anything. You set it and it does nothing and this thing needs to be able to adjust PLs, undervolt or both to dial it in.
  20. electrosoft
    Not sure what I love more....the crocs, old hardware or benchmarks! 🙂 I love seeing old GPUs being benched on modern CPUs because they are being pushed to their absolute limit. Good work as always bro!
  21. electrosoft
    So crazy. I remember way back in the day with an MSI-1722 and a C2Q Extreme being a throttling, heating mess going, "something is clearly wrong here," doing some google searches and finding the notebook forums in 2009 and the rest is history....since then every laptop I've had has gotten cracked open and optimized. The trend has continued to this day even BGA garbage gets ripped open and addressed. Awesome! I reached a point I busted out a spiral notebook and started jotting down torque levels and correlating successful boots, memory channels working and synthetic benches either glitching, freezing or BSODs and after a few days of hours of testing and torque levels it all pointed to that bottom left screw as problematic. Not to absolve the other two but that bottom left was consistently causing issues. Sheesh, 1.601v on this constrained environment? What was the package pull on that? 😁
  22. electrosoft
    Maybe order a couple (or more) of those at 4.35 and see if you can drill some new mounting holes to match and shoehorn it into the NH55.... Just about everytime a good delid results in better temps sometimes extreme. (10c+).
  23. electrosoft
    Yeah, that 12900k is a prime specimen for the NH55 that would love a good delid especially with looking to optimize thermals since it has such a good V/F at that critical juncture. Looking at the early Dell numbers for their Precision w/ 12950HX, those numbers are going to have to improve drastically quickly to get in the ballpark of what the NH55 is putting out especially with a good chip. I can't wait to see the results with a good delid. After that, some pairing tests see if you need to use Nanogrease Extreme or if the spread and pressure is good enough to step up and use something else or even liquid metal if the pair is good enough and a foam bridge if you want to be daring.
  24. electrosoft
    I spent an hour or so pouring through all my collected data, both personal and from other forums, of V/F curves and I can't find another 12900k that has that low of a V/F point @ 4200mhz so you clearly have a winner in that aspect. Even my 12900k isn't sub 1v. It is 1.014v @ 4200. That goes to show you for our purposes with this particular model SP rating and overclocking has its limits on that low end. Only thing that would trump it would be a cooler running chip assuming you run into thermal throttling at 4.0-4.2. But if no thermal throttling just PL reached I would call it a wrap with that one. Congrats bro!
  25. electrosoft
    That makes a lot of sense at that V/F point. That voltage is better than almost every 12900k I've seen including some monster SP96-SP100 chips. How did your other 12900k's and 12900ks faire? And yeah, that is one good indicator but if it is a leaky/hot chip a lot of that goes right out the window.
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