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It has the primary heatsink for the GPU and the CPU heatsink. No secondary heatsink for the GPU.

So great to see the Z690 Dark still shining and pushing really great speeds! I really wish EVGA chose not to throw the baby out with the bathwater and abandon both GPUs and motherboards. 😞

*** BUMP ***

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Like @Mr. Fox said, just build bro. 🙂 Focus all that into making a killer build for yourself and then come here and post away with it and doing comparisons and benchmarks vs your laptops. That's the ultimate gift.

Did you price check their components on PCpartpicker to see if they are charging real market costs or did they jack them up a bit?

So I finally got around to hooking up the test Asrock B650M board I picked up for $85 from Amazon Warehouse. Good news is the board was basically brand new but had a damaged box. Hooked everything up in the test case. Bad news? Welp, it's not my 7800X3D as everything booted right up. I'm going to run some more tests but won't get a chance to break down this one and re-retest the MSI till after the holidays but all indicators are pointing to the MSI X670E carbon at this point as I ran, swapped, reseated and tested everything under the sun with the MSI before yanking it to swap in the 13900ks + MSI Z790i Edge. Slight cluster of discolored pins on the 7800X3D were just that.....in theory. Looks like I might get to take the MSI RMA train for a spin at this rate..... 🤣

$120 shipped to your door and its yours. Good barebones to add a CPU/GPU of your choice.

Happy birthday Bro! 39? Bah, still a young gun with plenty of life in front of you my friend. Yup, you called that one months ago and here we are! They could have saved a lot of $$$ and time (along with customer cards) by calling it early on. I'm glad both my CM EVGA cables had loose sense pins and would randomly just shut down so I could toss them and just use the MSI cable.

It is an major understatement when say I want Intel to massively succeed in the GPU space..... Watching them make such inroads from initial launch with the A380 I picked up on drop to the 2x A770s I've used is astounding with their drivers. Seeing their ARChitecture pay dividends for integrated to match and finally beat AMD is satisfying as they can start to encroach on AMDs hand held dominance and more.

Do not buy a pre built..... For that amount, go to https://pcpartpicker.com/ Then you can hand select every component you want to design the system you want. THEN check the various hardware forums and ebay to get the parts used (or close enough). You can then take your time and pick up pieces as they go on sale or pop up used and slowly amass your parts to finally build out a good system with off the shelf parts. This is the process I use when I have several builds in motion over days/weeks/months. I just slowly snag good priced deals (IE picked up a 3060ti for $155 last week and an EVGA 750w today for $60) and add them to my ever dynamically expanding/contracting hardware shelf. You just have to get the ball rolling and be on the lookout. It also stops you from having to build up a large chunk of change to buy a system all at once and just piecemeal it with small chunks of change.

Price: $$SOLD$$ Condition: Used Warranty: NONE Reason for sale: Parting out laptop Payment: PayPal, local pick up Item location: Vineland, NJ Shipping: USPS Ground Advantage / First Class International shipping: Situational (If I know you personally) and all S&H costs are on you Handling time: 3 days Feedback: eBay: https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/electrosoft More details and pics on the actual eBay listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/186214258651 Specification: Clean pull from a P377SM-A. Tested working 100%.

Price: $115 shipped (Continental US only for free shipping) Condition: Used Warranty: NONE Reason for sale: Parting out laptop Payment: PayPal, local pick up Item location: Vineland, NJ Shipping: USPS Ground Advantage / First Class International shipping: Situational (If I know you personally) and all S&H costs are on you Handling time: 3 days Feedback: eBay: https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/electrosoft More details and pics on the actual eBay listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/176111433541 Specification: Clean pull from a Dell Alienware. Tested in Alienware, Precision and lastly P377SM-A

Sheesh, look at this monster 14900k SP111 1.398 6ghz vid.... Now THIS chip I would switch from my 13900KS! 🤣

Gigabyte and Asus 4090 GPUs are just ginormous. A GPU anti-sag bracket or post is mandatory. I even put one on the wife's Asus Strix 3080. With my GPUs I tend to run my power cables from the top vs the bottom for a little bit of extra support or at the very least not adding to their sag weight. I like how some companies actually ship the GPU separate as a safety precaution and the end user just pops it back in. That seems the safest route (of course many end users don't feel comfortable installing their GPU hence why they buy a pre-built amongst many reasons).

AMD always seems to be a step behind on the GPU front unfortunately even in pockets against Intel. Whatever marketshare Intel is gaining in the GPU segment is mostly to the detriment to AMD. They have definitely made inroads on the CPU front. Be careful @Papusan! Rough waters ahead! Unless you want to start collecting Crocs like you do older GPUs! 😁

Price: $$SOLD$$ Condition: Used Warranty: NONE Reason for sale: Switched my daughter to an Acer OLED 16 7840u Payment: Bankwire, Venmo, PayPal, local pick up Item location: Vineland, NJ Shipping: FedEx, USPS or UPS. Whichever is cheapest for me since I'm including shipping CONUS only International shipping: Situational (If I know you personally) and all S&H costs are on you Handling time: 3 days Feedback: eBay: https://www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/electrosoft More details and pics on the actual eBay listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/176068063560 Specification: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was my daughter's laptop and she used and loved it for years (hence the stickers all over it), but she wanted something smaller for college. Battery died awhile ago so she was using it with no battery for the last 6 months before she upgraded. Specs: --------------------------------- No CPU No GPU 1920x1080 17.3" Display 32GB DDR3 1600 memory (4x8GB) 240GB SSD (Raid 0 120GBx2) DVDRW/BR (Tested w/ Jurassic Park DVD, working!) Intel AC-7260 WiFi 330w AC adapter w/ power cord Windows 10 Pro with digital license Backlit Keyboard --------------------------------- Unit is missing its rear plastic hinge covers (pictured) but screen opens and closes normally. Unit has a combo DVDRW / Blue Ray reader tested with Jurassic World DVD working fine. Unit has a clean install of Windows 10 Pro with all updates and drivers installed. No CPU and GPU (listed elsewhere) but includes everything else Unit does NOT come with a battery as once it was near failure/failed (less than 9% life left) it caused system panics. Instead of replacing the battery, she wanted a new much smaller laptop for college. Unit is in USED condition, and as such comes with stickers, sticker residue, and signs of obvious wear (scratches, dings, etc...) Proof of ownership:

Did he post any BIOS snapshots anywhere?

Congrats on it finally getting here bro and yep, I've seen that goodness before ! 🙂@jaybee83 that monster 4300 V/F point would make this a near god tier chip for the NH55. Now let's see some magic! 🙂 They're decent but let's not blow it out of proportion. 🤣 On your new chip, your E-cores will probably be your biggest weakness and that isn't saying much with everything else being so nice. Did you ever get any screen shots of CENS #1 chip? I'd be curious to see how it compares.

The fact it can do G2 3800 bodes well as the memory at least is cleared for take off to 3800 and ~3500 on a 12600 sounds about right but the only way to truly know is to slap it in a desktop board to see. My daughter's 12400 tops out at 3366 DDR4 on her B660 Asus board. My 12900k topped out at 4133 on the Asus Z690 D4 (DDR4) and many 13th and 14th gen chips are sitting around the same level so if you: Get a chip with a known, good 4000+ IMC Hunt for good silicon / low bleeder (Focus on the 4300 curve) I know both capped to ~130w, this 13900ks runs cooler and scores much higher than my 12900k that's in there now when simulated on a desktop board. When (if?) I switch back to AMD, I should pop this SP115 13900KS in my old Asus Z690 D4 board and see how far it can go with the B-die sticks that are in there that can do 4500 with 10th gen.

You now have to worry about anything purchased abroad less than NOK 350 now.....talk about digging in the couch cushions for change.... This time around Nvidia has zero incentive to lower prices or offer a 4080ti (or any card that uses any version of the AD102) on the consumer market with the AI market being so lucrative and needing scaled down versions here, there or anywhere. Strix 4090s are now up to $2400 and Gigabyte 4090 at $2000 shipped and sold by newegg....yikes. Basically every card (when they have them as these are the only two in stock) is +$400 over MSRP.

Since I moved my 13900ks and Z790i Edge to the big rig for now while I sort out my 7800X3D woes, I switched back to my AC LF II 420 from the EVGA CLC 360 I had in there and it leveled the EK Nucleus 240 in cooling the exact same setup but obviously wouldn't fit in an ITX case. ITX looks so tiny in there! Unfortunately the AC LF II 240 uses hoses off the top like the bigger models and that makes it a nonstarter for many ITX cases that support AIOs. First AIO I looked at for my ITX plans was AC. It was one reason I couldn't use my EVGA CLC 280 too. Without the side mounted flexible connect hoses it makes it almost impossible to work with most ITX cases. Speaking of 4090 pricing.....yikes!

LOL, if you were "safe" to upgrade from your 2080ti to a 3090, you are definitely safe to upgrade from a 3090 to a 4090. 🤣 I hope the 8900xtx smashes Nvidia into the ground because the 7900xtx was a bit of a let down after all the pre-launch hype and pseudo CU count that AMD didn't correct properly and let speculation fly amok. I said it before and I'll say it again, you will get a 4080ti dab smack in the middle of the 4080 and 4090 for ~1299 or 1399 with 20GB and a slower memory bus. I am guessing we might *might* get a 4090ti Summer of 2024 and the 5090 drops Q1 2025. Either scenario, if you have a 4090, a 4090ti is DOA as 5090 is right around the corner. Don't pull an "Electrosoft" 🤣 and get all nostalgic and order a KPE 3090ti for $2499 and end up regretting it (But then EVGA refunded me the $500 difference when it dropped and a collector wanted it for $2k so I broke even and am still using the included 1600w P2 to this day but still....) You can always sit back and wait and compromise or you just order the new king launch card, ride it out for the entire cycle, get the new king launch card, sell your old card (or not) for what you can get...rinse/repeat. My only problem when the 5090 drops is Fallout76 and WoW have met their 4k Ultra match even with RT enabled with the 4090 for 144hz displays. For the first time, I am hard pressed to find a compelling reason to upgrade next cycle outside of the ever present, "I want it." I am rapidly coming up on a full year of owning this MSI 4090 Liquid Suprim X in one month and it has been an absolute joy and beast of a card. Outside of the price, I have zero complaints.

Well, with the last bid on the one you bought being €1550, I am sure you've shed a few tears bro! But on the other hand, you've got his second best chip overall on the way to you. I look at it both ways. Would I pay that much for a binned chip? No. But do I see merit in those who want to pursue their hobbies as they see fit to extract maximum enjoyment? Absolutely. 🙂 CENS listed and sold every single chip pretty quickly so there is clearly a market for pre-binned costly chips to assure a decent sample so you can just go ahead and enjoy your silicon.

The "gift" that keeps on giving @Papusan