*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[Mr. Fox]

10 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

I actually played the game last night for about an hour and it was extremely boring. (I have never cared for this genre, so that comes as no real surprise.) I should have just stuck with the free demo. It was a waste of money for me, but it was super cheap so no great loss. What you see in the benchmark is the closest you will get to experiencing something mildly stimulating when playing the game.

I got a refund on Steam for the game and will just use the free demo for the benchmark. It was only $9.49 but the game wasn't my cup of tea.

[electrosoft]

I put up a video comparing ram air cooling via 4.5 different methods.

 

Stock sticks = 76c.

Asus 60mm fan = ~49c

Noctua top shelf performance quiet  60mm fan on Asus bracket = ~49c

Thermalright ram cooler = ~42c

 

 

I've mastered the art of posting videos when I'm battling the flu or covid, lol. Sometimes I don't realize how under the weather I am till I watch something back and can hear it in my voice and a smidge of labored breathing. 🤣

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

5 hours ago, electrosoft said:

I put up a video comparing ram air cooling via 4.5 different methods.

 

Stock sticks = 76c.

Asus 60mm fan = ~49c

Noctua top shelf performance quiet  60mm fan on Asus bracket = ~49c

Thermalright ram cooler = ~42c

 

 

I've mastered the art of posting videos when I'm battling the flu or covid, lol. Sometimes I don't realize how under the weather I am till I watch something back and can hear it in my voice and a smidge of labored breathing. 🤣

 

 

Nice video, brother. I know the guy you mentioned near the end of the video, LOL. 

[Mr. Fox]

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r20/submissions/6064868

[tps3443]

My ram has arrived. This stuff has got to be better than that Corsair 6000c30 A-Die kit. I sure hope so at least!

 

This stuff was $500.00. 
 

These sticks were manufactured 12/2025. Since this is much much later Hynix A-Die, I'm hoping 8,000+ will be easy for it. All of the reviews of this ram are from 2022/2023 when Hynix A-Die was in its infancy. (Fingers crossed) 

 

 

 

[electrosoft]

8 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Nice video, brother. I know the guy you mentioned near the end of the video, LOL. 

 

I was wondering if you were gonna catch that reference 🤣

 

7 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r20/submissions/6064868

 

Looks like that monster SP chip is working out quite nicely! 5.9 benching and 8800 locked in tight....nice.

 

I know your rig would provide some bleeding edge data for WoW out in the Xpac where it counts (I'm looking at you Eversong Woods).

 

Just spectacular results @Mr. Fox!

 

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Yet again, do not sleep on the 9070xt:

 

 

 

 

 

[Papusan]

 

On 6/6/2025 at 12:42 AM, Papusan said:

This. Nvidia can just stop the card from function properly afterwards with just the geforce driveres.... I look at you Maxwell (Nvidia killed voltage tuning with newer drivers and the voltage slider is greyed out/not working anymore even with kingpin cards and their own XOC software). And people want/need newer drivers as months goes, so.... Isn't that nicly done by Nvidia? And I'm 100% sure Nvidia could easly open up the max vram cap for 5000 series cards with their drivers if they wanted (this will overide any firmware lock). Both for desktop cards and those castrated soldered chips (better word for BGA) for Jokebooks.

 

Have seen similar before.... I look at my older Maxwell series GPUs sleeping in the drawer. This bring back old bad memories... Half crippled due beautiful driver love from Nvidia.

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[Mr. Fox]

49 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

 

Have seen similar before.... I look at my older Maxwell series GPUs sleeping in the drawer. This bring back old memories... Half crippled due beautiful driver love from Nvidia.

NVIDIA neutralizes MVolt+ on the RTX 50 series: its 616.56 driver blocks the power limits of the GPU and GDDR7 memory

NVIDIA has wasted no time in shutting down one of the most interesting features of MVolt+ software for the RTX 50 series. The new GeForce 616.56 WHQL driver blocks and prevents the use of MVolt+'s independent controls in...

Nasty finger salute to the Green Goblin, with both hands. People that care just won't use their cancer drivers that block mVolt+ from working. I'm still using 576.28 and I generally won't play games that require that I install a specific driver or newer. It's a matter of principle for me, and that matters more than falling in line with their wishes. Same reason I won't play the crapified new games that require Secure Poot and TPM to be enabled for some garbage anti-cheat bloatware to work. They can kiss my post-defecation, smelly, unwashed posterior orifice.

[tps3443]

15 hours ago, electrosoft said:

I put up a video comparing ram air cooling via 4.5 different methods.

 

Stock sticks = 76c.

Asus 60mm fan = ~49c

Noctua top shelf performance quiet  60mm fan on Asus bracket = ~49c

Thermalright ram cooler = ~42c

 

 

I've mastered the art of posting videos when I'm battling the flu or covid, lol. Sometimes I don't realize how under the weather I am till I watch something back and can hear it in my voice and a smidge of labored breathing. 🤣

 

 

 

The Dark Hero fan works amazingly well. I ran it full blast on my test bench. I'm going to miss that feature. I noticed the fan would blow air strongest at a certain point on the fan, and I rotated the fan in the orientation where the ram sticks were getting hit with the best breeze. 

 

PS: For some reason BestBuy sent me (2) 9950X3D2's. 💀

 

I guess it's meant for me to find a 2,200FCLK unit! 😂 Still waiting on motherboard.