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

[johnksss]

1 minute ago, Mr. Fox said:

It does OK on 3D benching. It's really close to the 14900KS in almost every way other than the core ratio limits. It does better in Cinebench because it's not crippled by smartphone cores like the 14900KS. I haven't been able to beat my 3D benchmarks set with 14900KF/KS using the 9950X, but my best GPU is still installed in the Z890 Apex.

Wait, you have a Z890 Apex?

[Mr. Fox]

14 minutes ago, johnksss said:

Wait, you have a Z890 Apex?

No, sorry that's a typo. Let me fix it.

 

Edit: fixed. Thanks for saying something.

  

16 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

It does OK on 3D benching. It's really close to the 14900KS in almost every way other than the core ratio limits. It does better in Cinebench because it's not crippled by smartphone cores like the 14900KS. I haven't been able to beat my 3D benchmarks set with 14900KF/KS using the 9950X, but my best GPU is still installed in the Z790 Apex so it's not a level playing field on the GPU side. The 9950X is running the weaker Gigabyte 4090.

I still prefer my LGA1700 i9 CPUs. I think they are better overall, but by a very narrow margin. If I were a gamer I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

  

20 minutes ago, johnksss said:

Was trying to see if the 285K made some type of a break through, but it would seem it's still basically sitting in the same position as when it first showed up.

I think it is probably got some things to offer people that enjoy overclocking more than AMD does. AMD seems to be in a perpetual state of mediocrity with no real drive or passion for winning at anything. I don't think Intel has lost the desire as much as made some very stupid decisions in terms of CPU design. In fact, I like that winning is so important to them that their passion was killing their CPUs. There is an element of awesome to that.

 

Edited 7 hours ago by Mr. Fox
fixed typo

[johnksss]

12 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

No, sorry that's a typo. Let me fix it.

 

Edit: fixed. Thanks for saying something.

  

I still prefer my LGA1700 i9 CPUs. I think they are better overall, but by a very narrow margin. If I were a gamer I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

 

Ah, okay. I was wondering about that.

 

I know what you mean. I don't really notice anything unless i drop it down to some like 4.0 ghz or something like that. I do have to lower it 5.0 ghz for COD else COD won't even load up. And some other game that I can't think of at the moment.

[electrosoft]

Well, mystery solved.

 

It was the memory.

 

Pulled the 2x32GB G.Skill A-die and slapped in the 2x24GB 6400 kit that was a freebie with the 9800X3D bundle and just like that everything is working right as rain in WoW and everywhere else.

 

Those sticks were problematic on the x670e hero and x870e hero. I'm starting to think they are failing (or at least one of them).

 

 

Here is what it looked like when the 2x32GB sticks were installed:

 

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

2 hours ago, johnksss said:

Ah, okay. I was wondering about that.

 

I know what you mean. I don't really notice anything unless i drop it down to some like 4.0 ghz or something like that. I do have to lower it 5.0 ghz for COD else COD won't even load up. And some other game that I can't think of at the moment.

You have to lower your 14900KS to 5.0GHz or COD won't load?

 

Even though I don't think 5090 is worth buying at the current price, I probably wouldn't be buying one if it was priced at the same MSRP as the 5080. I still have about $4K worth of medical bills from 2024 (deductible and co-pays) and will be racking up another $3800 in deductible and co-pays when I start my cancer treatment on 2/12.

  

2 hours ago, electrosoft said:

Well, mystery solved.

 

It was the memory.

 

Pulled the 2x32GB G.Skill A-die and slapped in the 2x24GB 6400 kit that was a freebie with the 9800X3D bundle and just like that everything is working right as rain in WoW and everywhere else.

 

Those sticks were problematic on the x670e hero and x870e hero. I'm starting to think they are failing (or at least one of them).

 

 

Here is what it looked like when the 2x32GB sticks were installed:

 

The combination of random lousy DDR5 memory samples and fussy/finicky nature of Ryzen CPUs can be very frustrating. The only memory that works excellent for me with the 9950X are the 2x16GB G.SKILL Neo 8000 sticks. The G.SKILL 2x24GB 8000 XMP kit is crazy flaky with it. The 2x24GB TG Xtreme 8200 kit works OK with the 9950X but doesn't work as well as the 8000 Neo. The XMP and EXPO profiles universally suck. The 9950X doesn't even want to POST with the G.SKILL XMP 8000 profile. It easily boots the TG 8200 XMP profile, but seems laggy with the 2x24GB modules. Manual timings are the only thing that I can say actually works well. What's interesting is that any of them work fine and perform about the same installed in the Z790 Apex.

 

Moving from the 4-DIMM Cabron (yes I meant to type that) to the 2-DIMM Gene didn't really change anything in terms of performance but the memory overclock got easier and requires less memory voltage. I haven't tested the G.SKILL XMP 8000 48GB kit or the TG Xtreem 8200 48GB kits on the Gene mobo but there's probably nothing to be gained since the EXPO 8000 32GB kit works great and I don't have to waste time re-tuning everything if I just leave it alone. I don't really know what is different about the EXPO kit because I am using custom manual timings, but the EXPO kit seems to always cooperate.

[tps3443]

1 hour ago, Mr. Fox said:

If Willy Wonka selects me for a golden ticket I will let you have it since I am not interested. This is the only model that has the silly drawing. The better models are not available, but I am not sure the "better" models are actually better. Looks like Buildzoid is finding basically that they are mostly all the same products with different coolers and sucker prices for those that still believe more expensive models are better. 

 

Thank you so much!!! Greatly appreciated! 🙏 

[johnksss]

2 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

You have to lower your 14900KS to 5.0GHz or COD won't load?

 

Even though I don't think 5090 is worth buying at the current price, I probably wouldn't be buying one if it was priced at the same MSRP as the 5080. I still have about $4K worth of medical bills from 2024 (deductible and co-pays) and will be racking up another $3800 in deductible and co-pays when I start my cancer treatment on 2/12.

  

Yes, that is correct with my current setup. And I had to find that answer online at the time.

 

It surely is NOT worth the current price with of course taxes.

 

Personal bills are far more important than entertainment cost that may or may not be entertaining enough to warrant the purchase!

[Mr. Fox]

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Maybe gaming on a real computer would help.

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