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@ENTERPRISE increased the AVX offset to see if that was causing the instability. I think I ran no offset at all, cause yolo, but my voltage was higher (yolo again ). As far as memory goes I think it should be able to clock a decent bit higher. I don't know what chips they are, but there is always something to gain. For now I would focus on the CPU though, 3200mem is fine for testing around 4.9ghz. I've been reading about voltages some time ago when I was playing with mine and I found a lot of 'opinions' on the matter. The biggest issue is heat, 1.35 on this 10c20t will be pretty hot so finding a stable overclock at 1.3v is a nice goal and so is 1.2v VCCSA.

Here you have your VCCSA, AKA Voltage Common Collector System Agent I just love how every manufacturer decides to give something their own name, so you have to search for hours in a bios just to find out it was right under your nose.. All of the other settings seem to be correct, or at least how I would do it. I agree with this as far as AMD vs older stuff goes, I don't have the same trouble with Intel though besides some funny things which are different between boards. In the end it's still boosting the BCLK or multiplier and upping a few voltages.

This time I thought about taking a picture

Looks good @Fluxmaven! A leaking fitting, dripping on the GPU... That stuff is scary

I should get me some of that But I'm not sure if I want to put two 3090's above an expensive motherboard with just that metal strapping. At least I know I can get the 3090's to work on that board, maybe one day it'll be a bit colder with a certain type of cooling

Yeah, I have a pair of 4.0 risers but I have no proper way to mount those heavy cards above the board at the moment. I used to have the board one level lower but to modify all that will take me a lot of hours. I managed to score about 330 global points with 5 results (not taking into account the loss of points from other runs dropping out of the list) so I'm pretty happy with that. Btw, the Superposition score was way lower with two cards than one as expected. Also, most of the hwbot benchmarks don't scale at all with NVLink. Only six benchmarks I did are worth it, five of them with good global points.

It might look like another one of my messy benchmark systems but this one was the most powerfull (and power drawing(and expensive)) system ever on my bench! 3090 FTW3 in NVLink with the 12900KF maxing out at 5.6GHZ in 8P with HT for some benchmarks. With the 1000W bios on both cards I saw up to 1500w powerdraw. It kinda sucks that the watercooled card doesn't fit in the first slot, I bet the score could be higher with a higher clocking card as 'display' card..

I totally agree, I'd love to have a kit but I don't want to waste a lot of money on it before knowing what I can do with it. With all the hardware coming out soon I need to watch my wallet a bit, don't want to spend it on something that turns out to be useless in combination with next gen AMD for example..

Really interesting @Mr. Fox! A French friend is also working on an A-die kit, if he's willing to share some results I'll let you know

He had it for free for 8 months, I actually thought about asking to use the 3050 for some benchmarks as payment

So I just replaced my 2080Super in my nephews system for this 3050. Which means that I can bench the 2080Super tonight or tomorrow

As we don't know all the facts it's not a good idea to judge, but I was pretty sad when I heard the news.. The twins are still together. I also still need to do the thing we talked about, and it's on my list. Sadly I found out that the EVGA Z690 Dark Kingpin board doesn't like the EKWB active backplate, which means I need to use risers for the sisters. Which reminds me, the slot spacing is probably wrong for the NVLink bridge anyways... A game of cards sounds like fun, I'll ask my 30 series cards what they prefer. Pretty sure they like to see the daylight instead of the inside of a box...

As a tribute to EVGA I'm benching my 3090FTW3 again...

I agree with the approach of @The Pook as far as RAM OC goes. I'd start with overclocking the CPU before messing with the memory though, try to get that hot head stable with decent temps before spending hours of trouble shooting. So as far as the 10900X goes, it's not as easy as the other 10th gen chips as far as I know. I've only tried messing with it for a few hours before I had more important (team cup stuff) benchmarking too do so I had to put it aside. Once the competition is over (or the 470 SLI stuff needs a board that for sure works) I can give it another try and I could let you know how it goes on my end. I know one thing though, that chip runs hot and draws a lot of power. The only benchmark I did was: /img/logo.png Bastiaan_NL`s Geekbench3 - Multi Core score: 49511 points with a Core i9 10900X HWBOT.ORG The Core i9 10900X @ 5000MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the Geekbench3 - Multi Core benchmark. Bastiaan_NLranks #140 worldwide and #3 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT. Don't look at the memory, it's a Vengeance LPX kit and I didn't even bother to work on it. The CPU clock is stable enough for this benchmark but that's about it, it would need more voltage or less clock speed to run stable for a 24/7 OC but I don't really know the actual settings and I'd have to get the hardware installed again to check it for you.

Looks like a pretty decent haul @Avacado!

You really should man, we'd really appreciate it! And on todays episode of * I bought (and the chips/mem for free from a coworker) GTX580 DirectCUII HD7770 GDDR5 (sadly, should have been GDDR3) P7350 and P8400, have no clue what I should do with that 2x DDR3 1600 CL9

100% And thanks for still considering it I bet there are a few guys closer who can put it to good use! Over here it would be benched a few times and put in storage

Whohoo Those boot times are interesting though, might make overclocking a time consuming matter.. I hope the boards will have some good software to adjust memory timings, set the clock speed and cache latency once and the rest from within the OS to save a few days of tuning

I just noticed this conversation, but as @Avacado mentioned I'm in the Netherlands. Even though I love the prizes you are giving away I would like to give my second place to @Cerberus and the third place to another lucky winner

I have a spare 850w but it's on the other side of the ocean

Any updates @Sir Beregond? I still need to do my AMD's and I'm looking forward to copying some of your settings I was finally able to do the dual RX590 run. /img/logo.png Bastiaan_NL`s 3DMark - Fire Strike (GPU) score: 28412 marks with a Radeon RX 590 HWBOT.ORG The 2x Radeon RX 590 @ 1630/2110MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the 3DMark - Fire Strike (GPU) benchmark. Bastiaan_NLranks #9 worldwide and #1 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT. AMD Radeon RX 590 video card benchmark result - AMD FX-9590,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 WWW.3DMARK.COM AMD FX-9590, AMD Radeon RX 590 x 2, 8192 MB, 64-bit Windows 10} Also a fun fact, I finally found the Nitro+ twin today. So by the time that shows up I can run that pair in crossfire and try to get better clocks as the Gigabyte one is sort of in between the RX590 Nitro+ and the RX580..

Entertaining as usual Jan, I'm always impressed by your creativity. A lot of stuff I work with but you find cool ways to implement it in this build! Like the parts below, I hate them from a professional point of view as it's not as strong as the stainless variant I prefer and it should never be used on a marine engine but the texture will be a cool touch to this build. This... I know how it feels

Still an impressive amount of power in that system! Why did you go from 5 to 4? Decided it was a tad overkill?

He's so next level Cool stuff though!