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Sadly that's a no, the rules are pretty strict. Are you sure every bit of software is installed correctly? I mean, DX11 should be backwards compatible with DX9 but it's weird that it runs one of the two..

Thanks! By the way, I received my Sempron to battle @Avacado and @pioneerisloud in the Superpi DDR round..

That was for the AM3+/ AMD GDDR5 benchcmarks. Your 460's and whatever 4 core CPU you have will be for the nvidia 400 SLI series

Sounds like the fun we have to endure to get all this old stuff working properly.. As far as your run goes, if you can beat @Fluxmaven your score will be on the board. His run is not done IIRC so you have time to beat him to it (but the highest wins)

Nice, I need to get me one of those converters asap so I can give that theory from @Avacado a try Thank you @Fluxmaven! And if you are planning to do another run for fun, the biggest bottleneck for me was CPU clock

Stupid question, but was it showing as 'SLI enabled' in nvidia control panel? I had mine running pretty good on a 4770k with a bit of an overclock and it was loading both cards. If you need live help or whatever hop on discord, usually I'm there with @Avacado as much as we can so you can always ask questions there (and some other guys too). I hope you can get it working so you can battle it out with @Fluxmaven We need you @tictoc, you can check the spreadsheet in the OP for basic info and links to the benchmarks. I bet you know how it works And that's a 1000 points

Of all those cards, I still ike the Zotac cooler design the most (as weird as it looks)... But I would still put a waterblock on it I'm always afraid that they sacrifice some board quality when they try to make a card that small. I know that the passthrough design leaves a lot of the PCB space unoccupied but still I feel like there is more hardware on the PCB. For now the Zotac card is on top of my list, let's hope they deliver quality..

But did you see the hwbot results for an AIO cooled 7950x?

Don't worry Jan, being there for your buddy is way more important than running a 2080Ti for a benchmark. Ah that sucks man, I would do the same as @The Pook suggested. You can just post the link here like I fixed in the quote above and it'll work just fine No pressure, but it would be nice to have that result on the board too We are in 5th now, proud of y'all

I'd like to bench a 4090 but not sure about keeping it.

A waterblock fixes a lot of issues, like bad looking large chunks of cooler..

I like those chassis for simple tech bench sessions, I had one running as F@H system in my bedroom too. Cheap and the quality isn't bad.

That's exactly what I thought it looks like

Sadly only two of those boxes are the originals, the others are just there to put the motherboards on something solid. When looking at your stream I noticed all the motherboards, you win for sure

I remember saying to @Avacado that 2 GPU's was the max I would get for the competition.... @Fluxmaven when is that AA meeting again?

And I might have purchased some extra stuff: iGPU DDR3 890GX incoming And a Phenom 960T:

Some stuff showed up, now I can do 3 more benchmarks for the team competition

For what you'll have to spend for a new board, ram and chip I totally agree. Your system doesn't get slower when new stuff comes out. Those results at 210W is impressive, I wonder what I draw when I'm playing around but it's never something I look at as long as it's not overheating

I think it was 800 on the z690 and for the X299 I can't check it, pretty sure it was over 1k. Some airflow over this board is not a bad thing anyways though

I'm pretty sure this board warns you about heat with the higher switching frequencies, the max frequency is way higher than on the ASUS Z690 board for example. I don't know how hot stuff gets around the CPU but some airflow over the board is not a bad idea if you go for that max.

@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