Sir Beregond

I never really figured out manually adjusting those myself.

Interesting, will check it out for my 5900X.

Oh man. I love that.

Oh yeah, that's a good one. When I was doing desktop support in 2010, the employees having issues would call the Help Desk and the Help desk would write up the ticket and then either send to tier 2 (remote support) or tier 3 (local desktop support). So we get a ticket that hit our queue that said "Blue screen issue", so naturally I take that as someone having a BSOD problem. I get up there and its a loose VGA cable and the screen is sort of tinted blue. We had started to get in monitors that had DVI and DVI cables so I just swapped it. Honestly I am glad it was that and not a BSOD, but just funny how people communicate issues which make you think its one thing and it's something entirely different. Another time I was walking someone through some troubleshooting on the phone and I needed them to restart their computer. Well they said they did it and I mean this was 2010, these laptops were still using hard drives, so I am thinking no way you restarted in 5 secs fully. I go up there, turns out when I told them to restart, all they did was turn off their monitor and then turn it back on.

Dying Light Enhanced Edition free on Epic Games right now.

There was a time when I would have been all over the SMA8 (of course after they closed). But these days, man that's just too big. Did Caselabs also do more mid-tower stuff that worked great for watercooling? That said, I'd definitely pay the premium for an all aluminum case. Once loaded up with a loop and coolant, these steel cases are heavy. I've got to take it out to the balcony to blow out the dust, but man I am not looking forward to dragging it out there.

Nice, I am guessing it is easier to do all core Curve Optimizer negative offsets on the 5600X then the 5900X which has the two CCD's to contend with and usually the first is better than the second. 5600X, you just have the one. All to say you may even try -15 or even -20 now.

Check the C2's. @Snakecharmed is correct that these will be hitting closeout pricing now that the C3's are out. That's how I got my C1 last year. Closeout when the C2's launched.

To be fair, PBO only got me so far with Cinebench. It definitely works great for single core, but that multi-core score does a lot better with just a static all core OC. If you have a motherboard that can dynamically shift between both modes based on CPU load, then you can get the best of both worlds. If not, then I'd suggest just dialing in PBO like you have for gaming and daily and then do the all core stuff when you want to do multi-threaded benching. That said, if going the static all core OC route, might want a better cooler depending on how much voltage you have to pump into it full time to do.

Some sites I actually prefer the lighter theme vs the dark theme and this is one of them. That said, these are one of those features that can be make or break to new members. This is the right move for sure. Have to echo Flux's sentiments of thanks and appreciation for the many ways you continue to grow and improve the site.

Yep and tightening the RAM timings helps a lot too.

What AGESA was your old BIOS and what are you on now?

Power adjustments if using PBO would be in the PBO menu of the BIOS. I never did quite figure it out, but it's the PPT, EDC, TDC settings.

Yeah great points. Being I am at 4k now, I saw no reason to switch from a 5900X to a 5800X3D. Even for my use case, the 5900X is probably overkill, but I wanted it, so that was that lol. At this point, I am finding myself less interested in dual CCX parts, especially if they keep doing asymmetrical stuff like this. My hope now is that they increase core counts per CCX in Zen 5 and beyond so that perhaps you can start getting 12 or even 16 cores on a single CCX/CCD.

Very nice all-core BTW! Yeah this is definitely the easy way to do it. Really trying to do Curve Optimizer per core is extremely tedious.

I would maybe try easy path first and if that second set is same XMP frequency, same timings, at same voltage, hopefully works with your existing set and you can call it a day. If that doesn't, then send it back and probably find a 64GB kit.

You know, given how they architected these, it really makes me wonder what the point of the 7900X3D is. If you are parking the non-v cache CCX during gaming, it's effectively a 3D cached 6-core, while this one is the full 8-core CCX. Just feels very strange to me how they decided to do this. So far this is the only one that actually makes sense to me. The 7950X3D does as well, but it's definitely more of a niche use case.

It takes time, but you're much better off adjust curve optimizer on a per core basis instead of a single all core offset. I'd leave voltage on auto or you can do a slight undervolt and then do curve optimizer. For the boost clock override, it really depends on how aggressive of a core offset you do. You can push it to +200 MHz easily but you'll have less available headroom to do an aggressive negative offset in CO. You'll still be able to have one mind you, just not as much otherwise its less stable.

Lord of the Rings is getting a new game? Interesting. Hadn't heard of this Dune game either. Will have to see what both of these games are about.

The glossy really does allow colors to pop. Combined with it being OLED, it really is just fantastic. No contest to my old 1440p VA panel.

48" would be fine if I could have it slightly further back like how you have it Flux. Where I have it now, it's just slightly too big I feel. Not by much, but enough I'd feel better with a 42" I think.

Contemplated picking up a 16GB A770 at Micro Center just to have one, but still $350, so I am thinking I have better uses for that money. I don't actually need one. I'm also not one who has a collection, but I did think it would be cool to have. Maybe when Battlemage releases.

Yeah, I agree. Problem is a lot of the monitors still seem to be matte screens and I gotta say this OLED really converted me to the glossy. Yeah as for the 42" C2, I am seeing deals for it here too, down to $899+tax, but that's still more than I spent for this 48" C1 ($796+tax), so it's not quite where I'd want to buy it yet. Well that's good to know, thanks for sharing.

Interesting. How does it look with a water block on it? Does it stay cooler than that, or?