Sir Beregond

Should see these towards the bottom:

Not going to be home much this weekend, but I do hope to maybe work on some more tweaking/OCing at night when I am. So hopefully some updates by Monday. Will let you know!

Thanks E, set up for reoccurring, hopefully can do more in the future.

I agree that the Blues are the budget drives and I saw them fail plenty back when I did desktop support as well. Anecdotally I feel like Western Digital in general is dropping in quality. I've had two different Black drives fail on me as well within 7 years. Meanwhile I have some that are 10+ years old that are doing just fine. If I ever need spinning drives again, I'll be looking elsewhere.

Cool deal, let me know when you get that setup.

In as well - someone might need to point me to where one does that though.

I agree. The forum is in a great state as far as main features go as far as I am concerned. No reason to keep paying for that right now. I am also willing to chip in some monthly, maybe not as much for now unfortunately, but every little bit helps.

I think its kinda like a CMOS reset. I just remember them doing that on my work MacBook Pro. But like you I am not really an Apple/Mac guy, so not that familiar. That was going to be my other thought. And yeah...of course with Apple.

Maybe try resetting PRAM/NVRAM?

So when you say doesn't boot, does it even power on? Or powers on but doesn't boot?

Would it be appropriate for me to ask how much the premium accounts are accounting for in the monthly cost equation? EDIT: Just remembered that was per year, not month. Derp. Nevermind.

Hmm, interesting. I guess will keep on the lookout.

Haven't seen any stuttering yet on my new rig, but also haven't tried playing any games yet to be fair.

Cool deal, so sounds like if there are workaround that the adapter should work then. Definitely interested to hear when you get it.

So I am not sure about your specific model phone, but I just tested this out and can confirm that I plugged the HDMI from my monitor into my adapter and then plugged it into my Samsung S22 Ultra's USB-C port and it allowed me to display my phone on the monitor after accepting some prompts on the phone for Samsung DeX mode. I think you'll have to see if the A01 supports DeX and that will probably be your answer.

Will be sure to download that and grab the Zen Timings screenshot with next run later today after work or tonight. Looking at HWInfo during the runs, on the single core run, looks like was getting extremely close to 5GHz single core, was maybe 4.96-4.97GHz. During the multi-core run, I think was getting about 4.6GHz all core. Will pay closer attention tonight. Also going to try the slight undervolt like you did and see if that buys me anything. Thanks for your tips so far, been very helpful! EDIT: Temps averaged out to 76C during the r23 run. Is that considered normal? Seemed hot for water, but I grant that I am also coming from a 7 year old system. Maybe that's normal, I have no idea.

That's life sometimes. Thank you for what you've built, and I hope we can find a way forward that help everyone, you in the time and money department, and the site in not closing. I will keep my fingers crossed.

Looks like the adapter I use on my work Macbook Pro so I can actually get some ports. Can't say I've ever thought to try it on a smartphone. I have one of those adapters. Actually two of them. I am curious to try now. What are you using it for? Connecting to a monitor?

So this might be a dumb question. I see Precision Boost Optimizer, what is PBO/2? Anyway, I ran R23 at stock to get a baseline, got this: Here's what I was scoring after enabling PBO and setting D.O.C.P. and my RAM to its stock 3600: Of note, not sure why it is showing my OS as Windows 10. I am using Windows 11.

Updated my Dark Hero BIOS to 3801 last night per @J7SC_Orion suggestion. Honestly looking through this and very lost. I don't suppose someone has an easy start guide/link/something for Ryzen OCing, RAM OCing. Two things I have no experience with and frankly I am a little lost looking through it.

Appears to be working and getting good flow at 80% pump speed. About 1 gal/min here. Also oddly enough the pump is of a much better and less noticeable sound profile at 80% vs 60 - 75%. Ambient temp in the room is approx. 21.6C (71F on the thermostat). So appears to be about a 4.5C delta for the coolant temp at idle. Haven't really tried anything at load yet. Fans are all on 1000-1200rpm currently for silence. Will probably dial them in to something else at load...well at least the GTX rad fans. Obviously I know this isn't the most accurate thing, but helps me get an idea.

Thank you very much! I just finished refilling and bleeding the air out. Now to see about updating the BIOS and getting started on tweaking.

To be fair this is the first time I've ever used one having water cooled since 2011-2012ish, but I wanted to actually have some semblance of data to use. Also first time with hard tubing, was curious if all the bends would really affect things much vs the soft tubing where I try to limit my use of 90s.

Well I took the screws out yet there is no give. Finding instructions seems hit or miss and the pdf link I found won't open. @Mr. Fox, @Avacado Edit: Ok, I just put a fitting in there and pried it out with a tube and flipped the impeller. Should be good now.

Exactly what I needed, thanks Pook.