Sir Beregond

The show goes on in the meantime. Got my Blitz Part 2 running. The Wix 33003 filter unfortunately has a small leak in the housing, but it's small, maybe a drop every couple minutes or so. Worked all the air bubbles out of the rads and both blocks. There's a bit of a bubble in the filter, but it's getting smaller. I figured filter between rads and blocks to catch anything that might gunk up the microfins.

I have the same problem just trying to upload from phone.

And here I thought the few waterblocks I saw for nvme drives were a joke. Guess they were just thinking ahead. Yeah that is actually a really cool looking cooler.

I've had similar experiences with Amazon lately. Most recently I purchased an office chair cover. It arrived with a broken zipper, so I put in for a replacement. Well the replacement had one back cover, two bottom covers and was missing the armrest covers. thought ok, maybe 3rd times a charm, but they only gave me a refund option at that point which is probably for the best lol.

Fantastic read @PCSarge! I actually learned something new in reading. I didn't know the "V" in "VRAM" stood for volatile. I thought it was "video RAM".

Think I managed to fix with some stuff out of my iFixIt kits (tweezers and an almost razor blade type tool). Now I see what people mean when they say the coolers can pull up the CPU. Problem is once the retention arms came up, I didn't even have time to wiggle the cooler off, it pulled it right out just from the released tension. Was using a BeQuiet Pure Rock Slim 2 to test with, has retention arms on both sides. All I can say is that this is making me appreciate the LGA style Intel uses way more since it has that retention bracket where yanking the chip out of the socket is impossible. Where would I find that info? CPU-Z once I get Windows on it?

Gah. I was tearing down again and taking this air cooler off tore the cpu off the socket with it and I now have a bent pin. Grrr.... Correction - 2 bent pins.

On another note, got into BIOS, can confirm the following: BIOS version: 3003 x64 AGESA version: ComboPIv2_1180 So what should I be updating it to?

True, I was just hoping to avoid getting a new PSU for now since this new ATX 3.0 spec was announced.

So some news. I threw everything together again (minus a boot drive) and was still getting no display out and a code 02. I tried doing the different things like with the monitor power and swapping to hdmi and nothing. So here's what I did. I swapped PSUs and now it displays and posts into BIOS fine. Seems it doesn't like my AX850 for whatever reason. There is a Best Buy literally walking distance from me so I stopped by and they had an RM1000X on sale. I bought it, plugged it in (including both EPS 8+4 pins, and separate 8-pin PCI-E cables) and now it works. So no idea really. For whatever reason did not like the AX850.

I'm not a monoblock guy. From a practicality standpoint, the motherboards they are made for have good VRMs already and don't need one. And I've not seen a monoblock perform as well as a dedicated CPU block typically when I've read up about them, so that seems atypical.

What is meant by digital control? For a PSU?

Hear! Hear!

Yeah, I ended up not being home this evening, so will set it up again tomorrow. I had put everything back in the box (it was an on the box quick test).

Dang, what PSU is that?

That's very nice of you, thank you so much.

That's exactly it and I am in the US (Colorado).

So may not get back to it today, but can confirm it booted into BIOS and displayed with my 980. But the 3070 worked on my 4790k rig (minus drivers since it's a W8.1 box). So really at a loss there.

Yeah that's what I thought too. Still since 3070, daisy chain shouldn't be an issue I'd think, so maybe I'll try that in my troubleshooting tonight.

So I was looking at the motherboard and notice it has an 8+4-pin EPS and I know they say not to use daisy chained PCI-E cables for Ampere cards. So now I have a conundrum to figure out. My PSU can only allow 1x 8-pin EPS and 2x PCI-E (daisy chained cables) or 2x 8-pin EPS and 1x PCI-E (daisy chained). Wondering if not having the additional 4-pin EPS maybe created the 02 error just doing some google searches. Will be setting up later this evening again to retry the monitor stuff.

You know just comparing to the Zen 2 Ryzen 7 chips on the board, my 4790k is doing just fine with that moderate OC (lost the lottery) on single core.

LOL! Yeah I don't run 100% all the time. I'm just using mobo headers right now, but a Quadro is on my list.

I'll give that a shot tomorrow. Thanks!

I'll have to double-check tomorrow. This was a quick setup on the box which has since been put away.

So...need to ask my fellow Dark Hero folks @ArchStanton, @J7SC_Orion: have you ever encountered an error 02 on the Q-code reader? 02 corresponds to "AP Initialization before microcode loading". The Dark Hero seems to not be liking my 3070. During boot, nothing gets displayed, the 3070 fans do start up, but once the code hits 02, the fans stop and nothing displays still. I can otherwise confirm that the 3070 works because although there are no Windows 8.1 drivers for it, plugging it into my current machine otherwise worked out fine and although only a windows generic display driver, it had no issues displaying. I am at a loss and wondering if I am screwed having sat on this motherboard for a year when the build went on hiatus.