Sir Beregond

100% the boat I am in right now. Intel stagnated forever which gave room for AMD to catch up, but once AMD had it going, they were just as easily ready to pull the same sort of anti-consumer crap. Like why didn't we have non-X Zen 3 parts all the way up until now? As for Nvidia, I am not impressed by rumored 500-600W cards. That's atrocious and if you need that much power to beat out your last gen and the competition, you are doing something wrong. If we just take performance relative to power draw, that sounds like a really crappy gen to gen uplift to me.

Been pretty windy here. Will be checking the mail later on today, looks like the retention ring was delivered, so guessing they are using one of the package mailboxes here. As for the loop, I tore it down on Monday after completing the flushes following the Blitz Part 2. The filter has absolutely nothing visible in it, so must have been pretty clean following the Blitz Part 1. Outside of that, got some paracord sleeved cables for the new PSU. I don't really trust those 3rd party cable extensions, so for all their faults, I can at least say Corsair offers sleeved cable sets. Anyway, the rest of my week and possibly Saturday is looking pretty busy, so probably no more real updates until this weekend.

To piggyback on this issue, I have noticed it as well. In addition, I tried to create a table of contents that linked to specific posts on my build log, and noticed the same behavior being described here. It doesn't actually go to the correct post if you click the hyperlink and instead goes to a few up or a few down in the thread. I've since removed the table of contents, but yeah. Make it a plus one for seeing this sort of behavior.

100% agree and why I am generally disgusted by the current trends. Say what you want about the Maxwell era where 80-class chips for a 3rd generation were now the x04, but they definitely got more out of it for less power.

Yeah that loop made zero sense. And I know parallel can be fine, but definitely not when you've screwed up everything else. Yeah finished my flushes over the weekend. But had some other stuff going on so haven't progressed to the build yet. Honestly probably no updates again until the following weekend. May get a parts pic or two otherwise. Also huge thanks to @iamjanco who sent me a new retention ring for my pump to replace the one I broke and glued. I believe should get that in tomorrow.

For sure. I just saw Seinfeld meme opportunity (if you've seen that full clip). Always fitting.

Ukraine is game to you?!

At which point you have plenty of "Canadian Bacon" to share!

There's a reason there's a video of Linus Torvalds flipping the bird to Nvidia lol. Yeah, I never understood it either Ultra. Absolutely looks like Windows XP still lol. It works, but could use a facelift.

Thank you both! Definitely interested in doing what I can on that front! Anyway, got some more distilled water, so doing the drain of the Blitz Part 2 and then will be doing the subsequent distilled runs tonight. Looking forward to seeing how the filter did. The blocks look completely free of any gunk, but not immediately seeing anything in the filter either, so maybe the Blitz Part 1 did it's job.

You are braver than I am. The idea of delidding always made me nervous.

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).