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Hoping for prices on the 7700x, AM5 board, and DDR5 RAM to be somewhere in the realm of "reasonable" by Christmas. Current pricing is absolutely gross, not even remotely interested when its a $900 upgrade just for those 3 parts (3x higher than it used to be). It really wasn't that long ago you could get a good RAM kit for $50 ish, board for $100, and a good mid range CPU for around $150. I know that's unreasonable wishful thinking today, but somewhere between that and $900 would be appreciated. The 7700 65w does look interesting. I'll wait till some people like us get their hands on them to say for sure. I'd think the 7700X would likely perform much much better. But....if its like the Ryzen 3600 vs the 3600x, then it very well could be a huge winner. I was happy to take the 100MHz PBO loss on my 3600.

Shouldn't be? I hadn't touched it since I quit folding a few months ago on it. Just fired it right back up. It's possible its stuck with updates or something too, I'll check on it later this evening.

Got my 290x going again. Hopefully stats show that? I think its going just for the team competition thing.

Congrats you two!

I could run another Socket 939 (another Opteron at 2.7GHz). Otherwise, I'm kinda out of old rigs till I get the rest of the needed parts in and get my AGP cards repaired.

You never did add my T-Bird run to the leaderboards.

I gave up because I was beaten on slowest CPU. -_- Eventually I'll get my K6 running though, then the gloves come off.

Yeah, the same thing with the problems I was having with "black screens". It was nothing game breaking. It was more of a pain in the butt figuring out it was a driver problem than it was actually dealing with it and correcting it by trying out a newer beta driver. My problem is solved now on 22.10.1's and I no longer have any "driver problems" to report. Just do not use 22.5.1's on current gen cards with freesync, HDR, and a high res display, instead try 22.9.1's or newer. I still find it incredibly odd that my RX 580 didn't have the problem on 22.5.1's, but my 5700XT and 6900XT both did, knowing my 5700XT was perfectly fine before I updated it. But....not to defend AMD by any means, this applies to all 3 GPU manufacturers (now), its got to be difficult getting software to work correctly with a wide variety of hardware.

AMD's claiming double performance with RDNA3. Nvidia: "Hold my beer" This is quite troubling for us enthusiasts. I understand that we're at the limitations of current fab processes, but this is absolutely pants on head stupid. Couldn't we perhaps look at something like still producing solid GPU's but maybe put the RTX stuff on separate RTX cards for people that want RT? That's what the original plan was with PhysX, but fab processes allowed it to be integrated. Clearly.........that's not the case today with RT. It'd allow us to have better GPU's in current power envelopes, and it'd allow you to upgrade your RT performance independently from your GPU performance. I like where AMD is going with their chiplet design way better than this. Idk, just my own random thoughts on the subject.

I see your Halo Intinite music, and I raise you Halo CE music!

I need to get me some better music. I'll listen to the above one tomorrow. Doesn't look like my style, but I'm kinda getting tired of listening to the same 90's electronica / pop and 90's and older rock I've listened to for 30 years now. Maybe I'll look up some classical stuff tomorrow too. For now (thx for bumping the thread, I forgot about it and I like differing music)......I'd like to leave everyone with this one. Very interesting story if you read into the making of this song. It was made in the 90's to be a "coming down" song for the 90's raves, supposedly to help people drive home safely and would be played at the end of the night. Fun random fact, I used to listen to it as a child when I'd have headaches and it'd make my headache go away. Not even joking. I just thought that was interesting and perhaps suiting into the theme of the thread too? Probably a better song than the rebassed junk I listed earlier.......

For things like feet or anything else like that, don't forget you can always go visit a hardware store too if you already happen to have basic tools on hand. It's amazing the kinds of things you can pickup at a hardware store and just simply drill a hole in, or stuff some glue on to make it work. Doesn't hurt to go looking. Especially if you're looking at little bits of rubber that cost way too much. You can probably grab furniture feet at the hardware store for like $5 that'd stick on and do the job fine. Just an idea.

I use the P12's a bunch personally. Absolutely love those fans for their price / performance. Good static pressure on them too, so they should do a fine job on a radiator. I've got mine on AIO rads. For the rest, IDK because I haven't done water cooling since like 2009 or so.

A cardboard box works just the same too, or a piece of wood if you're really cooking things. I'll worry about getting proper bench setups done after I'm done with my projects. This comp was just something I was dragged into, kicking and screaming. Just like I was absolutely forced, with my arms being twisted behind my back to buy parts to torture..... Nah seriously though, like I said from the beginning, I was in it for the fun. My actual projects are more meaningful to me right at the moment, but once those are done, there's nothing stopping me from going ham on a proper test bench later. It's not like I don't have shelves of parts just laying around to play with. I might eventually want to buy some new boards and CPU's and junk, so I have "spares" of the good stuff in my builds. But again....that can all come later anyway. Prices of used gear USUALLY just gets cheaper and cheaper anyway, so I'm not in any hurry to go buying more AM3 boards, 939 boards, or even Intel boards to thinker with. Heck, maybe those will come in slowly over time with more competitions anyway. I had fun. I learned and relearned some stuff. I got some old gear nice and toasty. Borked a few Windows installs. Definitely burned some copper..... Good times......good times.

I'm actually quite proud that I subbed every sub for AMD CPU and GPU. I did a couple memory runs too since I could. It wasn't much compared to real competitors, but I tortured the snot out of what I could with the equipment I had on hand. Hey, I at least made it SLIGHTLY more difficult for the leaders, and that's what counts. Gotta give the leaders a good run for their time and money. Besides that, I had a blast torturing equipment again like I used to just for fun. I definitely don't like taking apart full systems that I already had going....that part sucked. I think I have 2 systems now with corrupt Windows installs that I'll eventually have to correct, but whatever. Hopefully next time I join the comps I'll have a little more just "spare" stuff laying around so I don't have to swap CPU's out of a working 20 year old build.

My score's still better. I do hate that you managed 4.3GHz though. You do know I'm going to yell at you next time I see you in the discord voice channel. Honestly, that's really REALLY not bad at all though. 1.153 FPS on a multi only drunken OC. I got 1.159 FPS after spending 2 days trying to tweak the FSB, RAM, and CPU-NB, and trying my HARDEST to just eek out 4250MHz because it kept BSOD'ing that high. Respect on the score..... EDIT: Apparently I got a 1.165 FPS. When the heck did that happen?

Okay, AMD made a liar out of my earlier post. Apparently 22.5.1's (WHQL's for my later cards) do in fact have a bug I was experiencing. I was having black screen problems on my 6900XT, which caused me to RMA the stupid thing. Read the description in the drivers, and it was a known problem. -_- It's been fixed as of 22.9.1 beta's, and I traditionally have been sticking with WHQL's. I'm on 22.10.1's now (beta's), and the problem is fixed on my 5700XT.....it wasn't a problem on my 5700XT with 22.3.1's that I had previously, it only just started happening when I updated because I was using the system again. It was a minor bug, very annoying, but still a bug. What's odd, my RX 580 did NOT have the same problem on the same drivers. So its not necessarily a 100% driver problem. But yeah. I'll still take the occasional odd issue like that over Nvidia killing GPU's with fire like the G92 and GTX 980 bugged drivers though. Lesson learned: if you DO happen to experience issues and you're leaning towards a "driver problem", read what AMD themselves say in the description of the drivers. They might have already addressed the issue in a later beta update. -_-

I was going to say quick go do a bench run for the hwbot comp, but alas.....no PCIe 4.0 Nvidia cards were ran this go around. *shrugs

You're hitting 3.6GHz on an early Phenom II x4 940BE. You need more than 1.37v to break much past that is my guess. Keep going man, so long as the temperatures are in the safe zones (under around 60*C), you're not going to hurt that CPU with anything under 1.55v. I'm shoving like 1.7-1.80v through my stuff and its fine, AMD states 1.55v is max safe. You're good to go up to like 1.45-1.50v perfectly fine on air 110% safely......again so long as temperatures are in the safe zones. Looks like you're doing literally everything else for overclocking 110% perfectly fine. RAM is more than capable of those speeds and timings (and more). HT Link / NB you're keeping around 2GHz. NB it wouldn't hurt to go a TAD higher, but honestly probably isn't going to effect a whole heck of a lot on a DDR2 setup. Like Pookie said earlier, have you tried other tools for the iGPU? RivaTuner used to be the way to go back in those days, and there was some other tool I think. MSI Afterburner wasn't really used heavily for GPU overclocking until we got into the GT / GTX 200 series. EDIT: WOOHOOO!!! 939 POSTS!!!! That's it boys, I'm stopping here!!!!

Those are, wow, those are pretty nice! I'd offer to buy them off ya, but I'm on 120v and those are 240v. Was able to pickup my HDD's at the local post office today, so that's kinda nice. I have them in hand, ready to go for my build this week finally.

Are those pure sine models or simulated sine? Either way, nice find for free! Check the batteries of course. If they're bad, a LOT of units are capable of being wired up to a car battery too, depending on the unit of course. Needs to be a bigger unit to be able to handle it without overheating, probably would recommend active cooling anyway if modding. And, of course, goes without saying, use sealed batteries if you mod, so either Lithium or AGM. My most recent purchase, I derped and forgot to delete an old address out of ebay, so dunno where it is. But 2 of these:

Same card I have, and over $300 less than I paid for mine in April. Not a bad deal. If that's MC, looks like they also have the 6950XT's, Sapphire Nitro or Powercolor Red Devil are both actually pretty fairly priced at $919. Sapphire Nitro or Powercolor Red Devil both automatically usually get my vote just because, well.....

Missing the background, and you've got to turn Cool N Quiet off in BIOS, and make sure Windows is set to High Performance in the power settings. Since I know its a fresh install since I helped you figure out the install problems you were having, its probably set to "Balanced" power settings still (default). Like Bones said earlier, its showing your CPU is running at 800MHz, which isn't right (because Cool N Quiet).

Have you tried the 22.10.1's available for the 7970 yet? My single 7970 is still on official drivers, I forget what the latest "official" ones were. But I did try the NimeZ drivers before and they were absolutely fantastic on my 6970. Brought a whole new life to the system. Amernime Zone AMD Software: Adrenalin / Pro Driver - Release Nemesis 22.10.1 WHQL | guru3D Forums FORUMS.GURU3D.COM Amernime Zone Unified Radeon Pro / Adrenalin 3rd-Party Driver Family [ATTACH] Driver Catalog Compiled Under Windows & Driver SDK...

Alright so for me this one's kind of tough because I absolutely love ALL of my old boards. Ironically enough, I don't have much interesting things to say about the later ones that I own......but...... My favorite that I still own would absolutely HAVE to be the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe. I do NOT have this one in use though because it doesn't accept AMD / ATI GPU's in the top PCIe slot. -_- My next favorite that I actually own (and is actually in use) would be my 990FX Sabertooth. It's nowhere near as special to me as the above board, its also nowhere near as good as the above board for overclocking. BUT, its still a really good board and does overclock absolutely fantastically. Tops out around 320 FSB (whereas my A8N32 has done upwards of like 368-372?). And finally, the best motherboard I've owned that I want to get back again would be the unicorn. The one and only, Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe. (Abit / DFI / Sapphire also made these boards). The thing about this board is obviously the ATI Crossfire chipset when 99% of the boards for Socket 939 were NForce. I want another one sooooo badly (any 32 laned CFX 939 board), and I've only found one listing in the last few months of searching, and it just so happened to pop up when I was broke. Go figure. Yeah, its not obvious that I have a fondness for Socket 939 or anything is it? This board was also a really good overclocker when I had one years and years and years ago, nearly as good as the NForce boards. But that 32 laned crossfire action......