ArchStanton

They are the audio equivalent of the Titanic's fourth smokestack. The center channel under the M28U monitor and the small surrounds on top of the TW's are just there so that I don't have to store them elsewhere. They are some generic Polk Audio units I picked up at a Circuit City while I was in college. At the time, I was in need a new receiver, as the old Kenwood my uncle gave me along with the TW's bit the dust. I bought a 5.1 channel Onkyo unit, and the sales associate managed to talk me into the Polk Audio garbage so that I would be able to "take advantage" of the new receiver's increased channels. I don't generally use them for a several reasons. They sound like crap compared to the TW's, and most of my audio sources are stereo rather than surround sound mixed anyway. The Onkyo died a few years ago and was replaced by a Yamaha. The Yamaha has an "All Channel Stereo" mode, but I prefer "Straight Audio" 2.1 channel mode with the sub-woofer giving the TW's the low frequency assistance they need.

The fact that it comes in the typical "quart of oil" bottle makes it strangely appealing to me

The floor standing units are DCM Time Window 1A's. I have an uncle who was a bit of an audiophile in his youth. He gave them to me when I was 16 or 17 years of age. They were the pinnacle of what could be bought in the mid 1970's. I've had them with me for about 25 years now. I'm sure there are many superior products on the market today, but these still win the "bang for the buck" trophy with many serious audio equipment reviewers who are old enough to remember them. They aren't, and never have been the loudest thing around, but if I were to try and describe their performance with a single word, it would be "clear". They do need help from a subwoofer, and there's one hidden under the right side of the table. As to how much I have pumped them? All I can say for certain is "louder than the wife allows"...

Aye, DynamicOC is the reason I landed on the Dark Hero. For the money, I think it should have included a heat spreading backplate (with thermal pads where appropriate), but it's a seller's market in just about everything ATM.

So, is that HWiNFO64 and or the MB being wonky? I ask because I was disappointed in the readings I was getting from the "ambient" temp sensor I installed for my current pet project. I ended up using a digital meat thermometer from the kitchen to track ambient while making my bench runs (and opening and closing the window in my "laboratory" to maintain as constant a temp as I could).

Sweet! I am no longer the newest noob! Greetings and welcome.

These initial tests have shown me that I don't actually have a good understanding of what DOCP is. I had noticed that the CPU was limited to 3400mhz in the baseline test, but I didn't know that was in anyway tied to DOCP, which I had erroneously assumed was just an AMD version of XMP (I expected DOCP to only affect DRAM/fclk/etc rather than the maximum frequency of the CPU). A summary of the changes in performance. I'll add stability testing at a later stage in the process (likely after turning on the "base" PBO without curve optimizer).

Round 2 Same conditions as before except DOCP is now enabled. I honestly expect DOCP to have the single largest performance impact of any of the options available in the BIOS, but I've yet to create my spreadsheet for tracking % increases from one iteration to the next.

Not for the time being. The M28U is bigger than anything I've used in the past. Still feels like "vast tracts of land" from my perspective. The smaller monitor is just a display for the old system under the left side of the table. Keeping it saved me the hassle of moving all my family's files over to my fresh drives. Keeping it accessible to them also saves me the aggravation of worrying about what they might inadvertently install on my "toy" when I'm not home. As they are not what I would call "computer literate", and my toy stays locked when I'm not around to play with it.

I'll try to describe the baseline test conditions. DOCP off. PBO off. Pretty much everything in the BIOS that looked like it might boost performance off. The following background processes were running -> Samsung magician, Steam, Fan Control V101, Radeon Software, HWiNFO64 (sensors only).

Thank you. Cable management for two separate desktops and a 5.1 channel audio system brought me to my knees (literally and figuratively), but worth it in the end (to me). The center/surround speakers are just included because I already had them, will likely spend 99% of its time in 2.1 channel mode.

I started a thread over at overclock.net before Avocado roped me in here (My middle-aged overclocking adventure | Overclock.net). I'll probably make duplicate updates to both threads going forward. RL delayed my plans for slowly easing into a stable overclock, but I think I'm ready to proceed now. I was able to install an external temperature sensor. Now I will have ambient temperature data as a point of reference during my tweaking. I also moved the system to its new home. I hope to get some baseline benchmarks done tonight.

As a water-cooling novice, I also snagged a Corsair XD5 pump/res combo like firedfly. My loop consists of pump->360x64 bottom radiator->480x40 front radiator->360x20.5 top radiator->CPU block->GPU block-> Koolance INS-FM19 flowmeter (w/ ADT-FM03 frequency adapter)->reservoir. At 100% PMW, the flowmeter indicates the pump is circulating 3100mL/min (186L/hr).

Is there a substantial difference in the VRM for socket 0 vs socket 1? Forgive my ignorance if this is common on multi-socket server type motherboards.

Too late of a reply by me, but you got an answer

Many thanks for the warm greeting.