Mr. Fox

Congrats @pioand @LabRat and thank you for carrying the torch. @ENTERPRISE thanks for setting them up for success with a running start. We wish you the best, Brother.

I will still be here, too.

It would be very sad to lose this community. @ENTERPRISEwe wish you the best in all that life has to offer. @piowe won't hold you to anything, but you would have our support if you decide to carry the torch.

But... I didn't care until it affected me and others like me that do not like it. Hopefully Intel doesn't turn out like Micro$lop; meaning every new product release is crappier (less performant, less reliable, less autonomy, more restrictive, more bloated, more illogical and uglier to look at) than the product that came before it.

Yeah, the Infinity Fabric crap has never been great and it was one of the things that I found objectionable about Ryzen architecture. I still do, but now with Intel going stupid and moving to chiplets with Core Ultra they have a similar interface. I hate it for both brands. Big die monolithic processors will always be superior to the glued-together gamerboy chiplet rubbish. I think I am going to be done with my Ryzen memory tuning for a while. It's a bit more tedious than Intel memory tuning (which is tedious enough in its own rights, LOL). Anyone that wants to give these settings a go with their AM5 DDR5 setup, feel free... This was good enough that I wrote the settings to my memory module user profile space. The screenshots show BIOS pages where anything was changed from default. The water cooling is certainly working well. After lots of stress testing the RAM temps have maxed out like 38°C.

Yes both of my large desktops use external 360x360 radiators. My SFF work PC uses the EK direct die AIO. When it comes to RAM overclocking, 9950X is not as bad as I expected it to be. Not as capable as Z790, but solid progress for AMD.

I am having fun. As you know, I have owned many AMD products and never liked any of them. This is the first and I like it a lot. I'm impressed, and happy to be able to say that since I never have been in the past (talking CPUs and GPUs). No regrets... great CPU. I don't know if the MSI firmware is bugged or what, but I cannot set each CCD for a different core ratio. When I try that they stay locked at 43x for some reason. I haven't tried using Ryzen Master, but I don't really want that cancer corrupting my OS. So, at this time I am using all-core overclocking. Another update: I removed the worthless stock G.SKILL heatsinks heating blankets and have the memory on water now in the Carbon. Huge improvement (like 20-25°C) in memory temps under load. It's really too bad this is a 4-DIMM motherboard. I could have used the IceMan RAM blocks and the memory overclocking would also be better. This was hitting 55-60°C in TM5 before, usually erroring out due to overheating. No more. Now I can remove that crappy little Noctua fan. It has always been the case that I find my overclocked RAM works so much better when water-cooled. This time was no exception. (lots of new bubbles in the loop now, LOL... will clear up in a day or so)

Best personal all-time best score for Cinebench R23. And, I still have thermal headroom if the silicon quality is able to handle more. https://hwbot.org/submission/5702114_

Well, I ordered the parts from Thermal Grizzly and got the 9950X decapitated and on bare die. Success! https://imgur.com/a/HAftuqu Before Decapitation ^^^ IHS Removed ^^^ - I had to move the IHS back and forth with the Delid Die Mate about 75 times before it came loose. Liquid Metal Application ^^^ Micro Direct Die Block ^^^ CPU in socket (Kapton tape to prevent CPU from lifting out of socket with MDD block) ^^^ Installed... ^^^ Finished Product ^^^ Before Delid ^^^ After Delid ^^^ Before Delid ^^^ After Delid ^^^ AIDA64 5-Minute Stress Test (ambient 79°F / 26°C) - normalized at 72°C I also noticed that with the latest BIOS that Benchmate is bugged and not reading the core voltage correctly. The core voltage is fixed at 1.250V and other monitoring software confirms the same.

Finally got around to installing Linux on the Ryzen build.

I still have two Intel systems, both of which are beasts. I had four and too much of the same thing (one Z690 and three Z790 with 13th and 14th Gen i9 processors). So, I sold the two least-used of the four and used the money for the AMD build. This will give me something new and challenging to play with and allow me to rack up some HWBOT points. I was basically tapped out and no longer able to gain any points on HWBOT because my results were maxed out. I would have needed to do LN2 to make any further progress. The new Core Ultra CPUs are a downgrade due to the reduced thread count and stunted overclocking headroom, so it did not make any sense to waste money on a Z890 build. We'll see if Intel brings something better in their next product offering. They are in guinea pig mode right now and homey don't play dat.

https://www.overclock.net/threads/msi-x870e-x870-meg-mpg-mag-overclocking-discussion-thread.1812293/page-3?post_id=29391228#post-29391228

My Apex beast has a new younger brother to fight with. I just built an AMD system and in the process of figuring out how to tune Ryzen 9 for maximum overclocked benching performance. Very different than what I am used to. I know seeing this is going to cause brain damage to a few people, LOL. Once I get my bearings I will be ordering the Thermal Grizzly Mycro and Delid Die Mate from Brother @der8auer for added thermal headroom on my water chiller. RAM cooling parts are on the way, along with an EXPO 8000 kit. At the moment I am using an XMP 8000 kit, manually tuned. I am liking it so far. Hoping to learn a few things specific to AMD from our resident AMD HWBOT pros. https://hwbot.org/submission/5686810_ https://hwbot.org/submission/5686765_

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This nice thing is I have enough to keep me going for a long, long time if they don't do something I care about. I will just keep doing what I am doing and using what I already have and say no to chintzy new tech that I do not approve of.