Mr. Fox

I don't really have any doubt they will come through. I just find lousy customer service and lack of communication to be very irritating. But, if that's just part of the deal and tolerating it is something required to receive the product, then so be it. It's certainly something that has become more common. We have become socially engineered to expect speed and immediate answers. It's hard to put up with anything less now. I still remember as a kid ordering things from a magazine ad, sending a money order by snail mail and waiting 6 to 8 weeks for it to show up. As far as the Baht bugs go, uhhhmmm, nope I'm good. They can have my portion. Eww.

Amen to that. I am not sure they are capable of doing anything that would make me want to use it. Which is probably why they are trying to ram up all of our butts whether we like it or not. They have really developed quite the talent for producing tacky bloatware. Skanky Windows 10/11 UI, Edge, UWP App Store filth and DCH/UWD driver feces... yup, quite the talent. Stand back... They're on a roll.

That is looking awesome, bro. Nice work. Any word on your Supercool order yet? Nothing on my end. I messaged them yesterday to request a status on when it should ship, but no response yet. Order was placed on Monday. Feels similar to trying to get answers from OptimusPC... eventually respond, but not timely or with any sense of urgency.

The fittings with the poison-tipped spikes were out of stock when I ordered them.

Considering that two of us have ordered a Supercool Computer Direct Die block for the 12900K, I figured I might as well go ahead and install the one I had and never used for the 10900K. So, now Banshee is running bare die. Before/after posted below. I hope that both of us see similar improvements on 12900K thermals.

The spacing between the mounting screw holes is too wide. If the chassis is designed with rail/slot spacing designed to fit 120mm fans only, then it won't work.

Inexpensive, yet very effective. https://www.amazon.com/upHere-Graphics-Anodized-Aerospace-Aluminum/dp/B076GYL25H https://www.amazon.com/EZDIY-FAB-GPU-Graphics-RTX3090-309EZ-Black/dp/B09466LNV3 Pictures are working fine for me now.

Have a closer look at the bare die Supercool Computer kits that we (me and @iamjanco) have ordered. Same exact concept as the NCore V2 block. It is held in place by the ILM. This is the product that has been demonstrated in the 12900K Direct Die Cooling vs Copper IHS YouTube video by Frame Chasers. The only fault I can see with the design is removal of the CPU is inconvenient. If that doesn't need to happen frequently, the inconvenience is a tradeoff for results. Direct Die INTEL GEN12 - Direct Die : Inspired by LnwShop.com WWW.SUPERCOOLCOMPUTER.COM Direct Die INTEL GEN12

When I first saw one I got excited thinking it was a bare die frame. Even after seeing it is an ILM replacement, I almost tried to snag one of them off of AliExpress and then the SuperCool direct die block became available. And, that frame will be particularly helpful in reducing the amount of caution needed when using liquid metal on top of the IHS. It would effectively eliminate the possibility of accidentally dropping a ball of it down into the socket area around the edge of the CPU PCB. It looks too nice to cover up with a water block.

Got my order confirmation as well. The experience is similar to ordering things directly from the Taiwan Bitspower web site. Back when 6700K was first released I ordered a couple of "Shining Silver" IHS from them to replace the stock IHS on my first couple of delided CPUs and it felt very dodgy. We buy things in the Bitspower brand from vendors whose names we recognize all of the time. Back then they were not as well known.

My wife is on Facebook and communicates with friends and relatives through it, and most of our adult kids are on it as well. By no means do I believe everyone there is an idiot, I just prefer not to expose myself to the stupidity that is rampant there and on Twitter. In today's woke climate I would end up banned anyhow, because I cannot resist the urge to attack stupidity with a shoot to kill approach. Neither of these venues resembles what they once were, before they became a political disinformation tool for the looney leftists.

I just purchased one as well. I had registered on their marketing web site, which was an interesting experience since Google translator was not working well. I checked their website every 24-48 hours and emailed them asking for a notification when stock became available. No email came, but my ritual of checking worked as planned. I refuse to have any engagement on Facepoot. I do not have an account there. I canceled the account that I had registered about a decade ago using fake information when the irrational "orange man bad" Nazi wokism kicked in. I've never looked back. Life is much better and I think my IQ has increased now that I have zero interaction with idiots on Facepoot and Twatter.

Well... It looks like it scales perfectly per core. Both cores is essentially twice the performance of one core.

Thanks for the suggestion. No EVGA Z490 Dark fan control access, same as the other one. Fan options do even appear in the GUI.

If you have a Dark or Classified mobo, don't waste your time with the fan or lighting app. Neither the lighting nor the fan apps work with the Z490 Dark. The fan app detects the sensors, but there are no software controls available for the fan headers. The lighting app doesn't detect anything at all. The RGB and ARGB headers are not visible to the app and neither is the RGB keyboard. So, both are utterly worthless on EVGA. But, the cool part is I don't really need the lighting app on the system with the Z490 Dark because the EVGA app isn't UWP feces. It would be nice to have a way to control the fans connected to the motherboard headers without having to go into the BIOS to change things.

Thanks. I will look into that. I had not discovered it. Google, here I come.

Exactly like that. Many of the fancy M.2 heat sinks are totally unusual due to current motherboard design. The newer EVGA motherboards (Z590, Z690 and X570 Dark and Classified) have insanely huge and effective if not overkill (can't hate that) NVME heat sinks, but most of the current motherboard designs have pathetic OEM thermal solutions for NVMe drives, along with the physical impediments to using something good like you just pointed out with your example.

This might come in handy for Manhattan... I am testing it and it seems to work well. Now we need a similar third-party motherboard lighting control so we can skip the Window Store dung that the numbskulls at ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte have moved to. It is really stupefying to see what a worthless posse of idiots work for these OEMs. To the best of my knowledge, EVGA is the ONLY one that hasn't prostituted their software into a UWP feces distribution model. But, they don't have fan control except in the BIOS as far as I know.

It is a relief knowing I am not the only person that finds that design flaw stupid and inconvenient. It is scary to think that people that design stuff we use are that dumb.

Band-Aids are not particularly helpful for bullet wounds, no matter how absorbent they are.

Seems like she is running pretty decent... Numba 2 for 12900K wPrime32M with Benchmate /img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s wPrime - 32m with BenchMate score: 1sec 431ms with a Core i9 12900K HWBOT.ORG The Core i9 12900K @ 5500MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the wPrime - 32m with BenchMate benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #9 worldwide and #2 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT. /img/logo.png Mr. Fox`s Cinebench - R20 with BenchMate score: 12022 cb with a Core i9 12900K HWBOT.ORG The Core i9 12900K @ 5516.1MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the Cinebench - R20 with BenchMate benchmark. Mr. Foxranks #null worldwide and #16 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

So, just for giggles I did that washer mod thing that has been talked about relating to the 12th Gen ILM crushing the CPU into a banana shape. I used some M4 1mm thick nylon washers, and it did lower the temps a bit, even after a delid with the copper IHS. I started the stress test and left at 3 minutes in to run to the store, and got back after the test had run for a total of 40 minutes. I put this into a side-by-side for ease of viewing. It was certainly easier to latch with the washers in there. It was so tight before that it almost felt like something is going to get broken before you can latch it down.

I think you should make yourself a new and improved v2.0 of that with the adjustments mentioned and sell the original to me.

Looks pretty awesome, bro. What is that chassis/frame being used in the build? It doesn't look familiar to me. But, it looks like something I should familiarize myself with.