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I got the R7 5800X delivered today and installed it on my wife's MSI x470 Gaming Pro Carbon. Wow that thing is fast. I saw it turbo over 4.9GHz in task manager at stock settings. I tested her cooling and it only got to 70C in AIDA. I will tune her RAM tomorrow. I might have to get one for myself now to replace my 3600, then give Ethan my 3600. I love that we now have five AM4 rigs in the house now so if one person gets an upgrade, usually someone else also gets an upgrade I put Michele's old 1600 AF on my test/fold bench. I'm tuning that now. I got my shipping label from ebay to return that dud Ryzen 1200 too Now if my mechanic can fix my truck this weekend then all will be well here.

^^He's recruiting for Canada Team.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you but I suspect that your 24/7 clock may have to be less than 4.3GHz as mine is. On a positive note, I was benching at 4.45GHz yesterday morning when my water loop was chilled from leaving the windows in that room open overnight. I could even run the AIDA64 FPU with AVX and only hit 76C with 1.456v applied. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/15yM6y7f4AuRuj0qp0J4HX4Pyohc3-nGwIq9Kua9MQsA/htmlview#gid=0

Well the 4 new cats are probably worth more than the truck at this point lol.

Well I thought I got a descent deal last summer when I bought a 2003 Nissan Frontier. I brought my mechanic and paid him to inspect it before I closed the deal. "Looks great," as he took my money. FFS that truck has been sitting at his shop or dead in my driveway since. Pretty much everything you can think of is wrong with it. I can fix nuclear reactors, or computers, or PLCs, but I am clueless about cars. Always have been. Got it back last night after they "unclogged the cats". I drove it about halfway home and every light in the dash came on, even ABS, seatbelts, and parking brake light. Now this morning it won't turn over. Just Clcckckckckckckckck. Sounds like relay chatter to me so maybe solenoid or something. Battery read 12v on my meter. I tried push starting it since it's a stick and it still wouldn't turn over. I'm about to set fire to it I swear.

What I've noticed as the nanometers get smaller and smaller is that the heat problem isn't the cooler itself dissipating the heat, it's the chip getting the heat off the die itself and getting it through the IHS to heat sink. This has been a problem for intel as well for years. The heat flux coming from the CPU is just so dense in one tiny location that it's hard for even the best coolers to capture that heat. One thing that helps is if your cooler is tight asf. My TPC-612 often cools as well or better than my TPC-812 because the mounting mechanism is different and have much more pressure despite having less heat pipes and half the fin stack size. The other thing that helps is COLD. Heat naturally transfers to something colder. If you can keep your cooler plate cold, it will transfer that small dense heat flux much easier. Air coolers have a disadvantage here as they heat up to steady state quickly, meaning the base plate touching the IHS eventually gets quite warm while it's doing its job, by design. On the other hand a water block tends to stay cold much longer, especially if it is a custom loop with much reservoir which will take a long time to reach steady state. I gave up trying to run PBO with my Ryzen 3600. It ran consistently near 1.5v and was always hot. I dialed in an all-core overclock of 4.2GHz and 1.25v with aggressive LLC and it generally hovers around 1.26v and stays much cooler that way. It ran very well like that with every air cooler I tested over the last few months, but kind of crappy on a H100i GTX (saturated too fast under load). Now I have a high volume custom loop so it's a non-issue. I'm about to start running some tests against the loop today in fact to see how well it stands up against the ProSiphon Elite I tested last month.

Let me get you on the short list for the ProSiphon Elite. This will be the perfect experiment. You down to be next after the fellow in NY state finishes up?

Well the seller caved and accepted refund and ebay gave me a shipping label. Yay $50 back next week

Yeah I only got that because it was actually at MSRP. I was like uh...5600x is about 50-60 over or wait until next month, let me check the next tier...click.

Honestly I woke up today to bench and I was joined lol. Before I always got the error. Michele was able to join on the first try but she hasn't submitted anything AFAIK. That HWBOT website is a coding mess. It took me a good 30 minutes this morning to figure out what was flagging my submission. It turned out it was two things: 3DMARK's compare link which I had to regenerate by clicking on my profile submissions, and since they want a whole screenshot, no cropped, I had to JPEG instead of PNG since my 4K is over the file size limit which is just asinine in 2021.

It's the most I've EVER paid for one of my own CPUs. I used to build whole gaming computers for that much! Luckily that thing is already clocked so high I don't need to tune it other than to figure out how high her cheap Micron E DDR4-3200CL16 4x8GB will run on that IMC. Her current 1600AF runs it at 2933MT/s. If it gets to stock speed I'll be more than happy, and if it gets to say...3600+MT/s then I won't feel so much sting in my wallet ?

WHELP, I bit the bullet and got the 5800x for $449 on Amazon. She gonna be happy on Wednesday.

Lol I was just looking at that

I was finally able to join the team. I kept getting errors before

Is $350 shipped the going price for 5600x?

I've widened my search now to really anything AM4, even high end. I figure it might be easier to upgrade my wife's 1600 AF and put that one on the test/fold bench. If I could find a 5600x in stock at near MSRP that would be perfect.

In the meantime, I'm trying to get my hands on an AM4 CPU or APU to drive my folding rig/test rig (the one with the pink aluminum open chassis). I'm trying to source one from the forums since my ebay luck is bad. I am going to have to return this Ryzen 1200 because it keep freezing at idle. I've swapped out every piece of hardware 3x over so I know it's what is defective. I knew the low $50 price was too good to be true but I guess I'm a sucker. Hopefully ebay will let me return it because the seller is saying no returns.

I'll get you on the list and let my Canadian team leader know. He is having trouble finding suitable testers so you would be one of the first on his list to receive as soon as you are ready. If you need a new test bench, maybe you can build something like I did last week in the cheap.

My dust filtration system and OCTO:

Hi Pio, glad to see you on the forums again. My wife can possibly scrounge you some old parts from storage or stuff headed to e-waste. Her company is constantly junking stuff. I love your idea of building these retro rigs. As always it's working motherboards that are hardest to find.

Yeah they behave on camera quite well but she was giving him a wedgie like 30 seconds before that ;D Moved it back to my work room and placed it on the tray I made.

Yeah they behave on camera quite well but she was giving him a wedgie like 30 seconds before that ;D

Yeah we did that in the bathtub the other day shaking it and scolded it with hot water thru the vents to thermally shock it. Fixed most of the cavitation already I just uploaded that video and added to the last post. It was a combination of 2 D5s at full bore and that tube. I added the bubble mesh and reduced back to 1 pump and now it's no longer cavitating the pump and already much less air in the loop. I figure when I get that controller I'll run both pumps on a slow speed.