damric

Hmmn a lot of veterans here? Navy myself

Now it makes sense why the VA is so backed up!

My go-to drive is the Silicon Power A80 1TB for $115. It's fast enough and very cheap. I've purchased 8 of them over the last 2 years for various builds. Also the A60 1TB is a good deal when it goes for $85. That one isn't quite as fast so I put those on the PCH.

Far Cry 2 has a nice built-in benchmark and the game engine is very friendly to quad-core CPUs. You will be able to compare your overclock scaling with the graphs that it generates. It's DX 10 if I recall, so good for that HD 4890. 3D Mark Vantage was also a very good benchmark for that era. Trying to remember the name of the Unigine benchmark that was before Heaven...

Just curious how many fans you connect via the PST. I'm doing 3 per header, but I wonder how many would be safe since these have pretty low power draw.

This is great, except doesn't TSMC make these? This could really hurt AMD if Apple buys up all of the production.

Did you get those ocz reapers from the market? I saw some Phenom x4 9950s on Ebay. Phenom II also works in that socket.

I like the green E. I see people bitching about flaking on the EK blocks, but mine never flakes while I'm staring at it so I cannot verify if it is a true claim ?

So glad he used the 64 core threadripper.

Have you tried raising VDDP and SoC voltages?

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