damric

My first Cooler Master case was the HAF 912. It was a very good budget case, and crazy good airflow once all of the fan slots were filled. I kept it maybe a year or two until I could get my hands on the HAF XB. When I saw the prototype demonstrations for that I knew I had to have it. You just cannot beat the horizontal motherboard layout. I have had this case for so long now that I can't remember when I bought it. 2012 maybe? It was almost as soon as it became available. I've run a ton of hardware builds through it and it is still what I use for MY RIG. The wife and the kids have the fancy glass towers with the RGB lightshow, but I'm not giving up my airflow box. I change out the fans every couple of years, and very often it needs a good cleaning. The only disappointment was when the drive bay pcb stopped working and I had to order a replacement pcb from overseas because apparantly there is no longer any CM support in the USA. I'd love to see this model get a modern update. Until then I'll just keep on with what I have. I'll post some pictures of it from the past decade's builds next time I'm here.

Yuri, The new version looks cool but has some bugs. I have Ryzen 5 1600 (12nm Pinnacle Ridge) and 4x Hynix DJR single rank. The calculations are drastically different from 1.70, which is ok. I run tighter anyways (all red lol). But clicking around in the new version sometimes it won't compare timings or it just starts hitting me with the error message. Voltages are blank in the new version. I'd like to donate some money to your project because I think this is a very worthy cause. Do you have a Patreon or something?

I've been playing through XCOM 2. Michele plays the Tomb Raider games, and she just started Witcher 3. Pretty sure she has every Lego game too. I saw her playing Batman "at work". Btw she tried posting her Neon Noir screen shot and it failed.

lol where is all that snow? Yesterday it was 86 degrees F and I took the kids to swim in a secluded area of the Escatawpa. Ended up with mild sun burn

I'm still learning how to tune this Vega 56. It looks like by reducing HBM speed some and by undervolting and raising the power state core clocks in the driver, I am not only running cooler but at much higher sustained boost. Nearly sustained at 1800MHz so far. About to see if it is stable in the 1440p and 2160p benches at these clocks. Been benching with CPU at stock too so I might load up my OC profile on that too.

damric 5745 Ultra 1080p Vega 56 Stock Cooling 1800/900 Adrenalin 20.1.3

It's time to get this thread organized for real. I'm making editable spread sheets to log your scores, and I'll link it to other forums as well (with hopes to draw traffic here). If you are good with spread sheets, please feel free to modify. Please put them into the OP. Here are the links: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zD_60MqxNp3xy-9Lho5N_uds_8-nUhyH4CV2NRwf0Kk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dgi4dk6eThDUOgj1G2XeJg5akZJjR2j2r8s7INh-Qgg/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tUObOTfbsgKO0BrdT4Bs5OXZAUfdd2oDEjMv3ygac7c/edit?usp=sharing Run the benchmark at 1080/1440/2160. Screen shot your CPU-Z tabs, your GPU-Z, and your score. Fill in your own score on the spread sheet (anyone with link can modify).

I'd just love to hear even a small bit of the backstory and reasoning for creating this site

Yeah HWBOT team was one of my thoughts as well.

Well, I work from home anyway, but now I also have 2 teenagers home from school, and my wife has to work from home now. She's an IT help desk person herself, so it was easy for her to get running from home. About 99% of her support tickets have been setting up other people to work from home. She said you can hear screaming kids in the background of a lot of her calls. For the teenagers, we decided that even though they don't have to go to school, we are going to try and keep a normal Monday-Friday schedule of waking up early and having a routine. The kids and I, have a morning meeting at 8am to plan out the day into blocks of chores, schoolwork, and recreation activities. Basically I let them decide what they want to do that day and they write it on a white board. They aren't allowed to stream videos or online game until after 5pm so that our bandwidth doesn't get choked up while my wife is working. My son and I built a rig for his poor friend out of some rather nice older leftover parts we had laying around. We bought about $10 worth of games from GOG (so many you can get for $10), and we are getting them installed. I think tomorrow we will be delivering that. My wife and I used to go to the gym every day on our lunch break. Now we just do our strength training at home and jog at the park when she gets done working. I swear it's already summer weather here on the Gulf Coast, and Winter isn't even officially over yet. Been running around shirtless at the park and sweating my ass off... Making new routines keeps you sane.

What I found interesting about this Vega 56 is that it has a separate flat heat pipe on the back of the card under the back plate. I've never seen anything like that before. I'm guessing it forces the back plate to act as a functional heat sink instead of just decoration. Overall I'm very happy with it.

My Vega 56 isn't too bad but it's a non-reference and this is the one in my HAF XB which is a horizontal motherboard set-up. My Vega 64 reference card in my HTPC/gaming pc get's pretty hot if I push it hard though. I'm amazed by the sheer amount of hot air that thing can exhaust even when light/moderate gaming. I noticed my rig got out of order but I loaded that up with my phone while I was waiting around to pick up my kids. I might fix it later lol.

This benchmark sure is pretty.

Finally qualified for Enterprise's secret forum. I'm sure it will be a blast.