damric

ooh I'm gaining with my army of little hardwares I wonder if I'll catch pio

I have 4 computers crunching now. I had to leave a couple cores and integrated graphics idle for my kids to do schoolwork. My son and I configured a ghetto compute rig from spare parts in about 90 minutes this morning. I know I got a late start (time zone), but I'm trying hard to get some sort of prize lol. This is exciting, my son picked covid-19, my wife picked alzhemers, and we're running general on the two others. I have one more weak quadro (like 8400 chipset lol) to throw in later after my kids get done with school.

You guys have some compute beast machines! I'm trying my hardest to get all possible cards in the house online. So far: 3 Ryzens, 2 Vega (56+64), GTX 980, HD 7850. About to try and get another HD 7850 and an R3 350 up and running too lol.

I threw in an HD 7850 and GTX 980, as well as another Ryzen. I might be able to get 1 more rig up tomorrow

Ok I got two CPUs and two Vega cards up and folding. I'll see about getting another CPU and Polaris folding later after my kid logs off from school.

Get a cheap 90 degree 24-pin motherboard adapter so that it doesn't crush your cables.

Yes it's already started. We have a U.S. and Canada team so far. Send me your shipping address and a CPU-Z validation with your forum handle in the validation link.

Well...let's just say that there were several hiccups already with my peer-share-testing ? Most importantly I ordered a 90-degree 24-pin adapter to include in the package. Otherwise the cooler puts a ton of stress on the motherboard cables. But I did get some nice results. I can run the thing passively and effectively cool my moderate all-core 24/7 overclock of 4.2GHz, even during 30 minute AIDA64 FPU AVX. I was also able to effectively cool my max-OC of 4.4GHz (yeah not much all-core headroom on this CPU) in AIDA 64 FPU AVX, but with the fans. Effective, meaning no safety throttling or shutdown kicking in. I'll have a summary write-up, with plenty of data, pictures and videos, and I'll post it here when it's ready. I have a lot to say about this cooler, positive and negative. I'm very interested to see what @mllrkllr88 has to say in his professional review.

I got my cooler yesterday. I'll be getting a thread organized here and at that other place. This will be ongoing so people can jump in at any time. I have a small vetting requirement which is basically just a CPU-Z validation with your forum name and a benchmark run. IceGiant is very helpful and sending me bulk amounts of Kryonaut and even purchased testing equipment such as thermocouples for this endeavor. This thing is HUGE

If it's cool with the boss man, I'd like to open this up to this forum as well (US and Canada only right now though). https://www.overclock.net/threads/testers-needed-for-icegiant-prosiphon-elite.1776498/ Reply or send me a P.M. here.

Currently trying to weed through the pretenders and the people actually willing to do the work benching. I posted a short homework assignment to qualify, basically post proof that you have a high core CPU, and prove that you know how to run a benchmark and enter data into a spreadsheet. It's not going so well so far ? But there is no time crunch as I haven't even been shipped the cooler yet~

My review sample is confirmed. Assembling a team on the old forum, but anyone with a high core count CPU in the US is welcome to join our testing team.

Been talking to one of the owners trying to secure a review sample.

Check it out. I stopped crying over not being able to find any new hardware, so instead I unlocked the power limit of my Vega 56 through the registry. Now I'm only limited by the silicon (the way it used to be, and should be). I re-ran all my 3DMarks for HWBOT and this pig was pulling over 400W according to the Afterburner overlay. It is now able to sustain clocks around 1775-1800MHz, and I can bump the HBM a bit more too without it adding additional power limit problems. My HBM is still pretty weak though.

I'd love to get a reference 6800XT and 5800x around normal price. All I see is a bunch of ebay listings for 2-3x MSRP.

HAF XB tray makes it very easy to swap motherboards for benching/testing. Here's a few of the configurations I got to play around with in recent years. Some AM4 boards, Z170, A88X...

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