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I'm remounting it as a last ditch effort to get the damn thing to boost to 5.6GHz on the 2nd CCD like it used to. The socket cover acts as a guide to align the chip and pops out when the retention bracket and arm are lowered with the cpu installed. It says so in my motherboard manual. And I've tried everything to try and get the damn thing boosting for benchmarking. Its happened twice, when I first got it the 2nd CCD would hit 5650 running benchmarks, then after a month it just stopped one day. Eventually, a bios flash made it work again, but only for a month or two, then it stopped again and no bios flashes or troubleshooting I did with both Asus and AMD has fixed it. I really suspect that the boost clock limit for the first CCD with V-Cache is being applied to the whole chip by this "AMD 3D V Cache Optimizer service", two of which are running on my system and get installed with the chipset driver. So my second chiplet will not go above 5150MHz, which is the max for the first chiplet.

https://www.newegg.com/p/2BJ-00HK-00001 Check that out, the fans have proprietary connectors unfortunately but come with 3 fans, the controller box, a remote, and a cable to connect to the motherboard rgb header. Essentially what I have in mine. Throw in two of the Phanteks light strips I previously linked, and for a $50 investment maybe you could charge $100 more or possibly even more than that. You could include pics of the rgb remote. You can also connect a PWM fan cable to that box and connect it to the motherboard for PWM fan control, or if you leave it unconnected there are fan speed control settings on the remote as well. Back when I rebuilt my rig into the anidees case, I knew it had rgb fans with it but had no idea of the remote, the PWM cable, the box or any of it. So even if you don't connect an rgb cable to the motherboard, there are like 100 different patterns the box itself can do, in practically any color (or two colors) you want. Something for everyone. Also, are you overclocking the systems or not? Even if just using PBO and a small overclock on the GPU. If you overclock the CPU + install Afterburner and set up a fan profile and moderately overclock the GPU, you should be able to charge a little extra for that, as well.

What is referred to in the 2nd image as the "external cap". A piece of plastic that attaches to the retention bracket, that helps align the cpu when you install it, and pops off when you put a chip in and lower the arm all the way.

Not what I was asking for help for. Please, no off topic replies. I just need to know how to properly reattach the socket cover to the retention bracket.

No, I know how to install the CPU, problem is if I leave it in the socket and lower the arm with the socket cover in place and the cpu in, the socket cover will pop out. By design. I need to know how to reattach the socket cover to the metal retention bracket, like it was when the mobo was new.

Fair enough. Just saying, adding some light strips or looking into a controller box and fans for it like I have would cost little, and possibly allow you to charge a lot more if you advertise it with the RGB and have the software ready for the end user.

Hey all, As a last ditch effort to see if I can fix the 2nd CCD of my 7900X3D not boosting at all, I am looking to pull the chip out of the socket and remount it. While also probably applying some PTM7950 thermal putty to the water block. However, my board came with a socket cover and I read in the manual that it helps align the chip when you mount it. Problem is, I've never reinstalled a socket cover! So I'm wondering, do I need to hold the retention bracket up and try to push the plastic socket cover through it while holding it up, or do I put it in place as if I am mounting a CPU and lower the socket arm down like I'd do for a CPU (won't it just push through the top like when I mounted the chip? And will it bend pins?) Thanks guys.

That works too. The memory RGB can probably be controlled with a program, and assuming you connected the motherboard header, the fans as well. In this particular case, you'd need Gigabytes software. Perhaps you should consider shipping them with the software preinstalled? This would allow you to mess with it before you sell it for photo ops, i.e. do a synthwave Cyan/Magenta pattern like I run on mine. Perhaps you should consider some light strips too, though you may need an ARGB splitter and connect the strips by the motherboard header. I highly recommend these light strips: https://www.amazon.com/Phanteks-PH-DRGBLED_Combo_01-Digital-Adapter-Compatible/dp/B07C1ZFRWW/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?crid=27GGN9Y5YEZUW&keywords=phanteks+digital+5050+light+strips&qid=1691427823&sprefix=phanteks+digital+5050+light+strips+%2Caps%2C182&sr=8-6

Ah, I see. Gotcha, you're using a case controller button, and I'm sure the lower end boards you're using don't have a motherboard rgb header, but I could be wrong. In mine I have a controller box that is compatible with ARGB headers on the motherboard. The box is powered by SATA and has enough hookups for 7 fans, you can also attach up to 4 light strips, which I also have, and theres a cable that gets plugged into the motherboard that allows for custom control in the OS using Asus Aura Sync. It comes with a remote that has a power button, pressing it once will toggle it to do the patterns the controller box has built in and you can cycle through them with the remote. Pressing the power button again will switch to motherboard rgb control, and pressing the power button again will turn all the rgb on the fans and light strips off. If you're curious and haven't seen it, check the video in my build log for a demo of what it can do.

Isn't this basically the first one you've done that has RGB though? The others may have had RGB fans on the cooler, etc. But not fully customizable RGB as the pictures of this one showed. Maybe I'm wrong though. RGB is a good selling point.

Wonder if the RGB and picture of the rear cable management helped?

Looks fantastic dude; nice job! Great, clean cable management too. Here's hoping it sells.

In bigred

E do you build PCs and ship them as a side gig too then?

Just using it wired. BT doesn't work in my version of Linux. If I upgraded to the latest version of my distro it would work but then I'd need to set my Linux up again which takes a day or two. In the last photo if you look I do have a matching purple usb cable. I plastidipped the top plate in Classic Muscle Car Plum Crazy plastidip.

Go with the Keychron K8 Pro. It's Bluetooth compatible, and hot swappable. I built one a few months ago and love it:

Just awesome if you were still running a 1080ti. Before I got my 4090, I had SLI EVGA 1080ti FTW3 SLI with the matching EVGA HB bridge.

Good foldathon guys.

Probably because of cache and RAM being so much faster on a 5900x vs whatever else.

Guess I'm out then, atm wife would hate working on computers and replacing the chip and remounting her h100i, then doing the same to put the 5900x back in. Not doing all that for one benchmark. If it were several it'd be different.

Also, for the AM4 stage can I use a 5900x and disable cores so there's only 4, or do I have to use a 3300g or whatever that I don't have and won't be getting?

Isn't it like picking your nose, where everyone just does it but lies about it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Look into a Corsair Vengeance C70. I have one empty and unused but it is missing some of the drive cages. From factory though I think it could fit 6 3.5" drives and a 5.25" drive (stick a 3.5" in). It is fairly plain but has really good airflow. Two fans on the side panel up to 140mm and fans on the back of the drive cages (they are supposed to blow towards the rear but if you turn them around they can cool the drives...) If you want visual appeal, stick some RGB fans on the side panel and throw in a light strip or something. Hope this helps.

Not sure I can do AM5 with my 7900X3D as I have no way to manually overclock it to 5008MHz. There is no clock ratio control for the X3D chips. All you have to work with is PBO. Currently it will probably run around 5150MHz but I think y-cruncher uses all cores so it will run around 5000-4800 depending on core. Also, I have no way to show it being at 5008MHz in CPU-Z because even on high performance power plan it'll idle down to like 3GHz.. For AM4, we can only use 4 processor cores which should be no problem to set up, but is HyperThreading allowed?

Yeah I know, it's just a side gig and you do it because you enjoy it. Still, check out anidees, I love our two cases (Ai Crystal AR3 is mine, Ai Crystal Cube is the wife's).