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3900x RAM Scaling vs 9900K - Google Sheets DOCS.GOOGLE.COM 2080 Ti RAM Latency via Aida64 3900X Memory Speeds,Latency (ns) 3900X - 3800 [Manual],64.4 3900X - 3800 CL16,67.4 3900X - 3600... Finally found it. Old data and games but oh well. RAM tweaking is a HUGE part of owning Ryzen and tweaking it, and you can see in the Average All Data in the chart that going from 3600 to 3800MHz with manually tweaked timings can give up to a 9% performance boost. Even going to 3733MHz with highly optimized secondary and tertiary timings would as well, though it's not shown. I keep a printoff of my ZenTimings and every time I update the bios (and I have a newer board that gets regularly updated) I enter them all in manually, as well as many other settings like disabling Spread Spectrum, setting Digi+VRM settings and fan profile, this is a part of the hobby. I just use a printoff of my ZenTimings blown up large. I keep it by my motherboard manual. On my Zen 3+ system, my wife's build with my old 5900x, I probably change around 100 settings in various menus on the motherboard and also have a printoff for RAM timings for that one. I change a lot of stuff in the AMD CBS menu like BankGroupSwap, Interleaving size, etc. Subsequently, that work that is a part of the hobby pays off in the long run. Also, if you're running 5000 series, you shouldn't be needing to BIOS flash and reenter all settings very often, if at all, as x570 has been around for 4 years and they've pretty much optimized it and fixed all the issues with it. They are focusing more on x670e and other chipsets now. I digress, yes it is a PITA to reenter settings but the payoff is worth it, though less so on Zen 4 than 3000 or 5000 series. Put in the work. It's worth it. That's my advice.

Interesting topic. Are Zen 4 mobile chips available yet? If not, you may want to wait for them. I see Costco specials on laptops as they send us a flier monthly, but the last one I saw with Ryzen had the 5650u, but it's 7nm and only 6 cores with a low boost of 4.2GHz. If you aim to play AAA games on it, I'd suggest getting a processor with at least 8 cores/16 thread since that's what the current gaming consoles have, so you want at least that from either Intel or AMD. Graphics wise I'd shoot for top of the line like 4070 minimum. Hope this helps.

Lol no my new PSU fixed the issue. It's still folding 24/7, though I'll stop and only fold for foldathons in like 3 weeks when it gets to be 85~90 or hotter every day.

Repasted my pair of 1080ti FTW3 as well as many other cards with Prolimatech PK3-Nano Aluminum that I swear by. Cheap and works great. I have not, and will not be repasting my 4090 because it really doesn't seem like it needs it and tbh these cards just keep getting more complex to disassemble over time with backplates and rgb wires. I also don't want to fry a $1900 GPU (Cook County IL taxes are crazy)

Thanks so much for figuring out the issue. I grew up with AOL 2.0 on a Macintosh with a 1200 baud modem, and trust me, I am used to waiting and could live and deal with 56k again. So the slow loading is not a problem for me. Let's hope you are correct and moving to a dedicated host solves the issue for those who are impatient

Here's the 1.0 mug I like it but imo it is a little blurry, unfortunately. Still, it's awesome to see something I designed on an actual product

Thanks, but I didn't do anything to organize the foldathon, that was damric and axipher. I had no part in it, so thank them. I just offered up prizes, that's all.

@Alex@NBrock@Fluxmaven Your PayPal payments have been sent. Please confirm that you got them. Enjoy guys!

Agreed. It's great that once a month we all come together as a team and do something for such a good cause.

Ok guys, got all three winners emails, will be sending out payments possibly tomorrow and Thursday at the latest. They will all be sent out at the same time, but my wife is out of town til tomorrow afternoon. She might be too tired to do them tomorrow, but we'll have them out by Thursday for sure.

6TB WD Blue in my rig, as well as a 4TB and a WD Black 2TB. Two 4TB external drives as backup (my total data stored in my rig is around 5.5TB). 8TB WD MyBook external drive I got recently that holds all my data, in the bottom of a fireproof safe. Though I imagine in a house fire the heat going through the metal of the safe would probably melt the plastic casing. The drive might be ok though. Would/want to get another 8TB and have an offsite backup, but have no reliable people to hold on to it for me. I suppose I could rent a bank vault box. Nothing in the cloud and don't use Plex anymore because of their privacy policy/paranoia. Since I run Linux and stream to Raspberry Pis, Linux treats everything as a file including the network so on the Pi end, it acts as if the files I'm playing are locally stored meaning no encode time at all and it does not hammer your CPU to encode like Plex does. The same thing can be achieved by using Windows networking and sharing folders, and then building a Pi and installing LibreElec. However, in Linux you can set Samba to only host on your subnet and be firewalled, on Windows you will see Virgin Media and other companies bots trying to access your share if you run netstat. I heard a few years ago on OCN that people were buying and shucking 12TB WD Red surveillance system drives, and they were like $120 a pop. Trying to be frugal atm, but I'd love to get three of them. And yes, backing up to USB hard drives is slow, but once you get everything you have on it, then you just need to add anything else you rip and it's not too bad.

PaperClip, Alex_Blum, and Fluxmaven - You have each won $50 from us. Please send me your PayPal email address in a private message within 72 hours. If I don't get it in 72 hours, I will redraw that person and get a different winner. Thanks guys. Damric, tagging doesn't work on mobile for me, if you know these guys forum names can you tag them please?

I will take care of the prize drawing later today, around 1:30pm CST. If I don't, damric please contact me privately on Discord to remind me. I might forget.

I won't get it, but it will be interesting to see if I stay in 3rd or if PaperClip passes me up, and with Jeff folding who knows, I could end up 5th. EDIT: Jesus, Jeff is at like 38m already or something, he might win the whole thing in a lot less folding time than everyone who started at the beginning. Wow.

Thanks.

I'm glad you guys sorted it out. Thanks. I am confused by this though, will the contest end Sunday 0000 UTC or Monday 0000 UTC? So does it end tonight at 7pm for me or tomorrow at that time? Thanks.

Any word on this yet?

What is it? Mine is actually something like 9c per kWh or something like that which is pretty fantastic.

It's awesome that you're doing this. Thank you for doing it for us. I may be offering a hardware donation in the future, but no promises, I need to really think about it first.. Also subbed.

It started last night Thurs at 7pm CST for me. So yes.

Awesome dude. I thought a firey glow ROG logo would look cool.

I ran a 6870 back in the day and folded on it in the team comp for a year straight and got a badge for it. Don't expect more than 1000MHz core clock (if that) and 1250MHz memory. Unless you put it under chilled water or something.

True enough. I'm glad you enjoy your ghetto watercooling and benches and since I can't do it myself (but want to) I am honestly envious of your ability. You did a really great job modding this card the way you did, especially since it keeps the stock look of it. Good job bud.

Good luck. Yeah, not worth it to have that high of power draw for just like 50k more PPD. Lol @ the Vega 64 450w power draw. I have my RTX 4090 oc'ed now and putting up about 22m-24m points daily and in my OC tool it shows wattage and the highest it gets is around 350w. Using the stock "gaming" bios this time, so a 450w limit but it never comes close to it. I wonder, with the upgrades to your main rig and the full watercooling on it, as well as your test benches with weird pro cards and cheap watercooling components, if all that money you spent could have gotten you a 4090 instead by now that would dwarf everything you have running currently and at far less power consumption? Devil's Advocate: get a 4090

Also, what are the stock clocks and what is your OC now? Does the HBM oc at all? I never had Vega but I did have Crossfire Sapphire R9 Fury Nitro for a while. The HBM wouldn't budge and I think they didn't OC past 1150MHz. You probably remember the advertisement and slides for the Fury X with Koduri saying "they're an overclockers dream" before they came out, lol. They were great cards though and ran every game I had at Ultra except for Rise of the Tomb Raider because 4K textures took more than 4GB ram and the Fury's only had 4GB HBM. Vega can clock much higher than my old Fury's, like at least 1800MHz or so right? Let me know the stock clocks and what you've gotten the thing to now.