kaliz

couldnt resist to get this one for 319 at megekko, a proper PCB with 2520A Vcore rating (24 phase 105A) and external baseclock generator chip for my 7800X3D. It does look pretty stealthy which i really like as well. I could have gone for the GENE for 399 at tones.be but this one is E-ATX which i prefer. cant wait to get it rolling

i would watch every OC or modding video

i found a ballistix memory cooler from the ddr3 era, modded it straight away with those fans and it looks really awesome now! 

The oldest piece of hardware i use everyday in different systems is a Arctic F8 fan for cooling my RAM. It serves at least 13 years(!) in most of my systems now, i think it has seen at least 35 kits of DDR3 and 4 lol. Unfortunately, after using it a lot this year, the bearings are now completely mush and makes a terrible noise, so i upgraded to something more quality just today!! they were on sale just 7,50 euro a piece, with all kinds of weird 7V 9V extension cables really quiet too

good going, but DAMN! i didnt know i only could do 3 submissions for the Ryzen Cezanne 3dmark Vantage competition, pretty stupid because my first entry wasnt even a valid score. Will fire up my 7700X and the other categories i have hardware from

Personally i think its a 'decent' deal. 300 bucks for 8 zen cores + x3D is very nice. But only if you play games and have a good AM4 board imo. CPU itself doesnt OC proper, RAM OC is mediocre, bclk OC is mediocre. I would get either a 5700G/5600X for good overclocking and decent performance on AM4, or a AM5 mobo+7700X for a bit more money but same performance in games and upgradepath. I owned a 5800X3D and sold it right away just because it didnt OC. I kept a 5600 at the time with 4,95GHz + 4000C15, whereas the 5800X3D couldnt even get over 3733. 

The 7700X OC to ~5,7GHz with 4x16GB 6200C28 on a 150 euro B650, not much more! So if you want proper OC, get a 13X00KF (6,2GHz+8200C34) or wait for Intel 14th gen. 

good choice for going AM5 and the MEG mobo! I just get all socket mobo's to play with but if i really had to buy just one system i would get something like a 8800X3D or a 14700KF and wait for a bit!

I had a similar issue yesterday when trying to play BF2042. I switched up powersupplies when building, and for some reason i only used a Seasonic 500 watt gold PSU for a 12400F+GTX1080. I OC'd the CPU to 5,2 and RAM to 7020C32, my 'normal' profile, but after some time my PC froze up in game. Switched back to 750W gold and havent had this problem. I think my 12v rails couldnt handle the watt spikes. GPU was pulling 250W CPU around 75W. 

Glad your problem is fixed too

very nice have to try it out!

I was getting a Z790i EDGE but then i saw a this OC mobo and couldnt resist, I ended up getting a Z690 Tachyon! just set it up, and it can get the immersive 6GHz / 8 GHz combo without much hassle! Excited!

EKWB had a massive sale couple weeks ago, snatched 2x Supremacy Classic D-RGB - Nickel CPU waterblocks and 12x Classic STC 10/13 fittings for a mere 50,97 euro. AM5 and LGA1700 brackets were free. That little pump res combo i had laying around. Gonna build something in my Jonsbo D31 case, i have 2 of them. One with the LCD screen and one without. In the process of cleaning and painting some rads white  One will be a LGA1700 system the other one AM5

i did get a r5 2600 for another competition, DDR4 max clock! I have it un a unify-x havent tested it yet. Also my HD6850 shows as HD6850X2 in the benchmarks so i cant use it... I did ask on the hwbot forums but didnt got a reply. It tops out at 925MHz / 1200MHz anyway so i will be placed second to last

Got some brackets from aliexpress for a 13600KF and a 7700X! On the AMD im running DDR5-6200 and on Intel DDR4-5560 

Personally I would select a motherboard that has option for extreme DDR5 OC, preferably 8000+ on QVL. I was looking at the MSI MPG EDGE WIFI Z790 mini itx or the newer Z790/B760 boards.  Also the Z690 Unify-X has been dropping in price lately which is a good ram overclocker.

for ATX i would go for either MSI or gigabyte, Z790 Tachion or Master, AERO G looks good, or MSI EDGE series. Asus maybe the Z790i mITX they can do 8000+ 

On 30/03/2023 at 20:58, neurotix said:

 

 

 

Top one is what I'm happy with. A recent BIOS update caused me to have 1ns+ lower latency so I'm pretty happy about that. 2nd one is just to show speed and timings.

 

This is Samsung B-Die, and rated at 6000MHz 36-36-36-96, but I'm running it at 6200MHz 30-36-36-36 with 1.435v. Thrilled with it, and passed stressapptest in Linux for over 3 hours. Not had a crash or reboot or anything yet.

 

I tried 6400MHz but it was a no-go. It's a shame Ryzen memory clocks are a lot lower, but compared to my 5900x and B-Die this is pretty outstanding and definitely a big performance bump.

Very nice for b-die. Havent tried iiit yet! Micron i could get to 5600C40 (2x32GB) Hynix A-die 4x16GB to 6000C28 and M-die and A-die 2x16GB to 6200C28 tight. All with around 1,4v so pretty high., im also struggling to get pass 6200 on AM5, i think its because of the soc voltage can be only a maximum of 1,3v? With Alder Lake non-K OC on i3 and i5 its pretty much maximum stable 7100C32, and without bclk maybe 7200

for ddr4 i run a system now with DDR4-5500C20-27 with 2x16GB micron rev.b with i5 12400F at 5,5GHz. But i have to lower both to 5,4GHz if i wanna play BF2042

1 hour ago, damric said:

@kaliz look at the GPU-z in this review

 

VTX3D Radeon HD 6850 X-Edition Graphics Card Review | Page 3 of 16 | eTeknix

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It shows as 6850 x2. It's just factory programmed to be misnomer. I would just bench it as is.

wow damric thanks for that! Do you think i will need to contact Leeghoofd from HWbot with this?

4 hours ago, Avacado said:

I have flashed many nvidia vbios's, but never ATI. I know that atiflash is a thing, but havent used it. I would use GPUz to save a copy of your current and search tpu for a comparitive one for your card and try it. Hopefully you dont mind bricking your card as its always possible.

i have saved the bios , got the proper bios from techpowerup, got atiflash, but i just cannot get it to run. I have used the program before on HD 6950, Fury, RX5700 but i just cant get it to work with my HD 6850

14 hours ago, damric said:

That's weird. Are there physically two GPUs present on the card?

no it really a single GPU card, very strange. The thing is it works fine, but when uploading to HWbot it says HD6850X2 on GPUZ so that is not valid.

got this VTX3D HD 6850 from Ebay but it has a HD6850X2 bios on it and I dont know how to flash it to the proper one. 

13 hours ago, Avacado said:

MSI's equivalent would be Dragon ball/Power. I had used them with the Z690 Unify-X before I sold it for the Dark. I have no way of knowing if they will work on your board, but you can try to find updated versions. 

 

 

MSI Dragon Ball.zip 9.54 MB · 1 download

Thank you, i have tried versions of dragon ball, dragon center, msi oc engine, asus turbo vcore, asrock and gigabyte utilities, xtu, and none of them work. Do you have other options maybe? 

1 hour ago, Avacado said:

It's not a true CL15. Used EVGA ELEET Software to modify timings from within windows. None of those settings were bios set. Honestly impossible to really know what the CL was. 

Awesome stuff, do you happen to know a method for my msi b760 mortar max board to use that software? Or anything that can OC in windows?

On 28/05/2023 at 16:32, Avacado said:

Would be cool to get our hands on some of that. I did reach out to that company twice, but got no response. 

how did you do CL 15 on DDR5-7000!?

it will be a matter of time this kind of speeds are normal. Cant wait to get 8000+ on my systems.

Seems like the value of my RTX 3060ti just increased by 50 euro.