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R9 Nano VS RX 570 VS GTX 970 non-Ti

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All second hand, all same price. The 970 is known to be in good condition, the other two are a coin toss.
BUT
Given all are fine, which should I choose? Very few benches feature them, but from what I see, 570 is slowest, 970 middle and the Nano is fastest by about the same margin, correct?
Thank youuu!

Want more voltage out of On Semi NCP81610 controller on Palit RTX 2060 Super JS

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Like the title says. I can keep the card at low 50C under load so I would think a bit more voltage would help, as is right now using the msi afterburner voltage lock trick I can get 2130MHz stable no fluctuations.

The card has the On Semi NCP81610 controller for the vcore vrm so I've never done a volt mod before but I understand that you're supposed to short the REFIN to GND using a trim pot? Is that it? But all the guides show to solder the trim pot to a nearby resistor to the controller. How do I figure out which resistor is connected to the REFIN? Using a multimeter and test? If anyone has experience with hard volt mods please chime in! Thanks! Trying to get the fastest RTX 2060 Super scores on ambient cooling.

Is my graphics card failing or is the game just buggy?

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Out of nowhere starting friday last week WoW has been having some serious issues with graphical glitching and none of my guild members (over 200) have been experiencing any of it and it gets worse if i overclock my graphics card memory. Only time i ever seen anything like this was when my 9800 GX2 was about to die
Here are 2 screenshots i took.

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[Hardware Unboxed] AMD Backtracks: B450, X470 Motherboards WILL Now Support Zen 3!

9900K Overclock/Temps help

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Hello Everyone!
I am new to this forum and overclocking in particular. I built a new system few months ago and been playing with OC setting. The system is primarily used for gaming and light office work.

I am trying to determine if my overclock considered "safe" in terms of voltage/power for 24/7 use. It seems to me that temperatures i am observing are too high for custom water loop, compared to those temps I saw across the web.

My system specs:
9900K
Gigabyte Aorus Master Z390
Gskill 16GB 3600MHz@16-17-17-38 1.35V
Ek Velocity CPU block
EK 011 Distro plate with ddc 3.1 pump ( swapped the impeller from 3.25 )
EK PE360 rad with EK Vardar 120 in Push
EK XE 360 rad with Vardars in the push and Arctic p120 in pull ( RPM normalized )
GTX 1070 Strix ( leftover from the previous PC)

I am currently running two profiles: stock "undervolt" and 5.0. Both t passes through P95 no avx 4 hrs, avx 4 hrs, Realbench, IBT 2.54, OCCT all setting, CBR20 and CBR15.
For both profiles, I use a custom fan/pump config. Flow rate is at ~0.5GPM at idle and ~1.4GPM at load, fans speed configured to work based on coolant temp: up to 27C - 500RPM, 28C - 600RPM, 29C- 900RPM, 30C - 1100RPM, 31C+ - 1200 RPM ). My usual ambient temp is between 20C-24C. Highest dT between Ambient/water I saw was 9C after 4 hours of P95 at 1200rpm on the fans
Stock undervolt:
Core: 47x
Ring: 43x
AVX offset 0
Voltage: Normal ( adaptive ), -0.020 offset
LLC: Low
AC/DC Loadline: Power saving
PWM switch rate: 300 MHZ
All C states, power limits, and power saving features are disabled
XMP Ram - 3600@16-17-17-38, 1.35V, VCCIO - 1.15V, VCCSA - 1.2V

The temp test was conducted at 23C - 23.5C ambient temp. At idle it sits around 30-32C across cores and at 1.178V at VRVOUT. before running stress tests, i "heat-soaked" the loop by running prime 95 29.8 with AVX for 1 hour.

OCCT AVX Small Data set:
66 max temp, VRVOUT 1.105V, 136W@120A

P95 29.8 AVX:
76 max temp, VRVOUT 1.109-1.115, 178W@162A

CBR20 (loops):
65 max, VRVOUT 1.117-1.141, 130W@114.5A

It seems pretty hot for stock undervolt. OFC, things get worse with 5.0 OC:

5.0 OC
Core: 50x
Ring: 47x
AVX offset 1
Voltage: Normal ( adaptive ), -0.100 offset
LLC: Low
AC/DC Loadline: auto
PWM switch rate: 300 MHZ
All C states, power limits, and power saving features are disabled
XMP Ram - 3600@16-17-17-38, 1.35V, VCCIO - 1.15V, VCCSA - 1.2V

OCCT NO AVX Small Data set:
83 max temp, VRVOUT 1.252V, 190W@152A

P95 29.8 AVX:
88 max temp, VRVOUT 1.207, 224W@190A

CBR20 (loops):
81 max, VRVOUT 1.262, 178W@142A

Same ambient of 23-23.5C, the cores at idle sit at 34-35C. VRVOUT is 1.307-1.315. there is a spike up to 1.35V when the load changes ( ex. when I stop P95 )
I also find odd that with increased load the gap between hottest and coolest core goes up to 10C - Core 1 and 7 being the coolest and Core 2 and 4 the hottest.

I tried to re-seat the CPU block multiple times. The TIM used is Cryonaut. below are the screenshots from HWinfo for all the above-mentioned tests. EC_TEMP2 is the coolant temperature - I have a sensor in the bottom radiator where water exiting back to the res.

Attached screenshots of HWinfo for all the tests I did. ThankS~!

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my case support only 280 and 360 cooler ?

Desktop AMP/DAC Opinions

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Any opinions on single, compact, integrated DAC/AMP units?

I am far from an audiophile (i dont use words like transparency or weight when describing audio equipment). my primary headphones are akg 533 pros and meze 99 noirs and i listen to a random selection of music. i currently run a garage1217 headphone amp i built from a kit, a modi 2 , and a grace digital 2.1 amp. i like the features i have, but want to simplify...and to be honest i am over the tube/opamp hybrid

i have been considering the nad d 3045, the psaudio sprout100, and the denon pma60 (or really its replacement in the lineup). anyone with experience with them?

also open to other suggestions, i am looking for a single unit with plenty of features. gotta be 2.1 (passive sub), approx 45 watts/ch at 8ohm, bluetooth (with aptx), and have a heapdphone amp...and seeing that about 5% of the worlds audio catalog is true hd audio, that isnt a requirement either. oh...vertical mounting would be nice, but not required

thanks for any insights

Budget LGA1150 HSF

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Looking for reccommendations for budget HSF to replace my XSPCRaystorm 750 kit which has become annoying to maintain+noisy. Would like it to be quiet and without totally sacrificing performance. Needs to fit LGA1150 on my Asus Rampage Gene IV inside Fractal Arc Mini.

Hopefully there's better stuff out there by now than the CM Hyper 212!

MSI B450 TOMAHAWK+ OFFSET= STEADY VOLTAGE WHEN IDLE

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Hi guys,

I have the msi b450 tomahawk (non max) about a year now paired with a ryzen 5 1600x.

I have managed a stable overclock of 4.0ghz@1.26V with gskill aegis 3000@3200mhz. CnQ disabled.High performance windows' power plan. C states enabled.

The thing is that i remember that in some previous BIOS' releases my voltage was flactuating from 0.4-1.26 when idle with my clocks staying steady at 4.0ghz. I remember this because it was the first time when MSI had enabled offset. With -0.075V i was pretty happy with my 24/7 overlock.

Using the latest BIOS 7C02v1D ( it is quite old really!) ,with the same settings as before, my voltage is steady 1.26v no matter idle,gaming or stressing.

Did MSI changed something? Any ideas?

Silicon Lottery

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I've been killing time trying an absolute ton of different OC configurations on my 3900x and C6E configuration.

I recently found out Ryzen 3000 sleeps cores, even with a manual voltage set and all core OC, but it isn't shown in hwinfo, however Ryzen master does show it.

Asus WMI also shows VRM amp/watt output, and I can clearly see when totally idle, aside from hwinfo, it's only pull 10 amps and 15 or so watts, so definitely sleeping most of the CPU.

4.3 all core is stable at 1.2625 set in bios, LLC 2, DMM measures 1.248 vcore at full load.

If I step up to 1.292 in bios, 1.28 full vdroop LLC2, using 101 bclock, I can attain 4393-4419-4343-4368, totally stable!

I did enable PBO, why on an all core oc? With PBO enabled you can manually specify the amperage for EDC, I wasn't comfortable with the chip pulling 200 amps, so limited it to 160.

Max temp in Blender bench running all tests is 65c with 24c ambient.

Great chip? I'm thinking I may have gotten stupid lucky.

Ryzen master shot just to show all the things snoozing away while idle.

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Overclocking Quadro M6000 with bios tweaking

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I've recently bought a Quadro M6000 and I wanted to boost its performance. As far as I know there is no way of controlling the clocks with programs like afterburner so I decided to take the risk and do some Bios tweaking.



All the informations I'm sharing are just to tell what I've done, to share the experience, I'm not taking any responsability on how you will use the informations - everything you do with the informations on this page are at you own risk, you can break the card.




Lets start by summarizing what I've done:

I've managed to increase the boost clock to 1342.0Mhz (from 1114,0), the base to 1152,0Mhz (from 987.5) and the memory clock to 3553 Mhz (from 3305).

To be able to do that I also had to increase the power limit to 292W from the stock 250W (This extra power of 42W will be taken from the 8 PIN connector) and increase the maximum voltage to 1250,0mV.

I had some headroom left but I figured that that was the maximum at which I can push the card with the stock blower cooler on it (after 1 hour of stress test with the TDP to about 96-97% and the fan at 91%, the temperature remained stable at 80°C [ambient temperature was 25°C]).

  • Now the procedure:

The programs I used are:
  1. GPU-Z
  2. Maxwell II BIOS Tweaker
  3. nvflash
  4. MSI Afterburner
  5. MSI Kombustor

At first I backed up the original bios using nvflash by typing in the CMD as administrator: nvflash --save biosname.rom

Once that was done I started the overclocking process.



To start you need to wrote in the CMD as administrator: nvflash --protectoff (to disable write protection).

Then I created a copy of the original bios to work on. I opened the copy on Maxwell Bios Tweaker and started by increasing the Core clock by 50 Mhz.



Then I flashed the new bios by:

disabling the GPU from device manager;
typing in the cmd (as administrator): nvflash -6 nameofyournewbios.rom (and then you need to press y to confirm);
after that you need to reboot the system, enable the device, reboot the system again and then test for stability.


I repeated this procedure for about a dozens of times in order to make small modifications each time.

At one point I reached power limit, the GPU was power throttling and the clock was reduced to about 1Ghz thus reducing the performance. I then edited the power table; that was the scariest part because all the informations I found on the internet about editing the power table didn't really match the numbers I saw from the bios. After some test I managed to get it working. I will now attach the pictures of the power tables, first the original ones and than the edited ones:


ORIGINAL POWER TABLES
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347664&thumb=1
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347666&thumb=1
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347670&thumb=1

EDITED POWER TABLES
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347682&thumb=1

In the first three lines you can see the TDP limits. In this particular card you can't increase maximum TDP over 100% with the slider on an overclocking program (like afterburner) so you need to set the same value for maximum TDP and default TDP. Write in the first two lines 300000 (thats the maximum TDP).
75000 is the maximum PWR the GPU can take from the PCIE lane (you don't need to change it).

https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347688&thumb=1

The MAXIMUM PWR the GPU can take from the 8 PIN connector is 217000mW, the 300000 in the line under it does't change the maximum amount it can take, the maximim amount, in this GPU at least, is configured by changing the middle value (the one that has 217000 in this chart). 300000 is the absolute max it can take from the 8 pin conector, just set it to something higher than the middle value, the middle value is the real maximum power it will draw.
The block with the lines 12000,87000,126000 I've no idea of what it does, I've just increased the maximum of a few watt but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
The block with 150000,300000,300000 is the power limit, you can set it with a Def and a Max that are the same as TDP.

https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347654&thumb=1



So now after the bios flashing I increased the maximum power this gpu can take from 250000mW (75000+175000) to 292000mW (75000+217000).
To handle this power I changed the fan curve with aferburner allowing the fan to reach 93% speed.

I then increased the core frequency and also the Core voltage from a max of 1218,8mV to 1250mV to make it stable.

Once I was happy with the Clock frequency I started overclocking the Ram, this process was relatively painless, I was able to increase ram frequency from 3305 to 3553Mhz without noticing any artifact or other driver problems. I stopped to 3553 because of the temperature, the card was starting to heat up to 80+°C and I wasn't confortable with such a high temperature.



I will now attach the pictures of the Common table of Maxwell BIOS Tweaker before and after overclocking:


BEFORE OVERCLOCKING
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347656&thumb=1

AFTER OVERCLOKING
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347652&thumb=1


As you can notice, to enable the boost clock you need to set the boost limit a little higher than the boost clock by moving the slider.



Now i will attach the voltage table. As I said i needed to change the maximum voltage to 1250,0mV and also to move all the sliders before the one relative to the boost clock voltage in order to avoid a big voltage drop beetwen the one I changed and the ones with the original values. That was important, as I discovered, beacause a big voltage drop can cause problems such as screen freezing.

ORIGINAL VOLTAGE TABLE
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347660&thumb=1

AFTER OVERCLOCKING
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347676&thumb=1

As you will see from the next pictures these voltages (CLK 06, CLK 07 ecc) seems to refer to the numbers on the boost table.


BOOST TABLE BEFORE OVERCLOCK
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347674&thumb=1

BOOST TABLE AFTER OVERCLOCK
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347658&thumb=1

IMPORTANT: as you change the boost clock you need to move to the boost table and move the slider to match the max table clock with your boost clock (not the boost limit). You don't need to touch anything else on the table.


So now the overclock is completed. As i said I could increase both core frequency and memory clock further than the value I've decided to use, but the temperature was starting to get out of control with the blower style cooler.

As you can see from GPU-Z, at the end I was able to get this:
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347650&thumb=1

I will now attach some pictures of the values during the benchmark (MSI Kombustor - (GL) msi-01) to show temperature, power consumpion and more:
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347668&thumb=1
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347672&thumb=1
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347662&thumb=1
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347678&thumb=1

As you can see the TDP on GPU-Z is lower than the one displayed on Afterburner and that is because Afterburber is considering the 292W the card could actually take, while GPU-Z is considering the 300W maximum TDP that I've inserted in the bios (300W is just the teorycal maximum that I would allow the card to take, now I'm allowing it to take 292W which is enough as I saw beacause in different benchmarks the power usage never rised above 282W).



So, in conclusion, how much performance I gained with this overclock?

I've done several benchmarks and I will now attach the results from 3D Mark TIME SPY before and after the overclock (only GPU score) and SPECviewperf [all at default settings]:

First 3D Mark:

Before overclocking:
  • Graphics score 5220
  • Graphics test 1 33.70 FPS
  • Graphics test 2 30.18 FPS
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347686&thumb=1

After Overclocking:
  • Graphics score 5 887
  • Graphics test 1 38.58 FPS
  • Graphics test 2 33.59 FPS
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347680&thumb=1

And now SPECviewperf:

Before overclocking:
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347690&thumb=1

After Overclocking:
https://www.overclock.net/forum/atta...347684&thumb=1



In the end I was very happy with the gain in performance I was able to get with the stock cooler and some tweaking.

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[Build log] eMachines Sleeper

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I'm sure there are much more competent builders hanging out here in these forums building some incredible custom stuff, but I thought I'd post my little project that i had a ton of fun putting together. It does not reflect current trends in PC fashion, but it is quirky, different, and has some cool nostalgic vibes.

I've wanted to do a sleeper build for some time, and was looking into some beige eMachines computers, but apparently, the cool kids found them, and they are selling for ridiculous prices on Ebay these days. While browsing through my local Craigslist, I came across an almost-free, acceptably mundane computer that had a particular feature that caught my attention.



One of the main problems I had been kicking around in my head concerning sleeper builds using old cases is the lack of direct airflow or more specifically front airflow to accommodate a strong modern CPU. What caught my attention on this computer were the dual spring loaded, hinged optical drive doors. My thinking was, if I could figure out a way to hack these into front air intakes, it could retain completely stock look while providing airflow on par with a modern case design.



Luckily, this era of case design has not found popularity yet with the retro crowd so machines with the feature are readily available at low cost. It is not beige, but it would work.

Advice on buying the Monitor

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I need advice on buying the monitor.


I ask you which possible models I can look for, both 27 "and 32" with the following characteristics: the cheapest there is, 1440p resolution, Freesync (Gsync compatible), IPS or VA panel


Thanks

Is Versa H17 (or H18) a good idea for my future PC?

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Hello. I'm in the process of getting the parts of a new PC. So far I have a microATX mobo with a Xeon x5680, the ram, and I managed to get a Manli GTX 1080 (it's a chinese brand) which has 3 coolers. I have limited space and I found that the Thermaltake versa H17 looks very cool (and also the H18). But I think my PC components would produce too much heat. Do you think the case would work? I'm going for air cooling for the cpu. which fans would you recommend me for the build? 140 mm?

Thank you

[WTB] Gigabyte Aorus X570 Xtreme

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Looking to buy a Gigabyte X570 Aorus x570 Xtreme with all accessories & in good condition.

Overclocking X58 Xeon X5660

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Heyho fellow overclockers,

I just got my hands on an ASUS Rampage III Extreme and paired it with 24GB of 1600Mhz Ram, an Vega 64 Strix, an Intel Xeon X5660 and an LEPA Aquachanger 240 for cooling. I plan to OC the X5660 for daily usage. I read much about OC'ing the X5660 towards 4,5Ghz and decided to set this as a goal.

As I am unable to find a good guide for my particular Mobo and CPU I am asking you for a decent one or simply someone with this CPU and Mobo who has achieved 4,5Ghz stable.

As far as any concerns for power consumption go, no need for that as I have a decent 1000W PSU.

All that is housed in an Black Corsair Graphite 780T with plenty of airflow as I have configured it as follows:

-Three front 120mm Fans as Intake
-One 120mm Fan on the bottom besides the PSU as Intake
-AIO in the top of the case with it's two 120mm fans blowing as outtakes
-One 120mm Fan in the back as Outtake.

Thank you for your time and please excuse my terrible English as I'm from Germany and not really good at English😂

[AT]Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K CPU Review

X5680 cheap cooling option?

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I'm making a build with a xeon x5680 and I'm looking for air cooling options. I found this one ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-...app-cvip-panel ) , which was probably used on severs and it's pretty cheap. Would it fit on my chinese x58 motherboard??
Of course the case itself would have 5 fans. Would that be enough to keep it cool?. I'm planning to buy the Versa H18 microAtx case.

Thanks!

Recycled Book Shelf 2 in 1

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Had this project sitting around for so long can’t even remember what I hacked up to make it...

So old build with new and some recycled parts

New parts so far
AMD Ryzen 5 3500
B450gtx
T-force 16gb memory




The back and mother board plate is hacked from some old OEM computer.


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