Yeah I don't recall my PC being on much during those times. I did grab a few games sitting in my underwear but it was a struggle so didn't happen often!If we get another summer like the recent one then I might have to re-evaluate cooling set up. Have always been tempted by an AIO, so could call upon one of those if it came to it.
Mind you, I hate hot weather and the last thing I want to be doing in 30c+ heat is be sat in front of my PC, so I end up not really using my rig when its toasty outside.
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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3D Cache Eight Core 4.5GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail - Go Go Go xD
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AIOs are crap (or used to be) I had one of the early Corsair H50(?) ones. The pump was noisy and it wasnt much lower temp wise than my previous air fan (Noctua was an upgrade from the H50)If we get another summer like the recent one then I might have to re-evaluate cooling set up. Have always been tempted by an AIO, so could call upon one of those if it came to it.
Mind you, I hate hot weather and the last thing I want to be doing in 30c+ heat is be sat in front of my PC, so I end up not really using my rig when its toasty outside.
Similar RE use when its hot outside. I did play quite a bit of Warzone with friends during Covid though.
Sat in boxers with an industrial gym fan on my bed pointed at me. The PC temps were hotter, but no issues
Air con my man. cheaper to buy and run than you think. Changed my life. It's absolutely amazingIf we get another summer like the recent one then I might have to re-evaluate cooling set up. Have always been tempted by an AIO, so could call upon one of those if it came to it.
Mind you, I hate hot weather and the last thing I want to be doing in 30c+ heat is be sat in front of my PC, so I end up not really using my rig when its toasty outside.
You can go portable if 1 room, or wall mounted for whole house
Air con, are you insane!
We've not had the heating on for over a year now. If it cold, put more clothes on. If hot, take more clothes off
Doesnt a 10k BTU air con unit use ~1000W constant (so equivalent of leaving a Ninja blender running for hours)
My PC, speakers & monitor now idle at 140W and has peaked at has peaked at 707W (3090Ti, 5800X) PC idle all day with a ~2 hours of gaming uses about £1/day (0.33p kwh)
I guestimate at 10k BTU air con unit would cost about £1 to run for 2 hours... so not not bad really
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Good for you?
No I'm not insane. It was 40 degrees this summer. There are only so many clothes you can take off! I'd rather live comfortably thank you very much.
Whole house proper aircon can be had for half the price of a bloody 4090 graphics card. And will last you a damn sight longer.
This perfectly cools our whole house (4 bedroom detached) no matter how hot it gets. It's an absolute no brainer for me and my family. Trying to sleep when it's over 30 degrees is absolute torture, considering we spend thousands on our hobby of gaming is it that mad to spend less to avoid exreme discomfort every year? Shop around can be had for around a grand and is easy to fit yourself. Heck look for second hand ones being ripped out of offices and you can do it for a few hundred!
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...in winter!
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Did the undervolt last night and knocked about 7c off the temps under load, saw a 150mhz increase in boost clocks in Cinebench went from 4.3 to 4.45ghz which was nice..
I thought the default boost was 4.5ghz? If (even under heavy load) it doesnt boost to the stated clocks I wouldnt be happy at all.
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Full load all core boost is 4.3 according to reviews i've read, 4.5 for single core boost.
Are yes, forgot it was single core boost. What does the 5800X3D boost too on a single core when undervolting? My 5800X boosts to 4.85Ghz single core with default settings
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Still 4.5 single core boost after undervolt, AMD must have put a hard limit on it.
Hmmm, bulk overclock, undervolt cpu and ram at xms might work.
Presuming motherboard, gpu and disk drives can also take it
To stop it hurting sales of 7xxx cpus?
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I may pop my NVMe out and stick a spare SSD in and have a play with bclk overclocking at some point just for fun but i'm more than happy with the performance as is.
I think it's doing that regardless tbh.
It's like the 1080Ti was to the RTX2xxx seires cards.
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No AMD guru to be fair, but is it better than the 20 quid cheaper 5900X?
For gaming, yes. For productivity, no.
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Yep, my 1080Ti still going strong.
Not really. 1080Ti > 2080Ti there was about a 40% increase in fps
Small gains from 2080Ti to 3080 in that specific benchmark but but in RTX titles it hammered the 2080Ti...
Heaven 4.0
3440x1440 8xAA fullscreen
Quality - Ultra
Tessellation - Extreme
1080Ti - 70 fps (1766)
2080Ti - 100 fps (2522)
3080 - 110 fps (2749)
3090Ti - 149 fps (3756)
I had the 780Ti then 980Ti before these but benchmarked at 1080p in Valley so unfortunately dont have the differences (nor did I have an ultrawide screen in those days)
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Hmmmm....
Don't think I'm 100% stable at -30 for all cores.
Just been messing around and decided to let the Prime 95 Small FFT torture test run for longer and got an error on one of the workers. Granted my rig is never going to do something this strenuous but the fact that a rounding value was higher than expected makes me a bit nervous.
I've applied -28 to all cores now and its not failing where it was before. Temps gone up by about 1c.
More testing definitely required I think.
Might have to run Core Cycler overnight to determine which is/are the cores not liking it. However, that's going to be a time consuming process that frankly, I can't be bothered doing. So might just run this Prime Small FFT test overnight (economy 7 FTW) and if there are no errors when I wake up, settle on -28.
Spoke too soon. Looks like -28 isn't stable either. Failed after 1h 22m. Think I'll pull it back to -25 and go from there.
Don't think I'm 100% stable at -30 for all cores.
Just been messing around and decided to let the Prime 95 Small FFT torture test run for longer and got an error on one of the workers. Granted my rig is never going to do something this strenuous but the fact that a rounding value was higher than expected makes me a bit nervous.
I've applied -28 to all cores now and its not failing where it was before. Temps gone up by about 1c.
More testing definitely required I think.
Might have to run Core Cycler overnight to determine which is/are the cores not liking it. However, that's going to be a time consuming process that frankly, I can't be bothered doing.
So might just run this Prime Small FFT test overnight (economy 7 FTW) and if there are no errors when I wake up, settle on -28.Spoke too soon. Looks like -28 isn't stable either. Failed after 1h 22m. Think I'll pull it back to -25 and go from there.
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