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I just wanted to come on here and have a rant; as there are some absolute numpties on Reddit, I was going to post on there, but I thought you guys would appreciate it more; this is what 20 years of experience of tinkering in the BIOS and building PCs get you and not being a wet blanket to be afraid to mess around with settings.
I'm seriously considering offering my services for money, but I don't think I could handle the headache of other people's stupidity (mainly people coming from console to PC).
Everyone saying wah wah wah, it's crashing wah, learn about your computer ffs. I've had this from Oct 2022 on release (from OcUK I believe as well).
but OK two factors that helps, it has a lapped IHS and has been delidded, it also helps that it's a very good bin. (1.388v at 5.8Ghz)
Lots of tinkering with voltages, LLC and VF points; it's not even undervolted unless you coun't tuning the LLC! I've basically done Intel's work for them.
Screw the latest garbage BIOS, tried it (Z790 Extreme has dual bios), voltage going up to 1.5v, RAM timings and voltages no longer worked, wouldn't boot, so I just binned that BIOS and went back to the older one.
Hardware: Oct 2022 release 13900k, Asus Z790 Maximus Extreme with 2102 BIOS (from April 2024, and yep if it isn't broken, don't fix it, for me anyway), Corsair 420mm AIO (I'm not even on a custom loop), 2x32GB Corsair Dominator DDR5 at 6800MHz at super tuned timings (that was painfully slow).
Benchmarks:
Geekbench 5 - the most recent one https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9077139
And the rest:
The others were done on Benchmate -
I'm seriously considering offering my services for money, but I don't think I could handle the headache of other people's stupidity (mainly people coming from console to PC).
Everyone saying wah wah wah, it's crashing wah, learn about your computer ffs. I've had this from Oct 2022 on release (from OcUK I believe as well).
but OK two factors that helps, it has a lapped IHS and has been delidded, it also helps that it's a very good bin. (1.388v at 5.8Ghz)
Lots of tinkering with voltages, LLC and VF points; it's not even undervolted unless you coun't tuning the LLC! I've basically done Intel's work for them.
Screw the latest garbage BIOS, tried it (Z790 Extreme has dual bios), voltage going up to 1.5v, RAM timings and voltages no longer worked, wouldn't boot, so I just binned that BIOS and went back to the older one.
Hardware: Oct 2022 release 13900k, Asus Z790 Maximus Extreme with 2102 BIOS (from April 2024, and yep if it isn't broken, don't fix it, for me anyway), Corsair 420mm AIO (I'm not even on a custom loop), 2x32GB Corsair Dominator DDR5 at 6800MHz at super tuned timings (that was painfully slow).
Benchmarks:
Geekbench 5 - the most recent one https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9077139
And the rest:
The others were done on Benchmate -
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