*** The Official Alder Lake owners thread ***

[BananaDunka]

Simple and effective

RGB is a little bright, mind


My RAM testing is complete. I think I can call it a day with this. 3500MHz is here to stay.

 

[Vimes]

Apart from stability, which is wanted, I doubt that you will notice anything different. Didn't realise how long it takes if you have 64GB of memory to run that test..!

 

[BananaDunka]

Yeah one of the downsides to such capacity Feel bad for those on 128!

At least you can still use the PC for most things whilst it's doing it.

 

[Vimes]

Well you could always have another go with a BIOS update, as Gigabyte have release another. The only documented feature is support for the new 12900 variant. But, as always, it is the undocumented ones that will bite you

 

[BananaDunka]

It says version F8a, so I assume a b is planned and they are letting people be beta testers for a!

I will pass the BIOS version along to the next person with a very long stick

 

[Vimes]

Mine has a "b" suffix so I reckon that it is a rushed BIOS release for the 12900 variant and the final will be released in time, without any suffix. The same applied for the previous release.
My pointy stick seems to be working fine, as does the PC after updating it. Still at 5.1 and 4Ghz, lol.

At least you are stable now Mark, that's what's important.

 

[BananaDunka]

Certainly seems stable now finally so yep, I will just keep the BIOS at its current version until the next CPU upgrade I guess

 

[BananaDunka]

 

[JollyJamma]

That'll buff out...maybe.

 

[Vimes]

That'll buff out...maybe.

Defo, a little isopropanol on a cotton wool bud, gently applied, and it'll be as good as new.

 

[BananaDunka]

So anyone else manually enabling AVX512?

 

[Dicehunter]

Too small to be 12th gen and by the looks of the gold pad layout it seems to be 7th gen.

So anyone else manually enabling AVX512?

I have on my 12900K but outside of console emulation like Switch, PS2, PS3 etc... which sees a few % performance bump, I generally leave it off as I see no perf gain in my day to day use and lose the e-cores which can be quite useful.

 

[BananaDunka]

Hmm good point, didn't even check to see it was ADL or not!

 

[JollyJamma]

Doesn’t matter which CPU gen it is, AVX512 still turns your cpu into a small furnace and wattage goes through the roof.

Edit, here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16495/intel-rocket-lake-14nm-review-11900k-11700k-11600k/5

 

[humbug]

mmm.... crispy.

 

[JollyJamma]

Defo, a little isopropanol on a cotton wool bud, gently applied, and it'll be as good as new.

Speaking of which, why is isopropanol so hard to buy in the UK?

In South Africa I can get it at every pharmacy, here, it might as well be gold dust.

 

[Dg834man]

Speaking of which, why is isopropanol so hard to buy in the UK?

Stop alkys drinking it? i bought a litre of the stuff of some online merchant last summer but yeah couldn't find any local to buy instore.

 

[Dicehunter]

Speaking of which, why is isopropanol so hard to buy in the UK?

In South Africa I can get it at every pharmacy, here, it might as well be gold dust.

The UK is a nanny state, I asked in boots a while ago, 1 staff member had never heard of it and the other looked like I'd just asked if I could photocopy my buttocks and plaster them all over the store "oh no we wouldn't sell that sort of thing here" really weird country.

The rainforest does litre bottles for £10 though.

 

[Vimes]

I bought my 1ltr bottle of Isopropanol from Amazon for just under a tenner. A bit like trying to buy bottles of hydrogen peroxide, not that easy from a chemist.

 

[JollyJamma]

The UK is a nanny state, I asked in boots a while ago, 1 staff member had never heard of it and the other looked like I'd just asked if I could photocopy my buttocks and plaster them all over the store "oh no we wouldn't sell that sort of thing here" really weird country.

The rainforest does litre bottles for £10 though.

Turns out that they renamed it to surgical spirits and you can’t buy the 70% proof stuff because they are worried people will huff it.

You can only buy the 99.9% stuff. Will pick some up this week - I’m building my new rig.

I agree that it’s a nanny state but it’s a bit hypocritical when every corner has a off-license open late so that you can drown your sorrows in the wee hours.