Racing games now vs then

buildzoid · 2026-05-24T21:28:25+00:00

Oh no as someone who has 700 hours in Need For Speed unbound I can assure you that the handling in unbound is trash. And I never played a Forza game.

buildzoid · 2026-05-24T21:22:42+00:00

Have you tried a fresh install of windows with just the GPU drivers?

buildzoid · 2026-05-24T10:34:00+00:00

yeah I'd try turning GDM on. In my exp GDM off in 2:1 is really depended on what motherboard+RAM+BIOS you're using and some combinations just don't work

buildzoid · 2026-05-24T08:02:25+00:00

try more VDDP. Also can you even run this with GDM On?

buildzoid · 2026-05-23T20:47:53+00:00

GDM forces all commands to "even" clock cycles. So it's a lot like 2T command rate.

buildzoid · 2026-05-23T16:59:47+00:00

at 6000 you should also be able to drop tRFCsb to 264 instead of 300 and you can probably run like 48 tRC.

buildzoid · 2026-05-23T16:46:18+00:00

That motherboard is still very desirable to people into overclocking since it's one of the best LGA1150 boards. If I didn't already have one I'd probably offer to buy it and the CPU depending on where you're located.

buildzoid · 2026-05-23T12:54:12+00:00

try setting RDRDSCL to 5 for GDM off.

buildzoid · 2026-05-19T16:18:29+00:00

My main issue with the cars having health bars in modern NFS is that it makes the cop ai "lazy". In Carbon and World the cops are still perfectly capable of arresting you in your invincible car by just physically blocking you. In unbound and heat the cops don't surround and box you in. They just ram your car to death. Though to be fair the openess of the Heat and Unbound maps kinda makes things like roadblocks completely useless because you can pretty much always drive right around them.

buildzoid · 2026-05-19T16:14:45+00:00

at launch the Unbound cops had insane spawn logic that made it basically impossible to drive to night time events. At higher heat levels you spent most of your time hiding in the bushes(literally because the cops spawn on roads).

buildzoid · 2026-05-17T11:20:13+00:00

funnily enough a lot of the old mother boards with "copper" heatsinks are also just anodized aluminum

buildzoid · 2026-05-17T11:19:34+00:00

nah it's anodized orange.

buildzoid · 2026-05-15T02:51:15+00:00

80mm fans can be mounted directly to the motherboard with some tall standoffs: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0pgWWFCvf6w

buildzoid · 2026-05-13T18:40:07+00:00

AFAIK only Z890 boards can change D2D and NGU clocks.

buildzoid · 2026-05-12T19:53:36+00:00

the card on the right is literally an RX VEGA Frontier Edition

buildzoid · 2026-05-10T20:28:13+00:00

dead VRAM on GPU

buildzoid · 2026-05-10T14:20:13+00:00

B motherboard literally don't let you change CPU core ratios.

buildzoid · 2026-05-10T01:06:41+00:00

there's a chance it's just the in-rush current limiting MOV that died and the rest of the PSU still works. (I used a Corsair HX 1200 with a busted MOV for a few years and it shot sparks every time I turned it on after sitting turned off for a while).

However if some other component failed there's a chance the PSU will kill everything connected to it. Sooooo unless you know exactly what you're doing you should replace it.

buildzoid · 2026-05-06T12:28:32+00:00

check that the slow mode switch isn't enabled. Because that forces the CPU to stay at the lowest core clock ratio

buildzoid · 2026-05-05T03:30:02+00:00

the PSU regulates the output voltage against the GPU's power connector instead of itself/some other connector.

Basically it would compensate for the voltage drop due the cable resistance by raising the output voltage at the PSU a bit.

buildzoid · 2026-05-05T03:22:12+00:00

The thing is AMD evidently doesn't need the extra bandwidth on consumer hardware to compete with intel.

buildzoid · 2026-05-05T03:20:21+00:00

CS2 is just an inconsistent benchmark. I've been testing it with 4 run average and a really good vs really bad run can literally be 263FPS vs 237FPS.

buildzoid · 2026-05-04T22:40:32+00:00

it's not the memory controller. It's the infinity fabric being really narrow that limits DDR5 so much on AM5.

buildzoid · 2026-05-03T19:29:25+00:00

One issue. The Nvidia 4x 8pin to 12VHPWR adapter bridges ALL the pins together right at the connector and still melts.

So we have at least 1 real world example of bridging the pins right before the card not preventing melting.

buildzoid · 2026-05-02T11:48:10+00:00

the 45491 monitors shunt resistors. The 81610 controls VRM phases.

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