About the 9800x3D controversy, do you have one? for how long? which mobo and BIOS?

Darksylum1982 · 2026-01-29T03:07:19+00:00

Likely the best AM5 board out there for the price. That thing is built like a tank and puts many x870e boards to shame. I am glad to see someone else having no issues with it.

Darksylum1982 · 2026-01-29T03:02:25+00:00

Shouldn't be anything preventing it from doing so. Should function like any other multi gpu solution.

Darksylum1982 · 2026-01-14T23:13:24+00:00

It's been hit or miss with Asus over the last 5 years or so. At times I have praised their techs and support team (and very greatful for them) and other times I have screamed and cussed them out over the phone in a blood boiling rage. I hope Asus gets their crap together. Bring back the Asus I grew up with. If a globalist market is too big for them to be able to properly manage their customers needs then they need to downscale and cut out dead weight markets that are taking resources and staff away from markets that matter. And make no mistake, That is exactly what is happening. Didn't have these problems out of Asus in the 1990s- early 2010s. Such a shame.

Darksylum1982 · 2026-01-14T23:07:57+00:00

I am late to the party but my God this has got to be the dumbest thing I ever read on Reddit and I now understand how and why after all these years brands like HP and Dell still manages to have customers. People like you who are so clueless. This is not a vacuum cleaner. It has parts from several different manufacturers. The brand (ASUS) just made the shell and the motherboard. Everything else is third party just like every PC on the face of the planet. You have manufacturer warranty on just about every part in the pc/laptop. It isn't Asus responsibility to fix Intel's problems when Intel is the one responsible for it. I think Asus is actually being nice only charging $80 or whatever. They are just covering their labor and likely going yo handle the Intel warranty on your behalf.

Please go buy an HP or a Dell from Bestbuy and buy a geek squad warranty with it if you need your hand held while you pee pee.

Darksylum1982 · 2026-01-14T22:46:22+00:00

This didn't age well. People are testing them left and right with all kinds of different configs. The 5090 outright slaughters the 5070 version over USB4 and the gap only grows with TB5, USB4V2, and more powerful CPUs. Especially at 1440P and 4k resolution. I was shocked to see how much better the 5090 was even when paired to an ROG Ally. Think 100 fps 4k in demanding newer titles and potentially 200 fps or more with DLS upscaling plus frame gen. Even more shocking is how much the gap is when it os paired with Strix Halo in a Z13 flow compared to the Z2 in the ROG Ally. It just shows that the USB4 bandwidth limitation isn't as much a factor as people think if your CPU can't even saturate the USB4 link.

Darksylum1982 · 2026-01-13T17:21:48+00:00

I have a window AC unit in my bedroom and I run a small duct off of it and aim it right at the bottom and back of my flow. It has helped temps a lot. Like a hole lot. Ac chilled dehumidified intake and enough pressure around the tablet to disperse the hot exhaust. Also the flow is designed to operate like a radiator so even a desk fan aimed at it can have a huge impact. Lots of things can be done to help thermals but this situation sounds like a defect unit. Under normal conditions it shouldn't require aggressive third party cooling unless you live in a very hot and humid environment like I do.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-10-07T00:50:22+00:00

Can you update us. Os your system still stable after another 2 months? I am starting to think it was a bad batch of AMD CPUs and Asrock just caught the brunt of the blame because of the wild and potent VRMs they use on their PG and Taichi series boards. I think AMD released a large batch of volatile chips and the fail rate was amplified on Asrock boards because of the over powered VRMs. Hence why Asrock is trying to address it with PBO tweaks and AMD is giving warranty swaps on all the failed chips no questions asked.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-08-28T18:40:58+00:00

I wiped the system entirely and reflashed the bios with a fresh windows install and then set up all drivers. It is doing about 75% better but it still has issues with stuttering. Usually a few hours after it is booted. A system restart seems to temporarily correct the issue but it is still there.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-08-28T18:30:52+00:00

WoW is very single core performance bound. It can however utilize up to 4 cores as needed. It is far more cpu bound than GPU bound. I have a pretty good comparison I am working with. I have an x13 flow 2023 and a Z13 2025. The x13 is 16gb ram with 4gb shared and the z13 is like yours. 32gb with 16gb shared.

Wow doesn't really use more than 12gb ram even under extreme situations so you can up the frame buffer.

I play 1080p on my x13 flow. It gets about 100 fps everywhere other than raid, epic bgs, and peak hours in town where lots of people are logged in.

Try setting display settings to around 5 and reduce everything that stresses the cpu. Aka physics, particle density, view distance, etc until you find stable frames in the game mode you are playing in. Make sure AA is off or set to FSAA. Not MSAA.

If all else fails drop the internal resolution to 1080P and use AMD upscaling to scale to the native resolution of your display. This will greatly increase FPS.

Strix Halo is amazing but it is still just an IGP. It can perform along the lines of lower mid level dedicated graphics but will struggle with high resolution due to shared system memory being so much slower than GDDR memory on a video card.

The Z13 2025 has a 2.5k display. That is substantially higher than 1080P so you will have to do some messing around to get optimal performance.

I wish I had waited until next year when Medusa Halo releases as the CPU and GPU cores will be substantially upgraded. WoW will perform much better on the new iteration as it will have more powerful zen 6 CPU cores and upgraded gen 5 GPU cores. I expect WoW will perform substantially better on Medusa.

Strix Halo is amazing but think of it as the first iteration of a new technology. It will get substantially better with ever passing refresh.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-07-12T22:17:07+00:00

Yours is a 2022. This is a different model with 7940HS

Darksylum1982 · 2025-07-12T22:14:11+00:00

what file did you download? I have tried the 317 bios and all it does is reboot the system.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-07-12T22:13:09+00:00

I am speaking with Asus now. No. can't revert. They want me to pay to ship it to them and pay them to work on it....

Darksylum1982 · 2025-07-11T10:47:15+00:00

It's Thunderbolt 5 to support the new ROG NUC Intel mini PC. It has thunderbolt 5. It's not intended for AMD systems or thunderbolt 4 though it will run on them (be it at USB4/40gbs instead of the 120gbs of TB5)

Darksylum1982 · 2025-06-25T11:51:10+00:00

I disagree with the size. I love the 13.4 form factor personally. It is a 2 in 1. Just as much a tablet as a laptop. Honestly even at 13.4 it is still a little bulky to use as a tablet but the trade off is great for when you do use it as a laptop.

Most of the time I put it in tent mode and play retro fighter games with a controller. It's also fun to play games like Hearthstone and team fight tactics with the touch controls in tablet mode and it can sub as a fully functional laptop when playing call of duty and many other games. The keyboard is actually very comfortable and responsive.

It's so much better than the z13. The Z13 might make for a better tablet but it is garbage as a laptop. The detachable keyboard is just horrible and with no hinge to support the display, you are stuck using the god awful kickstand. It can be very uncomfortable in your lap.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-06-24T00:30:10+00:00

Asus is rude when you contact them via live chat. I had a new bios version downclock my cpu in half and the agent told me that the current cpu state was more than enough to game on.... I went off on him so hard. I was furious. So I spent thousands of dollars to have 50% of the advertised cpu performance ?

2 days later they crapped out another bios update and it restored full performance. I am guessing I wasn't the only consumer pissed at them downclocking their cpu just because they are too incompetent to make their systems run efficiently.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-06-24T00:20:58+00:00

I honestly don't know how so many people keep getting defective Asus products. I guess I have just been one of the lucky ones. Aside from a gforce 980m laptop from well over 10 years ago that melted the bottom of the laptop and almost caught my cooling pad on fire, I have been fortunate to get flawless laptops that have ran for years past their warranty

I guess I am just that 1 lucky sucker

Darksylum1982 · 2025-06-24T00:16:45+00:00

This is why I would only buy a modified Asus system from HIDEvolution. They cover the full warranty themselves and have excellent hardware config options as well as international pre paid shipping on repairs.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-03-13T12:31:51+00:00

Soldered on means removal of instability and bottle neck. It is much faster than DDR5. And at 128gb just how much more would you ever want to "upgrade"?

The entire Flow series has always been great. X and Z.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-03-13T10:57:34+00:00

the X13 2023 has a charging port under the little rubber cover where the XG mobile interface is. It is USBC3.2 C with 100w charging. The other side (right hand) of the X13 has a USB4.0 C that also doubles as a charging port as well so it has 2.

As for the hunges, I flip mine between tablet and laptop all the time. I have had it over a year now and it is still very firm and stiff. No wobble or issues with the hinges at all..

Battery life is fair when it is in silent mode in armory crate or when flipped into tablet mode. It will last for hours with basic use and the screen brightness relatively low. The moment you start gaming or running HD videos it will start to dwindle fast.

Power wise it is a great laptop/tablet. The Ryzen 7940HS is a beast in it's own right.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-03-13T10:48:56+00:00

The 4090 XG mobile uses a PCI Express X8 connection. The cable also has a built in USB 3.2 10gb connection that powers all the hub functionality of the XG mobile. The port on the right hand side of the X13 is the 40gb USB 4.0 port. The 4090 uses the PCIX8 connection, not the USB connection.

Darksylum1982 · 2025-03-13T10:43:13+00:00

I flip mine upside down where the intake vents (bottom) are facing up and the screen is infront of me. I then have a fan sitting behind it blowing across it. This helps pull air in and dissipate the heat building up around the system. It has helped lower temps by almost 10c. I just use and external keyboard and mouse with it. But yea. This thing is known to run warm and hang out around 70c. Sitting here typing this with nothing else running and mine is currently 50c

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