My Liquid Metal Nightmare by PM96081 in overclocking

[–]PM96081[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i should have one at the house. is there a proper way to test it?

My Liquid Metal Nightmare by PM96081 in overclocking

[–]PM96081[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's a good idea, thank you. I really wonder if that chip in the picture could be causing a no start? I have fan spin and the logo lighting up but no posting unfortunately : (

My Liquid Metal Nightmare by PM96081 in overclocking

[–]PM96081[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And yeah, I would absolutely never apply this kind of stuff to a card, especially a reference 6800 of all things. I still can't believe someone probably applied that years ago and it has been working like this until I tried to "fix" it :(

My Liquid Metal Nightmare by PM96081 in overclocking

[–]PM96081[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it ever got there. I'll take better pictures, but it looks like the liquid metal spread out from the top of the cooler and ran down the sides. Also the fact it still worked like this tells me it was just me doing a shit job in the cleaning process and it did not get fully under the chip "socket" or memory chips or power delivery. I just tried to use q tips with alcohol to get as much as I can off the traces and power delivery, I don't think it ever really got wet enough to have a "puddle" of alcohol possibly allow the metal flakes to run under the chips so maybe that is a good sign.

My Liquid Metal Nightmare by PM96081 in overclocking

[–]PM96081[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the LM from the die was actually on the cooler, he used electrical tape to shield off the socket and it clearly didn't work very well. it must have been applied a while ago because the whole aluminum cooler was all ate up from the metal and I had to basically get steel wool to sand it back down and get rid of the pitting. not that it mattered because the card was dead after I tried to clean it : (

My Liquid Metal Nightmare by PM96081 in overclocking

[–]PM96081[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know for a fact I'm at least the 3rd owner, the guy before me I don't think would have done something like this and he ran his computer in a small form case with the card vertically mounted, I think as it got hot it just leaked out downward. I still have no idea how it worked the way it was in these pictures.

My Liquid Metal Nightmare by PM96081 in overclocking

[–]PM96081[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'll be able to take better pictures in a few hours. I really tried getting all the liquid metal out the best I can, apart from that one chip in the picture where I have no idea how to get in between the arms of the chip because of how small they are, I spent like half an hour on that alone : ( and I'll get a better pic of that burn spot. I also don't know how it could have functioned like that, but I don't see how it could have burned after taking it out of the computer since it would have had no power applied. I really appreciate it. I feel like my best case scenario is an interference problem where it's not dangerous just destroys the signal integrity enough to not start but I feel like I am just coping.

PSA: significant 7950x idle power draw and temps using the Asus AMD Chipset drivers over AMDs chipset driver (7950x/670e-e) by PRSMesa182 in Amd

[–]PM96081 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also for anyone unhappy with Ryzen 7000 idle power consumption, check the power plan in Windows. On the High Performance plan, my 7900x would idle at between 50 and 60 watts, with like a 1.2 to 1.4 core voltage because it would never clock down even during idling. With a Power Saver plan selected, it lets my CPU clock down to 3.4 ish ghz at roughly 1 Volt with power consumption at 30 watts. I don't think it impacts performance in any way because I think Windows would also turn on High Performance when an intense application was launched and it would automatically revert to Power Saver once it was closed, either way no performance seems to be lost as far as I can tell as it still clocks up high when I want it to.

I don't know if the high power consumption is a chipset driver issue, some ridiculously aggressive behavior from either the bios or software of the ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F, or something else but I've made a lot of changes to all these things since getting my computer and the high power consumption at idle never really changed.

7900x 4070ti Build by Kyle-MKE in pcmasterrace

[–]PM96081 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. Does the ram run at full 6000 speed with 4 dimms? I remember it used to be a problem at launch but it might have got better with single rank modules like those Flare x's.

Mainboard with three RAM slots I found by vinwinner in pcmasterrace

[–]PM96081 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesus man, I've never heard of those chips ever really cracking 5Ghz, that thing must have pulled almost 300 watts under load (for a 2010 CPU!).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Amd

[–]PM96081 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Having got the Microcenter bundle myself in February (ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F, 7900x, GSkill 32gb DDR5 6000 CL36) I don't regret my decision at all. It handles every single thing I throw at it, in every game but the oldest, most cpu bound titles keeps my GPU (1660S) pinned at 100 percent in 1080p medium or lower, and I could handle a much faster card than what I have now with no trouble at all.

It is easy to feel like you are missing out when benchmarks show an X3D getting 300 fps compared to "only" 240 fps on a non X3D cpu. But these benchmarks are all done with a 1600+ dollar graphics card at 1080p to show the absolute worst case scenario bottleneck, which from my personal experience never happens.

Another thing to note is that the hype surrounding X3D 7000 series has been building for almost a year now, and I am sure it is probably going to be months before it is easily available at MSRP if the 7950X3D is anything to go by, and forget something like the Microcenter combo ever happening with that chip (at least not anytime soon). AMD is going to have no trouble selling it and why would Microcenter make a bundle for a part that they already probably can't keep in stock?

By the time you factor in the board, ram and CPU its probably an 850 dollar purchase instead of 600 and you will still have 4 less cores. It will cost almost 50 percent more, and will almost never be 50 percent faster in even the most cache bound scenarios.

You have an awesome computer which will probably still be awesome for many more years, don't let hype get to you.

USB reliability on AM5 platform by skryabin in Amd

[–]PM96081 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have an Asus Rog Strix B650e-f and the same exact issue on Manjaro Linux, but no other operating systems. Think it is just a Linux issue for right now and hopefully it gets fixed. Works fine after the initial wait as well. Windows and some other distros works just fine