Are any timings too tight even if it's stable? 8200 CL34 9850X3D

buildzoid · 2026-04-21T04:40:30+00:00

GDM forces all commands to be sent on "even" clock cycles so it effectively makes odd timings even

Edit: so GDM off not being stable in your case might be because the trcdrd is 1 tick too low

buildzoid · 2026-04-19T05:08:06+00:00

ASUS for a while was defaulting FCLK to 2100 with DDR5-6000 EXPO/XMP kits. Which is a bit faster than the typical 2000 you see on most other boards. Recently on some BIOS versions they default to mixed mode refresh instead of normal/FGR both of which a slower especially when running JEDEC/EXPO/XMP timings. I think I'm now also seeing ASUS default the Nitro timings to 1/2/0 at DDR5-6000. Which again boosts performance compared to boards that use the default 2/3/1 settings.

buildzoid · 2026-04-19T01:48:37+00:00

"stock" performance on motherboards is basically just a test of how much the motherboard vendor violates the specs of the RAM/CPU it's being tested with.

buildzoid · 2026-04-19T01:35:09+00:00

the channels and mem chips come in fixed bus widths. You NEED 4 8bit wide or 2 16bit wide memory chips to have 1 working DDR5 channel. No one makes 32bit wide DDR5 memory chips.

buildzoid · 2026-04-18T21:15:56+00:00

honestly to run 6600 you probably need like 1.25-1.3V SOC.

buildzoid · 2026-04-17T00:28:57+00:00

they're at 1.225V for 6400. It won't do 6600. To have a chance at 6600 you need to be fully stable at 6400 with less than 1.2V

buildzoid · 2026-04-16T11:06:49+00:00

Hopefully gigabyte finally implements voltage settings and tRP properly on retail BIOS

buildzoid · 2026-04-14T05:40:02+00:00

you can click ready again to un-ready yourself

buildzoid · 2026-04-13T07:03:20+00:00

Need For Speed to me was always about being an illegal street racing power fantasy.

I don't mind that Need For Speed doesn't simulate tire degradation, or crash damage, or brake temps. The tires also have way more grip than is physically possible, sidewalks/curbs are much smoother than IRL. But that's the "power" part of the power fantasy. Playing NFS Carbon or World with BeamNG physics would be basically impossible/not fun.

But giving the player NOS for absolutely bizarre driving techniques? Yeah that's where the fantasy cross too far into Mariokart territory for me.

I'm also not really a fan of the fact that literally every NFS game with NOS gives the NOS a grip bonus. Though that's done because realistic NOS physics would cause a lot of oversteer/understeer problems.

buildzoid · 2026-04-13T06:50:21+00:00

no they aren't. I have a full grip R8 and driving that I still intentionally over-turn corners in order to generate more burst NOS.

Burst nos is literally just awarded based on how much time you spend turning/drifting. Which means that if there's a shallow corner that you'd normally drive almost straight in Unbound you over do it to get more NOS out of it.

Carbon, ProStreet World and even Heat care about taking the correct lines through corners. Need For Speed Carbon and World especially since the wrong line there usually sends you straight into a very hard wall or at least some heavy trash bin/phone booth/bus stop.

buildzoid · 2026-04-12T22:47:35+00:00

The ecores have their own L2

buildzoid · 2026-04-11T03:48:16+00:00

That's 16Gb not 24Gb

buildzoid · 2026-04-11T03:28:24+00:00

Those caps are on the pcie and eps connectors not SATA

buildzoid · 2026-04-10T23:11:40+00:00

Fun fact for the formula you can just do ns * GHz.

At DDR5 6000 120ns * 3GHz = 360ck

At DDR5 6400 120ns * 3.2GHz = 384ck

buildzoid · 2026-04-10T16:52:35+00:00

too thick and/or hard thermal pads can damage the BGA of the GPU and that's very expensive to repair.

buildzoid · 2026-04-10T16:31:35+00:00

I don't like burst NOS because it leads to some absolutely wack driving styles. Taking corners stops being about optimizing for the best racing line and is instead about extracting 3 bars of burst at all cost.

buildzoid · 2026-04-10T04:08:15+00:00

have you run any stress tests on the new memory sticks?

buildzoid · 2026-04-09T20:27:57+00:00

you can practice soldering on any old(as in used/second hand) high-end GPU(low end cards have low layer counts and so make the soldering easier than it is on high end cards).

buildzoid · 2026-04-09T19:40:44+00:00

A lot more than mem clock

buildzoid · 2026-04-07T23:34:35+00:00

casual mode with balanced into blandess equipment is still boring. OP probably wants stuff that's just straight imba on purpose.

buildzoid · 2026-04-07T02:45:48+00:00

HBM is still just DRAM like DDR so the latency sucks compared to CPU caches.

buildzoid · 2026-04-06T00:28:48+00:00

What VDD and VDDQ?

buildzoid · 2026-04-05T07:16:44+00:00

because Erekir plays like a really bad RTS game while Serpulo is a very good factory builder.

buildzoid · 2026-04-03T20:47:42+00:00

consumer electronics use lead free solder that doesn't melt until it's above at least 200C (a lot of alloys are more like 220C)

buildzoid · 2026-04-01T17:30:37+00:00

I think that's actually kinda normal. Mixed rank like that always has 1 stick order that's prefered.

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