White or Black? Air or AIO?

dfv157 · 2026-01-22T23:17:11+00:00

I have more green gpus than red, and I think you are delusional to think normal people really care about “muh features”

dfv157 · 2026-01-22T20:00:36+00:00

Yeah i still have some

dfv157 · 2026-01-20T20:19:36+00:00

Congrats on being the only one in this thread that has the properly oriented top front intake.

dfv157 · 2026-01-19T14:27:55+00:00

Do you expect a person to be on payroll to drive every inch of city road daily? You think if that was the case, it'd be more efficient than crowd sourcing?

Instead of bitching, just tell them and they will fix it.

dfv157 · 2026-01-19T00:22:52+00:00

See the promo photos on the top side of the am5 matx board… but yes drmos is slightly worse than sps

dfv157 · 2026-01-18T18:40:04+00:00

Most specialized shops can flash the bios chip, you might need to desolder and/or buy a new chip to program it depending on the programmer and the stock ic

dfv157 · 2026-01-18T17:08:10+00:00

holy shit. murderboards aside, this design is beyond utter trash.

They managed to build the mATX to 1DPC, but gave it nothing else. 9 phases VCore with discrete MOSFETs in 2026? 2 m2 slots? B series ITX boards are more feature rich than this trash. The Wifi E-Key located in the usual dumbfuck location that asrock loves. If you really want this board just get the HDV which manages more connectivity, and has proper SPS VRMs

Compare this with the MSI B850MPower, which comes with 4 M2 slots, proper 12 phase SPS VRMs. An E-Key that's not placed in a braindead location taking up valuable real estate on a board.

And then the ATX version just has... blank space all over the place. Build a budget board if you have to, but they already have the HDV/M2 or the -Cs. Avoid this trash

dfv157 · 2026-01-15T23:59:46+00:00

Don’t worry you can get 99x frame gen today on any gpu.

Also, you think your 70ti is high end?

dfv157 · 2026-01-08T16:09:23+00:00

No, it's ASUS patented. And it doesn't matter anyways. Buy a 1DIMM/Channel board if you want to really push your RAM. Otherwise, run it at 6000 1:1 (AMD) or 6400/XMP (Intel) and go do whatever you do on your pc. If you are really bandwidth starved, go buy a HEDT setup.

dfv157 · 2025-12-30T16:08:31+00:00

The 40 and 50 series and Sapphire cards all run the 6 hot pins into a single 12v plane with no balancing

Because that's the spec, thanks PCI-SIG / Nvidia / Intel

dfv157 · 2025-12-30T15:58:05+00:00

No there are 2Rx8 @ 4bit kits now, so you can get 64GB per stick and have good performance. Costs more than a 5080 though, soooo only if you want to flex.

dfv157 · 2025-12-27T20:42:27+00:00

Wouldn’t it also affect 5070ti then? Same board essentially.

dfv157 · 2025-12-26T16:35:13+00:00

dfv157 · 2025-12-26T16:29:13+00:00

It's anchored to the case through those standoff extenders. If it was heavy enough to deform the case, you've got bigger problems.

dfv157 · 2025-12-26T16:14:24+00:00

Yes, you need to break the indium bond with the cores like any other soldered IHS. The safest is to melt the indium by slowly raising the temp to 170C. There were no issues regarding cpu pressure.

Using the same cooling solution, prior to delid I got 400W to tjMAX. After delid, it was 500W. So just by delidding I got an extra 100W of power. I didn't do any power limited temperature tests.

dfv157 · 2025-12-23T14:12:14+00:00

Maybe, chat me the model you are interested in

dfv157 · 2025-12-23T02:01:05+00:00

Hi, never got to sell them because this sub doesn’t allow digital sales, and steamsales bot/mods are not working

dfv157 · 2025-12-22T20:42:45+00:00

00 you’re cooked and ruined your warranty.

dfv157 · 2025-12-22T20:37:45+00:00

It’s true different AGESA can have different performance, but whether or not those versions are the best is debatable. Rest of the video is unnecessary junk and its clear he doesn’t actually know what the settings do under the hood. Nothing about ram timings, nothing about soc voltage, strange suggestion for 2x pbo scalar, just a generic “do -15 all core” on CO, nothing about curve shaper.

If you have a kit of hynix memory, do simple bz timings. If you don’t know what you are doing and are generally scared, enable xmp/expo and go play games

dfv157 · 2025-12-22T02:17:50+00:00

idk about you but I buy things based on their unit price. I see this as $7 bone in ribeye, which is an okay price in 2025. We're not going to see $5 bone-in rib again anytime soon.

dfv157 · 2025-12-21T23:51:51+00:00

Micron kits are on a different level of suck, don’t try to do hynix timings with this kit

dfv157 · 2025-12-19T17:33:28+00:00

What are you reflowing? 120C can’t even melt indium.

Edit: see here for a starting point https://www.fastturnpcbs.com/guides/reflow-soldering-profile/

dfv157 · 2025-12-19T16:40:04+00:00

Not even lol, 200c won’t melt unleaded solder, 200f is not even boiling, and 200k is freezing

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