Tankian the Man

Thanks! Specs are: RYZEN 3700X MSI B450 Pro Carbon TeamGroup 32Gb ram Nvidia 1080ti WB 500Gb Nvme SDD Crucial 250Gb SSD TeamGroup 250Gb SSD Seasonic 850w Titanium Cooler Master Fans (12x) Cooler Master RGB Controler Full Water Cooling Loop from EKWB Thanks glad you like it!

Hi! Finally got the chance to upgrade my PC Desk to hard tube, let me know your thought's on it! More Photos https://imgur.com/a/rCwaGYB Video: Honestly never thought it would be this good, it was my first time working with hard tube, I can't be more happier! Best Regards, Tankian!

Hi! So a spanish website spotted a problem with x570 boards and with Nvidia cards, while testing the new ryzen chips. Did you guys came across with any of this @LinusTech or @GabenJr?! I've translated some of the website to help you out a little, but you guys have tools to make a proper test. Translation from google: "Issues with the launch - AGESA 1003 code and WHEA PCI Express errors on NVIDIA GeForce cards First I start by emphasizing all the time invested to obtain the following results. It has taken me three whole days trying different configurations for this analysis, so let's start: The problems that have been shown with the two processors that I have tried, the Ryzen 9 3900X and Ryzen 7 3700X (which are press samples) are the following: -Problems with code AGESA 1002 NPRP (BIOS for press) -Problems with PCI Express and NVIDIA video cards (WHEA error) These are all the plates that were tested: -GIGABYTE X570 AORUS XTREME -GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER -MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE -GIGABYTE X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI The whole story ... During the first three hours of testing of the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X processor, using the X570 AORUS XTREME board, I noticed the problem when PCMark 8 did not pass the first test (there are a total of ten tests). I realized that WHEA error (Windows Hardware Error Architecture) came out in HWInfo64 (so use this software for PC telemetry). From there I also decided to take more attention to HWInfo64 and I also checked that the BOOST frequencies of the processor had problems, since it did not get to "boostear" all its cores to the maximum that it should, which is 4.6 GHz. It reached 4.5 GHz at 4.575 GHz in a couple of cores and the rest of the cores at 4.3-4.4 GHz ... Mind you, we used press chipsets, like most current chipsets. Image of the Cores not boosting X570 AORUS MASTER BIOS N11 NRPR, como también en BIOS F5c y F5e I thought it was weird, so I decided to write to my contact with GIGABYTE USA (Matthew Hurwitz, I thank him for all the time he has dedicated to find a solution) and I showed him the WHEA (PCI Express) errors, as well as the strange behavior of the boost frequencies of the 3900X. Image of Errors in the WHEA I'm going ahead, this is not a GIGABYTE problem (it was also corroborated on the MSI board that I tried, we have capture in GODLIKE and we found out that another media obtained the same results with the ASUS board). At the time we did not know what was going on and tried to escalate the problem to GIGABYTE Taiwan. Until I received some response from Taiwan (it was still afternoon hours, in Taiwan, early morning) dismantle the board, I tried the MASTER, same results with the last BIOS available. Test, disassemble, test, disassemble ... Midnight GBT HQ gives us news (Matt tells me) and according to their tests, the new AGESA code, including the NPRP BIOS (BIOS for press) replicated our results in mono-core frequencies, BUT, the original BIOS (AGESA 1002, no the code entered NPRP) worked well turbo boost. With this information, I decided to flash BIOS, the first BIOS released for the X570 AORUS MASTER board and surprise, the boost frequencies worked as they should, even yawning the processor at 4.65 GHz. The problem of WHEA errors in the PCI Express continued, so I continued pressing and trying if the problem was maybe the chipset driver. On the X570 AORUS MASTER I tried the following BIOS: -F4 (no problems, PBO does not work well) -N11 (shows problems with turbo frequencies) -F5c (no longer available on the GIGABYTE website, shows problems with turbo frequencies) -F5e (supposedly revised AGESA code 1003AB, but follow the boost frequency problems) For our review, we ended up using the X570 AORUS XTREME (F1 BIOS) which is the equivalent of the F4 on the X570 AORUS MASTER. Image of x570 boosting to 4.65GHZ X570 AORUS XTREME BIOS F1 (Boost works well, can see in capture) Image of x570 X570 AORUS XTREME BIOS F1 Errors WHEA PCI Express (just 5 in the morning of July 5 we could start preparing machine for review after having found a BIOS that works) From there I tried to test an X470 board since the first problem was "solved" (Precision Boost Overdrive does not work with AGESA 1002, but factory performance has no problems) as a board with X470 chipset, not having PCI Express 4.0 , may not launch WHEA errors in PCI Express. We obtained blue screens in Windows 10 when doing a new installation of Windows (you can not imagine how many times we have installed Windows in the last three days) on the X470 and Windows 1903 board. We were able to mitigate the blue screens by first installing a 2700X, installing a chipset driver and then change to the 3900X. The boost frequencies on the X470 AORUS Gaming 7 WIFI works well (AGESA 1002, BIOS F41a) with the 3900X we have sample, but still, WHEA errors from the most current NVIDIA driver (we use a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti). We test another additional driver, same results. Why do we use a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti? To remove limiter bottleneck in 1080p. Let's continue ... After several days of testing, I concluded that the reasons for PCI Express (WHEA) errors can be two: -Diver from NVIDIA -Driver PCI Express If it is NVIDIA driver (since all tech websites and medias use for tests with processors) we hope there is a solution soon. The other reason may be that there is some problem with the PCI Express driver for the Ryzen processors with GeForce cards, BUT, I think it does not go this way ... (although there is some possibility, eventually we will know). The PCI Express (WHEA) errors do not appear with the Radeon VII (which also tests) or with Vega 56 (someone tested with that card and passed me the information corroborating). Unfortunately, for benchmark issues of game processors and to avoid processor bottlenecks, we can not use any of those alternatives (in addition, our data base uses GeForce RTX 2080 Ti). Well, we had access to press drivers (chipset), press BIOS and we got the same results. Even GBT Taiwan were kind enough to provide us with the most current chipset drivers, but without any change (to solve the WHEA with NVIDIA cards). Neither the new chipset drivers solve the problems of factory boost frequencies (this is the AGESA code problem). As I mentioned before, it's not GIGABYTE's problem. Luckily in our press kit, we got an MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE, so we also took the time to try GODLIKE, with the BIOS that came installed (an old one) with the other Ryzen 7 3700X processor that came in the kit As we tested the 3900X trying to fix the WHEA problem and it turned out that the processor boosted no more than 4.3 GHz except for a couple of cores (it should be 4.4 GHz), with the NPRP BIOS (for press) as well as the BIOS most current of its web page (AGESA 1003AB). " And it continues in the website... Source: https://www.xanxogaming.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-9-3900x-review-en-espanol-destronando-al-intel-core-i9-9900k/?fbclid=IwAR1vZ0kj3B0i8J4yUMhkp9j9F2rk_Wuv8lizCj-vTEhY3MIjRuKdzhG9QT8#Problemas_con_el_lanzamiento_Codigo_AGESA_1003_y_errores_WHEA_PCI_Express_en_tarjetas_NVIDIA_GeForce

Hi everyone! I've made a video explaining how much I spent in my project, hope with this I can give you an idea Best Regards, Tankian the Man

AHAHAHA I will take that was a compliment! thanks for your opinion, defenetly not perfect, myabe in the future I will go for hard line!

@CPotter, @LinusTech, @AlexTheGreatish what does the team thinks about this bad boy I built?! Do I deserve a share? ahahaha Best Regards, Tankian the Man

Thanks! Maybe in the future, but for now I will stick with the soft tube All the front fans are Intake and the ones in the back exhaust

Hi everyone! Decided to post my last project, this is something that I wanted to do almost 2 years and finally I manage to have the condition to do it. And was linus did his own, I wanna share mine and maybe inspire someone to theirs! With this said I hope you like it! Video: Photos: Anything just ask! Best Regards, Tankian the Man

Hi everyone, I bring you the performance of HAF in HALF hope you like it! [MEDIA=youtube]zV89zO-U-pA[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]zV89zO-U-pA[/MEDIA] Best Regards tankian!

Hi everyone! Proud to announce the reveal video in the last day of 2017! ahaha Enjoy the video and feel free to subscribe! VIDEO: PHOTOS: ALBUM: https://imgur.com/a/aOmFC Thank you so much for this year, and for all the support everyone gave me! I wish you a Happy New year! Best Regards Tankian!

Hi again everyone! I have some updates, the case is almost complete, still have small details to work with but thing are getting almost complete! So next video will be the reveal one so stay tuned! VIDEO: PHOTOS: Continue: I have already the case up and running and I'm really impress with the temperatures in the stress test I've already perform, trust me you will be With this said stay tuned for the next video! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Best Regards Tankian!

Hi again, and after two week I bring you a big update to the project! This two weeks was about details and prepare everything to receive primer. I manage to complete the top and front cover, the reservoir holes for the tubbing, let see it! VIDEO: PHOTOS Continue... Next step will be the side covers, the RGB controler support, the window for the back 200mm fa, etc etc... I still have tons of work to do before painting but more than ever I'm 100% focus to complete this beast! Hope you like, stay tuned see you in the next update! Best Regards tankian!

Hi again everyone! I've more updates to share with you so lets start! So I manage to glue everything that I needed and started working in the SSD's support and all the covers to hide the cables. Didnt made any footage of about the fans cage mostly because I was streaming at that time, sorry! I will probably add the stream to youtube, I started in English but the stream have more time in Portuguese mostly because I had more portuguese people watching at that time. Video: Photos: Continue...

Hi again! Well I bring you more stuff about the HAF in HALF project, and have to say things are starting to go in a good direction! Manage to make the graphics, psu, ssd's bay and reservoir support Video: Photos: Continue.. Hope you like! Best Regars tankian!

Hi again so today I bring you some updates about the project HAF in HALF. Resuming I started by disassemble the case, and remove almost all revits, then I cut it and rivet it again but turning it a lot smaller! Then I made the motherboard holder using the original one. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXtGfqPzNtU Photos: Continues... Well and thats It still have a lot to work with but for now I'm happy with the results. Wish you the best, cheers tankian!