DarkSilentSC

It's pretty silly thought I had over just a few days ago. As I was watching several memory overclocking videos for AMD Ryzen series, and how the emphasis on CPU performance also depends on memory frequency, and 1:1 frequency ratio between RAM frequency and infinity fabric frequency is the most optimal for operation made me think that this talk happened back in the past. Correct me wrong as much as you can, but it's so similar to how the memory was handled against front side bus speed during the days where Northbridge chipset existed. Is Infinity Fabric merely just a northbridge chip that is just happens to be one of the chiplets in the CPU? Or is this something waay more than that? Also, is there an explanation on the Intel's take on removing northbridge chipset? If there are articles / videos I can watch explaining this that would be cool. Or discussion would be awesome. I just that this popped out from my head, that's all.

You got solid motherboard and CPU to start from! You'll be fine. Feel free to always stop and look at the manual once every time. Studying manual before building helped me immensely. I see you have the PROPER grounding wrist-band, so you are waay ahead of The Verge.

This is first time for me to see a computer booting up and playing games with both ECC and non-ECC memory installed to a motherboard!

Is there actually room to put fans on the bottom of the case? I am not heard of this before

After holding 5 years+ on 5960X, finally moving to 3950X build, with RGB fans. I’m sorry in advance that I have not yet choose what RGB color to go for. Ryzen 9 3950X - I have yet to apply the tweaks suggested by buildzoid G Skill Trident Z Neo 4x 16GB 3600Mhz CL16 Corsair H150i RGB Pro (I should’ve got Kraken one instead) 6x ML120 + 1x ML140 RGB Fans Aorus Extreme X570 Motherboard Samsung 970 Pro nVME SSD 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus nVME SSD 500GB I have not installed yet until I start my hackintosh project... EVGA P2 850 Power Supply NZXT H710i EVGA GTX 1080Ti FE Creative Sound Blaster AE-5

I ended up pulling the trigger for 3950X instead hahaha.

Whoa, is it that you won the silicon lottery, or how much voltage are you pushing it to 5960X???

Update: I kept on getting additional BSDO, now it got worse at 4.3Ghz @ 1.401V... Yikes X.X But it still beats i9-9900 in multicore score. Just not the K series and above. I see why this guy is still going strong..

Even at 1.35V my 5960X is keep on returning CLOCK WATCHDOG TIMEOUT BSOD so many times. ;__; It boots fine at start, but it throws off when I put CPU in 100% state (Not Prim95 stress test, just light benchmarking programs like Geekbench 5 or some game benchmarks). I'll put my cash aside until when AMD makes any kind of announcements in CES next month. My take on next month is focusing more on mobile processors, but will see.

I'm doing little bit of everything. Gaming, VM, Sound Mixing, Video Editing, etc. More cores the better for VM for sure. I also checked my Geekbench 5 vs 9900K... still a far way to go. Imma try 4.5Ghz soon and there's no way I'm injecting this more than 1.4V... Do I wanna just drop the cash and go for Threadripper instead...? But gaming wise 3970X doesn't really perform better tho.

Alright. I decided to push the CPU from 4.2Ghz to 4.4Ghz instaed @ 1.396V... Stupid silicon lottery but oh well.

I have now i7-5960X @ 4.2Ghz running for 5 years now, and I’m seeing 3rd gen Ryzen processors showing up. R9 3900X seems to pack more cores for less price than I first purchased 5960X before. Do you think 5960X is still powerful enough to keep going and there aren’t strong reason enough to jump ship to 3rd Ryzen? Or R9 3900X is clearly the better CPU now? Or should I even wait for 3950X to actually be available again? It’s not easy to decide since there are no direct game benchmark differences between them. I know I have zero reason to upgrade from 1080Ti.

Well, I moved the sound card above my GTX 1080 Ti, and this fixed my problem! My GPU shouldn't lose buses, since 5960X and X99 should allow X16-X16 PCIe lane configuration...

I have Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality card. If I use the headphone on the sound card, I get humming noise with amplification if I move my MX Master mouse around, or play LinusTechTips videos. If I use the front headphone panel on the front (where the front panel port connected to the sound card), there are no noises! So weird! I've swapped different cables, isolated all speaker cables away from power and video cables with no success. Any tips would be really appreciated!

I finally got my dominator platinum and I'm done for now. If I ever get extra time to further work on my build, I'll add window panel and motherboard heatsink painting to complete black / white color combination. Thank you to those who watched and responded.