ApolloX75

I know that several Ryzen systems I have built over the last couple years were slow on the first boot with a new CPU. How long are you giving it? I'd swap back to your 3600, clear CMOS by shorting the pins (the little jumper labeled CLRTC at the bottom of the board) and then try turning it on. Let it sit for a couple minutes as long as the fans are spinning and it's actually running, let it self configure and see what it does. Then update your BIOS to revision 4204 from the Asus support site. Power off, swap CPUs and CLRTC again and let it sit and think about what it's done again.
 
Give it a shot and see if it works, I won't guarantee anything though, it's just what I've personally seen over the last couple builds with Ryzen.
 
The last three (2600, 3600X and 3800X) systems I built had to sit and think about it for a few minutes before they went past POST the first time. Had me on edge that's for sure.

New or used the ring would be fine. A lot of block options. Still plenty on eBay. Just gave away 4 myself. 
A nice pump is just for piece of mind. 

Here is my old AST that still gets used on occasion by my 11 year old son.
 
AST Advantage Pentium 1 233Mhz, 64mb 72 pin SIMM, 10gb BigFoot hard drive, S3 ViRGE graphics. Monitor is an AST 14" and even still uses the AST keyboard and mouse.

The start of my custom length floppy and IDE cables 🙂 

Our competition has heated up quite a bit. Jeffro has thrown in the towel on his X58 attempts realizing his 920 can't match my 975 (even though it's dead, I have the broken spare that actually overclocks better) and has brought in the big guns with an Asus Z87-A and a 4770K, which he is now combining with a pair of 290Xs. Bravo Jeff, taking a note from my playbook.
 
I'm not worried.
 
He managed to overclock the 4770K to 4.6GHz (with my help haha) and has made a little custom loop (his first, aww, using my spare parts of course) to cool it. Respectable.
 
However. The skies are darkening over his short-lived victory dance as my secret weapon has not yet been revealed.... It arrives next week and I shall call it the Jeff Crusher.
 
Also my 780 Ti's are not worried by his 290X reinforcements, as they overclock like mad and run at 24C all day with the Heatkillers on them. Also I can add a third in at will now, I have the stuff to do it.
 
In other news, one of my spare Ti's has bit the dust for now, but I managed to repair the other malfunctioning one. However it dislikes it's stock cooler, I'll find a workaround for that. I also have a Heatkiller IV Pro arriving this week for my secret weapon as my cheapo Amazon blocks likely don't have the surface area or cooling ability to handle what's coming. I have also secured high speed 2400MHz DDR3 with excellent timings to add to the mix.
 
We have both agreed the competition stops here, as we are getting a little nuts and we're both stubborn as hell and don't know when to stop haha. Either way it's going to be a hilarious reveal when he comes down in a couple weekends for the final benchmarks.

If you remove the 3.5 hard drive holder you can fit some pretty long cards in there with direct cooling from the front fan. Looks like just a couple rivets to drill out and it's easily reversible, often the holes are sized such that you can put case screws back in to hold things together later.

Ah yes and the terror of watching the buffer to see if you could keep it full because you realize too late the drive you're burning to is slaved to the drive you're reading from and that ATA-33 is just barely able to keep up with overhead.

I remember when I bought my Creative 6x4x24 CD-Writer fondly. I also remember, quite a bit less fondly, how LONG it actually took to write a CD at 4x, let alone 6x....
 
Good grief that felt like months per disc.

Meet my "New" optical drive, the Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200.

This is a slightly modified (and very long) Hewlett-Packard IDE drive enclosed in a plastic case. It reads and writes CD-R and RW disks at 4x, and can also play audio CDs through the front headphone jack or passthrough in the rear. Connects to the computer via USB (and soundcard Line In through the 3.5mm jack if desired). 

I picked this up with the intention of harvesting its IDE drive, but I love it as an external device so I think I will keep it that way. Although very large and not particularly fast by today's standards, it is nice and quiet, works with every OS I have tried, and burns disks flawlessly. 

No more whiny fan! Upgraded the cooler on my GeForce 6800 today and the difference is incredible.

Copper coldplate, two heatpipes, and two-slot finstack keep this card running in the mid 40s under load.

The fan also blows nice cold air over the power delivery and memory modules, instead of blowing exhaust onto them like the stock cooler.

Connected to a fan header set to AMD™ K8™ Cool and Quiet™ Technology™, the fan is completely inaudible when sitting a few feet away. Huge difference from the stock fan, high 70s under load and earsplitting whine. 

Bad news though, it takes up four slots. It uses tall screws on the back of the card to hold the cooler on, blocking the PCIe slot above, and the thick heatsink blocks two PCI slots below the GPU. You could squeeze in a card in the last PCI slot but that would really choke out the fan. I am willing to trade my sound card for this cooler though.

I found this wacky little Altec Lansing computer speaker set, the ADA885. THX and Dolby certified with a little LCD screen on them, and the speaker design is very unusual. Unfortunately it looks like there is a DIN connector on each speaker that would have to go to a reciever or subwoofer, so I doubt the display and all that would work correctly without it. 

These sadly do need the woofer to work correctly. Shame there since I would've loved to pick these up. Still though I'd share though as they are quite cool

Just Firestrike at this point. Last time someone ran it with this combo was 2014, so I'm sitting at top of the charts hahahaha.
 
I'm sure I'll be there for a few years and someone will come along and blast it away again.

Ahhhh.... Good news/bad news situation. Good news? I broke another 3D Mark record with the 975 and a pair of 780 Ti's. Sweet.
 
Bad news? I found the max voltage my 975 can take. And it's gone. 🤣
 
Time to get another from China I guess, but I also am picking up a six core X5660 on Friday with another Sabertooth X58 board. So I'll have some fun with that as well.
 
Note to self: This jumper baaaaaaad

Ahhhh.... Good news/bad news situation. Good news? I broke another 3D Mark record with the 975 and a pair of 780 Ti's. Sweet.
 
Bad news? I found the max voltage my 975 can take. And it's gone. 🤣
 
Time to get another from China I guess, but I also am picking up a six core X5660 on Friday with another Sabertooth X58 board. So I'll have some fun with that as well.
 
Note to self: This jumper baaaaaaad

Lol. Broke out the Rockit today. Lapped, delidded and then Conductonaut applied to a 4670K. If she wasn't an overclocker before, she is now. Z87 Sabertooth should be arriving any day now as well. Thermal paste on this little unit was dry as a bone anyways, I tested it real quick in a little H81 board to make sure it worked and just tore it apart afterwards.
 
I can't wait, so excited, haven't played with Haswell in so long and it is by far my favorite platform to overclock on.

Well after several late nights, I have a functioning water-blocked pair of reference 780 Ti's that currently overclock higher than a Classy or Gigahertz edition. And run at 24C full tilt while pushing 266W each. And that's with my 975 at stock right now because it's been a bit of a pill to get it cooperating with the Ti's. Tuning that will be tomorrow evening's challenge.
 
Some eye candy....
 
My first water blocked pair, the second card went bad after a few runs even though they were at 19C and stock clocks. So after troubleshooting that and setting that card aside for some repair work later, I set out testing all four Ti's separately and then together to find who worked with who. The final pair clock amazingly well so far, +201 on the core first try and +400 on the memory. Boost clock is now 1220 and they hold thanks to the stupidly good Heatkiller blocks (and my massive radiators). I will continue tuning these cards as I've barely scratched the surface.
 
I had one Ti that would tap out when it hit 83C, it no longer has that issue with the Heatkiller on it and it's clocking like a champ. Go figure.
 
On the plus side, almost all the regular 780s seem to work fine, but I will need to test further and it's time consuming to swap, firestrike, swap, firestrike, swap..... etc. I am attaching 40mm heatsinks to the backside of the card, to the three VRMs that are on the reverse side, on all the air cooled cards and it's dropping the average temps by almost 10C on average per card.

We are doing dump runs to clean out the house before we list it. 
 
Look what I found in my hidden piles of things I've kept for far too long.
 

 
And the original box for my X850.
 

 
 
I'm not throwing these out.
 

Plane landed in Vancouver for LTX only six hours ago.  Already found some classic PC games.
 

haha, send 'em on over if you don't want 'em. I will happily take a look and use what I can. I imagine those P106 cards would use similar chokes to my reference 780 that needs one, maybe even caps too if I'm lucky.
 
I've got two NOS Heatkiller waterblocks coming for the 780s and I found more I can get. I'm going to have way too much fun with these cards I think.

I'll send you some of my dead cards, might have some spare parts you can use too. You want with or without coolers?

Wow that hot plate was worth every penny. So all four 780 Ti's work fine now save an issue with one shutting down when it hits 83C. They're founders coolers so they suck, I'll waterblock that one and see how it reacts. They all hit 83C, just one doesn't like it.
 
All the 780s so far work fine. In fact thanks to my hot air and hot plate I was able to salvage a choke off the exploded card and transfer it to the one 780 that would not boot, it had a cracked choke by the power delivery. That card works perfectly now.
 
Edit: 9/10 ain't bad. That's a win in my books. And I'm reasonably sure that if I can salvage the right cap and another choke from some other card, I can fix the fireball 780 too and make it 10 for 10.

Wow that hot plate was worth every penny. So all four 780 Ti's work fine now save an issue with one shutting down when it hits 83C. They're founders coolers so they suck, I'll waterblock that one and see how it reacts. They all hit 83C, just one doesn't like it.
 
All the 780s so far work fine. In fact thanks to my hot air and hot plate I was able to salvage a choke off the exploded card and transfer it to the one 780 that would not boot, it had a cracked choke by the power delivery. That card works perfectly now.
 
Edit: 9/10 ain't bad. That's a win in my books. And I'm reasonably sure that if I can salvage the right cap and another choke from some other card, I can fix the fireball 780 too and make it 10 for 10.

Wow that hot plate was worth every penny. So all four 780 Ti's work fine now save an issue with one shutting down when it hits 83C. They're founders coolers so they suck, I'll waterblock that one and see how it reacts. They all hit 83C, just one doesn't like it.
 
All the 780s so far work fine. In fact thanks to my hot air and hot plate I was able to salvage a choke off the exploded card and transfer it to the one 780 that would not boot, it had a cracked choke by the power delivery. That card works perfectly now.
 
Edit: 9/10 ain't bad. That's a win in my books. And I'm reasonably sure that if I can salvage the right cap and another choke from some other card, I can fix the fireball 780 too and make it 10 for 10.

I have one 😁 I'll be putting it to work tonight on a few of the cards just working with the cores. I like having the oven to do the complete board just in case it's an area I overlook.
 
I even have a hot plate to preheat the PCB.

I am absolutely in love with that CPU cooler.
 
Side note... we're borderline here now with the competition but JEFF insisted I allow cards from 2013 in so he can run an R9 290.
 
My response.... 
Received ten, 4 Ti's, 6 regulars. 8 worked out of the box, four of which were the Ti's, so that's all that matters. One powers on but won't display, may just need a baking and #10 put on a fireworks show. Not bad considering my past luck.