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    My Gigabyte Windforce 970 out of the box it runs around 1320MHz and can overclock to 1550MHz. Out of the box my GTX 1080 runs at around 1990MHz, and can overclock to around 2050MHz. The 970 is on the higher end of the silicon lottery, while the 1080 is mediocre. GTX 970 Windforce, stock (boosted to 1315 MHz).
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    Consider rounding to a more appropriate number of significant figures.
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    The cooler has to dissipate the heat of 2 dies only partially covering them, it sounds about right for a single fan AIO trying to dissipate that much heat. I saw the 68°C on the local stores website and thought it was a typo. Ryzen has a thermal cutoff at 95°C, and throttles around 85+, Threadripper is just 2 of these, and there isn't any significant reason that I am aware of that would lower this temperature limit of the CPU.
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    Removing the processor leaves the motherboard pins exposed, which is an unnecessary risk. Any paste that went over the edges won't affect cooling performance.
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    What program are you using, does it use AVX2 instructions? What are the ambient temperatures? What do you mean by 'exceptionally hot'? 85-95°C?
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    You need RAM in the system for it to work. The CPU LED error is most likely the memory controller on the CPU complaining that it didn't find any compatible memory.
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    My 1080 idles at 1215 MHz with monitors at 144Hz, lowering framerates and disabling gsync can help lower the idle clock, but it isn't a huge problem for me running at that speed.
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    I had some issues with a 3x1080p 60Hz configuration on a GTX 970, the extra VRAM resources required for the background tasks caused a VRAM bottleneck in some games which were pushing too close to the limit. In this case disabling the secondary monitors helped a lot. I currently run 3x1440p 144Hz on a GTX1080, and the performance hit of the additional monitors is barely measurable.
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    https://www.amazon.com/Yi-Create-Strips-Light-Connecotor-Splitter/dp/B071FD83D2
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    Asrock are hit and miss. Many of their boards are great, good value and have good support. Some of their boards get no support (even some of the expensive ones), and they occasionally have serious design flaws. I would avoid this one myself.
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    Well, I guess I will take my non-existent business elsewhere. Yes.
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    The Asus X99 installation tool was very similar to this and in some cases had slight deformations or burs causing improper CPU mounting. I wouldn't trust replacing a CPU mounting component with a 3rd party 3D printed mod as the accuracy will likely not be good enough. Will you provide warranty in the event that the CPU and/or Motherboard dies due to a manufacturing defect on the installation tool resulting in improper mounting pressure?
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    These are not replacements for Synergy. I used to use Synergy many years ago when it was free and it was extremely handy. If I still needed that functionality I would be happy to forgo the cost of a burger to buy the software knowing I won't get access to different versions of the software which is standard for a lot of software that haven't yet moved to a subscription payment model.
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    Temperatures can change very quickly on the CPU, and fluctuate a lot. The temperature reading cycles are slow, and not always in time, and you may see small differences (1-5°C) because of this. The faster/more frequently the software updates, the more resources it requires. Larger differences of around 10 °C typically indicates one of the programs is reading something wrong. From my experience CAM is a POS, and the CPU # on the temperatures appears incorrectly assigned compared to other monitoring programs (eg. "CPU 2" in CAM is "Core #7" in the BIOS, HWinfo, HWmonitor and AIDA64 on my system).
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    I would try 16-16-16-39 at 2666 to begin with, if it works, then try 14-14-14-34.
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    That looks like the average shipping cost to NZ, have you set your location correctly?
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    If you can't get it stable at 2666 then it would be concerning as the IMC should be able to achieve that. Are you on the latest BIOS? Try clearing the CMOS, and also try reseating the CPU and RAM.
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    Try increasing the DRAM voltage to 1.38-1.45V, if that doesn't help, then increase the SOC to 1.1-1.2V. If that doesn't help then it is likely the IMC isn't great and you will have to manually set a lower memory clock, try 2933, if that doesn't work try 2800 or 2666.
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    That board is ok, and has had decent BIOS updates. It doesn't have base-clock overclocking support if that is a particular feature you wanted. I would not recommend using RGB RAM as they can be easily bricked, but if that is a risk you are willing to take it is your decision.
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    Reset the CMOS, and retest. Try rerunning the test individually with only 1 of the tests active at a time (CPU, FPU, Cache).
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    Yes, No, Maybe. If the RAM is rated for it, the motherboard is rated for it, the RAM is on the QVL, and you get lucky on the silicon lottery with the CPU's IMC, then you can run 3000+ MHz. Officially the IMC on Ryzen CPUs is rated to 2666 MHz with single-rank dual channel, anything above this is an overclock and not guaranteed. At release the limiting factor was mostly BIOS support for compatible RAM, however most of those limitations have been resolved with BIOS updates and the odds of achieving a good overclock has improved, although it is still possible to luck out.
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    mkv and mp4 containers both can have x265 video. If the same video is encoded at the same bitrate with the same codec, then they will be the same.
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    If you want a single program then don't buy multiple vendors products, they all use different software ecosystems. You will need about 5 different programs to control all that RGB and running multiple applications can conflict and corrupt the SPD on the RGB RAM if you aren't careful.
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    That is a pretty aggressive (but fast) way of doing it... I prefer to start with stock settings, run benchmarks (4 runs of Cinebench multi, 1 single, a series of handbrake encodes, AIDA64 stress test and memtest86) leaving everything on auto, and validate stability before overclocking. If there are any issues, then parts can be RMA'd. I then gradually increase CPU clock speed testing for stability monitoring system power draw, temperatures and performance with replicate benchmark runs, making sure the changes are improving performance. If the system crashes, increase vcore until stable again, then carry on. If the VRM or CPU temperatures are too high I stop. Once I am familiar with how the particular processor behaves, I would decide on the optimum overclock based on the performance and power draw data, then set it, run 24 hour stability tests and fine tune as needed.
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    I have not lost a PC due to power failure, but I have lost hundreds of hours of productivity and had a few instances of data corruption. The only equipment that I have ever had fail during a power outage was a half million dollar mass spectrometer which was connected to a UPS (which had old batteries). It is very important if you have a UPS to test the batteries regularly, as a UPS without good batteries has no use at all.
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