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fair enough. Avoiding PCIe really is the goal at this point, seems like settling for ~3.5gbps over USB or switching motherboards is really the only option

huh, the issues I had were on an updated Windows 10 system. I wonder if they got the same patch. No amount of disabling power saving or making sure I had the latest drivers seemed to make them stable for me.

I looked into x540 but it seems like it's old enough that Intel dropped support in newer drivers and most available are counterfeit. Have you found the $50 options to be reliable? Looks like the newer ones are $300+ so I'm likely just going to swap the board for the x670e aorus xtreme with 10g onboard. It also looks like the PCIe slots are aligned such that I won't lose one when using my 4090

They were sitting directly above the bottom intake fans in a fractal torrent, if that can't handle the heat I'm not sure what could. I get the sentiment but the optane drives are also being used for caching and other applications like redis-on-flash playgrounds where the zero/low QD performance matters a lot. I'd really rather switch motherboards entirely to something with onboard 10gig/thunderbolt than have to eject that optane drive.

I'm tempted to settle for 3.5 since that'll at least allow me to fully utilize my internet connection as long as it's reliable. I guess I'll grab the sabrent unit and see how it goes since serve the home didn't hate it. Are there any ways to utilize the thunderbolt header on the board without also consuming a PCIe slot? ASUS' TB AIC is one of the only hits I can find when searching for a product to utilize the header. Then again, I may be misunderstanding the function of that header, maybe it's more of just a DRM handshake than actually providing bandwidth.

Hey all! I've been a little unhappy with the 2.5gbps onboard NIC on this board, it bounces between 1300-2000mbps even though my comcast service is consistently 22-2300mbps down (measured on macs via a thunderbolt dock with 10gig ethernet) and I'd like to transfer intra-LAN faster than 2.5gbps allows so I'm seeking a different option. I've tried using a couple PCIe 10gig cards lately (namely the ASUS XG-C100C and TRENDNet TEG-10GECTX) but both consistently dropped out after a minute or two of a heavy load. Ideally I don't want to tie up a PCIe slot as I really only have one available (the 4090 is massive) and I'd like to keep using my PCIe optane drive so I'm not wearing out NVMe drives with large shadowplay recordings and other constant read/write. Is there any reliable way to get 5-10 gig over the USB 3.2 2x2 (20gbps) port? I see offerings from sabrent and trendnet but it sounds like they're also apt to just drop out. Anyone found a solution that works well?

Yeah that's sort of what I'm trying to figure out here. With intel those slight deviations from BIOS were on the order of .015-.02 volts, not .25-.3

So you're saying it's normal for the vcore to be .1-.15 volts higher than specified in BIOS during 100% load?

Just in case I wasn't clear originally, the BIOS is set to 1.2v and in windows the CPU is usually running at 1.43-1.45v

even in that scenario with OCCT which is a 100% load using AVX2 I'm still seeing 1.3-1.35v which is significantly higher than the 1.2v specified in the bios. This is just very out of the ordinary from what I'm used to on team blue. I'd love to know if this is normal, or potentially a bug with the F30 bios?

I just set up a 3900XT with a gigabyte Aorus X570 Master and haven't touched a single setting (not even XMP on the memory) yet both HW info and CPU-Z are telling me that my CPU is averaging 1.45 vcore and hitting around 1.49 at times. Should I be concerned about this? Is there some setting I need to disable to prevent this? The vcore setting in the BIOS (running version F30) shows it's set to 1.2v but the only time I see anything below 1.4 in the aforementioned monitoring tools is when running something all core like OCCT, in which case cores bounce between 1.3-1.35v. I guess generally I'd just like to understand my new CPU/motherboard and am wondering what's adding on the extra .2-.3 volts on top of what I see specified in the BIOS.

Great! Sounds like I'll be better off with the Noctua fans. From my experience with them, the hum is certainly preferable to the Corsair fans. Thanks for the explanation, I'll certainly be coming back to this equation from time to time.

I'm curious if anyone has a quick and dirty way to calculate the rated dBA of fans times the number of fans. I'm not a math person but I do know that dBA scales with logarithmic growth wherein each additional 10dBA is roughly a doubling in perceived noise, so I know the answer can't be as simple as "add them" otherwise my current config would be ~150dBA which it (most certainly isn't). As a real world example, I'm wanting to compare noise values between six (6) Corsair LL120 fans (24.8dBA, 1.61 mmH20) against three (3) Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 2000 fans (29.7dBA, 3.94 mmH20). Let's say (for simplicity's sake and the desire to stay on topic) that static pressure scales linearly where two 1.61 fans produce 3.22 mmH20 of pressure. I realize this may not be the case but I'd like to suspend disbelief on that for now. Does anyone have a "close enough" shorthand way of calculating the total dBA given the dBA per source and number of sources?

Fantastic, thanks. Now time to wait for mobilevideodevices to respond to my "email for pricing"

Is the Magewell HDMI 4K Plus a USB based or PCIe based solution? Googling for the HDMI 4K Plus returns a card without passthrough, which definitely isn't what I want. Would you link to the product you own/are proposing?