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    SMGJohn reacted to Chris Pratt in ryzen 5 5600 + 4000mhz ram   
    First off, don't trust anything you see on YouTube.
     
    Ideally, yes, your RAM clockspeed should run 1:1 with the FCLK. The "sweet spot" for that is anywhere from 3600MHz to 4000MHz. Lower and you'll be leaving some amount of performance on the table. Higher and you have to run async. 4000MHz is borderline. Theoretically, Zen 3 can hit a 2000MHz FCLK, but in reality that's exceedingly rare. However, you can simply downclock it until you can hit the maximum FCLK. If you do end up running it async, that can carry a performance penalty of up to 25%, but it's highly dependent on the use case. Depending on the game, you may notice nothing, or it could be significant.
     
    For what it's worth, since the 5600X is a single CCD design, running 1:1 is not as important. It still effects communication with the I/O die, but you don't have to worry about communication between multiple CCDs with higher end parts like the 5900X or 5950X. 
     
     
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    SMGJohn reacted to Drama Lama in HUB concludes that if you have a lower end CPU a Radeon GPU may be a better choice (if you can find one 😆)   
    well on Linux AMD has actually better drivers than Nvidia
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    SMGJohn reacted to PocketNerd in HUB concludes that if you have a lower end CPU a Radeon GPU may be a better choice (if you can find one 😆)   
    I haven't had bad experiences with either company, but honestly my comment had my tongue planted firmly in my cheek.
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    SMGJohn reacted to DagonX in Looking for a high airflow Chimney-Style case   
    So mainly, it's just about having really good airflow while being really quiet. My current case is ancient and quite loud.
    I also felt that it just made sense to go from bottom to top, as that is the natural way hot air is rising, anyways. I am not, however, against a more traditional design, as long as the Fans are large and therefore quiet.
     
    Thanks, I'll check it out 🙂
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    SMGJohn reacted to Victor_ in Are there any 15.6 inch laptops that have 4 m.2 slots for storage and are 11th or 12th gen intel?   
    Are there any 15.6 inch laptops that have 4 m.2 slots for storage and are 11th or 12th gen intel?
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    SMGJohn got a reaction from Demonic Donut in Vega 56 with Morpheus II & modifications   
    Its no denying Vega 56 is a very hot card both in performance and in temperature.
    After all it will easily do 300W and even 400W with mods.
    I was one of the few morons who bought this card brand new at MSRP on release day with the infamous blower fan that AMD likes to use.
    As expected, the card had horrendous cooling, reaching easily 95 degrees and throttling, and its VRM doing 110 at times with core hot spots up in 120s.
    This kind of cooling is unacceptable, so 4 months ago I decided that I should get a Morpheus II because I had enough with the fan spinning at deafening 7000RPM which yes for those of you its LOUDER than the R9 290 reference card.

    When I got the Morpheus II, I had good core temps but I noticed one major problem, the VRM was not getting cooled properly, infuriated by the poor design choice from the manufacturer of this heatsink to exclude PROPER VRM cooling, (this may offend some) I cut apart the reference shroud because I hated it with passion, seeing how its aluminium I did it all with a hand saw and some files.


    As one would expect, I not only got superior VRM temps of 70 to 90 degrees vastly better than the 135 it would do with the ****ty heatsinks provided in the package.

    According to 3DMark, a regular stock Vega 56 should do 20 528 FireStrike score.
    Mine however does 23 124 its of course no ground breaker but what is interesting are the temperatures allowing me to do 1705MHz stable on the core and 1100MHz on the memory with acceptable temperatures that will reach 80 in high demanding tasks, however its noted that in 3DMarks own tests the RTX 2070 in FireStrike does 22 593 which is very good obviously either GPU's will differ and because Vega are off a different design school the 2070 will perform better in most games.


    With a bit time on hand and some really basic cavement tool skills, its possible for anyone to do this, manual tools is all needed, no machine tools yes I am a bit sceptical wielding power tools with no protection, nothing to fasten what I am cutting properly better to do it manually in this case its also more economical.

    Because early Vega 56 do not have have the mold on the chip I was forced to use a thermal pad in this case the Carbonaut, I heard better stuff with the IC diamond pad but Carbonaut should perform superior with good mounting pressure.

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    SMGJohn reacted to Eighjan in Planing to build a new PC.   
    Is Intel a must...?
    Have you considered AMD at all...? They're much better value, if nothing else.
  9. Informative
    SMGJohn reacted to Bitter in ITX Case cooling, air or water cooling?   
    Water cool to move CPU heat out of the case, if possible also water cool the GPU or at least get it some cool outside air to it and good exhaust for it. You should still have a fan to move air across the board to keep the VRM happy though.
  10. Agree
    SMGJohn reacted to Fasauceome in ITX Case cooling, air or water cooling?   
    Crank those fans, and I bet the thing will lift right off your desk!
     
    You might be able to get better surface area with a cooler, squeeze a 240mm radiator on one side of the case, but with such a large heat sink already, and all that airflow, I doubt you'd see much an improvement
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    SMGJohn got a reaction from IAmAndre in Vega 56 with Morpheus II & modifications   
    Its no denying Vega 56 is a very hot card both in performance and in temperature.
    After all it will easily do 300W and even 400W with mods.
    I was one of the few morons who bought this card brand new at MSRP on release day with the infamous blower fan that AMD likes to use.
    As expected, the card had horrendous cooling, reaching easily 95 degrees and throttling, and its VRM doing 110 at times with core hot spots up in 120s.
    This kind of cooling is unacceptable, so 4 months ago I decided that I should get a Morpheus II because I had enough with the fan spinning at deafening 7000RPM which yes for those of you its LOUDER than the R9 290 reference card.

    When I got the Morpheus II, I had good core temps but I noticed one major problem, the VRM was not getting cooled properly, infuriated by the poor design choice from the manufacturer of this heatsink to exclude PROPER VRM cooling, (this may offend some) I cut apart the reference shroud because I hated it with passion, seeing how its aluminium I did it all with a hand saw and some files.


    As one would expect, I not only got superior VRM temps of 70 to 90 degrees vastly better than the 135 it would do with the ****ty heatsinks provided in the package.

    According to 3DMark, a regular stock Vega 56 should do 20 528 FireStrike score.
    Mine however does 23 124 its of course no ground breaker but what is interesting are the temperatures allowing me to do 1705MHz stable on the core and 1100MHz on the memory with acceptable temperatures that will reach 80 in high demanding tasks, however its noted that in 3DMarks own tests the RTX 2070 in FireStrike does 22 593 which is very good obviously either GPU's will differ and because Vega are off a different design school the 2070 will perform better in most games.


    With a bit time on hand and some really basic cavement tool skills, its possible for anyone to do this, manual tools is all needed, no machine tools yes I am a bit sceptical wielding power tools with no protection, nothing to fasten what I am cutting properly better to do it manually in this case its also more economical.

    Because early Vega 56 do not have have the mold on the chip I was forced to use a thermal pad in this case the Carbonaut, I heard better stuff with the IC diamond pad but Carbonaut should perform superior with good mounting pressure.

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    SMGJohn got a reaction from Fasauceome in Vega 56 with Morpheus II & modifications   
    Its no denying Vega 56 is a very hot card both in performance and in temperature.
    After all it will easily do 300W and even 400W with mods.
    I was one of the few morons who bought this card brand new at MSRP on release day with the infamous blower fan that AMD likes to use.
    As expected, the card had horrendous cooling, reaching easily 95 degrees and throttling, and its VRM doing 110 at times with core hot spots up in 120s.
    This kind of cooling is unacceptable, so 4 months ago I decided that I should get a Morpheus II because I had enough with the fan spinning at deafening 7000RPM which yes for those of you its LOUDER than the R9 290 reference card.

    When I got the Morpheus II, I had good core temps but I noticed one major problem, the VRM was not getting cooled properly, infuriated by the poor design choice from the manufacturer of this heatsink to exclude PROPER VRM cooling, (this may offend some) I cut apart the reference shroud because I hated it with passion, seeing how its aluminium I did it all with a hand saw and some files.


    As one would expect, I not only got superior VRM temps of 70 to 90 degrees vastly better than the 135 it would do with the ****ty heatsinks provided in the package.

    According to 3DMark, a regular stock Vega 56 should do 20 528 FireStrike score.
    Mine however does 23 124 its of course no ground breaker but what is interesting are the temperatures allowing me to do 1705MHz stable on the core and 1100MHz on the memory with acceptable temperatures that will reach 80 in high demanding tasks, however its noted that in 3DMarks own tests the RTX 2070 in FireStrike does 22 593 which is very good obviously either GPU's will differ and because Vega are off a different design school the 2070 will perform better in most games.


    With a bit time on hand and some really basic cavement tool skills, its possible for anyone to do this, manual tools is all needed, no machine tools yes I am a bit sceptical wielding power tools with no protection, nothing to fasten what I am cutting properly better to do it manually in this case its also more economical.

    Because early Vega 56 do not have have the mold on the chip I was forced to use a thermal pad in this case the Carbonaut, I heard better stuff with the IC diamond pad but Carbonaut should perform superior with good mounting pressure.

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