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  1. SebastianEier
    Ah ok. Not that often on LTT forum, if thats the precedent then ofcourse i would and i will Just thought because they had this feature that was the precedent set. Spec MSI Gaming M5 z370 i9 9900K with H100i 32GB HyperX Mem 1TB nVME 960 EVO Gigabyte GTX1080TI
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    I understand you're frustration if you feel like I did an uninformed purchase. Well aware this PSU wasnt and isn't great value. But i like the OLED screen, it's high end build quality and fully aware i could drop the oled screen and just buy direct from Seasonic and save a couple hundred bucks. People spend 200$ on sleeved cables, not great value either, but i can understand why.
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    Can't you see my specs on my profile? (i9 9900K, 1080TI, 1TB nVME etc) Yes, and i also paid 250$ for Razer hyperflux computer mouse. It's a free world. This is the correct price. The way i view it, it comes wtih 10 year warranty. So worst case scenerio I'll have to buy a new one in 10 years, i.e. yearly cost of 35£, not to bad imo. The reason i bouhgt it, is because I was getting sick tired of my CX750M coil whine and noise. So wanted the best quality i could get. Given that Seasonic (Asus supplier) is amazing in terms of quality i bought the 1200w thor. Now you might ask why i didnt buy the 860W for 100$ less. Becuase if i ever do multiple GPU in the future, i want to keep my options open, and if I'm going to spend 250$ i might as well go all the way and not think about it. Having said all of this, HOW can i control the LEDS?
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    So I now have the Asus Thor 1200w installed it it works great and looks great. However I can't figure out how to control the RGB leds. I have an MSI motherboard, MSI Gaming M5 Z370. There is a RGB labeled cable that followed with the PSU, but i dont think it will fit anywhere on my motherboard (it would probably fit on the fan headers but dont wanna fry anything). How can I control the Aura RGB's on my PSU? Currently its permantely red.
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    Talked to a rep. who said it wasn't available for Norway. Even thought we have Premium , Family plan (and SheerID which works in Norway) they don offer it.
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    Can't find any news on this, but back in late November they added student discount (50%) for YouTube Premium. I Cant find anything other than normal or family plan. I found help center links, but none of them directs to a student discount website. I cancelled my current premium to move to Student discount (it said in guidelines that you first had to cancel current subscription to get Student subcription) but to no success. Are anyone able to find youtube premium page sign up for students? Or know where to click. Already read the Help Center guidelines from Google to no success. If you can find it, can you post screenshot + what region you are in? Thanks in advance
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    My chip would often fail RealBench stress test even though it survived Prime95. So you only change 2 settings? ATX offsett still auto? What motherboard do you have? I don't think that i got a crappy i9 (but who knows) as it failed when i "OC" to stock speeds (i.e. prob a config / bios error, am running it on a z370 after all)
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    I've had major OC problems, on z370 (high end with 10 power phase design (MSI Gaming M5)) and I've tried to OC different ways, like expert mode and simple mode. Can't seem to be able to OC anything in expert mode might be because i do some settings wrong o BIOS is outdated (im not sure hwat all V settings are and how much aproximately they should be so leave all at Auto except the Core clock which i apply to all cores as fixed). And Now im running stock as thought i had stable 5.0GHz all core (with that high voltage) but apperantly its not stable as when i isnstalled a GTX1080Ti it began crashing very rarely but enough for me to go back to stock. Is there any in-dept OC turorials for i9-9900K on Z370? Ive OC a lot before on my previous i7-8700K and i5-3570K but I seemt to struggle to "OC" to stock speeds even. Leading me to believe i do somehing wrong in Bios in expert more or Bios update required. Already updated bios to support the i9. What settings do you use and how do you OC yours to achive such low voltage (did you test with IntelBurnTest, Prime95 and Realbench?)
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    My i9-9900K 5GHz OC at 1.35v
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    forgot to mention, the latter card is https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N108TGAMING-OC-11GD#kf
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    Hi, So I'm buying a used GTX 1080 Ti this week (planned), and there are quite the variety. Im primarily only looking at aftermarket coolers (not FE). However to put it strictly, some of them have 6pin + 8pin and some 8pin + 8pin Does this make any difference in reasonable overclocks? Like I want to overclock the card up to the point that I can hear it and the noise becomes an issue (i.e. if the fans have to speed up to 100% I'm not gonna run it at that speed). Not looking to break any records. Specifically, what would for example be best a dual fan - triple slot GTX 1080Ti Palit Jetstream with 8/8 pin or triple fan-dual slot 6/8pin? For best OC with lowest noise.
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    So i have 2x 4K displays (24Inch LG Displayts) and i love them. When i write programs and software development, watch videos and all the resolution is amazing. However I do sit quite close to the computer, so much so that i can still manage to see pixels when i "try" (yes not even that hard on a 24Inch 4K displays, but then again when i look at a FHD display at 1080p it's like going back to the "old days"). If there where 8K displays og 5K displays on a 24inch size I'd probably save up for them. However, i saw that Linus reviewed a 5K display by LG (27inch). Now it probably has the same pixel density -ish, compared to my 4k 24 inch displays, so i thought as a third monitor in a triangle setup (2x 4k's at the bottom and one 27" 5K in the center on top) to be a nice setup. However, he goes into detail stating you can't get 5K on windows giving thunderbolt limitations due to displayport 1.2 etc. However newer graphics card ahve displayport 1.4 and i believe the RTX cards have USB-C. Does the limitation still apply? Specifically the LG Ultrafine is a really cheap monitor when bought manufacturing refurbished https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LG-UltraFine-5K-Display-Monitor-5120x2880-Resolution-Display-27MD5KA-RRP-1179-/132807054082 "Cheap" being relative of course. And if USB-C/Thunderbolt is out of the question, are there alternative 27Inch 5K displays? Thanks in advance for your input
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    Yeah, well I didn't do it for practice, I have delidded practically all CPU's in the past that I have owned, so this wasn't something new for me. Already owned a delidding tool which makes the procedure pretty safe too. I was also just curious how much it would impact something which has such low temps already as Newton's law of cooling states that thermal transfer is directly proportional to the temperature difference. Hence, delidding should give greater gains at higher temperatures. So would i see any gains on something that's already running at 46C? Given the fact that the max temp still dropped by 10C i think it is safe to say Intel's thermal solution is pretty shitty. But keep in mind i also went from aluminium heat sink to H100i, i wanted to try aluminium heat sink as well after the delidd, but given how liquid metal interacts with aluminium that wouldn't have been a good idea.
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    wtih LN2! What do you mean? I pre-ordered the i9 9900k but my order was delayed for 2 months, so i bought a $45 CPU as temporary solution for my desktop. Warranty who cares, it's a $45 CPU! This delidd was for fun, i like modifying my hardware
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    YES! This must be done! The LTT community must and shall investigate better cooling solutions for the Intel G4900! I might actually try that!
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    Hehe, it is not a troll post, I actually delidded it. The true story here is that i sold my i7-8700K, then i got notified that my i9-9900K pre-order was delayed by 2 months, no way im being without a desktop for 2 months, so i bought the cheapest CPU you can have on a Z370 board as a temporary solution. I already had the delidding tool (delidded many CPU's before) and for fun i used my liquid metal thermal paste (don't need to use much of it so still got something left). But everything here is legit research! I did it for fun, because when your stuck on a G4900 CPU this is the most fun you'll have ?
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    So, Imagine this, you have a $45CPU that runs 54W at max performance, with no OC possibilites. Why not use a $30 delidding tool, with $20 liquid thermal paste, then top it off with a corsair H100i? Well, here we go. I did that with my Intel Core Celeron G4900. 3.1Ghz dual core, we are talking about some serious horsepower here. Clearly delidding is not just warranted, but needed ^^Thermal paste used Now. What kind of massive ROI (return of investment) are we talking about? Well, to start with, with the normal included aluminium only cooler. We got hot temperatures. Running prime95 for 30 minutes made the CPU reach 46°C (as max temperatures) Now whats the after temps? After running Prime95 for 90minutes continously we got 36°C as max temp. WHAT A RETURN!! Now, given the nearly double digit improvement, I can only recommend this to my fellow Intel Celeron G4900 dual core users!
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    I'd be careful making such assumptions. I'm sure it will in general if you take lots of games, 2 threads in general will give 1 core performance. The only issue with this, is that games rarely support more than 8 cores, let alone HT. I play lots of Prepar3d a flight simulator that plays at times better when HT is turned off, it simply doesn't want to use HyperThreading. Thus I'd take 8 real cores over 6 real cores wtih 6 extra threads for gaming, as you make the assumption that a) it uses HT, which not all games do, lots just use on thread on each core. and b) that the game uses more than 8 threads, as if a game is limited to using 8 threads or less, 8 cores beat 6 cores+2threads any day of the week given no siginificant background applications running. Hence, i think this limits down the "evens" out scenario is pretty weak. Having said that, i still, as stated earlier, would discourage the upgrade from 87-97, as it is an upgrade and a downgrade. And i believe the "happier" option is that when you upgrade, you upgrade all aspects of it, which the 99 does. This I am not aware of, i know about the i9 limitations. Where did you find this concern being raised? In addition to that, I doubt the performance upgrade in games is going to be any significant at all from 87-97, perhaps the gain is even within margin of error, as we are speaking of games that run 6 cores or more, which are quite few and far apart that would benefit from 8 real cores.
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    Hi, So i am awaiting my i9 9900K (don't get it until November despite early pre-order), and I am a big fan of delidding, i delidded my i5-3570K and saw siginificant thermal benefits, was about to delid my i7-8700K but decided recently to wait it out and sell it to finance the i9 purchase. Debauer (de8auer?) showed 8 degrees lower average temperature, which from 90 to 82 degrees, is still a significant thermal gain. Thus I am considering delidding it. But the i9 is soldered, i am experienced in delidding before, but is the procedure different for the i9? and if so, how/what equipment is needed. thanks in advance
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    SO, this is my take on it if you should upgrade. A, can you sell your i7-8700K for a good price? This is necessary if you don't want the upgrade to cost a lot! B, do you game or productivity? Gaming i will assume is better at the 97, as it has 2 more real cores, however it has 4 less threads, so productivity will go down. If you are considering upgrading from the 8700K, i would go to the 9900K as it really is the only one where you gain performance in both aspects, thts why i chose the 9900K, as 8700->9700 would be an upgrade and a downgrade, simply not worth putting money into if you ask me
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    I noticed Hardware unboxed showed siginificant worse performance on z370 compared to z390, due to power limits, he did turn them off, but there was still a performance gap. I have pre-ordered the i9-9900K and waiting to install it on my z370 board (sold my i7-8700k) but looks like im going to wait a little while as Intel have stocking issues in Norways retailers. Hence should i go ahead and try and sell my z370 board to buy the z390? He did say in the video "cheaper"/"lower end" z370 boards, and i have a MSI Z370 Gaming M5, not exactly low end, but not very high end either (180$ now on amazon, 200$ msrp). Is my board good enough to sufficiently power the i9 wtihout bottlenecking it? Thanks in advance
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    thanks, response couldn't been better So looks in terms of hardware changes (only patch i will accept, don't consider microcode and software to be fixes, but rather botches, as "good" hardware doesnt need software/microcode to "fix" it. Spectre V2 = NOT FIXED Meltdown V3 = FIXED Meltdown V3A = NOT FIXED "V4" = NOT FIXED "L1/LT" (cant see what it says) = FIXED
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    Hi, I Just sold my i7-8700K to buy the i9 9900K (don't need a lesson in price/performance, i just wanted the best and using the money i sold the i7 for made the i9 not that expensive), and i am wondering whether the same problems* experienced by the 8th gen still exist. *meltdown & spectre etc If i understand it correctly the bugs where an architectural flaw which could only be "fixed" (but more like "botched" leading to marginal performance decrease, especially in storage if i remember correctly) by updating BIOS and windows drivers. Did they mange to fix the flaw before the 9th gen? Surely it makes sense for consumers to think so as a new product shouldnt have a flaw, but at the same time fixing a architectural flaw, implementing it and then get it through new testing phase, then getting it into production must take some time. Do anyone know whether it is fixed, and if so do you have sources? I tried to search google with no luck, probably an answer out there but must be buried in "news and leaks" which mostly came up. And one more thing, I had to update my bios to newest version (i have z370) to support 9th gen, is the bios patch applied regardless what CPU is installed (only relevant if 9th gen is fixed), I know this question is way more techinical and harder to find out, but I would be surprised if they managed to make 2 different versions to operate in the BIOS for different CPU generations, but maybe it's not that difficult, as said IDK. Thanks in advance
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    Why though? what's the SLI difference between GTX760 amd GTX770?
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    So I got a cheap deal, i found one GTX760 for 35€ and one for 15€, both work. They both have SLI compatibility and both have 2x of those SLI bridge connectors. My only issue is, my motherboard comes with "MSI SLI HB BRIDGE M" Thus it comes with an HB bridge not normal SLI bridge. The issue is on nVidia's website the list HB compatbility as - nVidia I don't see how GTX760 and GTX770 have a difference in SLI technology? Is nVidia just being laxy and forgetting about the GTX760 (as recent generations have kept SLI a high end feature) or am i missing something? Can't test to see if it works, as i lost a PSU cable to connect a second GPU (my PSU can do it as it is 750W, i just lost the cable) so I am waiting for new cable in mail, should take a week or max two weeks. Can i expect to see it work when PSU replacement cable arrives, or should i go out and buy a regular SLI bridge straight away? (anyone running gtx760 sli?)
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