rblaes_99
https://www.memoryc.com/blog/2021/04/coming-soon-new-g-skill-high-end-trident-z-royal-elite-series-ddr4-collection/
 
wonder if i should snag a few of these 5333 kits?  

rblaes_99
i put a pair of gen4 NVMEs (WD SN850s) in my rig even though one was condemned to run at gen3 speeds.  Its just a steam library drive so no biggie.  

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tuanmassey
You have “ Intel adaptive boost technology” disabled in BIOS right? In advanced CPU configuration. If that’s enabled it will “boost” to 5.1GHz. Hopefully that’s the issue.

Yup, this was the issue! Thanks! It saves the right clocks again and retains them in Windows. Also, it seems a good chunk of my temperature rise was due to ambient. It was the difference of probably at least 8°F in the room lol.

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rblaes_99
yooooo.... i just went to modsrigs and sorted by Z590 and it is literally just the three of us!  Did we get the only 3 mobos made or what?  where is Nereus? 

At least 12 of us on the forums got our boards. I don't know where Nereus is (edit: check out post #6 here, I think that's where), but not everybody puts their build on Mods Rigs. Also, I can vouch that the page is broken right now, as I can't edit mine at all. I can view it, but that's it. Some of us have posted about it in the mods rigs section, but I haven't seen any resolutions there yet. I just have some new pictures to put up and I'll be editing it when my new 7000MB/s SSD shows up. I'll have to run a hard drive test and post the numbers in here.
 
Last night I checked the suggestion about the ABT mode messing with the manual overclock, and confirmed that was it. I ran the memory benchmark again with 5.3GHz all-core set, memory at 16-16-16-36, and I got 48ns for latency. I didn't screenshot anything as I was doing some other stuff and just wanted to check things. It does seem like I need to bump up some voltages to be stable here, but I'm still in the "normal" ranges, so it seems fine. I ran the non-avx stress test in BIOS for 10 minutes, then the aida-64 system stress test for 15 minutes, then ran a couple game benchmarks and messed around with BF5 for about 15 minutes. I found a post on another forum (overclockers site maybe?) where they actually said the best way to find out if your 11900k OC was stable was to run BF5 lol. That's currently my go-to game, so that was the most fun stability check I've done so far. I'm basically just trying to really hone in my happy 24/7 overclock. I think I can run some benchmarks at 5.4GHz (at least on 2 cores, maybe all 8, especially if the temperature in the room is low), but I think it wants more voltage there, which would blip into the "extreme" region and somewhat extreme temperatures lol. I saw a couple cores get to 92 during my aida-64 stress test. The package never got that hot, but a couple cores blipped there momentarily. I know a stress-test is basically a power-virus so it isn't really meant for seeing how high you can benchmark your CPU. I just wanted to know what the limits were for 24/7 OC and I think I'm there.
 
One thing I am pondering for the future is my next GPU upgrade. It seems that the 30-series hybrids require at least a 240mm AIO. My current one has a 120mm AIO exhausting out the back of the case. I'd have to put the 240mm in the front. I could go back to air-cooled GPUs in the future, but 1. where's the fun in that? 2. I like my GPU not getting over 54°C even when highly OC'd now that I've experienced this (current numbers), and 3. If I'm going to shoehorn a radiator into the front of my case where there's really not a lot of room, I'm going to see if it can be a 280mm and I can tie it into the whole loop, so it really should be a fully water-cooled GPU. Can I actually fit a 280 there? not sure. It'd have to be slim and the ports would have to be at a very specific location lol, but I'd want to try.

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tuanmassey

Nike_7688
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One thing I am pondering for the future is my next GPU upgrade. It seems that the 30-series hybrids require at least a 240mm AIO. My current one has a 120mm AIO exhausting out the back of the case. I'd have to put the 240mm in the front. I could go back to air-cooled GPUs in the future, but 1. where's the fun in that? 2. I like my GPU not getting over 54°C even when highly OC'd now that I've experienced this (current numbers), and 3. If I'm going to shoehorn a radiator into the front of my case where there's really not a lot of room, I'm going to see if it can be a 280mm and I can tie it into the whole loop, so it really should be a fully water-cooled GPU. Can I actually fit a 280 there? not sure. It'd have to be slim and the ports would have to be at a very specific location lol, but I'd want to try.

You could fit 3 280mm rads on my case! lol

Yeah, I could fit a 240 or 280 in the bottom, a 360 in the top and a 360 in the front...or the 420 in the top and 420 in the front if both were slim and you had ports in bottom of the front one and back of the top one...but you then couldn't fit fans on anything or the reservoir where I have it...or the PSU shroud I have in there. I actually really like the PSU shroud in terms of looks, but it really shrank the working area of the case and has made things quite difficult lol.
 
But as it stands now, I can fit this thick 420mm in the top with push/pull and probably a 240mm in the front. I don't think a 280mm will fit and allow me to get the tubing out of the top rad. I could probably bolt it in there, but I wouldn't be able to hook anything up, so I don't think that counts . So my options are to go with a water-blocked GPU and add a 240mm slim-rad with a nearly impossible fitting configuration, or I can probably fit the hybrid rad the EVGA GPUs come with because the fittings and tubes are small and I wouldn't have to hook it up to the existing loop, which makes fittings easier/possible, or I can get an air-cooled card (boo! )

rblaes_99

tuanmassey

rblaes_99
yooooo.... i just went to modsrigs and sorted by Z590 and it is literally just the three of us!  Did we get the only 3 mobos made or what?  where is Nereus? 

Did you ever end up testing just 32GB (2x16) RAM and see if you can get 3733MHz in gear 1?

yep, two sticks in dimm 2 and 4 runs fine at 3733 gear 1.  4 slicks locks up the BIOS at anything over 3333.  I can wait for BIOS update 1.05 i suppose.  

rblaes_99

tuanmassey

rblaes_99
yooooo.... i just went to modsrigs and sorted by Z590 and it is literally just the three of us!  Did we get the only 3 mobos made or what?  where is Nereus? 

Did you ever end up testing just 32GB (2x16) RAM and see if you can get 3733MHz in gear 1?

yep, two sticks in dimm 2 and 4 runs fine at 3733 gear 1.  4 slicks locks up the BIOS at anything over 3333.  I can wait for BIOS update 1.05 i suppose.  
 

RogueMaster
Well, this isn't quite OC related (yet), but here goes...

Now that the Z590 FTW is on the way, I need to look at some things.  I've got an I9-10900K to pair with the board (Opted for the 10th gen chip, because the 11th gen chips were next to impossible to find without a ridiculous markup from scalpers at the time I bought it) and an MSI Mag Coreliquid K360 AIO to cool it.  All of this is going into a Thermaltake AH-T600 case.

The AIO has it's own TIM, but I was thinking I might be better off getting something that's more robust. It's also pre-applied, and I have no idea how long it's been in the box, much less how well this stuff ages in that condition.

Based on your experiences, and given the number of new builds in the thread, what would you suggest I pick up to replace the stock paste on the AIO?

I've had good luck with Arctic Silver in the past, but those builds have always been air cooled, and the CPU's haven't been OC'd at all.  Now that I'm looking to step things up a bit, I need to look at new options, and I'm not afraid to admit my ignorance or ask for help.  

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment you can provide!

kalsim
Just got my board yesterday but anyone have an idea why I can't get my 3600 memory to run at gear 1?
 
G.SKill F4-3600C16-16GTZR
16-16-16-36
 
Only 2 DIMM's. It ran perfect on XMP on the cheap Gigabyte  board but here it only boots on gear 2 XMP. Any ideas?

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kalsim
Just got my board yesterday but anyone have an idea why I can't get my 3600 memory to run at gear 1?

G.SKill F4-3600C16-16GTZR
16-16-16-36

Only 2 DIMM's. It ran perfect on XMP on the cheap Gigabyte  board but here it only boots on gear 2 XMP. Any ideas?

Nope, that should definitely work. Just to confirm, did you select the XMP profile first, then set gear 1 after that? That should make sure all the voltages and timings are set right on the DIMMs when you apply it. I'm not sure what would happen if you started from default, then just went straight to setting 3600, gear 1, 16-16-36 without adjusting anything else.
 
Also, did you confirm your BIOS and chipset drivers are all up to date? I think they've only had the one version of everything, so I don't think this is it either, but just curious.