rjohnson11
The Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU is the best gaming CPU out right now, if you're looking for an alternative mod for a gaming PC. 

With the fun side issues that can happen with AMD getting the right hardware configuration and there is some rare bug like in the past that would be my luck, to Microsoft doing an update and messing with them. I would rather not. 

Awsome arm .
 
Too The Moon !
 
 

Wow yeah you went all out. Nice souvenirs you have there Donta

That is...a lot of work. It looks like a fun place to be. Probably brings a smile to your face everywhere you look. Well done.

So far Office Depo and now Amazon sent me the plain black Steelseries Headsets when I orderd the cyberpunk 2077 ones... So last shot is ebay if I get sent standard ones again I am giving up on that and hoping new ones come out for Phantom Liberty...
Guts upgrade is coming.
Got the AIO... it actually outperforms the EK Elite 360. UPS hub Jacksonville FL someone was so kind to put my package on the wrong truck... Then UPS tried to blame the weather, I was like hey have the common curtesy to tell me the truth please its not the weather because I got the other part of my order and for whatever reason they parted ways in Jacksonville FL. Yup low and behold it was put on the wrong truck. Thanked the UPS customer service agent, the funny part no updated tracking to wrong location with the redirect, it showed up in my city tonight magically.

My wifes CLC control board keeps going out, so will give her my current pc's 12900kf, z690 edge ddr4, ram & EK Elite, should push the 3090 TI more than well enough now over the 10900kf. I went with DDR5 7200 because I know that should work unless my 13900k is just horrible, most top out around 7400mhz, so avoided the 7600 kit to avoid dialing it down, didn't want to rely on chance/luck with the memory controller. 

Well guess I need to fully learn how to OC this 13900k and my DDR5. Got the gpu up high but then my cpu started to take performance hits. AIO is actually better than my EK Elite with six Vardar S fans... As it stands right now its the best one on the market it can actually cool a 13900k, friend is cooling his 13900KS with one.
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/37677239

CPU took a nasty hit once I really OCed the card.
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/37678018

Build I think is done, office is not have not touched it in days, have some more art to hang up, still tweaking my LED's to make them pop, waiting on my OLED Cyberpunk 2077 displate metal poster, need to hang up 2x of my Tarot CP 2077 Displate posters, waiting on custom key caps still, last attempt on a headset if I get a normal one instead of the Cyberpunk 2077 on this third attempt am giving up. Only upgrade I may do if I can find a Display arm that works on my Metal Magnus desk probably in fit and can handle the weight then will be going after a 45" LG OLED 3440x1440 Freesync+GSync Ultrawide display.


Checked my mailbox and finally! Just waiting on the dongle to show up to pair with it.

So I went through a bunch of pages, and I just realized I had forgotten to ask something. Did the contact frame actually keep lowering the temps after a few weeks of install as in it was slowly bending the CPU to the shape that it should be at?

Flybye
So I went through a bunch of pages, and I just realized I had forgotten to ask something. Did the contact frame actually keep lowering the temps after a few weeks of install as in it was slowly bending the CPU to the shape that it should be at?

it first started to lower temps, voltages reducing the bend in the first three days, about week 2 or 3 since my bow was so bad it was fully fine again better than when I first put the cpu into the board prior to the mass bowing. On the CPU lid bow you pretty much can get away with first putting an aio/cooler/block on and be fine, it will still happen eventually over time though... seen a few of those. The second an aio/cooler/block has to come off, the bowing of the lid fun really happens at an accelerated rate. At least that was my case.

I've found Time Spy to be completely crap on 13900k. I watched HWiNFO64 a few times and it was only using 2 cores, one P core and one e-core to run the test...and not even fully loading them (~38% and ~12% respectively). I asked UL about it and they responded back with an answer along the lines of that benchmark doesn't really know what cores are P/e and can't load more cores. They suggested Time Spy Extreme as it loads more cores. Basically they think it's a microcode/OS problem and don't care to make it work right. I actually got better scores on 12900k, but I'm wondering if it was just because it had fewer cores to choose from, so by chance it would pick more P-cores.

B0baganoosh
I've found Time Spy to be completely crap on 13900k. I watched HWiNFO64 a few times and it was only using 2 cores, one P core and one e-core to run the test...and not even fully loading them (~38% and ~12% respectively). I asked UL about it and they responded back with an answer along the lines of that benchmark doesn't really know what cores are P/e and can't load more cores. They suggested Time Spy Extreme as it loads more cores. Basically they think it's a microcode/OS problem and don't care to make it work right. I actually got better scores on 12900k, but I'm wondering if it was just because it had fewer cores to choose from, so by chance it would pick more P-cores.

Its more or less the same issue we had with DDR4 3200mhz performing about good as 3600mhz, then 36XX-3900mhz there was that wall of diminishing returns, that you had to bust though with DDR4 4000mhz+ CL14-16. DDR5 the first big gain was 6000-6600mhz, Then pretty much anything above 6600mhz to 7600mhz is nearly the same diminishing turn wall. Once you go to 7800-8000mhz you breach that performance diminishing return wall. I will say in CP 2077 I saw really no performance difference going from my 12900kf on DDR4 4000mhz CL16 b-die going to a 13900K on 7200mhz CL34 DDR5, I did see a huge jump in 3dmark went from 17.5k ish due to my 4090 reducing my CPU score or at least that's what I think it was only thing I changed out on that system, to an almost 22k cpu score in timespy. Friend gets an even higher CPU score than me on his 7800 and 8000mhz DDR5 kit.

I do agree they should upgrade it, but we know they probably won’t… :/