donta1979
Well board is here and installed. Ram will be here tomorrow T-Force XTREEM ARGB 8000mhz cl38 2x24
SP P:115, E:91, IMC:83 
So I know my cpu is a full lottery now thanks to the Apex Encore. This board is so nice.

Looking forward to some pics if you have time to post them. 

Tiny bit of cleanup to do on the cable management. But yeah its done... The 8000mhz cl38 T-Force XTREEM ARGB is pretty nice too like their premium T-Crate kits just with bigger heatsinks. I will say yeah my G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 7200mhz cl34 probably should be swapped out, it stopped running at its rated speed stable not just on my Rog Strix E but also would not stay stable without a ton of voltage on the Apex, this T-Force kit just well works.

Nice looking rig.   I like the dark blue & purple color scheme with the hint of white. Looks sharp.

bdary
Nice looking rig.   I like the dark blue & purple color scheme with the hint of white. Looks sharp.

Whats funny is it's just a theme called starry night with red and blue selected as colors haha.

That rig looks great!

So on my Rog Strix E no matter what I did I could not break past 22-24.xK on my cpu. I get the Z790 Apex Encore am running my ram at 7200mhz cl34.... and yeah 25k automatically on windows 11 23h2... 

donta1979
So on my Rog Strix E no matter what I did I could not break past 22-24.xK on my cpu. I get the Z790 Apex Encore am running my ram at 7200mhz cl34.... and yeah 25k automatically on windows 11 23h2... 

Very nice machine .
Ive been looking at components lately, and I noticed that a couple of reviewers
were using the exact same board as you are :)
Including the TweakTown guy Patriot Viper Elite 5 RGB DDR5-6000 96GB Dual-Channel Memory Kit Review (tweaktown.com)
 
Too the Moon !
 

cotter32

donta1979
So on my Rog Strix E no matter what I did I could not break past 22-24.xK on my cpu. I get the Z790 Apex Encore am running my ram at 7200mhz cl34.... and yeah 25k automatically on windows 11 23h2... 

Very nice machine .
Ive been looking at components lately, and I noticed that a couple of reviewers
were using the exact same board as you are :)
Including the TweakTown guy Patriot Viper Elite 5 RGB DDR5-6000 96GB Dual-Channel Memory Kit Review (tweaktown.com)
 
Too the Moon !
 

Using that ram on that board is a waste... cl is way too high with the speed too low. The board is meant for the extreme overclocker or the gamer that just wants to get the best 1% lows/lowest frame time possible. Also here is the thing with intel chips, ddr5 and boards. Your results will vary, like your board may not be up to it, your cpu may not be up to it or both are not up for it, to you need to dial in your settings, a reviewer is not going to spend that amount of time... If one of those elements not right, or not compensated for it will throw off your results big time. Right now I just got 7200mhz cl34 stable, 7600mhz cl36 stable, now I am trying to tweak 7800mhz to get it stable as its messing with my gaming experience and bench scores. Once I get those settings dialed in, I will be trying to get my 8000mhz kit to run at 8000mhz stable...

Probably safe to say Mod Rigs is not going to get fixed

I see what you mean .  It seems like reviewers test whatever they can get for free
from the manufacturers .  They will probably test faster kits on the same board
when they can get them ... but they aren't going to spend the time needed
to really tune things up .  That's why I like this message board .  People here
do take the time, and are good enough to post about it :)
That's moocho-terrifico .
BTW, good luck on your quest for more MHz .
 
Too The Moon !