Cadillac94pimpin
@John- What is a good way to test silicon quality? Is it by lowering the voltage or the load and seeing how high the clocks can go? I have not been able to get to 2200 MHZ, but I got close. I only spent a couple hours benching and it was basically run after run and heat soak was setting in. My starting temps kept getting higher and higher. Sort of like a supercharger when running on the track lol IA2's get hot. I think I was at 2175 or 2190 but my starting temps just kept creeping up. Got some cold air coming this weekend to SFLA and I want to be ready. 

Lock the voltage at 1.1V using Classified tool. No other changes need to be made. Then just start about 150 on core and max slider for voltage and power and see if you can complete the bench. If you do, then move to next bin (165) Keep doing this till you crash. Then do the same for memory(Start at about 1200 and move in 50 or 100 blocks). After all that, then introduce some form of cold air on your radiator. To see if you pick up a bin or two.
 
It also isn't just about the gpu it's about the os and drivers and a whole host of other things as well, so keep that in mind.

johnksss

Cadillac94pimpin
@John- What is a good way to test silicon quality? Is it by lowering the voltage or the load and seeing how high the clocks can go? I have not been able to get to 2200 MHZ, but I got close. I only spent a couple hours benching and it was basically run after run and heat soak was setting in. My starting temps kept getting higher and higher. Sort of like a supercharger when running on the track lol IA2's get hot. I think I was at 2175 or 2190 but my starting temps just kept creeping up. Got some cold air coming this weekend to SFLA and I want to be ready. 

Lock the voltage at 1.1V using Classified tool. No other changes need to be made. Then just start about 150 on core and max slider for voltage and power and see if you can complete the bench. If you do, then move to next bin (165) Keep doing this till you crash. Then do the same for memory(Start at about 1200 and move in 50 or 100 blocks). After all that, then introduce some form of cold air on your radiator. To see if you pick up a bin or two.
 
It also isn't just about the gpu it's about the os and drivers and a whole host of other things as well, so keep that in mind.

Thanks! I have not touched PX1 as I wanted to wait for them to address the firmware bricking issue.  I have been using AB for years now anyway but I noticed that the voltage slider is greyed out. I guess I need a newer Beta version that is floating around here. 
I will give those things a shot. I was able to get +160 on core without any voltage adjustments in classified or dipswitch changes and no voltage slider, but that was the best I could do. It would crash at anything over that at the start of the run. Cold air is coming this weekend, but not that cold.. and I can't easily get that air to the radiator but I will try. I was able to get a higher offset on core and mem after tweaking the voltages in classified. 
 
As far as the OS, I'm using a bloated OS with tons and tons of software on it lol, driver is the latest hotfix, my ram is only 3200 MHZ and my CPU is not overclocked. I know all these things are probably seriously holding me back. I will work on all that soon and get back to it. 
 
Thanks for your help!  

Cadillac94pimpin

johnksss

Cadillac94pimpin
@John- What is a good way to test silicon quality? Is it by lowering the voltage or the load and seeing how high the clocks can go? I have not been able to get to 2200 MHZ, but I got close. I only spent a couple hours benching and it was basically run after run and heat soak was setting in. My starting temps kept getting higher and higher. Sort of like a supercharger when running on the track lol IA2's get hot. I think I was at 2175 or 2190 but my starting temps just kept creeping up. Got some cold air coming this weekend to SFLA and I want to be ready. 

Lock the voltage at 1.1V using Classified tool. No other changes need to be made. Then just start about 150 on core and max slider for voltage and power and see if you can complete the bench. If you do, then move to next bin (165) Keep doing this till you crash. Then do the same for memory(Start at about 1200 and move in 50 or 100 blocks). After all that, then introduce some form of cold air on your radiator. To see if you pick up a bin or two.
 
It also isn't just about the gpu it's about the os and drivers and a whole host of other things as well, so keep that in mind.

Thanks! I have not touched PX1 as I wanted to wait for them to address the firmware bricking issue.  I have been using AB for years now anyway but I noticed that the voltage slider is greyed out. I guess I need a newer Beta version that is floating around here. 
I will give those things a shot. I was able to get +160 on core without any voltage adjustments in classified or dipswitch changes and no voltage slider, but that was the best I could do. It would crash at anything over that at the start of the run. Cold air is coming this weekend, but not that cold.. and I can't easily get that air to the radiator but I will try. I was able to get a higher offset on core and mem after tweaking the voltages in classified. 
 
As far as the OS, I'm using a bloated OS with tons and tons of software on it lol, driver is the latest hotfix, my ram is only 3200 MHZ and my CPU is not overclocked. I know all these things are probably seriously holding me back. I will work on all that soon and get back to it. 
 
Thanks for your help!  

I thought the same thing about PX1 and flashing, but I went back to stock 450W vBios, then I ran the newer PX1 and let it do it's thing and no problems. The difference between PX1 and AB is PX1 has boost lock mode while AB doesn't seem to work for that using the modified default.usf file. Or I haven't figured it out yet.
 
+160 is the same as +150. You would need to run +165
 
No problem.

Temps cooled down a bit over night. Same settings as before

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/748533

flyingtoaster85
Temps cooled down a bit over night. Same settings as before

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/748533

Makes me wish I had my desk closer to the window...

Got around to ducting portable AC unit to radiator.. Seem to be stuck at 2235 Max..
I dug out my 3900x just to see what affect I would get over the 5950X and 3950X. (seem to have 150-250 point loss over intel)
 
https://www.3dmark.com/pr/749370
 
I do not see any 3900X  scores above me! LOL.
 
I have put the card back in my 9900K system and will see how that does tomorrow.

emmett
Got around to ducting portable AC unit to radiator.. Seem to be stuck at 2235 Max..
I dug out my 3900x just to see what affect I would get over the 5950X and 3950X. (seem to have 150-250 point loss over intel)
 
https://www.3dmark.com/pr/749370
 
I do not see any 3900X  scores above me! LOL.
 
I have put the card back in my 9900K system and will see how that does tomorrow.

I'm kind of regretting my 5900X purchase.  I guess that is the downside to early adopter.  I'm glad to know that it isn't the card holding me back from getting higher into the 15k range.  All the specs and features should mean faster.  Benchmarks aside seems to run well enough in games.  Would be nice to see Jay or GN do an intel vs AMD 3090 comparison.

I always look for the blue box when shopping for a CPU. If it doesn’t say “Intel Inside” or “Genuine Intel” it might be a Cyrix or AMD.

SLI score Half Kingpin and Half Rtx 3090 ftw3 Ultra :  29377   http://www.3dmark.com/pr/751740

telehog
SLI score Half Kingpin and Half Rtx 3090 ftw3 Ultra :  29377   http://www.3dmark.com/pr/751740

Nice score, glad you're nvlink is all working now, awesome 👍😎