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2024/09/14 18:13:13
cotter32
I needed more cooling, so I repurposed one of the 3.5" drive cages that reside under the mother board tray into a fan bracket .
I had to do some drilling for fan mounting holes, but it turned out good .
Below is the new fan assembly featuring Noctua 92mm fan .

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This gets some air into the back side of the CPU socket when installed .
 
2024/09/14 18:40:29
cotter32
Shown below is the fan installed in the bottom of the case .  The other 3.5" drive bracket is laying on top of the PSU .
The fan points up into the case mother board tray CPU area cut out, blowing air around the edge of the EK CPU cooler mounting bracket,
and into the back side of CPU socket, and also through the tray cut out to the under side of the mother board .
Now there are 9 fans total .  Almost in Mr. rjohnson's league ;)

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The new fan is on the left .  The digital camera makes it glow white-ish .  It is really Noctua mud brown .
 
2024/09/14 19:11:16
cotter32
The final "locked" run with the new fan is shown below .  Also, the bottom and right side case dust filters are removed this time .

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Score is now up to 42133 at 98C max. temperature .  CPU Package Power consumed 408 watts .  Better .
I think it was worth the work   I saved the profile, but I must admit that the thing runs beautifully in Default mode with XMP1 6000 .
Under moderate load it will turbo two, or three cores to 6.1 Ghz, even flashing to 6.2 from time to time, and stays at about 40C .
At idle it runs at 1.1 GHz, and 30 to 35C .
That's all on testing for now .
 
Too The Moon !
 
2024/09/16 19:50:21
cotter32
I found the PL1 and PL2 power limits control in the BIOS, and lowered the Pcore freq. to "locked" 5.6 GHz for a better overclock .
The BIOS default setting for PL1 and PL2 power limits is over 4000 watts .  Seems a little high :|  Pcore base freq. is 3.2 GHz .
With PL1 and PL2 limits set to 377 watts, and processor set to 5.6 I get nearly the same score at lower temperature .
Score 41932, maximum core temp. 89C .  CPU package power is 356 watts .
See test below .

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I decided to save this one .  I'll use it again .
 
Too The Moon
 
Gamdias Neso P1 case, Supermicro C9Z790-CGW main board, Intel 14900KS CPU, 2 x 24 GB Viper ELITE5 DDR 5 RAM, one 2 TB Crucial T500 gen.4 main drive,
two 1 TB Crucial P3 gen.3 storage drives, EK Velocity Sq. pump, heat sink, and reservoir combo, plus 420 MM radiator, nine Noctua case fans .
 
2024/09/17 08:40:25
B0baganoosh
Looking great!
2024/09/19 16:09:38
cotter32
B0baganoosh
Looking great!


Thanks very much, Mr. BObaganoosh .  Also to Mr. rjohnson11, Mr. Cool GTX, and Mr. Hoggle .
Your kind words have encouraged me .  I hope it's been entertaining, I've got just a little more, below :)
 
Too The Moon !
 
2024/09/19 16:40:46
cotter32
To improve my keeper overclock temperatures I decided to lower the Ecore speeds to 4.4 GHz .
It seems like you don't get a lot out of making them go faster, except heat :)
See run below with Pcores "locked" at 5.6 GHz, and Ecores at 4.4 GHz .

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My score dropped a little to  41308, but my CPU package temp. is down to 85C .  I can live with that under heavy load .
CPU package power 323 watts .  At these settings all cores seem to stay locked better .  In fact sometimes the
Ecores and Pcores all run at the same speed when in Windows "balanced" power mode .
 
2024/09/19 17:09:38
cotter32
Also at these settings it will run RAM better at XMP2 5600 38-48-48-78 .  At the BIOS default settings XMP1 6000 42-42-42-82
works best .  Anyway I got a few points back on my R23 score by using XMP2 profile .
See XMP2 results below .

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Temperature is down to 84C now .  CPU power 322 watts .  Score is 41510 .
 
 
 
2024/09/19 17:35:03
cotter32
Now that the temperature is under control, and everything is all synced up, I raised the PL1 and PL2 wattage limits up to 433 .
The idea being that it will provide for voltage spikes, or power excursions, as Intel calls them .
 Below is my final settings run .

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CPU package temp. went up 1C to 85C . CPU package power 322 watts .  Score up to 41551 .
I am keeping this overclock to use in heavy work scenarios :)
 
2024/09/19 17:55:37
cotter32
 
Just a couple more pictures .  First here are the twin NVMe SSD gumsticks I got on sale for $57 each at Best buy .  Nice to get and go .  No shipping :)
Two one TB Crucial P3 gen. 3 NVMe SSD posed on my hotdog pillow .

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They go in the motherboard under two heat sinks shown below .  Better to get them in now, before I find a huge 50 series graphics card to install .

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The heat sink-SSD covers are at the bottom of the picture, one with a blue light on it, and the other just above it in the usual place .
Now I have 4 TB of solid state storage .  All the memory products are Micron, although I did not intend them to be :)
 
Too The Moon !
 
 
Gamdias Neso P1 case, Supermicro C9Z790-CGW main board, Intel 14900KS CPU, 2 x 24 GB Viper ELITE5 DDR 5 RAM, one 2 TB Crucial T500 gen.4 main drive,
two 1 TB Crucial P3 gen.3 storage drives, EK Velocity Sq. pump, heat sink, and reservoir combo, plus 420 MM radiator, nine Noctua case fans .
 

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