Recent content by JNavy89GT

$330?

Bump $340 shipped

So I ended up returning that reference card. Nothing wrong with it. But micro center had an Asrock Phantom gaming 7900xtx oc for $80 more open box. So for that little if difference I pulled the trigger. It’s a really nice card. I’m a sucker for the lights lol. Benches better. Oc and...

I have a 7900x I picked up 2 weeks ago to test etc. I bought it new/retail. I decided to go back to my 7700x. I’ve had the 7600x, 7700x and 7900x lol. I don’t really need the extra cores so going back to the 7700x. Was used with an evga 360 air cooler. Never oc’d but I did mess with...

Normal temps imo. I’d consider at least enabling PBO and undervolt. Probably pick up a few % points I’m benches and may run a bit cooler as well Oops saw you returned it. Probably bad ram.

The motherboard comes with a fan for one of the SSD’s. I did not install mine. Not horrible noise from the motherboard. On a different note, I return the 7900 XT reference card. It was my last day to return it up, Micro Center, and they had an open box as a rock 7900 XTX, phantom .The...

Yeah, I think for vr in flight sims; short of a RTX4090 is a compromise of sorts. That’s why I’m kind of looking at the Pimax 5k vs 8k. I’ve been building my own computers since the mid 90s. I’ve never really felt a compelling reason to get VR up until this point. Mainly, for VR to be useful to...

I was thinking of getting the pimax 5k super for now and maybe upgrading to the 12k depending on how launch goes. This will be my first vr rig so I’m kind of unsure. I want something with a really good fov

Re: DCS VR setup. I haven’t tried vr yet. Reason I’m upgrading

Yep, kinda how I figured it. Tweaking more at 960mv, 3000mhz in AMD tuning suite(peaks at 2830 and runs between 2700-2800 in 3dmark, per their graph, if that's accurate) and ram at 2740. Tuned the fan curve too, to be more aggressive. Still seems quiet enough.

Took the 2 hour one way trip to Microcenter. I wanted the 7900xtx Red Devil @$1079, but when I went to go get it, there was an open box Asrock 7900xt reference card for $809. I figured at that price point the 7900xt starts to make some sense. I’d give it a go. Messing with it last night I...

My 7600x and 670E Asrock Taichi takes a long time to post. Especially, If I'm running 4x16gb dimms. Once it posts, it boots fast. It's annoying, but not sure what to do about it, other than buy an intel rig lol

Yeah I’m on the latest beta bios, but I expect it to be a while before they get things up to full speed. I’m not crying about the memory speed now it seems to bench well and to do everything I need. The only thing annoying me is the sound card, software etc.; and those micro stutters. Those...

Got the parts and board. Everything going ok so far. Instaflash worked for updating bios prior to first boot. Took awhile though so if anyone is doing this don’t panic. Took a good 5 mins. Bios boot options are non existent as I can’t find them anyway. Still picked up my windows 11...

Yeah, as much as I’d love to ride the bleeding edge! I just can’t justify anything more than the 7600x now. I’ll probably upgrade to the 8c/16t vcache cpu when it arrives. So this is kinda a placeholder until then.