2018 Hardware Thread

ThrashZone · 27 Mar 2018

Hi,
Thanks Steve
I believe most people go by other monitoring methods not in bios like hwinfo64 .... which does indeed show vccsa but yeah just gets a little confusing with terms :)
On another note seems which is supposed to be higher also gets a little wonkey too
In bios it always shows vccio is higher than cpusa
Example
vccio is always 1.....
cpusa is always 0.8...
But people say cpusa is supposed to be higher by 0.05.... than vccio :/
Linus the drama boy on one of his youtube videos on x299 oc'ing he show setting the vccio as 1.1... and vccsa

as 1.05...
So which is right

Core i9 Overclocking Guide â€“ You asked for it! - YouTube

Cliff S · 27 Mar 2018

FinalWire Unveils AIDA64 v5.97
AVX-512 Benchmarks and AMD Raven Ridge Support
Posted | March 28, 2018
The latest AIDA64 update implements 64-bit AVX-512 accelerated benchmarks, adds monitoring of sensor values on Asus ROG RGB LED motherboards and video cards, and supports the latest AMD and Intel CPU platforms as well as the new graphics and GPGPU computing technologies by both AMD and nVIDIA..

AVX-512 optimized benchmarks for Intel Skylake-X and Cannon Lake CPUs
Microsoft Windows 10 Spring Creators Update support
AVX2 and FMA accelerated benchmarks for AMD Pinnacle Ridge and Raven Ridge
Asus ROG RGB LED motherboard and video card support
Optimized 64-bit benchmarks for Intel Atom C3000 Denverton SoC
Improvements for Intel Cannon Lake PCH chipset based motherboards
64-bit multi-threaded benchmarks for Intel Celeron/Pentium Gemini Lake SoC
Advanced support for 3ware, AMD, HighPoint, Intel, JMicron, LSI RAID controllers
GPU details for nVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, Quadro V100, Titan V

FinalWire Unveils AIDA64 v5.97 | AIDA64

Geneo · 27 Mar 2018

Thanks for the heads up Cliff. Downloading...

OldMike65 · 28 Mar 2018

Thanks Cliff, got it ......:)

doorules · 28 Mar 2018

Had to toss aida64 extreme. I used it for my Aquaero fan pump controller. Aquaero can pull any temp from it to display. But it turned out that as long as Aida64 was running it kept one core of cpu running full blast all the time. Not cool.

Switched to HWinfo as it also can provide sensor readings to Aquaero but without the cpu overhead.

Cliff S · 29 Mar 2018

I'm looking at some 40mm fans for one to cool my VRMs: PC Systeme & Komponenten online kaufen | CASEKING
The Maximus X Hero comes with a mount so...
Why not?

CountMike · 29 Mar 2018

Cliff S said:

I'm looking at some 40mm fans for one to cool my VRMs: PC Systeme & Komponenten online kaufen | CASEKING
The Maximus X Hero comes with a mount so...
Why not?

For cooling VRM ?

Cliff S · 29 Mar 2018

CountMike said:

For cooling VRM ?

Yep.

It you can cool your CPU all you want, but if the VRMs(on graphics cards too) don't get cooled enough, you will start to throttle.

I have tested this by benchmarking with my case closed, open, and open with an old hair dryer blowing cool air on the VRM's, and the last one gave best results.

CountMike · 29 Mar 2018

Cliff S said:

Yep.

It you can cool your CPU all you want, but if the VRMs(on graphics cards too) don't get cooled enough, you will start to throttle.

I have tested this by benchmarking with my case closed, open, and open with an old hair dryer blowing cool air on the VRM's, and the last one gave best results.

My VRM (6+4) is staying cool no matter what, may change with new processor that supposed to be 104W and this one is 95W.

OldMike65 · 29 Mar 2018

Guess Cliff needs to duct tape a hair dryer to inside his pc....