2019 Hardware Thread

GPU-Z v2.19.0 is available.

v2.19.0 (April 29th, 2019)

• Added support for AMD Ryzen 3000 Picasso APUs
• Added support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, GTX 1650 Mobile, GTX 1660 Ti Mobile,
• GeForce MX250, TU117-B
• Added GeForce MX230 and GP108 transistor count
• AMD Radeon Pro graphics cards now show the appropriate logo
• Improved EVGA iCX to work better and more reliably detect sensor capabilities
• Added support to detect DirectX Raytracing, Variable Rate Shading, WDDM 2.6 and Shader Model 6.5 (listed in Advanced panel)
• Advanced Panel now lists new DX12 capabilities introduced in Windows 10 Updates
• October 2018 and May 2019
• Advanced Panel can now detect Tiled Resources Tier 4
• "ASIC Quality" in Advanced Panel will only be displayed when available, since the feature probably won't be coming back for new GPUs
• Reduced startup time on system with AMD PowerXpress
• Added new icons for the ASUS ROG version and fixed white line below window title
• Fixed crash when no cards detected and hovering over driver info
• Fixed crash on startup on Windows XP machines
• NVIDIA Tesla K80 is GK210, not GK110

GPU-Z v2.20.0 is available.

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v2.20.0 (April 30th, 2019)

• Fixed overclock getting reset on NVIDIA cards with Boost
• Fixed crash on Pascal GPUs when no driver loaded
• Fixed crashes on Apple Vega 12
• Changed memory bus width capitalization from "Bit" to "bit"

Got me a bargain today! 43.4" superwide 120hz Samsung monitor. Normally £730 on Amazon but they had 1 in the Amazon warehouse deal as new but a damaged box. I managed to grab it for £415 all in! Racing games are gonna be awesome on this sucker!

https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/curved-cj890/

Congrats Paul, looks to be a really great monitor...have fun

paulpicks21 said:

Got me a bargain today! 43.4" superwide 120hz Samsung monitor. Normally £730 on Amazon but they had 1 in the Amazon warehouse deal as new but a damaged box. I managed to grab it for £415 all in! Racing games are gonna be awesome on this sucker!

https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/curved-cj890/

Great job on the monitor.

Thanks guy's. It arrives tomorrow

paulpicks21 said:

Got me a bargain today! 43.4" superwide 120hz Samsung monitor. Normally £730 on Amazon but they had 1 in the Amazon warehouse deal as new but a damaged box. I managed to grab it for £415 all in! Racing games are gonna be awesome on this sucker!

https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/curved-cj890/

Great score indeed! Have fun at the cinema!

Kol12 said:

Great score indeed! Have fun at the cinema!

Lol thanks Kol.

I now have 3 weeks vacation

What I plan to work on is: setting all my voltages down to where the system is just as stable as it now is, but less volts, so I won't have to reduce my 5 GHz to 4.8 in the summer; because of temps(the delta over hot summer ambient), and my system will run quieter in the summer too.

I played around, before, to see how low I cold go with only reducing Vcore as far as possible, and still pass Cinebench and run Blender classroom without crashing.
The problem was, when the system idled, it would BSOD because of the low voltage and my using Balanced power plan.
This time I'm going to take that into account.

I will also try down/under-volting my RAM's XMP voltage, so the memory controller in the CPU will also use less power

Maybe rewatch some of Buildzoids videos to refresh on what some of the other voltages do, or how they effect clocking stability.

I have found that to reduce voltage(hence heat generated) on my Maximus X Hero, I need to use the offset method, and make sure all Spread Spectrum stuff is turned off(VRM, PCIe, and CPU) for voltage stability.

Using offset I've been running my 5 GHz at 1.246v for the last 2 weeks with absolutely no freezes or crashing.

Even ran IntelBurnTest and GPU-Z's Render Test at the same time, while browsing on the Insider Edge for about 15 minutes, a little bit longer after all my cooling was saturated(GPU and CPU)

Cliff S said:

I now have 3 weeks vacation

What I plan to work on is: setting all my voltages down to where the system is just as stable as it now is, but less volts, so I won't have to reduce my 5 GHz to 4.8 in the summer; because of temps(the delta over hot summer ambient), and my system will run quieter in the summer too.

I played around, before, to see how low I cold go with only reducing Vcore as far as possible, and still pass Cinebench and run Blender classroom without crashing.
The problem was, when the system idled, it would BSOD because of the low voltage and my using Balanced power plan.
This time I'm going to take that into account.

I will also try down/under-volting my RAM's XMP voltage, so the memory controller in the CPU will also use less power

Maybe rewatch some of Buildzoids videos to refresh on what some of the other voltages do, or how they effect clocking stability.

I have found that to reduce voltage(hence heat generated) on my Maximus X Hero, I need to use the offset method, and make sure all Spread Spectrum stuff is turned off(VRM, PCIe, and CPU) for voltage stability.

Using offset I've been running my 5 GHz at 1.246v for the last 2 weeks with absolutely no freezes or crashing.

Even ran IntelBurnTest and GPU-Z's Render Test at the same time, while browsing on the Insider Edge for about 15 minutes, a little bit longer after all my cooling was saturated(GPU and CPU)

Nice work Cliff, your 9900k always runs using less voltage than mine, plus yours OC's much higher than mine too. But I just did not win the CPU lottery like some other folks. But my GPU makes up for my poor CPU in lots of places.