And since I sent this pic to someone on VRChat, here's the main rig. Still using Compleat EG coolant with zero corrosion or O-ring failure:

Shipped, and I swapped out the AIO. Also bought a 3770K relatively cheaply which i'm waiting on getting next Monday or so.Once I get my crap from the USA in the mail, i'll probably upgrade the H100i V1 in the Better Retro Rig with the Arctic LF2 360 that's in one of my spare part builds that will get water cooling again.
(5950X, B550 UX and soon a Vega FE)
Done and done. Fans should be coming in tomorrow, HK Tube the day after. Still haven't received the 3770K thanks to the bad weatherShipped, and I swapped out the AIO. Also bought a 3770K relatively cheaply which i'm waiting on getting next Monday or so.
Next step: order a bunch of Arctic P12s and the 120 mm fan adapter for the HK Tube.
this is called TIM.it still had bird shit between the IHS and die
Kept WHEA'ing at 1.35V GET, at 1.394V GET I seem to be stable at 4.8.3770K finally came in. Of course it ran ridiculously hot (it still had bird shit between the IHS and die) so I delidded it and now said CPU doesn't go above 70C with 1.35V vCore after vDroop.
Think i might be able to hit 5 GHz, am already at 4.8 stable.
And it doesn't even do 4 GHzWooo, received my crap. Pentium 4 3.4 even with multiple ****ed/missing pins POSTs fine so far, so does the Vega FE.
Not as DOA as I thought, HOORAY! Leaving the BIOS battery out overnight seems to have fixed it.Not only that, it seems the P6T7 WS I bought on here is DOAkeeps crashing whenever I try to install or boot up my Win10 PE USB.
Found such a way: Performance-PCs was selling NOS XSPC Raystorm waterblocks on the cheap. Will be a while before it gets here though.Not as DOA as I thought, HOORAY! Leaving the BIOS battery out overnight seems to have fixed it.
Still need to come up with a way to cool the CPU without it being loud as hell or constantly being in the way.
Its likely been overclocked to hell, and poorly maintained; There's potential its not the core thats been overvolted, and used up. I would advise looking at all the phases, its very likely some phases are dying or underperforming - and should be replaced.Vega FE has a bizarre issue with boost clocks: it stops around 1400 MHz instead of the set 1750.
I love AMD driver jank so much /s
You can't overvolt Vega cards, they're vBIOS limited to 1.2V.Its likely been overclocked to hell, and poorly maintained; There's potential its not the core thats been overvolted, and used up. I would advise looking at all the phases, its very likely some phases are dying or underperforming - and should be replaced.
(you can contact tony@northwestrepair.com if you want someone take a look, and repair it for you; his channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvDDbj3qJYg-5FSPFWJxqMw great content - and he's not expensive, takes around ~100 usd for fixing gpu's that include reball of core)
[I may have radeon vii pro in mint condition to offload, as soon as i get something akin of A5000/oem3090 with standard pcie height)]
Quite sure people overvolted those, like a lot - i remember reading lot of threads on bunch of forums where people provided all kinds of registry tricks, bios mods, physical mods and clocked them to 140-160%.You can't overvolt Vega cards, they're vBIOS limited to 1.2V.
That's probably the 7970 you're thinking of. 28 nm scales with voltage up to a point.Quite sure people overvolted those, like a lot - i remember reading lot of threads on bunch of forums where people provided all kinds of registry tricks, bios mods, physical mods and clocked them to 140-160%.
There's used to be whole slew of meme videos about it. (it was just like nv7600 GS Sonic with overclock mods from old times)
Like those 2