Mussels
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| System Name | Rainbow Sparkles (Power efficient, <350W gaming load) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Ryzen R7 5800x3D (Undervolted, 4.45GHz all core) |
| Motherboard | Asus x570-F (BIOS Modded) |
| Cooling | Alphacool Apex UV - Alphacool Eisblock XPX Aurora + EK Quantum ARGB 3090 w/ active backplate |
| Memory | 2x32GB DDR4 3600 Corsair Vengeance RGB @3866 C18-22-22-22-42 TRFC704 (1.4V Hynix MJR - SoC 1.15V) |
| Video Card(s) | Galax RTX 3090 SG 24GB: Underclocked to 1700Mhz 0.750v (375W down to 250W)) |
| Storage | 2TB WD SN850 NVME + 1TB Sasmsung 970 Pro NVME + 1TB Intel 6000P NVME USB 3.2 |
| Display(s) | Phillips 32 32M1N5800A (4k144), LG 32" (4K60) | Gigabyte G32QC (2k165) | Phillips 328m6fjrmb (2K144) |
| Case | Fractal Design R6 |
| Audio Device(s) | Logitech G560 | Corsair Void pro RGB |Blue Yeti mic |
| Power Supply | Fractal Ion+ 2 860W (Platinum) (This thing is God-tier. Silent and TINY) |
| Mouse | Logitech G Pro wireless + Steelseries Prisma XL |
| Keyboard | Razer Huntsman TE ( Sexy white keycaps) |
| VR HMD | Oculus Rift S + Quest 2 |
| Software | Windows 11 pro x64 (Yes, it's genuinely a good OS) OpenRGB - ditch the branded bloatware! |
| Benchmark Scores | Nyooom. |
no, it's not thatProbably just a popular board, which means a lot more people to complain. Was sold as the "premium" option in Best Buy stores for quite a while ( for <$200 with WiFi; I think it's still the main premium option in BB). It's where I got mine in late 2019. Other X570 board available in BB was the mostly overpriced, poor VRM MSI X570 Gaming Edge (Carbon?).
I'll admit, when I bought it, I also bought into the VRM craze. IIRC, X570 TUF was the cheapest board with "excellent for overclocked 3950X" VRMs, which is a completely pointless and useless metric, in retrospect. Though after being burned with my H110 and a simple 7700k at stock, I wasn't going to take more chances on poor VRMs.
Heatsink seems to be large enough for the purpose. Fan doesn't seem undersized. It seems to respond to temps. Dunno. I'm not too far off of rebuilding my system entirely, so I'll see if they left a sticker between the chipset and thermal paste, or somethingI do have two Noctua A12x25 fans aimed right at it, too.
Also hoping for that rumor of AGESA updates helping with temps, to be true.
it's almost the only board to show up in these complaints, i've got 2x NVME drives smashing away in my system while mining on a PCI-E 4.0 card and i cant hear the fan with the side panel off - and its a midrange Asus
