Z790 APEX Availability Overclocking and Playtime Thread : )

[iBruceypoo]

Newegg listing November 2nd and 3rd:



Newegg listing November 4th, today:



Did Newegg sell out their known incoming quantity of boards as Pre-Orders in 48hours? OR did they simply change the purchasing status?

Who knows right?

Did anyone grab a pre-order?

[iBruceypoo]

Calling out Mr. Braegnock, calling Sir Braegnok - I need some help tuning my mem kit. 😃

[Braegnok · Accepted solution]

These 8400 timings are benched, stress tested,.. your going to need adjust your voltages for your IMC.

Sorry for the image quality they are old screenshot images.

Good luck bro!

[Braegnok]

Working on Gene tonight. 😉

I have the memory dialed-in, installing copper heat shields & water block right now.

[iBruceypoo]

Brosephio, my MCv it 1.385v and SAV 1.313v.

Do I need to increase MC voltage? 😐

[iBruceypoo]

Oh the Glory of the Hardware Gods 

[larryh]

Just wanted to share a few pics of my system and get you guys thoughts and comments.

So I have only updated to the latest drivers across the system. I haven't OC anything yet. I wanted to place an in line filter but couldn't get it to look right with bulky QDC. I managed 3x 360 Rads and 1 140 Rad. Temps under heavy gaming 4K Ultra settings are usually CPU 70C and GPU 65C while playing BF2042 or COD games.

Ok any suggestions to OC my 13900KS & G.SKill DDR5 8000? I would love to help out you guys and see what my Rig can do. Thanks

https://imgur.com/a/rYB0INL

[larryh]

Here are my specs:

Corsair 7000X Case
13900KS CPU
Thermalright CPU Contact Frame Anti-Bending Buckle
EK Velocity 2 CPU EKWB
Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC with EKWB
Asus z790 APEX
G.Skill DDR5 8000 32GB
2x Corsair Hydro X Series XR5 360mm Rads (side and top)
1x Alphacool NexXxoS UT60 360mm Rad (front)
1x Alphacool NexXxos ST30 X-Flow Radiator 140mm (rear)
2x Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB
9x Razer Kunai Hydraulic 120MM aRGB Fans PWM
1x Razer Kunai Hydraulic 140MM aRGB Fan PWM
Razer PWM PC Fan Controller
1x Razer Chroma Addressable RBG Controller
EK Quantum Convection D5 Pump cover (Silver)
EK Quantum Kinetic FLT 240 D5 RES/PUMP Combo
Asus THOR 1200W PSU
EPDM tubing
EK & Barrow fittings
OC Cool Flowmeter

[iBruceypoo]

That's a lot of rads ROG brother. For comparison - as a baseline or whatever I'm only using one 60mm x 280mm rad and my 13900KS can achieve 6.2Ghz all 8Pcores TVB boost. I can help you with the Thermal Velocity Boost overclock, yet I'm not (nor plan on) running an all-core or a per-core with the 13900KS, mine is only an office pc, and the TVB boost is ideal for extreme responsiveness, while maintaining virtually stock thermals - so KUDOS to highly-binned processors. 😃 

[larryh]

Thanks Bud, yeah what's a good start doing Thermal Velocity Boost overclock? I'll look into that too. I would really like to to use my two P cores that boost up to 6.2 GHz. 

[JohnAb]

Bruce will tell you - he told me to try it and it worked perfectly - I have to get to bed now...