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?

[Braegnok]

Nice looking chassis.

I did two itx builds in the Lian Li A4-H2O chassis, one Water-Cooled and one Air-Cooled.

The Air-Cooled system was i7-12700K, I run on iGPU no graphics card, with the Noctua NH-L9i-1700 cooler, and Noctua NA-FD1 Fan Duct Kit,.. the system is quiet as a mouse, and cool as a cucumber.

NH-L9i-1700 cooler: https://noctua.at/en/nh-l9i-17xx-chromax-black

NA-FD1 fan duct kit: https://noctua.at/en/na-fd1

[iBruceypoo]

Did your 8200 mem kit arrive yet? Oh what fun! 🤗

[Braegnok]

The 8200 mem kit is now out for delivery. 🤗

I spent the morning reconfiguring my power supply & water lines,.. I just had PSU laying on the bench, the water lines not routed how I would have if I spent time routing correctly.

The main goal was to test motherboard & CPU quickly,.. so cable routing, and water lines took a huge hit. 🤣

But all is good now,.. and I also installed my SATA game drive while routing wires. Installed Steam a few min ago, and loading 3D Mark, and some games now.

New game drive 4TB FireCuda.

[iBruceypoo]

Unbox that 8200 2x24 kit for us!

After ya complete XMP trials go for 8200 36 48 48 84 and then 8200 34 48 48 84, if you haven't been there before - in for a real treat! 😁

It's a Thrill Ride man.

Not a big deal for benching, yet for your daily apps - they will love it. 

[Braegnok]

My daily Steam apps are loving it. 😎

[JohnAb]

Thanks, I just watched the video. Looks good, but maybe cooling could be tricky for higher end stuff, but for an everyday 'normal' build, it looks very nice indeed.  

[iBruceypoo]

The Fractal Terra in that soothing green is for sale backordered at Newegg right now. 

$179

Had it in the cart, then noticed it’s eta plus ship time is bound to arrive when we’re out of town, so I’ll wait 10days 😃

Those naughty Porch Pirates. 🤣

[iBruceypoo]

You purchase different components when designing an inaudible (water-cooled) workstation build vs a gaming or everyday build and most are all about efficiency, either silicon, thermal, or both.

Love this component, no fan self-test while booting since no fan, and low waste heat since titanium efficiency.

Always nice to see one of your components displayed at Computex - for that warm fuzzy feeling. 🤗

And did you notice which motherboard Gskill was using for their 8800 CL40 stable on air display?

[iBruceypoo]

This will make everyone feel good about their SP scores.

My 13600K i5 potato 🥔 

SP67 P72 E59 MC35 🤣

And yet, can still push the 7600 kit to 8000/36 1.5v stable with Apex. A spicy potato! 🤣

[Braegnok]

Mine is SP 97 which is tapping out at 8400 with the 2x16GB 7200 kit I'm running now,.. 8000 CL38 1.45V seems to be the sweet spot with this kit. Will be swapping out this kit today, start testing the 2x24GB kit. 😎