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]

JohnAb wrote:
By the way, I am now enjoying wi-fi 6E. No real-world difference in speed to be honest (as I suspected) but I have the pleasure of knowing that I have all of that 6G goodness 🙂 and the router firmware is a lot better than my last Netgear router which was 10 years old. For the price of the router, I could have easily have got a mid range laptop instead lol

To be fair, my peak interweb speeds, whilst no higher than before, do occur more frequently now and latency is lower too, so I can't complain 🙂

That must be fun, I'm still using WiFi 6, without the E, lol.

By the way John, Fenix had a 20% OFF sale on torches yesterday CyberMonday deal, plus the new member account discount of 20%, a whopping 40% OFF a new torch, might still be going on today. Meant to let you know yesterday, but I couldn't get out of bed. :rolleyes:

[JohnAb]

Morning Brucey, how's it going? Just ignore the troll lol

[JohnAb]

The other surprising thing is that I was expecting 6G range to be worse than 5G, but in fact I'm getting a stronger signal than before. Sometimes in life, there is nothing better than raw, naked and excessive transmission power. Long live the high frequency radio spectrum. The water in my fish tank is probably boiling as I speak. Well not really, since water dipoles respond to 2.4GHz in truth. Anyway, I don't care, 6G is cool and shiny.

[iBruceypoo]

This paper towel was probably not a good idea, all those paper fibers flying off, but I had no place else to rest the heavy CPU block before prepping the nickel surface and IHS with 91% IPA. This time I didn't use the Thermal Grizzly included spatula and do an even spread of the Kryonaut. I know that's what the TG instructions recommend. Yet two days prior, I used Kryonaut for the first time under a Noctua C14S air cooler with the Z590 Apex repurpose to 2ndary office rig, using the "in line with die" method straight line of Kryonaut and a dot on either side, no even spread no spatula I just let the cold plate mounting spread out the Kryonaut and got outstanding results.

So did the same with the EK CPU block coldplate 13600K and Z790 Apex, and also achieved outstanding results. Have both Noctua pastes in the parts drawer, probably won't be using them again. 🙂

Not recommending this method to anyone, simply sharing a positive experience.

[JohnAb]

Thanks for the torch heads up Bruce. I did look on Amazon for discounts but nothing spectacular available on Fenix. Also, just looked on the UK Fenix site but again, prices seem about the same. I can't find any mention of a 20% discount on the UK site either 😞 but I'll continue to keep an eye out. The torch is probably on hold for the moment, at least until I clear my credit card lol.

Very pleased that your Apex is doing so well, keep up the good work. I bet you are so pleased that the first big hurdles have been passed 🙂

[JohnAb]

Funny how it goes. My PC was all up to date in April this year and already I'm a full chipset and CPU generation behind, not to mention that my GPU is no longer the fastest. That's progress lol. These faster clocking KS chips will be interesting.

Braegnok, thanks for mentioning that BIOS updates will allow the Z690 boards to use them. I hadn't even thought about that to be honest - will they still be able to support the same max clock speeds OK? Suppose I'm really asking if there is a Z790 benefit (vs. Z690) with KS chips in mind?

[iBruceypoo]

JohnAb wrote:
Funny how it goes. My PC was all up to date in April this year and already I'm a full chipset and CPU generation behind, not to mention that my GPU is no longer the fastest. That's progress lol. These faster clocking KS chips will be interesting.

Braegnok, thanks for mentioning that BIOS updates will allow the Z690 boards to use them. I hadn't even thought about that to be honest - will they still be able to support the same max clock speeds OK? Suppose I'm really asking if there is a Z790 benefit (vs. Z690) with KS chips in mind?

There's a rumor John, it's only a rumor at this point but it reads - Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake will both launch together in 2024, and for 2023 Intel will only offer Raptor Lake Refresh, even faster RPL CPUs than the 13900KS and maybe more KS bins. Will it mean new motherboards and a Z890 chipset? That's what I'm wondering???

Hope we don't have to wait 12months for the gen 5 SSDs to launch. :rolleyes:

Anywho, it's only a rumor - big bucket of salt.

[JohnAb]

iBruceypoo wrote:
There's a rumor John, it's only a rumor at this point but it reads - Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake will both launch together in 2024, and for 2023 Intel will only offer Raptor Lake Refresh, even faster RPL CPUs than the 13900KS and maybe more KS bins. Will it mean new motherboards and a Z890 chipset? That's what I'm wondering???

Hope we don't have to wait 12months for the gen 5 SSDs to launch. :rolleyes:

Anywho, it's only a rumor - big bucket of salt.

Thanks Bruce, I haven't looked forward that far myself. Progress never stops does it. Always something to look forward to...

[iBruceypoo]

JohnAb wrote:
Thanks Bruce, I haven't looked forward that far myself. Progress never stops does it. Always something to look forward to...

You know how I felt last week, almost everyone using Z690 boards and some new Z790 boards and I was still stuck on Rocket Lake. :rolleyes:

[JohnAb]

iBruceypoo wrote:
You know how I felt last week, almost everyone using Z690 boards and some new Z790 boards and I was still stuck on Rocket Lake. :rolleyes:

That's true, I can imagine. I'll wait until Z890 and then jump ahead of you lol. Seriously though, this machine is great. I have no reason to upgrade and I'd just be spending money for the sake of it, tempting as it is. I tend to upgrade every 3-4 years normally, as long as it keeps working fine that should still be my plan. I need to be selling stuff, not buying more. Maybe I should just open the door and set up my house as a shop 🙂

At least I'm enjoying hearing about everybody else's experience with 790 boards and learning a lot at the same time.