My 6950 III, SOC (beneath the planet, the beginning)

 tba

from 1.092 to 1.044 Lower, will anything notice?

This might not look right...a few microvolts either way shouldn't make a difference, right?

I can't change "Core SOC" to an exact amount, it's like steering a biggie boat in a tiny river.
I propose, it disposes.

...is the cpu and the videocard more comfortable now, or will they keep hitting their heads on the ceiling??

Wait, I'll keep testing (And edit the crap outta this later)

vicissitudes:

In other words, very close to the speed at the original voltage.
The fans seem quieter, I don't know.

reading the "some guy said" forum:
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/you-dont-need-high-voltages-on-the-5800x3d.303377/ 

some guy said vddp should be 0.5 lower than soc, or, 0.9 and the soc 0.95, but I got disappointing results, so I raised the soc to 0.97.

Now this contradicts everything I wrote about 1.092 soc, but I'll edit this in the morning. You'd think BIOS writers would tighten up some limits...

Not great but not bad

The graphics and the cpu scores don't really mesh, one can be fast and the other slightly slower.
But since the overall score is what everyone looks at, uhm, hmm
Final (maybe) SOC is 0.98 or as close as I can get to it, and VDDP is 0.93.

And ten minutes after writing that, it rebooted spontaneously while playing a game (it never does that, wtf?)
So maybe this or that, I fudged some figures and came up with what I think'll work, and I can always edit this.

Right after I wrote this AMD decided to take a day off and set everything to "default" which royally pissed off the card, and my faith in the above settings was dashed. But Once I thought to actually check AMD's Adrenalin, I realized with a sheepish grin that maybe my settings were all right after all.

I won't know until Adrenalin is fixed.

With AC on the same powerline for half the test,
I'd say this works (max gpu-clock, 2400mhz)

But then the evil vicissitudes might attack later. 
I won't continue this saga here.

My 6950 II

 https://cybersided.com/gpu-fan-control/

The card is long and extremely thick. Not so long as to be noteworthy, but much longer than the ATX-sized motherboard, and a little longer than the plate the board sits on.

But it's the thickness that's noteworthy, due to the heatsink-fins.

I don't know the physics of fans, especially in a hot room, or how good the card's heatsinks are, so I plan to do some experimenting.

Cool-quiet,
Very warm
Shit-a-brick (pants on fire, etc)

People spend tons of time undervolting and such...it's not something I really want to do, especially since the undervolted amount is 0.025 less than 1.2 or "1.175,"
according to AMD's adrenalin.

So OK I already know that 100% speed is ridiculously loud, Dustbuster loud.

Generic-type fan pic that looks a lot like mine

First try. Knowing you're too busy killing monsters to check on fan speed.

maybe https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh2-026, but I really would not know (yet). (not so far, no)

Whut?? Where???
Left side=their optimistic version, right side, gritty reality

Unhelpful, unnecessary, Boo

Whoa, there it is, "VR Streaming" (whut??)

You can't see how *tiny* this is, you need a microscope
But can you adjust it? 
(Please see Mr. A.H above)

Quaint, curious, freaking arcane switches, it works, its small (but not tiny) so Fine, this entry is now officially superfluous (since I cannot remember what I did).
Enable---everything.

My fans be like a frightened teacher in a bad neighborhood.
Warm is good, hot is OK, the fire alarm shouldn't be going off.

I shall do it artificially, in (maybe) Furmark, That GPU gadfly that makes the GPU all pissed (They have a newer version, what, sharper needles??)

Would you trust your kid to this? (man?)

Don't panic..Don't panic...Must keep calm (in children of the damned class)

But I'm skipping over what happened in the forest, a sudden way-drop in framerate (we're talking anime speed)

Player DIED just to adjust this, photorealistic trees.

Don't giva a rat's butt about trees when in battle

There's too much to say about this pic to stuff it into the last blog entry

Where to start... OK first, "Chipset SOC" 

was lowered again to more-or-less match NB SOC. 

Since this is the best run ever, I'm thinking that there is an actual best voltage for SOC, but since I don't know what it is, I guessed

You *should* be more specific, raising a voltage because it's trendy isn't a good idea (I guess)

is raising SOC a type of limiter (it was in *my* case,) but I'd need to explain that, insert charts and graphs, nevermind.

(But thinking out loud, if it were even *lower*, would that help anything????)

OK define "Undervolt"...and plus I'm on a 3000-series.
But he's pretty right-on, except I'd need to test the rest of this
(Damp, clammy, "sultry") night
And I don't want to.

1.092 to (maybe) 1.05, um, ?? 
BRB (don't wait up)

I think I need to run other benchmarks to see if the card craps out at these levels,

and kills the PC (it never ever says why.)

So a year ago, I'd be in the running, but NOW it's at the tail end  (of a long list mostly of GTX 4090)

Yeah, I'm gonna go back to my "Hogwarts" game now.

It's strange that the *menu* page of that game takes so much power, a ridiculous amount. 

I'll think on it, read stuff.

I found the right question, anyway

Frame-rate Target control, and "Radeon Chill" seem OK, but it'll ruin any benchmarks. IDK. 
I need to be more *refined* (rico-suave) and only target games.

"FRTC" is only a "Global" option that cannot be toggled on or off in an individual game, I think (It seems so horribly wrong that I *must* be incorrect)

And...

Turning off all the ray tracing options in-game seems to help, 55C-60c vs 75C.

But that might be coincidental with some adrenalin setting, I'm not sure.
Raytracing didn't seem to be a biggie yesterday.

My 6950

 Something in the new card kills the computer dead, if you slap it on the ass and tell it to run (a benchmark.)

So they invented "Undervolt".

Yeah, You can rant on that I got a shitty runt of a card, a 6900-ish card, or whatever...

I hate sending stuff back, so fucket, it either breaks soon or this is it for a while.

On the other hand, ... I can run the driver's "stress test" but 3dmark bombs, commits hara-kiri.

If a little undervolting worked, will *more* be a good idea?

This is not done.

waaiiit, "2602"?

"2100 mhz??" and no mention of this "Boost clock"

Why undervolt, it's very clear (as mud)

The clock should be, 2100, with the mythical boost clock 2310

I sort of cheated and raised 2310 to 2325 max, 
but the card comes out of the box overclocked to way more than that
(Which doesn't work, but it looks cool)

This is too-too confusing, plus it's late, but the AMD-adrenalin now presents me with a percentage of speeds, not actual speeds.
Just a second ago it was showing actual speeds which maybe are way too fast for the card.
The card (I think) shits a brick and sends a message to power down the computer.

I've gotten "3dmark" to run halfway through before it stops, saying it encountered an error (but no brick-shitting)

I'm getting very close.
The bottom line (maybe) is to lower the GPU clock (but nothing else) until stuff passes.

The result of total Guesses
What speed could I achieve if I knew what I was doing?? Hmm

I just read the fine print, I'm below average, but it works (mostly.)

Could a guy creep up the clock back towards normal or did they already insaaaanely overclock it to sell more cards, I don't know.

I tried making coffee during this and 3dmark threw an error.
I must already be on some hairy edge.
Some site states confidently that the boost-clock is 2310MHZ, and I also found the exact-frequency button.
Well shit, I'd be average except for the damn scarlet A (tessellation unworthy)

I'm not sure but all the arcane websites that go on about undervolting, must be 

thinking that since this card is so damn fast anyway, it can be cooled down a bit and still be fast.
Maybe, but I'm still working out the kinks and I wanna get rid of the warning (Or how could I ever brag)

So anyway, @2325MHz, (1.1 chipset SOC?? IDK) it finally worked, and I wore down 3dmark to approve the damn score.

Hopefully, this is consistent, not a dream for future memories.

No, it's a dream for people who love to start stories with "remember when...?"

with wistful grins. 

So anyway it's dropped to somewhere around 19272, and the average to beat is suddenly 19,300 (I wonder if that was My fault)

I raised my max clock, I'll raise it again (maybe,)

If the benchmark gods smile upon thee 
or vestal virgins have been sacrificed,
or maybe 3dmark was sleepy and said "fucket"

I don't want to spread myths but do you think lowering my "Chipset SOC" (not NB SOC) did anything?

See, cuz,

1.1 is really higher than that, and setting it to 1 gets me 1.1 (I think, maybe)

I'll edit this.

The NB-SOC is Auto at 1.092, so I manually tried to match Chipset-soc.
Who knows...(TBA)

Or (I've been repeating this) maybe it's a fluke. Plus, 19,000 to 19500 still gets you 190 in some game, meaning it makes little/no difference, but I like the difference.

"meh"

A reddit on 6950 speeds "I have no problems" vs everyone else

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A new subject, why "Hogwarts Legacy" treats my card like some uneducated bumpkin (no offense, bumpkins) after running the 2-second benchmark. It prejudges.
Forget that, I set everything to "Ultra" except for raytracing, which I arbitrarily set to "medium". Hunky-dory.
But I wanna read up on it, and dump randomness here.

The richer-than-god bumpkins are not amused.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2627-hogwarts-legacy-benchmark/

I am very unsure why AMD-Adrenalin thinks my performance is "Marginal", because it isn't, it is excellent.
But if I can, I will use some onscreen framerate-utility.

AMD should already be doing that, but it does not, but flipping between the game and adrenalin shows my FPS to be high.
Anyway I'm so happy it works at all, and I also don't know why the card is clocked so high by default.

Odd History train-of-thought......

 OK this won't be clear, prolly gets erased soon...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Ernest_Boulanger

Popular-type guy who was maybe destined for dictatorship, and after he was defeated in political circles, a new era started called "Belle epoque" which is (to my mind) an era people looked back on and said "Things were really nice back then."

The train begins with Bing displaying a lighthouse in France, and some article-writer mentioning the Belle-Epoque era, and (in my head) the controversy surrounding Trump and the parallels to Revanchism. 
But Wait! I will maybe find a better blog that said it first, or this'll be deleted into obscurity. https://www.google.com/search?q=revanchism+Trump&oq=revanchism+Trump

One day soon I should do an entry about Abigail Johnson. She's super rich and presumably happy, the head of Fidelity-Investments.

Now you gotta wonder what banks did to fail while her company continues to rake in the bucks.
Maybe they didn't actually fail, no window-jumpers, they just, reorganized.

Very Smart or just real lucky??

https://institutional.fidelity.com/app/item/RD_9909637/whats-happening-with-banks.html, possibly related to her business (not real sure)

You might wonder why I'm interested in some of her pictures; It's a much older blog, and (her picture) was much younger then.
Lifestyles of the extremely well-heeled.

I even had a town they live in (I must have erased that blog, I really liked it too) (it was a blog about another guy who owns damn near everything in the TV-entertainment department.)

(RIP) Not a nice guy

It's related, I swear, but I erased the entry

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/trump-60-minutes-paramount-skydance-shari-redstone-choice-1236202734/

And I'm prolly going against their collective advice and buying yet another electronic-product, whose value has dropped precipitously since people started reviewing it.

The near $1000-MSRP-priced 6950XT is, um, soul-serving, assuming I can actually *install* it without breaking anything, and this is from a guy who broke (quite easily) a rtx2080 maybe a year or so ago.

They prolly get bills for a party for way more than I paid, (so yes, it was "on sale") but that's because they scrimp and invest.

Moi, I don't.

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This space will be filled with specs, or pangs of regret, very soon.
For example, does the card really need *three* connectors?

I count two connectors in a video.

And a (*gasp*) 900-watt power supply?

*Mine* is 800-watts, but that's when it was new and very clean.

extra 130 watts (hmm)

This is edited down to say, That if you did anything with the new card besides browse the internet, the PC would immediately shut off.

People have had this problem, advice-givers be useless (So I'm kind of glad I didn't ask.)
1. Don't underclock ram, it's useless

2. Don't buy another power supply, it's a biggie waste (Say fellow sufferers)

3. Explore the "Undervolt" option in the driver, which arbitrarily sets something-or-other to 1175 millivolts (whatever.)

My Biggie test is forthcoming, can I run Timespy, will it be slower-than-dirt????

?? This is too important to amend the tail-end of a boring entry, but these are arranged backwards, so it might not make much sense.

Barbara the whisper

 This isn't a blog-entry yet, I don't have any research material to back me up.

But,
Some voice-actress murmurs unintelligibly and then whispers "Barbara," I swear.

It's a magical sound-effect, presumably spirits from the dark-side, I wouldn't know.

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Isadora Morganach, the curer of really creepy thoughts that haunt you.

She's "Florence-Nightingale" of the wizarding world, according to my game (but I'm making this up from muddled facts in my head)

In point of fact, the game has not ended yet. Was she despised, ostracized for inventing a cure? I'll find out.

Speaking of Bad advice

(OK it's yet another ROTD)

In the game,
There's a curfew at the school that gets totally ignored, Locked doors that get unlocked, forbidden-forests that get travelled to frequently.

I'm getting a subtle message.

(Plus no one sleeps, poops or bathes, the beds and the bathrooms are for show)

It's funny til someone loses an eye.

Masks, WMD's, I want to see what they'll do with Bridges.
"Don't be a lemming, you'll kill yourseeeeelf!!"

There, see? Myth! Myth! (yes?)
Go ahead, jump

Some guy whose cooking skills were limited to making ice, decided to melt sugar because he'd been warned (The internet was still young)

That melted sugar could really destroy a glass stove.

(he didn't actually destroy anything but it must have been a real thrill going against conventional advice, "es un manía," like they say.)

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Back to the subject, if you die in an easy level, can you sort of ignore it?
Contrarian game-writers build death into a game (You need to die to continue) buuut

*This* is not one of those games.
I feel stewpid mentioning it, doubtless countless hordes never ever die, but I've died twice so far.

I hate quidditch and animal husbandry, there, I said it.
But mostly it's all good (mostly)

Damn puzzles and jock valley-girls. Schadenfreude on Imelda, may she be swallowed by the fires of hell and eaten by spiders.
(IOW, my broom will be forever-staid, original)
(It's hot as hell in here, and I'm being nibbled on by roaches, so stfu)

Sports, by and with assholes, can be ignored, I really hope.

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Say you're a bored teen with swastikas and RWDS patches, are you being trendy,

 or are you dangerous?
IDK (I said that yesterday) but this guy screams trendy. Plus he's dangerous (and dead).

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/08/us/mauricio-garcia-allen-texas-shooting/index.html  

I've got this super-vague blog I'll never write, in my head.

"Slut tattoo", because it's slutty, or are you a slut?
And other vagueness, like nazi symbols and politicians trying to be trendy. 

This link is clueless but maybe you can, uh, connect some dots (or something)
I haven't found the right keywords.
You know, the goth girl with the knuckle tattoos and of whom it's said,
 "She's going through a phase,"

Evangelicalism isn't what it used to be.

 
vs smiling waving guys with patches.

https://news.google.com/search?q=mass%20murder%20trendy

Assholes, everyone has one (what is "Gladio"? NVM

Back of head non-threatening (hmm)