One thing that I am a bit curious about with my new mobo is this. It has this thing where you can plug in an additional PCI-E 6 pin cable to it and it will be able to send 60+ watts to the front panel USB-C port to fast charge devices... But I don't think the USB-C port on my O11DXL is rated for 60 watts. So I wonder if it will fry the usb-c port or if it knows that the usb-c port can't do 60 watts.

Ngl, I know the physical differences are so minimal, yet somehow the Art one actually makes it look slimmer internally speaking and I really like the see through USB panel at the back port side.

Really sucks about the boot times though, I really love how fast mine boots (despite my setup being 2017 based), and I don't think I can go back to 40+ second boot timings. 

I've not gone past 4 phy cores and 8 logical, so I'm probably not going to notice the downside if I upgrade to any AMD CPU in the future, going forward. 

Either way, still a good build you got and the white looks clean as ever (prob going to make my next build all white as well, since black really attracts dust in a bad way). 

Thanks lol. Yea the ROG boards feel more like brutes is games compared to the ProArt line. I never actually looked at the ProArt series until now and they have surprisingly a lot of features that Asus saves for their much more expensive Hero motherboards for $200-$300 less. It doesn't get the on board RGBs but it trades that in for a lot more features.

And yea, I'll have to do further research on it to see if there's a way to bring it down to more acceptable levels cause it is quite annoying. And yea, for you, 8 core + Vcache would be crazy upgrade.

The only knock against white builds is that the white parts are either much more expensive than the black ones or are really hard to find. Like Noctua fans that I got don't come in white, only some motherboards get the white treatment and it's rare for GPUs to come in white as well. So I ended up going more so for the two tone look rather just white.

Well after researching and tweaking the BIOS, I managed to get the boot times to go as low as 15 seconds by enabling Memory Context Restore. Certainly a lot better than 40 seconds lol

Should have been enabled by default honestly.

That's a huge improvement, that's for sure.

Is your memory running at the EXPO settings? Not every board manages to do it (tho I'm sure you'd have said something if yours couldn't).

Yea it had no issues with expo. I did buy expo certified ram which costed $10 more than XMP version but since it detected just fine and auto set all the configs, I didn't have any issues.

Given all the troubles you can read about RAM and AM5 in forums, paying a bit more for an EXPO kit seems a smart decision.

wtf, that's a huge gain right there. 

Beats mine by 20 seconds

Also note that Tie doesn't mean FSR ties with DLSS and Native. Tie means DLSS ties with Native and FSR is excluded. Very impressive showing from DLSS where at 4k, it's about 50/50 split between the amount of times DLSS was better vs the amount of times Native was better. It's actually surprising the amount of times DLSS was a lot better at 1440p than Native. Upscaling generally supposed to get worse as you go down resolutions but here we are.

I do hope Radeon comes out with an Ai based upscaling solution cause it's clear between DLSS vs FSR and now DLSS vs Native that Ai upscaling is the way to go.

Intel Arc GPUs Get Another Major Performance-Boosting Driver, Up To 63% Improvement Across Latest AAA Games

https://wccftech.com/intel-arc-gpus-get-another-major-performance-boosting-driver-up-to-63-improvement-across-latest-aaa-games/

Good progress from Intel. Hopefully they continue to keep this up.

AMD RX 7900 XT drops to $779, GeForce RTX 40 and Radeon 7000 series now available at or below MSRP

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rx-7900-xt-drops-to-779-geforce-rtx-40-and-radeon-7000-series-now-available-at-or-below-msrp

7900XT dropping like a rock which is good for consumers. If eventually goes down to $700, that should have been it's MSRP to begin with. Sadly RTX 40 series barely got any discounts.

Colorful’s custom GeForce RTX 4060 Ti to feature 2580 MHz boost clock

https://videocardz.com/newz/colorfuls-custom-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-to-feature-2580-mhz-boost-clock

The x8 pcie slot with 128 bit memory bus gonna really cuck old generation systems.

It's interesting how the 7900XTX isn't as heavily discontinued as its smaller sibling, either because there's more demand for it or because there are less cards available and that helps it keep its price.

But it's a good sign for all of us, a sign that the market is going back to how it was before the f*cking miners ruined it during the pandemic.

The x8 PCIe design of this card and others (I'm sure AMD will do the same with either the 7700 or the 7600 ones) is what pushes me towards a X670E motherboard, to have a Gen5 PCIe slot.

Mind you, this is not a problem with the current cards as they are still PCIe 4.0 but, since I plan to keep my 1070 around for a bit more, the next GPUs might jump to Gen5 and use the same o lanes for its midrange cards, and at that point it might cause some bottleneck.