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*** The Official Alder Lake owners thread ***

Odd, as I know someone who had to bin a number of CPUs to get pass 7000+ but as you say it could be all down to the board tuning and maturing on DDR5.

D5 is still barely getting out of the gate and we haven’t seen higher end bins yet. Adata has a 40/7000 xmp coming out for example. As for board maturity just count up the no of apex and unify-x beta bios there have been already and many more to come. Last I checked apex alone was closing in on 20. Very early days still.
 
D5 is still barely getting out of the gate and we haven’t seen higher end bins yet. Adata has a 40/7000 xmp coming out for example. As for board maturity just count up the no of apex and unify-x beta bios there have been already and many more to come. Last I checked apex alone was closing in on 20. Very early days still.

Even though DDR5 is still very new, you still need to take into account the varances in CPU / RAM IC's / MB etc.. when you are pushing the limits. As most of the boards top out on QVL ratings at 6400 - 6666.
 
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I'd agree with that with ADL, RPL should improve the game again.

@Dave2150 I'm looking forward to seeing your results. :)

Had a little play this evening, Hynix kits seem pretty good! Still more to be had, not tuned tertiary timings yet. Will go for a Apex Z790 board for RPL I think, as need that 1T! Z690 hero board can go into my VR rig.

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Settled on a 5GHz oc on my 12600k adaptive and hits 1.236v C23/y cruncher.

With an old D14 cooling it the performance / heat ratio seems the sweet spot.
Memory (XMP 3200 C14) is at 4000 C17 @ 1.38v, and it will probably stay at that.

Still need to see what Gigabyte have to say about the issues with my NVME vanishing intermittently but for now switching it to another slot has every thing working.
Just hope I don't have to return it as faulty as the computer is also my work system!
 
Oh, and didn't mention the ethernet dropping most days.
Reconnects immediately (makes no difference as all the servers I am connected to during the day are gone, and on a night I get kicked out of game) but struggling to find out why.
Tried multiple cables and all are the same.
Now trying a USB to Ethernet adapter and will see how that does.
No drop outs on that and I have a duff motherboard.

Getting closer to an RMA which will be a nightmare as this is a work computer during the day.
 
I treat most horror stories like this, you will \always find negative reviews of something in more volume than positive reviews as positive experiences are not as often talked about whereas everyone wants to moan and groan about stuff with issues. Those without issues just carry on using the product without even thinking about it as it is doing exactly what it was made to do.

Personally I've never had issues with Realtek cards but have had issues with the Intel/Killer Gaming NIC built into previous mobo. Luckily that mobo had dual LAN ports so I just used the Realtek port instead and all was well.
 
The Realtek issues were a bit more than just a few negative experiences though. It was a very real issue for thousands if not tens of thousands of people until they finally addressed it in a driver last year.
 
That must have been before Alder Lake then? I wasn't even considering a system upgrade until November time when the leaks/release etc drew near. I suppose since the issues were resolved then it was no longer a cause for concern for any Alder Lake upgrade as the fix is included out the box.
 
Windows Update will have installed the latest December 2021 driver, it did for me. I then manually updated recently to the January 2022 driver.
 
Windows Update will have installed the latest December 2021 driver, it did for me. I then manually updated recently to the January 2022 driver.

It didn't in my case. Windows update was the first thing I did and I had to download the driver from the MSI page for my mobo.

Anyway this is getting a bit off topic. Chances of anyone having issues with the Realtek chip on Alderlake motherboards is slim to none.
 
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