Suspended
All those endless boot cycles must have corrupted the bios. Had this pop up. Have reflashed bios 1 now and it seems ok
That are the slots they are supposed to be in although the manual doesn't say this. It is in small print at the end of the downloadable QVL list and I only found this out when @Parkinson1NX very helpfully posted the info up earlier in the thread. Why Gigabyte couldn't put that in the manual is beyond me. That's yet another area they need to improve on.
Instead of going faster and presumeably slackening the timings are you able to tighten the timings at 3600mhz? I found C16 at 3600mhz to be the sweet spot and anything faster with slacker timings doesn't do so well in most benchmarks that I have run. If you could do C15 at 3600mhz that would be bang on where you want to be. C14 would be even better but I doubt your kit could manage that without a significant voltage bump and maybe not even then.
Does anyone here have the z390 auros extreme waterforce yet?
I think one person has, seems EK will be releasing their Mono Block for it nice week . Personally, would grab that and standard Xtreme if it means you can grab or improve in other area's of your system
Main reason I’m interested is there is the option to pickup a 5.1ghz binned 9900k in the same purchase of the Waterforce. I also I think it looks fantastic and cools a larger area than just the ek block will. Lastly I dislike the colour silver and the Waterforce board has a lot less silver than the normal extreme
Holy crap, £950 for a Z390 motherboard!! The price is what's extreme about it. All that tacky RGB as well. With most 9900k's topping out at 5-5.1Ghz surely there is little point in choosing a board higher than the Master and saving a massive chunk of cash? @orbitalwalsh If the standard Extreme is anything like the Pro the shroud over the heatsink and it's attached I/O shield is easily removeable which means that it could be removed to allow the heatsink removal and hopefully fit back on when the mono block is fitted. I actually removed the I/O shield on my Pro because the airflow in my system is front to rear across the board and the I/O shield would have trapped a pocker of air behind the rear VRM heatsink. The heatsink cover went back on once the I/O shield was removed. Of course this meant I had to make a tube between the led and logo on the heatsink cover or else it would have lit up everything around it but that was only a two minute job.
Most?
Is SL wrong, they report only 38% of 9900k sold hit 5ghz or higher and only 8% can do 5.1ghz or better
https://siliconlottery.com/collections/coffeelake-r/products/9900k50g?variant=15392435896406
I'd assume if SL is wrong and most chips are capable of doing 5ghz then they would be out of business because no one would buy their chips at their higher prices for no benefit
About 2 months ago I asked my local PC store what they had been seeing for builds they did for customers and they told me most chips they tried to OC did no reach 5ghz, but maybe something has changed recently
Most?
Is SL wrong, they report only 38% of 9900k sold hit 5ghz or higher and only 8% can do 5.1ghz or better
https://siliconlottery.com/collections/coffeelake-r/products/9900k50g?variant=15392435896406
I'd assume if SL is wrong and most chips are capable of doing 5ghz then they would be out of business because no one would buy their chips at their higher prices for no benefit
About 2 months ago I asked my local PC store what they had been seeing for builds they did for customers and they told me most chips they tried to OC did no reach 5ghz, but maybe something has changed recently
Plenty of guys in the 9900k thread hitting 5Ghz easily enough with some lovely low vcore's. Quite a few at 5.1Ghz and above as well. I wouldn't buy a OEM cpu from here, or anywhere else that bins cpu's.
At the end of the day what defines a stable overclock? Over the years I have had overclocks pass 24 hours of prime95 just to fall over when I launch a game. Back in the socket 775 days I used to spend well over a week just getting "prime stable". These days I set a overclock, test it with 20 passes of Linx then loop realbench for a couple of hours and if it passes that lot and doesn't fail while I am using the pc it's stable enough for me. I still enjoy getting the best out of my pc but it's not the same as the socket 775 days when you could potentially double the clockspeed. These days we are lucky to get a few hundred mhz over the boost clocks. Saying that, I certainly wouldn't pay a premium for a pre-binned cpu with a guaranteed speed. These days that extra 100-200mhz is going to make practically zero difference in anything.
no problems with the Aorus Master + 9900k.
Had for 2 months now running all core @ 1.235v.
Realbench prime occt all run fine for hours.
If i drop to 1.230v i get WHEA errors but 1.235v is perfect.
Is that at 5.0Ghz?
Holy crap, £950 for a Z390 motherboard!! The price is what's extreme about it. All that tacky RGB as well. With most 9900k's topping out at 5-5.1Ghz surely there is little point in choosing a board higher than the Master and saving a massive chunk of cash? @orbitalwalsh If the standard Extreme is anything like the Pro the shroud over the heatsink and it's attached I/O shield is easily removeable which means that it could be removed to allow the heatsink removal and hopefully fit back on when the mono block is fitted. I actually removed the I/O shield on my Pro because the airflow in my system is front to rear across the board and the I/O shield would have trapped a pocker of air behind the rear VRM heatsink. The heatsink cover went back on once the I/O shield was removed. Of course this meant I had to make a tube between the led and logo on the heatsink cover or else it would have lit up everything around it but that was only a two minute job.
i felt like crying when i spent £280 on my aorus master - but hey ho - worth it imo
Yeah this really is the top end of what I would spend but I don't regret it for a second.