knobster368

They aren't BAD MB's.
 
It's just there are better out NOW, AORUS is the best currently period with the Z390 MB's.
 
The ASUS boards could throttle with those VRMs as they are weak for the 250W CPU, other than that $500 board you are looking at.
 
That is all we are really saying.

i7 920 at 5.09 
 

Ok, Asus listened to my plea and released BIOS today. For some reason some settings are not made it from previous version and seems like this version is quite slow - while on ASRock motherboard replacing 81xx CPU with 82xx counterpart gave me about 15-20% of performance boost, the Asus m/b only gives me about 5-7% increase in CBr20 and CBr15 got even slower than it was on 6186. Interesting...

i9 9900k 5.1MHz @ 1.345v

Preparing for the upgrade - if only Asus support would be as good as ASRock one - i have to validate my new CPUs on single socket board... Anyways - Xeon Platinum 8268, Cinebench R20 - 10471, Cinebench R15 - 4492. When Asus will make new BIOS for C621 SAGE i will be able to post dual CPU score with this beauty. And will be able to O/C the s... out of them. ASRock - you ROCK, Asus - you s^H don't.

5.2MHz all cores at 1.38v
 

4.8 @ 1.390 

upped the voltage a lil bit and got a lil bit better score

upped the voltage a lil bit and got a lil bit better score

New score with my current daily OC. Gonna run one again with a quite higher OC just to see how far I can take it. But this is definitely better than my last score and I'm pretty happy about that.  
Edit: Gave up on the highly OC run with my GPU because as I was gradually running over and over with each new overclock I wasn't really noticing much of a difference each time, a couple points, and after a little bit the score actually went down from my daily OC, which was weird, even with nothing else running. Probably too unstable and was throttling my card, I'd imagine. Oh well, this second run with my Daily OC and running the Open GL test I got a 13 point improvement on the CPU score and an 11 FPS improvement on the OpenGL bench from the first score I posted. Should move me up the list to tie with the highest score I have seen from this CPU. Woo!

Interested in that sweet & sexy new all-in-one from Zotac, the ZBOX MAGNUS EN970, that Linus checked out about a month ago? Then you're in luck, because we are giving that badboy away!
 
If you haven't seen the video yet (firstly, shame on you for not watching our videos daily JK of course, no judgement here...) you can check that out below:
 

 
But if you're more of a spec sheet guy or gal, click here to see the full breakdown.
 
Please keep in mind that this is a barebones kit. It does not include RAM, storage, or an OS, so the potential winner must be prepared to provide that on their own.
 
 
Alright, that's all well and good... now how do I WIN!?

Entry is very simple - just comment below letting us and Zotac know what makes you interested in the ZBOX when compared to a traditional desktop. And, if you're feeling appreciative, head on over to their Twitter, give them a follow, and say thanks for providing this awesome giveaway for the community!
 
 
The one winner will be selected at random on November 25, 2015.
 
One entry (comment) per user.

This is a worldwide giveaway with no age restrictions.

The winner will be contacted by me here on the forum. Disregard any messages, emails, Tweets etc. you receive from anyone other than this account here on the forum.

Good luck all!!
 
EDIT: We have decided to extend this giveaway until November 25. Make sure you enter before then!

EDIT2: The winner is @willskinny
 
EDIT3: First winner did not respond, the new winner is @JHyunS06