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Gender
Male
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Location
Near Toronto, Canada
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Interests
Technology, Baseball, Myrmecology (and Entomology!)
System
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CPU
i5-9600k @ 5GHz
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Motherboard
MSI MAG Z390 Tomahawk
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RAM
Corsair LPX 2x8Gb 2133MHz
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GPU
MSI RX 570 ARMOUR OC
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Case
DG-77 (side + front panel removed)
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Storage
Hp EX920 512Gb M.2-2280 SSD and Seagate FireCuda 2 Tb 2.5" SSHD
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PSU
EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650W 80+ Gold Fully Modular
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Cooling
CoolerMaster Hyper 612 Ver.2
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Keyboard
Kingston HyperX Alloy FPS Wired
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Mouse
Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
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Operating System
Windows 10 Pro
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CPU (and Motherboard) Upgrade
averagebilly replied to Infamous Cow's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
If it's not too late to return the cpu, isn't ryzen a better value if he has to swap motherboards anyway? -
Yes, my understanding is that ryzen 3000 does a great job on it's own, although I was foolish enough to get stuck on intel 9th gen, so I haven't tested it for myself.
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What games?
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Follow @Yebi's advice and max the power (not voltage), and let it do it's thing. That is, unless you want to try some manual tweaking!
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What are the other parts of your build?
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I've never heard that a cooler CPU will run better with lower voltage. What you probably heard was that lowering the voltage makes the CPU run cooler, and thermal throttle less.
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Did you test to see if the components work before building? Like on you motherboard box or something.
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XTU/Per-Core Overclock Troubleshooting
averagebilly posted a topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Recently, I've tried using XTU to ocverclock my 9600k. There are some issues that I'm having with it, though. The main one being that when I try using per-core overclocking, the cores that I set to run faster rarely exceed the speed of the slowest core. I also have trouble believing the voltage readout of XTU, because I have it set at 1.330 V, but can run fine at 4.9 GHz all-core. HWMonitor says that some cores get as much as 1.455 V. Even when using XTU's built-in readouts, frequency doesn't exceed the slowest core, and processor cache never goes above 4.5 GHz, despite being set to 4.8 GHz. I guess they what I'm asking is if anyone else has had issues with the program, or am I doing something wrong? Here is my parts list: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $288.50 @ Vuugo CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 612 Ver.2 44.2 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler Motherboard MSI MAG Z390 TOMAHAWK ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $225.16 @ Amazon Canada Memory Team Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $249.99 @ Amazon Canada Memory Team Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $249.99 @ Amazon Canada Storage HP EX920 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $109.50 @ Vuugo Storage Seagate FireCuda 2 TB 2.5" 5400RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive $129.99 @ Newegg Canada Video Card MSI Radeon RX 570 8 GB ARMOR OC Video Card $194.00 @ Canada Computers Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Case Fan Corsair LL120 RGB LED 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fan $49.99 @ Corsair Case Fan Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans $169.99 @ Best Buy Canada Keyboard Kingston HyperX Alloy FPS Wired Standard Keyboard Mouse Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum Wired Optical Mouse $72.04 @ Amazon Canada Custom EVGA DG-77 Matte Black Mid-Tower, 3 Sides of Tempered Glass, Vertical GPU Mount, RGB LED and Control Board, K-Boost, Gaming Case 170-B0-3540-KR Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $1754.15 Mail-in rebates -$15.00 Total $1739.15 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-19 11:22 EDT-0400 -
M-Flash Not Detecting Bios - MSI MAG z390 Tomahawk
averagebilly replied to averagebilly's topic in Troubleshooting
Yes, it successfully updated the bios, thanks for helping. -
M-Flash Not Detecting Bios - MSI MAG z390 Tomahawk
averagebilly replied to averagebilly's topic in Troubleshooting
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M-Flash Not Detecting Bios - MSI MAG z390 Tomahawk
averagebilly replied to averagebilly's topic in Troubleshooting
I don't think it is, but my other USB doesn't have it show up, so that's not the problem. I wan't aware of one, what's it called? -
I think that I have a corrupt bios because of messed up scaling in the bios and boot screen about half the time, and because every once in a while, my computer just crashes. My bios says that I'm running version E7B18IMS.150. None of the bios versions from MSI's website work. Even though I have my USB formatted to FAT32, I've extracted the bios, tried not extracting, tried putting it in a folder, out of a folder, my MB won't detect any of them. I've tried different USB ports, a different USB, nothing will get it to detect the updated bios. What's weirder is that it will detect a folder called "System Volume Information" that isn't actually on the USB, and there are some folders inside of it that have weird directory names about password recovery (not there on the other USB I tried). Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
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Try dabbing some rubbing alcohol around the edges to moisten the thermal paste if it's not coming off.