averagebilly

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.

What games?

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!

What are the other parts of your build?

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.

Did you test to see if the components work before building? Like on you motherboard box or something.

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

Yes, it successfully updated the bios, thanks for helping.

Well, it seems to have worked, thanks. Here’s a picture of the scaling issues I was talking about:

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.

Try dabbing some rubbing alcohol around the edges to moisten the thermal paste if it's not coming off.

Using the drivers directly from AMD appears to have worked, thank you.

I tried using the latest from Asus. That didn't work. I'll try from AMD now.

I bought the card yesterday. It doesn't show up as what it should anywhere. Games run like I'm using integrated graphics, and stress test/benchmark programs won't run at all because my card "isn't up to date." I tried updating the drivers manually because nothing will do it automatically. Any suggestion will be appreciated. I replaced a MSI RX 570 8GB ARMOUR card. Here are the rest of the specs: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $279.75 @ shopRBC CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 612 Ver.2 44.2 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler $272.16 @ Amazon Canada Motherboard MSI MAG Z390 TOMAHAWK ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $213.50 @ Vuugo Memory Team Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $142.69 @ Amazon Canada Memory Team Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $142.69 @ Amazon Canada Storage HP EX920 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $87.99 @ PC-Canada Storage Seagate FireCuda 2 TB 2.5" 5400RPM Hybrid Internal Hard Drive $110.57 @ Amazon Canada Video Card Asus Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB STRIX Gaming OC Video Card $569.99 @ Newegg Canada Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $145.50 @ Vuugo Case Fan Corsair LL120 RGB LED 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fan $32.99 @ Amazon Canada Case Fan Corsair LL120RGB LED (Three Fans With Lighting Node PRO) 43.25 CFM 120 mm Fans $119.99 @ Canada Computers Keyboard Kingston HyperX Alloy FPS Wired Standard Keyboard $110.42 @ Amazon Canada Mouse Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum Wired Optical Mouse $66.00 @ 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 $179.99 @ Canada Computers Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $2474.23 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-03 18:44 EST-0500

I ended up getting the Asus ROG because it went with my build the best even though it's insane power draw produces too much heat. Thanks again for the help.

If you download windows media creation tool, and make an installation usb, you can re-install windows while keeping your files and activation code.

I think so. Just email them, but don't mention that you bought it used.

What model 1070 do you have? Is cooling an issue?

If you want to try saving a little bit of money, I know that sometimes manufacturers will ship out fans for free. I'm not sure if they would for a card that's two generation old, though.

Were you hitting 60 in those games with the 1060?

I don't know much about the software side of things, but Battlefield V and Tomb Raider both support ray tracing, so have you tried running with RTX turned off?

Thank you. I won't be getting that exact card because it doesn't go with my build, but the monitor I will. Thanks for helping me out.

Those specs seem up to the task, but you would still be able to get better performance from a desktop. The biggest concern that I would have is cooling once you start video editing.