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I’d take the advice of Mick Naughty and buy the i9-9900K, or even i9-9900KS, (if you can afford that, of course...)

I had to make the same choice 1 year ago, between i7-8700K and i7-9700K. I chose i7-9700K, and I don’t regret it! The i7-9700K has more “muscles”, it stays cooler, and it works better in games.

Thanks! Yeah, that’s what the other member from the Gigabyte forum said too. Also, I found a video on YouTube made by Buldzoid who said the same thing about Gigabyte boards.

You did? Actually I just got the answer from somebody on the Gigabyte forum a few minutes ago.

Hello! I recently discovered that there are 2 types of boards: 1: Daisy Chain & 2: T-Topology. From what I’ve heard, the daisy chain type works better with 2 memory modules, while the t-topology works better with 4 memory modules. Some say on the internet that the Z390 Aorus Master is T-Topology type. I couldn’t find a good link on this subject for this particular board. I use my PC as a workstation for music production. I don’t enable memory XMP (it’s a PnP type anyway). To me, it’s not so important to run memory at super speed, because I’m not a gamer. But I do need to move around large audio files, so I’d like to increase my memory size from 32GB to 64GB. Questions: 1. Is Z390 Aorus Master a t-topology type? 2. Is there a way to check if it’s a t-topology or a daisy chain type? 3. Is there something else that I should know?

Hello! The manual of Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master, at page 69 states that RAID configurations between M.2 PCIe SSDs aren’t possible! That it’s only possible between M.2-SATA and SATA drives! But on the Gigabyte official site, at Key Features/ Aorus Performance/ they advertize 32Gb/s speed using a triple M.2 PCIe NVMe RAID-0 configuration! https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-AORUS-MASTER-rev-10#kf Did anyone try to make a RAID configuration with 2 or 3 M.2 PCIe NVMe drives?

Windows 7 USB-DVD Download Tool was the problem! I created a bootable flash drive using Media Creation Tool and it worked in a USB 3.1 port.

Thank you.

Thanks. But that’s not the question. The question is: can a Windows 10 bootable flash drive be connected to a USB 3.0 or 3.1 port to start installation?

I do use that to download the .iso file in my PC. But I use the other one to make the boot drive.

No, I use that one to download the .iso file in my PC. Later, I use Windows 7 USB-DVD Download Tool to create a boot-able flash drive.

Hello! I’m curious if that’s how it goes for everyone. First of all, my mobo is Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master (rev. 1.0). I can boot with a flash drive to update the BIOS using any USB port: 2.0_3.0_3.1 But if I want to reinstall Windows 10 clean, I need to use a USB 2.0 port, because the 3.0_3.1 won’t work. I create Windows 10 boot drives using the program: Windows 7 USB-DVD Download tool. Am I missing anything, or is this normal?

Well, in my case, I can’t talk about instability or overclock, because my modules are plug-n-play types @2666MT/s.

So, I moved my DIMMs from slots 1+3 (A1+B1) to slots 2+4 (A2+B2). I benchmarked my PC using: Geekbench 4.3.3, Cinebench R15, Cinebench R20, FutureMark MemTest, CPU-Z 1.9, and Windows 10 rating command “winsat formal” in Command Prompt. AND THE RESULT IS... THE SAME! No gain and no loss in performance.

Yeah! Your answer is pretty much what I also believed before: that both configurations (A1+B1) or (A2+B2) are the same thing. But some insist that A2+B2 is “the correct position”. Anyway, if I’m moving my DIMMs according to their advise, I can’t go wrong, right?