Chris Loudon

That certainly looks like its a culprit contender.

No worries, Its the drop from 4.9 to 4.3 that's a bit weird as throttling wouldn't occur until things got a lot hotter. It dropping down to 4.3 under AVX workloads looks like an offset is being applied even although non have been selected in the BIOS. Updating / resetting your BIOS might kick it back into shape.

Very strange indeed! 80c with AVX off is way too high for an 8700k even at 100% load. I would try resetting you BIOS back to defaults and then dial back in your OC settings to see if that helps. Also, reseat your Noctua and reapply any thermal paste. Vcore - less than or equal to 1.35 LLC - whatever mode works for you Sync ALL Cores - 49 Uncore - I think mine is set at 4.7 XMP - Profile 1 if your memory is XMP enabled AVX Offset at 0 (you might need to dial it back but leave it until you really need to) Along with turning off any Speed Step or Turbo settings, also disable any mention of C-States. For non AVX Prime, use version 26.6 to know for sure that AVX is disabled. If you want to test stability with AVX workloads, use Cinebench R20 or the CPU bench in 3DMark. AVX in Prime is just ridiculous and doesn't represent a real-world scenario. I have OCd 8700k, 8086k and 9900k that all fail the small FFT AVX test in Prime versions higher than 26.6 but NEVER crash or fail in anything else. For hardware monitoring use HWInfo. Keep an eye on core speeds and temps and more importantly the Vcore value. Hit the reset values and timer button just before you start a Prime stress pass and take note of how low the Vcore value drops under max load. With a Vcore or 1.25v, you might find that VDroop is a problem so its a bit of a balancing act as to how low you can set your Vcore with an LLC level to compensate. My 8700k needs 1.35v and a fairly aggressive LLC setting to keep it from falling over. Defo delid it and use a little liquid metal. Was the best thing I could have done with both my i7's. I got a 10c reduction.

The 9th gen Intel chips run pretty toast even at stock settings so I would definitely recommend a 240mm rad as a minimum and as 5GigsOrBust said, you wont be able to OC. I know you said you didn't want to OC but its dead easy and there is so much headroom on the 9700k. With a good AiO you'll be knocking on the door of 5Ghz all-core in no time which will have a noticeable effect on your gaming experience.

Hi Jarsky, Thanks for the reply. Yes, my lancache is running in docker. Do I need to add another IP to the network settings in Ubuntu? Right now, its set at 192.168.0.50 for the lancache. I'm assuming Pi-Hole will want to take another IP so that could be 192.168.0.51. I then change the UPSTREAM_DNS variable in the lancache .env file to 192.168.0.51

Hi guys, I don't suppose anyone here can either provide or point me in the direction of a 'spanners guide' to getting Pi-Hole running alongside Lancache? I'm normally pretty good with these things but I'm very new to Linux and only got my Lancache up and running from watching a YouTube vid and to maker things even easier, the chap on vid was also called chris. My current setup is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a single 8TB hard disk where the Lancache is stored with a single static IP address. Thanks

Perfect, thanks for the tips. Kinda thought it was something like that but wanted to check here first.

Hi guys, I have a couple of spare PCs both of which came ready with Windows 10 Pro that I'm looking to sell. Obviously I want to hand it on with a fully activated OS ready to go but short of creating a temporary offline account I was wondering if there was a better way of doing it. Is there a point in the Windows 10 setup routine that I can safely switch off the PC so that when new owner boots it up for their 1st time, the setup process continues allowing them to configure things as they wish? Thanks.

Sorry, didn't see that part. As i said, try another GPU if you have one or use the mobo hdmi / dp header if it has one and your CPU has an iGPU. Just make sure you take out the 5700xt out before using the iGPU. Also, try plugging the 5700xt into another system that you know works to see if it works. If it doesn't, you've almost certainly got a bricked card.

Silly question, but how do you know your PC is booting properly without being able to see anything on the screen? Does it boot with another GPU or the iGPU if your CPU has one?

Hi Thomas, have you tried increasing the max bandwidth setting for streaming in Steam to 'unlimited' to see if that has ant effect?

That's what I got from the Gamers Nexus vid as well. I'm not expecting the 6000 series cards to outperform team green in RT workloads. Nice to see AMD on top on regular rasterized though.

I have an HXi1200 in mine

If you're new to water cooling, why not try a starter kit from the likes of EK. You'll get a 360 rad, cpu block and a pump-res combo with some soft tubing to get you up and running in no time. Once you get the bug, all you need to to do is buy some cheap petg hard tubes and new fittings and you'll be well on you way to your first hardline loop. The o11 cases look properly nice with a good hardline loop.

Now that's a good question which unfortunately I don't have the answer to. I'd imagine any Rad would be ok as water cooling components tend to be mostly cross-manufacturer compatible but I can't say with 100% confidence. If your unsure check to see if BitsPower have a data sheet you can download. I know EK do for all of their kit which includes detailed drawings and dimensions so you can make a comparison.