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Hey Everyone, I built a pretty powerful computer to do editing and gaming however my computer still chugs when editing 4K and I really feel like it shouldn’t. The 4K footage is from a DJI phantom 4 advanced. Yes I know h.265 from drones isn’t too compressed but I don’t understand why this is still happening i have 32gb of dominator ram at 3000mhz 9900k and a 2080ti strix with 11gb of gpu ram.. what gives? Did I not set something up right? Do I really need to get an additional 32gb? For a total of 64gigs of ram? thank you for your help!

Hi all, I am currently struggling to figure out what cooler would be the best option for a 9900k. I am building in a Lian Li TU150. It can fit almost any air cooler, but I am worried about the installation. I would much rather a smaller air cooler or even a 120mm aio if possible. I want to overclock, but nothing too crazy. As of now I'm thinking these are my main options (I listed them in my preference order, but I just don't know if they can perform well enough): NH-u12s (I would be running NH-u12s with two fans) H80i V2 Extreme BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4 NH-D15 Thanks for your help in advance. Edit: Just for clarification, I understand i9 9900k is not the best cpu right now, but I plan on making a hackintosh, so intel was most reliable option.

I have been wanting to get a 9900K so I can overclock it atleast to 5.5 ghz to maybe even 6ghz, but I need to see if you guys think it could possibly reach 6ghz with a 360mm liquid cooler. (I am thinking yes)

ive heard about alot of problems with some mother boards needing older chips to do a bios update or something like that? after recieving my maximus xi hero wifi i even seen something in the reviews saying somebody had a similar problem am i going to have a problem??? I have already ordered an i9900k

so my intel i9900k just came in i have my psu and my mother board ( maximus xi hero wifi ) and i want to test it. Is it safe to do so even though i do NOT have my GPU yet please let me know thank you

I built a PC for the first time last summer and installed a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Air Cooler on a i9-9900 K. The 9900 K was really more than I needed and since I rarely put a heavy strain on it, the Hyper 212 did fine. But when I started folding a couple of months ago, I rather quickly had CPU temps in the high 80's to low 90's. I was able to bring the temps down to the mid to high 60's by limiting the folding to 4 threads. I've been thinking about replacing the Hyper 212 with a liquid AIO. But I've heard and read a number of reviews/guides recently that say that air coolers can provide the same level of cooling as water coolers. I'd prefer not to spend much more than $100 on whatever I decide to go with, though I may go higher if it will make a significant difference. I've been considering the ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 240 (if I can find it in stock). I've also been looking at the Cooler Master MasterLiquid LC240E. Amazon is offering that for only $75. If I want to take off the thread limit for folding@home, but still keep CPU temps in the 70's or lower, how much would I need to spend on a cooler? Which one would you recommend? Alternatively, what is the best cooler (Air or AIO) I could get for about $100?

Rainbow Dash Wizardry Mark II (RDW MK2) is my personal evolved, completed gaming rig I built and tinkered over the last few months of 2020 after her departure from the "Mark I" status. It was inspired from the PC built in LTT's Ultimate RGB PC Build Guide but made to suit my needs - optimized for overclocking and whisper quiet operation, even during a heavy, synthetic workload. When RDW was in her Mark 1 days in 2019, she was temporarily used as a PXE Boot Server at my workplace (an internet gaming café in Singapore) to boot 84 diskless gaming PCs for my customer's enjoyment for 3 months. But her job as a server is complete and she is now back with me and I upgraded and evolved her. This build was designed to ensure that the user get: - A no compromises, stable gaming experience with very high frame rate - Continuous synthetic, overclocked load without throttling - basking in RGB Glory (which is something a gaming PC "NEEDS" now) - Very Whisper Quiet operation - Able to cool and work as well even in a non Air Conditioned environment of up to 34C The name Rainbow Dash Wizardry came from LTT's Ultimate RGB PC Build Guide - "So let's turn the light's out... And bask, in it's outrageous Rainbow Dash Wizardry!" - Linus Sebastian and because I am a Brony (a male fan of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic), there's no doubt that Rainbow Dash is best pony and the RGB build is the thing! Feel free to ask me if you have any questions on the build! RDW MK2 (2020) Full Specs RDW MK1 (2019) as server, Full Specs EDIT 1: Added tags, added 95% completion paragraph and spoiler, fixed some sentence errors. EDIT 2: Swapped pictures due to some updates, repositioned radiator, added 2 slot rear bracket on GPU. EDIT 3: Added Sleeved PSU Cables for the CPU, ATX and GPU port. EDIT 4: Added 3D Mark Time Spy result EDIT 5: Finished thread, 100% completion. Updated 3D Mark Time Spy result Read more info of 3D Mark result here: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/49310899 Old/Before Pictures:

So I recently upgraded my system, Specs; Mobo: Asus Tuf Z390-Pro CPU: i9-9900k GFX Card: Zotac 1060 6gb Mem: G.Skill Trident Z 2x8gb (2.4k) Psu: XFX Black Edition 850w Everything seated well, but for some reason I can't get it to boot with the 1060, regardless of which slot. It just stays on the white QLED. I can get to bios with my old GTX 960, but no further. Any help? Bios version 2606 if any use.

In an effort to expand my Compute capabilities I recently picked up a i9-9900k and a 3900x. The 3900x has proven relatively plug-and-play installing nicely in my Aorus x570 Pro WiFi and the performance showing a nice uplift after replacing the "adequate" stock cooler with a NH-D15. The 9900k, however, has lived up to its reputation as a thermal monster. Making matters worse the GigaByte z370 Gaming 5 it has been installed in suffers from a rather weak VRM (4-phase) that is itself prone to overheating. A first attempt at cooling this beast using a Hyper 212 Black with a Noctua NF-A12iPPC2000 PWM strapped onto it showed poor results. While perhaps adequate for light gaming my requirements are for it to remain stable under 24x7 compute and even with an under-volt and a -300MHz AVX off-set and 4.6GHz all-core limit could not pass Prime95 torture test (mprime -t) of longer duration. Replacing the Hyper 212 with a 120mm CLC with the NF-A12iPPC2000 showed similar results. Next up was an upgrade to an EVGA 280mm CLC and a Fractal Meshify S2 to house the system in. A first attempt at a high all-core overclock with an under-volt showed that 4.6GHz all-core at 1.160V Vcore appeared to be the best attainable while passing Prime95 with AVX enabled. Futher testing showed, however, that LLC at Turbo and Vcore at 1.250V were required for stability. Again there were some stability issues and after dropping the all-core down to 4.5GHz and Vcore to 1.130V the system remained stable for Folding with the Cores at 64-72C, VRM at 81C (17C Ambient). Stability was still elusive though with the system randomly locking up after 8 or 9 hours with nothing in the logs (hard lock) likely indicating a hardware issue. After clearing the CMOS settings and running Prime95 it was observed that the VRM was hitting 115C with no end in sight during small FFT tests with AVX enabled. Removing the plastic I/O shroud on the motherboard the plastic spacers on the VRM heat-sinks were removed to allow better contact of the heat-sinks to the MOSFETs and a 80mm fan installed to provide airflow over the VRMs. This improved things but only slightly. Prime95 Torture tests were then run while observing the VRM thermals. An AVX off-set of -300MHz was found to be required at stock settings to keep the VRM thermals during small FFTs under 100C. A Prime95 Torture Test was run overnight (17 hours) and no errors or warnings were recorded. The system has returned to folding driving 2 RTX 2070 Super Hybrids and with 14 threads CPU Folding (an 8 and a 6-thread slot) with no stability issues in almost 48-hours. The UPS shows the system having an idle load of 55W and 225W when just the CPU slots are enabled so the CPU draws about an additional 170W folding. Hindsight being 20/20 the better approach would have been to just retire the z370 motherboard and get a new x570 board and another 3900x. Realistically this system would need a z390 motherboard with a beefier VRM to work well and the x570 with a 3900x would still crush a 9900k performance wise. At some point, when I can take the system off-line for an extended period, I intend to see how much I can lower Vcore as that could both alleviate the strain on the VRM and may potentially allow a slight increase in the maximum all-core clock.

I am planing to move into a Corsair 280x with a 9900k and a EVGA 2080TI FTW3 Ultra. I am planing to use a NZXT x52 (240mm) aio to cool the cpu and let the gpu be air cool. My concerned that the will not fit considering is a 2.5 slot card that is also 11.75 in long and fairly wide too. Has anyone fit one of these cards into this case with a factory cool? The case is due in to marrow so I hope my over site does throw a wrench in my plans. Any other opinions or suggestions are welcome.

So I'll be upgrading my GPU in the very near future, and with my custom being torn down during the process to replace the CPU Block and a few other parts. As of this moment I have an 8700K, though it's not a brilliant one. Suffice to say I didn't win the silicon lottery, and even after a delidding and some Conductonaut application, I still couldn't squeeze more out of it. So I'm considering swapping it out for a 9900K, or 9900KF. I know that I won't a huge boost in performance, but I'm 99.9% certain that my Maximus X Formula should be able to handle the power to maintain a 5GHz all-core OC, if not better if I get lucky this time around Going to a 2080Ti for the GPU upgrade, and yes, I'm well aware my 8700K would be able to hold it's own with a 2080Ti, but I can barely push it at a 5GHz all-core without it running toasty, and that is with the delidding. Mine just needs too high of a Vcore level to reach that (1.415-1.425v). Yeah, I know.... So here's the meat of the question, given my 8700K is a bit of a bust in OC potential, if I can get a 9900K or 9900KF discounted (there are a few places here in Europe, living in Ireland btw) is it worth just for the consistency I should be able to get with the switch? And am I right in believing my Formula X board should be able to handle it? While I'm not opposed to swapping out the board at the same time if it is needed too, I'd rather save some bucks if I can.

First time custom-ish water cooling. Thoughts and suggestions welcome. The cpu still runs into the low 80's under full load so any ides to improve that would be helpful. ASUS Z390-I,9900k oc to 4.9 on all cores, 2080TI stock, 32gb 3200mhz, Alphacool AIO 240mm with additional 240mm rad and custom fittings and hoses (bits power fittings and primo chill hose), and NZXT HUE 3tb HD, 4tb HD, 2x ssd (RAIDed together), 1tb NVME, 256gb NVME (boot/OS)

With current prices, an i9 - 9900KF paired with a Z390 Gigabyte Aorus Master comes out to $689.98. A 3700X paired with the equivalent X570 Gigabyte Aorus Master comes out to $687.88. Difference of $2.10! If I use my PC primarily for gaming is there any reason to get the Ryzen setup? It would be paired with an existing RTX 2080 and 240hz monitor. Other than maybe PCIE4 and productivity which I rarely use the pc for... dollar for dollar wouldn't it be a no brainer to get the 9900KF? Thoughts appreciated!

Hi I wonder what is a reasonable fast and stable speed for CPU cache for this CPU? Today I have set it to 4300 MHz. I want my system to be fast but not comprising stability. CPU 9900K Clocked at 4900 MHz on all cores avx offset set to - 2 My ram is 4 x Gskill 3200 CL 14 16GB Motherboard Asus ROG Maximus XI Hero Powersuply Corsair HX 1200i

So I have 4 I9 systems that I need to get the best STABLE overclock out of. Here are the specs: CPU: I9 9900k Mobo: Asus Z390 Gaming-E RAM: 64GB @ 3200MHz Cooler: Corsair H100i Pro RGB Case: Rosewill RSV-L4000 (4U Rackmount) Bios Settings are as follows: (Anything not listed is default) XMP I profile enabled MCE: Auto SVID Behavior: Best Case Scenario CPU Core Ratio: Sync All Cores @ 50 Digi + VRM -> Load Line Calibration: Level 6 (Might have the name wrong, writing this from home) Internal CPU Power Management -> IA AC Loadline & IA DC Loadline = 0.01 CPU Core Voltage: Manual = 1.3V The machines are in a 64 F server room so ambient temp is not an issue. They will be used in a compute cluster to run FPGA builds and simulations which can be AVX heavy workloads. They will be run 24/7 and potentially be running the overclock for years at a time so stability is key. My goal is to get all chips to 5GHz (AVX/non AVX). My problem is that I am running into temperature issues. I am seeing temps in the 90s and sometimes 100c on some cores. The weirdest thing to me is that there can be a temperature delta of 13c between cores on the CPU. I don't know if this is common to 9900K or just a bad cooler mount. When I run prime95 to stress test I either have an incorrect result/hardware failure or a thermal shutdown. We got these CPUs specifically for the lightly threaded performance and every MHz matters. So if anyone has any suggestions on better BIOS settings it would be really helpful. I plan to check the mounts on the coolers. No additional thermal paste was added to 3 of them, so I have a feeling that may be part of it.

Okay, so the replacement 9900K is much better than the last. The last one wouldn't do 5GHz stable, no matter what I tried. This one has been stable at 5Ghz (no AVX offset) for a few days now and passed all stress and benchmarks I tossed at it (with the exception of AVX Prime95 small sets and Small sets in OCCT 5.1.0, but those were heat issues). I am now testing 5.1GHz (no AVX offset) with a voltage of 1.295 and so far so good. I need to set the stress tests for longer runs to be sure, but preliminary runs of up to 30 minutes were successful. I'm going to post the screenshots of the Cinebench15 and 20. Have to wait for my next runs of Realbench, OCCT and Prime95 for screenshots of those as I forgot to take them before closing out. I seriously doubt I'll be able to go higher with my current Corsair H115i cooler, but if 5.1 remains stable, I'll be more than happy to stay at that speed.

Hi guys! First time posting hoping somebody can help with a big problem I have with my system! Im not an native english speaker but I hopefully my english is good enough. Here I go: I recently bought all the components of a New computer on Amazon, including a Intel i9 9900k and a TUF z370 pro gaming Asus mother board. The mother board was compatible with the CPU Only after a firmware update (the Amazon page didnt said that and I ended up buying an extra 8th gen celeron CPU just to perform the motherboard update). Everything was working fine for a month until a couple of days ago when i has a blue screen of dead and after that was unable to boot to Windows, or even the windows 10 instaler USB. All I got was diffrent blue screens of dead, with diffrent errors. I removed all non-esential components and still got BSOD, also I was unable to boot from an Ubuntu USB. A friend of mine brought home a USB disc player and we where able to boot to a wierd tool called parting magic, and in there we performed a CPU test using all 16 threads of the CPU and I showed no errors. That made me think that the CPU was fine. The last test we did was swaping the i9 for the celeron CPU and to my surprise, computer booted with no problems with all components conected. That left me thinking that either the motherboard has compatibility problems due to not having native support for the CPU. Or that the CPU went bad for no reason whatsoever. What is strange is that I can enter BIOS, and that I was able to run the parting magic tool and perform a CPU test with no errors. A little sad extra piece of Information is that I contacted intel support and they asked of I had overcooked the CPU to which I answered with the truth: I didn't overclocked or anything like that but the motherboard has a tool called ez tuning which asked me what i was going to do with my computer (design work) and what kind of cooling i use (liquid AIO), so it probably did a little overclocking on its own. Intel sayed that my warranty is void because of that, and its on record on a support chat conversation i had with the agent. What are my options here? Im thinking i should buy a new motherboard 100% compatible and if that works, problem solved of not return it and shell out another 500 dlls for a new i9? I have almost no money left all my savings went to this computer. Do you guys have a suggestion on what should i do next? Is there another course of action i should take? All suggestions are very much welcome! Thank you very much for your time!

Hey guys! My system is stable at stock speeds, I've been rendering some 3D animations for 3 days+ with no crash or bsod. Memtest86 didn't report any errors on my RAM. But I'm not sure what I am missing, or doing incorrectly, or just unlucky on the quality of some parts? I've tried the basic 9900k 5ghz overclocking tutorials by MSI over their website, Gigabyte's guide, Der8auer's guide, JJ's guide (Asus). Tried the similar tips on their guides like turning XMP on/off, tested LLC levels of 3-7, voltage of 1.29 - 1.35, AVX Offsets -2 to -4m. I usually don't fiddle with settings that I don't understand or they don't mention changing, but everytime, it's unstable. I understand that there's no perfect insurance on stability once you overclock your parts, but even a slight oc of 4.8ghz on all cores crashes cinebench R15/R20, BSOD's halfway through. Even if I lost the silicon lottery, I'm willing to run the 9900k with higher voltages for a stable 5Ghz because it's a real game changer to preview your 3D animations in real-time. I just plan on using this stable 5Ghz OC profile when I work heavily for a few hours. I'm getting really confused now because I've search many other forums and questions, and I think that other people with the same specs doesn't have this kind of problem. Should I give up trying to overclock? Thank you for your time. System Specs: i9-9900k stock (H115i Pro 240mm AIO Liquid Cooler) MEG Z390 Godlike (Latest BIOS) Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB 4x8GB DDR4 3000mhz 2x MSI RTX 2080ti Corsair AX1500i Overclocking guides: MSI's Guide: https://www.msi.com/blog/intel-9th-cpu-overclocking-5ghz-with-z390-motherboards Gigabyte's Guide: https://www.gigabyte.com/FileUpload/Global/multimedia/2/file/525/946.pdf Der8auer's Guide: JJ's Guide (Asus):

Okay, I thought I could live with 4.9, but I want 5 and I am at a wall. I can stress test and benchmark all day and night at 4.9 with a voltage of 1.25. If I push it to 5, not matter what voltage I give it, it will bluescreen in Realbench (various codes), rack up thousands of errors in OCCT small, medium and small sets and Cinebench 20 will bluescreen. Not that under all these tests, voltages are within set range and CPU and core temps never get above 93c (spike) and 83c (sustained). I thought it might have been my ram (G Skill Ripjaws 2400 CL15) so I upgraded to G Skill Trident Z 3200 CL14. It is setup and working on XMP, but it didn't help my overclocking issue. I really am not sure where the problem lies. I have the AVX with 0 offset, but it still has issues with up to an offset of 3. I have followed all I could find about overclocking the 9900K and I have all the power settings and Intel XTU shows no thermal or current issues. Does anyone know how to check the errors that OCCT are claiming? I find no way to view them. Anyway, I am not sure what info you might need to assist, so ask away. Thanks

Okay, it has been awhile since I put together a new machine and I'm working on overclocking it manually as the settings in the UEFI put way too much voltage and I hit thermal max pretty quick during stress testing. I have managed to get it stable at 4.9 with 1.24 volts, LLC 7, stock cache speed and an AVX offset of 2. However, when doing certain tests (LINPACK in OCCT) it will eventually stop because a couple of the cores will eventually reach over 96c even though the AIO coolant is still 35c with an ambient temp of 21c. I am using a Corsair H115i and it idles around 31c and during anything other than small sets or the linpack, it never gets above 82 degrees. My goal is to get to 5GHz with an AVX offset of 2. I think I can get there without a major bump in voltage, but I'm wondering why the AIO can't keep those couple of cores from reaching higher temps over a period of about 10 minutes of hardcore stress testing. If I can get 5G and keep the temps down during less aggressive testing (larger sets and an offset for AVX), I think I'll be okay. Since I have gotten to 4.9 on 1.24 volts, does that mean I got lucking in the silicon lottery for that, but not in the heat generation area? Is it normal for the cores to keep jumping up a degree or so every iteration of the test until thermal max and the AIO's coolant staying so low (35c)? Any input would be great. The last OC I did was a 5820K that I got to 4.7 on an H100i. I put my system information in the signature. I hope it shows up.

Hi Guys, I just wanted to share the result of my first custom PC adventure. Here's a Picture of the completed build: Here's the hardware list: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $484.99 @ B&H CPU Cooler Noctua - NH-U9S 46.44 CFM CPU Cooler $59.95 @ Amazon Motherboard Asus - ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard $199.98 @ Amazon Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $261.00 @ Amazon Storage Western Digital - Green 240 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $49.89 @ OutletPC Video Card Asus - GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB TURBO Video Card $771.80 @ Amazon Power Supply SeaSonic - FOCUS SGX 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply $117.63 @ Amazon Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $1945.24 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-05-21 05:33 EDT-0400 Shut up! I need a 9900k for REASONS! The general idea was to create a case with direct airflow pretty much directly from bottom to top in the smallest doable form factor. It's not perfect by a long shot but then again i am no craftsman of any sort. With it now running and having gone through a few benchmarks and stress tests I found that i can comfortably run the cpu to a clock of 4.9 without the fans going crazy or temps going over 80 degrees. The tower cooler is definitely sufficient. The GPU is also suprisingly silent for a blower stly card but definitely the loudest part of the system. If i were to do it again i would probably not take a blower style card again but it's really no big deal. The system is overall almost inaudible even under some light load (i.e: games) The GPU will of course be audible when doing a render. If anyone is interested I'll pack out some of the pictures i did inbetween and share the build process. I am also open to any questions or suggestion of course. Update: Here's some pics and description to serve as a little bit of a buildlog. half of those are "reenactments" though, since i did not make many pictures while building unfortunately. The initial idea: I had this old can for imported olives that i liked the look of and so i had the whacky idea of putting a pc into it. I made a first prototype... which worked insofar as it fit the can over it. I realized though, that the whole construction was a little to shaky while also being pretty heavy, so i started again: I created this model in blender of how it should look like. It has all the components in it and should fit since it is all to scale ... or so i thought. I went to building then... Here's a tutorial on how to do teethed connections the dirty way. Don't do this in front of a woodworker. They might just murder you. Draw the teeth (preferrably with a breadth that is a divider to the total length, so that there isn't one little tooth at the end): The depth should usually be the same as the depth of the plate. Set a tablesaw to the depth and draw it towards the plate holding it like so: # Be careful doing that of course. tablesaws are dangerous. I recommend putting a second sacrificial plate behind the first one, so that the first plate does not fray. Lastly... you use whatever you have or the actual 90° clamp to put the two together after wood glue was applied: Now.... before any of this... which i did not do... you should make all the holes for screws. In my experience the tons of glue used in good layered wood should easily suit the needs of pc screws. I used a sacrificial plate to determine the right sizes for the holes. You could trust the measurements of the screws but why not try is before using it to hold hundreds of euros of hardware. Everything else was pretty much just holes and screws. There is only more truly custom thing: I made clamps to hold the PSU from brass: I put felt in between the metal and the PSU to absorb vibration. At this point i realized, that the components would firstly not fit as intended and secondly that i had not considered how much space cables need. I had to rethink the arrangement and ended up with something like this: I then rebuilt my blender model: It came out something like that. The final form is a compromise, since most IO is at the side, which i wanted to avoid but i am pretty happy with it. I then bought acrylic glass, cut it with a tablesaw (not recommended. dont be cheap like me and get an acrylic cutter.) sanded the sides down up to 800 grid and drilled holes with a metal drill. be careful when punching guide holes for the drill. acrylic is pretty easily cracked as i had to learn. I drilled holes into the sides of the case and inserted threaded bolts until about a cm stood out. I then cut off the head of the bolts. The glass goes over the bolts and is held with wingnuts. As you can clearly see, i painted the case with varnish before installing the hardware. The feet are currently a temporary solution. I am not sure what to do for fee yet. I taped a patch of airfilter sheet from the internet to the bottom to filter the intake. Also a temporary solution right now. If there are any questions left open i am happy to answer.

I'm running a i9 9900k on a gigabyte aorus z390 elite and cooling it with Noctua DH-15. While running AIDA stress test on core, cache, FPU and system memory I get 9% throttling, and temps around 90-100 celsius. While playing battlefield 5 i get to 80 celsius and core voltage is at 1.45 witch I think is too high and the processor runs at 4,8GHz. Can I decrese voltage? Edit: also the processor wont go above 4.8GHz even if at 60 celsius.

Planning to upgrade to 9900k and would like to achieve a moderate to high OC, can I do this on a large air cooler or is water a must? Any suggestions for a cooler that's not too expensive?

hi, my h150i does not heat up even though my cpu is heating up.. have a x62 kraken on my gpu and it heats up pretty fast to about the same at the gpu temp.. i thought mayby it was bad contact between cooler and cpu but its around 50-60c 5ghz on all cores (9900k).. any ideas? can it be that the H150i with push/pull as intake in a high airflow case just is cooling that good?

Hello there ! First post on this forum, i'll try to make it quick ! I recently decided to upgrade my old rig so i went and bought: i9 9900k + 2080 from aorus + 4x8Go 3600 CAS 16 from Ballistix (here is the reference: BLE4K8G4D36BEEAK) + 1To mp510 from Corsair, running on a z390 Aorus master. My point is: did i make something wrong in my choosing ? I mean compatibility wise. Did i pick up components that are not supposed to work with eachother ? Why am I asking this you say? Because when I assembled those pieces together, they worked fined for maybe 40min then the PC froze. Since then it won't post. The MB gets stuck on weird error codes like D4 (04 ?) or 71 which are respectively referenced as "reserved" and "PCH SMM initialisation" (wtf is that ?! even the tech guy from gigabyte couldn't tell me what it is). Of course i tried to reset, Clear CMOS, use back up bios etc it's always the same. The only thing that creates a different outcome is when i boot with no RAM installed, in which case i can hear the continuous beeps. Anyway, I called tech support, they provided me with a brand motherboard, but nothing changed. Same error code, so as im writing those lines, my CPU and RAM aer getting replaced, but i can't but wonder.... Did i do something wrong or is it just my karma that's really really bad ? PS: do you guys know something about code 71 on aorus card ? i've been loonking for answer but couldn't find a hint. Such a shame i read so many good comments on this MB Since it's my first post and english is not my first language, i'm sorry if my writing is tough to go through. Thx for reading !