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I am troubleshooting for a friend and narrowed it down to the ram controller. He has an z170 board so its skylake or the generation before. It wont start with a 3 short beep - beepcode which means that something is up with the ram. The ram sticks are totally fine and different ram wont do the trick. The only thing left is the ram controller which is either on the cpu or the northbridge. I can't find any useful information online which is why i am asking here. I dont want to tell him to buy a new motherboard only to realise that he needs a new cpu.

I'm trying to OC my cpu and im getting 89C when stress testing, is that okay? My CPU Cooler is a Corsair H100i platinum is there better? If so what is the best? I want to be able to rock this thing and use its power. Im new to overclocking and im following tutorials online. Also, I only have 1 case fan, is that cool? Would getting more case fans lower my cpu temp since its an AIO?

Hey everyone, I'm at my wits end here. I wanted to make some upgrades to a build that is 5 years old. I have an MSI z170a Tomahawk AC motherboard that is usually compatible with 6th gen processors. In looking for compatible parts I found that if you update the BIOS that you can use some 7th generation CPUs including the i7 7700k. I bought an i7-7700k that allegedly was in working condition to replace my i5-6500 I updated the BIOS to the most recent version available for my board. The install on that went great. No problems. Boots and posts fine every time. That's when the BSODs began. The most common one was IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL with a specific .sys file listed. I went through plugging holes in the dam by installing all updates and drivers related to the files listed (Net10.sys, tcpip.sys, and others). After several hours of updating and downloading new drivers, I started to see different BSOD errors occur, or the same IRQL one but with no specific files being mentioned. I got PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA and a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head. It even crashes in safe mode. Now, I've since installed a brand new SSD with a clean install of Windows. Same problems. However, when I switch back to the i5 there are no issues. With the i7 the computer will only run for a few minutes at a time, sometimes up to 20 minutes. If I let it be and don't try to do anything it will stay on longer. I've been using a 10 hour Youtube video as a means of testing if the computer will stay on or not. With the i5 I've had it run for 4 hours with no issues. I applied new thermal compound paste each time. I've tried other versions of BIOS, I've installed all possible drivers from Windows Updates and the drivers available on the product page for my motherboard. I've gone through component by component and removed anything that may be causing an issue. I've booted without a GPU and a network card. I installed the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool and BOTH processors passed in all categories. All of my hardware is operational in the BIOS menu for either processor. The temp is good for both between 31-41 degrees. EDIT: I also removed and replaced the CMOS battery. Is there any way that there is something wrong with the processor outside the parameters that the diagnostic searches for? Would this be a motherboard failing? Am I just missing some obvious driver or software that will make this all work? If someone can confidently say that the it's a bunk processor, I can then go through the process of getting a refund from the ebay seller who sold it to me. I just want to be absolutely sure that I'm not being a dolt here. Please help. THINGS TO NOTE: Here are the dump files https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eFkUHLcU62ylx2c0U_Us4X4XfHhI057Q/view?usp=sharing I currently can not obtain the perfmon data. It takes longer than 60 seconds to collect and the BSOD happens before I can get it. I am currently only running one stick of 16GB RAM because the pins on my other stick got damaged(long story) I was originally running into these errors with an HDD. I had the HDD checked and it was completely functional. I had planned to upgrade to an SSD anyways, so I did, and here we are. My PC Part Picker link is here: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i5-6500 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor $235.00 @ Amazon CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler $34.99 @ Newegg Motherboard MSI Z170A Tomahawk AC ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-2800 CL15 Memory Storage Samsung 870 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $44.99 @ B&H Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB GAMING X Video Card $699.98 @ Amazon Power Supply EVGA 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit $139.88 @ Other World Computing Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $1164.84 Mail-in rebates -$10.00 Total $1154.84 Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-05-11 20:44 EDT-0400

Note Mobo only supports up to 7th gen

So I have an i7-3770 3.4ghz should I upgrade to an i7-6700k.I found a motherboard (Asus Z170-P D3)that supports DDR3 memory so I dont have to upgrade my ram. I play graphic intense games .My RIG: i7-3770 3.4Ghz 12gb RAM GTX 970 4gb Thank for your time :)

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/CPU-Hardware-154106/News/Intel-Haswell-EP-Engineering-Sample-E5-2600-v3-Ebay-1119099/ With Intel rapidly shifting forward their current lineage of 9 series micro-processor (both the haswell refresh & upcoming 14nm aka Broadwell) and motherboards H97/Z97 to online retailers. For a small period of time since maybe February or March there has been a small discussion regarding the upcoming revision of Intel’s highest end platform 2011-3. Having remembered when the Engineering sample of the next revision 2011-3 I decided to research some more and found out that the leaked workstation/server grade Haswell-E CPU had a tremendous 14 core count enabled (so 14c/24hc) of course it being part of the Xeon E5 family had validation to run in any dual socket cpu (only rev.3 due to the change in revision 0 - 3), DDR4 supporting 2133mhz standard, higher levels of cache with the upcoming Wellsburg chipset C610. To be more accurate here is a quote from wccftech Here is a link to it being enlisted on Ebay : http://www.ebay.com/itm/201079451724 To be clear this is the Haswell-EP not EX however it does broaden the gap to understanding that Intel will be pushing the core count for enthusiasts, extreme over-clockers & highly multi-threaded applications. Aside from the latest high-end Ivy-Bridge Xeon E5 2696 v2 which is a 12 core, I've rechecked with other sites & articles regarding the leaked E5 2600 v.3 and boy it’s tough to put my finger on but from but there has been a rumoured 16 and 18 core edition floating around. Mouth watering yet or mybe your mind blown (due to the mount of text)? Unfortunately it doesn't stop here since Broadwell has been delayed to be officially launched in the last quarter of this year in-conjuction with possibly Haswell-E/X99, Intel have working towards their deadline to display early produce of Broadwell-EP. kylke

A Hong Kong-based outlet has acquired 10th gen Intel Comet Lake S parts, complete with fully functional boards, BIOS and microcodes. The i7 is just more of the same (basically a 9900K rebrand) while the real shitstorm are the lower end CPUs. The i5 appear to be standard 6/12 affairs with disappointing performance even compared to Zen 2, I can only imagine how much worse they'll get annihilated when Zen 3 comes in a few months. As expected, LGA1200. I can already imagine Intel executives' mouths watering at the prospect of selling yet more chipsets. EDIT: Comet Lake-S PL2 and PL1 limits revealed. OUCH. That's just absurd. THOUGHTS: Disappointing, very disappointing. I hoped at least some cache or clock improvements would push these CPUs further but, as it stands, they're no better than existing 9000 series models. THOUGHTS 2: Power Overwhelming [Cheat Enabled} Source 2:https://www.notebookcheck.net/Comet-Lake-S-may-require-hefty-CPU-coolers-Core-i9-10900F-shown-to-have-a-170-W-PL1-TDP-and-224-W-PL2-for-a-4-6-GHz-all-core-boost.460196.0.html Source: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Hong-Kong-outlet-leaks-Comet-Lake-S-performance-review-i7-10700-i5-10600K-i5-10500-and-i5-10400-go-up-against-AMD-Ryzen-3700X-3600X-and-Coffee-Lake.459680.0.html

Specs: i5 6400, H110m, GTX1060 6gb, 16gb (8x2) 2133mhz Ram So my pc is nearing 5 years old and have no plans of replacing it yet. So in order to upgrade its performance, i opted to have RAM upgrades. i currently have two 8gb 2133mhz sticks total of 16gb 2133mhz CL 14, i need 32gb for editing and cant find 2133mhz anymore. I ordered two 16gb sticks 2400mhz CL15. Will it work? does CL timings matter? or it will simply throttle down to 2133? Old Ram: HX421C14FB2/8 Ordered replacement: HX424C15FB3/16 Thank you

Ok it appears that on CPU-world website I compared the FX-8370 of mine with a Phenom II X6 1090T, Ryzen 5 3600X and i5-9600KF, what surprised is there seems to be FEW NEW INSTRUCTION SETS POST BULLDOZER / PILEDRIVER... In other words anything from Phenom II era or older may lack some new ones but FX and later is still good even now in 2020? The only new ones is AVX2.0 and TSX one of the two is a proven failure and does anything even use AVX2.0 not work with regular AVX? If all is good with AVXthen why upgrade for any other reason than performance lacking?

Do you think that core i3 from Skylake is prone to hardware vulnerabilities?

Hey, I'm on my way to building my first ever pc and I have already gathered the case, power supply, SSD storage and motherboard. The motherboard is the Asus B150 PRO GAMING/AURA. Until recently I wanted an i5-6600k CPU for my build, but after hearing about AMD's Ryzen 5 lineup I started to reconsider. I have always had an Intel CPU, so I would like to know more about the advantages and disadvantages of going for a Ryzen 5 CPU rather than the i5-6600k. I am not specifically talking about just performance numbers, but mainly other features, like does it come with a stock cooler, is there good overclocking software included, etc.Also I'd like to know what kind(s) of RAM the CPU will most likely support, since I think the motherboard only supports DDR4 RAM (don't quote me on that, I'm still a newby at this). What do you think would be the max overclock frequency of the 1600X? Also would this CPU be a good match with a GTX 1060 or would it bottleneck it? Thanks! Edit: By the way the motherboard has an 1151 socket, which pobably means it doesn't fit, right?

So, I've run into a stumbling block with my overclock. I'm able to get 4.7Ghz stable. My settings in the bios are as follows (see attached pics) as are the results (as posted above). First and foremost, can anyone give me tips on what I might be doing wrong or what I might be able to do better? I want the best possible daily driver OC I can possibly muster. A few specific questions I have, VID (not exactly sure what IA is) both read 1.415/1.423. In the UEFI I have it set to adaptive 1.380 with a +0.010 offset. I've found this is where I can achieve stability. I know HWMonitor is reporting higher voltages probably has something to do with the fact that I'm using adaptive and also where I put the CPU LLC level. This seems like an awfully high voltage, from what I've heard you really don't want to go much over 1.4V. But look at my temps. I might need a high voltage to achieve a stable 4.7Ghz but my temps top out at ~65°C after several hours in AIDA64. Even less in the x264 stress test. And only slightly higher in Realbench which is also pushing the GPU (in an ITX case w/ a non-blower cooler). This makes me feel like I've got headroom to push even farther. So I bumped up my voltage to 1.400V and kept adaptive +.010V and set the clock to 4.8Ghz. Aida64 stops the test about 45 minutes into the stress test so these voltages are not stable. My max temps at 45 minutes (on air, Noctua NH-D15) maxed out at around 68°C. In HWMonitor the VID was at around VID 1.445V and IA 1.455V. This seems REALLY high and yet here I am sitting at 68°C. I'm raising the voltage but not getting hit too hard on temps but at this voltage I feel like it's unsafe to push it any further to achieve a stable 4.8Ghz. 4.9 or higher seems absolutely out of the question as it seems I need rather high voltages even for modest overclocks on this CPU. But maybe that's where my other settings are coming into play. Maybe I'm borking something up. I dunno. Can someone help with a few of these points? For reference: i7-6700K Asus Z170I Gaming 16GB Corsair DDR4 3000Mhz EVGA GTX 1080 FTW And since that's the case, and I can't get a stable OC @ 1.45V (at least as reported by HWMonitor) is there anything I'm borking up in my UEFI settings that could be costing be stability? Anything I should change for daily use?

Hey guys i was wondering if it would be any good if i change my i3 6100 to an i5 7400 or a 6400 i am currently running any game on ultra 60 fps but my pc is been getting more on the laggy side i have a 960 4gb asus strix will there be some sort of a bottleneck and is it worth the upgrade?

Source: http://www.microcenter.com/category/4294966995,4294964566/Intel-Processors Over at Microcenter the prices of many Intel CPUs seem to have been cut a bit, most likely because of Ryzen, but if you ask me, it doesn't seem to be enough. Why? Let me show you: i7 6950x Original price: $1899.99 New price: $1599.99 i7 6900k Original price: $1199.99 New price: $999.99 i7 6850k Original price: $699.99 New price: $549.99 i7 6800k Original price: $499.99 New price: $359.99 i7 5820k Original price: $419.99 New price $319.99 i7 7700k Original price: $379.99 New price: $299.99 i7 6700k Original price: $399.99 New price: $259.99 i5 7600k Original price: $269.99 New price: $199.99 i5 6600k Original price: $269.99 New price: $179.99 Now some of these price cuts won't be super noticeable; the new prices for the 6950x, 6900k, 6850k, and maybe the 6800k aren't that large, especially considering the prices of Ryzen CPUs, but some of the others are kinda noticeable. The 6700k is now around the same price that an i5 7600k would cost you and the 6600k now costs the same as the 7350k would've cost you. However, I still don't believe these are enough for Intel. The 1800x is very similar in performance to the 6900k yet it's still exactly half the price (fine, it's half a cent under half the price of the 6900k, does it really matter?). The 6850k is still more expensive than the obviously better 1800x, and the 6800k is still slightly more than the better 1700 and the 5820k is only barely under the 1700. The quad core i7s and i5s might be a good deal, but once the AMD Ryzen 5 SKUs launch they'll be in trouble. While these price cuts might make some of Intel's CPUs attractive, for the most part I think Ryzen still has stole all the thunder. I imagine that once Ryzen launches and goes on sale Intel will have to react much more strongly, at the very least with its HEDT CPUs.

How to update my skylake board for kabylake compatibilities???

So.... I'll build a budget gaming pc... i could either get i5 2500k & z77 OR i5 3550 & z77 OR i3 6100 & b150m with plus minus $10. Which one is best?

BIOS - Basic Input Output System Features to look out if you want to use a Skylake motherboard on a Kaby Lake processor Skylake motherboard chipset: (if you see this in your motherboard it means it is a Skylake board and was originally designed to work with Skylake processors) Z170 (allows overclocking), 4 DIMM slots, SATA RAID Q170, 4 DIMM slots, SATA RAID H170, 4 DIMM slots, SATA RAID B150, 4 DIMM slots H110, 2 DIMM slots DIMM slots refer to how many sticks of RAM the chipset can support. Kaby Lake processors: (here are list of Kaby Lake processors, desktop only) K at the end - allows overclocking T at the end - lower powered (low TDP), basically consumes less power at a small decrease in performance E at the end - embedded processor, usually means they are stuck into the motherboard Intel Core i7 (4 cores 8 threads) i7-7700K i7-7700 i7-7700T Intel Core i5 (4 cores 4 threads) i5-7600k i5-7600 i5-7600T i5-7500 i5-7500T i5-7400 i5-7400T Intel Core i3 (2 cores 4 threads) i3-7350K i3-7320 i3-7300 i3-7300T i3-7100 i3-7100T i3-7101E i3-7101TE Pentium (2 cores 4 threads) G4620 G4600 G4600T G4560 G4560T Celeron (2 cores 2 threads) G3950 G3930 G3930T Great, now if you can confirm you have one of the item above (or planning to get one) then you need to know that Skylake motherboard won't work without a motherboard BIOS update to support Kaby Lake CPU. Now to update motherboard you need to gain access to BIOS of the motherboard. Most of the board will not allow you to do that without the matching CPU even if Kaby Lake has the same socket as Skylake. Then what to do? Fortunately some motherboards allow users to update BIOS without needing a CPU at all. Each of them are named differently so here is a list of it. (just look for these features when buying motherboard) Gigabyte: Q-Flash Plus (note the Plus, not regular Q-Flash) Asus: USB Bios Flashback (guide is for X99 chipset but should work with Z170 chipset: http://event.asus.com/2012/mb/USB_BIOS_Flashback_GUIDE/) MSI: BIOS Flashback+ ASRock: No info. Instant Flash still requires you to get into the BIOS. (http://www.asrock.com/support/BIOSUI.asp?cat=BIOS8). Contact them here (http://www.asrock.com/support/index.asp?cat=RMA) EVGA: You can not do that but they offer a service (http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=59679&topicid=0) SuperMicro: No info, but they offer a service (https://www.supermicro.com/support/rma/rma_bios.cfm) ECS: You can not do that most likely. eBLU still requires to even have access to OS (http://www.ecs.com.tw/extra/eblu/) If your motherboard does not have the feature mentioned then you need to get a Skylake processor to update BIOS. NOTE: This only needed if your BIOS is not updated to use with Kaby Lake processor. Hope this help. (not sure if it should be in Guides category or CPU category)

So, Im looking for a decent skylake motherboard with more than 1 PCIE x16 slot, under 55. The only ones i can afford support DDR3/L. Is this a bad investment, considering the ram prices are around the same? My budget is £550, https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/yyB2BP is my current build. I am just worried, as for 1, ddr3 is already outdated/slow and 2 apparently non L ddr3 can cause issues with skylake.

Hey all, I need some advice. I have an h60 with a stock fan attached to my skylake i7 7700k. The cooler does not cut it, even in case temp of 13c (winter with windows open) the cpu was still getting up to 100c and performance was dipping down to 4000 MHz at the min (not happy...). My cinebench average is 933 normal room temp and cold room testing it was 953. I am a workstation user so cpu performance is a must. I want to be able to overclock. Is this normal or is my H60 unit defective? can I get away with the same cooler and upgrading to a push pull config with EKWB EK-Vardar F4-120ER (2200rpm) White High Static Pressure 120mm Cooling Fan. how much will buying nice thermal paste help? I'm not trying to spend more than $45 dollars fixing this problem... also my stock fan is loud under load (like loud- is that normal too?). thanks!

Hi All! I have just completed my Skylake build over the weekend: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pmDM6X It's my first time overclocking a system as well, no pressure here. The tweaks that I did on the BIOS are as follows: RAM - XMP Core Clock: 4.6ghz Core Voltage: 1.250v I just wanted to share to you the results that I got after running AIDA64 for 30 minutes: I was expecting the system to crash after running it on 4.6ghz at 1.250, apparently it didn't after 30 minutes. Did I miss out on anything in the BIOS which is causing the system to not crash? What more can I do after this? Again, I am very new to overclocking, basically 3 days of studying and preparation. Your thoughts? Many Thanks!

Intel socket 3467 skylake-ep processors might get a new name. One of them has, leaked onto the web, where a screenshot was taken, while it was running Sisoft Sandra. This new procesor has 18 cores, 36 threads, 18mb L2, and 24.75mb L3. Base clock runs at 2.7GHz with turbo at 3.7GHz, and a memory controller operating at 2.4GHz. Normally when a new xeon comes out for the high end like this skylake-ep, it gets the name xeon e5 xxxx v5, for this, its new name is Xeon Gold 6150. Rumors has it, there will also be a Platinum! Who knows, maybe Intel's future cpu naming, will copy the 80plus ratings on a power supply. http://m.expreview.com/52261.html https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://m.expreview.com/52261.html&usg=ALkJrhiFSacK2w85HxM93piIkiNA6jAkGA

Any ideas? just put a system together(posting on it now), 6700k evga z170 ftw, 16gb gskill 2800ghz ddr4 2x8gb. So the issue is I couldn't get the system to post with both sticks of ram in, the error codes would flash north and south bridge codes and loop, tried all dim slots with a single stick and lucked out with dimm 3 as the magic number. once in the bios I tried to change the clock on the ram from 2133 to 2800 and it brought me back to no post. I cleared cmos and started over. I have the system running stable on one stick but cannot run dual channel or any other single slot. please drop me some ideas.

So now that ryzen 7 is out(and it's awesome) and ryzen 5 is around the cornner, will intel drop the prices on the lower and mid range cpus( 6600k 6700k). I'm not sure if I shoud buy now or wait a litle bit more...

So I have an interesting problem. I built my PC 3 years ago. At the time of building i equipped my PC with 8GB or RAM and an i5 4690k. At a later date I upgraded to 16GB of RAM from klevv (llike its really good RAM at 2400MHz). However nowadays I need an i7 for running simulations and for battlefield 1. I seem to be getting fps drops in that and often when running simulations for businesses i experience hangs. I was gifted an MSI phantom laptop equpped with an i7 so I've been using that but I would like to use my pc for more than word proccessing and simple stuff. The problem I have is I need an i7 but should I: a) get an i7 4790k which is still priced at £300 in the UK for a new one or around £250 for a second hand one that I trust b) get an i7 6700k which is around £280 and will require me to buy a new mobo for around £90 (I'm looking at the Gigabyte GA z170 HD3 DDR3) with DDR3 support which will mean reduced features compared to my MSI z97 gaming 7. Or get one with DDR4 at a higher cost for new RAM as well c) get an i7 7700k which is £329 and a new mobo and new RAM also I'm running windows 8 and apparently kaby lake doesnt support that so.... I'll need windows 10 which is something I dont want. Like AT ALL options b) and and c) will cost more, but is more worth it in the long run. Also I have windows 10 on my laptop I HATE IT!!!! Also theres the issue of all of this extra hardware I'll have lying around. I still have the original 8GB of RAM that I replaced. I do want to build something like a media PC but thats nowhere in the near future

the title says it because i need to a processor that can live stream while rendering and gaming also to be able to play games while rendering and record. Ps: i hope is not a processor that cost like $900-$700