Need to replace my 9700k

[Tobias2]

Budget (including currency): no budget 

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Other details:

Z390 E Gaming motherboard 

EVGA RTX 2080 Ti Black Edition 

 

Hi, I recently bought a Sabrent NVME drive gen 4 1TB storage. 

I've had intermittent issues with bluescreens happening, typically only while gaming. 

 

Sabrent claims the issue is because my motherboard is gen3 and unable to connect the PCIe lanes. 

 

I've long been looking to get a new system for a while but now I feel like it's gotten a little more urgent as it's driving me insane to have these bluescreen issues and the pain I went through when installing windows 10 on the nvme drive (pc kept refusing to recognize the drive and never found an installed windows 10 to boot from), makes me not want to go through it again by reverting to my old SSDs. 

 

I use the pc for work (nothing too heavy, mainly working within Google Workspace, but I do tend to have like 50 tabs open) and pc gaming at 1440p. 

 

Games like Rocket League, Dota 2, Assassin's Creed, and other random RPGs. Eyeing the release of Baldur's Gate 3 whenever that will happen. 

 

Now I'm aware that I'm not gonna get a huge upgrade, but I feel like the cpu have been around for a while and feels kinda sluggish from time to time, not getting the fps in games that I should etc. 

 

I have no preference between Ryzen or Intel. And I'll also get an RTX 3080/3080Ti whenever I can find one in stock. 

 

I have no budget, I can afford to buy whichever. 

 

Appreciate any help guiding this decision! 

 

[SupaKomputa]

You want to change the whole system because the ssd is not compatible?

Change the ssd not the system.

9700k is still a good system.

[Avanta8]

1 hour ago, Tobias2 said:

Budget (including currency): no budget 

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

Other details:

Z390 E Gaming motherboard 

EVGA RTX 2080 Ti Black Edition 

 

Hi, I recently bought a Sabrent NVME drive gen 4 1TB storage. 

I've had intermittent issues with bluescreens happening, typically only while gaming. 

 

Sabrent claims the issue is because my motherboard is gen3 and unable to connect the PCIe lanes. 

 

I've long been looking to get a new system for a while but now I feel like it's gotten a little more urgent as it's driving me insane to have these bluescreen issues and the pain I went through when installing windows 10 on the nvme drive (pc kept refusing to recognize the drive and never found an installed windows 10 to boot from), makes me not want to go through it again by reverting to my old SSDs. 

 

I use the pc for work (nothing too heavy, mainly working within Google Workspace, but I do tend to have like 50 tabs open) and pc gaming at 1440p. 

 

Games like Rocket League, Dota 2, Assassin's Creed, and other random RPGs. Eyeing the release of Baldur's Gate 3 whenever that will happen. 

 

Now I'm aware that I'm not gonna get a huge upgrade, but I feel like the cpu have been around for a while and feels kinda sluggish from time to time, not getting the fps in games that I should etc. 

 

I have no preference between Ryzen or Intel. And I'll also get an RTX 3080/3080Ti whenever I can find one in stock. 

 

I have no budget, I can afford to buy whichever. 

 

Appreciate any help guiding this decision! 

 

It seems unlikely that it's an issue with the SSD. What OCs are you running?

[Tobias2]

28 minutes ago, Avanta8 said:

It seems unlikely that it's an issue with the SSD. What OCs are you running?

It started the same night as I changed from my Samsung 850 SSD to the NVME gen 4. Never had the issue before.

 

I run my 9700k at 5 GHZ and the GPU is not overclocked cause I got some cheapo model that is already super hot as is with default settings. 

[Tobias2]

54 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

You want to change the whole system because the ssd is not compatible?

Change the ssd not the system.

9700k is still a good system.

Yeah but the 9700k is not performing as it did, it's gotten sluggish over the years. Not sure why, never had a CPU for this long before lol, probably 3 years or something I think?

[Avanta8]

7 minutes ago, Tobias2 said:

It started the same night as I changed from my Samsung 850 SSD to the NVME gen 4. Never had the issue before.

 

I run my 9700k at 5 GHZ and the GPU is not overclocked cause I got some cheapo model that is already super hot as is with default settings. 

What makes you think that it's not a corrupted Windows install or something?

6 minutes ago, Tobias2 said:

Yeah but the 9700k is not performing as it did, it's gotten sluggish over the years. Not sure why, never had a CPU for this long before lol, probably 3 years or something I think?

What do you mean by sluggish? Processors themselves don't really slow down, but bloatware can make your pc feel slower.

[Nena Trinity]

Uses the refresh windows feature?

[SupaKomputa]

1 hour ago, Tobias2 said:

Yeah but the 9700k is not performing as it did, it's gotten sluggish over the years. Not sure why, never had a CPU for this long before lol, probably 3 years or something I think?

CPU will run the same as long as they live. Unless you burn them 100c++ everyday (which you couldn't), there won't be any degradation.

So it's either working or dead.

You're making excuse just to have that sabrent working. That thing suppose to work even on PCIE 3.0, if not then it's a bad designed ssd. Pcie standard suppose to be backward / forward compatible.

Open event viewer and check which service / device are making those errors.

[Tobias2]

I have tried to go into my motherboard and force Gen3, maybe that should force the NVME to only utilize Gen3 and this issue with all the bluescreens might hopefully be a thing of the past. I hope so anyway... I guess I'll find out soon enough.

[Tobias2]

Did not work, got 3 bluescreens in a row just now... jesus