Recent content by gthomas1018

i was thinking the same thing. I may end up buying a 9900k and selling the 9700k cause why not, but I think I’m going to wait at least a week or two to make sure they don’t try to charge me again.

I actually was reaching out to amazon to ask about returning as I purchased the 9700k and a mobo and ram using special financing so I was concerned on whether I could or not and how this would affect it. By the end of the conversation the rep was telling me it was non returnable. So I questioned...

Well only downside is they refunded it to my amazon gift card balance so it can only be used to make purchase on amazon. Right now I can only get a 9900k for $570 and get it in a reasonable amount of time. If I felt like waiting a month I could get it for 499 to wait on more stock to get in...

I bought it from amazon and somehow I talked them into refunding the money I paid for my 9700k while letting me keep the 9700k as well lol. So now I have that money back and would need to spend an additional $160 to get the 9900k. I’m really tempted to do it just for the sake of making the...

So I recently got the 9700k and after further research found some articles reading that the 9900k will be more “future-proof” as it Has hyper threading while the 9700k does not. Dumb on my part for not researching that before hand but I have time to get a refund and get the 9900k instead. My...

This is a brand new Mobo though that is rated to run much higher than 3600 MHz. It shouldn’t be the Mobo causing that issue.

I have tried essentially all this except for the gear down and power down mode stuff. I may try that.

Hmm well I guess I still might try it. My board is a pretty nice mobo so hopefully it will work. If this one doesn’t I’ll probably just find some good 3200 MHz RAM and see if that works better.

Yes I updated the BIOS and all drivers. Resintalled windows for a clean install. Even fresh installed my GPU drivers as well. I have tried everything I researched to no avail

Anyone have suggestions on RAM? I’m shooting for some 3600MHz C16 ram. I’m not real familiar with what all the timings mean other than lower is better I think. Budget isn’t really an issue. I’m willing to go with some 3200 MHz C16 ram also if it’s more stable usually. I went with the below RAM...