Recent content by raulo1985

Thanks for your detailed reply. I was indeed leaning towards your suggestion (the G.Skill GVKD model), but I have some questions, hopefully you can help me with them: 1) There's a GVK and a GVKD model of the same ram. The only difference I can see at their webpages is that the GVKD model seems...

Thanks for your reply. I have indeed looked into their QVL (that's the first thing I do when I'm choosing a ram for a certain mobo), and these are the modules I think could suit my needs. I must recognize that I'm a fan of G.Skill and Corsair, I've never have a problem with their ram modules, so...

Hi: I’m building a rig for work, mainly heavy 3d rendering tasks and video editing tasks, so I need the best cpu + mobo + ram I can get according to my budget. Not planning on gaming (I already own a MSI GTX 1070 gaming 8G, which I think for my purposes is more than enough), and I’m not going...

Why would they say that that ram is incompatible with that motherboard, then? I know that maybe it's because they haven't tested it with the Alpha and they are playing on the sure side, but that doesn't mean they are not compatible. Have you seen reports of an Alpha with a 2990WX using a ram...

Would you try them with those mobos, then? And what's your take on the VRMs and power management between the two mobos (Strix vs Alpha)? Is the difference in price worth the supposedly better quality of Alpha's VRMs and their cooling solution, stability and durability wise?

Thanks for your reply. I already did like a week ago, haven't heard from them yet.

Hi. I'm going to purchase a X399 motherboard for my 2990WX, and I'm struggling to find if the ram I already have is going to be compatible. I'm between the Asus ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha and the MSI X399 Creation, and I own four modules (64gb total) of this ram: G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32GB...

I think like 4 years would be a good guess. I guess the expenses could be covered in like 3 - 4 months (considering the other expenses I had to build this rig). I've been using Arnold on an old i5-6600K, pretty slow renders as you can imagine. This is in fact an investment in my business, but...

Thanks again for your reply. I was under the impression that a 2990WX cpu required top notch power management at mobo level, with the best VRMs and cooling you could find. Maybe I got that info from a place that exaggerated this concept, but, if not OCing, do you think that the Strix can handle...

Feature wise, you have a point. The Asus Zenith Extreme Alpha seems like an overkill for what I need, but I'm most concerned about reliability and durability. In other words, if I was considering the Alpha vs a less expensive mobo was because of the improved VRM cooling and, I guess, better...

Thanks again for your quick reply. So you think the cpu is very unlikely to be the problem? I need this system to be up an running as soon as possible, and MSI is not replying any of my requests. Because of that, I was thinking on just buying another mobo, and when MSI decides to contact me...

Oh, and I'm not planning to change my graphic card for the meanwhile, so my V1000 should be plenty even for cpu demanding tasks (like 3d rendering), even if I choose the Asus Alpha mobo, right? What's your opinion about that?

Sadly, I don't have another CPU cooler for this socket, but the one I have, even though is air cooling (like I said, I'm going to run always at stock speeds), is the Noctua NH-U14S, which has nice reviews. And it's working, the few seconds that the system stays on the cpu fan spins and lights as...

Thanks. I also think it should be a mobo problem, but like I said, I don't have experience with this particular issue and sometimes, as I've read at other threads, the problem is not always the motherboard. Sometimes it has been the psu (the 5v lane), sometimes has been even a corrupt BIOS. I...

Done. I just did some breadboarding with only the essentials (cpu, cpu fan, graphic card, psu and one ram module on the correct slot). I cleared the CMOS too. The only difference this time was the psu, I tried with a Corsair TX950W 80 plus bronze (a little old, but tested on another system and...