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So hunch was right. ASUS board, booted right up. Looks like the GIGA board is going to fleabay.

Oh it's not. Doesn't matter. Board sees xmp but won't load, just shuts off and goes back to bios. Same * as with the 3600. I might have to try another board. Really don't need bdie. won't be taking it higher. I bought these to test if it was the board, and it is. I've got an ASUS z390-a I can try out.

RAM came it's 4133. Loved Mushkin back in the day. Going to try it again.

Yes, I might just do that.

Should be here today. It's only 2x8 GB, but it will be fun to play around with for $80 bucks. Even with the modded bios, I still have not been able to get higher than XMP 3600 stable. I know Giga boards are T structure, but I will try the 2 stick anyway.

Someone was able to link me the non-wifi bios, thanks POOKIE DOOKIE!

That is plenty good. If you are interested, I know there are some vacancies on the ETF! Ask @BWG He can help you further if you wish it.

Meh. With DDR5 unavailable, ? on Raptor and AMD's new offerings, I am content waiting it out. I don't have any video editing software or massive data crunching, I think i'm going to make the Nforce 790i my daily driver just because.

Word. Welcome brosef. Make sure you direct yourself to the folding area.

I don't know. XMP 3600 runs fine. Have even managed to see 3800 in BIOS, but just loops. Apparently my board doesn't do well with MEM OC's at 5.3/5.4 GHz core. Took the top 3070Ti spot though for 9900k/3070Ti.

Welcome @Colorous!

Welcome @daniel345!

Understood, thank you Bones for chiming in!

That was a good read, thank you. I had no idea you were vendor sponsored at one point. I do understand the rabbit hole that HWbot can send you down. I would never be upset about being displaced fairly and other than being a bit upset, I wasn't at all mad until @damric mentioned the possible cheating. I have used 1usmus's calc before for Ryzen and will try again for Intel. There has to be something i'm missing on the MOBO. Every setting I set just goes black and won't post (I am waiting for tuning). When I finally get back into BIOS the RAM is set at 3444. It's weird. My test bench in the dungeon will be 100% QDC's as soon as the extra 4 from Koolance arrive. I am in complete agreement with you there. I will keep the DICE in mind! P.S. Don't see an intel CPU option in the RAM calc, what setting should I use?

Not yet, waiting on the parts to arrive.

His non-version CPU-z scores are disqualifying for all of his results. Also his DDR4 running at 5026 with a CAS of 16 is concerning to me.

I had not caught that, thank you for pointing it out. I have reported him. Only the 9900k's and 3070 are under water. I have my golden 9900k @5.3GHz on water in the test bench with my 3070Ti. I don't think i'll be water blocking it.

Thank you for all that. I don't think my kit is B-Die, however I can't get anything past my XMP 3600 profile. I have tried quite a lot and the damn thing just resets BIOS. I will look into alternate OS installations. I just bought a DDR4-4000 kit off Amazon. Will try that when it arrives. MOBO - Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Pro RAM - F4-3600C16D-16GTZSW

Whelp, iv'e done just about all I can. I am #2 rookie overclocker in the world right now. Some dude from France came and blew me out of the water and I should have had 1st. Will possibly get Alder Lake and see if I can compete again. I am looking to get more members active in HWbot. I know @Bastiaan_NLis getting back into it. Have #11 9900k in the world for Cinebench R23. I know I could get way better than this, but I am terrible with mem overclocking. Most of the people ahead of me have lower core OC's, but better mem speeds/timings. I know I could get top 5 if I had some help here.

Kinda missed the boat on this one.

Nostalgia purchased! Can't believe I found one brand new. This will be going on my Nforce 790i w/ Tri-SLI 660Ti's. Can't wait to rebuild my LGA 775 that really made me fall in love with computers. I can still remember lapping the original Tuniq I had along with my Q6600. I thought I was so fancy having a Quad core. Going to try out one of the Extreme's this time around.

Well, well, well. I was wondering if would get the likes of you here.

I had every VooDoo card that came out. AGP 2x was a game changer. I actually looked on ebay to purchase one again..... GL finding a voodoo 3-5 for less than a 3060.

I always knew you drove a Maroon car.