Everything installed fine. Running at stock settings, BSOD on installing Corsair icue
Hangs on installing MSI afterburner, WHEA error Machine Check Error AMD64 NB. Repeatable. Happens every time I try to install this software. From what I am reading, this is not software-related, but a hardware fault somewhere.
Runs Cinebench fine, full power. But simple installation of software was just poof.
Steps taken:
Cleared CMOS repeatedly after every step.
XMP on. XMP off.
2 different ram kits. Different slot orientations.
Blew out the RAM slots.
Installed windows on different drives. Different drives connected or disconnected.
Reseated CPU and cooler.
Cleaned pads of CPu.
Blew out socket.
Uninstalled all offending software.
Still, WHEA error when installing software. Realbench hangs on start, CTD.
Bye bye 10900KF…it was nice knowing you. At least Amazon is sending me another one right now.
HOPEFULLY that is what it is. If it’s the motherboard…bleh. There are no newer BIOSes to even try, it’s just got launch BIOS.
This is what I get for trashing on AMD defective parts.
You - eat it up.
Incidentally, I plugged back all my old stuff together and it’s working fine.
Yeah all that was wrong, it was a bad SATA hard drive. It’s fine now.
lol yeah, pulled the drive out and it is not doing in on the new system.
i must be doing something wrong - probably by leaving secondary drives plugged in while installing windows. then putting them into other systems is borking them.
The SATA hard drive was it. It cause the same machine check exception when I tried running it on my old 8700k and RealBench experienced the same weird CPU load problems.
What I think happened is that I had all my drives plugged in during windows install, and it just did some tomfoolery on the boot record that made windows explorer system goofy when i would plug that hard drive into the computer.
I rebuilt the 10900k again without the SATA hard drive, and it is working fine.
Presently at 5.1ghz all-core @ 1.325v, 0 AVX, 48x cache, “High” LLC (medium really). Actual VR VOUT is around 1.27-1.28v.
Pretty satisfied right now. No more CPU bound in games anymore, Cyberpunk 2077 wRTX off would sometimes drop my GPU into the 70s, no more. Constantly saturated 95%+.
Scored only 17200 in CBR23, which is just okay I guess compared to Ryzen 5000 series chips, but a big uplift from the 5.1ghz 8700k (~10200).
Single core have not tried, but since I’ve done an all-core OC it probably would be around 530. I think the all-core OC is necessary, because the processor will drop down to 4.9ghz when doing pretty much anything.
I am still waiting for my 4000/CL18 RAM, but it hasn’t shown up yet. So right now I’m only at 3200/CL16.
Temperatures in Realbench at 5.1ghz all-core on the 360 CLC is around 85 max with quiet fans, which is okay.
When all-core loaded, it’s as stable as it was with the previous all-core load of 51x, but in more lightly threaded apps like windows and some games, it will hit 52x or 53x in certain situations without needing additional voltage.
Seems pretty good this way vs. all core OC that I was using previously.
In cinebench r23, scores 1420 single core and 16544 in multicore.
Also, this EVGA Flow Control software for my AIO is terrible. No matter what you do with the fan curves, they just do whatever they want. No rhime or reason.
Just ended up plugging the pump into the pump header, and skipping the integrated fan connections to the AIO and plugged them into a splitter onto my CPU header and controlled them via PWM on the motherboard instead, which works great.
Thanks, I’m aware of this one’s rave reviews by GN, but I already have this EVGA which is fine now that I’ve modded it up. The coldplate/pump/radiators are all pretty similar across the board.
But basically I had a $50 gift card at Best Buy and wanted to burn it. $110 - 50 = cheap 360 AIO. The fans I swapped to were already in possession, so no loss there.
Didn’t want to pay $180 for the Corsair one they had, so I got the EVGA knowing full well I’d replace the fans. I just wasn’t ready for the poor software I guess. This was 100% resolved by just using motherboard PWM fan control and setting the pump to 50%.
Regarding the VRM cooler - surprisingly my VRM even with a 5.1ghz OC is like, 55c lol. The heatsinks on this board are MONSTROUS.
just pull intake - it won’t fit push/pull on the bottom slot because of the PSU shroud. I could do 3 push in the front of the rad, then 2 pull on the other side i guess.
CPU temps are fine (85c max during a longer stress test at 5.1ghz). GPU temps went up a little bit, about 2-3c each metric vs. the Deepcool Assassin w/3 unimpeded intake fans.
I don’t know if adding 2 more fans in this config for push/pull would help GPU temps or not, though.
