johnksss

All I can say to the "bite the bullet" is I have done than quite a few times over the years. Which resulted in thousands and thousands of dollars lost in the time span from 2008 to 2022. One can not win them all and you take the wins you should not have gotten with the wins that you did and most of the time you are still far on top. This is pretty much true for most people.... As to the 12900KS, more than likely it is bad. As was my first 12900K when I basically had to replace everything. Motherboard/GPU/Power Supply/Memory and finally the CPU because it kept throwing errors after the new parts were installed. Not really sure I would be using that for work as memory type errors are much harder to recover from if the system crashes one to many times. Playing games and encoding videos is one thing, but mission critical is quite another to in trust in a system that is not fairly stable with memory. And using a laptop is really not a down fall as it can be connected to you current keyboard, mouse and monitor. Convenient? Not really. Doable for a few days? Definitely. And it is very well possible the MSI mother board did in fact kill the CPU, but that usually only happens when the pins touch or the socket had moisture in or around it and condensation or a drop touched the board in the wrong place. Or liquid was under neath any one of the heatsinks or pads that have to be taken completely apart to even figure that out. Boards can last fairly long with 50/50 but direct liquid is usually instant fail though. Case in point. When my system was sitting under and inch of 50/50 it was still running, but because I did not fully clean the board I lost everything on the second boot attempt. It wasn't until I stripped the board and used my microscope to see between the components that stuff was stuck between the legs. Along with all the other things wrong. Now I'm like 50-1 (They did not replace a Kingpin 1080 TI because they said it had water damage - So I had to pony up and buy another one.) with EVGA, but I did ask that since it was their water block that broke and cause this, would they cover the replacement parts. The answer they came back was yes if that was in fact true. After they tested the block, they came to the understanding it was. Once I found out that everyone else was going to replace the parts, I let EVGA know that it would not be needed. Only the GPU/Block and PSU, which they did..... But when something like this happen quite a few years ago...it was quite a different story that cost a few thousand dollars because of my mistake.... For the record I'm still on the same Unify-X. All MSI did was to repair it. Which I have no issue with as long as it works as intended, but when it comes back with broke pieces.....Then I have to use other means to make it right.

At the current time, they seem to have no plans on expanding..... Unfortunately. Side note: I did get stuck with a 980X for 3 years because it had a burnt pad and at the time Microcenter nor Intel would not replace it. Intel came back with their tuning plan and I got it replaced at that point after some back and forth about it.

And for these reasons I try to stay with buying all my parts from MC until they change their policy on their warranty.

I have found that to be the loss memory dimm problem more than not. over time the pins may give under pressure and start to touch another pin cancelling out one of the dim slots. Just a suggestion.

You may only need to take the cpu out and check the contacts. Then boot from one slot, then add the other stick.

No, memory is not corrupted and I did see where he said he was sort of working on the project due to them not giving him the documentation in a time manner. Hopefully he will find the time and energy to keep up the good work. This program is a really good tool to have in ones arsenal of programs to have.

Hummm, mine still says both profiles are corrupted when I try to read using TB. I also hace the CRC errors as well.

This is true... When I flashed i made sure to have memory back to full stock first though. And I never used that user XMP profile thing either, so that may or may not have played a role in things not going according to plan....Speculations of course.

Okay, so I went ahead and flashed and all went well. XMP is still there. And voltage is not locked.... So Something definitely went wrong with your flash...

And they locked the bios memory voltage to 1.435V? Seriously?

That does not work as I just downloaded the free version and tried to read my memory and I get the exact same as you do....

Usually memory exchanges are far easier than anything else. Send them back and they send you a new pair.

Is this easy to get?

Then that sounds like a serious flaw as it should not be wring to SPD locked memory modules unless you unlock them yourself. As they have no way of knowing what memory you have or will install in the board. Ill have to keep that in mind going forward with flashing of this board. I am too suspicious of the "fine-tuned" as well. The board has some pretty good ones already setup with it that do not need flashing....

SPD EEPROM unlocked during flashing of the bios?

Hummm, I think the highest version I had before was something like A48. So if it messed up the memory does that mean that A60 has SPD write unlocked?

What is the bios number in CPUZ?

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/14986844 The give away was the April date of the benchmark.

Didn't beat my old score form back in February, but getting closer...

This sport was never about value unfortunately. And there has never really been value in buying high end parts or being first to buy them either. Ergo most people buy cheap and over clock to run on par with stock higher end parts for far less money which would be the value goal for most. Right now I do it more so at my leisure than in serious competition. This sport is far to expensive with zero (Self and world recognition fall under a different category) return on ones money. There was never a good return on ones money from day one.....

The first picture was to show you we had the same Physics score.... Again.🙂 I do have better cooling, SS and LN2 pot.🙂 but that's not how we would grab first place. The only reason that is in sight is because most of the hard core crowd has basically retired from the sport..... Thanks brother. Your scores are always impressive as well.

Moved up a tiny little bit.☺️