johnksss

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.☺️

Does that 1 trillion start from when it was trading at 60k? Edit: 600 billion yesterday. https://www.barrons.com/articles/bitcoin-ether-terra-luna-tether-crypto-prices-today-51652342984?tesla=y

I'm going with that's what they want you to believe.... And cypto is only worth something to someone willing to buy it....At least that is what I heard from someone running a cypto mining farm....

Sooooooo, miners must have moved out of state as my Microcenter has RTX cards for days! And at the best prices they been in over a year. So i guess they are NOT buying up all the GPU's.

.... back to the original issue that started this whole "walk of shame" ordeal...EVGA Hydrocopper water block basically broke everything.....🤦‍♂️

Kind of why I did not want to buy this from Newegg, but Microcenter did not have the Z690 Unify X nor the Z690 Apex (Which they were hunting down for me but with no luck). If this was MC I would have already gotten a brand new board the same day this board went out. True on EVGA and Asus does have it's moments, but so far this MSI experiences has top them both on bad service. Love the board and tech support is pretty on point. No drama or delays on issuing the RMA's And free shipping on the last return. The part that isn't on point is the RMA intake center. They suck royally!

All I can do is complain yet again at this point, but I'm over it. From here on out it's no longer about getting even it's about getting ahead with this company. That was the 3 shot and they failed yet again.

And the drama continues..... I just go my board back today and this is what I get. Junk in the cpu slot. Broken release mechanism on PICE slot along with bent center part of PCIE slot. Broken stuff falling from box. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13FW7hAzLKkqrPAroIH_OzrhMArihtmAC?usp=sharing

Okay, all working and now fully incorporated into my reinstall drivers folder. Thank you for that Realtek driver!