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Weird / sad / hope it corrects soon. My last 6850k / Asus Strix motherboard purchase was a major mistake; CPU frying with too high voltages just because I chose
by sundvor 9y ago
Weird / sad / hope it corrects soon. My last 6850k / Asus Strix motherboard purchase was a major mistake; CPU frying with too high voltages just because I chose the default 3200 DDR4 XMP memory profile. Didn't realise I had to check every single voltage setting there was; a lot had changed since my 2600k.
My next desktop system will be a Threadripper for sure. But here's to hoping they can make a move in the mobile market too; would love a multicore X1 carbon.
- wil421 9y agoI had a core i7 gen 2 Bloomfield? Asus motherboard that was solid and still is. In Jan/Feb I got a Asus Strix board for a Kaby Lake i7 and it’s already giving me issues. The onboard Bluetooth chip stops working randomly and other weird things are happening.
- sundvor 9y agoI'm totally not a fan of Asus anymore. My old 2600k system (an Asus) which I have my 7y son using now is still rock solid. New one... I'm on my third 6850k, and only discovered what I think was the crazy-as-hell offending default high voltage when using XMP after 6 weeks on the third, so I'm expecting some degradation to have taken place. I should have demanded the dodgy Asus Strix X99 board be replaced at with the first CPU replacement (it was 99.999% likely the Asus' board's fault, not Intel's CPU - even though they got fried), alas now it's too late. I have weird issues such as not being able to get it to boot every time if Hyper V is enabled, so I have to run Docker using Virtualbox. I'm really quite over the Asus QC and will go e.g. Threadripper + Gigabyte next time.