Well yeah.....obviously something is very wrong with Asus RMA and if they don't make urgent changes ASAP they will loose more&more of customers of course damage is already done but there is still chance to slow it down and recover it before is to late.....personally I been using Asus products...
I agree with @Solaris17 better go for AMD and for that amount of money you can easily get 7800X3D CPU which as atm arguably fastest and best bang for a $ CPU for gaming .......
Hmmm....So let me get this straight no more Hyper Threading U9 will have "only" 8 performance cores but 16 efficient cores there are rumors around the net that we could expect better improvements in IPC from 5% to 15% with P-cores 'tho some people claim it will be much better improvements when...
Well In reality for every day user aka the average Joe the difference is not always visible because it's depends what are you doing with your PC.....for example windows or many games will load almost the same or it will be some negligible difference that's because most of games or our system...
X299 Platform I9 7940X slightly OC/undervolted 4.1Ghz 64Gb DDR4 2800Mhz Chrome with hundreds of open tasks and a lot of extension on it still few points better then edge.....
Nice scores.....So yeah ECC is working but really depend of the motherboard some manufactures allowed some did not on my Asus X299 Gaming E Reg. ECC is working but only on older bios(up to the 1004) they turned off on later bios vers. ....My 7940X is also slightly OC and undervolted my cores...
Last week I swapped my 6700XT and add 180€ for new 6900XT.....Yes it's Biostar nothing fancy no lights and other BS but cooler is pretty good and card is basically the same as reference model when it comes to the VRM.....so far so good no complains.....
Well if you doing OC you MUST pay attention on this 2 things and they going hand in hand more Voltage higher the temps.....OC on default PBO is most likely to much of the Voltage....if you doing OC my advice is always go step by step and with the lowest possible Voltage / undervolted your CPU...
Here is my 4K results on Maximum details with FSR disable and Enable....it's a huge difference in final score and it's a bit stupid because always on the benchmark screen at the end said FSR so all the results above could be with or without FSR/DLSS ON/OFF if poster do not mention it will be...