Do you see a a text at the bottom that says "EzMode (F7)" ?
This is what I have when I go into my bios.
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BackLogJoe I wonder if updating to a recent BIOS added the feature. The reddit threads I'm seeing are about 2 years old, can't say if something in the last year added the feature or not.
There are updates as recent as early this month.
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I'm also seeing In a couple of those Reddit threads from 2 years ago that the memory kit from Crucial CT2K16G4DFRA32A seems to be identified by the G10CE and on its own and set to the desired speed.
Heres the EzMode screen.
Its pretty barebones. I am also seeing some posts on reddit about this particular motherboard not having options in the BIOS.
Might be out of luck then. Even though your other RAM says it's running at 3200, the system is going to downclock it to match the slower pair. That's a pretty big bandwidth hit and an undetermined latency penalty. Might want to test some games with and without the new RAM and see if you want to return it.
If it is a good enough deal, you should probably get it and of course sell your old card ASAP. The 5070 or 5070 Ti won't launch until 2025 and who knows what the pricing or performance increase might be. The only thing we know for sure is that the 5090 will be a significantly faster card than the 4090 and GDDR7 will be included in various cards which would significantly increase bandwidth. But since AMD will be offering 0 competition until RDNA5 in late 2025 / 2026? and Intel isn't real competition other than laptops APUs, Nvidia can basically charge whatever they want and / or do relatively lame updates.
Among these I would say go for that first $1600 option with the 4070 Super instead of the $1800 one with the 4070 TI Super. The diference between GPUs is $200 but the first one has a better CPU and more storage.
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Sure you can get a prebuilt, something along these lines if it's in the budget. Perfect specs for 4k while being a great value build. Only problem is that the case is ugly, you can spend more for a better looking PC, or that's one of the reasons you can try building one so you can have the parts you want visually.
I think you have quite a hefty budget and I would start with looking at the monitor first and put more money into that aspect of the build. What kind of games are you planning to play? Mainly single player or competitive FPS too? There's quite a good range of OLED monitors now even at 1440p so I would try seeing if one of those fits into the budget. Here Dell has quite good prices on some refurb OLEDs, I would try to fit either the 1440p or even the 4k one in the budget and look for the PC from there.
You need to find memory which has its JEDEC/stock speed set as afaster speed. Rather than XMP.
Personally, I would wait to see what EVGA says.
Anything 3200CL22 is not XMP certified, that's a JEDEC spec speed. Find things such as 3200CL16 at 1.35V. Avoid Corsair DDR4, as well.
What's wrong with Corsair? I'm looking at a set of their 6000MT DDR5 for my next upgrade coming up soon.
Their DDR4 at this stage is a cesspool of low quality to straight defective ICs with horrendous stability even at simple XMP speeds, this is extremely common on their lower end Vengeance SKUs. And their DDR5 isn't better, you want and only want DDR5 kits with Hynix ICs and Corsair still uses a mix of Micron, Samsung and Hynix which you can not easily tell from the spec alone, unless you specifically know what you are looking at (subtle primary timing differences).
3200CL22 is the JEDEC speed (the max JEDEC certified speed for DDR4), 3200CL16 however is a XMP spec speed and what you actually want.
Download https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html, run it and post a screenshot of the motherboard, memory and SPD tabs.
For AMD, anything 6000CL30 with Hynix ICs (A or M-die are both good), for Intel, can either do that or go to anything 6400CL32 and up, as these are guaranteed to be Hynix A-die which is the top IC for high speed DDR5.
An incredibly wasteful and unbalanced build with one of the most nonsensical CPUs on the market, a grossly overkill motherboard that doesn't grant any practical benefit for a general user. And if your use case isnt mainly gaming, a bigger, higher resolution screen is a significant quality of life increase for both general browsing and productivity.
Thank you both! This is exactly the type of feedback I was looking for.
I would get a 7600x and buy a 4070 super or 7900 GRE.
Yes, that should work!
You should have read back through a few of BackLogJoe's post about this. Its a pre-built Asus computer, which doesn't have XMP as a BIOS feature. So, it will only read and set a JEDEC programmed speed. And it has no other settings to manually overclock RAM speed, either.
Techpowerup says RTX 2060 is 42% of an 4070, at 1440p.
That's a very fucked up thing for Asus to do... I assume it's a Hx10 motherboard? That's why I was asking for CPU-Z shots.
Looks fine but I would try to bump up to a 4080 super if you can somehow. The motherboard here is also a bit overkill and the ram kit could be better (look for 6000 c30),
Is that pcspecialist? Just be aware that these configurator websites are usually very overpriced.Thanks for the advice. For the motherboard, what would you recommend instead?
I updated the card to "16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER - WHITE - HDMI, DP, LHR" and the ram to "32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 16GB) KIT - WHITE", and it's just about within budget.
Alright, enjoy the process! With that budget you should always go for a 7800X3D.
The b650 should be good, but any of the x670's are also fine if they are not much more than the b650. I would also put in an 850w PSU if it's not too much more, and maybe a cheaper air cooler for the CPU if there is an option.Thanks for the advice. For the motherboard, what would you recommend instead?
I updated the card to "16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER - WHITE - HDMI, DP, LHR" and the ram to "32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 16GB) KIT - WHITE", and it's just about within budget.
You basically want a good GPU, you can save as much as you want on the other components.
I've got a 1440p 144Hz and a 4k60 monitor. Not entirely sure yet, but I think 1500 eu would be my sweet spot, but I would potentially be willing to go to 2000 eu. And since I can book it as a business expense that'd actually be ~1800 - 2420 eu with taxes. But you know... I'd rather spend a bit less than more.
