New PC parts shenanigans

I f***** hate buying computer parts these days. From 8-9 years or so I’ve had a good i7-6700k as a cpu. It did well for gaming, programming and so on, but the recent games are just too much for him. Helldivers puts the cpu usage to 80% always (although with a constant 60fps), MHWilds is heavily bottlenecked by this cpu. I get 30-40fps max. This is all after disabling windows antivirus, and a lot of services.
So because of that and since I have enough money I decided to GO BIG and buy the latest 9950X3D. I’ve being waiting 3 months since its release for the problems it has on some Mobas (the Asrock ones and some Asus), but I decided to just buy one and buy every part on discount to build THE PC.

A 9950X3d. An Asus X870E pro art, 2x48GB 6000 1.4V for ram. A freaking full tower case to put two GPU’s someday if I want to run a big LLM or something like that. 1200W of Corsair 80Platinum PSU. And a NH-D15 G2 so I never have to worry about cooling. But you see, the ram wasn’t in the compatibility list for the moba… FFS 1 month later and the PC doesn’t shut down. “Weird…” I said. “Well I’ll check if it boots up after forcefully shutting down it…” It never boots up. The yellow light of the Moba indicates a DRAM problem. “I just need to remove a stick…”, still nothing. “I’ll swap them”, still nothing. “I’ll clear the cmos”, nope. “I’ll remove the battery and wait 1h” Nooope. “I’ll update the bios to the latest one”, also nope. “ILL RMA THE MOBA” NOOOPE. Guess it’s the cpu. (I also know it’s not the RAM because I bought 2 sticks that are compatible with the moba).

And so I’m here waiting for the online store where I bought the cpu to come back online to RMA it. I kinda feel scammed after buying all of these premium components to just have the cpu dead in a month. I feel like if I hadn’t spent that much money on a MOBA, CPU and RAM I wouldn’t be here, and also I would have had 600€ more or so. It’s kinda depressing that for every new CPU, GPU on the market we have to wait a full 6-12 months just so they patch everything right. Just look at what happened to the 13th and 14th intel cpu’s, they’re all dying because they clearly didn’t test them well. Or worse yet, they knew that would happened and they just went for it just so they could say that their CPUS were the best for gaming. Maybe it’s not the case and it’s just me getting ram that is not in the compatibility list for my MOBA.

I’m not a systems engineer, nor I work mounting computers. But I’ve never seen a cpu dying on normal use. I even think you can buy a 10 year old cpu and run it for years. But I’m not sure of that anymore.
The first thing that I did to my system was checking the RAM with memtest86+ and checking if the cpu and ram were stable. They were on a 1h run for prime95 and Aida. Then I thought that 5.7Ghz was a bit too much so I went and set the PBO to -500mhz, so the cpu doesn’t go more than 5.2. But yeah probably the 1.4V of ram is just too much for the memory controller of the cpu.

This post is just me shouting to the void for my clear mistake and to say that I really hate waiting a year for the drivers/bios/HW fixes that should be present since the product comes out.

Anyway, I’ll update this post when I receive a new CPU, until then my good ‘ol 6700k is going to work overtime.

Note:

Also, I tested the new moba with an old PSU that had only one CPU 8pin cable. It’s kinda weird because some of the fans didn’t turn on, but I still got a yellow light after waiting 15 min (waiting for ram training or something like that IDK)