badboy64

Nereus
There's a few i9-12900K CPUs on Amazon right now for $619.99. Not 3rd party either.. shipped & sold by Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09FXDLX95/

I got mine over a week ago but still waiting for eVga to release a motherboard for it. But I am not in a hurry for it though now since I ordered a Ford Bronco BigBend 2 months ago and and will have it delivered to the dealership by the end of next week from the Michigan plant.

badboy64

Nereus
 
There's a few i9-12900K CPUs on Amazon right now for $619.99. Not 3rd party either.. shipped & sold by Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09FXDLX95/
 

I got mine over a week ago but still waiting for eVga to release a motherboard for it. But I am not in a hurry for it though now since I ordered a Ford Bronco BigBend 2 months ago and and will have it delivered to the dealership by the end of next week from the Michigan plant.

ObscureEmpyre

CraptacularOne
Yeah my board has that too. The "gaming" profile just disables the E-cores and the "maximum performance" profile just bumps the cores clocks in all states by 100Mhz. So yeah, very much useless lol 

Well, now that the forums are back up…

I had quite the troubleshooting experience the other day concerning RAM. Remember I said I was getting random BSOD crashes? BIOS version F6a fixed that. However, there are still major memory issues with Gigabyte boards from what I’ve read at overclock.net, and I can attest to that.

My tried and true TridentZ DDR4-3600 4x8 kit was causing problems, or rather encountered problems using the Elite AX board. Didn’t matter if I used XMP or manually set the speed, timings, voltage, or gear mode - I kept getting game crashes. Came to find out I was getting WHEA errors at the same time. Running the RAM kit at stock OOTB settings and leaving the gear mode set to Auto, games and Windows ran stable. Quite annoying. So, I popped in a DDR4-3200 4x8 kit I have since that’s a supported RAM spec for Alder Lake.

Using all 4 sticks of the DDR4-3200 kit, the system wouldn’t even POST. I know daisy chain RAM could pose issues when all 4 slots are populated, so I took out 2 sticks and then the system POSTed. It even POSTed with the XMP profile enabled. And just for the heck of it, I decided to put those other 2 sticks back in. Magically, the system POSTed with both stock and XMP settings. Unfortunately, that’s the kit I’m forced to use until Gigabyte addresses the issue in a future BIOS update. Good thing I didn’t pull the trigger on the 2x16 DDR4-4000 kit I was eyeing.

CraptacularOne

pathfindercod
Good luck finding ddr5 ram.

You don't need DDR5 for Alder Lake

Nereus

CraptacularOne

pathfindercod
Good luck finding ddr5 ram.

You don't need DDR5 for Alder Lake

Yes and no... depends on the motherboard. EVGA Z690 are DDR5 only.
 

CraptacularOne

ObscureEmpyre

CraptacularOne
Yeah my board has that too. The "gaming" profile just disables the E-cores and the "maximum performance" profile just bumps the cores clocks in all states by 100Mhz. So yeah, very much useless lol 

Well, now that the forums are back up…

I had quite the troubleshooting experience the other day concerning RAM. Remember I said I was getting random BSOD crashes? BIOS version F6a fixed that. However, there are still major memory issues with Gigabyte boards from what I’ve read at overclock.net, and I can attest to that.

My tried and true TridentZ DDR4-3600 4x8 kit was causing problems, or rather encountered problems using the Elite AX board. Didn’t matter if I used XMP or manually set the speed, timings, voltage, or gear mode - I kept getting game crashes. Came to find out I was getting WHEA errors at the same time. Running the RAM kit at stock OOTB settings and leaving the gear mode set to Auto, games and Windows ran stable. Quite annoying. So, I popped in a DDR4-3200 4x8 kit I have since that’s a supported RAM spec for Alder Lake.

Using all 4 sticks of the DDR4-3200 kit, the system wouldn’t even POST. I know daisy chain RAM could pose issues when all 4 slots are populated, so I took out 2 sticks and then the system POSTed. It even POSTed with the XMP profile enabled. And just for the heck of it, I decided to put those other 2 sticks back in. Magically, the system POSTed with both stock and XMP settings. Unfortunately, that’s the kit I’m forced to use until Gigabyte addresses the issue in a future BIOS update. Good thing I didn’t pull the trigger on the 2x16 DDR4-4000 kit I was eyeing.

I found the thread you're referring to on overclockers and had a read through it and I don't know what else to say. Perhaps it's a compatibility issue with some RAM or some other issue. Whatever the case may be, I really don't know. The kit of memory I am currently using with my Alder Lake platform is a Corsair Dominator Platinum 3200Mhz kit. It's the old OG version with the silver aluminum heatsink and only the white LEDs. 
 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FRD354N/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
 
I've had this kit for so long that I don't remember when exactly I got it but it's been years. It's been a great kit for me in every build I've used it in. I've had no issues with it or this board so far as far as compatibility or errors of any kind. FOr me enabling XMP in the BIOS makes these run at 3200Mhz 16-18-18-36 every time no fuss no muss in a 4x8GB config on my Gaming X board. In fact I'm testing them for even lower latency right now and have them running at 3200Mhz CL 14-14-14-34.
 
Quick validation for you:
https://valid.x86.fr/lnr2zw
 
So far I'm actually seeing a slight improvement in games and benchmarks with the lower timings and slower speeds vs 4000Mhz CL16 timings I was running. 
 
As for your issues, like I said I really don't know. I'm gonna test another kit of memory in the board this weekend and see what results I get. I have a 32GB G.Skill kit 2x16GB dual rank 3600Mhz kit and another 4x8GB Teamgroup kit at 3200Mhz. 

rjbarker
Those are the Doms you got running at C14 ?
To drop to that latency what kind of a voltage boost ?
 
Just curious as I have a 4 yr old kit of 2*16G Dominators 3200 16-18-18-36 that I can get to run at 3433 same timings voltage to 1.39v.
 
Any higher frequency couldn't get a post at up to 1.425v ....already have my IO/SA bumped up as well.
 
What you did I was gonna try next, as in leave 3200 but go for lower timings....hence the question about voltage bump..
 
btw...nice work with that kit!

charlesborner
Just tossed together a 5950X rig earlier this year.

Dropped a 3070Ti in last night, and got my Apex Pro motherboard today.

I'm essentially done.

rjbarker
I know many of you are waiting for the Dark Boards, but I have always wanted to "play" with an Apex Board. Would have gone with another Extreme but the price is also extreme!

badboy64
Well I hope eVga can get a motherboard out by at-least by mid-January. Otherwise I can just send the i9 12900KF back to Amazon before January 31st hits so I can get a refund.

Nereus

rjbarker
I know many of you are waiting for the Dark Boards, but I have always wanted to "play" with an Apex Board. Would have gone with another Extreme but the price is also extreme!

I've had quite a few ASUS boards, usually Formula / Code or Hero models plus a few mini-ITX boards, and fortunately I've had no issues, they've been solid motherboards.. but be aware that if something does go wrong, ASUS are known for making you jump through a lot of hoops and stalling over and over before you get any sort of warranty satisfaction unfortunately - not always, but be prepared for it...  Actually you've been around for ages, I'm sure you're already aware of it, lol.
 
p.s. your signature's too long to fit all the link (there's some sort of character limit) and it's doing weird things to the rest of the post. On the 'positive' side, the affiliate program is now history so you can remove that bit if you want - only the Associate program is continuing.