Intel BX80684I99900KF Intel Core i9-9900KF Desktop Processor...

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"Maybe I got a bad chip or maybe it’s because I probably got the very first mass batch released to the public market but the quality of my chip and the chips imc is just bad. My tridentZ xmp does not work and even running the optimized defaults in bios then pressing f10 to save and exit only permits me to be stable for 5-10minutes then I get a WHEA uncorrectable error blue screen and then it restarts.Also, I thought this chip was supposed to handle heat better than the regular 9900K. I have a very basic ekwb cooling loop from one of the premade kits and I am not confident as under stress testing all threads using cpu-z benchmark, I instantly spike to 95c and then within 30-45 seconds of constant stress testing I steadily will creep past 102-104c. Maybe I just really lost the silicon lottery but to me it’s kind of unacceptable to release a processor that either requires that much cooling capacity at optimized default levels. Perhaps when they finally do shrink to the smaller 7nm die, maybe then they will be able to have processors with this many cores and threads and not have them heat up like a mini Chernobyl on the cpu. The only plus side is, when I do get to use it for the brief 5-10 minutes.. 15 tops a few times on a cold night, the processor is indeed very responsive. It’s too bad to be able to truly use all this power you need a computer that frankly is a few thousand outside of my budget."