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New Built For Beginner and M.2

timlab
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Currently, this is my very first built at age 67. It's terrifying to say the least. But here we go. I currently have a Z590-e motherboard that I'm starting to work on. In this according to ASUS it has 4 M.2 drives. Wait 4 M.2 drives, yes, 4 M.2 drives. Darn don't need an SSD now (LOL). Anyway, In addition to this, I'm adding in a RX 5500 XT Graphics Card. So the Graphics Card will go into PCI-1 slot. I'm not sure about what it takes, but in my last computer after I put it in, it was reading 8x (in a 16x PCI-e slot running 3.0. However, now this motherboard has 4.0) I guess for the speed in the BIOS. As for the M.2 drives that I have they are (according to their site Sabrent) are M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. NVMe 1.3 compliant. In addition to this, I have 2 SSD and 1 HDD in my system. So with all this going on, I would like one of my M.2 drives to be my boot drive, and the my other M.2 drive to be my storage drive. So which 2 slots do I put these in out of the 4?
Also with my Graphics Card (as mentioned above), and with this system running 4.0, would my Graphics Card start running at 16x or still the 8x?
Thank You
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How about if I start up in safe mode?

The second screenshot is in safe mode with nothing else loading. It's funny how at even 0%, all cores are running at 3500Mhz. The next screenshot is out of safe mode. Now they go back up to 5100Mhz. The question is, would there be a problem with my Z590-e chipset? My chipset is at 58C.

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Tomorrow I will be adding another fan to my system. It will be directly facing my PCH/Chipset. Have to do a little cable management in that area. But my case allows me to mount a 120mm where the hard drives go. So maybe I can lower that temp, which I'm hoping maybe by 5 or 10 degrees. But it still doesn't answer the question that being in safe mode, being on balance power, my clocks shouldn't be at 3504Mhz. I forgot who suggested this, but I'm glad you did. Just more stuff to toss at Asus when they contact me by email tomorrow (I hope).

Dan

timlab wrote:
The second screenshot is in safe mode with nothing else loading. It's funny how at even 0%, all cores are running at 3500Mhz. The next screenshot is out of safe mode. Now they go back up to 5100Mhz. The question is, would there be a problem with my Z590-e chipset? My chipset is at 58C.

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First screenshot Dan, your 11900K is running at 12.9%. Something is happening there ROG brother, some apps are running...

So the 1st screenshot is not safe mode, bios all defaults, and NIC disconnected fully offline? It's looking better, although booting into safe-mode doesn't really give any information we can work with - at least none that I know of. Find out what apps/processes are running on your 11900K at stock idle in Task Manager, maybe there's some bloatware you can eliminate or some app that you don't want running in the background. Also, check your start-up folder and delete or disable any apps there you don't want running. 🙂

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Here's some older thermals with my 11600K - running an extra-large Noctua air cooler and single 140mm fan.

Stock Idle Delta:

This Noctua cooler offers a stock idle delta of 1C to 1.5C above ambient room. Not bad for a $99 air-cooler, although it is ridiculously large. :rolleyes:

So happy I moved to a simple water loop.

Keep in mind, these are "open test bench" thermals, not a case enclosure, although with side panel removed, there shouldn't be very much difference.

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Z790 Epiphenomenal Raptor Bench

ROG Z790 Apex / Intel 13900KS SP111 P121 E93 MC83
Gskill 8000 kit - TM5 stable at 8200MT/s 38 48 48 121 VDD and VDDQ 1.5v
WD_Black SN850X 1TB 7300MB/s Reads 6300MB/s Writes
LG 32in 4K IPS 32UP83A-W

timlab wrote:
How about if I start up in safe mode?


Well, it might give you a warm fuzzy feeling all over and reassure you that you're safe. 😄 😮 😛

But it won't find our culprit. Remember we're looking for a nasty app with a bad attitude.

We must delete that app. 😛
Z790 Epiphenomenal Raptor Bench

ROG Z790 Apex / Intel 13900KS SP111 P121 E93 MC83
Gskill 8000 kit - TM5 stable at 8200MT/s 38 48 48 121 VDD and VDDQ 1.5v
WD_Black SN850X 1TB 7300MB/s Reads 6300MB/s Writes
LG 32in 4K IPS 32UP83A-W