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    Turbo boost odd behaviour on 7700k?

    That was my only plausible idea too. Even the smallest background activity on other cores prevents the x45 single core to become active. Btw I used HWMon for monitoring. Still not sure why all cores jump to boost clocks simultaneously with a single core load. Is that how it supposed to work?
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    Turbo boost odd behaviour on 7700k?

    Hello, finally put my pc together on the weekend and reinstalled it from scratch. Now I see some odd behaviour with turbo clocks. i7 7700k on Asrock Supercarrier mobo. I'm not overclocking, everything is set to stock/default/auto. I even disabled the "turbo core enhancement", lol. In idle, all...
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    Motherboard install ASRock Z97 Extreme6

    i guess those could be screws for securing m.2 cards.
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    Trouble disabling Thunderbolt

    Update: just got a response from Asrock: "We would like to update our curent status of this issue to you. After we disable "Intel Thunderbolt function", we also can see the same symptom you reported. We checked with our R&D team, and it's related to the Intel original refernce code, and may...
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    Trouble disabling Thunderbolt

    IGP multi monitor was disabled and Init display first was set to PCIe card, according to the manual this combination of settings disables the igp. TBH I didn't test igp output much, because it's rather irrelevant to me, I won't ever use it. I didn't check if the board outputs anything on the...
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    Trouble disabling Thunderbolt

    Thanks RLGL, that's what I'd expect too. Hopefully it's a bios bug and will be fixed if possible. I reported it to Asrock, we'll see what they say.
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    Trouble disabling Thunderbolt

    Hello everyone, sorry if this is not the correct topic for this, could be graphics, or peripeherals? Feel free to move it. I have recently bought a few upgrades to my pc, an Asrock Supercarrier mobo, a 7700k, and some RAM. After replacing my old stuff with this, I went to the bios straight and...
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    Samsung 840 Evo strange access times

    Hello, i'm new here. I'm from hungary so please excuse me my bad english. Recently I've gone all-ssd on my desktop, mainly for the sake of silence. Replaced 3x1TB wd blues (2 of which were in raid0) with 2x1TB Samsung 840 Evos. I've connected them to intel sata2 ports on my mobo (asus p8z77-v...