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    Question Need help figuring out whether MB/RAM/CPU is faulty

    @tompetrillo - Sadly no, didn't resolve it. Ended up RMA'ing the RAM (as it showed faulty on memtest on both the problematic PC and another one) as well as the motherboard and CPU. They didn't have stock on the CPU or motherboard any more, so got a refund and repurchased a 10700K instead of KF...
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    Question Need help figuring out whether MB/RAM/CPU is faulty

    Yep, latest bios on it. To add to this. After disabling the speed shift, the memtest ran happilyi for a couple hours on the new sticks with no errors. Still can't get myself past both the MCE error that always pops up (and that I can't figure out how to decode to see what it means...): Mar 10...
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    Question Need help figuring out whether MB/RAM/CPU is faulty

    Even without booting into linux, though, the speed shift has a huge negative impact on memtest off a boot stick...
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    Question Need help figuring out whether MB/RAM/CPU is faulty

    @Steltek - Tried a bench test out of the case and saw similar results to in-case. After that, however, decided to go digging through the bios settings and flipping a bunch of stuff around and saw a huge performance increase. After a process of elimination, it seems like it's the Intel Speed...
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    Question Need help figuring out whether MB/RAM/CPU is faulty

    Not a stupid question at all. That kind of info is exactly why I'm here. Gonna RMA the RAM as it fails in the other machine as well and the other machine's ram works fine here, but I will also do a bench test and see how it goes. Thanks!
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    Question Need help figuring out whether MB/RAM/CPU is faulty

    Hi! I recently purchased parts to build a new system, including: i7-10700KF ASUS PRIME Z590M-PLUS MB 16G (2 x 8G) DDR4-3600 G-Skill Ripjaws V Rosewill Glacier 600W PSU Running linux on it, with no changes but to put the MB into XMP for the 3600 RAM and started noticing frequent crashes in...