Went to micro center with the chance they would have 12th gen in stock. They had lots of stock. I could not pass on a 12700k for $369 and ROG strix-a ddr4 board. They knocked another $20 off the board since I bought a cpu. 12900k would have been awesome but common sense kicked in and I...
I've been out of the game for awhile but I built a system this weekend with i7-7700k and Asus ROG Maximus IX Hero board. With these chips it took some time to get a stable OC at 5.0 Ghz. I'm running 1.35v on a H100i v2. The key to getting this prime stable was learning all about AVX Offset...