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IDK but MOCF has been working fine with Kaby for many users and in fact I would say compatibility between Skylake > Kaby is perfect as in you can pop one in and they both work the same. With that being said, Apex is inbound (thanks Newegg!) and I will put it through it's paces and see how it compares to Z170. As long as it's nothing like an Impact I think I will be happy, Impact was complete garbage for me in terms of memory clocking and never have I raged as hard as using that little board. I mean the fact that you had to bin motherboards on the Impact is ridiculous, there should not be that type of difference in memory oc from board to board i.e. if you take a cpu, set of memory (same order) from one board to another they should clock fairly similarly. Regardless I think if you have an MOCF it's good enough for most users, but if you are buying a new Z270 board for Kaby it's safe to say the Apex is a no brainer. Looking forward to rebinning all my B-Die on the Apex as memory OC looks strong af

Nope possibly defective sata port on the Intel controller or just some weirdness once you go cold idk. I noticed this issue on one of my particular boards and thought I had a bad SATA cable and or SSD or that my OS was possibly thrashed. But simply moving the SATA cable from the top first Intel SATA port located closest to the 24 pin to any other port seems to fix it and everything boots fine. The weird thing is that it's not reproducible easily for me and reboot usually fixes it allowing the OS to boot on that top left Intel port. Maybe something with the PCH idk I'm not an electrical engineer lol. Good thing I notice this weird shit and I am not the only one it affects.

All good now? Hope so nothing worse than dealing with issues when all ready cold.

No backups here and out of LN2. I think Allen will slay us both hahaha his cpu looks super strong. Always a pleasure battling with you even though we have our differences and at a point and I may not have liked you, I have always respected you as your submissions are always quality and that's what matters at the end of the day.

Super efficient run!

Little push on the dualie, with my last 10 liters.

What voltages are you speaking of?

Heavy duty!

Thanks Hideo-san!

Monster score Hideo-san!

A little bit moar before refill

W10 boost is huge killer run!

Haha Super potato, this chip is the most crack prone cpu I have ever benched, it's going to need time to figure out for sure.

Time for XTU, should be easy WR

Damn I clicked on this thread expecting hwbot prime

Got a chance to try a few more threaded benches before the crack.