Recently purchased a new system Asus Z790 motherboard, i9 14900KF & RTX 4090 and all was great for 6 months, never overclocked left everything on Asus defaults (as a normal user would). The about a month ago display drivers would not install, odd errors about no supported devices. I could install the drivers though manually via Device Manager. Then on boot up the pc would continually BSOD, I think I got ever error message Microsoft has ever added to Windows.
Then odd crc errors when unzipping files. Reinstalled 7 zip and this fixed things initially. In a total panic, thought I had a problem with the graphics card initially.
Stripped the pc, reinstalled Windows, bought a new ssd, different graphics card, all to find out i could have a damaged cpu due to Asus default settings.
Issue is i am having difficulty getting my cpu replaced. Maddening you purchase a product, marketed to perform a certain way, is unlocked i.e. overclockable (and assuming it's designed for this as well) to find out its infact none of these.
Managed to get my system relatively stable but tweaking a few settings, but its irritating that now the processor does not reach the advertised speeds. could have gone for a i7 and saved. Still get the odd access violation errors though in Edge.
This is the first brand new pc i have bought in 15 years, my old i7 x990 extreme cpu was overclocked since it was installed, and never had an issue.
Irritated (sorry for rant)
