Question EVGA Motherboard warranty is halted . "Circuit City" invoice nightmare.

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GEOrifle said:

New BIOS added support for 13 gen CPU's, i9-13900K and i9-13900KS.

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Yeah but if you care about the mobo's resale value, it will also block AVX-512 possibly permanently for old 12th gen CPUs.

 

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igor_kavinski said:

Yeah but if you care about the mobo's resale value, it will also block AVX-512 possibly permanently for old 12th gen CPUs.

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So is better keep older BIOS and 12th gen CPU?

 

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GEOrifle said:

So is better keep older BIOS and 12th gen CPU?

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If it's a very early BIOS close to the launch of 12th gen CPU, then personally I wouldn't update it. But if the BIOS version on the mobo is already updated before it was shipped to you, then you can update it to a more recent version if possible.

 

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igor_kavinski said:

If it's a very early BIOS close to the launch of 12th gen CPU, then personally I wouldn't update it. But if the BIOS version on the mobo is already updated before it was shipped to you, then you can update it to a more recent version if possible.

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Yes but how I gonna verify it, EVGA isn't specifying it.
So now I have to buy CPU and don't know which i9-13900K(higher failure rate and $420) or i9-12900K(slower and cheaper $300).

 

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Go for 12700K. These often overclock to 5.4 GHz and easier to cool than a 12900K. When you boot up the mobo, go into BIOS and it will show you which version. You can also use CPU-Z to see that info (mobo tab).

 

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Check this post: https://www.overclock.net/posts/29463516/

 

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How I find out This EVGA board supports 3 diferent firmwares by switching.
If one goes bad you can always rely on other two.
Cool feature.

 

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Once you get it fully tested you could sell it and buy an even newer system for what you could fetch from the mobo alone.

 

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tcsenter said:

Once you get it fully tested you could sell it and buy an even newer system for what you could fetch from the mobo alone.

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Thanks. That's what I'm thinking to do.