expiredyokeholy posted Aug 03, 2023 07:26 PM
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expiredyokeholy posted Aug 03, 2023 07:26 PM
Micro Center Stores: Intel i9-12900K, Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Elite AX, 32GB G.Skill DDR5
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I also pointed out in a different thread but it's worth repeating. When I went in to bundle with the 7950X3D, I didn't reserve it online. The sales associate said the RAM was out of stock and offered to check with his manager about offering a different set in its place. Even if it shows out of stock, they might be willing to work with you to make a sale. It might not be as good, it could potentially be better. They also eventually found the bundled RAM in the back; I think there were a handful of reservations placed that were never picked up, so the website may say out of stock but the store might still have it. You won't know if you don't try, which I highly recommend if you're even on the fence.
These bundles have also changed about once every two months or so between prices and components for the few months. If you aren't sold yet, it could change next month.
Lastly, I was able to get the $25 new customer discount. It required the cashier to individually price and scan items based on the sale price without scanning it as a bundle. UFD Tech on YouTube has a video up sponsored by Micro Center which specifically calls out these bundles and that the discount applies. https://youtu.be/wO4QiOrk81o @3:29. It could be worth referencing if they say it's not meant to work that way. YMMV.
Had to use the new customer $25 off discount and had to get a manager to do it manually. Scanning the coupon was not enough. The manager did it quickly since they were very busy.
$403.99 after $25 coupon OTD. Was in the Tustin, CA location.
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so what microcenter says and what they actually do is often two different things, and yeah i'll never buy anything with the evga label again.
a couple of weeks ago i got the combo listed in this thread, and one of the crappy memory sticks died, it won't boot the computer.
i ended up getting much better ram and a higher quality asus motherboard from somewhere else, and then confirmed that the gskill stick wouldn't boot with that either.
i know that microcenter won't take the defective memory back, so i'll send it to gskill, aka more hassle and in the end i spent more than i could have by chasing these lousy microcenter deals.
After several hours of troubleshooting, decided to return it, and while packing it back noticed bent pins on the MB.
ths bundle gets you a 12900k, solid mobo, and solid ram for the price of a 13700K.
Im on the fence myself as im trying to replace a 10700k that was fried in a recent lightning strike. based on the above, im closer to pulling the trigger myself on this deal to support a minor gaming habit and general producivity tasks.
After several hours of troubleshooting, decided to return it, and while packing it back noticed bent pins on the MB.
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Symptoms of the issue was blue screens, software crashes with no blue screen (vram caching at the beginning of games or cinebench) and huge number of failures in memtest. Both sets of g-skill 32gb ram failed the memtest and the competing brand worked with no errors.
Hope this helps someone else from hitting these issues. It was a frustrating week getting this sorted.
Symptoms of the issue was blue screens, software crashes with no blue screen (vram caching at the beginning of games or cinebench) and huge number of failures in memtest. Both sets of g-skill 32gb ram failed the memtest and the competing brand worked with no errors.
Hope this helps someone else from hitting these issues. It was a frustrating week getting this sorted.
Paired this with a DeepCool AK620 and the 12900K is nice and chilly. 16-pin EPS isn't necessary, if you only have 8-pins on your PSU you'll be fine as long as you're not doing any extreme overclocking.
The extra m.2 connectors come in handy, loads of USB ports, solidly built board all around. These parts work great with macOS as well, minus the unsupported WiFi/BT chip(s).
I definitely recommend the bundle.
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