Feel pretty screwed
Feel pretty screwed
I have an i7 9700 intel at 3.00Ghz... but it performs poorly. I can't even run games like Starbound without the RAM slowing down. The video card is average, its an RTX 1650, though not bad. I attempted overclocking in the BIOS, but it's locked with no option to enable it. I also can't access XMP settings. Should I need to purchase a completely new motherboard... or are there any solutions I can try?
Your RAM is running at the same speed as it was designed for, so there’s nothing to overclock. If you’re looking for improved gaming performance, consider upgrading to a better graphics card.
Without K that CPU remains locked during overclocking, will it reach 4.7GHz under full load? XMP should function if the RAM supports it. With 2133MHz RAM, XMP won't work.
The h170 and 9700 models do not work together. Verify your equipment carefully.
Nonononono, that's useless.
Download and run hwinfo:
https://www.hwinfo.com/
Click on Save Report, Save to clipboard, then Next.
Highlight everything that appears in the new window and copy-paste that here.
Here is the information rewritten with varied phrasing while keeping the same details:
The device is a DELL XPS 8930 computer equipped with an Intel Core i7-9700 CPU (Coffee Lake-S, R0). It features a clock speed of 3000 MHz (30.00x100.0) and runs at 4089 MHz (41.00x99.8). The motherboard is the DELL 0T2HR0 model. The BIOS version is 1.1.9, installed on 08/27/2019. The chipset is Intel Z370 (Kaby Lake). Memory capacity stands at 16384 MBytes at 1330 MHz, with two 8192 MB PC21300 DDR4 SDRAM units from Samsung M378A1K43DB2-CTD. A second 8192 MB unit also uses the same type of RAM. The graphics card is an Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Coffee Lake-S GT2) from Dell. Additional graphics include a DELL GeForce GTX 1650 and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 with 4096 MB GDDR5 SDRAM. Storage options include the ST2000DM008-2FR102 (1953.5 GB, Serial ATA 6Gb/s) and the ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB (976.8 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s). Audio is provided by Intel Kaby Lake with High Definition Audio / cAVS support. Networking features consist of a Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650x 160MHz adapter and a Qualcomm/Atheros e2400 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet controller. The operating system runs Microsoft Windows 10 Home (x64), version 18363.836, with the latest November 2019 update.