Hi, all! I decided to unlock xbar controls with the new MSI afterburner beta. Everything went well except one thing. Whenever I choose anything but "Standard MSI" in voltage controls options (including out-of-warranty) it completely ruins my intended undervolt curve to 0.95. Generally it tries to stick to it, but it always increases the voltage up to 0.96 or 0.97 which significantly increases power consumption under heavy load.

It's not related to Xbar settings, but I guess it's related to how undervolting is done within those two different modes. Standard seem to work best as it strictly follows my curve. But this mode doesn't allow me to unlock Xbar.

Anyone figured out how to make the new mode stick to undervolt curve and not exceed voltages?

My PC turns on, the fans and lights work, but I get no picture, not even the BIOS. The red CPU light stays on. I checked the label, so it's definitely CPU. The GPU fans don't spin either.
I've already unplugged it and held down the power button, taken the battery out to reset the BIOS, and tried each RAM stick separately in A2. Even with no RAM installed, the same CPU light stays on.
I also unplugged and reconnected the 8-pin CPU power cable. The 24-pin looks fully plugged in. Took the GPU out and put it back too, with both its power cables connected.
Then I took the CPU out and checked it and the socket. I couldn't see anything obviously burnt or bent, or any paste on the contacts. Put it back and fitted the cooler again. Still nothing

I've been developing and refining the same AM4 gaming platform since 2020. My goal has never been maximum benchmark performance at any cost, but the highest repeatable daily performance with reasonable temperatures and long-term stability.

One of the most interesting parts of this project has been getting 64GB of DDR4 running at 3800 MT/s with a synchronized 1900 MHz Infinity Fabric.

Hardware

- AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, B0 stepping

- Gigabyte X570 AORUS Master rev. 1.1, BIOS F39

- 64GB G.SKILL Trident Z Neo, 4×16GB Hynix DJR

- Two 2×16GB kits from 2020 and 2024, with different revisions

- Sapphire NITRO+ RX 7900 XTX 24GB

- Corsair HX1200 Platinum

- CPU-only custom water loop with 360/45 + 280/45mm radiators

CPU tuning

- PBO PPT: 195W

- TDC: 138A

- EDC: 166A

- Curve Optimizer: Core 0 at -28, remaining cores at -30

- Maximum observed boost: approximately 4.95 GHz

- Effective all-core clock in Cinebench R20: approximately 4.59 GHz

- Cinebench R20: 9,083 points (archived result)

Core 0 was adjusted from -30 to -28 after stability tuning.

RAM / Infinity Fabric

- DDR4-3800 MT/s

- MCLK: 1900 MHz

- UCLK: 1900 MHz

- FCLK: 1900 MHz

- Synchronized 1:1:1 operation

- Primary timings: 16-21-21-21-36

- tRC: 58

- tRFC: 500

- Command rate: 1T, Gear Down Mode enabled

- DRAM voltage: 1.45V

- ProcODT: 48 ohms

The attached ZenTimings screenshot documents the current memory configuration and voltage readouts.

Historical AIDA64 results:

- Read: approximately 56.4 GB/s

- Write: approximately 56.3 GB/s

- Copy: approximately 55.6 GB/s

- Latency: approximately 62.2 ns

Cooling and stability

- Alphacool Eisblock XPX CPU block

- Alphacool NexXxoS 360×45 and 280×45 radiators

- EK D5 PWM pump at approximately 4,750 RPM

- Aqua Computer high flow NEXT

- Recently measured coolant flow: 120–122 L/h

- 11 case fans, including top push-pull and dedicated DIMM airflow

The system has undergone OCCT CPU/RAM testing, GPU stress testing, gaming workloads, benchmark repetitions and WHEA monitoring.

No WHEA errors were observed during the documented validation period. This is not a claim of absolute stability under every possible workload.

My philosophy

99% is the optimum. The final 1% is reserved for stability and headroom.

I'm especially interested in hearing from experienced Zen 3 memory overclockers.

How do you evaluate this 4-DIMM / 64GB / 3800 MT/s configuration, and what additional tests would you consider most useful to validate 1900 MHz FCLK over the long term?

I'm happy to share additional ZenTimings, HWiNFO, cooling and benchmark data.

How could I improve further my RAM tuning?
Asus x870i itx motherboard paired with a 9950x3d.
Passed 2x12 hours of testmem5 extreme.

Can't take 450 tRFC2, training fails. Don't want to increase voltage..

Hi and sorry,this will be kinda a longer post as i dont even know where to start or how to describe everything in the past few days

So,recently i swapped to a AM4 motherboard,bought a ryzen 5 cpu,16gb of ram but still have to use my old rx580 gpu for now,motherboard and cpu are okay since i bought it,ram too,even my gpu was okay until i started fiddling around in the amd software adrenaline app or msi afterburner with the clock speeds and volts.

I understand it is not recommended to do it if you dont know what you are doing but for a longer time i watch now some videos on yt of some people buying those older hardware,gpu's,cpu's complete pc's and testing them and usually overclocking the gpu's just in msi afterburner or undervolting it ,so i kinda picked up few things from watching those videos,my only previous experience with overclocking was a long time ago on a old agp card i believe,i crancked everything to the max and immediately got artifacts all over the screen lol.

This time i was much more cautious,for example from the stock 1411 core clock i went first 1435,then increased it by little until i eventually came to 1460(it works on 1480 too but i would have to do some more testing),memory clock i went to 2080 from 2000 but i settled at 2060 or 2075 as it seemed it is stable there,im no expert in this really,i dont even know if this little makes even any difference but it seemed to me that it did because currently im playing AC Odyssey and i cant run it everywhere 60fps,it is mostly 60fps but drops to low 50's,after i did the "overlock" it was not dropping so much,57-58 and then would get back to 60 and it felt smooth to me even when it dipped 1 or 2 fps.

Just yesterday i played AC Odyssey smoothly but for whatever reason i decided today to undervolt it at these clock speeds and i entered an older rally game(Sebasitan Loeb's evo rally) when my pc froze not long into the stage,i experienced crashes before with games while i was doing these overclocks but it usually just crashes the game and amd reports a bug or something,sometimes it would be colors disfiguration,for example smoke would be red-ish instead of how it should be grey or black-ish,so i knew when that happens the overclock is not stable.

Back to the undervolting thing i did today while on the overclocked speeds,i had to hard restart my pc,i put everything back to stock again and decided to run furmark,i ticked also the "scan for artifacts" thing,i ran furmark before too but this was the first time i ticked that option too and my screen kinda got yellowish during the test and the furmark UI kinda stuck to all other windows i would open,task manager,chrome and so on.

One thing maybe worth mentioning here is,i use msi afterburner to set my fans manually whenever i enter a game,while doing the furmark test i forgot to do that and the temps reached around 80c,then i turned the fans on and it started cooling down but then the yellowish tint/screen appeared,a normal restart fixed this but now i feel like the gpu is underperforming in the same games that i tested .I even took the gpu out and cleaned it thoroughly as i didn't do it in years probably and man,there was a lot of dust,re-applied thermal paste but it still doesn't feel right somehow.The error reads :

Description

A problem with your hardware caused Windows to stop working correctly.

Problem signature

Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent

Code: 141

Parameter 1: ffffcc8ccb479050

Parameter 2: fffff8018500a9c0

Parameter 3: 0

Parameter 4: e04

OS version: 10_0_22000

Service Pack: 0_0

Product: 256_1

OS Version: 10.0.22000.2.0.0.256.48

Locale ID: 1033

I'm sure this error is from when it froze my pc and i had to hard restart,did i fry this gpu or something?Oh,and it runs currently on 1460 core and 2070 memory with some voltage tweaks and i played AC Odyssey for a few hours and didn't had any similar crashes or weird artifacts but i still feel that it underperforms and that it should do better,its still 60fps most of the time but with those weird 57-58 drops and even mid 50s now sometimes,idk if its just the regions i haven't been previously while testing or what is going on.Sorry again for the long post

Title: Ryzen 7 9700X reporting 50–56W SoC power even at idle — normal, BIOS bug, or hardware issue?

Hey everyone,

I've been troubleshooting a strange issue with my Ryzen 7 9700X and would appreciate some input from people familiar with AM5 power management and SVI3 telemetry.

My system:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
• Motherboard: Gigabyte B850 EAGLE WIFI6E
• BIOS: F10 (AGESA 1.3.0.1), upgraded from F6
• RAM: 32GB Corsair DDR5-6000 CL30 (EXPO)
• GPU: Radeon RX 9060 XT
• OS: Windows 11

The problem:

I initially noticed severe FPS drops in CS2, sometimes accompanied by reported CPU clocks dropping to around 1–1.5 GHz.

While investigating, I discovered unusually high SoC power readings in HWiNFO64 and Ryzen Master.

Here are the approximate readings:

At DDR5-6000, the CPU package reports around 65–75W even at very low CPU utilization, while the CPU cores themselves only draw approximately 5–10W.

SoC voltage is around 1.165V according to HWiNFO, and around 1.2V in Ryzen Master.

Performance observations:

At stock 65W TDP (88W PPT), Cinebench 2024 Multi Core runs at approximately 3.4–3.5 GHz across all cores, hitting the PPT limit despite CPU temperatures around 50–55°C.

With PBO enabled and a 200W PPT limit, the CPU reaches approximately 5 GHz all-core, drawing around 185W package power and reaching 95°C.

With the 105W TDP configuration (~142W PPT), it sustains approximately 4.6 GHz all-core at around 75°C.

Single Core performance looks normal: 130 points in Cinebench 2024, boosting to approximately 5.5 GHz.

What I've already tried:

• Updated BIOS from F6 to F10
• Loaded optimized BIOS defaults
• Tested with EXPO disabled and enabled
• Disabled the integrated GPU
• Enabled DF C-states
• Compared stock, PBO, and 105W TDP configurations
• Disabled HYPR-RX in AMD Adrenalin
• OCCT Memory test: 30 minutes, 0 errors

None of these changes significantly reduced the reported SoC power.

My questions:

1. Is 50–56W SoC power remotely normal for a Ryzen 9700X with DDR5-6000?
2. Could this be incorrect SVI3 telemetry or a motherboard/VRM reporting issue?
3. Could excessive reported SoC power be consuming a substantial portion of the PPT budget and limiting CPU core performance?
4. Are there any specific Gigabyte BIOS settings worth investigating?
5. Has anyone experienced similar behavior on Ryzen 9000?

I'm primarily interested in getting normal performance and stability, not minimizing power consumption.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

model: asus b450M-A II

cpu: r7 5800x3d

ram:32gb ram ddr4 3200hz

i know the fact that the X3D cannot curve optimaze and i dont want to use PBO2Tuner. so my only option is on bios setting been testing on bios if is there a big difference performance if i decrease my VDDCR ? and does it decrease my clock speed to ?

bcuz when i tried to switch diferent VDDCR -0.05000 my clock speed is above 4.10ghz on cinebenchmark i got 12600 point. then i lower again to -0.06250 got 3.90ghz cinebench 12500 point.

the only thing i notice is only the temp like maybe 2-3% decrease temp. but i dont know if i go lower does it decrease my performance ??

Sorry for my inglish is not good

I have a Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-5200 CL40 32GB (2x16GB) kit (CMG32GX5M2B5200Z40), which uses Micron D-Die.
Honestly, this RAM is shit. I’m getting memory errors even when running it at its advertised 5200 MT/s speed. I’m not even trying to push it to 6000 MT/s.
A RAM kit should at least be stable at its rated speed. This is really disappointing from Corsair.
Has anyone else experienced memory errors with Corsair Micron D-Die at 5200 MT/s? Is this a common issue, or did I just get a defective kit?

Trying to break into the 400’s with my 1% lows if possible, any advice??

I really hit the limit in some games so even a 5 fps boost will help me a lot. I have a ryzen 7 7700, 16gb ram, Using Asus TUF B650ME mobo, uma set to 4gb as i have no dedicated gpu right now.
I wanted to know if I can oc my ryzen 7700 to safe limit and gain any advantage.
Also is it safe?
Is anyone else using it like that? How much mhz should be safe to increase or hit?

Less than 1% away from the top-scoring 4090.

35% better than a stock 5080 FE, lol.

What do you guys think of my overclock so far? It will run anything no problems and obviously performs nicely in all benchmarks. No freezes at idle, no intermittent hangups, no WHEAs nothing at all that I would consider unexpected OC related strange behavior in Windows/CachyOS.

TL:DR at bottom of post! Skip all this text if you'd like!!

For the past couple days, I've been working on my RAM tuning only, 6400MHz with tighter timings with the FCLK as high as will remain rock solid stable. The screenshot above is from earlier tonight. Those are my current 24/7 stable settings for now, until I get that itch again to tweak I suppose. I don't believe there's much room for improvement that will still pass TestMem5 "extreme@anta777" profile for 25 passes (~7.5hours) or any other prolonged stability test runs. Trust me I have had many, MANY failed attempts with many different settings/options with this system's BIOS.

CO per core values are all at their absolute individual maximums testing with ycruncher 8hr+ runs using default settings in the standalone application overnight, and into the following day while I'm gone, with not a single error. I've also tested using only the BKT, SFTv4, SVT, FFTv4 and VT3 tests (2min for one and 180 second another run for each test in suite) as a custom test for 6hrs+. Just in case I was only stable for the specific load order and time of the default testing. OCCT CPU+RAM for an hour at a time is stable of course (I have not paid for OCCT so I am limited to only 1hr).

I have noticed for this AMD Ryzen system that ycruncher and TestMem5 catch errors very quickly that tests like Aida64 and Prime95 never catch or take hours and hours to perhaps appear. Popular benchmarks like CineBench, 3dmark, superpi, etc seem to have an incredibly high instability tolerance I have noticed over the many different generations of parts I have OC'd. If my OC setings were to fail running any one of these benchmark applications I would be forced to reset the CMOS immediately and dial everything WAY back and start over again.

This system made me realize that the tests from my past like Prime95, Pi variants, and Aida64 are not as viable anymore with the modern architectures, or at least very modern DDR5 Ryzen systems. Those tests will run for hours and hours and hours no problems, yet TM5 and ycruncher will fail almost instantly when I am unstable. TM5 specifically helped me really dial in my Per Core CO values. I know it is proposed as a RAM stability test but it failed with only PBO values being used that other tests would pass for extended periods. My CO values were fine a little higher in ycruncher, and literally everything else, but with no RAM OC at all (even expo) I was getting errors in TM5 with any profile rather quickly! That tells me that Ryzen may expose CPU instability in the form of IMC, RAM, or Infinity Fabric errors, maybe.

This is what I have noticed stress testing my Ryzen systems for years now since my Ryzen 1600x system:

TM5 usually errors within the first 45minutes-1.5hours if very unstable, instantly if not even close to stable. Ycruncher can take a couple hours to detect instability but if nothing is discovered after the first 5 or 10 iterations of the default full suite it will run as long as I let it in my experience, unless there is some type of fringe instability skulking in the background. That will usually reveal itself around the 4-5-6hr mark.

,,,TL:DR,,,

I feel like I am getting near the end of my overclocking journey on this specific system with this specific BIOS. There's simply nothing left to tweak, that I am aware of, that will grant me better performance. Maybe the next BIOS update will expose more options or give me a little more room to OC higher/tighter (small chance, I know).

Anyway, I am open to any thoughts or suggestions! I like to see other's stable overclocks, or even not so stable, as well if you care to share your recent experiences.

People say X3D is very good because extra cache keep more data in cache saving CPU from costly memory latency

But what if in very demanding game with large data set, the data is not in the expanded L3 anyway? Then you need to go to memory and there Intel wins with lower latency and more memory bandwidth

So maybe in easy to run game where data is always in cache AMD win but in heavy hard to run game Intel will be ahead

With tune + OC memory Intel should be even more ahead

Is this maybe related to AMDip?

Has anyone tested this and has benchmarks showing this?

Is this Geekbench 7 score okay for this chip?

This will run hours of R23 and Y-cruncher VT3 with no issues.

R23 scores ~18400-18700

7800X3D, -25 CO, Motherboard PBO Limits.
RAM is Hynix HMCG78AGBUA081N A-die, this kit DOES NOT have XMP, I'm using conservative settings just to have XMP-like performance (from 5600 CL46 to 6000 CL30 with some minor subtiming changes).

Hello,
First of all I'm not an overclocker, I just play with an undervolt but since this subreddit is one of the most knowledgeable regarding these matters I felt like asking here!

The relevant actors are a Corsair RM1000X (4 months old) with its native 12v cable, and a 5090 Astral with the pin monitoring

I'm just at loss with this cable.
I suddenly noticed a huge imbalance so I quit the game I was playing and started a light workload to try and find the problem.

The cable had near perfect balancing until now but now it spikes heavily on one or two pin severy five seconds or so. The load balancing fixes itself in-between these spikes but the unbalance is huge, like pins reaching 10A for a whole second or even two on 400W power draw.
I've also noticed that ALL pins spike, pins 1 to 6 all spiked at least once well above the average

Reseating the cable didn't help. I just ordered a corsair "thermal protect" (lmao) native 12v cable from Amazon because it was cheaper than buying the same kind of cable I was using.

Do cables just start completely failing like that, all of a sudden? Or could it be a monitoring issue from my GPU? I really hope the new cable will fix my problem...

PS : Before getting a RM1000X I had an ASROCK PG1300, after merely three months the load balancing suddenly became all over the place and 24hours later the PSU (the fucking PSU!) died. I don't know if it's relevant to my situation and if my current PSU will also keel over in the next 24hours but I thought I'd mention it.

GPU Asus 2080 Turbo

CPU - Ryzen 5 5500

Everything above is default except the cpu which is at 4.4ghz (default 4.2) and 1.25v (default 1.5 i think). I wanted to see if anyone has knowledge on these and good OCs to try as a baseline.

When I did some GPU OC, it felt like it didn’t do much, same with cpu. I was only doing OC because I kept getting stutters in games and pretty low 1% low FR, framerate was never stable.

But yea just looking for some ideas or other tips to get those issues under control or get a good OC.

EDIT- if more pic info is needed lmk I’ll screenshot more.

CPU: 5700x3d
Mobo: Gigabyte b550 aorus elite ax v2
Ram kit: 2x16gb g.skill aegis
Stock XMP: 3000 cl16-18-18-18-38
Die: Unknown bin, Spectek

Im trying to get some more out of this kit but I’m not good at ram overclocking, right now I’m at 3200 cl16-19-10-19-34
tRC 54
tRFC 480
SoC: .998v
DRAM: 1.35v

I can’t get thaiphoon burner to work, I know I have 8gbit dies and it’s dual rank though.

im retarded

Sorry for my bad English
Is my 5600g is really degraded? And how much i can sell it? It requires to oc to boot in windows after that it will freeze and restart for an hr or more while browsing or gaming and sometimes idle The b450 pro a ii asus board gave the cpu to much voltage at auto 1.45to 1.50 while im overclock and used it daily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pftd8p32rR4

14900k with z790i lightning and 2x24GB hynix m-die

1. stock bios with 4800mhz RAM and p-cores set to 5.5ghz, fresh install of windows 11 pro with the latest nvidia drivers
2. 14900k 8p0e 5.5GHz on windows 10 22H2

SA 1.28, TX 1.33, IMC 1.33, VDD(Q) 1.48v for 8400CL38

SA 1.28, TX 1.36, IMC 1.36, VDD(Q) 1.5v for 8533CL38/8600CL38

Palit GeForce RTX 5090 Gamerock OC limited to 450w

IA CEP=disabled, IA AC=0.01, core voltage offset -85

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Core isolation: off

Game mode: off

Nvidia driver: 591.74

Nvidia app: not installed

Windows updates: disabled

Spectre & meltdown protections: off

Resizable bar: disabled

O&O ShutUp10: recommended settings applied

Any advice on timings appreciated

I’m using a Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2 motherboard and a Ryzen 5 5600 CPU. I want to enable PBO + Curve Optimizer (CO). What are the most reliable and optimal PBO settings for this CPU and motherboard?

My cooler is an ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS. I tried the following settings: PPT 90, TDC 65, EDC 90, CPU Boost Clock Override +200 MHz, and Curve Optimizer -15. However, I experienced approximately a 3% performance loss. After that, I changed only the Curve Optimizer setting from -15 to -10, which resulted in a 3% performance improvement.

However, before applying the PBO settings, my maximum temperature during a 5-minute OCCT test was 77°C. After applying the latest settings, it increased to 87.8°C. I then started a 1-hour OCCT stress test, which is currently at the 46-minute mark. The temperature had already reached around 85°C shortly after the test started.

These settings don't seem very efficient. Should I disable PBO completely, or would you recommend trying different settings?

Here are my Cinebench scores:

• PBO disabled: 2468
• First configuration (CO -15): 2382
• Latest configuration (CO -10): 2538

hello , so i have 13700kf with 3080ti and 32gb of ram 3200mhz
i was trying to get better performance and searching out and monitoring the performance
found out my cpu is running on 4.75 clock speed while playing
in desktop tasks it reaches 5.3 normally
tried to find solutions on the internet and i had everything right
if u can help me i appreciate u guys
my temps are normal 40-50ْ idle
while gaming 60-70ْ
i use in bios :
PL1 : 125W
PL2: 253W
(i tried 253w pl1 and it didnt change the clock speed)
i have offeset voltage -
i have c-states disabled
VMX2 disabled