By default, motherboards run RAM at the “safe” setting. This is not what was marked on the box or the label on the stick.
You have to go into the BIOS’ memory section and change the profile to run at the rated speed. This is the design, I do not know the reasoning behind it, but you must always, always go into BIOS and change it to run at the rated speed or else it will be underclocked. Whether it’s an AMD or Intel CPU changes the term used for it. It’s XMP for Intel but I can’t recall the AMD name. Change it to that and save/reboot and then it will be as rated.
You can conversely choose to run it faster and mess with the timings, but I’ve never had the patience to figure out how far is far enough. I don’t even OC the CPU anymore, although I’ve had K-class since the 2700K days which would let me. Occasionally I’ll OC the GPU using the auto drivers method, but even the auto CPU OC never seemed to really make a difference I could see.
It’s to avoid any stability problems. Running XMP or EXPO is RAM overclocking and while these profiles have been tested with a lot of different setups and should work fine for most people, they may in fact not be stable for every hardware combination out there.
The price for the Nova mainboard just dropped below 400 and I ordered everything but the grapics card.
I think I can wait one or two weeks longer to see if nVidia will up their game. I’m afraid availability for the new card will not normalize until summer and we most likely never will see the recommended list prices
I use the “Essential Tweaks”. YMMV as there may be one or three you don’t want to touch. The more advanced one there may be a couple.
I removed Co-Pilot and some other useless (to me) annoying ‘feature’ of Win 11 - name escapes me right now.
Runs pretty quick.
On Win11 it doesn’t reduce things quite as much as on Win 10. CTT tool has gotten more views/reviews (all good) lately. I’ve never had an issue. On Win 11 (rough numbers here) Went from close too 200 processes to to less than 100. Again, YMMV.
It does other things beyond that too. Been using it since about 2021.
PS: I’ve never had to un-do anything but the process seem simple enough.
I feel your pain. I did my build during the height of crypto coin farming. I had a GTX 1060 and cards were unreasonably expensive. I waited a few years (felt like an eternity) and eventually got my hands on an RTX 3080.
I’m fortunate to live in a state of bliss that I don’t know exactly. My local shop had a €2500 offer for a build with a 5080 and 7800X3D. I offered some extra coin for some upgrades such as 64GB RAM, 6TB worth of SSD’s and a 9800X3D. That put it (just a little) bit over 3…
DCS will be downloaded tonight as my partner is WFH, but I downloaded a smaller game from steam that runs at 140fps, compared to 60fps for my older 1080Ti and 7700K combination. And that is without the AI frame-gen shenanigans.
Same here. I’m still considering if the upgrade to AM5 + R7 9800X3D and a new RX 9070 XT will be the best choice. I will wait for results and prices including performance and price R5 9600X3D and RX 9060 XT as well.
I may have found the cause of the random reboots on my new rig. I don’t know if it’s a Ryzen issue or an ASUS motherboard issue, but it apparently doesn’t like any 3rd party hardware monitoring software that uses cpuz146_x64.sys or related files, like CPUID or HWMONITOR.
Basically what was happening is that doing any kind of low-demand task like watching YouTube or other streaming videos, the sound would cut, the PC would be in a weird unresponsive but also responsive state, and then “watchdog timer” or whatever would reboot the system. No faults in the event viewer, no crash logs, nada.
I managed to get the performance tab up on task manager during one of these episodes and noticed my GPU at -1% usage. Yes, negative usage. I found many threads with people having the same issue with Ryzen/ASUS builds but only one of them seemed to have a solid solution and that was this cpuz146_x64.sys file. So I uninstalled HWMONITOR and so far things seem resolved, but I still have issues where sound will suddenly cut about 40 minutes into a video. This time, though, I’m usually able to pause the video and resume with no issues, and my GPU no longer shows negative usage when the sound cuts.
Google is giving me resources for setting minimum clock speed but not utilization. Otherwise I have everything set to max perform with all power save functions off.
Well… it runs absolutely amazing in DCS. In pancake mode, definitely. I had not expected such high fps. There’s still some leeway on the CPU, so a 5090 could be “worth” it. The settings are maxed, and I’m using the AI to upscale.
Note that from here on, I enabled freesync and limited fps to 165. I tried to look for some AI shenanigans but they were hard to find. On the missile, you can see what I think is a tiny bit of ghosting of the fins, and some warping of the terrain below it. I found it acceptable considering the edge case in which I had to find it. It certainly is better to what I am used to, as my old system used to throw me phantom MiGs when I ran in VR with ASW on (it was unworkable without).
Tonight, I hope to get some controls and VR set up so I can test that. I should also find a mission with tons of action so I can test out the limits of the 9800X3D
I downloaded the latest stable BIOS ROM for my Asrock X870E Taichi mobo and tried to install it from the UEFI Instant Flash utility, but it said it couldn’t find a compatible file.
I eventually managed to update it by using the BIOS Flashback feature which meant renaming the ROM and putting it on a USB stick in a certain USB port.
Any Asrock users who know if this is typical for their boards? I’ve used ASUS for the last decade or so…
I have an older B540 Asock mobo, but I have always downloaded to a USB stick first and done it that way.
I had trouble once flashing the BIOS with my previous Asus ROG board using the ‘direct download’ method, took me ages to fix it and have never done that again.
Sorry no idea, it’s my first ASRock Board and since the BIOS it shipped with wasn’t compatible with the 9800X3D I had to use the flashback feature. I actually found the process to be quite nice. It took way less time than flashing the BIOS on my X570 Aorus Master as well so that’s nice.
I did my build during the height of crypto coin farming. I had a GTX 1060 and cards were unreasonably expensive. I waited a few years (felt like an eternity) and eventually got my hands on an RTX 3080.
