Whats your system?

It says CrossFire disabled. The R9 295X2, IiRC, is a single board with 2 GPUs on it.

To be able to use both GPUs, the software needs to be able to handle two GPUs. This is called CrossFire withAMD, and SLI with Nvidia.

Few games ever supported that technology,and nowadays it is even rarer.

So yes, your board has 8GB total, but in most games, and in this benchmark, only 1 GPU, similar to a single R9 290X, is used, which has 4 GB

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UserBenchmarks: Game 105%, Desk 96%, Work 91%
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K - 89.1%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 - 114.6%
SSD: Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB - 136.8%
SSD: Crucial MX500 2TB - 122.3%
HDD: Toshiba P300 2TB - 109%
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB - 94.8%
MBD: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

You guys can just suckit! :joy:

For kicks I used EZ Tuner in the BIOS to bump it up from an OC of 9% to 15%. The results match that little tic up nicely.

UserBenchmarks: Game 108%, Desk 99%, Work 93%
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K - 93.2%
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080 - 113%
SSD: Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB - 136.3%
SSD: Crucial MX500 2TB - 125.2%
HDD: Toshiba P300 2TB - 108.9%
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB - 94.5%
MBD: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

It says 5900X PBO overclocked…
Is that what I did when I set the PBO limits to motherboard, @Freak? Or is it more to it?

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I’m real curious as to what BIOS settings you set @Troll.

I just followed @freak’s advice here.

I found the settings in ”AMD Overclock” or something like that. There is a ”PBO Limits” setting that you can change to ”Motherboard”, which I did…
Had to look around the BIOS before I found it.

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Cool thanks. I’m going to look for that setting tonight when I get home from work.

Based on that performance chart I have my eye on the 5800X now. The price/performance point looks good and my favorite computer store has them in stock. Probably pick it up on my way home.

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I couldn’t find anything related to PBO or overclocks on that page, but upon reading one of their reviews of a Ryzen CPU, it seems very likely.
They describe the setting that our BIOS calls PBO motherboard as “PBO enabled”.

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Picked up the 5800X on the way home … I noticed it’s not using my old unsupported 3466 RAM as well as it used to (maybe because of the Zen 3 architecture) but I’m still happy …

UserBenchmarks: Game 237%, Desk 110%, Work 243%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X - 106.1%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 - 229.3%
SSD: WD Black SN750 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB (2019) - 276.9%
SSD: HP S700 500GB - 84.2%
SSD: WD Black SN750 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB (2019) - 298%
SSD: Samsung 860 QVO 1TB - 111%
SSD: HP S700 500GB - 80.2%
HDD: WD WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0 4TB - 107.3%
RAM: Kingston HyperX DDR4 3466 C16 2x16GB - 107%
MBD: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI)

I actually found two PBO settings which I’m fooling around with …

PBO Fmax Enhancer = not sure
Precision Boost Overdrive = Enabled

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Check out the insane Canadian price differences though …

5800X - $529 plus tax $597
5900X - $769 plus tax $869
5950X - $1000 plus tax $1,130

and this is really strange … my old 3900X is selling for more than the 5800X I just bought!

3900X - $549 plus tax $620

I think I should be able to sell the 3900X for a good price before Friday rolls around. :+1:

EDIT: Guys on Kijiji are asking $550+ for the 3900X LOL! I think I’ll go $400 for a quick sale. :slight_smile:

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That’s insane. The 5900X is going for around 530€ including VAT in Germany

I checked and mine was set to PBO Advanced → Motherboard. I tried changing Advanced to Enabled and it wouldn’t post. Went back into BIOS and set it to Advanced → Motherboard, and it still wouldn’t post…!
I had to set it to PBO Disabled to get it to run. :thinking:

That’s disappointing. What kind of single core frequencies are you getting?

Huh? I thought you had set it to motherboard, which should be advanced → motherboard.

What’s a good test for that?

I did. But then I had to check if there was a “PBO Enabled” setting, and that was in the same drop down menu as Advanced, so I tried that, but it wouldn’t start. And then I tried setting it back to Advanced and Motherboard, but with the same result…

I let the PC sit for an hour and went back at it just now, and now I could set it to Advanced and Motherboard, again. :man_shrugging:

Looks like the BIOS in the pro version of the Asus TUF x570 mobo is different from the plus version.

Could you post a screenshot of your options?

Nothing special. Just open HWmonitor or another app that records max frequency and start a game. The CPU should spike to its maximum frequency on one or two cores. Should be 4.8GHz-4.95GHz for the average 5900X, some can even hit 5GHz

Here’s the PBO settings.

Here’s how it looks when I set it to Advanced and Limits to Motherboard.

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I see. I will have to check that this weekend.

I think there are PBO settings in AI Tweaker and in the Advanced tab.

Did not tinker with any yet, my single core clocks are fine (50 MHz above spec).

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Perhaps, if you don’t mind tinkering :wink: , now would be a good time to check the stability of the setup with some stress tests.
I recommend Cinebench and prime95 small FFTs.

It sounds like the setup may not be stable with these settings, or magic and cosmic rays is causing this.

It may be too much work of a kind you don’t like, but better to figure out during a stress test than while flying.

Or just undo the “overclock” if you encounter issues

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