Assist in boosting RX5700 performance with 5700XT BIOS while addressing game crashes
Assist in boosting RX5700 performance with 5700XT BIOS while addressing game crashes
I updated the BIOS of my MSI RX5700 to a RX 5700XT model. Everything worked smoothly at 2000mhz until I saw the benchmark in Far Cry: New Dawn crash the system, forcing me to shut down the PSU before the PC would restart. The same problem occurred once in Final Fantasy 15, but not in any other games. Any advice? I've lowered the core clock to 1950, slightly raised the voltage, and adjusted the fan curve so junction temperatures stay below 90. I'm still a bit new to overclocking.
Specs:
Ryzen 5 2600x
RX 5700
16gb HyperX 2666mhz RAM
256gb SSD
Windows 10 Pro.
Yeah I'd go back to the original BIOS, flashing is okayish at best. But there's no guarantee you'll get a stable overclocking experience.
First, max out the card and MASTER overclocking the card on ORIGINAL BIOS. If you're new to overclocking, you really shouldn't even be touching bios flashing right now.
Then once you understand how the silicon behaves you CAN try going back to a 5700XT BIOS. (Though I wouldn't recommend it.)
Problem with 5700 XT flashing, is i'm not sure the vram can handle it. And there's probably a couple other parameters that the 5700 can't handle. Just depends. Best thing to do on the 5700 XT BIOS is to underclock vram and GPU core until you're stable so you can get a baseline. (But again, i'd recommend not...
I recommend reverting to the 5700 (non-XT) BIOS. These cards are already unstable, so you're taking unnecessary risks. Are you fine-tuning the voltages for each frequency state (Ctrl+F in Afterburner or Manual Voltage in WattMan), or are you only increasing Frequency and Power Limit percentages? What prompted your decision to switch BIOS versions?
I adjusted the bios to circumvent the artificial restriction imposed by AMD. I modified the bios via atiflash, encountered the same problem, so I went back and altered the power limit using MorePowerTool. From what I understand, this has removed the restrictions because GPU-Z and Waterman still identify the card as a RX5700 rather than a RX 5700xt.
Yeah I'd go back to the original BIOS, flashing is okayish at best. But there's no guarantee you'll get a stable overclocking experience.
First, max out the card and MASTER overclocking the card on ORIGINAL BIOS. If you're new to overclocking, you really shouldn't even be touching bios flashing right now.
Then once you understand how the silicon behaves you CAN try going back to a 5700XT BIOS. (Though I wouldn't recommend it.)
Problem with 5700 XT flashing, is i'm not sure the vram can handle it. And there's probably a couple other parameters that the 5700 can't handle. Just depends. Best thing to do on the 5700 XT BIOS is to underclock vram and GPU core until you're stable so you can get a baseline. (But again, i'd recommend not doing this until you master overclocking on the original BIOS if you must use a 5700XT BIOS)