New to Ryzen and overclocking. Please advise.
New to Ryzen and overclocking. Please advise.
I'm using the advanced view. Core clocks maintain low performance at 5xxmhz even with manual settings, which aligns with my preference. With DEFAULT settings, voltage also reduces to 0.9v. Adjusting manual voltages alters this issue. I discovered the offset option yesterday, but turning it on doesn't seem to resolve the consistent voltage drop. I even calculated that pressing the minus plus keys on the keyboard produces values instead of a list, which enter automatically into the in set increments. This didn't help at all, though I only tried the first minus increment, highlighted in red, which initially caused concern before it had no effect.
I wasn't sure if this would work. I expected a direct upload feature on the forum.
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EDIT: Confirmed, I cleared everything and returned to defaults just to verify. Yes, the old boosting behavior, excess heat/noise, and lower scores disappeared, but voltages went down. So I re-enabled all c states and CPPC preferences, turned on the offset option, and disabled XMP. Still no change in voltage levels.
Here are some additional BIOS settings you can adjust. You've turned off anything that might influence the voltages and activated what you recommended. It's possible something simple is causing the issue. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong, but it should be a straightforward fix. I'm sure I'll regret it if we don't get it right.
Success at last. And yes...it was something silly, just as I expected. Spoiler alert: it was Blizzard's Battlenet app!
I invested days in trying to understand what was happening and kept you all in the loop. SMH.
I had Afterburner, RTSS, Steam, Background Switcher, GeForce Experience, ShadowPlay instant capture, Argus fan control, Viper4Windows, Universal Remote, and Steelseries Engine all set to autostart and running quietly in the background. None of them stopped the idle voltage drop. Only Blizzard's Battlenet app was affected. I also verified it wasn't downloading anything.
I tried Chrome with 35 tabs open and YouTube minimized to the taskbar—voltage still dropped. But not when the Blizzard app was in my tray.
This was a really frustrating experience. I adjusted nearly every possible BIOS setting to fix it, but it seemed unrelated.
Insert Facepalm gif here.
Thanks for all the support, everyone. Now let's move on to testing the manual BIOS settings for stability. Thermals passed the no AVX small FFT 20-minute test. Realbench next.
Realbench completed an 8-hour test successfully, thankfully. Performance peaked at 74°C but often stabilized around 70°C. Progress was observed in the blend test with Prime95.
https://imgur.com/a/9jMtbay
View: https://imgur.com/a/9jMtbay