The chance of degradation for that system is quite low, likely staying within safe limits.
The chance of degradation for that system is quite low, likely staying within safe limits.
Hello. Last month my friend completed their AMD Ryzen 9 7900x build, using (iirc) an ASUS Prime X670E-Pro Wifi board, with G. Skill Trident Z5 DDR 6400 RAM (running at 6000 MHz) using DOCP. They have been using this machine (running PopOS) over the past month, keeping the machine on over night at times. They have primarily been gaming on this machine, running games such as Total War Warhammer 3, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, etc. With the recent news of the EXPO and SOC voltage issue on AMD 7000 series CPUs, they have been wondering about whether their machine could be affected. While waiting for the release of non-beta ASUS BIOS for their motherboard, they investigated and learned that their SOC, VDD and DRAM voltages were all about 1.3 V - in particular, their SOC was at 1.4 V. They followed my advice (which I gleamed from reading some posts across Reddit and thinking about my fairly limited experience in overclocking) and lowered these values to 1.2 V and restarted their system. It appears stable now. However, we are both wondering whether the system could have any damage. I've seen a number of people, including Steve from Gamer Nexus, say that if you had been running a system for 2 weeks, you should be okay - it is those that have been running for months that need to be concerned. Does the system in question lie in either extreme? Should the system be examined for damage and should the CPU be RMA'd?
This lithography differs from the previous one—10nm versus 5nm for Zen4’s CCD. I understand your point, and once the newest UEFI patch fixes some problems, you can be confident it’s working properly. It’s better to wait until the update is applied rather than worrying about potential overheating issues that might affect performance.