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By the way, if anyone is interested in going to that arcade, it's only $25 to get in and you can stay all day. If you're a smoker like me and need a smoke, they had no problem with me going out and coming back in. And 8 miles west on Ogden Ave in Downer's Grove there was an AWESOME breakfast place called the Baked Apple Breakfast Company, only open til 2:30 though. This is what I had, French Toast called Holly Berry.

I won't be winning next month once flux can fire up all of his GPUs, or if Avacado does, or if firedfly decides to join.. Good run guys, thanks to @damricfor organizing this.

Kicks ass. Thanks. Will be looking into this band further.

Went to Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, IL yesterday. Largest arcade in the world. They have 1000 games. Here's a few pictures.

I missed it, but happy 25th birthday Dreamcast! The DC was released 9/9/99! Planned to play DC to celebrate but missed the date. Will be doing this weekend, play some Virtual On!

Last bios for my board. The one before it fixed sinkclose. I am on the latest BIOS but I don't think it has what you're talking about. Everyone else: I've already tried everything recommended. I appreciate the attempt to help though. And seeing that graph helps a lot, this is basically expected behavior I take it? With the 9950x, it's the first CCD. When I first got AM5 around April of last year, with the 7900X3D in Windows it WAS boosting the second CCD to 5550,5650,5500 etc. with power plan set to performance. I was able to benchmark 3dmark benches and get much higher scores even with the small difference in clock speed. Unfortunately, it stopped boosting after a month. I'm an enthusiast benchmarker, https://hwbot.org/user/neurotix so the 9950x doing 5450 versus 5650-5700 is the difference between a 66k and 70k 3dmark11 score and that really matters and affects the points you get on the site. That is the impetus for me being bothered so much over a small difference.

Hello everyone, I am offering $100 and rep on the site for anyone who can help me fix my boosting problerms with my motherboard and CPU. CPU is a 9950x, previous was a 7900X3D. Motherboard is a ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming Wifi, as well as a Gigabyte Aorus X670 Elite AX. Memory is G.skill TridentZ5 Intel XMP 7200MHz running at 7600MHz cas 36 (is stable in an hour of GSAT, as well as 4 hours of GSAT I did once). Synopsis: Across two different boards, two CPUs, I have this strange issue where my CPU will not boost under any single threaded load and it is massively underperforming with multithread as well. Basically, with PBO set to 90C, 10X scalar, and +200 boost overiride, I will see the chip boosting to 5600-5700MHz in hwinfo64 on the desktop when I am not doing anything. However, putting it under any single thread or lightly threaded load like 3dmark11 or CPU-Z bench, it only does 5450MHz under that load which is the default boost for the 9950x. The 7900X3D also didnt boost on its second CCD, I would also see it hitting 5650 in hwinfo64 on the desktop but under any actual load it would drop to 5150MHz. This problem with PBO is the same if I do it in Asus or Gigabyte's Tweaker menus, or in the AMD overclocking section. It has persisted across multiple motherboards, chips and Win10/Win11 installs. I cant find a way to fix it. Help please. I've finally gotten fed up enough with it that I am desperately asking for help. Thanks anyone in advance who tries.

Bye Bastiaan, you will be sorely missed. This is a big hit to our team. Wish you all the best in your future.

Mid tier or low tier would be great as afaik the options are currently bad and way overpriced. A 4070 or 4070ti power card for $500 from AMD for example. Low end for people with $300 on a budget needs attention too. This hobby has gotten far too expensive and imo it's because of crazy inflation and Biden not reversing the China Trade War tariffs afaik. There was that bipartisan bill to try to bring electronics prices down but I'm not seeing that with stuff I've bought lately. * I know political talk isn't allowed, if what I said is over the line delete this last paragraph. Though I was just mentioning facts that contribute to GPU prices being stupid expensive.

I will not be getting the Pro if it doesn't have a disc drive. My games are all physical copies, mostly PS4 titles I missed out on like God of War and Uncharted 4 (I never had a PS4). More importantly, I have Blu-ray movies and use the PS5 to play them. Even 1080p Blu Rays look fantastic on the PS5 on my OLED. They are vastly superior in quality to the movies I stream to Kodi. I also have a PS3 in my entertainment stand that rarely gets used, I suppose I could use that for playing Blu-rays if a PS6 comes out with no disc drive. No idea how I would get my physical copies of games onto a driveless PS6. Yes disc drives are old but for movie fans or collectors who prefer physical media, there is still a use. The companies don't care though.

It's sick!

Hey @J7SC_Orionthanks so much, I am going to rep you up. I did 104 eclk with +10 all core and now my chip is hitting 5500-5600 in single thread benches. It still has the odd problem where at I see it hitting 5750 or even 5800 at idle in hwinfo64, but under a load (Fire Strike, 3dm11) it doesn't hit those high idle frequencies, it does like 200-300 less. If you have any idea why my chip clocks down during a single thread load, please let me know. Should I try 107 eclk? If so, how much voltage should I add? Additionally, it might not work anymore but there's a specific Ryzen Cinebench tweak: do manual per-CCX overclocking, set it to like 52 first CCD and 48 second CCD with like 1.3v, and run Cinebench in realtime mode. You should get a score that is a few thousand points higher than running it using PBO or CO. Give it a try. EDIT: If I aim for 107 eclk what amount of voltage should I use? 25? Even with it at 104 just now with +10 all cores and trying to bench Fire Strike, it froze up before running the bench and the whole program crashed, Steam wouldn't allow me to reopen it even after killing the Futuremark tasks, I had to reboot but then decided to go back to folding in Linux with eclk on auto and no extra core voltage.

Yeah I kind of remember you switching to just regular PBO because of that. I can't have it crashing on me at idle randomly given I run folding in Linux pretty much 24/7 on the GPU, need the CPU stable for that.

The Gigabyte didn't have it anywhere in it's options, there was nothing like in the screenshot you have. However, I got my ROG Strix X670E Gaming Wifi back from a socket repair and we put it in today and it supports eclk. So I have a question. Would it be reasonable to set eclk to 104 and CO to +5 all cores as a starting point? I'm really a novice with CO overclocking and it's like black magic to me. I have really no clue how to figure out the values or test cores individually, do I run Prime95 or something with CO on and see which cores fail and then give them more voltage? I was also thinking of just a straight CO overclock, no eclk, is setting all cores to -18 then running P95 and see which cores fail and raise the values til they don't? Thanks Orion, I really appreciate your help.

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I can't even find eclk on my Aorus X670 Elite AX. Under the base clock setting at the very top there's no option for manual and expo, just the bclk speed. If I go to EXPO and turn it on there's a few options but none are or give eclk. Where do I find it in this BIOS?

Thanks so much for this! Question though- do you have to enable EXPO for this to work? How do I still retain my 7600MHz cas36 RAM overclock?

Hey, because of the bclk being tied to PCIE and southbridge, I think I am actually wanting to do eclk overclocking. Can you please point me to a good beginner's guide? Thanks

Got it. Thanks.

I'm a little confused about the list. It has the names of people (mostly Mr.Fox) who presumably did a write up or guide on how to do certain things, yet there's no links to the writeups or content. Shouldn't there be like links to whatever write up with the persons name beside it? How do I see Mr. Fox's tutorials?