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Thanks so much buddy. And I don't see an eclk option anywhere in my BIOS. It was base clock at the top of the tweaker menu. Should I be disabling PBO as well, because of the 5750 multiplier thing?

Hello, I am trying to overclock my 9950x on a Gigabyte Aorus X670 Elite AX. I still have the problem where in hwinfo64 I can see my 1st CCD cores hitting 5650 or 5700MHz using PBO+200 at idle, however when put under any load (usually 3dmark11) the cores go to their default boost which is 5450MHz. I decided to set PBO to auto and try overclocking using bclk 104Mhz, I lowered my memory multiplier so it would be 7600 (which I have stable). 104x54.5 is 5668MHz or something. Voltage was auto. I tried this more than once and the system refused to post. I'm a novice at bclk overclocking and never really done it. Do I need to go into AMD Overclocking in the bios and adjust the uclk and memclk or something? Are there secondary voltages for the bclk that need to be raised? I'm stumped. Any help would be great, I know @J7SC_Orion knows how. Thanks in advance.

This is pretty cool Ultra. Definitely makes for some nice photos.

Hey you two, can you help me out here? I have a 9950x now and it runs my memory at 7600MHZ just fine, but I am aiming for 8000MHz. It made it almost all the way through the test and then I got this with no errors afterward: That was the only error. What should I do? Raise voltage or a particular timing? I did have the flag --max_errors 1 but it kept going. Is this something minor that is safe to ignore, or should I not run my system at 8000MHz ram? (Orion, I am still using your timings and running the sticks at 1.435v)

Congrats on the win firedfly. Great to see you in it again. How many 4090s were you running, 3? Otherwise what's your GPU makeup? I'm pretty happy as this is my personal best for a two day foldathon. Last month I did 78m, the month before that 77m, now I have set a personal record of 81m in two days, which I think is pretty great

Thanks for the info. I'll just wait then.

Hey E, I am having trouble with rig creator and cannot edit any of my rigs. There's no pencil icon by them to edit them. I was going to go put prices in. I'm on mobile in Firefox using a lot of addons, they have never affected it in the past. Thanks.

What happened to your GPU?

Sorry for the late reply, but I wonder if the meager gains in Windows will be rectified with Windows patches or chipset driver updates. AMD FineWine™ and all that. Who knows but here's hoping.

I found something interesting: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance Review WWW.PHORONIX.COM Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop... Check out the last page. In over 400 Linux benchmarks, they're saying the 9950x is 17% faster than the 7950x. Also saying the 9950x is 33% faster than the 14900k. Good news for me as Linux is my main OS.

Try watching "8-Bit Guy" on YouTube. His focus is mainly on the Commodore 64 and similar 80s computers, but he fixes a lot of them and also does "retrobrite" on them (hair bleach and water in a tub and soak a pc case or whatever in that outside in the sun to get rid of yellowing). Try and find his videos including soldering, I think he did extensive soldering on a Macintosh SE as well as a Mac LC III. I pretty much learned to solder just by watching that guy, but just enough to fix old game systems, he doesn't really do SMD soldering. Louis Rossman is another great one, he mostly repairs Macs but he does do SMD soldering, as well as reworking on CPUs or GPUs. For general PC knowledge, and up to date stuff, GN is a very good source though personally after a while how fast Steve talks gets kind of annoying to me. Certainly they are better than Linus or Jay though. I also attended tech school twice but only for one semester each time, then I dropped out. I did get a 4.0 both times but the classes were braindead easy. I have a Cisco certification in PC repair from the last time I went. Coursera is another great option if you've never heard of it, you can finish the courses at your own speed and generally they are supposed to be a month long but you can do them in a week if you focus on them 8 hours a day. They will give you a certificate at the end you can attach to your resume. Here's a link. https://www.coursera.org/learn/network-security Other than that, look into PC repair best practices and things to do in order to diagnose a failed machine if it happens to you. For example, I have fried two PSUs by folding on my 4090 24/7 in Linux. The first was because of very bad practice on my part, fiance pointed it out to me more than once and I ignored her, well I fried that power supply because I didn't listen. More recently, about two months ago I woke up and checked my rig, I had left it folding overnight but it was off. Power button did nothing. I/O shield RGB lighting and RAM lighting was on, but it didn't boot or even turn on and spin fans. We thought maybe a cable came loose and was causing a short and needed reseating. So we went through every cable connection point in the system while trying to power it on, but nothing worked. Then someone in discord recommended hooking up another power supply, just the 24-pin and CPU EPS 8-pins and see if it would boot. We did that and it booted right up, so we figured out it had a bad PSU. No cables were damaged or melted. Learn all the common diagnostic tricks, like booting with 1 stick of memory, etc. Deductive reasoning goes very far here.

I'm going to have to be the detractor here, and say I just bought a 9950x, mainly for all the reasons I stated earlier in the thread in my last post. (Being unhappy with my 7900X3D that hasn't worked properly since last April) P.S THANK YOU @bridgypoo

I have a 7900X3D currently that has some glitch or defect that makes it not boost on the 2nd CCD for games that need frequency, or for enthusiast benchmarking on hwbot.org I *might* still get a 9950x. Reasons why. - 12 core to 16 core. - It would boost up to 5.7GHz for games that like frequency over L3 cache. The only game I really play is Forza Horizon 4 and 5 and I think they benefit from clock speed - It would boost to 5.7GHz for 3dmark which doesn't use 3D V-Cache or benefit from that at all and afaik in my experience none of the 3dmark benches ever made benefit from V-Cache. - I would also be able to run all the hwbot processor benchmarks on it. - If it runs cooler and is more energy efficient I would probably see higher boosts in the applications I mentioned with lower temps. - it might have a better IMC and allow me to OC my ram to 8000+. My current config is only stable with ram at 7600MHz, I can run 8000MHz for benching though. If my 2nd CCD didn't have this boost glitch where in Hwinfo64 on the desktop I see it boosting to 5650MHz but in any benchmark or under any single-thread load the 2nd CCD is stuck around 5150MHz, I wouldn't consider the 9950x.

Hmm, this might cause me to change my mind on getting a 9950x.

In bigred.

Yeah with the 4070ti and all the other cards you have, you could possibly run less (3-4) and keep up, and Linux Mint will help a LOT. Get the flatpak app called GreenWithEnvy if you use the GUI. Allows overclocking (assuming you set coolbits in xorg.conf) and shows power consumption as well as a bunch of different things. First you need to install flatpak: sudo apt install flatpak. Then Google and find the website with the flatpak app and download and install it. (Also: start effing benching with all the stuff you have for hwbot! Lol ) Cool that you've been to the rez before, I lived on one for a little while as a kid. Went to a school where my Dad was the principal. Had to only speak in Mohawk, which I didn't know. I learned some of it but at recess for example I needed to ask to go pee in Mohawk and I would ask in English, they would tell me what it is in Mohawk and I'd mimic it and it wasn't good enough meanwhile I'm about to piss my pants, lol. I want to go to Europe too, I also want to go to Japan for about the same amount of time. We aren't rich either, I only get GPU upgrades every 5 years or so. I will (hopefully) be getting a 9950x on Aug 15. My video game collection is worth 5 digits, but I got those games mostly one at a time since 2009.

560ti around then did like 10-12k PPD. Yes, you can beat me every foldathon using like 8-10 cards to beat my two Zen 5 is dropping shortly, and then there will be a 5090 at some point as well as a 9950X3D. I thought in the past you were saying you are going to basically upgrade once those parts are out, skipping a generation? If you're burnt out on PC stuff and want to take a vacation, where to? We need to get passports and travel to the Indian reservation in Canada where my father is buried, at His Majesty's Chapel of The Mohawks, for me to pay my respects. I have a ton of relatives there I've never met. But I am 1/8 Mohawk Native American or Indigenous so want to visit the rez. And of course, I also want to go to Japan. So where would you go? With what you've told me about your home theater setup, it seems to me you could probably upgrade to a 9950X3D and 5090 and still take a trip wherever you want

First of all, congrats bud! That's an achievement for sure! Second of all, yes what I'm running now and the points I get daily would blow my 28 year old mind. If you told me in 2011 that there will be a GPU capable of 38 million a day max in 2011 I wouldn't believe it. Back then, I ran a HD 6870 in the team competition for the Brass Bottom Boys team, and did 8000 points a day. I folded 24/7 for a year and got a postbit for it. Even a little later with fahcore a21 I think, my 7970 did 200k PPD a day, and my 290 Tri-X did like 250k. It's crazy nowadays, and once you get a 5090 it'll be even crazier and you'll kick my ass every foldathon.