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1700 overclocking + temps

doodah

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A couple of things with my 1700. It's currently running at 3.9 but it appears to stay at this speed 24/7. I have tried playing with pstates but never get anywhere and this solution seems outdated since the introduction of the 'Ryzen Balanced Power Plan'. However, changing this has no effect either. Google gives me conflicting information, there must be a simple way to only run at 3.9 when under load.

Next issue are temps but I wonder if this is related. My idles are all over the place. On a really good day it may be in the high 30s but quite often it will be in the 40/50s and CAM pops up with a notification saying it topped 84 - yet I have never witnessed this myself particularly while gaming. And while gaming, my load temps are usually in the 60s which seem reasonable. So I wonder if the OC is causing high idle temps but reasonable load temps?

1700/CH6/Trident 16GB 3200 CL14
 
Ah I see and this is better than pstates? Shouldn't a feature like this be the norm? My former 3570K managed to cope just fine lol.
 
If that's the case, there is something seriously wrong with my temps then. What's weirder is how loads are fine but idles are way too high. I am pretty sure I checked the offset thing in the BIOS as well.
 
Checked the Sense MI option, it seems for non-X chips it should remain on auto/master. Plus, Ryzen Master is also reporting the temps. I have tried bringing down the clock speed/voltage which doesn't seem to be it either, the warmer weather is making it harder to figure it out. A cold boot will idle in the low 40s, but 5 minutes after playing PUBG it's jumping from the mid 40s to low 50s (down to 3.8GHz @ 1.3125). I wonder if it's a contact issue?

Edit - running PUBG now - mid 50s :confused:
 
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Isn't AVX a CPU instruction set?

All your temps in recent posts sound fine and my load temps seem fine also. The weird part is why there is such little difference between my idle and load temps? I will try and set the offset to the figure mentioned a few posts up.
 
Well I have made progress but also encountered a new problem :o.

Trying 3.8 @ 1.33 which seems fine and I sorted the issue with it running all core turbo even at idle, by resetting the power plan modes (as it wouldn't let me change it). On 'Windows Balanced', the Ryzen option has gone. So my idle temps are a lot better and it downclocks. However I now seem to get higher load temps :p. A simple R15 run will shoot the CPU temp into the 70s which it never did before. I noticed my AIO wasn't ramping up under load and tried again with the fans/pump on high and got the same temps.

Ryzen Master and HWinfo are reporting the same temps so don't think it's the offset issue as I seemingly didn't have that before. Still tinkering but any ideas?
 
The plot thickens. I just ran Unigine and Afterburner reported CPU temps of around 50C but it looked like CAM was reporting higher, as it was still well above 50C ramping down after the benchmark finished.

Edit - updating the chipset drivers seems to have restored Ryzen Balanced. So the idle temps are back to their higher than usual temps and load just went up to >90C within a few seconds of an R15 run :(.
 
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Just like Jay and Linus, should own up to monumentally silly computer mistakes.

The weird thing is, I am pretty sure my first iteration of this issue wasn't caused by this as I remember having control of my fans in CAM.

Basically the USB2 header on the mobo had become dislodged :o:o:o:o (this sole header powered an internal USB header hub), though my fans were strangely still spinning and lighting up.

I have mentioned to a friend whilst playing PUBG with him since getting the V56, how quiet my PC was now :p. Hardly surprising when my AIO or case fans weren't spinning beyond whatever idle mode they were on, shooting my CPU temps to nearly 3 digits (and all of the PUBG crashes in the last few weeks).

I think I need to give proper attention to my cable management one weekend :D.
 
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