£1850 Budget for Gaming Rig, Monitor snd Rift Bundle.

orbitalwalsh · 15 Jan 2018 at 18:54

When you install a program it'll ask you which drive you want to save it to.

Steam also works the same, but you can either install that to HDD or SSD and it'll start to save games automatically to that given drive. You can move games around or tell it to install in another drive , buts that's another topic and Google

Now to install CPUz, latest version off Google . Check it, then restart into bios and enable XMP , and check CPUz to see if it's working .
Ram speed is reports at have the memory speed - DDR = double data rate, so CPUz picks it up as single, and just times it by Two

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Bios reads it at its double state

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:06

I installed RealBench and run a 15 minute stress test at 8gb, it kept closing the program when I selected 16gb.

I just said "Result Hatch Match" and Stress Test pass, have I done this correctly? @orbitalwalsh

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:07

orbitalwalsh said:
When you install a program it'll ask you which drive you want to save it to.

Steam also works the same, but you can either install that to HDD or SSD and it'll start to save games automatically to that given drive. You can move games around or tell it to install in another drive , buts that's another topic and Google

Now to install CPUz, latest version off Google . Check it, then restart into bios and enable XMP , and check CPUz to see if it's working .
Ram speed is reports at have the memory speed - DDR = double data rate, so CPUz picks it up as single, and just times it by Two .
Bios reads it at its double state

I will do this now!

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:24

orbitalwalsh said:
When you install a program it'll ask you which drive you want to save it to.

Steam also works the same, but you can either install that to HDD or SSD and it'll start to save games automatically to that given drive. You can move games around or tell it to install in another drive , buts that's another topic and Google

Now to install CPUz, latest version off Google . Check it, then restart into bios and enable XMP , and check CPUz to see if it's working .
Ram speed is reports at have the memory speed - DDR = double data rate, so CPUz picks it up as single, and just times it by Two .
Bios reads it at its double state

Ok, so i downloaded CPUz and then went in to the BIOS and enabled XMP. I then saved the settings and went.back to CPUz but i dont know what im.checking for?

orbitalwalsh · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:25

It's under memory

I think you got ,3200hz kit ? Will state 1600hz speed or around it

I run at 8gb and select 30mins to 2 hours.
Also run the bench mark once and don't touch the mouse !

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:27

Also, what do I need to do to set up memory? @orbitalwalsh ?

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:28

orbitalwalsh said:
It's under memory

I think you got ,3200hz kit ? Will state 1600hz speed or around it

DRAM = 15962, is this all good? Do I need to disable XMP now?

orbitalwalsh · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:28

leeince said:
Also, what do I need to do to set up memory? @orbitalwalsh ?

You've enabled xmp to ram should be working at 3200

leeince said:
DRAM = 15962, is this all good? Do I need to disable XMP now?

It's working ! No need to disable, leave it enabled
Run RealBench again, 30 mins

Technically you don't, but hammer in good practices .
Then it's only fun overclocking the CPU...

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:35

orbitalwalsh said:
You've enabled xmp to ram should be working at 3200

It's working ! No need to disable, leave it enabled
Run RealBench again, 30 mins

Technically you don't, but hammer in good practices .
Then it's only fun overclocking the CPU...

Is it ok running Realbenach at 8gb, it shuts down if I select 16?

orbitalwalsh · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:38

leeince said:
Is it ok running Realbenach at 8gb, it shuts down if I select 16?

Can't remember if you bought 8 GB or 16GB ?

Saw it was 16GB in your list . Maybe just it's using the full 16GB , which wouldn't be available as 1.5gb normally used by OS. Will come back to it after OC .
Long as it passes 30mins with 8gn currently

Plec · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:44

Looking good guys.

And still, Bleah! to app centre.

Nice one orbital/leeince - you're almost at the stage of 'using and abusing'.

orbitalwalsh · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:46

Plec said:
Looking good guys.

And still, Bleah! to app centre.

Nice one orbital/leeince - you're almost at the stage of 'using and abusing'.

Trying now to remember the top of my head , over safe 3.7ghz overclock on the board .....

*******

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 @ x38.25 / 3825 Mhz
Dynamic Vcore (DVID) offset @ +0.078V (1.332V HWMonitor)
Dynamic VCORE SOC (DVID) offset @ +0.258V(1.116V HWMonitor)
DRAM Voltage (CH A/B) @ 1.380V

Most likely daily down CPU ratio to 37 instead of 38.25 above
Dynamic Vcore to +0.070

Worth watching some YouTube videos , specially for Gigabyte /Aorus boards for Ryzen 1600

Plec · 15 Jan 2018 at 19:53

orbitalwalsh said:
Trying now to remember the top of my head , over safe 3.7ghz overclock on the board .....

Personally, i would get him stable at stock and let him 'use and abuse' for week. Make sure the memory holds at 3200MHz, without any cold boot issues, and then introduce a clock.

He's going to be chuffed with a first build under his belt, with relatively little drama (kettle lead), up and running and hopefully with no DOA parts.

Result!

orbitalwalsh · 15 Jan 2018 at 20:05

Plec said:
Personally, i would get him stable at stock and let him 'use and abuse' for week. Make sure the memory holds at 3200MHz, without any cold boot issues, and then introduce a clock.

He's going to be chuffed with a first build under his belt, with relatively little drama (kettle lead), up and running and hopefully with no DOA parts.

Result!

Ah yes, true. Ram sticks should be plug and play but cpu luck might be low.

As plec has mentioned ... Cold boot.

Now that you've go ram running 3200hz on stock CPU speed , and stable with RealBench .
Maybe Cinebench is that was on the list .

Your going to want to power the rig down, turn off at the wall/PSU switch and give it a few mins.
Turn power on and turn in the system .
You'll be looking for if the PC resets it's self once or a few times or goes straight into BIOS with boot error.
Once in windows, check cpuz if ram is still running 3200hz.
Should boot straight into windows or maybe reboot it's self once and into windows with correct speed

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 20:13

@orbitalwalsh @Plec

Weve passed the 30 minute 8gb realbench test!!im going to do the power down thing above now and see what happen, inwill report back!

Cheers again guys!!!

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 20:18

Plec said:
Looking good guys.

And still, Bleah! to app centre.

Nice one orbital/leeince - you're almost at the stage of 'using and abusing'.

Cheers mate, app centre was doing my swede in earlier, multiple uninstalls and reinstalls done the trick and it allowed me to.update the bios with no grief so worth it!!

Plec · 15 Jan 2018 at 20:29

leeince said:
Cheers mate, app centre was doing my swede in earlier, multiple uninstalls and reinstalls done the trick and it allowed me to.update the bios with no grief so worth it!!

All, i got from that was you updated your BIOS via the Window's environment, on a virgin setup :eek:

/fingers in ears - lah lah lah lah lah lah!

Worked out though - so congrats and PHEW! Look up Q-Flash for next time - a much safer environment for wiping and reinstalling your motherboard's brain.

Kudos, @orbitalwalsh for sticking with it while working - it's tough to keep track when multitasking isn't it?

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 20:32

orbitalwalsh said:
Ah yes, true. Ram sticks should be plug and play but cpu luck might be low.

As plec has mentioned ... Cold boot.

Now that you've go ram running 3200hz on stock CPU speed , and stable with RealBench .
Maybe Cinebench is that was on the list .

Your going to want to power the rig down, turn off at the wall/PSU switch and give it a few mins.
Turn power on and turn in the system .
You'll be looking for if the PC resets it's self once or a few times or goes straight into BIOS with boot error.
Once in windows, check cpuz if ram is still running 3200hz.
Should boot straight into windows or maybe reboot it's self once and into windows with correct speed

Shutdown the computer, switch off at the wall and the PSU. Left 5 or 10 minutes and turned it all back on again.

Checked CPUz and memory still at 1596.2

Are we sorted? Was the XMP setting up the memory from the list?

leeince · 15 Jan 2018 at 20:38

Plec said:
All, i got from that was you updated your BIOS via the Window's environment, on a virgin setup

/fingers in ears - lah lah lah lah lah lah!

Worked out though - so congrats and PHEW! Look up Q-Flash for next time - a much safer environment for wiping and reinstalling your motherboard's brain.

Kudos, @orbitalwalsh for sticking with it while working - it's tough to keep track when multitasking isn't it?

Sounds terrible when you put it like that ha ha!!

You boys have been mustard, i better download some games to try out!!! Any recommendations??

orbitalwalsh · 15 Jan 2018 at 20:42

Recommended 3D mark FireStrike...

BF1 and COD WW2 if you like your FPS . Overwatch if you like fast team play pew pew