3950x Owners thread

[Illuminist]

Couldn't see an owners thread so created one for us lucky ones to discuss our efforts and results with this monster.
I owned a 3900x before so also could do with some knowledge on how to get it running its best.

 

[Illuminist]

Good stuff, welcome mate!

Mine is running at all core 4.3ghz with 1.30v

Hello there!
I am currently running it 4.4ghz on 2 ccx and 4.3ghz on the other 2 at 1.3625v

I get 11500 multi on cpuz and 440 single, is that acceptable and sustainable?

 

[Illuminist]

I thought there would be more replies in this thread...these are crazy good CPUs

5.5ghz?

I need help getting mine stable, it's not quite the same as my 3900x.
I'm getting audio issues at the same settings I had for the other cpu.

 

[Illuminist]

Sound crackling? I am having that since I put a Navi in my system. Switching to pice-3 from 4 fixed the sound issue.

Thank you watt matt, That would be great if it solves it for me, but I have a pciex4 nvme...
Tbh I solved the sound crackling by increasing the chipset voltage, but I still have the really weird microphone issue, which is.
Everything fine until I run a game and then it turns to a robotic chipmunk to any one I talk to in any program, even if I record myself it is like this,
Quit the game and all is normal again. This only started when I upgraded my 3900x to 3950x

 

[Illuminist]

Glad you found a fix.
How much did you increase Chipset voltage too?
I tried up to 1.150v, but I had boot issues if I went higher.
Was not able to find a workaround yet for my sound issue other than what I mentioned. Even stock memory and IF at 1800Mhz didn’t help.

I went to 1.125v and 1.050 on the other one.
My cracking came back, so going to try the pciex3 method you suggested

 

[Illuminist]

Still can't figure out why my mic goes chipmunk when I run a game... Its really getting on my nerves, I can't talk to anyone on any software when a game is running

 

[Illuminist]

X570 gig ultra

 

[Illuminist]

Try switching audio quality in windows to "CD quality". < not an actual "fix", but could be an effective work-around.

It doesn't effect the microphone in any way...
This is very strange

 

[Illuminist]

Have you tried using other USB ports ?

Okay so that worked, it detects it as samson mic 2 now and everything is great.... Thanks all for the help sorry it was such a simple Solution.
Simply unplugging and back in didn't work but a different input altogether solved it

 

[Illuminist]

Nice.

I was able to solve my sound crackling by connecting my speakers USB cable and audio cable to the monitor USB and cable connections. Looks like it was something to do with the USB ports and PCI-E 4.0.

For us both

 

[Illuminist]

No issues with sound here for my soundcard, speakers or USB headphones.

Maybe you guys are using the same motherboard? Mine is a ASUS X570 Formula

Only started when I swapped my 3900x to a 3950x
Gigabyte 570x ultra

 

[Illuminist]

haha i know that man - theres always Threadripper !! a new can of worms have been opened !!

Oh god... 64 cores 128 threads off uselessness I use for gaming.
Does feel good to see on cinebench 'better than 99%of results'
And even better to see the steam hardware that 0.05% have 16 cores...
Oh good I am sick, tech sick

 

[Illuminist]

Joined the 3950X owners club

Nice! Sicks teen coars!

 

[Illuminist]

Hi all little of topic but can I ask what rm you guys are using?

Thanks

Rm?

 

[Illuminist]

Trident z royal 4000 cl17 @ 3800mhz c14 with a 1:1 infinity fabric, how about you? What's up

 

[Illuminist]

Out with the "old"

And in with the new

I have joined the 3950x crew

Haha you did what I did, nicely done

 

[Illuminist]

Decided to try 'Per CCD' overclocking yesterday on my 3950x since at 1.2V I was maxing out at 4.25GHz all cores. I was able to run at higher frequencies but due to voltage the temps were getting higher than I liked.
1.2V seemed to be the sweet spot for me considering I run a lot of prolonged AVX tasks.
Anyways at the same voltage of 1.2V I was able to get CCD1 running stable at 4.325GHz whilst CCD2 was obviously the one initially holding it back.
This works out great since most AVX tasks tend to hammer CCD1 more so being able to clock that higher was a nice 'free' performance bump.

Air cooled or water?
I get maxes of 78.c if i ccx oc to 4.4 all cores and ccx1 4.5ghz at 1.3625

 

[Illuminist]

I'm using the Asrock Aqua motherboard...
I'm not experienced with AMD overclocking, so either the bios on the motherboard is completely out of whack or I'm missing something? Is the 78c under benchmarks or gaming? I'm doing a lot of H264 and H265 video encoding which use AVX.
I've already removed the waterblock and reapplied it with no changes in temps. Under load CCD1 seems about 6-7c hotter than CCD2.
I remember when I first started using the board CPU temps were a bit better but they spiked up when I started clocking my 4x8GB RAM kit at 3600Mhz.
Although I am in Australia and ambient temps are generally quite high but even with the air conditioning running it's still not 'Cold'. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

That's 78.c under stress on cinebench. But don't run that speed anymore, I am on all core 4.4 at 1.35v and games hit 60 stress is 73ish, I have a 2080ti in the loop with a 240 and 360 rad

Do you turn precision boost off? Do you set the v core manually?

 

[Illuminist]

After all the reading online and looking at bench marks and peoples struggles to overclock the 3950x I am glad I waited before jumping on the amd band wagon once more. its no doubt AMD's best CPU to date, unless we talk thread ripper of course but the 3950x is no reason for me to update from a 9900k at 5.1ghz stable 24/7
I really wanted to switch back to AMD but the advantages and overclock headroom are small and in gaming terms no advantage at all. In multithreaded applications the 3950X scores very well, but iam not encoding 24/7 or running benchmarks to that affect, I surf, watch a few movies, bit of photoshop when needed and game.
it seems very very few of the AMD 3950x chips clock very well at all, AMD have set them close to there limit to begin with. Intels X299 boards are showing there age so I don't see that as an upgrade path either and will no doubt be replaced soon offering more onboard advantages motherboard wise like the new AMD boards with 4gen PCie configs.

I will have to wait until the next round of CPU's to get real term performance increase's worth the investment in upgrading M/board CPU and now doubt ram and CPU water block along with it.


Just my personal view, nothing against AMD or there user's. for me the long awaited AMD revolution just wasn't there.

Mine overclocks like a monster I can run it 4.7ghz 4 cores and 4.5ghz the other 12 if I wanted, beats a 9700k in single threaded

 

[Illuminist]

Hi all,

How are you cooling your 3950x? Planning a build and looking at a coirsair 360 aio.

Custom water loop, hitting 4.5ghz on 4 cores.4.4ghz on the rest all the time