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5800x stability issues

shipped it back to Overclockers this afternoon, crossing my fingers for a prompt and trouble-free replacement :)


glad to see the back of it to be honest. I know every product has an occasional dud but working through so many combinations of settings, all the testing and crashing, the wasted money on a new PSU and the countless hours farting around has kinda put me off AMD stuff. If / when a working replacement arrives I'll probably feel differently - it was *very* fast (in between the crashes).

Thanks for all the support here guys, it's really appreciated
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Dont need to go by powergpu, just the threads in here is enough
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Yeah, because a handful of threads in 1 forum which 75% of the time boil down to user error is really indicative of massive and rampant hardware failures and incompetence by AMD.

Jog the fudge on, pal.
 
why you so hurt about it? cant handle the truth? just google "zen 3 failure rate" and see what you get. no need to become a fan boy and defend AMD.
 
relax fellas. This thread isn't for arguing about whether Zen3 has a high failure rate, it's for soothing my frayed nerves and consoling me because I appear to have got a duff one
 
Really? You're going there? You're going down the fanboi mudslinging route just because somebody disagreed with you?
Cyber-Mav said:
just google "zen 3 failure rate" and see what you get
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Yes, I have. Repeatedly. And everything I actually read says overblown clickbait because 1 single AMD partner had a weird number of failures. A partner who subsequently deleted their tweets about it after literally everybody else reported and investigated no issues.

So tell me, what have YOU actually read, or did you just search for it and see the top 100 results all rehashing the exact same story? Not sure how doing a bit of reading makes me "hurt" and AMD fanboi, but it's funny how it's only the pathetic Intel shills make those accusations the second their poor attempts at AMD baiting get called out and disproven.

So like I said previously, jog the fudge on, pal.
 
jim_britton said:
relax fellas. This thread isn't for arguing about whether Zen3 has a high failure rate, it's for soothing my frayed nerves and consoling me because I appear to have got a duff one
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And somebody banging on about high failure rates that just don't exist, and then accusing people of being hurt AMD fanbois when that bogus information is countered isn't going to do your nerves any good.

Yeah, it does seem like yours was off. Don't let it put you off AMD kit though, it's far superior to anything Intel have for now and for the foreseeable future. Let us know what happens with the replacement.
 
maybe a bit premature to talk about the effect of a replacement - I expect OC will test it first, and given the difficulties I've had getting it to misbehave in synthetic stress tests / benchmarks (despite the endless crashing in games), I'm really dreading a "we tested it and it's fine, we're posting it back" email. I expect my nerves will remain frayed for a few more days. In the mean time please stop bickering about failure rates :)
 
jim_britton said:
maybe a bit premature to talk about the effect of a replacement - I expect OC will test it first, and given the difficulties I've had getting it to misbehave in synthetic stress tests / benchmarks (despite the endless crashing in games), I'm really dreading a "we tested it and it's fine, we're posting it back" email. I expect my nerves will remain frayed for a few more days. In the mean time please stop bickering about failure rates :)
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If they say it's fine then just RMA directly to AMD.
 
Quick update on this unfortunate and frustrating little adventure.

I sent it for RMA to OC on Monday evening, they received it on Wednesday and now, 2 days later, I've just finished a quick test of its replacement. It's still early days - I need a good long Dirt Rally 2 VR session to establish whether the replacement works better than the original (and I'm supposed to be working). So i'll hold off calling the problem "fixed" until I can put the testing time in.

However, I have to give credit where it's due. OCUK have been supportive and brilliant throughout. The responses to my emails have been quick and helpful, the returns process (pre-paid DPD drop off at my local shop) is spot on, and the turnaround time was great. It's the smoothest and fastest RMA experience I've ever had and after disappointment and frustration of troubleshooting the CPU, to get such fast and hastle free service when it actually came to the RMA is refreshing. So thanks OCUK, it's really appreciated. Hopefully the replacement is a winner :)
 
I now have the same setup 5800x, Msi pro-a motherboard and Corsair Vengeance LPX black 32gb 3600mhz.

I have the same problem its the motherboard mate. To tell the truth its crap, cannot enable XMP, the bios is well not very good to say the least.
Built it and it worked but as soon as XMP was enabled it was bricked.
The bios flash usb is so slow I have tried a number of bois updates but no luck. I have yet to see my memory do 3600mhz, a pipe dream with this motherboard.

Also them temps with the 5800x its one hot cpu thats for sure.
 
itchy said:
I now have the same setup 5800x, Msi pro-a motherboard and Corsair Vengeance LPX black 32gb 3600mhz.

I have the same problem its the motherboard mate. To tell the truth its crap, cannot enable XMP, the bios is well not very good to say the least.
Built it and it worked but as soon as XMP was enabled it was bricked.
The bios flash usb is so slow I have tried a number of bois updates but no luck. I have yet to see my memory do 3600mhz, a pipe dream with this motherboard.

Also them temps with the 5800x its one hot cpu thats for sure.
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I had lots of xmp/docp issues with some 32gb 3600 patriot ram and it all disappeared when I picked up some crucial ballistics. Timings are much tighter too. I think the platform is just very picky about ram.

Ive got a dark rock pro 4 which admittedly is quite 'high end' but I've never seen it go above 70 in games or CAD work. Worst I saw was 81 in cinebench r23 multi-core. It does seem like some people have hotter chips but I think it's hard to say without knowing case/ cooler/ambient temp/ cable management conditions.
 
while I know the MSI x570 pro-a isn't the best motherboard on the market, it's isn't crap. It's just OK.

Having said that, I'd be quite willing to admit defeat and replace it if it turned out to be the culprit - it works well with my 3700x so could be used in another system. However, since installing the replacement CPU I've not had a single crash while gaming. So I'm increasingly confident (but still not 100% sure) that the issue was the CPU, not the mobo, and changing the CPU has fixed it. It's stable with PBO and XMP on (3600 ram / 1800 IF) with no voltage tweaks at all (LLC, idle voltage, core c-states, etc etc all at default / auto)
 
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