Soldato
Ahh that makes more sense. I should go back to bed
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**AMD 5700 X3D Owners CLub**
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Soldato
I've just bitten on one of these, given the price they are going for, upgrading from a 2700x.
Given I typically play at 1920x1200, with everything maxed out / RT on etc with a RTX 4060ti 8GB and a 60hz monitor with vsync, and typically a small number of single player games, I haven't really been encountering much in the way of CPU bottlenecks that bothered me to date.
This will be pretty much my first CPU upgrade ever where it wasn't driven by gaming framerate getting to the point of being painfully unplayable. I guess I no longer have the time to tweak, test or spend time rebuilding PCs and I'd rather things just work for as long as possible with the least effort possible. My view is it will allow me to stay on my current AM4 platform for much longer, perhaps with a later move from 16GB to 32GB RAM if I find myself playing something that calls for it.
Given I typically play at 1920x1200, with everything maxed out / RT on etc with a RTX 4060ti 8GB and a 60hz monitor with vsync, and typically a small number of single player games, I haven't really been encountering much in the way of CPU bottlenecks that bothered me to date.
This will be pretty much my first CPU upgrade ever where it wasn't driven by gaming framerate getting to the point of being painfully unplayable. I guess I no longer have the time to tweak, test or spend time rebuilding PCs and I'd rather things just work for as long as possible with the least effort possible. My view is it will allow me to stay on my current AM4 platform for much longer, perhaps with a later move from 16GB to 32GB RAM if I find myself playing something that calls for it.
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Aye, the Corsair ones are pretty crap.
Got one of these now but awaiting the new cooler to arrive.
To check the CPU actually works etc. without putting any load on it other than BIOS and desktop with something like CPU-Z, any reason I couldn't use the current cooler briefly, which is a Wraith Spire?
To check the CPU actually works etc. without putting any load on it other than BIOS and desktop with something like CPU-Z, any reason I couldn't use the current cooler briefly, which is a Wraith Spire?
thats because you cant,,, it locked if you try to oc it drops to its base clocks
you can chance the base clock to like 102
that'll be fine.
Do these still allow you adjust PBO?
I thought that was the only real way to achieve an 'overclock' anyway by adjusting PBO and undervolting?
yes, but only a little as it affects other parts of the system too
It depends on the board but mostly yes, increasing the BCLK will make things like the PCI-Express run faster which can introduce graphics stability. Some have experienced issues with NVME drives.
From a tiny read around a while back most B550 boards are OK with mild BCLK clocks. X570 chipsets really don't like it and struggle past 102. I think Buildzoid had a B550 running over 110 at some point without issues.
I've got a 103 BCLK so far as I was trying to get the RAM speed back up to 1900MHz.
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Nonsense.
i have to be honest Corsair let you monitor coolant temp. my new AF3 is becoming a bit of a pain in the ass to set up for gaming
Soldato
got my 5700x3d form china today night and day over my 3600 . What a bargain at a £140 . Throne and Liberty plays so much better its like I have a whole new PC 
Soldato
I wouldn't be buying into AM4 at this point, 5700X3D is a nice Hail Mary if you are already on the platform; but makes a lot less sense to replatform onto - unless you are jonesing around for 2nd hand motherboards and have some decently clocked DDR4 to transpose. A big part of the value proposition for this is that it's just a straight CPU swap so you dont have to spend hours dicking about swapping motherboard etc. For me personally, it'll be relatively cheap to do after I flip my existing 12 core and keep me going until AM6.
I'm moving my living room rig (which is my main gaming machine these days) from AM4 to AM5. The old AM4 bits are ITX though and I don't really want to repurpose the ITX setup. Resale on it is quite good though by the looks.
I doubt you'd see much difference except in synthetic benchmarks. Almost likely not worth paying much extra (I'd probably accept a 10% increase but after not worth it for the extra few if any frames).
It's quite likely with a little extra voltage and decent case airflow you could run the CL18 sticks at CL16 if you really wanted to.
X3D really makes super tight timings less relevant now.
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I think it was HUB that did a memory scaling video and X3D doesnt care as much about fast RAM, a few percent maybe. Take a look but personally I'd go with 32GB 3600 CL18 for £50
They did mention in a recent video that they were gping to do another video on the subject.
They did mention in a recent video that they were gping to do another video on the subject.