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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

That's really great performance! You can pretty much say you've bested that game in terms of CPU requirements. :cool:

You're going to need a new challenge.
Yeah, GPU utilisation is right up there, not quite at 99% but it's high enough that it's probably not the best CPU benchmark anymore. Probably need to drop down to 720P or lower.
 
Yeah that’s a solid base and similar to me though I have -30. Had zero crashes in any stability test or game so far. You can try and muck around the memory timings if you like.

My i7 12700k used to boil my old 240 AIO so much so that I could fry an egg on the case roof. Ok it wasn’t that bad but you get the picture. Now on my new build - albeit in a new case with a new AIO - the air coming out the top is barely warm while gaming.

Really happy with mine. As always, an initial learning curve when you swap ecosystems but now mine is stable, looking forward to plugging a 5090 in next year! My bank isn’t looking forward to the -£2k or whatever it ends up as though…
 
So just got my CPU this week and getting back into OC

I assume PBO is good for beginners and doing the following is right

PBO enabled +200mhz -20 on the curve and x10 on the scaler

CD23 is reporting 23800 pts and temps 82 with a AIO in a mini-its build
Try -025 or -30 PBO and set +200Mhz for max boost override, scalar x10, and set PBO limits to Enabled. This should pretty much max out performance using PBO and you'll get clock speeds up to 5.425Ghz. A real quick and easy overclock that should be plug and play on all samples.
 
Managed to snag one of the few that went up yesterday so I've got one on its way to me tomorrow I believe. Should teach me for holding fire on release.

Thought about waiting till post Christmas and hoping for a better price again but to be honest I'll just drink one or two fewer pints at the various pub trips over the next month and a bit and that'll easily offset the difference :p
 
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Does anyone know if this CPU can boot in a Tomahawk X870 board, on the default factory bios?

So I know if I can at least get into M-flash or not.

Got the board already, the CPU is out of stock everywhere here (Belgium).
 
what are your cpu over clock settings? I'm getting 250 fps but have 3090. At 1080p low I thought it would not use the gpu as much but i see it at 98% usage.
For the run below, I was running 5.8Ghz. I'm not sure what I ran back then, but it was lower. Probably 5.7Ghz or so.

cc @Robert896r1 @Poneros

With a 9800X3D, you might be a little bit GPU bound in this at 1080P low. Probably need a 4090 or better. 5090 will help the 9800X3D stretch its legs a little further.

If you want like for like, you need to select the 720P Laptop Standard preset and select full screen mode then run the bench. SMT Off should give up to 200 points extra score too in this particular bench.

I have observed that minimum FPS are higher on Windows 11, however the overall score is around 1K points lower on Windows 11.
 
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Anybody have a basic guide to X870E MSI Carbon BIOS to setup the 9800X3D with a 200mhz increase (PBO, curve, scaler settings and anything else important). I can find all settings but they are worded slightly different compared to ASUS BIOS for example and there are many other options (like 10 presets for PBO enabled).

Thanks
 
Anybody have a basic guide to X870E MSI Carbon BIOS to setup the 9800X3D with a 200mhz increase (PBO, curve, scaler settings and anything else important). I can find all settings but they are worded slightly different compared to ASUS BIOS for example and there are many other options (like 10 presets for PBO enabled).

Thanks
With AGESA bios features provided to manufacturers by AMD directly the options are the same across boards, just the location and setting names might be different, but I'll get you some screenshots of PBO settings to start with in this specific BIOS/BOARD
 
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Anybody have a basic guide to X870E MSI Carbon BIOS to setup the 9800X3D with a 200mhz increase (PBO, curve, scaler settings and anything else important). I can find all settings but they are worded slightly different compared to ASUS BIOS for example and there are many other options (like 10 presets for PBO enabled).

Thanks
Popped this in the boards thread:

 
@LtMatt any word if GB boards are good for oc or still clowny? Was looking at Pro ICE for IO
I've never used one to be honest, Robert. I tried an MSI board once, B Grade from OcuK, that was enough to remind me never to switch from Asus. I can't really offer any recommendations on alternatives unfortunately.
 
X870E MSI CARBON. Tried PBO enable, +200mhz ,-30 curve, x10 scaler.

CB23 no change 22960 multi, CPU speed still 5.2Ghz, temps up about 8-9 deg C, now max 87 Deg C.

Something I'm missing in BIOS or forgot, or this is normal?

Cheers
 
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X870E MSI CARBON. Tried PBO enable, +200mhz ,-30 curve, x10 scaler.

CB23 no change 22960 multi, CPU speed still 5.2Ghz, temps up about 8-9 deg C, now max 87 Deg C.

Something I'm missing in BIOS or forgot, or this is normal?

Cheers
Some workloads will not hit all core max boost OC. You can check the max boost (and everything else) with hwinfo64 (just load sensors only)

Heavy use of power hungry instruction sets on a multi core workload will likely cap out at around 5.2Ghz with PBO, you'll need extreme overclocking techniques to push past that.

AM4 used to have a setting for this in the BIOS for AVX, I think it's probably just a default now (-200 with AVX+)
 
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