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My 5950X has just arrived, what are the dos and don'ts for bios setup?

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As in the title my new 5950X has turned up and is waiting to be installed.

I am still quite new to AMD CPUs.

Are there any recommended BIOS settings that should be used with the 5950X to get the most out of it?

Thanks.:)
 
I'm not sure what everyone else is doing but I've found the less you mess with them the better the result!

Are you looking to overclock or just get max stock performance ie not a fixed clock?
 
All i did for my 5900x was set my ram from xmp 3200 c14 to manual 3800 cl16. PBO was good for benchmarking but for gaming max boost was 4.9Ghz with pbo on and off so i turned it off for now. I'm Waiting for the new bios with curve optimizer for my gigabyte Gaming 7 X470 motherboard.
 
Since Kaap has contributed so much useful information to the forums over the years i feel like he deserves an earnest answer.

Suggestion 1: all core overclocking is useless dont even try
Suggestion 2: update to the latest agesa 1.1.8.0, because curve optimization is the way to go
Suggestion 3: use OCCT to validate your overlcocks it has a nice feature to tell you exactly how many errors you are generating, i suggest to test at 1 thread, 2 threads, and 32 threads for no less than 10 minutes. For me validating 1 thread to run reliably with 0 errors has been the hardest

The tune i've ended up with so far is as follows, no gaurantee this is safe or the best

VDC offset +25mv
PBO Enabled
Fmax Disabled
Boost Override +50Mhz
Curve optimizer Negative offset all cores -5
 
Set it to defaults and go from there, not much else to say really other than make sure your BIOS supports the chip in question (flash it first if you have to) and your ram is compatible but I expect you've figured that out already.
 
Just leave everything at stock, except enable XMP/D.O.C.P. (more or less same thing but you might find it under either name in the BIOS). There's really little practical reason for messing around with the BIOS CPU settings unless you're running into hardware issues you need to work around which is hopefully not the case. The only real reasons to mess around with settings in there is if you're either tinkering for fun or into competitive benchmarking, in which case the correct answer would be "mess around with whatever option strikes your fancy".
 
It's been a bit of a learning curve for me too; 5900X owner. Ultimately, unless you're overclocking the CPU or RAM, default/auto seems to be the best option for everything.

A massive don't if you decide to OC your RAM. Don't use the AMD Overclocking menu for changing memory timings, the values are HEX values. Plenty of people out there thinking 14h is the same as 14. It is not! You will need a few settings in the AMD Overlocking menu, but just adjust your timings in your mobo manufacturer menu instead.
 
ToOo said:
Suggestion 2: update to the latest agesa 1.1.8.0, because curve optimization is the way to go
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How important is this? I'm not sure my vendor has even released a 1.1.8.0 version ... There's a beta version with SAM support (not relevant to me), but it doesn't mention an updated AGESA, and the stable version is on 1.1.0.0.

Just gotta wait I guess. My punishment for buying the 'budget' x570 :)
 
Jimmy Weirdarms said:
How important is this? I'm not sure my vendor has even released a 1.1.8.0 version ... There's a beta version with SAM support (not relevant to me), but it doesn't mention an updated AGESA, and the stable version is on 1.1.0.0.

Just gotta wait I guess. My punishment for buying the 'budget' x570 :)
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I've got a Gigabyte X570 AORUS Master and I'm waiting on it too.
 
ToOo said:
Since Kaap has contributed so much useful information to the forums over the years i feel like he deserves an earnest answer.

Suggestion 1: all core overclocking is useless dont even try
Suggestion 2: update to the latest agesa 1.1.8.0, because curve optimization is the way to go
Suggestion 3: use OCCT to validate your overlcocks it has a nice feature to tell you exactly how many errors you are generating, i suggest to test at 1 thread, 2 threads, and 32 threads for no less than 10 minutes. For me validating 1 thread to run reliably with 0 errors has been the hardest

The tune i've ended up with so far is as follows, no gaurantee this is safe or the best

VDC offset +25mv
PBO Enabled
Fmax Disabled
Boost Override +50Mhz
Curve optimizer Negative offset all cores -5
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Why is allcore useless?

I'm running all core 4.6Ghz no issue and once i get a hold of my delayed Dark Hero I'll also get the benefit of D-OC which offers up max single core as well.
 
Voxer said:
Why is allcore useless?

I'm running all core 4.6Ghz no issue and once i get a hold of my delayed Dark Hero I'll also get the benefit of D-OC which offers up max single core as well.
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It's not useless. You still get higher all core clock than with PBO2/curve optimizer - you just miss out on 5ghz single core, so depends what you value more.
 
Grim5 said:
It's not useless. You still get higher all core clock than with PBO2/curve optimizer - you just miss out on 5ghz single core, so depends what you value more.
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Thing is the new Asus Hero Dark board offers Dynamic OC which is all the benefits of an all core OC that switches to pbo or stock for single core loads to get the high single core clocks clock when needed.

So it can be best of both worlds but not all games want high single core, some want multitudes of cores so a high clock all core OC would push that bery well not to mention how much better an all core OC is for applications.
 
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