• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

x3d turbo (gigabyte) cpu usage

Associate
Joined
9 Nov 2019
Posts
48
so with x3d turbo mode the cpu usage was almost maxed out with the 9800x3d causing black ops 6 to stutter and packet loss (strange). i disabled x3d turbo mode and it halfed it and didnt go above 72%usage while gaming. seems fine and no difference in performance ,all temps seemed fine.
 
Last edited:
is that with the new bios 32e that says

  1. Checksum : 4F76
  2. Update AMD AGESA 1.2.0.2a for Ryzen 9000 X3D CPU performance optimized
  3. Add X3D Turbo Mode support
  4. Now system will ask if user wants to enable X3D Turbo Mode or not at the first boot of X3D CPU is installed
tho ur mb bios may differ slightly as thats for b650 gaming x ax but hopefully urs has one similar?

Edit - urs would be the

F3f
  1. Checksum : 79F6
  2. Update AMD AGESA 1.2.0.2a for Ryzen 9000 X3D CPU performance optimized
  3. Add X3D Turbo Mode support and needed work to enable indicator feature under AORUS AI SNATCH
  4. Now system will ask if user wants to enable X3D Turbo Mode or not at the first boot of X3D CPU is installed
  5. Add EZ-OC support for AORUS x XPG co-branding DRAM

I presume, tho if its messing up with that bios then maybe need to wait for next bios to fix it?
 
Last edited:
so with x3d turbo mode the cpu usage was almost maxed out with the 9800x3d causing black ops 6 to stutter and packet loss (strange). i disabled x3d turbo mode and it halfed it and didnt go above 72%usage while gaming. seems fine and no difference in performance ,all temps seemed fine.
That's just because that option is disabling SMT so the CPU cores are more utilised. Windows makes its percentage calculation based on the number of threads and with SMT disabled all 8 cores will often be almost maxed and close to 100%. When SMT is enabled and there are 16 threads they are rarely maxed out and there are threads available for background processes.

I think that option should be left disabled for pretty much everyone because it will reduce performance most of the time. Any performance gain in a game would often result in lost performance for background processes.
 
Last edited:
Yea, this feature is quite pointless even in theory
Disabling SMT achieves two main goals. Each core has a slightly bigger power budget [per thread] so it could boost higher
And there is more raw CPU power available per thread when nothing else is running on that core. So the main game thread should have less interruption.

But 9800X3D is never power limited in games. And dropping it from 16 to 8 threads can be more limiting like in OP.

It might make more sense on 16 core part. Power limit is more pronounced there, and 16 threads are enough for pretty much any game.
 
When I get mine I'm pretty sure I'm just gonna keep SMT on.... since it's not a Pentium D trying to....

 
gigabyte x870e aorus elite wifi7, running 6000 expo
I got a question for you. I have the aorus pro which is similar to yours. How do you get it to work. What I mean is mine had no network drivers installed and the wifi needs to be installed. So I used my other PC to download the drivers for the wifi and network drivers and when I install them nothing at all happens.

Windows 10 or windows 11 it doesn't matter which it won't let me connect my home wifi or my phone as a hotspot. I have a temporary cpu in there and waiting on a 9800x3d to arrive but I can't really do anything with the setup when it won't let me connect to wi fi
 
I got a question for you. I have the aorus pro which is similar to yours. How do you get it to work. What I mean is mine had no network drivers installed and the wifi needs to be installed. So I used my other PC to download the drivers for the wifi and network drivers and when I install them nothing at all happens.

Windows 10 or windows 11 it doesn't matter which it won't let me connect my home wifi or my phone as a hotspot. I have a temporary cpu in there and waiting on a 9800x3d to arrive but I can't really do anything with the setup when it won't let me connect to wi fi
That's strange. Do you see the WiFi networks and just can't join or is the adapter not working at all? If it's not working at all are you sure you enabled the WiFi card in the BIOS?
I had a really buggy WiFi and Bluetooth card on my Asus PN50 mini PC that sometimes just used to bug out and I had to fully shut down the PC and pull the power. I think it was down to a buggy BIOS which they eventually fixed.
 
That's strange. Do you see the WiFi networks and just can't join or is the adapter not working at all? If it's not working at all are you sure you enabled the WiFi card in the BIOS?
I had a really buggy WiFi and Bluetooth card on my Asus PN50 mini PC that sometimes just used to bug out and I had to fully shut down the PC and pull the power. I think it was down to a buggy BIOS which they eventually fixed.
I don’t see any networks at all. Not even the next door neighbours it just say no internet, nothing else. I have put in a RMA and ordered another board
 
I got a question for you. I have the aorus pro which is similar to yours. How do you get it to work. What I mean is mine had no network drivers installed and the wifi needs to be installed. So I used my other PC to download the drivers for the wifi and network drivers and when I install them nothing at all happens.

Windows 10 or windows 11 it doesn't matter which it won't let me connect my home wifi or my phone as a hotspot. I have a temporary cpu in there and waiting on a 9800x3d to arrive but I can't really do anything with the setup when it won't let me connect to wi fi
had this on my last windows 10 install with the drivers thankfully the children had laptops , have you tried it with a cable ?
 
its silly, but did you connect the external wifi antenna?
Yes I did. I thought it might have not stuck it in properly so I removed and replugged it back in. I like the look of the board and tbh I wonder if the 7800x3d seems to be half decent clocker in terms of undervolting could be largely due to the board. Even though my main board of choice is Asus I fancied a change this time round and I have found it fairly easy to get on with for the most part and would like to keep it. As a last ditch attempt I am gonna run a stupidly long ethernet cable and see what's what. If it work then it is easy to work around if not it is going back ASAP. And i will just go back to using Asus boards.
 
Back
Top Bottom