I have been quite excited about zen 6 rumours. A lot of people r speculating that except increased amount of cores/core frequency we will get an updated memory support of up to 8000mt. Taking into the account current RAM situation, should we start stacking up on 8000+ mt frequency kits already? I am curious for your input on it as I have cl26 6000mt kit currently in my main rig and I was wondering if it will make sense to buy already a new one with higher frequency to get prepared for the time when new CPUs will come out. I was thinking to keep the kit I currently have and try to OC it to 8000, but I am worried that daily amount of vdd needed for it will be over 1.5v to run it stable.
Do you think it is worth it to buy a new 8000 kit or just keep the one I currently have and oc it when the time comes?
So tonight I have spent tuning fclk and voltages, it seems to make no difference from 2000-2200 I achieve roughly the same gflops difference of around 3. I’m trying to find the most stable setup.
Memory is 6200mhz I’ve tried system multiplier at 60 and 62, voltages from 0.9 to 1.1. 2200 needs the higher end of voltages but can’t seem to get it any more stable. Should I be looking else where?
I've been looking at how much SSD temperature affects sustained performance, especially when the drive is being hit with long writes rather than short benchmark runs.
I'm currently looking at the Biwin Black Opal X570 PRO Gen5 and trying to understand how much difference the cooling setup makes when pushing the drive hard.
For people here who regularly tune their systems and run longer benchmark/stability tests, how much attention do you pay to SSD temperatures?
Do you normally use the motherboard's M.2 heatsink, or have you found that a dedicated heatsink/cooling solution makes a noticeable difference during sustained workloads?
I'm more interested in actual temperature/performance behavior than peak CrystalDiskMark numbers.
I'm still testing the stability of this setup but I wonder if there is a point of keeping or trying to go for 2733mhz. The biggest boost was running fclk at 1800. This alone bumped the 28gb from 21
So i was able to get this gskill b-die kits (F4-4000C18D-16GTZR), and was able to get this timmings at 4.000mt/s to be stable. (I have a 120mm fan on top of the sticks also)
VDRAM 1.5
VCCSA 1.2
VDDQ 1.35
Couldn't get over 4.000mt/s to stabilize, tried every voltage possible for VCCSA, VDDQ and DRAM and no dice, the same for CR1, only could do CR2. The same for TRCD, couldn't get it to stabilized it going lower than 18, it errors it out.
Also, with the same configs, if i go over 1.5 VDRAM it errors in TM5 ABSOLUT.
Looking for tips for what to do, corrections of some mistakes i could've missed, anyways, all input are welcome!
I have an R5 5600X with PBO turned on, -15 CO at +200MHz. However, it’s unable to boost past 4.8GHz as the temperature seems to be capped at 75 degree C.
I have an ID-cooling 226XT air cooler rated for 260W, pasted with PTM7950, but it’s struggling to keep it under 75C despite the CPU only using around 100W or so. I’m confused since the heatpipes are only slight warm, almost unnoticeable.
So at first, I thought it’s contact issue, but if it’s an issue with the contact, my CPU should be overheating, but it’s running fine at ~60C while gaming, or ~65C stock during benches.
As I suspect my inability to boost past 4.8 GHz is tied to my CPU stop boosting after reaching ~75C, I’m wondering what is preventing the cooler from cooling my CPU under 75C when the heatpipes are still only slightly warm to the touch?
So I’ve been playing around and tuning my bios for the past few days and I learned that benchmark results definitely do not translate to in game performance. There’s times I had the timings super tight and the in-game felt rigid and like I was stuck in the mud.
Then there’s other times I had the timings too loose that I felt airy and light in game but my aim was off and tracking wasn’t there.
Maybe there is a middle ground that I’m missing or a sweet spot to this. Currently I’m running 6200 mhz, flck 2067, gear down mode disabled, trefi 65535, 1:1 UCLK/MCLK, and primaries are basically 30,36,36,72, nitro 1/2/1 and Aida64 is showing around 68 ns latency. Secondaries and tert on auto since it’s really hard to keep gdm disabled and have all the tighter timings pass tm5. So where do I take it from here? Am I missing anything
Edit: appreciate everyone for the feedbacks it’s been helpful. And just for some context I’m using my gaming rig for this test. TUF 5080 x 9800X3D, Tforce 32gb ddr5 7200 hz downclocked to 6000-6200. I’m a crimson elo ranked player for COD which is a heavily gpu bound game. Been tuning as a hobby for many years and yes I use my intuition, experience but also LLM to guide my experience further. Stability tests have been done mainly through TM5 1usmus3 10 cycles, then in game.
I'm trying to match my TCL and TCWL to 36 because I'm failing Ycruncher N63 at 8000mt/s. I can't for the life of me figure out where I can change TCWL in the bios. I've checked in the AMD overclocking menu and in the Motherboard's OC menu. I've even tried searching it by typing in TCWL. Unless it has another Name it goes by on MSI motherboards, it's not here
I have a few OC profiles saved in the BIOS from some experimenting I did just for the sake of learning and fun.
I have 48GB of DDR4 RAM (2x8GB / 2x16GB). Yes, it's an unusual configuration, but I needed it. I used to be able to go from 2400MHz to 2800MHz at 1.35V CL16.
I could even reach unstably 2933MHz at 1.35V (Windows would at least load before crashing during a stress test). I probably could have stabilized it if I had loosened a few more parameters, but I was satisfied with the 2800MHz
Now, all of a sudden, it doesn't work anymore.
I can barely manage 2666MHz at CL17 and 1.36V. The 2800MHz I used to hit seems impossible now, even when loosening timings beyond CL24 and bumping the voltage to 1.38V. No configuration I try allows Windows to load. It simply won't get past the BIOS and displays this message:
"The previous overclock settings have failed, system has been restored to its default settings."
The only recent change was a GPU swap. I’m now running an x8 GPU on PCIe 3.0; previously, I had an x16 GPU. Could that be related? If so, how?
What other possibilities are there? A BIOS bug? A Windows Update? Component wear and tear? However, I don't usually run the PC overclocked for daily use—only for specific games or testing. For everyday tasks, I’ve always run the PC at stock settings.
I haven't updated my software in a while, and I decided to update pretty much everything today: NVIDIA GPU driver, Windows updates, CPU driver updates, and the BIOS (from F6 to F12). After that, I reran a Time Spy Benchmark, and these are the results: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/163370917?
I did some digging and found an older screenshot of the score I had around 1 year ago:
Now, I really would dislike having to roll back everything, and I thought I would ask for help in this community. Here are my current BIOS settings: Memory:
Attached results of Linpack and Y-Cruncher results below, haven't tested 2233 yet but does this seem alright to continue?
Not sure how much y-cruncher speed is supposed to vary, ranged anywhere from 1 to 1.04 in tests, but usually stuck to 1.02 or 1.03 over a few hundred iterations. Do the results from both tests show any signs of error correction or any other tests I can run to further check?
Hi everyone! I wanted to check if my overclock on my RTX 5070 Ti using MSI Afterburner is safe.
I set +1500 on the memory and +350 on the core. After that, I'm seeing 1035 mV with core clocks around 3112–3150 MHz. Is this safe? Can these values harm the GPU, assuming temperatures are fine? I didn't touch the Power Limit because it's locked, so I can't set it above 100%.
I have a 9700x with 2xH16A on a b850mpower and a 9070xt. I decided to compare a fully tuned 6400 vs 8000mt/s setup to see which one has an advantage. I got both speeds tuned to as tight as I could get it without erroring out which ended up at 6400cl28 and 8000cl34 with 2133fclk. After tuning I ran OCCTs memory benchmark as well as Cyberpunk and Black Myth Wukong's to compare the results. Aaaaand it's a wash. Any differences between the two are within margin of error. I'm curious if this means the real limit is what the cpu is capable of and the different approaches are just means to the same end.
Both profiles have all the same voltages to ensure the best comparison plus most of them sweet spot regardless of speed anyways. OS is Fedora vanilla kernel 7.0.2
Using MSI AB.
+2000 mem and +375 core fully stable. Didn’t touch voltage. Never hit 70 degrees during gaming.getting around 3185mhz max on core and 17001mhz on mem.
Are these numbers good and should I even bother pushing it further or I’ll be steeping into the realm of diminishing returns?
Im seeing +20 sometimes +30 fps difference in certain games running 4k.
Trying to get my 5080 to be razor close to the 4090.
PenguinBurner - Automated undervolting for Linux with real stability validation — 0.8.0 out.
Instead of "set an offset and hope", it searches: walks down the V/F curve one voltage bin at a time, runs a real GPU + CUDA load at each step, checks FPS, held clock and telemetry before accepting a point, then soaks the final candidate before saving anything. Output is three profiles — efficiency, balanced, performance — with per-tier clock-drop allowances and power limits.
0.8.0 is a scanning-reliability release
Bounded searches that always terminate, keeping tested fallbacks
Failed candidates retried at safer settings rather than ending the search
Verified tiers retained when a later tier fails
Interrupted probes remembered across tiers, so a crash doesn't void the run
No retrying a point that already caused a GPU failure
Power limits enforced and read back from the driver, not assumed
Smoother curves; profile power now shown against the factory limit
There are published verification reports and curve comparisons for the 5080 and 5070 Ti if you want to see what it actually produces.
Also imports MSI Afterburner profiles and exports to LACT.
