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Hi guys! So I just bought a new pair of RAM from Kingston. The Kingston HyperX Fury RAM, 16GB 3200MHz. When I installed them and tried to use it on 3200MHz, my PC won't post. Instead, it works on the JEDEC standard 2666MHz only. Could it be that there is incompatibility between my PC components? And are there any ways to make this work? Any help or assistance is appreciated!

My PC specs:

Mobo: MSI A320M-A Pro Max
CPU: Ryzen 3 3100
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB 3200MHz (2x)
GPU: Nvidia 1650 Super

I did not overclock anything, I update my PC every day but the CPU's lowest temperature can not go under 89°C and I think it goes to 110-115 when using it on a non solid surface like my bed. Pc is 2 years old and I don't know if a deep clean will fix it. I am forced to play with one of these metallic ramp to make the fan directly blow in the air. Pc specs : Ryzen 5 5600H RTX 3060 for laptop 16gigs ddr4 500~gb ssd Bios is completely locked and in Chinese so I might update the bios and try under lock it even tho it is a piece of 💩 (gets me 40-60 fps in Minecraft modded and 60 on Fortnite with mid graphics and mid dlss. Please help

Pc specs: RTX 3060 12th 12900ks Corsair H100x elite liquid cooler 240mm AIO 32 gb ram

So basically I have tried undervolting to around 0.065 and noticing good temp drops on a lot of games. For harder games I would still be in the 70s and I like it in the 60s. So I installed intel xtu and turned the p core ratio to 48x from 53x and now my temps are great and in the 60s even on hard games. So far not really any noticeable performance drops I am just wondering if this is bad for the cpu in any way and if it’s a bad ideas to do this?

I recently bought asrock 5600xt challenger oc But my pc freezes while some games and Freezes exact at same frame in unheaven engine and times spy graphics test 1 Tried every method on internet but no help In games it randomly freeze stuck at wired rrrrrrrr sound No response in pc My spec Athlon 3000g B450m pro 4 Gskill 3200 8*2 3200mhz Cv450 80+ bronze

I've done everything I can to try and figure out why my pc will not stop hard locking itself. See the attached parts list. I've turned down all the Motherboard defualt settings. Processor Core ICC max: 307A Power max to 253 W. Turned XMP on and off nothing changed there. still does it. I have updated the MB bios, reinstalled every driver I can think of i've literally run out of things to do and check anybody have anyideas? It only crashes during gaming I can't play for longer than 10-20 minutes before the shit locks on me. It hasn't done it while sitting idle and it also hasn't done it i don't think during Cinebench.

Part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Op_Daiglebaby/saved/HVVxFT

Hello guys I tried using the curve optimizer now the first time I got it to work all cores 5.1ghZ and -30 on curve optimizer. Right after I tried going to 5.15ghZ but that didn't work so I tried going back to 5.1 but then I had kernel not found or corrupted bsod. -5 on curve optimizer doesn't even work. Do you guys think it's bad drivers?

I recently built a new PC with a ROG STRIX Z790-A GAMING WIFI II motherboard and an Intel i9 14900KF processor. However, I'm facing persistent thermal throttling issues despite using a Corsair H150i 360 AIO cooler. After tweaking BIOS settings, I found that disabling ASUS Multi-Core Enhancement keeps temperatures under 70°C during Aida64 tests, but at the cost of performance, dropping the clock speed to around 4.4 GHz. I even delidded the CPU and applied Thermal Grizzly liquid metal between the die and IHS, with standard thermal paste between the IHS and cooler.

With MCE enabled, the CPU throttles by up to 10% during Aida64 tests. Attempts to mitigate this by undervolting led to system instability without resolving the throttling. At this point, I'm considering returning the components and switching to an AMD setup. Would this likely improve my situation, or is thermal throttling during stress tests not a significant concern? Could I have received a defective CPU?

im thinking of getting a 6700xt or 7600xt or something like that, but i see in msi after burner you can extend oc'ing limits

i plan to get a used one and repaste it then stretch my gpu to the max so that might be useful to other buyers and might sway a certain card for me

Recently bought a new gpu so it's time to oc my 13700k to keep up with it. It originally was auto OCed but ran too hot (90°C under load) so I undid the oc completely down to base speeds. I'm wanting to do a modest over clock to start with. I simply dont have the time with work and life to fiddle for hours on end so I was wondering if someone could give me some starting numbers for the bios settings that should be a safe starting bet for me to build on considering I've never done this. My current speed is 3.7ghz and the cpu runs at around 45-50° during gaming so there is plenty of thermal room. This is on an MSI Z790-a WIFI MOBO and a noctua nh-d15 cooler. If possible I'd prefer to have a locked over clock (like running at 4.5ghz all the time rather than a curve) but any advice is welcome

I have a CPU - 11th Gen i7-11700F Gpu- Nvidia geforce etc 3060 ti

Anything would help to the best overclocking to anything!!!

Hello, I just finished building my pc and I'm having a little bit of a problem on how to overclock it. If anyone is able to help do let me know, I will mention the specs below as I was told it might alter the overclocking process.

Asus TUF gaming 4090

G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) (128gb)

AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D 16-Core, 32-Thread Desktop Processor

ASUS ROG Strix X670E-F Gaming WIFI6E Socket AM5 (LGA 1718) Ryzen 7000 Gaming Motherboard

WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive

If anyone is able to help especially with the ram overclocking please let me know

I am new to overclocking. After watching a guide, i set a the new taget cpu turbo mode frequency to 4400 Mhz. However my benchmark results with realbench stay the same. Turbo Mode is enabled. What am i missing?

I forgot about this. In the guide i was told to enable x.m.p. but i didnt have this option. I found x.m.p. in the normal bios mode now, before i was using advanced mode. Maybe this is the problem? i couldnt find a way to enable it yet

https://preview.redd.it/eewl5nuuw2yc1.png?width=1137&format=png&auto=webp&s=a694931ef910e624a489d349cd434b27f8a77ac7

This is just a gaming computer and so far ZERO stability issues while using Anta777 Aboslute. Im using BZ settings for Hynix A dies and I have cooling on the ram.

https://imgur.com/a/x21cRfv

During gaming Im getting a MAX of 36.8c and 39.2c. At desktop idle Im at 28c, I know doesn't matter much, but its the absolute low temps.

Here are the results during stress tests:

1. Anta777 using Absolute - 1 hour - 43.2/44.0 - Zero errors
2. Karhu - 2:45 hours - 41.2 / 42.8 - Zero Errors
3. Anta777 using abolsute AND running OCCT GPU stress test - 48.8/52.2 - Zero errors

Here are some screenshots just for the FYI, CPU was 100%, GPU was 100%, and RAM 97%. There what seemed to be a good level of stress on the components. Temps in this case seem to be okay?

https://imgur.com/a/Q8CGAJW

I have zotac trinity 4070 ti super and tried to flash the amp holo vbios on it. It was not successful and now my computer wont boot as long as the gpu is connected. I have integrated graphics on my CPU and also tried connecting a different GPU and no matter what as long as the Zotac is plugged in my computer will not boot (black screen with red VGA light on motherboard). I only have one bios on this card as well.

Im curious if anyone has any suggestions here? I realize my card is probably done for but figured I'd ask anyways

Edit: The computer functions completely normally as long as that Zotac gpu is not plugged in

As l'm sure everyone knows there's been a lot of talk about instability issues with the newer 13th and 14th gen i7s-i9s. I've heard that a lot of it is motherboard manufacturers setting the voltage too high for the CPU and practically cooking it. I've had my 13900k for about 3 months now and so far it hasn't had any issues, although I'm just wondering if am slowly cooking it and should turn down some settings? don't know much about what I'm looking at here though so figured l'd ask

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I got higher multicore score before, think 14696 or something like that.
I tried overclocking with higher TDC, EDC and PPT but got about the same results.
PPT: 120
TDC: 70
EDC: 98
PBO SCALER OFF/AUTO
CURVE OPTIMIZER: -27 ALL CORES, tried doing the per core thing but took wayy too long and my WHEA logger was not showing any newer errors so gave up on that.
BOOSTER CLOCK [POSITIVE] +200MHZ
Pretty stable ran some core cycler tests on OCCT have to run more tests.
Max temps 67 and below 70 most of the time.
Asrock B550m PRO4 mobo
16gb gskill ram sticks with XMP profile enabled @ 3200mhz.
Any advice on how I could fix this? also my CPU voltage was hitting 1.32-1.35v at times which is concerning right? My best cores are 07 and 02 according to Amd Ryzen software.

I just started the undervolting process for my GPU using MSI afterburner and at stock numbers it was 2505MHZ, 0.995V and I was using Sea of Thieves at basically Max graphics 120 Fps and was able to bring it down to 0.875V. I initially did this to bring down my temps but nothing changed and it even got hotter at some point going from 73 to 75 and the laptop itself below the monitor feels extremely hot like as if something's wrong. Imm new to undervolting and any issues with it could you please help.

Hey my friends I just bought this cpu with ASUS Z790 apex encore with 8400mhz g skill ram memory , I don’t know if my batch is good or not hope that somebody more experienced can give me an answer for my question will I be able to run with it high ram freq ? it have good sp or should I return it to the store and wait for arrow lake? I have all parts sets just what left is mobo and cpu that I am now considering what to do with them

Thanks

I’ve found out that my new mobo has an eclk generator, so I’m looking forward to squeezing a little more performance out of my i5. I’m trying to find some information about which bios to use because I know that some later revisions have nerfed or removed this cool little Alder Lake loophole. Any and all links or information would be greatly appreciated because I really don’t want to brick this mobo 😆

I recently built a new setup for mixing/rendering (CPU heavy) and turns out 7950x is acing everything without that much of an effort. The CPU under stress works at 5.2-5.3ghz and runs way too hot for my small AC Unit to counter. Temps are always above 90 but below 96. I think i could get the job done at 4.8ghz on all cores. Since im really new to under/over clocking whats the best voltage from your experience?

HWiNFO64 is causing my Windows Defender to go crazy (causing higher than usual idle CPU load, temps and power draw). I'm getting multiple of those per second:

"RealTimeScan","02.05.2024 12:14:34","02.05.2024 12:14:35","00:00:00.7705324","OnMount","Not skipped","\Device\Harddisk2\DR2","C:\Program Files\HWiNFO64\HWiNFO64.exe","HWiNFO64.exe","15156","HWiNFO64.exe (15156)"

I am on the latest beta, but it also happens on the stable version and even an old 7.72 version I still had the installer for. Only started a few days ago, so probably some windows anti-virus definition update that suddenly recognizes HWiNFO64 as potentially dangerous? Anyone else seeing this?

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If you're affected, adding process "HWiNFO64.exe" to exclusions for Defender solved the issue for now, but that's clearly not an optimal solution.

I knew back in the day it was single core, but is this changing in 2024?

i have a 13700k on a custom loop, cpu block is a corsair xc8 jtc edition, and have plenty of radiators, on 35c coolant temp, my cpu is contantly 95-100c while cpu package pacakge power is 160-165w @ 1.3v, as you can see in the screenshot it peaks at 105c on 190W and then throttles down, i ahve done minimal overclocking in the bios, it's mostly asus stuff, (mobo is a asus tuf z790 plus d4)

https://preview.redd.it/h6oejpgnyzxc1.png?width=480&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc7209915688a994df5853f640b7997659adf57b

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have a thermalright contact frame from amazon and some thermal grizzly thermal paste, last time i checked the paste it looked ok, could it be a mounting pressure? or is the bios just pushing it too hard, if it's the latter, what values should i tweak? i tried undervolting but the values i input get ignored

PS i get 27k point in cinebench r23

Update 1: after u/rankdropper84 and turning off Asus multicore enhancement, lowered peak temp to 94c and increased cinebench score to 29k points