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    Termiux reacted to tom_w141 in Guide to P State (Variable Frequency) Overclocking on the Crosshair vi Hero   
    Hi everyone i'm just throwing this up as hopefully a short and easy to understand guide to p state overclocking on the crosshair vi hero motherboard (AM4/Ryzen). First of all don't be turned away if you don't have the crosshair! Most of this guide features the AMD common bios which should be common across motherboards (it is just up to your board manufacturer which options to make available in their BIOS).
     
    Why should you want to do this? Well as you may has noticed if you have overclocked your powerful new ryzen cpu that it no longer downvolts/downclocks when idle . This is because this is a fixed all core overclock. Which while good for performance, it is bad for: the cpu's lifespan, excess heat generation when idle and your electricty bill. A power state or "p state" overclock however will not only enable you to overclock above stock speeds but also step back down when idle (similar to Intel's speedstepping).
     
    Crosshair specific info:
    - This should be working on any BIOS revision later than and including 1002 (which at the time of writing is 1002, 0079, 0081, 0082 and 0083)
    - Update 0081 and later should be working with custom BCLK values (though i personally haven't tested this yet), 1002 must use default BCLK.
     
    As above i'm using the crosshair vi hero motherboard and BIOS revision 0082 but this should be fairly similar across manufacturers:
     
    Step 1: Always best to start with a clean slate so head into the bios and hit "load optimised defaults"
     
     
    Step 2: Head to the extreme tweaker screen and check everything is back to default and most importantly that the cpu core ratio is on "auto"
     
     
    Step 3: Head to the advanced tab and open the AMD common bios specification or "AMD CBS" for me
     
     
    Step 4: Next open "Zen Common Options"
     
     
    Step 5: Head down to "Custom Core Pstates" As you can see I left all above options on auto but you might want to force enable "Global C-State Control"
     
     
    Step 6: Accept the terms (this is no more dangerous than a fixed all core overclock so don't worry)
     
     
    Step 7:  Pstate0 will be set to auto by default, change this to custom
     
     
    Step 8: Setting Pstate0 to custom reveals 5 boxes, 3 of which can be changed by the user and the top 2 greyed out boxes show the results. It gets a little complicated here because we are using hexadecimals. we are going to try a 3.9GHz overclock in this guide. Change Pstate0 FID to "9C", do not touch DID or VID, DID is the divisor there is no need to change this and VID is the voltage. We could change VID but at the moment anything different from the default VID breaks it and it will boost 100% of the time. (3A on my 1700 - if this is different for you please use YOUR default value NOT mine)
     
    I will add a table to calculate your FID values soon TM   File is now attached: Ryzen Hex Values.xlsx
     
    Note: Voltage is in micro volts so that is 1.187500V and not 1187500V (Take a note of this number btw it will help later for the offset)
     
    LEAVE ALL OTHER P STATES ON "Auto"
     
     
    Step 9: Head back to the extreme tweaker tab because we now need to set the voltage offset. Change the CPU Core Voltage to "Offset mode" and positive "+" Now from your manual OC which you have probably dont prior to this you will know what voltage you need to be stable at 3.9GHz, for me this is 1.3375V but its always good to be a little generous when using offset instead of manual so i'm going to allow 1.35V maximum. To calculate your offset voltage take the desired value and subtract the voltage value that you noted down in the previous step. 1.35V - 1.1875V = 0.16250V
     
    Note: My RAM speed and RAM voltage have defaulted to 2133 and auto, leave these as they are and redo your RAM overclock once you are happy with what we are focusing on here.
     
     
    Step 10 (Optional): Enter "Extreme Tweaker\External Digi+ Power Control" and give the CPU voltage and SOC voltage some load line calibration to reduce V droop, personally I like level 2. Although this step is entirely optional!
     
    Step 11: Boot! Yeah we aren't done yet sorry  Change your Power plan to "high performance" (May also work for AMD Ryzen Balanced plan - untested) or "Ryzen Balanced" (now confirmed to be working) and edit the plan -> change advanced power settings -> expand "Processor Power Management" -> expand "Minimum Processor State" -> set this at 20%
     
    Change Log:
     
    20/04/17 - Release
    20/04/17 - Added Hex Value Calculator
    17/05/17 - Minor Text Changes & Confirmation of Ryzen Balanced Plan
     
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    Termiux reacted to chiwas in best 720p graphic card under US$100   
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127836
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    Termiux reacted to Bittenfleax in best 720p graphic card under US$100   
    Yeah 750ti will be the best at this price.
     
    Take a look at this. You can probably find it cheaper, and for your own country with a good Google search.
     
    https://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-evga-gtx-750ti-sc-gaming-mini-itx-pcie-30-5400mhz-gddr5-gpu-1176mhz-boost-1255mhz-cores-640-dp-h
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    Termiux reacted to King_Tuna in Who wants to help!?!   
    Buy dis.
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    Termiux reacted to paprikman in Linux OS/Windows OS/OS X for Software Engineer   
    If you wanna be a good SE, then you have to understand how any popular OS works and be competent in programming for all of them.
    I would suggest having a windows machine and maybe another one with linux or osx, you can also use oracle virtualbox to compile and test your code.
    As for me, I use OSx mainly, but I also have a linux machine for some strong computations (dual xeon based).
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    Termiux reacted to TDP_Equinox in Pictures to be framed for one of the sets!   
    Here

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    Termiux reacted to JustinK in Pictures to be framed for one of the sets!   
    True, I'd have to talk to Nick Light about that. Might be able to rent out a frame for them or something  
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    Termiux reacted to The Dragon in Pictures to be framed for one of the sets!   
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    Termiux reacted to Dr_Curry_MONSTER in MSI R9 390, constant driver crashing   
    Typical Fanboy.
     
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    Termiux reacted to tiduswong in Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ Giveaway   
    4K video capture 
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    Termiux reacted to ArcticDolphin in Enough for 1080p   
    An R9 390 will be able to handle 1080p gaming on one monitor. Not sure about three.
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    Termiux reacted to Notional in PCPer AMD R9 Nano review   
    Looks very good. It seems like people don't understand that this is a card made for tiny builds. There are no other cards at this form factor, that can handle this, especially in DX12. So much fanboy in here, damn. This is a niche market product. Treat it for what it is.
     
    Only issue is that they still haven't dealt with capacitor buzz. Either they don't know how or they are skimping out. Could be an issue with HBM.
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    Termiux reacted to Nugget in Experiences with non-techies   
    This guy right here
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5cEik2ABY
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    Termiux reacted to Salmiakbal in Experiences with non-techies   
    My mom calls the internet "google" because it's her homepage :D Also if she wants to go to a site she firstly types it into google, then clicks on the search result, in stead of just typing youtube.com or w/e in the URL bar :D
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    Termiux reacted to Gavinhenderson5 in Experiences with non-techies   
    This is a great idea for a topic!
    Most of the time when I am explaining something I just lie to them because they would never understand the real reason.
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    Termiux reacted to Paperchase in Experiences with non-techies   
    Back in the 9th grade 2 other buddies of mine and myself started our own school project. Our project was to dismantle a computer, make our own case, and assemble the computer inside the case we built ourselves. For the longest time a friend of mine had been saying that he knows pretty much everything about computers. Turns out he didn't know anything, but i'll get back to that.
    I went to a very cheap-ass school, so there were always trouble with the infrastructure there, so as you probably guessed the computers at the school crashed all the time. Also note that all of the computers were "hooked up" for lack of a better term to ONE Server. This was a big school with around 200+ computers all hooked up to this one server. (Recipe for disaster). Since all of the computers were connected to the same server that would mean that if there was one single error on the server, then all of the 200+ computers at my school would simply not work.
    These computers all went down the drain atleast twice a week making them completely and utter useless. And everytime the system went down the teachers always asked this friend of mine that thought he knew everything about computers. Let's call him Bob to make it easier to follow. Anyways, The teachers would always have Bob look at the computers, and tell them what was wrong. Ofcourse he didn't know what he was talking about, so he said the following: "Yeah, mhm, okay. Yes it seems that you have gotten a network system error inside the processor, it will be back up in an hour". Yes, that is ACTUALLY what he said, let that sink in for a moment. Oh, I totally forgot; The time he said that it was a "Network system error inside the processor". the teachers were trying to figure out why there was no sound from the speakers. Turns out the audiojack was not plugged in.
    Anyways I got really off-track here. My friends and I were assembling the computer into the case that we had built ourselves. When suddenly Bob came by. My friends and I were kind of annoyed at Bob, so we asked him "which one of these components is the motherboard"? I bet anyone here on the forum would be able to point out which component in a computer was the motherboard, right? Bob pointed at the HDD, of course we all laughed, because this was proof that he knows nothing about computers, and was just spewing bullshit all the time. After we all calmed ourselves down, I said: "well surely you know this is the graphics card, right? (I pointed at the CPU). Bob said: "Yes ofcourse, how dumb do you think I am? That's when I almost broke out in tears laughing.

    Since that event he stopped claiming he knew everything about computers and was an "IT-Guru". Anyways, my buddies and I delivered in our assignment, and got ourselves an A.
    Cheers! ;)
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    Termiux reacted to Ghost in Experiences with non-techies   
    Ironically resetting things does usually fix them.
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    Termiux reacted to rainbrodash666 in Experiences with non-techies   
    after we would not GIVE her another drive she said she would never shop here again and left. but came back an hour later because best buy sold the same hdd for $225 or so. but the next time she let us install it. I did not laugh until she was out of the store like a true professional.
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    Termiux reacted to rainbrodash666 in Experiences with non-techies   
    so this one time I was hanging out with my friend who is the manager at a tech shop by where I live and a girl comes in and buys a 2tb hard drive. we let her know that we install hard drives for $1 (the cost of the sata cable we use) and she says "just because I am a woman does not mean I cant work on computers" and leaves in a huff. two days later she comes back in saying that the HDD is not working so we take the computer in to look at it, we open it and the HDD is nowhere to be seen, so we ask her where it is. and it turns out that she scanned it and put the scanned image on her desktop to install the drive. and to top that off she threw away the drive she paid almost $200 for and she wanted us to give her a new one.
     
     
     
    EDIT: feel free to quote this comment, I like seeing peoples reactions even though the comment is 2+ years old.
    EDIT EDIT: still funny in 2021 keep em comin'
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    Termiux reacted to RobbieX27 in Experiences with non-techies   
    I'm going to cry...
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    Termiux reacted to Fordox in Experiences with non-techies   
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    Termiux reacted to the_devil52 in Experiences with non-techies   
    Not an experience but it's related: http://xkcd.com/627/
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    Termiux reacted to Tr3vor in Experiences with non-techies   
    my aunt who is constantly complaining about her slow Pentium 4 computer, and when people tell her to buy a new one already, she says "no its fine."
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    Termiux reacted to RobbieX27 in Experiences with non-techies   
    People thinking they can download RAM....
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    Termiux reacted to gliliumho in Experiences with non-techies   
    I used to work at a computer shop for IT support and service. Whenever something is wrong with the machine, they'll always ask if it's a virus or not. If the shortcut on the desktop is gone, they would think all of their data on the computer are gone.
    My mum isn't non-techy but she just double clicks on EVERYTHING she wants to open. That includes links and buttons on the web browser. She would double click on the Google searches to open them too and I got really annoyed watching her using the computer at some point of my life.
    I have another one but it's not really non-techies. My friend is a photographer but not much of a computer guy so he bought a netbook(yes, those 10-inches) and brought it to college. Apparently he actually used that netbook to edit photo and do his work. I remember him posting a comment which he thinks tiny computer are less powerful(true to some extent).
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