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Even up to 4.3ghz at idle is normal? I had chrome and spotify open at the time (as well as some background things like MSI Afterburner) and it was spiking from 10-20%.

This is my first ryzen build, have traditionally used Intel cpu's so sorry in advance if this is something Ryzen specific. I've been doing some basic tasks (web browsing, playing Runescape which is a browser-based game from 2001... and so on), and MSI afterburner (as well as HWInfo) have been reporting cpu clocks of 3600Mhz-4400Mhz. It's not been ever lower than 3600Mhz. The CPU usage itself is never more than 20% however. During idle, cpu temps do fluctuate between 40c-50c but cpu clocks still remain high at 2800Mhz minimum: The cpu clocks aren't really the concerning thing, it's more that during these basic activities my CPU temps can go as high as 70c and this makes the cooler fan go crazy. For what it's worth, I'm not overclocked, I've downloaded AMD chipset drivers and have set my profile to Ryzen Balanced. The only thing in bios I've changed is setting D.O.C.P profiles for ram. Am I missing something? High CPU clocks itself is fine but it's the temps/fan speeds that are concerning. The important specs are as follows: - Ryzen 7 3700x - Asus ROG Strix X570-F - Gigabyte Windforce GTX 2070 Super - 2x8GB HyperX Fury RAM - AMD Wraith Prism stock cooler - Phanteks p400a with 3 stock fans as intake, silent wings 3 back exhaust and shadow wings as top exhaust, so I think my case is well ventilated I was planning on upgrading my cooler but even this probably won't make a massive difference to temps I reckon. I've removed the stock paste and applied some Arctic Silver mx4 (it's all I had lying around at the time but still decent). Furthermore, I've been sure not to use 2 monitoring tools at the same time as I've read this can cause fluctuations so I don't think this is incorrect reading? Any help/tips appreciated.

I've been dealing with a weird issue on my new build whereby if I start up my pc, or do restart from windows, it takes about 20-60s (always differs) to find the signal source for the monitor, and until it finds this signal it won't post. It's essentially a static message saying "No DP source was found" or along those lines. As soon as it finds a signal, only then am I greeted with the standard message that allows me to go into bios, followed by the Windows welcome message. My monitor is a dell s2719dgf connected via DisplayPort to a Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super, and Asus X570-F motherboard. Has anybody experienced anything similar when connecting via displayport or might know what the issue is? What I've tried: - Reinstalling my gpu drivers (using DDU and unplugging network to ensure Windows doesn't install drivers for me) - Unplugged this monitor and used my second monitor which is connected via hdmi (so that eliminates displayport plus faulty monitor?)

I've also sent an email and will likewise let you know

Yeah I've tried the Aorus Engine software. It's terrible.

I'm using MSI Afterburner to set the curve, so it's software level only. I don't think you can change the default fan curve unless you have a custom bios. Are you having the same issue?

I've tried a curve similar to this but it still keeps ramping up and down

When you say "just set your fans at 25%" isn't this done via a fan curve through afterburner though for example?

Is this through afterburner? Do you have any decent fan curve examples?

I recently purchased a Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Windforce OC 3x graphics card and have been trying to deal with an issue whereby the fans keep revving up and down when the GPU is 55c~. The GPU has a fan stop feature where the fan stops spinning when the temperature is under 55c, but this seems to get polled very often and what's happening is idle temps sit around 53-56c, so fans spin up for a second, temps drop and fans spin down. This is an almost endless loop. This seems to be a well documented issue but the posts date back to 2018 mostly. Has anybody else encountered this and have they found a solution? I've also tried to set my own fan curves but MSI Afterburner doesn't like anything under 40%. Are there any rtx 2070 super cards that don't do this?

Neither on any of my old ssd's. Why fix something that's not broken

Fair point. It's mostly to check what kind of temps I can run at in worst case so I can set fan curves and so on. Preset curves are gahhh

This helps a ton, thanks!

https://gyazo.com/8af3404ae353762cef58193ef8f311c2 Looks like it's not quite the latest. Is it worth updating to 12.3? I assume I'd lose my data

It's been so long since I've completed a build and normally I'd run some benchmarks to make sure my hardware and so on is fine with no issues. It looks like with ryzen chips what people use to monitor temps/benchmark and so on is different to what I'd have used in the past. What do folks normally use here to benchmark the following (as well as get temps): - Ryzen 7 3700x - RTX 2070 Super - M.2 NVMe SSD - and of course ram? I'd have used Intel's platform for stress testing in the past and would assume it should still work for ryzen but I'm sure there's better out there. As for the graphics card, Unigine valley, Unigine heaven etc. For the ssd, probably crystaldisk? For cpu temps I'd use core temp but this looks kind of weird for ryzen now.

Oh, I read somewhere that the new layout is double-sided. That's good to hear!

Just got this and looks like it's using a layout different to the one pictured in sellers website. I've attached pictures. Unable to run the tool yet as the GPU hasn't come for this pc and no onboard graphics.. Not sure if I should return or just roll with it.

Didn't really know there would be that much between 2 RAM manufacturers - looking at frequencies, timings, etc. I'm looking at 2 3200Mhz cas 16 kits from G Skill and Kingston respectively: HyperX: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07WF9M2PK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s01?ie=UTF8&th=1 G-Skill: https://www.ebuyer.com/772405-g-skill-trident-z-rgb-16gb-kit-ddr4-3200mhz-ram-f4-3200c16d-16gtzr G-Skill I can get a little bit cheaper to be just a few £ more than the hyperx. Comparing like for likes they seem identical (voltage, frequency and cas). Is this just a matter of what's cheaper/what I like the look of more or is one better than the other? I can't find any information about what chips each of these use but guess would be Hynix. Cheers.

Aww man looks like it's another 2 weeks wait in that case. I'll see if I can get an advanced exchange RMA from them but also tempted to just bin it and get a seasonic power supply for this new rig too. Loved the replacement one I got for my older build. You're probably (one of?) the best people to ask this slightly off topic question - which PSUs are out there with some of the best silent fans?

I've also had the same issue with my G2 for the last 5 years. Have tried various things all to no success. This is a common known problem with EVGA G2 up to G5 (plenty of posts about this even on EVGA's forums) and personally from my experience whilst continuing to use the stock fan, we're SOOL.

Some quick things to try: 1) A different cord. The previous one could have been damaged. 2) Paperclip test on the PSU to see if it powers up. If it doesn't that's the culprit and if it does, more investigation needed.

I rma'd my EVGA G2 a couple months prior because it died after a good 5 years usage. I bought a seasonic focus gold for that build as the RMA took 2 weeks and I needed the machine for work. I thought I'd just save the refurb EVGA G2 unit for a future build. So come today, I finish my new build and turn my pc on and the PSU fan is rattling like crazy. The g2 has an eco mode which turns the fan off under 40c and on this mode the rattling goes away. Is this something that's self-serviceable? I understand I'd void my warranty, but I just really, really, really cannot be arsed with a 2 week wait on another refurb unit which could potentially run into the same (or different issue) months later. What are my options here? Here's a video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S-XKRFQULb4qgG8_l2NTcFGka12z4MFw/view?usp=sharing

Nice and clear, thanks! There were some posts online that stated it's needed for 3700x and up which seemed weird because the TDP of a 3700x isn't exactly high, even if overclocked.

My new motherboard has a 8+4 EPS header rather than the more traditional 8 pin one. The manual doesn't specifiy whether I can just use 8 pin or must use 8+4. Would I be fine using 8 pin only for this? I've read some conflicting things for different motherboards online. Cheers.

The card is coming tomorrow so hopefully I can build it and do some tests soon. In hindsight now, I probably should have got a 2tb ssd but can always buy another NVMe drive down the line (RDR2 for example is 150GB!!!). Do you know if these types of cards have any issue of the drive is say, 90% full? What's a good capacity to keep it at?