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This is what I have it set to. There's an option for Direct Mode which says "Direct Mode gives you audio in its purest form, directly from the source. All audio effects will not be applied to the output." But enabling that doesn't seem to fix the blown out audio at higher Windows volumes.

One of us is misunderstanding the other, not sure who so I'll explain in better detail, but sorry if it's me. See attached photo. I have that extension hub that's plugged into my headphone and microphone jacks as pictured and nothing is currently plugged into that hub, but the RCA cable from my speakers is plugged directly into the red and white ports on the mainboard. I'm not using the daughterboard that attaches to it, but I could if I wanted to connect to my speakers via optical cable.

That's unfortunate. I'm sure there's no way to get rid of the audible hiss because that's just what happens when you have speakers loud enough, but is there a way to fix it sounding blown out when my Windows volume is at max and my speaker volume is lower?

I'm plugging into the red and white RCA ports for my speakers. I have their extension hub plugged into the headphone and mic ports, which I plug my headphones into that when I'm not using my speakers.

Hey all, I have a Sound Blaster ZXR PCI-E sound card. I recently got the NEUMI BS5P-ARC powered speakers that I am connecting to via RCA from my sound card and a mono cable from my subwoofer, but I've been noticing some quirks that I didn't experience with my previous ones. For instance, if I max out the Windows volume but keep the speaker volume at a normal level, the audio will sound blown out. The way to fix this is by lowering the Windows volume and increasing the speaker's volume, but then when there's no sound playing the static hiss of the speakers is very audible. I read that optical would fix this because it is a digital output, but wouldn't that bypass my sound card's DAC? I'm assuming the DAC in my sound card is better than the speakers, because it cost more than the speakers did when I bought it (but this was 10 years ago so maybe not). What do you think, should I be using optical or RCA here? Is there a compromise between the two? Thanks!

Thanks, I was about to try these, but a BSOD while gaming which I first thought was caused by my CPU's PBO -30 all core offset and 100mhz boost has led me to find out that my memory wasn't as stable as I thought. After testing in Prime 95 Large FFT, I realized that within a few minutes I was getting worker failures and BSODs with every increment I reduced the offset by. On a hunch I then disabled CO/boost override, tested again, and almost immediately got a BSOD with the stop code "MEMORY_MANAGENENT." So I then set my RAM settings to the default Expo profile, reduced FCLK to 2000, re-enabled -30 CO/+100mhz boost. Although it hasn't been long enough to definitively say, I'm now 35 minutes into this P95 test which is the longest it has ever gone without worker failures or BSODs, by about 30 minutes. So my RAM OC wasn't nearly as stable as I thought. It ran Karhu for 2 hours without issues, but I guess the instability is when I stress the CPU and RAM simultaneously. I'd still like to try get 6400mhz CL 30 stable if possible. I think those settings were close, as I was gaming for hours without issue with those unstable settings. Should I loosen my primary timings more (and by how much would you say), increase the SOC voltage, increase VDD voltage, or any combination of these? Thanks for all your help by the way. Edit: Tried raising VDD voltage to 1.45v but that didn't seem to have any effect. I'm a little nervous further increasing my SOC. 1.26v already seems pretty high for 6400MHz from what I've read. Buildzoid did 6400MHz with the same primary timings at 1.22v SOC on a very similar kit.

Does it sound normal that it still won't post when I set tRFC to 600? I'm trying to use the loosest M die subtimings I can find for 2x32gb 6400 CL 30, but nothing I try will post. I have to take out my CMOS battery every time to get back into the BIOS to change it. It does seem to be stable at 30-38-36-40, so I'm contemplating just leaving all subtimings except tREF on auto if I'm not missing out on a huge performance difference by not tuning them. I must have a really good 9700X to be able to do 6400MHz 1:1 at 1.26V SOC, but a really bad RAM kit to not handle slightly tighter subtimings, even for M dies.

Also, is my tREFI safe at 65535 when I'm maxing out around 54-56C per stick? I know it's temperature sensitive. Karhu isn't reporting any errors but would would be a good enough safe value to set this to at these temps?

Thanks! I'm doing another Karhu test with tighter timings overall. I reduced the DRAM VDD to 1.4V but increased SOC to 1.26V. It was stable for an hour without -co and PBO, so I just enabled those settings and ran it again. I don't know if it's 100% stable now but it's now 30 minutes beyond my previous test without any errors. I took the timings from another post I found with a similar RAM kit (same manufacturer and specs, but it's a Trident Z5 instead of my Flare X5), which wouldn't post at first. That had the tRFC/tRFC2/tRFCsb at 472/256/208, which realizing made me recall what Buildzoid said in a video about M dies not being able to post with tRFC in the 400 range. So I'm assuming theirs is likely an A die while mine is M? I changed those back to the loose values my motherboard set before and ran this test again, but I'm looking for new values to set them to. Can I set them to around the same values I've seen for single rank M die even though these are dual rank? I will be trying Y-Cruncher VT3 next.

I have a kit of G.Skill Flare X5 2x32GB 6000Mhz CL30 I'm trying to get to 6400 CL30 or even CL28 if I'm able to. As a baseline, I enabled the Expo Profile but the custom changes I made are changing speed to 6400Mhz, DIV1 mode set to UCLK=MEMCLK, main timings to 30-38-36-40, tREFI to 65535, ARdPtrInitVal P0 to 2 (these three settings are from following Buildzoid's settings for a similar kit), VDD voltage to 1.42V (VDDQ and VDDIO are running at stock Expo 1.4V), SOC voltage to 1.25V, and enabling MCR and PowerDown. As for my CPU in case it's relevant, I applied an all curve -30 offset, set PBO limits to motherboard and platform thermal throttle limit to 80C, increased max boost clock by 100mhz and set FCLK to 2133. I'm running this with the RAM OC but haven't stress tested the CPU yet, should I leave that at stock while I test the RAM OC, or try stress test the CPU first? I ran Karhu with no errors right up until the one hour mark when it stopped the test with 2 errors. What should I try tweaking next to get this stable? And if I can get it stable, what would be a good baseline to try for CL28 here? Thanks!

Thank you. I'll get the basic motherboard. As for the RAM, I'll see if they can let me swap to the 64GB Flare X5 so I'm not forced to buy the 32GB in order to get the bundle discount. They only have the 64GB Flare X5 kit that's 6000mhz CL30 anyway. I've just heard of a lot of other bundle purchasers having issues with this specific motherboard and RAM combination, so I wanted to lessen the risk at least partially by getting another brand of RAM. But I didn't realize that the Kingston is backordered on Newegg and is going for $66 over MSRP for a new kit sold by Amazon, so it doesn't seem worth it, and especially so after hearing your thoughts.

Hey all! I'm considering grabbing the 9700X Micro Center bundle deal. The 32GB Flare X5 DDR5 RAM and B650 motherboard in the bundle are quite basic however. I definitely need to replace the RAM because I need 64GB. I have a kit in mind, as it's the only low profile 64GB 6000Mhz CL30 kit I could find besides another Flare X5 with looser timings at the same CL, but I was wondering if the motherboard is good enough for the overclock I'm looking to achieve. My goal, if both my CPU and RAM permits, is 2133 FCLK and 6400Mhz CL28. Realistically though I'm hoping for at least 2066 FCLK and either 6000Mhz CL28 or 6400Mhz CL30. The motherboard is 8+2+2 phases which seems to be near if not bottom of the barrel for B650. They do allow me to upgrade the bundle to a slightly higher end B650 motherboard with 12+2+2 phases for $50 more, but I was wondering if that was worth it at all. See below links. Thanks! Motherboard Motherboard upgrade option RAM

Yes. Seems like it may be my motherboard afterall? My motherboard tech specs list the max supported RAM frequency is 3866MHz, but when I left everything else the same and lowered it to 3600MHz just now, it posted and is properly running at 3600MHz. I don't know why though, the motherboard is rated to run at 3866MHz and was working fine at that frequency for almost a year.

Thanks! I bought mine new, and they worked with XMP for about a year. If they are faulty with XMP, is this something I can do a warranty claim for?

Hi all, I had this PC disconnected from power for a month, and it wasn't posting after trying to use it again. After doing some tests, it posted after I disabled both my RAM XMP and CPU OCs, it posted when I only applied my CPU OC and disabled XMP, but no matter what it wouldn't post if I had my XMP profile enabled. So that seems to be the issue. This is the RAM I am using. I'm using the default XMP overclock, besides bumping the speed down to 3866MHz from 4000MHz since my older motherboard only supports up to 3866MHz and wouldn't post at 4000MHz even when I had the 3866MHz OC working. The XMP profile changes: DRAM Frequency: Auto - > DDR4-3866MHz DRAM Voltage: Auto - > 1.4058 DRAM CAS# Latency: Auto - > 18 DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay: Auto - > 24 DRAM RAS# Act Time: Auto - > 46 I got it about a year ago and it has been working fine with this very same profile until now, even until the moment I stopped using it a month ago. Could it be that the RAM can't sustain this overclock at this voltage anymore? If so, about how much should I bump it up by to test if it's working again without overdoing it? Wanted to ask first before I break something. Thanks! Relevant other parts: Asus TUF Z270 MARK 1 ATX LGA1151 i7 7700k EVGA SuperNOVA G3 850W