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update seems 3200 did work, last time i tried it didn't seem to. anything below did also work. but with more fiddleing, you can get 3600 to work BUT first you turn on XMP which sets your speed to 3600 then lower the speeds to 3200 then 3333 then 3460 then 3600 rebooting and editing the bios in stages but starting it directly at 3600 will not work, and the bios will say 3600 in settings, but in the ram frequency system information will say 2133, and will simply run at 2133. so it looks like baby steps are needed if i push it past 3600 to say 3666, then it resets my bios and i need to setup the ram again

Just Upgraded my PC from black friday with these components https://www.newegg.ca/p/N82E16813145168 https://www.amazon.ca/AMD-Ryzen-3600X-12-thread-processor/dp/B07SQBFN2D https://www.newegg.ca/g-skill-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232880?Description=3600 CL16&cm_re=3600_CL16-_-20-232-880-_-Product realised that i cant adjust my ram speed CPUZ, wmic memorychip (cmd line) and ryzen master all show my ram as being 2133 ive gone into the Bios and set it to XMP, ive tried manually changing the settings to match XMP, ive tried setting it to 3200 so its within official specs, but the ram stays at 2133 and wont run any faster. just built a family member the same PC but with a https://www.amazon.ca/GIGABYTE-B450-AORUS-Thermal-Motherboard/dp/B07FWY246F both gigabyte, same bios layout, same ram kit and CPU and his worked with XMP without any issues, so i don't think i'm configuring anything wrong. i updated it to F11 (the newest Bios as of 2019/12/9) because every time it lost power it would reset the bios settings. i sent a ticket into gigabyte to see what they advise. my next step would be to roll the bios back to F10 to see if its a issue with the newest Bios. figured id post this in case anyone else has similar issues and to see if you guys had any idea what the problem might be. Photos are of Ryzen Master, CPUZ and my bios showing it set to XMP, sorry for the awful quality (to be clear, BIOs says its 3600, dosn't give me any error messages like failed to OC or anything like that, but all tools in OS say its at 2133, and gigabytes siv software wont even start)

anyways, my main question is it the fact its the 95 watt sku would impact overclocking performance http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-FX-Series FX-8120 FD8120WMW8KGU.html 95 watt http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-FX-Series FX-8120.html 120 watt the 120watt on CPU-world and Cnet both list its thermal specification as 61C but my 95watt is 70, which seems weird to me im also not sure of what the difference is between the 2 models, i initially thought it might have to do with how they boost but they show the same information on both product pages. if for whatever reason mines a power efficient version shouldn't that give me more overclocking room due to temps? looking online i cant really seem to find the 95 watt version listed unless i search by Sku which gets me a few sites listing the same specs or non mainstream sites selling it with very little information would it be worth just creating a thread for this specific question?

it was a ASUS M5A97 R1.0 had heatsinks on the mosfets and such, the issue was my CPU stopped receiveing power due to some kinda loose connection, since the board was worthless dead anyways we took the CPU out and heatgunned the bottom and it started getting power again. its been dead a few months. (the heat gun was to confirm it was a board issue since i didnt have any to test with, not to fix the board) this is R2.0 of the board that i had, looks about the same but didnt have the 2 bottom PCI lanes and the second 16X pciE was 4X. as far as prebuilts go i would never expect anything better https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131873&cm_re=ASUS_am3%2b_motherboard-_-13-131-873-_-Product im also wondering about hitting above 4GHZ since i had alot of thermal headroom already, and what kind of voltages i would be looking at my board pictured below

So my motherboard in a prebuilt died, im replaceing it with the ASUS 970 pro gaming http://www.ncix.com/detail/asus-970-pro-gaming-aura-atx-c7-126556.htm?promoid=1308 my processor is a OEM 95watt FX 8120 http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-FX-Series FX-8120 FD8120WMW8KGU.html i have a 212 Evo LED and im looking to overclock it, will i run into any issues with it being the 95 watt version? by default it was set to boost to 3.4ghz so i overclocked it a little before my board died to 4ghz. ( board didn't support OC so i did it with overdrive i'm looking forward to being able to use Bios this time) at 4 ghz i think i had it running low 50s under load before the motherboard died. looking for some general advice

So im having issues with my AM3+ Motherboard.while running sometimes the CPU fan would spin up really loud, and the system would turn off. when i tried to boot sometimes(especially after it turns off running) it would turn off instantly, or it would power up but the case fans wouldnt spin. Right now, its been sitting collecting dust and i figured id try and get it working again. the troubleshooting ive done is checked temps (its not a CPU overheating issue it would do so unoverclocked with a 212 evo wasnt even hitting 50) tried the individual ram sticks swapped GPU (currently powering my backup rig) swapped PSU (also currently running my backup rig) all thats left really are the CPU and motherboard and id assume its the board hopeing to run a friends fx4200 in my board and my fx8120 in his board and see if theres any issues during some stress testing letting it run for awhile, right now ive only had it turn off once and it turned back on without any issues, running prime95 blend to see if anything happens any advice from the Forums?

Well, my CPU on CPU benchmark is 4873 it scores a 366 in cinebench (testing with a bunch of stuff already installed). its old tech but the overclock pushes it performance wise into where DDR3 would be alot more commonplace. In fact my Board has a DDR3 version. on CPU benchmark my CPU is basicly on par with i7-6650U (which supports DDR4) or Intel Xeon E5620 which also arent exactly "high end" but its when DDR3 would be expected. im also running Modern titles. which considering the ps3/xbox360 had very little ram, and the ps4/xb1 has plenty. i figure modern titles might rely on ram alot more then previously

CPU Q9400 http://ark.intel.com/products/35365/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q9400-6M-Cache-2_66-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB Motherboard P5Q Deluxe https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5Q_Deluxe/ RAM KVR800D2N5/2GB http://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KVR800D2N5_2G.pdf GPU gtx970 (super bottlenecked) So my CPU is overclocked to 3.6ghz, 450FSB. its stable. its a 45nm so i dont wanna go over a 1.4fsb voltage right now the main issue im running into going any farther is the blend test. sometimes its errors, or ifi go farther its blue screens. what would you guys recommend i mess with at this point? can i go over 1.3625 without killing my CPU if temps are fine. what should i not go past NB voltage wise. what would likely be causing the blue screens im running 4 sticks of ram 5 Drives, 1SSD 4 HDD right now my CPU is at 3.625 i think my NB is 1.42 and my fsb i forget at the moment whats your advice?

So i remember hearing/being told Ram wasnt really a bottleneck however i saw this Video the other day right now im running a Q9400, overclocked to 3.6ghz (450FSB). my rams running at 900mhz with 8gb, i was considering upgrading to 1066mhz ram so i could overclock higher safely (ifi could get it on the cheap). i was wondering if my ram would be a big bottleneck. im running it with a gtx 970 (i know my GPU is bottlenecked to hell, my FX pc crapped out so i scrapped together a beautiful 775 rig from various sources while i wait for Zen) im basicly hopping to max out the performance out of this,as a hobby, and for performance