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Did this setup ever work properly? Also what type of storage medium are you using as your boot device?

You should still take it apart anyway. Even if you dont think water would have gotten somewhere. Wate has a way of getting into everything. All the little nooks an crannys that you may not be able to see. There's also a chance of water sitting on the underside of the motherboard. I highly advise you disassemble the entire rig and dry the whole thing piece by piece for 24hours. Even if a part seems dry, dry it anyway. It needs to be dry inside and out. Also Please remove your cmos battery. This is suppling a small current to the bios chip. If this shorts out from the water, It could damage the bios severely.

I tried this. I believe your results will vary with your motherboard. The computer hard locks. No usb, no sound, nothing. Even the power button doesn't seem to do anything. The video stays on screen for a second or two but then just goes black. While all this happens, all the fans will ramp up to full speed. When I did this, I did it with an old LGA 775 Pentium. I used a very tiny heatsink so I could lift the cpu door. However the system locked when just the arm was lifted. After all was said and done, I unplugged the system, put the CPU back, and it booted no problem. I then ran multiple stress tests and it performed exactly the same as before. TLDR: Somewhat uneventful

I actually have a 3200mhz vengence lpx kit on my b350 tomahawk board. I have been trying for months now to get it stable past 2667. I almost threw a parade yesterday when it finally posted at 2800mhz. Moral of my story is the the tomahawk board overall just sucks. But it really sucks at memory compatibility It will indeed work with that RAM, but you'll be hard pressed to even get 3000 let alone 3600

I've seen I've seen threadripper chips bought with core i7s while I was looking at a x370 board.

Despite it being for a smaller form factor pc, this cooler is huge. I have this and have 0 issues with my ram clearance. I would imagine that if you're using something really tall like dominators you may have issues. I have 2 sticks of vengence ram in my computer with no problems. Of course with all that said I am using a a full atx motherboard where the ram slots are quite a bit further away than that of an itx board. So you may have trouble with that. I dont really know for sure.

I actually had this problem on my HP as well a long time ago. This is actually normal behaviour, though yours does seem to be pretty drastic. I cant remember if there are bios settings for this or not but you can look there. The thing that helps the most is setting the power to nax, which you have already done. Unfortunately this is the way it is. When I was in college I used my HP without a battery and just plugged it in. That's when I wanted to game on it. Its not the most elegant solution but it does work

So this is not an issue that affects all MSI boards. I was thinking it was all boards from MSI. I may be misniterpreting here, but it sounds like comparitvly speaking ( aside from faster MOSFETS), the MSI board is not too terrible compaired to the Asus board. This leads me to think that maybe the b350 asus board would not be too bad. The minor differeances are really not all that bad.

Interesting. I dont know that I have ever seen an option to change the FSW in the bios. Is that set automatically? Now i do know that the the Tr and Tf being at 24nS is so slow. This would probably explain why i have voltage spikes and dips that are a bit out of the comfort zone. if you look at my voltages oduring the tests, yhou will notice that even though i have my voltage set to 1.3625V it still spikes up to 1.39-1.4. This is why i never ever run anything a tthe max safe voltage. I am curious though. Do you have the Tr/Tf data for the asus prime board? I admit that i dont know what the rds is. I will look this up when i have an oppertunity. But i will say that an FET its supposed to be a short of 0ohms when fully closed (assuming they are in a switch configuration). Because I dont know what this is, I feel that 7 mOhms is decent. Is the 20W TDP for the tomahawk board really all that bad compaired to the more higher end Asus board that has 18W TDP? This could be another situation of me just being ignorant but with the comparison in mind it doesnt seem too big of a deal. Now with that said, I know that overclocking anything pretty much throws TDP that was specced by a manufacture out the window. I would think with an overclock that high, its probably outputting much more heat than just 20W. I really enjoyed my Asus 970 board when i was running FX processors because of the really finite voltage controls. My MSI board just lacks the ability to fine tune voltage the way that i want. I thought that it was just a ryzen thing but I'm starting to think not so much.

Not that I do or dont belive you, because I really do appreciate the help, but I actually would like to see that data. Mostly for curiosity sake. I went to collage for electrical engineering and know a fair bit about mosfets. Whatever I dont know I can look up or just ask for explanation

I do have the latest bios of 1.8. The CPU NB is set to auto at .968 just as you said. I have been wanting to raise this as I know it will provide more stability. Though I'll probably only push it 1.0V. I would be interested to know more about this particular part of the CPU. I have tried but I don't think I tried in depth. Ill probably give this a go one more time

here are my result from running 15 minutes of burn in test.

Ok ill run some tests when i get home. I do have airflow over the VRM from my cpu cooler. The fans point down at the board from the cooler. So they have some airflow

How big of an issue is that?

Vcore is 1.3625 though I have gotten it to run at 1.35 with the same oc. 1.3625 just made me feel a little better.

Hmm yea I guess that is true with the nature of overclocking. I guess I just thought with stronger VRM that I would be able to acheive that and maybe even higher. I was looking at the am4 motherboard guide and I guess i just thought i was going to need x370 for the best OC Is the Asus b350 board good? Its cheaper but still very pricy. This is typically what happens which I expected but then it just removes all the overclocking on everything. What makes you say that? Bad VRM? Does the b350 version also have it?

On my Ryzen 7 rig I am haveing a hard time getting stability with my overclock on my ram and cpu. I just bought some 3000MHz RAM. However if i try to run at its rated speed or even 2800, My PC either fails to boot or resets my CPU OC. I am running a MSI tomahawk b350, corsair vengence 3000 16GB RAM, and a ryzen 7 1700 oced to 3.95GHz. Iwould it be worth it for me to buy an asus prime x370 board (not really what i want because $150 is alot right now) or should i just try to live with 3.95GHz and 2667MHz RAM? I have a GTX980 in there and I most just game with this computer.

Yea I like that. But I dont have a laser cutter. I would probably just go without a design and have the leds coming out of the sides. What I think would look really cool is this kinda of vinyl on top of the rgb cover

I do want to look into getting her a new cooler. One that is better. If nothing else the flow is all wrong. It blows up towars the top but there's no vent there.

Yea I really only need a motherboard ram and cpu. And probably a cooler. Probably going to try to make the FX system work a little bit longer

Lol this is what always end up doing. Unfortunately for me anyway, my pc is pretty intense for what I need. Anything more would simply be redundant. I was thinking of maybe building a ryzen 3 system for her. Money tho...

Well I mention that because its a 400w pay with no 80+ rating that can draw 450w from the wall. (Really old psu)

I actually blow both mine and hers out with a compressor once a month or so

Yea that's what I figured just wanted to get a second opinion. I actually do have an extra psu that I can use ( the one thats currently installed is way too close for comfort anyway) Ill try that. Ill try that too. I never thought about the thermal paste. Thank you. This is exactly what its doing. Only instead of idle its light load like streaming Pandora or something.

My girlfriends rig has a FX-8320E processor that I had at one point overclocked to 4.8GHz @ 1.41V. It was a little unstable at these settings so I pulled it back to 4.6@1.38V which was rock solid for about a year and a half. I then gave the system to my girlfriend. She had a lesser cooler so I was only able to get it to 4.4GHz@1.38V. That has been stable fkr a long time but. It is now becomming unstable. It dies seeming randomly but the blue screens are becoming more frequent. The error she is getting is "thread exception not handled" which from my experiance is overclock related. Am I correct in assuming this cpu is losing its overclockablity?