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Mine seems to be OK now with the latest BIOS and chipset drivers, even with XMP enabled. Just set your Power Plan in Windows to Balanced. I also put minimum CPU state to 7%.

I made a post on this too. Idle voltages when in BIOS show 1.47v. But when I start maxing out the cores in a program this go down to around 1.3. I agree that the whole observer effect thing is nonsense, since the BIOS, CPUinfo, HWMonitor and Ryzen Master show the same thing. I've come to the conclusion that everything is fine. My temps are very stable even under load, and at idle around 45c but load is about 60c. If you're worried about it I recommend turning off Core Performance Boost, which drops voltage to 1v and sometimes below.

Hi everyone, I (finally) upgraded from i5-3470 to a Ryzen 7 3700X, MSI X570 A PRO with latest firmware, 32 (2x16) GB Corsair Vengance LPX 3200 MHz and I was wondering what the consensus is on voltages. I set everything to Auto and idle voltages in both Windows and UEFI (BIOS) are hovering around 1.48v. I tried with both XMP on (3200 MHz) and off (2666 MHz), with no difference. I have disabled Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) and still I am getting high idle voltages. It is only when I disable Core Performance Boost that voltages drop to 1v and below (0.925 ish). However in doing so, the clock speed stays at 3.6 GHz constantly in Windows. I am using Ryzen Balanced power plan with Minimum state to 2% and maximum state at 100%. I plan on installing a Linux distro (Fedora) to check if this is an issue with Windows as I've had good experience with Threadripper and Fedora but I've seen a ton of posts on Reddit about the voltage issue. So my question is, what is the recommended settings right now? Is 1.48v at idle normal even in BIOS? Why does Core Performance Boost lower voltages so much and why the constant clock speeds? I don't want to prematurely destroy a new CPU. Thanks

I got a 28 inch 4K panel and it's fine at 175% scaling (I also increased font sizes but I did that at 1080p anyway). It's only stuff like Steam overlay and other non-scaling aware apps that are too small.

As long as a screen can do 60 Hz I'd take higher resolution any day. I'd take 4K 60Hz over 1440p 240Hz without a doubt.

Ah ok. So I guess that's why framerate drops below 60 without GSync are much more noticeable?

Either way I've never noticed any of the infamously claimed inpur lag from Vsync so i don't even know if GSync is working or not, and yes I've tried with both Vsync on and off. So again i really question the purpose of GSync.

I made a thread on this saying how it's viable. If you buy a 6GB dual fan model you can easily overclock to 2GHz and overlcock the memory too. I get solid 60 at 4K Ultra on DiRT Rally, same with Forza 6 Apex. For more demanding games you'll have to settle for 1440p or lower framerates.

I only bought my monitor because it was the cheapest 4K screen I could get, believe it or not. It just happened to have G-Sync and 1ms response time.

But I don't notice any lag with VSync on. I've never ever noticed lag with VSync on, and I feel no difference with VSync off even in fast-paced games.

I've had my Acer Predator XB281HK for a few months now and one of the features is GSync. However I can't tell the difference between using VSync and GSync. As someone that's always used V-Sync for 60 FPS gaming, I cannot for the life of me see what all the fuss is about. Although there's plenty of articles explaining in theory what GSync does I still don't understand it, and I certainly can't perceive the difference to gameplay, even in a fast-paced game like Gears of War. Am I blind or am I missing something? Also I don't think GSync even works half the time and doesn't play well with some games.

I made an Android app as part of my degree last year but never got round to putting it on the Play store. Also I had this Java application which monitored Steam market items and notified you when they went below or above a certain price but trying to turn a profit on Steam is very difficult due to the transaction fees (15% last time I checked).

Yes, I definitely do! I think people underestimate these GPUs. That's my point.

Weirdly in Gears of War 4 it shows I only have 5.05 GB VRAM yet the usage (again according to in-game performance overlay) it goes up to 5.55 GB sometimes. It's weird that it doesn't see the full 6144 MB yet acknowledges that it uses more than it thinks it has without any performance impact.

GTX 1050 Ti is more than enough for 1080p60 Ultra