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Wow - one of the most important overclocking features, and they don't even put it in the manual?!

Found a toggle switch on my recently-bought board that's labelled BIOS_SW1, with positions JDP1 and JBD1 (default). This switch is labelled in the master "overview of components" diagram in the manual, but there is no chapter/paragraph explaining what it is or what it does. Any ideas?

Add to this the fact that the 7600X is, for some reason, cheaper than the non-X... I've got the cooling headroom to keep it under control!

I am well aware of this, but I was pricing up AIOs, and the 420 was the cheapest at the time I was looking (incredible £111 from Scan - the 240 is £110!).

Just put my 5600 back in, and copied the BIOS settings 100 % precisely from the last time it was in, and got lower scores than before the update. This leads me to believe that 1. the new BIOS, 2. the latest graphics card drivers, or 3. the latest chipset drivers are responsible for the loss - I have updated all three since the last time I benchmarked with my 5600. ETA - just run Superposition, and got back to 9500+ (from <8000 on the 5800X 3D, but 9800+ before any of this).

It's just frustrating me that it hasn't given me the bump I was expecting - I messed with the CO and it made little difference; multi-core improved a bit, but single-core went DOWN. I'm going for a basic AM5 - 7600 (non-X), B650 Edge Gaming, DDR5 6000/32 (running at lower bandwidth for tighter timings). Went mental and also ordered a 420 Liquid Freezer... and a Meshify 2 to put it in!

That was stock; just did a -25/-30 and got roughly equivalent CB23, but 10 degrees cooler. Left it core cycling on SSE for 90 mins while I went to town, with Youtube running alongside, and no errors reported. I've made my mind up on AM5 - Prime Week plus my Amazon employee discount should save me a few quid.

Just been in the BIOS and forced Gen 4 PCIe, disabled BAR, and enabled 1:1 UCLK (which I forgot to do). No difference. Tempted to put my 5600 back in to see how it does - I copied the BIOS settings precisely before I removed it, and I can key them all in to match...

Just checked the link speed in Device Manager and it says 4. It gets to 80 (at least) in CB23, but nowhere near that in games. Tbh, I'm on the brink of selling all my AM4 kit and going to a 7600 on an AM5 board.

CPU is 100% in properly - I give it a wiggle before I locked the lever.

Significantly lower with the X 3D.

X570S Torpedo. I've done 1000% pass with Memtest and no errors are showing up, not even WHEA. (I can't use XMP with my RAM because it's that crazy 4400 Patriot Viper stuff; I went as far as 3600 and kept everything 1:1.)

NH-D15S, with an extra 120 mm on the front. Going to try CO undervolt tomorrow - my BIOS has Kombo strike, but I think MSI's latest BIOS lets you use CO for the X 3D anyway. My plan is to use -25 for my "starred" cores and -30 for everything else, then kick it in the nads with some low-load OCCT core cycling.

4070, both times.

Just installed my shiny new 5800X 3D and dialled in the RAM settings to precisely the same as I had with my outgoing 5600. Ran some gaming benchmarks... and it's WORSE - Superposition was down nearly 20%, Heaven was down from 4500 to 4250, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider came out within margin of error, but with admittedly much better CPU frametimes (and it went from 41% GPU bound to 70%). BIOS has just been updated to latest stable, and aside from the RAM overclock, I have not touched any voltages - the 5600 and 5800X 3D are being compared stock for stock. What on earth have I done/not done wrong?! I can't tell you how gutted I am to have spent £240 to get a WORSE gaming performance than a boggo 5600 I can keep hold of for nothing! M.