AngryOcelot17

Well then, that was the fix. I put +0.0125 on the voltage in the BIOS and everything seems stable, ran R23 and got a little over 7000 points. Crazy how such a slight change can make such a big difference. Though I think I need to upgrade my cooling now, CPU was hitting 92C by the end of the run.

I ran R23 again and took a screenshot of HWMonitor's voltage readouts but I'm not sure which one I'm supposed to be looking at. None of these seem to be at the default value the 2600 is supposed to be at.

I made sure Windows was fully updated before all this and that Windows was idling with nothing extra running in the background. I'm a little hesitant to touch the voltage on my CPU as I know how easy it is to fry a CPU that way, and just coming off FX hearing all the horror stories of overclocking those.

High Performance, as stated in the original post

Ever since I got this CPU it seems like the performance has been lower than everyone else that has this chip. After reinstalling Windows the other day performance didn't seem to change at all. I downloaded and ran Cinebench R23 and got a multicore score of 4887...looking into it I see that the normal score should be around 7000 points. The single core score was 974 which seems to be about right if a tad bit low. Watching CPUID HWMonitor while the multicore benchmark was running I noticed the CPU dropped to 2.6ghz while temperature was only at 68C. I looked around my BIOS to see if I had accidentally set anything wrong when I turned on my RAM's XMP profile but pretty much everything was default. My Specs: Ryzen 5 2600 slight OC to 3.9ghz Hyper 212 Cooler w/ Noctua fan replacement MSI RTX 2070 TriFrozr 32gb DDR4 3000mhz dual channel MSI B450-A Pro BIOS version A.A0 Fresh install of Windows with power plan set to high performance Corsair CX650M PSU

Super late update, the problem persists but I have discovered the issue based on a theory from a friend. I put my R5 2600 and Vega 56 in the other PC I have and did some testing and benchmarking. None of the errors occured and performance was significantly better between CPU and GPU. I do not think it was the PSU anymore, rather the motherboard. The PSU in the other PC is far lower quality and wattage than what is in my main rig.

Didn't get a chance to switch the PSUs until today. I think I found the problem though....I found another PSU from my old old rig that I was gonna try and use, unfortunately I couldn't find all the cables, so I tried using the ones that I already had in the system but they unfortunately did not fit in the old PSU...but then I noticed something, the back of my current PSU doesn't have 2x8 pin PCI-E power ports...only one...it turns out I was putting the 2nd 8 pin into the extra 8 pin CPU it has for some reason...I'm thinking that was my issue the entire time. The PSU I use now is only semi modular and the CPU power cable is built in so I don't know why it would need another 8 pin connector. Sorry for low quality, my phone's camera is kinda garbage.

I put it in the other PC and ran it during a 3 hour stream (I can never make it past 2 hours before it crashes on my main rig no matter the game) playing Fallout 3. So I guess tomorrow I'm going to switch the PSUs and see if it crashes again in my main rig, but it looks like the PSU I guess.

I have another system but I don't know if the PSU has enough juice for it. It's a 500w, can't remember brand, Rosewill I think, with a 2200g

I was given an ASRock Vega 56 Phantom Gaming X about a year ago, and ever since my system regularly but completely randomly will cut to black/grey screen (different per monitor) and then my system will shut down with my motherboard's CPU light on, and the GPU's fan making an odd noise where it spins up real fast and then stops and continues that loop until I force the system to shut down completely and restart. The system always boots into Windows just fine after. I've tried a new install of Windows, DDU several times, making sure everything is well cooled (nothing in my system goes over 65C). I'm not sure why my motherboard's CPU light would turn on after the crash, as I've found that downgrading to a GTX 970 gives absolutely no system crash. Forcing a minimum VRAM clock state in Wattman did not solve the issue, nor did downclocking the GPU to Vega 56's stock. My CPU and RAM are also at their stock frequencies and besides a CPU fan curve my motherboard BIOS is at all defaults. A friend of mine suggested maybe the BIOS on the GPU is corrupt, but I really don't want to have to flash the BIOS unless I have to. This crash happens whether my system is at full load, or idling while I'm not even at it, completely random with seemingly no trigger. No information prior to crash of errors in EventViewer. No BSOD errors. System Spec Windows 10 Ed 64bit Ryzen 5 2600 w/ Hyper 212 & Noctua fan MSI B450-A Pro BIOS version 2.8 ASRock Vega 56 Phantom Gaming X stock blower cooler GeIL 2x8gb 2133mhz Corsair CX650m (GPU PCI-E power served by 2 separate 8 pin connectors to the PSU)

So I have a GTX 970 in my system right now but I also have a Vega 56 that I recently got. I had the Vega 56 in my system for a little while but switched back to the 970 because of weird driver related bugs and the fact that recording with ReLive is a nightmare....but I miss all that VRAM and performance. What I'm wondering is, can I have both cards in the system but use the Vega as primary rendering and utilize the 970 for ShadowPlay? I have a Corsair CX650M PSU, R5 2600 at 4ghz and mobo is MSI B450-A PRO.

oh wow, those are extremely similar to some headphones I stole from my sister when I was a kid...I remember them being really nice and comfortable, will definitely have to check them out

I just recently acquired a new job as a janitor, cleaning the floors of a nursing home. It's a long and boring job so I've been wearing cheap $1 earbuds listening to music, but not only are they just terrible earbuds, I need to keep one out at all times so I can hear the world around me. I've done a bit of research myself but can't seem to find a better solution, such as open backed earbuds (if those even exist). I have been recommended bone conduction headphones but the ones within my budget on amazon just don't seem good. Can anyone help me out? It doesn't need to have anything special, wireless would be nice, and it needs to be sweat/water resistant, and $50 max budget.

My specs - R6 2600 - ASRock B450 Pro4 - GTX 980 Ti - 16gb Geil 2400mhz - 120gb OS SSD - 2tb Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm - 650w Rosewill Hive 650S So my issue is...just randomly out of the blue today, Windows started chirping the "new USB media inserted" over and over and over and over again, non-stop, surviving restarts. After it began, the first restart gave me a much longer than usual boot splash screen (where it says ASROCK). After a couple more restarts I went into the BIOS to just reset all to default to see if that would fix it, upon entering the BIOS I was greeted with extreme lag, only updating the screen every few seconds. Resetting the BIOS changed nothing. I even removed the CMOS battery and left everything unplugged for about an hour but that also did nothing. A few hours later I was told to update the BIOS, doing that might fix the issue..it did not, there was no change. I have tried unplugging all USB devices but the issue persists. I've also tried unplugging my hard drives but the lag in the BIOS continued. Unplugging the front panel USB also did nothing. In the hidden icons tray of Windows on the task bar, it shows a USB symbol that states "USB device not recognized" that does not go away when all USB devices are unplugged. Clicking on this symbol gives a pop-up message "The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it" with a recommendation to reconnect the device. I hope that it isn't an issue that requires a replacement motherboard..but that hope is running out with every failed fix. While typing this all out, the issue shifted slightly, the USB symbol in the hidden icons tray disappeared, and the sound changed to also include the USB device disconnected sound.

I very much know that..unfortunately 3.5 vs 4.0ghz seems to have absolutely no effect on performance for me