SumsarTheThird

so i decided to toy around alot with it today, and holy bobby did i get smarter once i realized what was happening.
i ended up with
curve -20
PTT = 140
TDC = 100
EDC = 190 (lowering this any further, reguardless of whats done to the other values, have a direct inpact on max speeds)
and it settled down on 2-5mhz below 4400mhz on all core. and 5.05 peak on singlecore. doing 4.85-4.9 in cinebench singlecore. (this is also peak, as it "builds" up to that speed before the next square starts, and it drops to almost 0 before building back upto those 4.85-4.9 again. although there is some squares where it never even reaches 4ghz still.)
but the biggest difference was the temps.
shaving off those 70-80 mhz in comparison to the picture above on allcore, lowered the temps by 10 degrees under all core load on air.
so i swapped back to my kraken x63 and saw a cool 69 degrees under load. 74 in prime95 (in which i throttled before)
both on aio and air, i saw idle temps of low to mid 30's respectively.
so well im not gonna get my chip as high as i'd like, but i got significantly lower temps and a slight singlecore boost in comparison to what i saw before.
i guess i cant ask for much more. win/win right ?
Final cinebench R23 scores is:
MC: 22261
SC: 1621
if someone could tell me how those scores look, i think i could just leave it where it is now.

Alright. im grateful for your time man! really!
i was afraid it was either motherboard or cpu. i mean, i have been running the cpu with PBO enabled all the time.
So i wouldnt be able to rule out that it might have been damaged, as amd do warn users when enabling it.
 
so i guess im going on the market for something new. amd 5000 series isnt far away so i might just let the system suffer untill reviews are out, to see if its gonna be an intel or amd system this time around.
 
Once again, thanks a lot for your time!

okay so it happened again while running at stock speeds.
so i ran the memtest you linked me, and it failed with 4 errors.

So i guess my issue is faulty ram, so ill be ordering some new ones later today.

Thanks a lot for the help man! i really really appreciate it!
 

might be ram instability. are you running them at 3200? 2000 series ryzen struggles with 3000+

That tool isn't very good. If you want to know your RAM is good for certain, use memtest
https://www.memtest86.com/
 
Also, if you are using XMP, turn it off and try to see how your system behaves

oh, drop it to stock speeds. I suspect your issue will go away from there. If it still persists after using stock speeds, test with memtest.

Turn off XMP entirely. Leave RAM at whatever speed the mobo sees it at.
Use your computer as normal, see how it behaves.
If it goes stupid again, try memtest.

ok. i updated the bios, that didnt change anything.
then i tried updating my boards nahimic software.
that didnt help anything either...

BUT... appearantly, enabling effects in nahimic makes it work.
it doesnt matter if any effects are being applied or not, effects just have to be enabled.
picture are of me scratching the mic with effects on vs effects off. (upper left corner of nahimic tab)
and this is even if i use an external sound card.
i really appreciate your try tho.
and sorry if i came off a bit rude. i was just annoyed that my friday evening was wasted on some weird mic bug.

That's very puzzling. If you can hear yourself with "listen to this device" enabled, that means not only that the mic is working, but also that it's making its way to the sound chip and then to the output jack without problems. Which leads me to believe that it has to be a software issue, but what exactly?  You already ruled out the obvious "I forgot about X setting" options, I think... 

Teamspeak, Discord and audacity.
Both teamspeak and discord doesnt register any sound.
and audacity is just recording absolutely nothing. not even noise.

But i just made a discovery.
If i enable playback of my mic. you know, so i can hear whatever it record in my headset (absolutely dont want this enabled tho)
THEN i can hear the mic working. but none of the programs are picking it up. and YES. the correct sound device is selected in all of the programs! both in and output.

Also tried to talk to people on discord. they hear absolutely nothing but with the playback enabled i can hear myself in my headset. so the mic IS working.