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Hey guys So I just finished a build for a friend of mine. It's a Ryzen 3700x paired with a Gigabyte Aorus Elite B450 motherboard. It seemed to be running fine at first, but as I was doing some more setup and installing software, I noticed that the fans would ramp up and down every 5 seconds or so. It sounded like it was running something in the background, but it was idling. I checked the base clock speeds and saw that it was jumping between 3.6 GHz and 4.5 GHz back and forth every several seconds or so. I used some programs to look at temps and monitor clock speeds, and it was showing the same thing, but temps seemed to be ok. I booted into the BIOS and decided to disable the Core Performance Boost. While in BIOS though, I noticed that CPU was running fine, fans were quiet and clock speed was holding steady at 3.6 GHz. I booted back into Windows without changing anything and got the same crazy fluctuations again. I went back into my BIOS and disabled CPB, and now everything is running fine. Clock speed is holding nice and steady within Windows, and temps are great and fans are quiet. Here's the thing though, I really don't want to disable a feature or lose performance. Not sure what could be causing the crazy fluctuations, and don't want to leave the system running like that. Could it be a result of something else? Could it be an issue with my CPU or motherboard? I built an almost identical system for myself a while back and never experienced this issue. Any suggestions or advice? I'm up to try anything really, just kinda at a loss on what to do. Thanks!

Thanks. I appreciate the advice and will probably give it a try.

Thanks for the suggestion. I had originally thought to do this, but upon further research, people were saying that flashing to an older BIOS could brick your board. Obviously I didn't want to do that until I got some more advice about it. The more I look, the more I'm finding split opinions on it. Some say it's perfectly fine (supposedly some boards have interchangeable BIOS), and some will swear up and down that it'll brick your board. I submitted a question about it to Gigabyte just to be absolutely certain that it'll work on their boards, but I haven't heard anything back yet. Have you had any experience doing something like this?

Hey guys, I recently updated my BIOS on my Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite from F32 to F51. Immediately after, I started having system stability issues mainly with my RAM. With BIOS F32, I was able to run my RAM at 3000Mhz, however, when trying that under the new BIOS version, my system becomes highly unstable. If I run my RAM at anything over 2400Mhz, it fails to post, boot, or becomes unstable within Windows. My question is this, since BIOS version F32 was the last stable version that worked on my system, is there a safe way to rollback or reflash to version F32? If so, what's the best way to do that? I know if everything is running correctly, you should leave your BIOS alone, but my RAM wasn't running at the full memory speeds and I'd read that updating my BIOS to the current version could help solve that problem. Unfortunately, I've created an all-new worse problem for myself. I've tried contacting Gigabyte's customer support, but for whatever reason their server is down and keeps timing out whenever I submit my question. I'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 2700x on a Gigabyte B450 Elite motherboard. I've got 32Gb (16x2) of DDR4-3200 Ballistix Sport LT RAM. Any info or advice would be appreciated.

Great, that's what I figured but wanted to make sure I was doing it right. Thanks!

I do not have the Pi Zero W. I've just got the Pi Zero, the one linked in this tutorial for $5. I do have the Micro USB to RJ45 Ethernet Adapter that they show in the tutorial for those who do not have the WiFi version. So with that being said, would I just connect the Pi device to an empty ethernet port in the back of my router?

I'm a bit confused as well. I guess I'm not really sure how you hook up the Raspberry Pi device. Do you hook it up to your router using the ethernet adapter? Wouldn't this need to go between your internet input and router? I guess I would've liked a little bit of explanation on how to actually install the device after it's all set up.

I'm really hoping including a video card will increase render speeds. Right now, without a graphics card, it takes hours to render home movies. We're talking like 6 to 8 hours to render a 2-3 hour home movie and build an image file for Blu-ray. It's crazy. Then again, my current processor isn't great either.

Here's one of the cards I'm considering, but it's been a little tricky trying to figure out which cards are recommended for Vegas Pro. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K12KNHG/ref=psdc_284822_t1_B073BKYBC5

I think my current monitor supports DVI right now, but will probably update to one with HDMI support in the future.

Hey guys, I'm getting ready to start a new build, so I'm shopping around for parts. I've picked up a few components already, but really need to nail down a graphics card. The new computer will mainly be a workstation, no gaming really, and I'll be using programs like Photoshop for graphic design and photo editing, but my main reason for installing a video card will be so that I can do some video editing work with Vegas Pro 14 (and maybe Vegas Pro 15 in the future). I won't be doing really heavy video editing, mainly stuff at 1080, so I shouldn't need anything too crazy. Here's the list of components I have so far: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x Gigabyte B450 Motherboard 32Gb of DDR4-3200 RAM Also, I'm kind of on a budget, so I'd like to stay somewhere around the $200 and under range. So I'm looking for the best card I can get for around the price that will get the job done. I'd also like to look at a Radeon card and unfortunately, at least at the moment, need one with a DVI port (Hoping to be able to upgrade the monitor in the future). I've seen some highly rated cards on sites like NewEgg and Microcenter, but I've never really shopped for a video card before as my previous builds have mainly been budget PCs. This time I'm building with a workstation in mind and since it's been a while since my last build, I'm a little behind on the tech that currently available. I'd really appreciate any information or suggestions you could give me. Thanks!

Hey, thanks for the response. Yeah, I considered the 3rd Gen Ryzen, but a brand new processor like that was out of my budget. I got a heck of a deal on the 2700X, so that's going to allow me to put a little more toward the video card. Thanks again for the info!

Hey guys, So I'm starting a new build, and I'm trying to choose a motherboard. I've already bought my processor, which is the AMD Ryzen 2700X, so now I'm moving onto picking my motherboard. I'm kind of on a budget, so that's something I'm trying to keep in mind when looking. Out of all the ones I've looked at, I've basically narrowed it down to two Gigabyte models: GIGABYTE B450 AORUS ELITE GIGABYTE X470 AORUS ULTRA There's about a $20-30 price difference between the Elite and the Ultra, and I'm not sure what the differences are. Looking at the specs, they look like they have same expansion slots as well as compatibility for the same type/speed of RAM. For this build, I'm wanting to put together a machine to do video editing. Nothing too heavy, mainly home movies at 1080P. I'll be using Vegas Pro to do the editing. Gaming really isn't a factor. I might do some light gaming, but nothing heavy. So I'm not really trying to build a powerful gaming rig or anything like that. Any suggestions would be welcome, or if you'd like to recommend another motherboard besides the two I've got listed, that'd be fine too. Oh, and I'd like to stick with the ATX form factor. Nothing mini or micro. Thanks!