Lanceo90

Weirdly, while I was stable in synthetic testing, I finally got around to booting up a graphically intense game and started crashing again. Had to role the overclock to just the XMP. Still find it hard to believe I can't squeeze anything out of this with the stability the AORUS Master should have and the RAM kit being fairly decent.

Okay I must not have put in enough voltage or forgot to up it when I finally pushed a change. I still can't change the timings at all without bluescreens, I was able to take it up to 3600MHz and bring the infinity fabric up to 1800 at least.

I didn't crank it when I tried just going to 14-14-14-34 but I did when I followed the "safe" recommendations from the Ryzen calculator

So I followed Anthony's overclocking guide, as well as trying a guide from HardwareUnboxed, and other tidbits on Youtube. But I can't seem to pull off any overclock at all on my RAM, even the smallest overclocks aren't stable on games and higher ones that it looks like I should have no problem with won't post and reset the BIOs. I'm running: R7-3800X X570 AORUS Master G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB(4x8) 3200MHz 15-15-15-35(XMP) I'd like to either crank it up to 3600MHz without losing timings, or just bring the timings down. I've followed Anthony's guide to the T but changes never seem stable. As far as I can tell it's Samsung B-die and pretty decent RAM, and the Master is pretty high end too. I feel like it should be able to pull one or the other off if not both. Did I lose the silicone lottery so hard that I really have no wiggle room at all? Or is their some small setting that maybe Anthony or HardwareUnboxed missed that I need to do for the OC to take?

Well I tried both with similar settings. Ran just fine my end either way, but also the recording was blurry either way. x264 had a file size of 2gb though and NVENC had 10gb, so all thing being equal looks like it will be better to go to x264 and crank up quality settings.

Drives up the views on youtube. ? I was lazy and used Google to sign up here, didn't think about it grabbing my Google pfp.?

Now I know the question of x264 vs. NVENC has been done to death for a good while now. But now that a certain CPU series has shook the market to the foundations, it's a question I gotta ask again. Before, running a 1070Ti and Intel 3770K this choice was very easy to answer, my video card was /way/ better than my CPU. Every game beat my CPU to a pulp, so NVENC was the clear winner. But now I'm running a 3800X that only flexes a few cores to game, leaving the majority not even doing anything, and it's the 1070Ti that's the weakest link. So it seems like the answer should be to move to x264. However, I've seen that the new NVENC is considered incredibly strong, and doesn't even put much pressure on GPUs that support it. Like the 1070Ti. I am going to test it both ways and try to see for myself, but I'm curious if anyone has input. Particularly anyone in a similar boat of a AMD 3000 series CPU and a NVIDIA 1000 series GPU.

Hey guys, I'm new here. I really wanted to get some second opinions on this, but I didn't really have anyone's brain to pick on it. So thought I might find advice here! I purchased an X570 Aorus Master, and 32GB(4x8) DDR4-3200 15cas RAM when the 3900X launched. At the time I didn't have the cash to spare to get the processor, a 3900X and it was going in and out of stock anyway. I didn't anticipate it would stay out of stock this long. Not only that, but now I'm seeing the reports that only 5% of the processors are meeting advertised speeds. I know AMD says they're fixing it with firmware, but it still has me feeling a little sweaty. On top of that, the Intel 9900KF is only $410 on Newegg, while the price of the nowhere to be found 3900X has gone up to $530. I'm out of the return window for the mobo at this point, if I can believe ebay I could sell it for $330 and only lose $30 from the $360 I paid. Then I could get a Z390 Master for $290. I could save $160 if I do this extra work and go Intel. But maybe I'm just getting a case of cold feet, and should just be patient for the 3900X to get back in stock(or as long as I've waited and saved at this point, get the 3950X), plus there's no guarantee that I could actually flip the board for that much. I know the real answer is "should have bought the processor first, then saved for the mobo and ram". Also I don't really want to settle on an r7 instead, it would make the motherboard more overkill than it is, and also I want the extra longevity. Apart from thosethough, what's the better option? Trying to flip the X570 board and going Intel? Staying the course and just getting the 3900X when I can? (For those curious, I'm upgrading from an i7-3770K and DDR3-1866. It was a beast in the day but now most games push the CPU to 100%, the RAM speed certainly doesn't help. Mobo doesn't have the i/o for the countless usb cables we have these days, and the ports are getting lose, booting up is a bit of a roulette to see what starts. I even get occasional blue screens, so it's definitely time to upgrade.)