MisterMeow

PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $304.99 @ Amazon Motherboard MSI B450I GAMING PLUS AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard $99.99 @ Amazon Memory Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory $74.93 @ Newegg Storage Team MP33 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $50.99 @ Newegg Video Card PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Red Dragon Video Card $409.99 @ Newegg Case NZXT H210 Mini ITX Tower Case $79.98 @ Amazon Power Supply Corsair CXF 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $59.99 @ Newegg Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $1100.86 Mail-in rebates -$20.00 Total $1080.86 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-20 16:56 EST-0500 Couple changes I would make. The B450 boards will still have support for zen3 with a future bios update, some B450 boards even have them already. But I'd recommend a board that will at least allow you to overclock, and the MSI board is pretty decent. Slightly better ram with tighter primaries doesn't cost a whole lot more, so you may as well. The WD black NVMe drive is good, but you can get something cheaper, and unless you're transferring large raw 4k video files or something, you'll never know the difference. The main issue is with the GPU and your form factor. It's hard to find a 5700 xt that fits in an ITX case. I would get the 5700 xt over the 2060S, but if you have to have RTX for minecraft, then you don't really have an option. I do agree that RTX is a gimmick, at least on the 2000 series cards (excluding the 2080 ti). There's few games where you can really notice RTX, and fewer still that are playable with RTX on at higher settings. Also, don't waste your money on a full priced retail windows key. You can get those for around 20$~.

I would describe what you mean when you say the board doesn't keep.

If all you're after is stability at this point, may as well turn on GDM and change the command rate to 1T.

You mean it doesn't save the overclock or any settings you set in the bios?

So the problem is your motherboard. You're using a board that is likely using a daisy chain topology. With that topology, you want to use slots 2 and 4 for the best results. Also, that topology struggles a bit more with a 4 dimm configuration. So your best config is always going to be a 2 by in slots 2/4. With all 4 slots populated, you have a second slot in each channel which interferes with the signal. But the kit that won't go past 3000mhz at all is probably a bad bin on top of it. So either use a 4x8 config at 3000C15, or go for the better bin 2x8 with the overclock.

I don't really have an issue with the switches coming from China. But it's gonna mean if I do get hosed, there's nothing I can do about it. Optical switches seem to be a lot less common it seems. Kind of unfortunate.

Not sure what sites are reputable for gateron optical switches. I've seen them on banggood, aliexpress, and ebay. But I've never actually bought switches before, so I have 0 experience and would rather not get scammed considering the switches are almost certainly coming from china. Thanks in advance.

The asrock bios doesn't have that much control for fan curves, it's just 3 standard profiles you get to pick from. I'm just not 100% sure if that's bad for the cpu or not. I haven't seen issues with it yet, but I've also never seen cpu's do it before in my other systems.

The bios doesn't really specify. The only difference I've noticed is that the fan ramps up faster under load. But under 65-70c there's no noticeable difference.

I have a wraith max cooler because I wanted downward airflow for the VRM's. So I'm not using the stock cooler.

CPU fan curve is set to performance.

https://gyazo.com/d8a146e315b67fe91ac0a23c085d6148 Above is a gyazo of what my cpu does randomly. It only happens while watching certain videos in chrome. It's an R5 2600 ocerclocked to 4.1ghz. I can make the behavior stop by changing the idle power draw setting in my bios to performance (Asrock B450 Pro4), but doing so causes my cpu to idle around 6-10 degrees higher. You can see pretty clearly where the video starts and when I pause it just based on the temp graph. Anyone know if this is normal when overclocking ryzen chips?

I seemed to of fixed the problem just by dropping the vcore to 1.24v and adding a +50mv offset. Smoothed out the constant temp spikes when idling/low usage. Although I have no idea why doing this changed anything. It still idles at 1.28v and drops to 1.23v under load, which is identical to what it was before.

Well I don't really have time to run aida64 for more than about an hour. I've ran all kinds of benchmarks though. I've seen 0 instability so far. It's just the weird temp spikes I see at idle. Every few seconds the temps will spike maybe 8-10 degrees and drop back down. But on stock it doesn't do that. I feel like I'm missing something in the bios.

Long story short, I built the system about a month and a half ago and I haven't played around with cpu overclocking since 2012 when I built a fx 6300 system. So I'm sort of re-learning. I'm using an Asrock B450 Pro4 and a wraith max cooler, still on 3.1 bios which I'll update later. But This board has some not so familiar settings. There's no LLC, and the vdroop seems to be pretty aggressive. I've had what seem to be stable OC's at 4ghz with 1.3v. But under load vcore drops by 40-60mv. I did try doing a vcore offset of +50mv (which seems to be the stepping for this setting), but then it idles at +50mv. With offset on auto, @4ghz/1.3v, aida64 starts maxing out around 84c with short spikes up to 92-93c. No crashes, no bsod, The heaviest workload I'll ever put it under is gaming, so I don't expect to hit those temps. I just feel like I'm missing something in the bios. If anyone whose overclocked on this board can point me in the right direction of what settings I should be changing, I'd appreciate it. I was also curious what the stock voltages are meant to be? HWM and cpuz are reading 1.2v. Yet under load it drops to around 1.16v with a turbo of around 3.7-3.8ghz on all cores. That voltage just seems low to me.