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Specs: Ryzen 7 3700x RTX 2070 Super 2x8gb G.Skill Trident Z neo 3600 cl16 Gigabyte x570 I Aorus pro wifi (itx) I just set up some custom water cooling and afterwards I noticed that my gpu would randomly hit 100% usage while fps was stuttering around in the 100-200 range. It took me a while to realize (because I dont usually monitor gpu clocks) that the clock speed would dip to around 500mhz when playing games or doing any stress testing. Before I water cooled everything, it ran fine getting up in the 400-500fps range in csgo at only 70% gpu usage. I have tried clean installing gpu drivers, re-installing windows, playing with light oc's, and disabling programs such as rtx voice and other things that could impact gpu performance. temperatures are good, even running at basically silent fan speeds it doesn't get above 80C. Clock speeds at idle usually stay around 500mhz too, but when I start something intensive, the clocks boost up to around normal and then fall back down to 500mhz. Thanks to anyone who can help!

I just re-flashed the same bios from the same download on the same usb and now it seems to work... I am skeptical of this because yesterday I was able to change settings for a short time (similar to what is now happening), before this problem came. It could be there was a slight error in the bios flashing last time or some settings got changed which caused this.

I did update the bios yesterday. this was also when these problems started to ramp up... I might try and go back to an earlier bios or just re-flash the same one.

As I tried to explain in my first post, I can't change save anything in the bios. Even if i go into the bios, hit f10 right away to save and exit without changing a single value, its still comes back saying it cleared cmos.

I am the same way... went for a custom loop mostly cause I needed it to be dead silent. but for a cpu cooler, I would say the 212 would be a good choice, to get a silent cooler, you have to spend a bunch more money

currently, I am not able to do ANY kind of overclocking, underclocking, XMP, or keeping things the same in the bios, but in ryzen master i have it running at 3800 1.35v (the auto value) with some loose timings. the OC isn't the problem in this case. its something to do with saving changes in the bios manually vs whatever ryzen master is doing.

In my opinion, noctua would be the best, but, yes, they are very expensive. You could maybe get a hyper 212 from cooler master, i haven't used it, but I have been told its good for the cost.

If you want to go air cooling, I would go with noctua. Noctua makes some really high quality stuff which is dead silent. with a 2600x you wouldn't need a supper big cooler. something like an nh-u12s would work great.

PC Specs: Ryzen 7 3700x RTX 2070 Super 2x8gb G.Skill Trident Z neo 3600 cl16 Gigabyte x570 I Aorus pro wifi (itx) Everything was fine when I got it, but once I tried to overclock my ram at all, I would appear to fail to boot multiple times and reset to the default 2133 15-15-15-36 ram speed. It gave me clear cmos errors so I thought it was the battery. I just got a new one and the same thing is happening. After more testing, I found that it isn't just overclocking, but anytime I save the settings in the bios (even with absolutely nothing changed), I would save and exit and it would try and boot for a while and then boot with the default ram settings. But the weird thing about it is that ryzen master is still able to overclock. I just did a quick test with everything on auto and I was able to do an easy 3800 (and probably more) and if I go into the bios, it shows the settings have saved. I feel its likely I have missed something simple which is causing this... I am rather new to overclocking and haven't used gigabyte boards before. Thanks you for any help you can give!