Hey all. built a new gaming PC - Specs are..
AMD AMD RYZEN 7 5800X
ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS WIFI
CRUCIAL 16GB 8X2 D4 3600 CL16 B
SAMSUNG E 1TB 980PRO NVME GEN4SSD
CORSAIR RM850X FM 80+G ATX 2021
Scythe Fuma 2 Cooler
ASUS TUF 6800XT GPU
Left everything as default, RAM auto detected at 2666mhz, left it.. I could stress test the machine and it would run fine, but once I load a game (New World & Warcraft) machine would BSOD and reboot.
Temps in the game were 55-60C and under full load with furmark and Prime95 it would settle at around 80C, never thermal throttling.
I changed out a few components to test, including GPU(3070ti & 6600xt), RAM(some garbage), PSU(1200watt corsair); nothing would change the behavior.
I started investigating the CPU/Motherboard at this point, don't have extras to swap there, but I noticed that it was boosting above its standard marketing of 4.6ghz.
I downloaded the Ryzen Master utility and couldn't figure out an easy way to tell it 'Don't go above 4.6ghz' but knew that HWInfo had reported some high voltages (usually it ran around 1.41), and so I set the max core voltage of 1.35v as that is quite tame.
Now I can game fine, but the default core frequency of 3.8ghz seems to be all it runs at, it doesnt flex with demand like it did previously.
I dumped a few HWInfo logs of 2 crashes into the below spreadsheet incase they mean more to others than me.
At this point I'm curious of 2 things...
Is it normal for the CPU to clock past its max? I suspect not, and that it is some setting in the motherboard.(I did update the BIOS in this process)
What should I do so that I can still have good performance but also be stable.
Thanks.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mvz8cfyaX6azT1VtOPPTWY90dGbxZ0qNxe9gB1woLLM/edit?usp=sharing
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Just to add a conclusion here; I ended up RMA'ing the CPU and the replacement runs fine with all original equipment.