Castor124

I guess since this is my first aio, I thought the temps would just be signifcantly better and I didnt have realistic expectations on what temps would be.Thanks for the help everyone

So couple of days have passed now. while gaming the temp gets up to around 65 consistently, but it is now idling at 42, just opening chrome jumps it 47, outside of reseating theaio pump, what would next steps be?

Hey there, So I will start off by saying I am complete noob when it comes to overclocking, in this case undervolting, and everything that goes with it. I did some research to basically figure out how to do it and now I have been second guessing myself. I will list system specs below, but basically after reading that overclocking the Ryzen 3x series wasn't needed for most end user cases, i stumbled across some video's about undervolting it for better temps and still same performance. I personally feel the chip runs warm given my setup, but I know the temps are still well within range for long term use and wanted some help understanding benefits/dangers of both scenarios. After setting up the undervolting, it was stable and never had an issue, but then I ran across more slightly up to date content saying it could cause harm to the chip undervolting. So came to the place that helped me fix my borked build before I currently have the chip running with optimized defaults, and while gaming the temps get to about 60 Celsius. What I had it set to before was core voltage to 1.1v and frequency of 4100mhz, and with this setup, the temps never broached 40 degree's unless stress testing, where it got to 48 Celsius. Is there harm that will be caused by undervolting? Should I be worrying about gaming temps that don't even approach dangerous levels? CPU: Ryzen 7 3800x MoBo: Asus Rog Strix B450 Gaming - F Cooler: Corsair H100i Platinum Case: Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic Mem: Corsair Vengenace 3200mhz (32gb)

As I mentioned to Creative, the build has been completed. I went with 32gb because of not wanting to have empty slots, and the RGB is nice haha, but also to increase the length of time the computer will perform at a higher end. Im also including my response to creative in regard to swapping MB and CPU and if the performance gains would be enough to justify a swap: I do kind of regret not researching more into the CPU's from last year as I would have tried AMD. With this already built, would there be a noticeable performance gain if I were to switch (at this point, I cannot return the chip/mb for a refund or credit, so the performance gain would need to be worth the full investment)

I apologize and will edit the original post for clarity, this has already been built. I do have another SSD plugged in, its an older crucial that is 250 GB, and its sata, i just dont know its full specs so I left it out. I do kind of regret not researching more into the CPU's from last year as I would have tried AMD. With this already built, would there be a noticeable performance gain if I were to switch (at this point, I cannot return the chip/mb for a refund or credit, so the performance gain would need to be worth the full investment)

Hey guys, So I just started seriously getting into rig building, I tried my first hand at it about 4 years ago, built mine with what I thought was tricked out for the time (4790K that if needed i can provide more specs on), built my wife a computer that I really learned a lot about not putting only the cheapest parts I can find together. This led to a few weeks ago I upgraded both of our systems in similar fashion, but given that I will be on mine more upgraded my specs a fair bit more, but I am afraid I may have overspent on some parts and under spent on some, and created a bottleneck that may affect system performance down the road. (Right now it works amazingly compared to previous build, which was again, my first try.) I want to clarify that this has already been built My new build Specs: CPU: I5-9600k GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 super Motherboard: MSI Z390-A PRO Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3600 32GB (4x 8gb sticks) Storage: Inland Premium 256GB SSD 3D NAND M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive PSU: PowerSpec 750 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply Cooling: Corsair H100I Platinum 280 AIO Case: LIAN LI 205 ATX Mid Tower Case fans config: Have AIO radiator positioned to the front as intake, 2 fans attached to the top and one to rear as exhaust. As a side note, I looked up an MSI beginner guide (as well as r/overclock) and currently have the CPU overclocked to 4.9 with Vcore 1.27. I have been gradually stepping down the voltage, I was only able to get stable 5.0 at 1.39, anything lower caused a BSOD (Clock_Watchdog_Timeout) The help I am mostly looking for, is will this system have issues with bottle necking, is overclocking on the board even going to offer any gains, and if anything is clearly going to under perform given other parts. My main usage will be gaming, and eventually streaming. I do not record or "content create' outside of streaming, so I wont be doing video editing or rendering. Any guides you can offer I am willing to read or watch, and I more want to learn for in the future and gaining knowledge on something I have recently come to have quite a bit of passion about. Thanks in advance for all the help and criticism you will provide, generally a good sport so even if your ripping me a new one, as long as I can learn it'll be okay.