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  1. NickNaylor
    Hah yeah, DOCP is the AMD version of XMP. I guess the search continues. Clearly there’s something going on but I can’t for the life of me figure it out. Other than replacing the CPU the only other thing I can think of is trying a non-ASUS motherboard since both of the boards that I’ve tried have been ASUS. Maybe ASUS’ BIOS just sucks. Or maybe trying a non-X570 board. I dunno.
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    No luck unfortunately - confirmed that the clock speed is 3000 in HWinfo but still get the same freezes. Just to be clear, I left DOCP on and just manually adjusted the frequency.
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    Actually forgot to underclock the RAM... I'll try that and report back. I'm completely unfamiliar with manually tweaking RAM - did you leave all the timings the same but just decrease the frequency?
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    Yes, but very briefly - usually not more than a second or two. I included a couple of videos in the first post with times showing the behavior if you want to see what it looks like. I've also got a RTSS overlay on to show various parameters.
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    I thought I'd also add that I ran Memtest86 overnight on my current RAM setup (the 64 GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 3200 kit) the other day and had no issues reported.
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    Well, those tweaks didn't seem to resolve the issue - installed Windows on a UEFI drive, disabled PBO in BIOS, and am using the "auto OC" setting in Ryzen Master. Thanks for the suggestions, though - worth a shot.
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    My PSU is a 1300W Super Flower Leadex Gold.
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    Great, thanks for the suggestions. I'll give this a go this morning.
  9. NickNaylor
    Well, I picked up an RX 5700 XT (only GPU I could get today) and get the exact same behavior, so I think I have ruled out a GPU issue. Guess I'll try a Windows UEFI install and see where that gets me...
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    I'm running in legacy BIOS mode. I'm going to try a different GPU to see if this helps the issue - if it does, then I think that would pinpoint the issue as the GPU. If that doesn't work, then I'll do yet another Windows install and be sure to do a UEFI install. Edit: the fact that you're still having the issue would suggest to me that this isn't the actual root of the problem. But if it's improved, that's at least something.
  11. NickNaylor
    Well, unfortunately a RAM replacement (3600 CL16 on the QVL list) didn't seem to make a difference, either with DOCP on or off. I've been tweaking voltages in BIOS to see if that makes a difference... bumping the DRAM voltage to 1.4V and gradually bumping the SoC voltage to 1.15 also didn't make much of a difference. At this point, I think I've eliminated the motherboard, RAM, and software-related issues as causes. Maybe I just need to do some very meticulous tweaking the BIOS to sort it out, I'm not sure.
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    Well, sadly it looks like I declared victory too soon - the issue has returned. No real big changes on the system other than installing Windows updates, but I'm not sure that that has anything to do with it. On the plus side, looking at my RAM temps caused me to install another case fan blowing right on the DIMMs, which dropped my temps ~20C, lol. The fact that messing around with the RAM (temporarily) resolved the issue makes me think this is fundamentally a RAM problem. I dug through my motherboard QVL and my RAM actually isn't listed there. I'm unfamiliar with how important it is to use QVL-listed parts... could this be the issue? Thinking of running to Microcenter today to get some different RAM that is actually listed on the QVL.
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    Sir, you are a damn American hero. After taking out 2 of the DIMMs, the system wouldn't post for some reason (got a Q-code error that wasn't listed in the motherboard manual, so I'm not sure what the issue was) and kept restarting itself but, after getting it to post, I was able to game smoothly. Definitely took a FPS hit without DOCP on, but who cares - at least it was stable. I was curious to see if this was a temperature issue since even with just 2 DIMMs my temps were at ~50C. I plugged in all 4 running at stock frequencies and temps jumped to ~55-58C, then applied the overclock and they jumped further to ~65C. Interestingly, though, the issue seems to have resolved (???). Even with 4 DIMMs and DOCP on, I'm no longer getting the drops. And my baseline FPS has increased - I'm now getting a steady 130-140 FPS in Rust compared to 100-110 before (???). I wonder if I maybe something about how the DIMMs were seated was screwed up? Dust in the slot or on the contacts? I also changed the order of the DIMMs in the slots... I'm not sure why that would matter but maybe it had some effect? Maybe booting in the system into a safe mode (since it wouldn't post) did something... somehow? Before this all of the DIMMs were identified and my system was listing 64 GB as available, but maybe something was just off enough to cause instability. Also weird since if it were just a seating issue I would've expected it to be resolved after reinstalling everything on the new motherboard unless I managed to screw it up twice. Regardless, this seems to have solved the issue. Not sure how, not sure why, but I'll take it. PM me your Steam username and I'll send you the gift card or your e-mail address if you'd prefer an Amazon gift card. THANK YOU.
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    I've thought about using only 2 DIMMs but haven't actually tried it yet. I thought maybe the 4 DIMMs was causing some sort of issue, although that would be irritating to not be able to use all of my RAM slots. I can try running just 2 DIMMs this afternoon, though, and see if that results in an improvement. Edit: And just to make sure I understand, by "JEDEC frequency" I assume you mean stock DDR4 frequencies, right? I can certainly try that. Running at stock vs. OC hasn't made a difference with 4 DIMMs, but I will try both settings with 2 DIMMs.
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    Do you have a particular driver version you would recommend? I've tried a couple of older versions to no avail, but they were chosen somewhat at random. As far as updating the BIOS, I'm running the most recent BIOS for my motherboard. I had the same issue with the most recent BIOS on the original motherboard I had as well.
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