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Hello everyone, the title quite explains my problem. Since always I have this level of cpu temps and it's just now that I'm not sure if it's normal. Maybe the problem can be that I replaced an 150mm cpu cooler fan with an 120mm? Here's my specs https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Lenov/saved/#view=WNgjpg Thanks in advance

I’ve committed the sin to make this my first build. Continued BSOD with the current system: motherboard Msi MAGx570 tomahawks Wi-Fi, cpu ryzen9 3950, gpu zotac RTX 3090, RAM Corsair vengeance lpx 32*2, PSU Corsair RM850 gold, SSD M.2 Samsung 980 PRO 1tb, Samsung 860 evo 1tb sata 2.5. Tried to fix it for the past 4 months and everything seems to point at the motherboard. I’ve decided to return it. Loads of other people seem to have the very same issue with AMD ryzen 9 processors and x570 motherboards. Can anyone with a similar built recommend me anything? What shall I do? Budget max for the motherboard 400£, recommendations welcome Many thanks

Hi guys, I read through the manual of the TUF board hoping to find anything about SATA Ports being disabled when using 2 NVMe 3.0 drives. Although the manual mention no such thing, it seems that the board will still disable half of it Ports when using dual NVMe: If that is the case, that means I need an additional 4 SATA Ports from something like a RAID controller to connect all my storage I plan on using, but will I even have enough PCIe lanes for that? I plan on using: -2 GPUs with bifurcation -2 NVMe drives -2 SSDs -4 HDDs. That means 24 lanes are in use, so I should have at least 4 more lanes for my RAID controller, right? Summed up Current specs: Proxmox 7.1.1 -R9 3950x -MSI B450 Carbon AC (because of dual NVMe all PCIe slots except the first are disabled, 2 Sata ports are disabled) -GTX 750 -Dual NVMe -2 Sata SSDs -2 NAS HDDs my planned upgrade: -ASUS TUF X570 Plus (bifurication, more PCIe lanes) -GTX 1660S for Hardware encoding (Plex) -2 or more additional HDDs for expanding my storage pool I already asked a similair question yesterday, but its still not quite clear to me, if this will work as I expect.

Hey, I'm struggling with a build I just put together. I have a new X570 Steel Legend WiFi ax and a known good 3950x processor out of my other system. I have multiple kits of Corsair DDR4 3600 memory and no matter what I try I can't get the system to post at all with more than one stick of RAM in it. It's frustrating. It won't do anything with more than one stick. PSU is 750W and the little test video card in it is an RX570 8GB. The system will boot with a stick of RAM in the second slot (proper) and in the first slot (improper, I know). But no matter how I configure it for dual channel, it won't boot. 2 slots populated (either ones) or all slots populated. This is Corsair Vengeance LPX and typically I have no issues with this stuff. The only thing I can find is that the BIOS is trying to configure it in single channel at 2666 at 1.205v when it does successfully boot. Don't know if that's normal. Don't know what's going on. I'm probably missing something, so if anyone has any ideas, I'd be really appreciative.

Any idea how I'd go about lowering it? Do I need to tighten timings or try 3600/1800? The l3 cache number is because of win 11 from what I read, but memory should be around 60, or at least that's what I saw in other posts with similar setups.

I made a list of all the tasks I do in front of my PC. Can you please help me choose the best CPU to make my work and game as smooth as possible? I do not have a budget limit but i like to pay a fair price for what I get. I consider the following CPUs: Ryzen 9 5900X (available for 788$) Ryzen 7 5800X (available for 733$) Ryzen 9 3950X (available for 855$) Intel i9-10900K (availablefor 652$) At the moment I run the i7-3770K OC to 4,8 Ghz, GTX 1080 ti, 3 Samsung SSD, DDR3 RAM. I am planning to upgrade my CPU, MOBO, RAM, m2 and cooling. In the future I will also upgrade my GPU. I heard the 10900K is best for OC, is this true (I will do OC)? Constantly: Google Chrome (heavy sites that use satelite images, maps, video). Moving around the computer (folders, loading photos etc.) Excel (big, slow files) PDFs reading (big, slow files) Everyday: Photoshop Games: Apex Legends, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, Forza Horizon 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Witcher 3, Control, Death Stranding, World of Warcraft. Future plans: Virutal Reality (games etc.) - Often OCR of books - Rarely Virtual machines - Rarely Red - Most important for me

Budget (including currency): Would prefer $2k, but can squeak out $3k. Less than 3k prefered. Willing to upgrade over time. Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cyberpunk2077 on Ultra, Starcitizen one day, Multimedia, movies, TV primary tv in living room via internet. I can't walk so this is my outlet for simulating getting outside. Realism is a MUST. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I would like this system to last me a long time, 8 years or more if possible. Cpu; 5900x prefered, 3950x will settle MB; x570 Either Gigabyte or Asus. Tough series, ROG, Aorus etc. NEED input on this, so many options. WIFI is a plus since I do have friends over and need a hotspot. GPU; EVGA RTX 3080 Hybrid. With or without rgb. RAM; G skill Ripjaw 32g, 2x16. Can upgrade to more later. SSD M.2; Samsung Evo970 1TB, More info on this too please. 1TB required though. Case: Liam Li Lancool 2 Mesh, or Fractal Design Meshify 2. I have a CRAPTON of dust where I live, farmland, Corn among other things. So DUST is an issue, Even with Heppa filters and blowers for the house. Power; 80+Gold Full modular is a MUST, NEED info on this too, 750 watts seems enough, but unsure. EVGA Supert nova or Corsair RM750 seem solid. Cooling; AIO or AIR? Long term system, but my Corsair AIO for my 9 year old system still runs soo.. Cable's + Other; NO idea. Price seems to come out to 2.6k non scalping prices. Would prefer 2k, can go to 3k but I don't "want" to. Replacing this system; an AMD Phenom2 x6 1090T. 16G Memory, Crossfire formula 4 Mother board., Core clock 1267MHz, Radeon RX 570 series, Memory GDDR5. It had SLI when I first got it, the the sapphire cards kept failing without overclock.

Hi, so I recently bought NH-D15 Chromax Black as a temporal replacement for faulty H115i Pro RGB and I expected little to no difference. I was so wrong. CPU is idling at 70C and under load it goes up to 96C. I have already tried to reaply thermal paste 2 times and it didnt help much. Is there something I can do to fix it? My PC: Case: NZXT H440 CPU: AMD 3950X Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Black MB: AsRock X570 Taichi RAM: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 4x16GB 3200Mhz GPU: MSI Gaming GTX 1080 Ti PSU: Corsair AX860 Fans: Bequiet Silent Wings 3 (3x120mm front, 1x140mm rear) Storage: Samsung 960 Pro 512GB, Adata SX8200 500GB, 6x Seagate IronWolf 6TB

I saw a build on PCPP a while ago where a guy bought a 3950X for his workstation and then disabled SMT. He claimed it had given him benefits. I don't remember what the benefits where but I assume it would be power consumption, frequency and probably single core performance. I had questioned his decision but didn't put a comment on his build. Clearly his workstation's task didn't benefit from SMT, but then I was wondering what are the specific things you lose and gain when you disable SMT? What is the difference in performance of a 16C/32T chip turned into 16C/16T vs a 8C/16T chip. From what I can tell, at least on Intel, the other thread uses silicon/resources within the core not being used by the other thread. For example, the FPU, if used by one thread can't be used by the accompanying thread. But that is on Intel, does each thread have a FPU and ALU in Zen 2, or do they compete just like they do in hyperthreading? (Then I remember AMD FX where there was 1 FPU for every 2 cores iirc) Like do you lose access to some cache. I really wish I could read+understand the block diagrams for Zen 2 on wikichip, I even looked up the block diagrams for Coffee Lake refresh since some of the products already have half of the threads cut off, and it would prove the differences w/o testing. (9900K has 16MB Cache, and the 9700K, which doesn't have hyperthreading, had 12MB cache. Actually it says MiB, which is mebibyte, but doesn't everyone just say megabyte in this context anyway?) Obviously Zen 2 is well known for their multi-threaded performance, so why would he choose to throw that away beyond the fact that his workload wasn't benefitting from SMT? (This all assumes that we are locking the frequency at say, 4.1 GHz)

Hi I bought this pc from Pc Specialist in the UK as I didn't feel comfortable building one myself, I manually picked the specs after looking at what specs would be best for my usage ect, specs are as follows:- Case- NZXT H511 MID-TOWER GAMING CASE (WHITE) Processor (CPU)- AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16 Core CPU (3.5GHz-4.7GHz/73MB CACHE/AM4) Motherboard- ASUS® PRIME B450-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.1, 6Gb/s) - RGB Ready! Memory (RAM)-4GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (1 x 4GB) I also added 16Gb of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3000MH (2 x 8GB) Graphics Card-11GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 Ti - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready! 1st Storage Drive-2TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (up to 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW) I also added a 2nd Storage drive- 500GB Samsung Evo 860 2.5'' SSD 1st M.2 SSD Drive- 1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W) Power Supply- CORSAIR 650W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead) Processor Cooling- Corsair H115i PRO Cooler w/ PCS Ultra Quiet Fans Thermal Paste- ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND LED Lighting- 2x 50cm RGB LED Strip Sound Card- ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD) Wireless/Wired Networking- WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD USB/Thunderbolt Options- MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS Operating System- Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001] Operating System Language- United Kingdom - English Language Windows Recovery Media- Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account Office Software- FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required) Anti-Virus- BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode Browser- Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only) Warranty- 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) I mainly use this as a workstation / gaming rig I play FPS games mainly call of duty modern warfare and warzone, but I notice the performance I'm getting is way below average, I get between 80 frames with a max of 110 while playing at 1080p medium/ high settings, (I plan to upgrade my monitor in the near future but I am currently running a MSI Optix MAG 27 inch 144hz 1ms response) I've tried manually optimising warzone by copying a YT guide which seemed to be very highly rated but my game was literally unplayable as it honestly made it look like shit, areas are too dark and the sky is too bright but most importantly the textures as so bad lol, i wouldn't mind this if my fps was performing as expectant but I'm beginning to get frustrated as I cant find any guides to help ( pic attached of how ) I've also attached the link to the YT video below. My main question is what am I doing wrong, I feel like my pc isn't running as well as it should I ran a benchmark and it says my cpu is performing below average, my GPU could perform better through overclocking but I have no idea if I need to or if my card is even capable because it dose get quite hot (89 degrees Celsius is the highest I've seen this during the summer), and don't have a clue what the Ram issue was on benchmark probably because I have 2 different speed type of rams? I have updated to the latest windows and latest Nvidia Drivers but Appreciate any help or recommendations. cheers Lewis https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/34362073

I have this memory - CORSAIR - Dominator Platinum RGB 64GB (4PK 16GB) 3.2GHz My CPU is 3950x in MSI X570 Meg Ace motherboard. I have precision boost on in enhanced mode 4. My memory runs fine on profile 2 (3200Mhz), but if I try to use 'Memory Try It' to go higher, I get RAM overlock failed. I tried manually setting ram to 1800Mhz and 1800Mhz infinity fabric with SoC voltage of 1.1, still doesn't work. Am I unfortunate to have RAM that doesn't overclock or maybe my motherboard has a problem?

So I have been using a Wraith Prism I got off a friend due to budget reasons at the time, But there is a reason the 3950x didn't come with one... So out of all the options out there what are the better ones for the 3950x that are a good balance of price to performance

Hello, was looking for information on installing a 3950x. Might have a chance to get one and was seeing how much i would get out of the CPU compaired to my 2700x currently. I use my system now for gaming, school work (computers running vms and such), side projects. I dont want to invest in a new motherboard but have a chance at getting a 3950X for a decent price. I Intended to build a new system in about a 1.5- 2 years and was going to use this current system as my server and would like to have the power and also run a few VMs in the future.

I want to upgrade to a 3950x for performance reasons and I am wondering if a Corsair H150i will be enough. If it is not, suggestions for other coolers are very welcome! Note: by 'suggestions' I am only in the market for AIO water coolers.

This is my second official PC build and I love it! I've learned quite a bit since my novice days back in 2015, and with Lian LI's O11 Dynamic Razor edition case readily available and AMD knocking it out of the park with their Gen 3 series CPUs, everything just came together perfectly. SSDs are not included in the build parts list since I just transferred them from my old build and updated drivers for the new hardware. I create/analyze energy models for my engineering job and am also a huge PC gamer so it's nice to have a rig that can kick butt at both. This Build; https://pcpartpicker.com/b/cVtgXL Previous build; i5-6600K and a 980Ti (https://pcpartpicker.com/b/WFvV3C).

Hi everyone, So just over 2 months ago I built a new PC with a 3950x. It always ran really toasty under my H110i gtx, but usually 90c under full load in cinebench, and mid 80 in games. However as of today I noticed the fans for my liquid cooler ramping up, which they would never get this loud unless under full load. I closed absolutely everything, and even at idle (3% usage) on desktop with nothing open...it is running at 85c. When I run cinebench it throttles down to 1.7ghz and is in the very high 90s. I figured maybe some dust is blocking some fans mesh (which they were) and also just to be safe I reapplied my thermal paste. No change at all, maybe even worse (I am going to reapply again to make sure). Now with my AIO the radiator isnt getting hot at all during these high temps, and I feel it would be burning up. Also one tube going to the radiator from the radiator is terribly hot. I know the tube from chip to rad is supposed to be hotter, but it seems too warm. Returning tube is cool. I don't know what could have change in just the last few days. It would never normally be this loud as a system, and would never throttle in cinebench. It is running mid 80s at idle now. Is my cooler failing? Wondering if anyone has an idea. Thank you for the help.

Hey guys, I'm at a total loss with the issue I'm having here. My build is 2 months old, everything has been running pretty much smoothly up until yesterday. My screen suddenly went black and my PC powered off, followed by a continuous boot loop. I see the "ROG" screen fine, I can access the BIOS with no issue, but once I get past the "F2 or DEL to enter BIOS" screen and see the little Windows 10 circular loading icon, my PC just restarts over and over. But what makes this issue insanely weird, is that if I go to the BIOS and hit F11 for the EZ Auto Overclock (or some silly name like that), it boosts my CPU and RAM up slightly, and then my PC boots fine. It certainly isn't stable, sometimes it'll hard reset again after a few minutes, other times a few hours. Last night for example, I had 3 monitors up with a load of Chrome tabs, a video game minimised on one screen, 3D animation software open on the other, and it seemed to be running fine for hours, then it suddenly just dies. Does anyone have any idea what the hell is going on here? Specs: AMD 3950x Crosshair VIII Formula Corsair 2x16GB RGB 3200mhz Corsair MP600 1TB Asus STRIX 1070 8GB NZXT Kraken X72 EVGA 600W PSU (Not sure what the exact model is) Windows 10 Pro 64bit BIOS 1302 (the latest) Stuff that I've already tried... I've cleared the CMOS, updated the BIOS, replaced the battery, leaving the PSU unplugged for an extended period of time, re-pasted the CPU, reinstalled Windows, to no avail. I've always ran all of BIOS settings in stock, never overclocked anything. When it booted with the EZ Overclock, I ran Cinebench and opened a load of Chrome tabs to stress test my CPU & RAM. The R20 score was over 9,000, with temps under 60 degrees, and the RAM seemed to handle everything fine, so I'm pretty sure this is a MoBo issue. I tried calling Asus, who said to just email them, which I did but will no doubt take days to hear back from. If any of you guys can help me out, I'll name my first born son (or daughter) after you. Thanks!

I am using Premiere Pro for editing, but the program, with After Effects and Media Encoder, doesn't seem to use entire resourses in my computer. Is there any setting I have tochange? Or is it the software problem?

Right before you say yes i am comfortable with and use Liquid metal very oftenthe thing is I am unsure as to do it or not on the 3950X as it can throw off so much heat that the thermal paste is becoming a bottleneck so debating whether to go LM or something else for it, I am using an NH-D15 chromax atm with MX-4.

I bough this RAM kit: https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232861?Item=N82E16820232861 This is my MOBO: https://www.newegg.com/msi-meg-x570-ace/p/N82E16813144259?Item=N82E16813144259 CPU: Ryzen 3950x I am willing to buy a more premium RAM kit if game performance is +10 FPS above what I could achieve tuning my current RAM kit (just ordered, not delivered jet) using Ryzen DRAM Calculator EDIT: I'll be playing in 4k if that matters.

As tittle says, what are the best custom settings for a 3950x for live streaming on twitch?

I was curious if anyone else here has experience going from a 360mm AIO to a custom loop on the 3950x. I ask because I know that the CPU has a very high density of heat on the IHS because there's so many cores close together. So I guess what my question would be is there going to be a huge noticable difference between an AIO block and a high end EK block. This might be a stupid question and I feel like I should know this myself but I figured I'd ask. As I am replacing my 9900k with the 3950x into my custom loop and the 3950x was on an AIO before in my other PC. Yes I know it's a downgrade for gaming but it's a long story as I'm RMA'ing my z390 board so I'm finally making the switch to ryzen for gaming. For more info on what is in my loop, I have 2 56mm thick 480mm rads and a 360mm 56mm thick rad. Definitely overkill but I like overkill. My 2080ti is also in the loop. And the block I will be using is an EK Quantum Momentum Monoblock.

TL:DR : 3.5Ghz base clock turbos to 4.2Ghz, haven't seen higher at 1.2V Tried OC base speed to 4.4Ghz with 1.4V and Cinebench couldn't not complete a run. Can I tweak around to achieve higher boost for faster exporting in Premiere Pro? Specs : AMD Ryzen 3950x B550 Aorus Master G.SKill 128GB 3600 RAM Corsair RM750x MSI GTX 1070 EDIT : I forgot to add, I run a BeQuiet Dark Pro 4 with 2 fans on it, the CPU usually runs at 55-65 degrees Celsius. Hi guys, I'm a first time system builder graduating from upgrading my prebuilt a few times. Aside from a few snags, like bending the USB 3.2 pins on the mobo and buying one that has no front USB-C port, the system runs with no issues. I built the system with my previous GPU while upgrading the main architecture from DDR3 to a beefy video editing machine. My problem comes from the advertised 4.7Ghz turbo boost on the 3950x. I can only ever see a 4.2 boost in task manager and HWinfo. I tried overclocking for the first time, boosting to 4.4Ghz base speed, it wouldn't boot at 1.2V so I tried 1.4 and it booted. The clock was 4.4 in task manager but Cinebench could not finish a run after multiple tries so I quickly reverted back to default settings. With my combination of mobo, PSU and CPU, what could I be doing better to maintain a 3.5Ghz base for longevity but enable higher boost to render video and game faster? Thanks ahead of time, I'll answer questions best as I can and post results.

Alright so I decided even if it's a bit late to do a bit of a build log on my main rig and the rig which preceeded it now I just got my 3950X, which getting actual hands on with, it is an absolutely insane chip without a doubt, the just sheer processing power and capability for muloti tasking at full load is blowing me away but what started it off? Jumping to July of last year I was upgrading my other rig (see my profile/on the forum somewhere here for details) where the PC died, the GTX 1080 + i7 4790K I upgraded to overloaded the 350W PSU and killed the board and the PSU, meaning I was left with a very expensive paperweight with a lot of proprietry hardware that I didn't have the capability to modify back then, I was just gearing up to move onto maybe starting a youtube Channel and hell already had a 10TB NAS drive for mass storage mid shipping at the time and well.... In dire circumstances things happen rapidly. I decided to get a very very very cheap Z97 ATX motherboard as it was compatible with everything I had and make a move to ATX meaning a new PSU, Case, etc.... For a while it sat as a frankenstein monster on my desk (pic 1) whilst I waited for other parts but she was modestly powerful 20GB of DDR3, 4790K, GTX 1080 plus a dedicated secondary card as a multi screen display adapter, but eventually my case arrived and well thats when stuff got crazy in the space between August (pic 2) on recieving the case to December (pic 3) it went through a TOTAL overhaul of its cooling from a hyper 212 and the included fans to Noctua IPPC 3000RPM fans across the case, a NH-D15 Chromx LTT edition kitted out with the faceplates and Red Accents. It got new RAM now sporting 32GB of Hyper X Savage 1866MHz RAM manually OC'd to 2133MHz, which took a lot of trial and error but was perfect once I got the timings honed in plus the red matches the accents. The dedicated secondary card got swapped from a GT 740 MSI OEM to a GT 1030 MSI Aero ITX and so far things were brilliant. Then.....then January happened, from either delidding, overclocking or pure age the CPU began to die multiple BSODs regardless of settings, overclock, lack of overclock, it didn't matter the machine became unusable and soon enough would be dead in it's entirety in short February and March saw me working myself into the ground trying to get as many videos up on my own channel before the machine gave up and a race against the clock to secure funds for my planned upgrade in September of this year, in 2 months. But it worked out through a lot of pain, working into the ground, selling my Xbox One X, doing work wherever I could and a very very generous loan from a very supportive friend I did it and on April 2nd, the last piece arrived, MY 3950X. (pic 4) And that brings us up to now, where I am sitting on my fully revamped system, still got some stuff left to do, more parts to add, more stuff to overclock to the ragged edge and of course many memories to make on this chassis, but for now I bid Farewell and Present Dante's Inferno, for this story has often been a Divine Comedy. Final Picture is as she sits currently Current Specifications Motherboard: ASRock X570 Taichi CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Chromax RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX Boot SSD: 1TB Sabrent Rocket PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD GPU 1: MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G (OC and on LM) GPU 2: MSI GT 1030 Aero ITX Game Storage: 2TB Western Digital Blue 2.5" 5400 RPM HDD Mass Storage: 10 TB Western Digital Red 3.5" 5400 RPM HDD PSU: Thermaltake Smart DPS G 700W Bronze Case: NZXT H500 Fans: 3 * Noctua NF-A14 3000 RPM IPPC + 1 * Noctua NF-F12 3000 RPM IPPC

Hey I am going to buy to 3950 but I don't want water cooling. Can I just use a good air cooler? I am not going to overclock or anything. If the air cooler is OK what cooler do I need to pick for the best cooling? Cheers