New ryzen system, Have a question

[HellsKnight]

I just built a ITX system with ryzen.

It has a 1000w evga supernova psu

b450i Asus motherboard, 8gigs ddr4 ram

ryzen 1700x 120gb ssd and 1tb hdd

 

My question is well two questions, First question is it normal for the ryzen cpus to bounce around on the clock speed in taskmgr go from 3.5ghz to 3.1ghz.

My second question is 8gigs of ram enough for this system and could it be causing stuttering in games?

[DailyProcrastinator]

Yes, that is normal, a CPU is never running at full speed at all times. 

 

The only way to know is to run task manager while gaming and see how much RAM you use if you're near 100% you will know the answer.

 

Also..... a 1000W PSU?!?!?! Why hahahahaha?

[Happycowdance]

Just now, HellsKnight said:

 

It has a 1000w evga supernova psu

 

are you running like to 2080tis in sli a raid array and like 5 monitors?

3 minutes ago, HellsKnight said:

 

My question is well two questions, First question is it normal for the ryzen cpus to bounce around on the clock speed in taskmgr go from 3.5ghz to 3.1ghz.

My second question is 8gigs of ram enough for this system and could it be causing stuttering in games?

1. uh yeah the 1700x has a base clock of 3 and it has built in ocing software that will turbo it up based on the cpu usage. 

if you want the ghz to stay more consistent you could try a manual oc

2. probaly not depends how much you have running in the background however if you are running single channel ram at below 2666mhz i would recommend getting another stick and ocing the memory timings 

[HellsKnight]

The 1000w psu was a left over from my sli system I parted out.

and I used 7.1gigs of ram of 8 and some games it hits 7.9gigs will that cause stuttering in games? cause every game I've been playing has had this issue, Bf1,bf5,bf4,pugb,ffxiv,division.

also runing a 1080ti ftw3 hybrid

[HellsKnight]

1 minute ago, Happycowdance said:

are you running like to 2080tis in sli a raid array and like 5 monitors?

1. uh yeah the 1700x has a base clock of 3 and it has built in ocing software that will turbo it up based on the cpu usage. 

if you want the ghz to stay more consistent you could try a manual oc

2. probaly not depends how much you have running in the background however if you are running single channel ram at below 2666mhz i would recommend getting another stick and ocing the memory timings 

It is dual channel ddr4 2400mhz also left from my old system I parted out. Should I get higher mhz ram and 16gigs?

 

[Happycowdance]

1 minute ago, HellsKnight said:

and I used 7.1gigs of ram of 8 and some games it hits 7.9gigs will that cause stuttering in games? cause every game I've been playing has had this issue, 

just buy another stick of ram since its relatively cheap now 

you can get a decent 8g kit for 55-60 dollars

[Happycowdance]

Just now, HellsKnight said:

It is dual channel ddr4 2400mhz also left from my old system I parted out. Should I get higher mhz ram and 16gigs?

 

uh just get another 2x4 kit and manually oc the ram

lots of tutorials online on how to do this

[HellsKnight]

Just now, Happycowdance said:

just buy another stick of ram since its relatively cheap now 

you can get a decent 8g kit for 55-60 dollars

well it will have to be a set as I am currently using 2 4gig sticks atm. Sorry left that part out by mistake

 

[HellsKnight]

Just now, Happycowdance said:

uh just get another 2x4 kit and manually oc the ram

lots of tutorials online on how to do this

well my motherboard is itx so it only has slots for 2

 

[HellsKnight]

but a third question will my lack of ram be the cause of the stutters ingames?

 

[Happycowdance]

Just now, HellsKnight said:

well my motherboard is itx so it only has slots for 2

 

then get a 16g kit like this:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/FNprxr/gskill-aegis-16gb-2-x-8gb-ddr4-3000-memory-f43000c16d16gisb

or if you want rgb:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/mM8j4D/team-t-force-delta-rgb-16gb-2-x-8gb-ddr4-3000-memory-tf4d416g3000hc16cdc01

[HellsKnight]

Just now, Happycowdance said:

then get a 16g kit like this:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/FNprxr/gskill-aegis-16gb-2-x-8gb-ddr4-3000-memory-f43000c16d16gisb

or if you want rgb:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/mM8j4D/team-t-force-delta-rgb-16gb-2-x-8gb-ddr4-3000-memory-tf4d416g3000hc16cdc01

I will get it saturday then. But do you believe this could be the cause of the stuttering ingames?

 

[Happycowdance]

1 minute ago, HellsKnight said:

but a third question will my lack of ram be the cause of the stutters ingames?

 

Once your system runs out of Ram it will write to virtual memory that will be stored on the hard drive for the extra ram. This is very slow compared to actual ram and will cause all kinds of slowdowns and stuttering.

[HellsKnight]

Alright, I will give the new ram a try. But if that isnt the fix what should I look at then?

[Happycowdance]

1 minute ago, HellsKnight said:

Alright, I will give the new ram a try. But if that isnt the fix what should I look at then?

bios update

cpu/gpu usage during gaming

temps

malware

repairing the games

clean install of windows removing all bloatware

make sure gpu/cpu aren't being undervolted for somereason

 

lots of things

 

[Galion]

1 hour ago, HellsKnight said:

I just built a ITX system with ryzen.

It has a 1000w evga supernova psu

b450i Asus motherboard, 8gigs ddr4 ram

ryzen 1700x 120gb ssd and 1tb hdd

 

My question is well two questions, First question is it normal for the ryzen cpus to bounce around on the clock speed in taskmgr go from 3.5ghz to 3.1ghz.

My second question is 8gigs of ram enough for this system and could it be causing stuttering in games?

Question 1, the cpus clock speeds bounce either because the ram compatibility or your PSU voltage on the rails could be well less stable 

Questions 2, yes 8gb isn't really enough try 16gb anything less you may get stuttering.