Motherboard GAMBLE Kinda paid off but im worried about AIDA64 Test. Or is it nothing?

[Severd_Nerv]

I made gamble when purchasing a Motherboard for my New 7800x3D PC Build.  It was Advertised as UNTESTED and the picture did show bent CPU pins.
It was Advertised as a ASUS STRIX B650-a Gaming Wifi board UNTESTED for £150 but he offered me it for £75 which i accepted and took the chance that i
could bend them back and that no pins were actually missing which there weren't.

And it Posted, Detected my RAM and allowed the XMP profile too. Installed windows 10 and ran some quick Benchmarks like heaven and Cinebench and even played Diablo 4 for a few hours.

But then i read that AIDA64 would give a good Stability check on my CPU and was worried about one of the results.
The North Bridge clock was the only metric that was really low and me not having any idea if that was normal went online to check others who have a 7800x3d but everyone elses was always in the 1000's

which got me a little worried again.

Am i just overthinking it or do i have to take of the CPU and get my Microscope set up again? Is the North Bridge Clock speed relevent at all? 

Any infor would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[Shimejii]

that is one mangled CPU socket o.o And it seems normal, they can go up and down a bit, as long as your performance in games in fine and you are not experiencing stutters.

[RONOTHAN##]

13 minutes ago, Severd_Nerv said:

But then i read that AIDA64 would give a good Stability check on my CPU and was worried about one of the results.

If all you ran is the Memory benchmark, it isn't really that good of a stability check. There's specific tests in it that are better at checking stability. [EDIT: completely missed the fact you ran the stress test, ignore this]

 

I would use some other program to read the frequencies, odds are it's just not reading correctly, especially since your memory controller is in 2:1 mode (there is some software that has issue with this). Check HWInfo to see if anyhting is actually clocked that low, though there really shouldn't be. 

 

Speaking of 2:1 mode, you should downclock your memory to get into 2:1 mode for the best performance. Speeds between 6200 and 7600 are slower than DDR5 6000 and 7800+, and I'd consider a sort of no-mans-land for memory speeds. 

Edited February 2 by RONOTHAN##

[Severd_Nerv]

Just now, Shimejii said:

that is one mangled CPU socket o.o And it seems normal, they can go up and down a bit, as long as your performance in games in fine and you are not experiencing stutters.

Tell me about it lolol but for £75 getting a STRIX B650 board which no doubt from an AMAZON Return because some DIMWIT rubbed their thumb into the cpu socket seems to have been a winner for myself. 

I have a different pick i took with my phone.   No stutters whatsoever No bluescreens no crackling it seems to be running like a champ all things considered.  Its just that Test got me a little spooked is all comparing it to other ppls tests with same CPU.

 

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[Severd_Nerv]

Just now, RONOTHAN## said:

If all you ran is the Memory benchmark, it isn't really that good of a stability check. There's specific tests in it that are better at checking stability. [EDIT: completely missed the fact you ran the stress test, ignore this]

 

I would use some other program to read the frequencies, odds are it's just not reading correctly, especially since your memory controller is in 2:1 mode (there is some software that has issue with this). Check HWInfo to see if anyhting is actually clocked that low, though there really shouldn't be. 

 

Speaking of 2:1 mode, you should downclock your memory to get into 2:1 mode for the best performance. Speeds between 6200 and 7600 are slower than DDR5 6000 and 7800+, and I'd consider a sort of no-mans-land for memory speeds. 

No worries i appriciate the input my man, What speed should i set my RAM to 6000Mhz 6400Mhz .... and is that all id need to do as im not familiar with much else in bios other than changing XMP and a CPU multiplier when i was on intel lol

 

 

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, Severd_Nerv said:

No worries i appriciate the input my man, What speed should i set my RAM to 6000Mhz 6400Mhz .... and is that all id need to do as im not familiar with much else in bios other than changing XMP and a CPU multiplier when i was on intel lol

Set the speed to 6000MT/s unless you also want to stress test for max frequency. You would also want to reduce the timings to something like 30-38-38 as well, but that isn't completely necessary since 34-45-45 isn't super slow at DDR5 6000 (to be clear, it's slow, but it's not insanely slow). Personally, what I'd do is follow this tutorial and run the Buildzoid subtimings instead for even more performance:

There's a couple corrections for this video since it's released:

1. The safe range of vSOC was discovered to be 1.3V rather than the 1.4V he said in the video. This doesn't really matter since you should set it to 1.25V, but just for future reference.
2. The 2033MHz FCLK was a bug on the particular BIOS he was on, it has since been fixed and so you should set it to 2066MHz instead. Or not, 33MHz on this one setting won't be meaningfully different. 
3. tRAS doesn't go below 30 on AMD CPUs, so if you set it to 28 it will behave as if it was set to 30. Because of this, you want to also lower tRC to 70 to keep it in line with the rule of tRC = tRP + tRAS. 

You will want to run a memory stress test after setting those, I'd personally run TestMem5 with the 1usmus_v3 preset for a few hours, but it's up to you what frequency you want to run. 

[Dedayog]

1 hour ago, Severd_Nerv said:

Tell me about it lolol but for £75 getting a STRIX B650 board which no doubt from an AMAZON Return because some DIMWIT rubbed their thumb into the cpu socket seems to have been a winner for myself. 

I have a different pick i took with my phone.   No stutters whatsoever No bluescreens no crackling it seems to be running like a champ all things considered.  Its just that Test got me a little spooked is all comparing it to other ppls tests with same CPU.

 

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PBO/CO as well.