Merry Christmas everyone. Did anyone get anything super cool and wants to share? OR even have a cool moment that happned this Christmas day? Id love to hear all about it! My girlfriend got me the Alliance windbreaker from the Blizz store and I love it! I hope wherever you are yall had an awesome Christmas day today!
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I got my Ram 100% stable on my Ryzen 5900x. 3800mhz CL15 100% manual timings. Was an xmas present to my self. Sub 55ms is Impressive for Ryzen
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Food. Lots of food.
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A dad mug and pajamas.
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Nice! Thats whats up right there, can never get enough mugs and pajamas. Socks even as well, always need socks.
One member of my family got me a $2 scratch ticket.
I got a book I liked from a co-worker, though. Outsider by Stephen King.
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New Asus BIOS just came out. AGESA 1.1.9.0. I believe it can do FCLK 2000.
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Victoria Secrets stuff*
A New Altec Lansing Bluetooth boombox that floats.
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Sorry to burst your excitement bubble but not without WHEA errors.
Stress tested the Ram with both Aida64 and a ram testing tool. Got errors on both. Thats on B-Die. I don’t have a micron kit to try.
If I was smart I would have just stuck with the 10900k then this wouldn’t be an issue when I could run any Ram at any speed that I wanted.
on a side note on WHEA errors
my OC has been fine for about 3 years now at 1.375v.
Yesterday while playing a game (first time EVER after getting sorted out) I had 1 whea error. I forgot what kind, but it was a cpu one. Nothing seemed to be affected other than the error.
increased to 1.385v, haven’t seen it pop up since.
the degradation has begun (to be noticeable) folks 
You have degraded your processor that’s why. On intel you dont want to set your bios vcore over 1.35v. Anything over that heavily increases CPU degrading.
Your processor has made it a long way but has shown its first sign of CPU degrading. The longer you keep the CPU at that overclock the quicker it will degrade and then the more you will have to increase the voltage
Well aware of the degradation (hence mentioning it). Knew it on day one, and didn’t really care. Kind of like how I chipped my Audi for more boost. It’s the nature of the modding community.
1.4 has been the “general rule of thumb” and usually the metric at which Silicon Lottery measures their OC’s. Of course nothing lasts forever, and the degradation is just part of the game.
The quicker this thing degrades the quicker I can convince myself to replace it.
If it lasts for 4 years, it will have lasted longer than most Ryzen 1st and 2nd gen users have owned their CPUs.
Burn bright, 8700k. BURN BRIGHT
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To be honest at that voltage I’m shocked you’ve made it as long as you have with no signs of degrading before now.
At that voltage I’ve seen it pop up for people after 6 months
I’m not. Most folks I see on 7th and 8th gen chips and 5ghz are straddling the 1.4v mark.
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That’s honestly the only thing I like about my Ryzen 5900x is the fact that just performs at its max out of the box. No need for overclocking Everything else about the AMD switch is really starting to annoy me lol
I’m more or less over overclocking to be honest.
I did that with the 8700k, the Vega 64, and the 5700 XT. (The latter of which required undervolting to not throttle themselves).
I haven’t touched the 3080 except to try the power limit (of which it allows 110%, ~360w) but then put it back to stock settings.
Next system is going to probably just be bonestock.
You see that’s why I made the switch to AMD so I wouldn’t have to worry about overclocking ever again. With that said it’s not without its very very annoying shortcomings that from what I can tell everybody else just seems to ignore 
My experience with AMD parts over the past 5 years has been
- troublesome setup
- more meticulous tweaking needed for maximum performance (or even to get it to work properly)
- strange behavior sometimes
I actually spend at least as much time playing games on my Ryzen system connected to my TV than I do my Intel office one (because…been sitting at my desk all damn day…more time on it after I’m off the clock isn’t something I can do all the time).
It’s mostly stable, but sometimes it just does weird stuff.
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#3 100% #3
To be honest if this keeps up I’m giving it to you this week but if it keeps annoying me the way it is I’m going back to 10900k
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lol, good times.
#1 was related to RAM and 1st gen Ryzen + motherboard AGESA…getting to 3200mhz was…challenging to say the least. Might even really be the cause of #3.
#2 is mostly AMD GPUs. Reference and lower-end designs just don’t work out of the box. They will 100% throttle themselves if left to their own ridiculous voltages, and stupidly conservative fan profiles. Contrasting to the ASUS 3080 TUF OC - plug and play, 100%.