Hello,
So my ryzen 5 2600 has started causing stutter when I had any kind of overclock on it. Even with just core performance boost on it.
My question is, should I upgrade to the 3600? It’s on sale right now in canada to right around my budget. Or should I just deal with the 2600 being on stock?
i think it’s worth exploring troubleshooting. Have you tried updating your BIOS?
Yes, I’ve been troubleshooting for quite some time now. It plays fine, and then once in a while I get a “brrr” like noise in my headphones and the game stutters, it’s almost like a brief freeze.
It typically happens in highly dense areas, like carapace adds for instance, or even just standing in a city. Nothing out of the ordinary either when it happens, no heat spike, no 100% cpu usage. I tried adjusting voltage but to no avail.
The only solution I’ve found is completely disabling the core performance and PBO, and this morning I turned xmp back on to see if it did it and nothing.
I’ve spent so long trying to figure it out and something must be up with the CPU. It’s fairly new too, just less than a year.
I did a fresh windows install at one point, re downloaded all the correct drivers, etc.
How much RAM do you have, and is it configured in dual channel mode?
I have 16gb ram. So I did open Cpuz this morning to check things after I initialized XMP and under memory it says single rank?
It’s two 8GB sticks of corsair vengeance pro 3000mhz ram
Edit: sticks re in A2 and B2 which is where they should be on my mobo. And I just got a new mobo, and it was happening on the last mobo I had too.
Single rank is just the memory chip configuration on the RAM stick. Check under the “Memory” tab and see if it is “dual channel”.
Also, check into your windows performance hardware monitor to see how much memory is “Hardware Reserved”
Yes it’s in dual rank then. Okay let me get back to you in a moment when I’m at my computer to tell you how much is reserved
Edit: hardware reserved memory 52mb
Honestly it sounds exactly like your CPU is slightly unstable at the clock speeds it’s trying to run at with PBO on. Basically it can’t handle the built-in overclock. Is it still under warranty?
Yeah, it was stable for a long time and then within the past few months this stutter has started. I’m honestly not sure I am still within the warranty, I’ll have to check.
Do you think it’s a worthwhile upgrade though? Or should I deal with it until something better comes out?
I had a CPU that was fine at 4.3GHz but then started doing exactly what you’re describing, so I had to drop to 4.2GHz.
I would do this first. There is no good reason your CPU being run with boost settings from AMD should be doing this and they owe you one that works as intended.
If you can’t get it replaced, I think the 3600 would be a worthwhile upgrade depending on your GPU. Especially at its price right now. The difference from Zen (and Zen+ like your 2600) to Zen 2 (3000 series Ryzen minus the 3000 series APUs and mobile parts and including the 4000 series APUs and mobile parts [good naming, AMD]) is a pretty big one.
I have a gtx 1070
That should play well with a 3600 at 1080p and maybe even 1440p
Thanks for your help!
Get a 3700x.
Make it more worthwhile of an upgrade. You’ll notice better gaming (as with the 3600; not much difference between the 3600 and 3700x) as well wider resources for greater multitasking and productivity (here the 2 extra cores comes in handy)