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No, but a minor increase in ambient would've driven it to instability if folding or some other high intensity task. It's kinda hard to burn a block of aluminum without burning everything else
Mind you this is all cores overclocked to 3.7ghz. Not turbo when thermal headroom exists.
I figured you weren't talking about the aluminum [emoji14]Was not thinking the block of aluminum would burn up, it was the fan motor that I thought you were talking about.
It was techspot. http://www.techspot.com/review/1360-amd-ryzen-5-1600x-1500x-gaming/IDK if any one else as seen them ( i will look for them ) but i watched to vids where they benched ryzen and 7700k with lower gfx cards . the ryzen was much closer with say a 1060 to intel ( beating it in a few ) and most of the time the avg was lower but the min frames were higher. with a 1070 things were much closer than with the 1080ti IDK this is but to me this just points out more and more that a R5 will make a amazing budget gamer.
I was eyeballin those flarex sticks. Which one did you get?It's possibly a compatibility issue. From my standpoint it really doesn't matter though. I changed all the different voltages, it didn't make any difference. SOC, VTT, DDR voltage were all boosted. The issue wasn't that it wasn't stable, it was simply that it wouldn't do a cold boot. I bet a couple months from now it will be fixed with a BIOS update, but I don't want to deal with it in the interim.
No change with stock memory on the Gaming 3. Now I'll try Flare X and see if it makes a difference (I don't think it's going to.) After that I'll try the other Gaming 3.
The board definitely plays some sort of role because it's stable on the one but not the other. I'm also using the same memory and heatsink on both. It's kind of a pick your poison situation because the Gigabyte works better with higher memory settings, but the Asus is more stable at higher CPU frequency. I will try increasing the voltage even further on the Gaming 3 to make up for it not having an LLC setting. With the Asus it was really running at around 1.411 volts, so I'll see what I need to set to get that under load. It looks like at a setting of 1.425 it actually provides 1.416 under load, so I'll try running at that setting for a bit.
Update: That didn't work at all, it just shut down in less than 2 minutes. How much voltage were you giving your chip? It seems like the problem occurs as I ramp up the voltage. It could be a QC issue even. I'll have to compare to the other Gaming 3 board. First I'll try dropping back to stock on the memory and see if that makes a difference.
I was eyeballin those flarex sticks. Which one did you get?
Sounds like thermal shutdown for the VRM instead of thermal throttling of the CPU like on the old AM3+ motherboards. To view the VRM temp what is System Information Viewer?I didn't have much more success with the second board. I got it to run maybe a few minutes longer, but the same thing still happened.
However, I did happen to notice that the heat sink on the board was burning hot to the touch (actually burned myself a little bit, LOL). So, I opened the System Information Viewer and watched what happened under load on Prime 95. The VRM MOS temperature just keeps increasing and eventually gets as high as 131 C, before the system shuts down (interestingly, at 128 C the temperature actually wraps around to -128 C, so I guess the programmers never expected such a high value). Anyway, I suspect this is probably the source of the problem: the VRMs are slowly overheating. It would also explain why running at higher voltages causes the problem to happen sooner, since the VRMs have more trouble keeping up.
The discrepancy between Woomack's experience and mine could be because I've been running on an open bench with no air flow to save time. In a well ventilated case with better air flow, and with a better CPU heat sink so that less heat bleeds over from the CPU socket, the situation might look better. Actually, even the Wraith Spire might do better since it blows down on the board, whereas I am using a tower cooler that doesn't cool the board at all.
Unfortunately, now AI Suite 3 won't uninstall, go figure.