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- Mar 7, 2008
Thought I'd help out in the country cup with a sub on my 3600 system for CineBench R15 single thread. It went downhill from there.
I knew my Ryzen 3600 system already had a Win7 install. When I dug it out, I noticed it had a single stick of 2133 ram in it. Need something nicer than that, even if CB isn't really ram sensitive. I pulled out 2x16GB of 3200 ram from another system. Enabled XMP in bios and... boot loop. Windows didn't like it at all, but I could go in the bios fine. Even turning off XMP I couldn't get Windows to load. The mobo never liked that kit, so I fished out 2x 3000C14 from another system. Much better.
Once into Win7, I knew I hadn't used it in forever so I updated the AMD chipset drivers, and GPU drivers. So far so good. I went to put on Ryzen Master, system rebooted during install. It didn't like that. Windows then would reboot during startup. It really didn't like that. I could still boot into safe mode, but what was causing the problem? It took a lot of trial and error, but there was an AMD device shown in Device Manager that had a driver installed but was listed as not working. I disabled it, and Windows booted again. To cut the story short, Ryzen Master couldn't be installed after this point so I have to do old school bios overclocking. At least I didn't brick my Win7 install. That would be the end of it as I'm not doing a new install!
I overclocked the ram to 3600C16 as I knew that was safe from previous use on Intel, and it seemed stable with a few minutes on Aida64 just to check it out. On the CPU I disabled SMT and reduced the cores to 1+1. Set 4.3 GHz at 1.4v and... got a run in. Hurrah! Banked a screenshot just in case, set it to 4.35 and... crash. A bump in voltage to 1.425 got a run in there and I called it a day. Going to 4.35 got me 205 points, compared to 204 at 4.3. Hardly worth the effort. With ideal scaling, I should get 206 but I'm not re-running in the hopes of getting one extra point. Also I assume I need a load more voltage to continue making way with clock, and I wasn't sure my air cooler was going to cut it.
In all, I think it took 2 hours, just to get 205 CineBench R15 points!
Then I saw, I never subbed on hwbot with the 3600 before, so I had to do a run with all cores. Wasn't happening at 4.3 1.40v. Insta-crash. Had to back off to 4.2 at that voltage to get a run done. For indication, I did do a stock run after, and it was boosting all cores to around 4.1, so hardly any OC improvement there. I wonder why I bother some times...
I knew my Ryzen 3600 system already had a Win7 install. When I dug it out, I noticed it had a single stick of 2133 ram in it. Need something nicer than that, even if CB isn't really ram sensitive. I pulled out 2x16GB of 3200 ram from another system. Enabled XMP in bios and... boot loop. Windows didn't like it at all, but I could go in the bios fine. Even turning off XMP I couldn't get Windows to load. The mobo never liked that kit, so I fished out 2x 3000C14 from another system. Much better.
Once into Win7, I knew I hadn't used it in forever so I updated the AMD chipset drivers, and GPU drivers. So far so good. I went to put on Ryzen Master, system rebooted during install. It didn't like that. Windows then would reboot during startup. It really didn't like that. I could still boot into safe mode, but what was causing the problem? It took a lot of trial and error, but there was an AMD device shown in Device Manager that had a driver installed but was listed as not working. I disabled it, and Windows booted again. To cut the story short, Ryzen Master couldn't be installed after this point so I have to do old school bios overclocking. At least I didn't brick my Win7 install. That would be the end of it as I'm not doing a new install!
I overclocked the ram to 3600C16 as I knew that was safe from previous use on Intel, and it seemed stable with a few minutes on Aida64 just to check it out. On the CPU I disabled SMT and reduced the cores to 1+1. Set 4.3 GHz at 1.4v and... got a run in. Hurrah! Banked a screenshot just in case, set it to 4.35 and... crash. A bump in voltage to 1.425 got a run in there and I called it a day. Going to 4.35 got me 205 points, compared to 204 at 4.3. Hardly worth the effort. With ideal scaling, I should get 206 but I'm not re-running in the hopes of getting one extra point. Also I assume I need a load more voltage to continue making way with clock, and I wasn't sure my air cooler was going to cut it.
In all, I think it took 2 hours, just to get 205 CineBench R15 points!
Then I saw, I never subbed on hwbot with the 3600 before, so I had to do a run with all cores. Wasn't happening at 4.3 1.40v. Insta-crash. Had to back off to 4.2 at that voltage to get a run done. For indication, I did do a stock run after, and it was boosting all cores to around 4.1, so hardly any OC improvement there. I wonder why I bother some times...
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