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ponder said:
Oi, where the pics and feedback? ;)
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Lol I have pics but sadly haven't yet had time to really fame cause work kept me busy and I had to do some studying too, also my screen fell yesterday (bummer, so it's in the livingroom now connected to the TV) IMG_20191115_135227.jpgbut here's some pics and feedback.

So here it is:
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Now I checked out the Idle temps and it all looks good so far:
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Just a heads up - NZXT Cam sometimes prevents CPU's from dropping to idle clocks - might be worth checking out your idle frequency and temps with it disabled vs enabled
 
PhireSide said:
Just a heads up - NZXT Cam sometimes prevents CPU's from dropping to idle clocks - might be worth checking out your idle frequency and temps with it disabled vs enabled
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Didn't know that at all, I'll test it later or tomorrow and see how it looks. Luckily I still have CPU-Z on here to compare
 
I'm so paranoid with my other GPU dying I keep GPU-Z open on my second monitor while gaming and check it the whole time.
 
relax... if it dies it was meant to be.. everything dies
 
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Just a heads up - NZXT Cam sometimes prevents CPU's from dropping to idle clocks - might be worth checking out your idle frequency and temps with it disabled vs enabled
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Do you know what?
When NZXT was running the clock speeds were at 3988MHz but as soon as I disabled it and checked the speeds on CPU-Z the clock speeds hovered between 1396MHz and 1547MHz

Soul Assassin said:
I'm so paranoid with my other GPU dying I keep GPU-Z open on my second monitor while gaming and check it the whole time.
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I know that feels man
 
Thought I would share my build with everyone :p
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EDIT: Specs for those interested:
  • AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Octa-Core Processor
  • 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666Mhz (I know, I need to get faster RAM ;) )
  • Asus Strix B450-F Gaming Motherboard
  • Corsair HX750i Platinum Certified Modular Power Supply
  • GIGABYTE Aorus Extreme 1080Ti Graphics Card
  • Corsair H100i v2 Liquid Cooling AIO Loop
  • Lian-Li 011 Dynamic White Chassis
  • 4x Corsair SP120 RGB Fans | 4x Corsair ML120 Fans
  • 250GB Gigabyte SSD
  • 4TB Storage Drive
  • 1TB Games Drive
  • 3TB External Storage Drive
  • Corsair Glaive RGB Gaming Mouse
  • Corsair STRAFE Mk.2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
  • Corsair HS70 Wireless Gaming Headset
  • Samsung 27" Curved 144Hz Gaming Monitor
 
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Ryzen is pretty fun to mess around with :) There's a lot to learn for people who like to have a fiddle (and are coming from Intel). Multi-core performance in Handbrake \ Ripbot is solid but came across an issue with how Windows is using the CPU when the workload isn't heavily-threaded (older games in particular from what I've seen). The Ryzen Master software tells me core 4 is the fastest core in my CPU but Windows prefers core 1 for single-threaded work while CCX1 (contains cores 4,5,6) is asleep most of the time.

After digging around online seems MSI have not yet released a B450 bios with CPPC (collaborative processor performance control) enabled. CPPC lets the Windows scheduler assign work to the best performing core \ core complex in single \ lightly-threaded workloads. I'll be keeping half an eye out for that.

It's much of a muchness since I haven't overclocked anything (all cores run at 4.2Ghz under load) but I might someday...would be nice to know the work gets assigned to the fastest core in the system.
 
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