Recent content by damric

Is your BIOS chip removable? If it is, there's a guy on ebay that will make you a new BIOS chip for dirt cheap. He will flash whatever version you want on there. I suggest an older BIOS since it's Ryzen 1600. If that interests you I can find his shop name. It's been a few months since I used...

I doubt anything is really wrong with your CPU at all. MSFS2020 had some nasty new updates in August that caused the 5FPS garbage until restart the application. Try it again. Some people had to re-install the whole game after the last update which broke all kinds of things. Your 4.4GHz...

Why people post wrong information is beyond me. Here: my own i3-6100 @4.6 overclock https://hwbot.org/submission/3187846_damric_cpu_frequency_core_i3_6100_4601.5_mhz

Skylake non-k could be overclocked on early boards with certain beta BIOSes, and if I remember it was just Z170 and a handful of lesser boards that had an external clock generator. The performance is night and day for i3-6100 when tuned up to 4.5GHz or so, but they are still weak for heavier...

Perhaps AMD should actually try and get graphics cards into the hands of gamers before making further obligations.

You'll probably find that it's too expensive right now to bother upgrading from that RX 480.

You will want a PSU with tight ripple suppression for overclocking. ATX spec is very loose and the PSUs that are on the fringe will require your VRMs and caps on your board to work much harder and will require more voltage to compensate, making everything just run much hotter than a good PSU...

You'll burn those VRMs way before you burn up that CPU. For piledriver, 4.5GHz is easy. 5GHz is doable, but for that motherboard it is best left at stock.

a320 boards are usually locked down, but you can try. If you can, those VRMs are going to be the limiting factor. I'd buy some cheap aluminum heat sinks and glue them to the mosfets, and also put a fan blowing onto them. That board will burn up way before your Ryzen ever gets to the silicon...

You need to fill that reservoir to the top to prevent cavitation of the pump. That's what is causing the air bubbles and noise.

Long thread, read many but not all of the responses. Best way to tell if your AIO needs refilled is to shake it. But considering how old it is, it is a good candidate for some modifications. It is a myth that these things cannot be taken apart and serviced by yourself. I love taking old AIOs...

Finish tuning your CPU before you start messing with RAM. See if you can get over 4GHz. Every Pinnacle Ridge CPU I have tested could do over 4.2GHz with less than 1.4v. Test it to make sure it is stable before you move on to tuning RAM.

Most miners tune for efficiency. The problem a lot of 2nd hand buys have are dealing with garbage BIOS flashes, not so much wear and tear. Cards running 24/7 365 Folding at Home and other such compute workloads are the ones that really get ragged out. The absolute worst killer of cards is a...

I wouldn't worry yourself over it. Your temps are normal. Today's CPUs run extra hot due to very compact heat flux. A temperature problem would be the CPU throttling or just unable to sustain boost clocks.

To me, Dragon Center is terrible software. I see my wife who is an IT fuss around with it, Windows updates constantly breaking it, then it needing it's own update. If it was up to me I'd just uninstall it. Speaking of which, you could have some unwanted Windows updates or telemetry going on...