Recent content by giantsnerd

I updated to the latest BIOS and put the Ryzen 5 2600 back in. Booted on the first try. Keeping my fingers crossed.

This is a real head-scratcher. Original system: Ryzen 3 2200G (onboard video disabled), GTX 1060 6G, 8 GB HyperX Fury 2666, Corsair CX450, Gigabyte GA-AB350-DS3H. Purchased a Ryzen 5 2600 and dropped it in. System booted OK, and ran great. Next time I tried to reboot it however, it would not...

System: Gigabyte ab350m-ds3h Ryzen 3 2200G 8 GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 (2x4) GTX 1060 6 GB In BIOS, I have the initial display device set as the GTX 1060 (PCI Express 1). The Integrated graphics is set to disabled. Monitor connected to GTX. I see the BIOS screen on boot, but when...

I've had a Ryzen 2200G for a while but just started overclocking/benching it. I noticed that when I run a Cinebench single core test, it looks like all cores are active, like the load got split between cores. Each core hovers around 20% usage, which I would expect. Why is the load being split...

I have a 970 motherboard and the NB reaches 85 degrees during stress testing. My NB will throttle at 85. I can watch HWMonitor and as soon as the temps hit 85 the CPU frequency drops in half. After it cools a little bit CPU frequency goes back up. I'm going to try putting quality thermal paste...

I recently built a system with a Ryzen 3 2200G. I used Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 (2x4). I read that memory speed has a big impact on how well the integrated Vega graphics work, so I tried overclocking the RAM speed. I started at buy just changing the multiplier to get 2933 with no changes...