Okay, so I'll try and keep this short.
Ryzen 3600x, almost a year to the day old.
Spent it's entire life at 4.4GHz all core, with voltage offset at .204+ (Gigabyte board) which in Bios showed somewhere around 1.224VCore.
Passed all the big torture tests with flying colors, as did the RAM that is set to 1:1.
Yesterday I was playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, and after about 45 minutes frames tanked to 5fps in game. Developer mode says the limiting factor is Main Thread.
Changed some settings, nothing helped, so I thought my OC might just be getting to be a bit unstable as I've read that can happen. Opened P95, small FFTs test causes immediate crash. Uh-oh!
I let it reboot, and decide to run CBR20 to compare scores to what it was. Stock it was standard 3600x, somewhere around 3500-3600. My overclock was around 3950. Now... 3300.
Tried P95 again, also crashes. Sometimes it makes it 5 minutes and errors out, sometimes it makes it 5 minutes and hard crashes.
Back into BIOS, lowered from 4.4GHz to 4.3GHz, became stable for the short amount of time I could test it, maybe 25 minutes, but R20 score had gone to 3250.
Tested RAM and set it back to normal XMP settings, no change. I tried loading optimized defaults and leaving everything alone, except XMP on and setting it to 1:1. Tried with and without PB and PBO.
R20 score is just 3222 now.
Temps on my original overclock were in the very low 70s, after I tried raising voltage a tad to get stable, low 80s, and stock was 67 or so, so it's not like it's overheating, and it only ever saw anywhere near these temps during P95 tests.
Curious what your thoughts are, and if it DOES seem like a possibly dying chip, can AMD see if a card had been overclocked, and is their warranty team generally pretty good to deal with?
Thanks all.
Ryzen 3600x, almost a year to the day old.
Spent it's entire life at 4.4GHz all core, with voltage offset at .204+ (Gigabyte board) which in Bios showed somewhere around 1.224VCore.
Passed all the big torture tests with flying colors, as did the RAM that is set to 1:1.
Yesterday I was playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, and after about 45 minutes frames tanked to 5fps in game. Developer mode says the limiting factor is Main Thread.
Changed some settings, nothing helped, so I thought my OC might just be getting to be a bit unstable as I've read that can happen. Opened P95, small FFTs test causes immediate crash. Uh-oh!
I let it reboot, and decide to run CBR20 to compare scores to what it was. Stock it was standard 3600x, somewhere around 3500-3600. My overclock was around 3950. Now... 3300.
Tried P95 again, also crashes. Sometimes it makes it 5 minutes and errors out, sometimes it makes it 5 minutes and hard crashes.
Back into BIOS, lowered from 4.4GHz to 4.3GHz, became stable for the short amount of time I could test it, maybe 25 minutes, but R20 score had gone to 3250.
Tested RAM and set it back to normal XMP settings, no change. I tried loading optimized defaults and leaving everything alone, except XMP on and setting it to 1:1. Tried with and without PB and PBO.
R20 score is just 3222 now.
Temps on my original overclock were in the very low 70s, after I tried raising voltage a tad to get stable, low 80s, and stock was 67 or so, so it's not like it's overheating, and it only ever saw anywhere near these temps during P95 tests.
Curious what your thoughts are, and if it DOES seem like a possibly dying chip, can AMD see if a card had been overclocked, and is their warranty team generally pretty good to deal with?
Thanks all.
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