Hey all,
I was able to finally score a 5800x at a local microcenter. It was an in place upgrade from my 3900x to the 5800x with nothing else changed. The 3900x and all the other parts have run stable for over a year. Not a single BSOD.
When I installed the 5800x I ran a simple stress test and zero problems. But after gaming for a little while, I started getting BSOD and it was a real bother. I made sure all my chipset and other drivers and BIOS were up to date. I went back to an older november 4th drivers and still BSOD. I know my components are good and I tried my ram as base 2133mhz speed, nada. Still had the BSOD. No overclock, I tried ECO mode and Default modes, and still BSOD.
Then I noticed while watching ryzen master software that the clock speed and voltage fluctuate quite a bit, upwards of 1.45 volts and over 4.8ghz on some cores. This is with the default settings. My guess is that the bios is just not always stable at some clock speeds matched with certain voltages as they both fluctuate up and down. AMD might have been a little ambitious when binning my CPU.
I then manually set the the clock speed of the CPU to max out at 4400mhz and set the voltage at a fixed 1.35v. All other settings were left on Default and Auto. My computer has been rock steady every since, no more BSOD. I'll wait for some future bios updates, but for now I'll stick with these settings.
Hey! I just created an account to thank you for putting this up and typing instructions out for the other people. My bios was different but it helped me figure it out.
So I just build my computer (will put the parts below in case it helps someone else) and started playing Red Dead Redemption Two on Ultra. Started getting the "WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR" BSOD after playing for 20-30 minutes. The crash were so reliably that I was using it to test fixes. Thought it was just RDR2 but Crusaders Kings 3 crashed the computer yesterday with the same BSOD error. Checked my RAM and Temperatures (everything within 50-65c) nothing seemed to be wrong there.
Have been searching around for issues with the GPU, but finally tried 5800x and ""WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR" and got to this forum post. Set my voltage to 1.35v and CPU to max out at 4400mhz and played an hour or so of RDR2 and no crashes (well beyond the normal crash points). So fingers crossed, going to play some more now for science. Will come back and report if the error returns.
Can someone explain what is causing this error, why the fix works, and why the processor is failing and should we be sending them back?
TL/DR: The fix appears to be working, but why does it work, and why is a £450 processer failing like this?
CPU: AMD 5800x
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Aorus Master 8GB OC
MOBO: Asus Rog Strix B550‑f Gaming(wi‑fi)
PSU: 750W
Ram: 16 gb 3200hz