The silicon lottery hosed me!

[lalonde.joshua]

Ryzen 5 1600
Asus prime b350 plus
Ripjaws 2x8 3000mhz

I started playing with my OC at 3.8 GHz and 2666Mhz ... after failure I bumped it down 3.5, then -.5 every time from there and I reached the 3.2 GHz base that this CPU runs at and it still wouldn't boot. I also lowered the ram to 2266 or whatever the option is around that range... still wouldn't boot. How is it possible it wont boot at its base speed? I had it running fresh out of the box a week ago and its run fine if I reset all to defaults, but i literally cannot OC this by even 50 MHz? I just want to make sure it's not my mobo (also brand new, along with everything else) before I go sending the CPU back.

Thank you!

 

[R_1]

complete specs? include power supply make, model and age, please.

 

[lalonde.joshua]

complete specs? include power supply make, model and age, please.

Corsair CX450 450w ATX12v 80+ bronze and it's literally a few days old. I just bought every single piece for this system, everything is 3 days old. Everything.

AMD Ryzen 5 1600
6 core 12 thread 19 MB cache
3.2 GHz base 3.6 turbo using stock wraith cooler

Asus Mobo prime B350-plus
4 DDR4 slots @ 3000Mhz max

Ram- RipJaws 2x8 F4-3000C15D-16GVKB CL 15-16-16-35 1.35v

Asus GeForce GT 1030 GPU 2gb

Running windows 10 and most recent bios update as of 2 days ago

 

[R_1]

I would check the ASUS website for any BIOS/UEFI updates, a quick look shows that there are @ 20 available. see if any address your issues. the instructions for updating the bios are in the manual.

 

[lalonde.joshua]

I would check the ASUS website for any BIOS/UEFI updates, a quick look shows that there are @ 20 available. see if any address your issues. the instructions for updating the bios are in the manual.

I've already installed the latest update 4011

 

[R_1]

unless you have another system to OC/verify the chip on it may be that stock is all it can handle.

 

[lalonde.joshua]

unless you have another system to OC/verify the chip on it may be that stock is all it can handle.

How is that all it can handle when 3.2 is the base and 3.6 is its own turbo rating? yet it wouldn't even go to 3.2, that is insane. That's false advertising then and they can take this chip right back and send me another one. I doubt anyone has ever heard of this out of a Ryzen chip. Unacceptable.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Hmmm...

You installed the chip and it was working fine. Then you decide you want to try overclocking. It doesn't work. Now when you try to reset to stock, it still doesn't work. How is that "false advertising"? You made an unauthorized change to the processor, it didn't go the way you wanted and now you want a new chip?

Yeah. Not going to happen.

-Wolf sends

 

[lalonde.joshua]

Hmmm...

You installed the chip and it was working fine. Then you decide you want to try overclocking. It doesn't work. Now when you try to reset to stock, it still doesn't work. How is that "false advertising"? You made an unauthorized change to the processor, it didn't go the way you wanted and now you want a new chip?

Yeah. Not going to happen.

-Wolf sends

You can't read. It is working, it was before OC and it was after OC. It's working right nowww as I'm typing to you. What I said was, read this slowly, that it does not go above 3.2 when the chip is supposed to OC ITSELF to 3.6 before messing with any settings myself. It says on the package "Turbo Performance 3.6GHz" what does that mean to you? Does it sound like I should have to OC myself to reach 3.6 or even 3.3? And trust me, it's going to happen. I already have $40 refunded to my account to "cover shipping and for the inconvenience" and will get the rest returned once they receive the package.

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[Wolfshadw]

Sorry, but in your initial post you stated:

How is it possible it wont boot at its base speed?

As for the refund, good for you. I still think it's wrong. Can you verify that it would not turbo-boost to 3.6GHz BEFORE you overclocked it?

-Wolf sends

 

[lalonde.joshua]

Sorry, but in your initial post you stated:

How is it possible it wont boot at its base speed?

As for the refund, good for you. I still think it's wrong. Can you verify that it would not turbo-boost to 3.6GHz BEFORE you overclocked it?

-Wolf sends

BEFORE doing anything to the chip myself, it would not even reach a Max speed of 3.2 which is its base speed. That doesnt sound wrong to you? I couldnt possibly care any less about what you think is right or wrong. Run along little one.

 

[Wolfshadw]

No, that doesn't sound right, but that's not what you said. Your very first sentence was:

I started playing with my OC at 3.8 GHz and 2666Mhz

You didn't say anything about it not running at stock speeds BEFORE you attempted the overclock. Only after the overclock failed did you back it back down to stock speeds and it still wasn't booting:

and I reached the 3.2 GHz base that this CPU runs at and it still wouldn't boot

-Wolf sends

 

[lalonde.joshua]

No, that doesn't sound right, but that's not what you said. Your very first sentence was:

I started playing with my OC at 3.8 GHz and 2666Mhz

You didn't say anything about it not running at stock speeds BEFORE you attempted the overclock. Only after the overclock failed did you back it back down to stock speeds and it still wasn't booting:

and I reached the 3.2 GHz base that this CPU runs at and it still wouldn't boot

-Wolf sends

Zzzzzzzzz yes while I was setting the speeds myself. Setting it back to default it boots fine. MANUALLY setting it at that speed would not boot, which is why I was concerned with the mobo. Setting it to default was never an issue, since I was using the damn CPU to type the original message.

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