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I’m hoping this is the best place to get insight on what’s happening with my PC before I completely nuke it again. For context, the rig is less than 2 months old and this happened once already with the only ‘fix’ or solution I found was to completely wipe it clean with a fresh windows install. I don’t wanna do that again, I need to find out what’s wrong and causing the problem. Down below I’ve included a couple of youtube links showing exactly what I’m about to describe.
Basic Specs include:
R7 7700x with sufficient 360 aio cooling
Gigabyte b650 Aorus Elite AX – BIOS f7
XFX merc319 6800XT
G.skill 6000mhz cl30 16x2gb RAM EXPO on
Sn850x m.2
Coolermaster 850w PSU
Its currently scoring way below what it should in CPU benchmarks, such as only 1600 single core / 16k multi in cinebenchR23 (Before this problem occurred it was scoring within acceptable ranges, maybe below average but normal enough) The BIOS has been reverted to factory defaults as a part of troubleshooting process so this has absolutely nothing to do with thermal throttling. It was doing this before BIOS defaults as well. Under full multi core load it would peak up to 70c with PBO undervolting etc.
During benchmarking with CPU-Z it exclusively utilizes the first core and ignores the best 2 (cores 3 & 7) for some reason. It operates normally for multicore runs. Does anybody recognize this behavior? I’ve read up a bit on wrong core preference / CCX hierarchy but tbh at this point that’s so far beyond me, I wouldn’t know what all really applies here. And while I understand that the first core is often used by default for many small tasks this is certainly not something that should apply. As I said last time this happened I just nuked the PC restarting from scratch hoping it’d been resolved, but that’s not a sustainable solution now that it’s happening again. [https://youtu.be/\_5nfYhyvaXU?si=\_QJm2UXWlvNWtj9J](https://youtu.be/_5nfYhyvaXU?si=_QJm2UXWlvNWtj9J)
During Cinebench R23 runs it behaves normal under multi core load once again. But I have no idea wtf is happening during single core tests. HWinfo64 shows no core clocks being effectively utilized, and everything’s all over the place according to Ryzen Master. At least during CPU-Z benching it was maxing out a core clock albeit the wrong one… [https://youtu.be/\_WDy2PQOzxc?si=F3LQyJNxnp4-gzz7](https://youtu.be/_WDy2PQOzxc?si=F3LQyJNxnp4-gzz7)
I’m at my mental throttling limit with this thing. The input delay alone is just unbearable to the point I don’t even play games, let alone having to deal with things like this which leads to low FPS, stuttering etc. Hopefully some of you out there have some knowledge on the matter and can help identify a solution. At a certain point I’ll just have to contact the manufacturers since unfortunately I’m well outside of the return periods. Before resorting to that I thought I could get it running to a good enough level to then identify smaller issues and fine tune from there to my liking.. I’m no longer confident in any of that to say the least