Specs:
• CPU: Ryzen 9 9950X3D
• Motherboard: Asus Rog Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi (latest bios, 1804)
• CPU Cooler: Lian li ga II LCD 360mm
• RAM kit: 64gb (2x32gb) G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000mt/s CL30-40-40-96 1.4V AMD Expo (part number: F5-6000J3040G32GX2-TZ5NR)
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5080
• PSU: be quiet! Straight Power 12 1200W
• Case/cooling: Hyte Y70 Touch with top mounted 360mm AIO, 3 intake fans on the right, 1 exhaust on the left and 3 intake on the bottom
(Pro tip to anyone with a hyte y70 and a top mounted AIO: take the top screen off before running benchmarks. I literally get like 5 less degrees when the tops not on)
Sorry I’ve posted a few times recently, just wanted to give my final update. I’m so happy man. My RAM’s default expo profile was INSANELY slow compared to these timings. PBO – enabled wasn’t nearly this good either
I spent ALOT of time trying to figure out why my benchmarks weren’t very good. Disabled so many things in bios, all this fuckin guess work and copying other people’s settings. Hilariously enough, I ended up achieving this by making ChatGPT walk me through tuning my ram (it took a LONG time to get it all dialed in right, you guys helped!)
And I could NEVER figure out curve optimizer. Every video I saw was setting a way higher negative offset on CCD0 but my chip actually wants CCD1 to be higher. I thought the settings I were trying were too high but they were too low. My PBO and per core curve optimizer values are as follows:
AMD overclocking > PBO > enabled > motherboard > tried different scalers and ended up choosing auto in the end > +200mhz > thermal throttle limit 95 Celsius
CCD0:
• best core (3): -28
• second best core (5): -26
• average cores: – 24
• second worst (6): -22
• worst (7): -20
CCD1
• best core (8): -34
• second best (11): -32
• average: -28
• core 13: -26
• core 14 & 15: -24
Ai Tweaker > core performance boost enabled
Core tuning configuration for gaming > Legacy
That’s all I did (besides of course tightening my ram and setting voltages) all those stupid motherboard settings I thought would magically fix it lol, no. I just had to not be lazy and try to learn about what I’m doing
On cinebench multithread I scored 2560 or something like that, 142 on single thread and CPU never dropped below 75 Celsius
Sits at -45 Celsius or so in light loads, certain heavy-medium stuff like gaming will push it to 65 or so, it never goes passed 70 unless I’m benchmarking and it stays in the low 70s
I’m sure I could’ve pushed some stuff to make it score higher but I just wanted to get ratings on how my pc will perform for my every day use, i feel like running a likely unstable system with this CPU just wouldn’t make sense. Buy a 9800X3D at that point lol
I think this configuration is perfect for my needs. Lots of productivity work (music production, video editing, 3D work) and lots of gaming 🙂 this is the first pc I’ve built (fully from scratch at least) and I could not be happier with it man. Big thanks to this sub for helping me figure some of this stuff out!