It's the AZZA 240-CSAZ TITAN. For around 75 BUX CANADIAN I bought a promo from NewEgg that included a GAMDIAS 80 plus 650 watt PSU with the case. Back in the day that I got it a tempered glass panel case for under a 100 CA was a rare find. This, for $75 after rebates and a PSU to boot seemed like a great deal at the time. The CPU is already mildly oc'd to 4.2 GHz. I stepped down the RAM a tad since I can't expect much more than 3666 MHz on a 3800x anyway. There is some capacity for more fans but it is a tight fit for the exhaust fan which would completely block out the "HERO" logo. The case is really a poor design for air flow and might require a little modding. I suspect the designer anticipated that most people would be running with water cooling with this case.
Slightly small case but the worst part is the (only) 2 fan places if you exclude top (240mm) radiator place. This would be a permanent case for this rig?
For the OC...
I like "studying" about ZEN2 dynamics in general and want to know about clocks and boost behaviour and all the stuff related. I never consider OC mine cause I'm convinced that it gives pretty much anything it got out of the box, with the best possible way, but I can understand if someone likes to fiddle with his CPU just for the fun of it or see if he can squeeze anything more out. So instead of CPU "direct" oc, lately I'm trying to see if possible to optimize the boost clocks. Playing with vcore offsets (+/-) and that short of stuff. Now I'm trying to understand how
Precision
Boost and
Precision
Boost
Overdrive (different things) really works and about
PPT (Package Power Tracking - Watts)
TDC (Thermal Design Current - Amps)
EDC (Electrical Design Current - Amps)
...parts of PBO.
after 2hourd Browsing/watching videos
during CB R20 all core
after 2 hours gaming
Another interesting point of ZEN2 CPUs is the FIT (silicon FITness monitoring). No direct user monitoring or altering its parameters as its the build-in manager of the CPU (controlling PB/PBO) programmed by AMD inside AGESA.
What I've done so far is to give a small negative vcore offset to reduce consumption and temp across the entire range of boosting (through base clock, up to max single) and see if that would raise clocks, but that didnt work out for me as my 3600 apparently has poor quality silicon (expected). The clocks went down by 1~2% while the vcore offset was negative by 2~3%.
Now as shown in pics above I have reduce the power current (EDC) limit and this had raise a bit the clocks (25~50MHz), only in all core 100% load situation.
I'm interested to see how the 3800X behaves regarding PPT/TDC/EDC in default or in OC state, like yours. Thats the reason of all this...
I know you're in the middle of moving places right now and this implies extremely limited time!
Just keep it in the back as a thought... I'd like to see some screenshots at some point if you are interested by this.
Some interesting reads
stub With the launch of the Ryzen 3000 series processors, we’ve noticed a distinct confusion among readers and viewers when it comes to the phrases “Precision Boost 2,” “XFR,” “Precision Boost Overdrive,” which is different from Precision Boost, and “AutoOC.” There is also a lot of confusion...
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07/08/2019 6:33 PM (GMT) - Update on the bios issue on Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard ("the thing"). Earlier today I received a response to my inquiries from ASUS. The response was rather technical and I cannot go into the specifics of what exactly it involved. However, it confirmed my...
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