TheDecayedOne
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Hello,
I'm one of the many users who had CPU degradation issues. I bought the CPU in early 2023 alongside most of my other components. I had random crashes, artifacts, driver timeouts on my GPU....you name it, I had (minus blue screens). My fix was to downclock the CPU to 5Ghz and to undervolt the dynamic voltage by just -0.050 and it ran stable from there on. Until I realized it was a CPU issue, I changed RAM, RMA'd my GPU, used a new PSU and did all kinds of memtests/SSD checkups/windows reinstalls.
Yesterday I did a bios update on my Aorus Elite AX DDR4 using the F10 bios. After I installed it, I checked my system settings and bios, reactivated XMP (DDR4-4000), and lo and behold, it's running at stock settings again aka 5.3GhZ. I did some gaming yesterday and today and it's suddenly stable again. Maybe this is just a short-term thing, but I'm happy for now that I can run my CPU at stock settings again.
But the question is, is that actually a bios mistake, going back to stock settings? Should I downclock it again? I'm not sure how much longevity this update brings. From what I read, CPU degradation is supposed to be permanent. How come it's become stable again?
I'm one of the many users who had CPU degradation issues. I bought the CPU in early 2023 alongside most of my other components. I had random crashes, artifacts, driver timeouts on my GPU....you name it, I had (minus blue screens). My fix was to downclock the CPU to 5Ghz and to undervolt the dynamic voltage by just -0.050 and it ran stable from there on. Until I realized it was a CPU issue, I changed RAM, RMA'd my GPU, used a new PSU and did all kinds of memtests/SSD checkups/windows reinstalls.
Yesterday I did a bios update on my Aorus Elite AX DDR4 using the F10 bios. After I installed it, I checked my system settings and bios, reactivated XMP (DDR4-4000), and lo and behold, it's running at stock settings again aka 5.3GhZ. I did some gaming yesterday and today and it's suddenly stable again. Maybe this is just a short-term thing, but I'm happy for now that I can run my CPU at stock settings again.
But the question is, is that actually a bios mistake, going back to stock settings? Should I downclock it again? I'm not sure how much longevity this update brings. From what I read, CPU degradation is supposed to be permanent. How come it's become stable again?