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GUIDE: AMD AM5 System Optimization

R3AP3RK1N6

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Hello dear members of the chronic tenosynovitis group and those whose membership is still pending!

I've been hanging around PC Games Hardware Extreme, but due to recent events, I want to offer you a little treat just before the end of 2024.

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"Please glide elegantly into the new year!"
- Wishing you a smooth transition!
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Over the past 21 days, on more than 20 pages, I've put together a guide to give everyone the opportunity to perform a procedure that makes the CPU run cooler, consume less power, yet generate more performance and maintain higher clock speeds.

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Which AMD CPUs does this guide apply to, you ask?
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Well, this procedure applies to every processor in the AM5 platform. It doesn't matter which chipset you are using.

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How does it go again? ^^ "If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is a lie!"


Well, in this case, and one reason why I put so much work into the guide, I've included cross-references. These lead to a small database containing screenshots from which all the guide's data can be derived. I've created bar charts that visually reflect the performance advantage directly, along with sources to explain terms and provide hyperlinks to all the programs used.

This way, anyone interested in the guide can verify the information if they wish. I did this in the interest of transparency.

Well ... I'm still undecided whether it was due to Office bugs or if I've just gotten out of practice over the years; anyway, I encountered some unpleasant complications during the creation process, and then there were test results with my OC profile that forced me into error analysis because the results simply "didn't make any damn sense!"

For this reason, at a certain point, the data resulting from the BIOS profile "Overclocked" is excluded from my guide. Currently, I have no more motivation to delve deeper into this topic.
Nevertheless, within the database, there are still screenshots of benchmark results.

I feel really burnt out after all this work...

But it's okay!
The core focus is on optimizing the platform, not overclocking.
That's a whole different topic!

If the feedback is positive, I might ... maybe ... revisit this topic.

Attached to this topic, you will find the guide in "German" and "English" - yes, I even went through the trouble of translating everything.^^

With kind regards, until further notice
Stefan André aka R3AP3RK1N6

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Thank you for posting this. I have been using Intel for many years, and am going to make the switch to the 9800x3d here very soon, so I am thankful for this learning resource.
 

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Thank you for posting this. I have been using Intel for many years, and am going to make the switch to the 9800x3d here very soon, so I am thankful for this learning resource.
Hello, nice to read that.

Currently, it's under further investigation, but I try to increase the performance per core.

Serious Enthusiast (and Overclocker by their job) do advice to do some deeper stability-tests:
Y-Cruncher = 12-48hrs
OCCT = 12-48hrs
CoreCycler = 24-48hrs /per Core
Prime95 = 24-48hrs
MemTest86 = 24hrs
Aida64 = 24-48hrs
Cinebench R23 as well as 2024 is not that good for long Stress-Test-Loops, but will assist to confirm a good system stability.

On every change of BIOS-Settings, you should re-start tests.
Whithin the first 1-2hrs you will reach errors and you will have to do adjustments. Just make one step after another, to be able to understand what causes the problem, to keep troubeshooting more easy.

I'm diving deeper into performance uplifts and as a base I'm using the method discribed in my work.
3 Cores were struggeling and needed further adjustments.
So - it's not a bad way, but for such specific workloads by these test-methods, it's not 100% stable.

Do not be afraid about that tests, it might look extreme, but you will reach longer test-runs the more stable your system is getting.

The next AM5-Docu that I will release is more detailed - more technical - more specific.

Enthusiasts and Overclockers call it "He started to learn walking and wrote down his first steps..." but 3 of 16 physical cores unstable on a system which had been running for a year on my personal workloads, is "okay" for "muggles like me", but way way way too less for serious professionals.

So - next work is focused onto professional-insights of this platform, to even make the professionals happy.
 
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If I remember correctly one part of testing that is needed when using Curve Optimizer is testing light workloads to ensure cores don't crash when boosting. I did a quick read though and didn't happen to see anything like that mentioned in the PDF. Anyway thanks for posting this looking forward to reading more in depth later.
 
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This is probably one of the more impactful options, it disables VBS as a direct effect. Wont work for people who need to run VMs though.
 
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