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| System Name | Every cuss word I can think of, and a few more I've made up |
|---|---|
| Processor | Dual System - Ryzen R9 5900X / Ryzen R7 1700 |
| Motherboard | (R9) Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master / (R7) MSI B450M Gaming Bazooka |
| Cooling | Scythe Mugen 5 Black Edition for both |
| Memory | (R9) 2x16 Patriot Viper 4 Blackout PV432G320C6K (3200) / (R7) 4x8 HyperX Fury HX421C14FBK4/32 (2133) |
| Video Card(s) | (R9) Asus Tuf RTX3090 24GB / R7 / EVGA FTW RTX3060ti 8GB (for now) |
| Storage | (Primary) 1TB WD Blue SN5x0 M.2s, 8TB / 6TB WD Black, 2TB MX500, Pioneer BDR-212DBK ODD |
| Display(s) | 75" Hisense A6 (60 hz) |
| Case | NavePoint 15U Networking Cabinet |
| Audio Device(s) | (Both) Onboard RealTek audio, PreSonus 24c interface |
| Power Supply | (R9) Corsair RM1000x / (R7) Corsair RM750x |
| Mouse | Logitech K520 |
| Keyboard | Logitech K520 |
| Software | LibreOffice, BeamNG.drive, Classic Doom and variants, ATS, NCH VideoPad, OBS Studio, MPC-HC, iCUE |
Resurrecting my first gaming setup as a media / NAS / web machine. 1700 Ryzen on MSI B450M Gaming Bazooka board. If it matters, it's from a 2017-2018 CyberPower 'GamerMaster'.
As it sits now, it has a 1TB WD Blue SN550, 4x8 HyperX Fury DDR4-2133, a Scythe Mugen 5 tower cooler, and an EVGA FTW RTX3060ti. Primary use will be live-screen-recording DVD playback for my Plex media server (I have my reasons, HandBrake doesn't always work well), so I'd like to optimize for peak performance. It currently runs Win10 Home, but Ryzen Master isn't necessarily a be-all-end-all here, as I've not yet determined whether I will continue to run Win10 or install Mint Cinnamon.
There's a lot of information out there on overclocking, and some of it conflicts with each other, which is why I come here.
The MSI board I have has a fairly straightforward BIOS process of disabling Game Boost, and manually setting the CPU ratio. Most threads I've read indicate settiing core voltage to 1.4, but since the board only offers an override or offset method, without a way to directly change or set core voltage, I limited the overclock to 3.6 (20%). I used Precision X1 to boost-lock the GPU at max (1850-1995).
Even at 3.6, thermals are good, but testing efficiency and performance using Afterburner, the CPU is struggling to keep up with the RTX3060ti (Afterburner reports 25% or less GPU usage, with 70-80% CPU usage across all cores or single cores), at 1440p and 4K, and FPS is decent until the system encounters high load. Is that because it's still running standard board-regulated voltage, or does that matter in this case?
If this is a limitation of the board or the processor, I do have a Phoenix GTX1650 OC I can put back in it, but would rather have the RTX3060ti's speed for encoding. I've seen videos showing a 1700 / RTX3060ti combo to perform quite well. I'm sure the 2133 DIMMs are not helping, but I can't see it causing this much of a performance issue.
TIA.
As it sits now, it has a 1TB WD Blue SN550, 4x8 HyperX Fury DDR4-2133, a Scythe Mugen 5 tower cooler, and an EVGA FTW RTX3060ti. Primary use will be live-screen-recording DVD playback for my Plex media server (I have my reasons, HandBrake doesn't always work well), so I'd like to optimize for peak performance. It currently runs Win10 Home, but Ryzen Master isn't necessarily a be-all-end-all here, as I've not yet determined whether I will continue to run Win10 or install Mint Cinnamon.
There's a lot of information out there on overclocking, and some of it conflicts with each other, which is why I come here.
The MSI board I have has a fairly straightforward BIOS process of disabling Game Boost, and manually setting the CPU ratio. Most threads I've read indicate settiing core voltage to 1.4, but since the board only offers an override or offset method, without a way to directly change or set core voltage, I limited the overclock to 3.6 (20%). I used Precision X1 to boost-lock the GPU at max (1850-1995).
Even at 3.6, thermals are good, but testing efficiency and performance using Afterburner, the CPU is struggling to keep up with the RTX3060ti (Afterburner reports 25% or less GPU usage, with 70-80% CPU usage across all cores or single cores), at 1440p and 4K, and FPS is decent until the system encounters high load. Is that because it's still running standard board-regulated voltage, or does that matter in this case?
If this is a limitation of the board or the processor, I do have a Phoenix GTX1650 OC I can put back in it, but would rather have the RTX3060ti's speed for encoding. I've seen videos showing a 1700 / RTX3060ti combo to perform quite well. I'm sure the 2133 DIMMs are not helping, but I can't see it causing this much of a performance issue.
TIA.