Hey Phill - For reference I just set up a 5950x as a 24/7 WCG box. I started by setting the BIOS to the 95w Eco mode (10w less than stock by lowering PPT, EDC, and TDC). That gave me 16c/32t at around 3.4GHz on all cores @ 52c on a Scythe Mugen 5B. I figured that was too slow and cool so I brought it back to just stock. It's now 3.8 on all cores @59c. Ambient room temp is 20-21c
You'll probably gain some more MHz by attempting to optimize each core with a negative offset, but only you can decide if it's worth the time and effort.
For WCG? Nah not worth it. All core or bust, unless you run PBO right to the thermal edge, but even still.. not really worth it to me. Results are fairly similar..
Now with water? I would be interested in trying.. someone just has to send me a loop
But in the end I am not a pro,, I only played with it for about a month or two..
And some of you guys have big pulsing brains, unlike moi
Ah, if you're doing WCG then yeah you're gunna want static all core, at efficient settings
The 5950X's are beasts and work very well when they are tuned better, I find the happy medium is keeping them in the 50's range for temps (C range of temps, F range might be a little hard pushed!!
) but its personal preference I think.
I don't see the point in pushing it too the limit with the temps because as it's been mentioned the rewards and the power consumption don't really give much over the standard settings...
What VCore do you have set on the CPU if you've changed it at all? I've found with previous 3 series Ryzen CPUs more so, that I could lower the VCore back to like 1.0v and it still give some brilliant performance, but the actually system wattage is about the 140w under full load. I didn't get as much luck with either 5950X CPU's I've tried so far but my 3950X seems to be ok... I set the Vcore to a fixed rating and keep an eye to the temps. If I'm happy with the temps I'll crunch on it...
At the moment this is my daily rig so it's at the moment, busy lol
Copying data, ripping, crunching and posting up WCG stats and whatever else Google Chrome is using nearly 8GB of RAM for
Here's a screen grab for it at the moment ....
I've not had my 5950X rig on much but that'll go on tomorrow so I can find the bios screen grabs I'd like to show you guys so I can understand what the heck I need to change in there to get a bit more performance out of it with some luck
I think that is running about the 3.80GHz +/- and hitting about the 52 - 55C mark ish under custom water (triple 420 rad, nothing exciting at all) but it's working. The 3950X is under a quad 560 rad.. Fans are turned down a lot and sadly they are different models to what's installed on the triple and the triple is like a test bench but the 560 rad is in a case, which might not be doing such great things for the temps...
Thank you for the pointers guys, very appreciative!