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Ryzen Owners Zen Garden

What are y'all's thoughts on contact frames for AM5 to replace the stock ILM? Since I will have to partially disassemble my PC for transport in a couple months time, that would give me the perfect opportunity to install one, since I need to remove the cooler and thus repaste my CPU anyway.

I haven't had any issues with temperatures, nor with installing the CPU or mounting the cooler, but since the opportunity is presenting itself, I wanted to ask fellow Ryzen owners whether you use a contact frame or not, and if so, what your experiences are with it?
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I have a contact frame, but could not see the point in installing it.. so it sits in its box :D
 
Palindrome said:
What are y'all's thoughts on contact frames for AM5 to replace the stock ILM?
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If you're having issues with the motherboard being bent by your heatsink setup, then a frame will be of benefit, as you'll get more flush and even heatsink contact with the IHS. If you're not having issues, there is no need.
 
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I thought about as much :) Thanks for the input.
 
igormp said:
I tried it out, managed to boot at 4800MHz with my 4x64GB set, but it wasn't stable :/
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After some further tests with this 3112 beta bios from asus, I've finally managed to achieve 5200MHz! 42-42-42-82 timings, already did a successful y-cruncher run, and I’m now running stressapptest on it to guarantee everything is ok.

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My bandwidth improved a tiny little bit (from 48~50GB/s to 51~53GB/s) on Intel MLC, so I’d say this exercise was definitely now worth the time spent haha

I do wonder if it'd be a good idea to try to leave the FCLK at 2000MHz, out of sync.
As a sidenote, my 9950x manages to run an all-core load at 5.6GHz at less than 60º with my PA120 SE, pretty good if I say so.
 
I'm gonna ask here. Has the price for the threadripper 9960X been announced yet? Thx
 
We built our first AM5 system and it's weird.

Specs:
• Ryzen 8400F
• MSi PRO A620M-E (BIOS version unknown)
• G.Skill F5-5600J3636C16GX2-TZ5RS
• XFX RX 6700 XT
• Windows 10

EXPO enabled, everything else is default. It sometimes refuses to compress and decompress stuff. Currently reinstalling the OS to be sure if it's the culprit but is there an AMD-specific tell on what's wrong?
 
Macro Device said:
We built our first AM5 system and it's weird.

Specs:
• Ryzen 8400F
• MSi PRO A620M-E (BIOS version unknown)
• G.Skill F5-5600J3636C16GX2-TZ5RS
• XFX RX 6700 XT
• Windows 10

EXPO enabled, everything else is default. It sometimes refuses to compress and decompress stuff. Currently reinstalling the OS to be sure if it's the culprit but is there an AMD-specific tell on what's wrong?
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Update the UEFI/BIOS, as old versions aren't the best things around.
 
TheLostSwede said:
Update the UEFI/BIOS, as old versions aren't the best things around.
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Checked, it's already on the latest. What else can I do?

Upd: never mind, that was a software bug. Found an alternative, now it works flawlessly.
 
Happy 6th birthday for most AM4 Zen2 CPUs (and Radeon RX 5700 (XT)) :toast:
 
Have the prices of threadripper CPUs popped up at any stores?
 
Found the 9960X for 1550€ in the EU.
 
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