well the 7950X didn't last long...

[Space Lynx]

i don't overclock ram. i verify XMP with 1200% memtest, testmem5 and ycruncer vst.
neither do i overclock them beyond the stock fit voltage with PBO (1x scalar, Curve Optimizer and clock offsets)

I had some ram that was stable passed memtest to 1000%, passed aida64 stability tests, prime95, but it would not pass the hardest test of all, playing Dishonored 2 or Dishonored Death of the Outsiders, every other game ran fine. For some reason those two games are very very sensitive to ram OC's, and your ram isn't stable unless you can boot and play those two games. @ir_cow should probably add Dishonored 2 to hit ram testing lineup for this very reason. lol computers are nuts, I gave up

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

Lmao what is this, the AMD Character assassination smear campaign thread? Hey if this is all true, that sucks that you got hardware issues relating to AMD, but it's obvious you've moved on to Intel Raptor-Lake and having no issues, problem solved. You give me Ryan Shroud vibes for some reason lol.

God forbid there is some pushback against all the Ryzen hype. I have never been anti-AMD or an Intel fanboy but I am never buying a new (pre-Zen is fine) AMD CPU again until they make some *big* changes. And for me personally one of those is kicking ASMedia to the curb but it goes beyond that obviously as this very thread shows. I don't get all the fawning over Lisa Su. To me it seems they have traded reliability and stability for hype and performance, trying to chase Intel. Again, I am not loyal to any brand, I don't have any problem with buying a Radeon GPU, for example, and most of all I hope for more competition in the desktop and laptop space so I don't have to buy from either of the big two (and no, Qualcomm does not count).

 

[Psychoholic]

I guess i'm just lucky, Both my Ryzen's have been rock solid stable (my 7950x and my old 3900x)
The 3900x is now in my ESXi server running around 20 Virtual machines 24/7 and before i rebooted it this last time it had 184 days uptime.

My alderlake system has also been rock solid, sans a little early on teething issues which is expected for a new platform from either side really.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I guess i'm just lucky, Both my Ryzen's have been rock solid stable (my 7950x and my old 3900x)
The 3900x is now in my ESXi server running around 20 Virtual machines 24/7 and before i rebooted it this last time it had 184 days uptime.

My alderlake system has also been rock solid, sans a little early on teething issues which is expected for a new platform from either side really.

For my part, I was never particularly lucky with Ryzen, despite really enjoying my CPU. I ran into every major problem along the way. 4 years and five hardware generations into socket AM4's lifetime, we still had very high severity firmware bugs like PCIe signal instability, USB dropouts, TPM stutter, etc. running amok - and we still deal with EDC current limiter bug thanks to the partial lock on the X3D being implemented in a biblically lazy way that ended up affecting other CPUs as well, and that's after holding up on a segment of the buyers (300 series owners) for basically a year, even going as far as making up ridiculous lies like that BIOS ROM chip capacity tale of theirs. AMD should be ashamed.

AGESA 1.2.0.8 is supposed to fix it, my B550-E received a BIOS update recently, but there has been no mention of 1.2.0.8 implementation in the patch notes, just a generic improve system compatibility. However, it seems the AMD Overclocking section has been redone in the BIOS, might have fixed it... might not. I did not test it yet.

 

[95Viper]

Thread has run its course.