Recent content by nE0n1nja

Thanks a lot! As I said I'm still on the road but I'll try this as soon as I get home and I'll report back asap.

Nope, I've been on the road these past few months and I still haven't bought a new one. I'm going home next week and I'll update then.

Lol yeah I've heard that a lot over the past few days :D Yeah definitely not running OCs daily. Alright then, I won't overthink it, I'll just get the Evo or something similar and be done with it.

Thanks a lot for your reply. I am looking into getting a new cooler in a few weeks. I was looking at a couple of tower coolers, but since then I have been advised to get a top down cooler instead because of the fact that my board (ASUS PRIME B450M-A) doesn't have a heatsink over the VRM...

Played a little bit of GTA 5 as that's the only game I have installed atm.. Went up to 3.5. I'll try to increase the offset to about 0.125 to get just a little bit of temperature improvement. It's weird that a brand new machine doesn't work properly out of the box and I have to do all these...

Yes I've done all that. What do you mean "it's the mobo"? Like defective or something, or just a crappy model? Just ran Cinebench, the clocks never went higher than 3.4 GHz. I wonder how much more I can push it before I start to notice a significant drop in performance? I got a score of 2658...

A quick update: I got an advice from uncle Astro who is a member on another forum to offset the CPU voltage by 0.09 for starters and I'm seeing lowered temperatures without a loss in performance. The sudden spikes in temperature also stopped. He told me to continue trying to lower it further by...

Yep, that's my next upgrade, gonna grab one in the next couple of weeks.. Seeing as I've I tried everything else suggested here, I'm gonna put the issue to rest for now, and live with a slightly hotter machine than what I'm usually used to. Unless someone comes up with some new advice I didn't...

Just tried it, I don't see much of a difference.

It is, version 2006, the same they have on their site.

So I guess that's like looking for a needle in a haystack... lt1s10 thanks a lot for sharing this! Definitely something wrong with my system.. :unsure:

The BIOS version is 2006, same as the latest they have on their site https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-B450M-A/HelpDesk_BIOS/ Couldn't find AMD Cool'nQuiet in the BIOS.. Closest thing to the C-States thing is this "Global C-state Control", which is set to "Auto". Btw I re-positioned the...

May I ask what version of HWMonitor you're using? Because the clocks tab looks different than mine. Is it because of the motherboard? Also, look at my clock speeds, they're much higher than yours and I'm not doing anything except browsing this forum. I'll definitely change the heatsink next...

I totally agree! I'll try disabling MCE next, not near my PC atm but I'll report back once I do it. Thanks!

The "Minimum processor state" in the power plan was set to 90% by default, lowered it to 20% but nothing changed. The exhaust fan came with the case, not sure about the exact model but it's probably pretty generic. The intake fan is MASTERFAN MF120R RGB. Instead of placing them both as intake at...