Ryzen 9 5900X arrived from Scan yesterday. This is most of the testing i did in the afternoon and evening last night.
I am not testing this cpu on air, i went straight to water cooling. The cpu seems to be decent, but still the boost is not as good as the review samples. Mine was maxing out at 4.95ghz single core and 4.35-4.4ghz on default settings.
Test System Spec:
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
Asus Crosshair VIII Hero Bios 2403
Patriot Viper Steel 4400C19
EVGA Geforce GT710
Integral 120GB SSD
Super Flower Leadex 1300W
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMXl28Af7LA
New BIOS just came out. This has fixed the fclk getting stuck at 1900mhz, i can go over 1900 now, but its not the most stable, so for normal usage i think 3600-3800 is still best.
I saw G.skill are bringing out a 4000c16 memory kit as well for new Ryzen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub7di0Ue0vw
How much CPU can you really get for £20? This interesting 1156 Xeon overclock higher than its i5 750 bother at nearly half the price and being a generation newer and £5 cheaper than a 771 xeon, could this be the ultimate budget build cpu?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhOXo557x5k