End of Year PC Build

Now that I've seen the motherboard I'd advice against this. It's a non-standard MoBo and I fear moving it to a new case would be more trouble than it's worth. Swapping the fan is the way forward.

[Build Pictures long overdue]

Here's the rig. Doesn't look like much does it.

The chipset fan mostly idles.

RGB!

How are you gonna fix a dead stick of RAM or a video card with a dead GPU or VRAM? Haha.

RMA is the only option.

If it's still under warranty, I'll get an RMA.

If it's no longer under warranty and I'll try my luck with reflowing the solder. Just keep in mind that a lot of times broken solder is not the cause. If it's a damaged RAM or GPU, that's not something that you can fix.

Indeed I have.

[Build results]


Default results are out of the box, except for the correct memory timings. Not too shabby, and much better than my current rig. Water cooling is nice and quiet, despite the aggressive fan and pump curves that I set.

Enabling AMD's PBO makes quite the difference: Cinebench renders faster, but noise becomes unbearable.

This is where the fun begins: Undervolting 4 cores by -5V and overclocking the GPU memory clock +500MHz. I left the two best cores well enough alone. Cinebench doesn't get much faster, but Time Spy jumps. The rig reaches max temps at 75C; haven't seen it go higher.

And finally the realm of diminishing returns. You could go higher, but there's really no point with this setup. The temps are stable at 75C, but that's already too high in my mind.

I did benchmark after every change I made, these are just the results that seemed worth documenting. There hasn't been a single crash yet, everything is nice and stable.