On 05/16 01:04, Dale wrote: > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 05/16 12:46, Dale wrote: > >> tu...@posteo.de wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I am trying to figure out the best settings (performance wise) for a > >>> AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with a MSI Tomahawk max motherboard. > >>> > >>> I don't want to overclock -- tweaking the bios is for finding > >>> the optimal setting in oposite to waste performance via sub-optimal > >>> settings like not activateing XMP profile and running the RAM at > >>> JEDEC speeds instead of what the vendor guaranties. > >>> > >>> Unfortunately, there are quite a view settings to which I didn't > >>> find any explanation, for what they are good. > >>> > >>> Any help is very appreciated! :) > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Meino > >> I usually buy boards that can overclock but don't do it. What I usually > >> look for once I get my CPU, memory and all installed, the selection for > >> optimized settings or something to that effect. I've always found that > >> that setting works pretty darn well. I had to tweak the IOMMU or > >> something setting but other than that, I let it detect the best > >> settings. If I upgrade the BIOS, I repeat that on the first boot up. > >> In my experience, it picks good safe settings that result in stable > >> systems. > >> > >> I've never had a MSI mobo, yet, so it may be called something different > >> but even Dell and Gateway usually have something similar to choose. It > >> may be worth looking into . > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > > Hi Dale, > > > > thanks for your info! :) > > > > I think it is called "Auto" with the MSI bios. > > When using this, JEDEC timings and a command rate of 2 > > instead of 1 are choosen for DDR4 (as an example)...which > > isn't optimal. > > > > These "Auto" were the reason for better settings. > > I think I have to tweak the bios settings by hand... > > > > Cheers! > > Meino > > > > Maybe for once I got lucky and something worked. ROFL I once visited > the overclockers forum and found a listing for the "safe" settings for > all sorts of Mobo and CPU and memory combinations. That was back in my > ABIT NF7?? days. I don't know if they still post those or not. The > overclockers forum isn't just about overclocking. They have info on > what is considered safe as well. May be worth searching for info there > as well as what people share here. If you lucky, someone has the same > hardware you have and can share a screenshot or something. > > This is a link to the home page. You can get to the forums as well as > how-tos and such from there. > > https://www.overclockers.com/ > > Hope that helps. Even one piece of good info can make it worthwhile. > You don't want the smoke to get out of a chip or something. o_O > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Hi Dale, without your help/info I would have NEVER checked an overclockers forum for information about the direct opposite of it ! ;) Thanks a lot, Dale! Will grep the forum there! Cheers! Meino
