Recent content by Nine Iron

I'm considering moving to a locked Alder Lake CPU (12500, probably) and want to undervolt it as low as possible, but I've read a review of the board I had in mind - MSI B660 Mortar - and they mentioned that there was no vcore control... this strikes me as very odd, but it's the only review I've...

I'm putting this lockdown to some use and trying to tighten my RAM timings, and it's becoming obvious through my reading around that tRFC has a measurable effect on overall performance. I've used Ryzen DRAM calculator to get me started and it gives a single value for tRFC, but my board has it...

I'm thinking of giving a new BIOS a try - one that's four or five generations more current - and I want to preserve my settings. I know (the hard way) that profiles saved to my BIOS's chip are wiped by a flash, but let's say I save a v2605 profile to a USB stick - would I be able to load it up...

Just got a B450-F Strix in preparation for a 3600 next month. Updated the BIOS to the latest version (after ASUS's advised chipset driver update) with no problems, but CPUID is reporting the AGESA version to be 1.0.0.2. I know that the latest AGESA is at least 1.0.0.6... what's going on? One of...

My Win 10 is finding updates just fine, but it won't auto-install and I can't force it to install them. Below is what I see in the update section of Settings. I click on the "download" button and nothing happens, and Windows won't install the Pending updates on restart. I've enabled...

Already put this in the CPU/Mainboard forum - mods, please delete that thread (Searched for this but didn't find much; people seem to be relying on Ryzen Master, and I'm old-skool.) 1. About to go from Intel to AMD and I'm reading that gaming suffers slightly in low-res, CPU-bound situations...

(Searched for this but didn't find much; people seem to be relying on Ryzen Master, and I'm old-skool.) 1. About to go from Intel to AMD and I'm reading that gaming suffers slightly in low-res, CPU-bound situations. Namely, mine. However, given that none of the games I play are particularly...

I've got a 1060 Mini whose cooler I am about to replace with an aftermarket one. The stock fan is PWM with a small connector and I've got an adapter to plug a normal PWM fan/s into it. However, I've tried two different PWM fans via this adapter and the PWM control doesn't work; the speed is...

Adventures with Naked Die Cooling This is my go at some naked die cooling - that is, removing the CPU’s heat spreader and mounting the heat sink directly to the silicon. I couldn’t find any details of anybody having tried this so I thought I’d do a write-up myself. Current setup De-lidded...

Considering a move to AMD Ryzen but I don't know if it will support the following: 1 x graphics card (8x is fine) 2 x nvme SSD My current Z370 will do 1x8 + 2x4, but I can't work out whether X470/Ryzen 2 combo will do the same. I gather that some lanes go straight to the CPU and others go via...

Has anybody got a SecuFirm 2 set lying around who can let me know the sizes of the black standoffs/bushings that go between the motherboard and the "boomerangs"? Need inside diameter and height. Many thanks, M.

Just bought a used card off ebay and tried it in my system - it sounds like a rattlesnake when gaming, loads of electrical noise. The thing is, this is the second such card I've bought that's been like this, and the first was a different brand entirely (in fact, a different SKU - same Pascal GPU...

Using both my M.2 slots, but I note that one is NVME/SATA while the other is just NVME - is there any chance the NVME-only one is faster because it doesn't use the SATA bus? My computer seems to boot faster with the OS drive in the NVME-only slot, but this could be a placebo-effect on my part...:)

Just added a BD-R drive to my new setup and it's working, but it's not behaving the way I want it to: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's happening in my current W7 computer/what I want to happen in my new W10 one *insert a...

Bit of a quandary, here: My 8350K has sixteen PCI-e 3.0 lanes available, four of which have gone to my existing nvme boot drive. I'm considering adding another nvme drive for storage - another four lanes - if I can bag it cheap enough, but I also want to add a GPU very soon. Given that I will...