My Ryzen 9 9950X Died... on an ASRock Motherboard (talking head)

igor_kavinski said:
Did you start using it already? If yes, what BIOS version and have you noticed anything fishy in the voltages? Do you have your iGPU turned off? Manual RAM OC or EXPO? What type of cooling?
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About... six months? Should've written it down...

Regardless, largely problem-free, except when I applied a custom RAM overclock after a BIOS upgrade. EXPO fixed that, though.

Cooling is the Phantom Spirit 120 SE, which while a bit (and just a bit) noisy at max, is relatively quiet except when building shaders for gaming.

I do have an AlphaCool Core 1 block for it that I'll be putting on once the block for my PNY 5080 comes in.
 
DrMrLordX said:
Hopefully by that time, the DRAM market will have sorted itself out.
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I'd be more optimistic if there were a DRAM manufacturer that hadn't been fined for price fixing... more than once. I expect that even if supply constraints abate, they won't be in a hurry to drop prices. Kind of wish I'd invested in a few faster kits, especially CUDIMMs that we expect AMD to pick up for the new memory controller in Zen 6.
 
LazyGamer said:
especially CUDIMMs that we expect AMD to pick up for the new memory controller in Zen 6.
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I had TWO chances in separate instances to pull the trigger on 9600 CUDIMM kit at pretty reasonable $399 price point. Only reason I didn't was because I know there will be 10K+ kits at Nova Lake launch and the best of Arrow Lake can't go beyond 9400 G2.
 
Yeah, 10K is pretty trivial, folks were able to hit that with basic 3gb Hynix A-die UDIMMs, so obviously the signaling infrastructure is understood and present.

Mostly it's a matter of the economies of scale making sense in relation to the expected return on investment, i.e., those speeds aren't doing much for performance, just getting memory overclock junkies to open their wallets etc.
 
LazyGamer said:
those speeds aren't doing much for performance, just getting memory overclock junkies to open their wallets etc.
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Yeah. It's so bad that in one comparison, I saw the latency difference between 7200 and 8266 MT/s on Arrow Lake as only about 1 or 2 ns. That was in AIDA. The real world impact could be basically nil.
 
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