re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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Warm it up with a hair dryer and gently twist.

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Thanks. I may just leave it alone as its working fine and I don't "need" to move it.

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I would further emphasize the words “warm” and “gentle”. If you use something like a blow dryer, keep it far away. But there’s actually a safer way: run a few loops of an SSD benchmark to get the chips nice and hot, and like UH said, gently twist. The damage comes from pulling straight up and detaching the chips, same as with a CPU cooler. Just apply light, then slowly increasing, steady lateral pressure. If you’ve warmed up the chips enough, you should start feeling it slide. Once that “seal” is broken, it should come right off.

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Thanks. I'll definitely keep this in mind.

Any tips for setting up my CPU or things to look for in the AMD world? It was taking a long time to boot, but once updated bios, its pretty fast. It was sitting in bios for 61s (per task manager) but now its 12s. As for just navigating around (browsers, programs, loading a couple of games last night) Its definitely seems snappier than my 11900K. I'm gonna run some Cyberpunk tonight or tomorrow. I have a new PSU and a 3080 to give my kid's rig, and i'm building another rig with my spare board and CPU for my youngest. His case comes in today.

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Just make sure you’ve downloaded and installed the individual chipset drivers from your motherboard website, including Ethernet, etc.

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Yep. I downloaded those prior and installed once the PC booted. That's why the restart was such a pain before I did bios update. Set and forget sounds great. That's my style, lol. Not much use, for me, for synthetic benchmark bumps. I just want a stable experience.

I also made sure to buy AMD Expo compatible RAM. If thats just a marketing ploy, then they got me. But my RAM went from 4800 to 6000 once enabled in bios. Am I really getting 6000?

ETA: I read that it doesn't make that big a difference in gaming (RAM speeds).

I'm lucky to live near a Microcenter and got that 7800X3D bundle. Now that I have the current best gaming CPU I'm awfully tempted to get a 4090.

Well the cheapest one right now is still $200 above MSRP. And giving Nvidia $1800 right now is tough to swallow.

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Download ZenTimings. It will tell you every bit of anything your ram is doing.

And no, your ram speed won’t matter much, especially with an x3D chip, but it’s not going to hurt anything, either.

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I may do this. I know it won't make a huge difference, but my RAM goes back to 4800 on restart. It won't stay at 6000. I'm not that concerned about it, but I wonder if it has something to do with the 7800x3d being compatible up to 5200. Although, i saw some on reddit say they have been stable at 6000, so who knows.

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What's your mobo?

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MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk.

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Are you on bios 7E12v18?

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Yes. I updated to that on upon installation.

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Might make sure it took it. Even bios updates in the bios can be funky. Even XMP memory should at least work at 6k.

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Will do. I though I did verify but I can't remember. I'll follow up.

ETA: Bios Version says 1.80.

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I checked earlier, my RAM is staying at 6000 and hasn't reverted back down. Basically identical setup. Strange

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Another strange thing, when I changed it back to 6000, it stayed in bios for 61s upon restart. Each time I checked in bios that the Expo profile was still active, it would take that long. Once it reverted back to 4800, it was a 12s bios. It is running fine at 4800 but this other stuff is weird. I just don't know if it could be a bigger issue (which i don't really think it is). I feel like i'm just missing a bios setting or something.


ETA: Is your PC booting normally at 6000? Like, normal time/speed?