That’s a very good point! More for desktops.
Hi Spyder & Mrlip,
Hope you're both well.
I think I've now sussed how Ryzen works with regards to undervolts / overclocks, voltages and "idle." Took a day of playing around, but got there eventually. Had to get the ease of undervolting that Intel provides out of my head and re-invent the wheel per-say.
I'm fairly happy with what I have now - Ryzen Master profile which is 4Ghz stable @ 1.125v for gaming. What I'm not really understanding though, is the discrepancies between Ryzen Master monitoring and CPUZ / HwINFO64. I understand what AMD_Rob was saying about these polls being seen as "workloads," but with the undervolt set in Ryzen Master; this shows that the cores are infact clocking down and going to sleep when there's no load. In conjunction to that - The voltage isn't "static," within Ryzen Master. They are in-fact, going below 1v when no load - yet this doesn't portray on other applications such as CPUZ / HwINFO64.
I'm more tempted to go along with Ryzen Master as this does interact at a deeper level than other monitoring tools, and the temperature when set to my undervolt (4GHZ @ 1.125v) still goes to the same "idle" temp as stock (45c.)
As we both know - I'm fairly happy with this currently, but that's more than likely to change in the next 10hrs and i'll be right back to square one. God dammit, why am I like this?
Cheers for all the information you've provided Mrlip - It's been invaluable. I'm sure i'll respond back to this thread when I get another crazy notion in my head!
On any DTR they use MX-4 as standard
Thermal grizzly is my go to favorite as well, it's by far the best of the normal pastes imho. Keep an eye on Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut, it's a wafer of carbon fiber which at the moment is just a fraction under the capabilites of a good paste. The bonus is that it never degrades, so you put one in and it goes on and on, plus you can remove the heatsink all you like and replace it without having to replace the wafer. But it's a brand new product, and in my estimation they've got a lot further to go to improve on it. I reckon they'll replace pastes within a few years, or something of it's caliber.
www.thermal-grizzly.com
Do you know if repasting voids warranty? Don't remember seeing any mention to it on the t&c.
I went for the R3 3100 and RTX 2070. The main reason for the 3100 was budget, as well as not wanting to wait for the 3300x to get back in stock and also for being afraid of the thermals of the latter, as I've seen cpu comparisons with it running hotter than a 3600 and 3700x on desktops with AIOs (imagine on a dtr).
No, you're completely free to repaste, or do any maintenance or upgrades without affecting warranty so long as you don't do any damage in the process.
Thermal grizzly is my go to favorite as well, it's by far the best of the normal pastes imho. Keep an eye on Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut, it's a wafer of carbon fiber which at the moment is just a fraction under the capabilites of a good paste. The bonus is that it never degrades, so you put one in and it goes on and on, plus you can remove the heatsink all you like and replace it without having to replace the wafer. But it's a brand new product, and in my estimation they've got a lot further to go to improve on it. I reckon they'll replace pastes within a few years, or something of it's caliber.
Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut Thermal Pads
Carbonaut thermal pads made of durable carbon fiber with specially developed polymer for high flexibility and "soft gap filler" properties.
Those are much better temps, if temps are high the first thing to check is the paste, unfortunately it's one of the areas that are often not quite up to scratch.
I'm very pleased that's performing better though. The chassis is fantastic and when it's all properly configured, it should purr like a kitten without any issues.
Yeah, I've seen the part of "install own components", just wasn't sure if repasting would be considered part of that.
I don't think it's any different on Linux vs any other OS with regards to voltage tweaking or clocks. It's just the process and methods you chose to get where you got to.
