The Ryzen Cometh

[Ericmopar]

If you can, and if you haven't already, you may want to install a fan blowing from the case side to the motherboard.
Apparently the VRM modules on a lot of Ryzen motherboards are getting very hot when overclocking, especially the B350 versions.

[PapaXpress]

I already have the fans doing that. The temps in the case are doing well. When I log in tonight I will provide some more info.

BTW you seemed to have missed that I have a AX370

[Ericmopar]

I already have the fans doing that. The temps in the case are doing well. When I log in tonight I will provide some more info.

BTW you seemed to have missed that I have a AX370

Ahhh, for some reason I was thinking B350... skimming and an aging brain...

After watching a YouTube video on chipset and VRM temp testing, I'm thinking of doing that on my Intel board as well.

[PapaXpress]

Here is a picture as promised.

I need to still figure out how it's mapped to each fan in the case. The Gigabyte SIV allows you to do this, BUT, it also takes control over AMD cool'n Quite which I happen to like (so no screen shot of that right now). If I end up turning off that feature for overclocking then I will reinstall SIV.

And yes the GPU fan is off, everything is pretty much idle right now.

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I am starting to replay some older games with all setting to the max. Homeworld Remastered was the taste of last night. Wow. I was really missing out when I was playing on the old system.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Here is a picture as promised.

I need to still figure out how it's mapped to each fan in the case. The Gigabyte SIV allows you to do this, BUT, it also takes control over AMD cool'n Quite which I happen to like (so no screen shot of that right now). If I end up turning off that feature for overclocking then I will reinstall SIV.

And yes the GPU fan is off, everything is pretty much idle right now.



I am starting to replay some older games with all setting to the max. Homeworld Remastered was the taste of last night. Wow. I was really missing out when I was playing on the old system.

This is the Corsair monitor you've hooked the cooling system into?
Radiator fans are also in idle when the system is idling away since H100i v2 says 0 rpm? Or are they hooked up to #3 and #4 on the motherboard?

I love these modern monitoring apps but only if they don't take away too much of your system's resources.
Can you access the BIOS settings that pertain to overclocking directly from some kind of tuning app?

[PapaXpress]

Yes. The pump is a USB appliance. There is a cable you need to attach from the block to the motherboard. I don't think they are taking anything much in the way of resources. Consider that the OS has 12 threads to play with and plenty of RAM.

So the two fans which are mounted on the radiator are connected to the pump. I am not sure why it's reporting that they run at 0 when they do run (as needed). At the time when I took that screenshot only one fan was running, the other only intermittently. A before you ask, no, it's not broken it will rev to full when OC testing. Perhaps its a bug?

I know from other articles that it's picking up the other fan info from OS (via MB chipset).

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Yes. The pump is a USB appliance. There is a cable you need to attach from the block to the motherboard. I don't think they are taking anything much in the way of resources. Consider that the OS has 12 threads to play with and plenty of RAM.

So the two fans which are mounted on the radiator are connected to the pump. I am not sure why it's reporting that they run at 0 when they do run (as needed). At the time when I took that screenshot only one fan was running, the other only intermittently. A before you ask, no, it's not broken it will rev to full when OC testing. Perhaps its a bug?

I know from other articles that it's picking up the other fan info from OS (via MB chipset).

There are dual fans on the radiator and the Corsair app reports only one? The radiator fans are plugged into the cooling block? Both fans on the radiator spin up to full speed when the system is running under load for a while? What wires go from the pump to the motherboard?

I have an older Corsair water cooling solution with tandem fans. Both fans connect to the cooling block, but only the pump motor has a single wire connector to the motherboard. The whole setup is powered off a HD connector. So my radiator fans aren't monitored, since I don't have the Corsair app. The cooling block I have features a selector with four 'speed' positions, and the fans are controlled by the cooling block's thermal sensor (I presume).

[PapaXpress]

I may need to take a picture.

Yes, there is a lead from the cooling block to the CPU_FAN connection. So this would be power in. Then there is a lead going out which has two fan ports on them one for each on the radiator. This is what controls those two fans independently of each other. The USB cable only enables the Link feature, nothing more.

[PapaXpress]

BTW I am waiting for the next BIOS update from Gigabyte before I post results. So far I am still at 3.925 at default voltage. I am very happy with the purchase and performance of this system (and the new headphones!!!!).