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Review on Unleash High-Performance with AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT Processor & Wraith Spire Cooler by Hoo Chong ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Best price for this product, will buy more!

Mother ASUS TUF B450 Pro Gaming - good in all respects, including sound, everything pulls. The RAM is so-so - Patriot Viper PV432G300C6K, pulls only 3200 MHz at timings 16-18-18-36, stupidly the cheapest kit at that time. You can squeeze another 10-15% out of the processor if you set the memory to 3600. Briefly about voltage control. It is not enough to disable PBO, you also need to configure LLC, because PBO is responsible for overclocking and limits, and not for instantaneous power settings. In any case, the mother manages the power supply, increasing / decreasing the voltage at the time of loads, but not climbing above the limit, and that's just how it can often be safely lowered. You can read about the complexity of power management on microcircuits on Habré, the article "Powering modern processors" dated 06/03/2022. Proc ran at an incredible 4600 at 1.275 V! But the tests did not pass, of course, immediately reboot due to lack of power. And with an increase to 1.35 V, it rebooted already from overheating and errors. I worked at 4500, even passed AIDA tests, except for FPU64 - it stupidly did not give a result, an empty field. 4400 should be stable for many hours (it's the most for igor), and 4300, I think, will be really stable even under daily stress.

Pros
  • - Two weeks of reading materials and experiments - and now on the B450 chipset overclocking to 4450 MHz, with undervolting up to 1.275 V, SOC 1.025 V, the rest of the voltages were also set manually according to recommendations from the Internet. Work is stable. In idle time and in the browser - 38-42 degrees (which is overclocked, which is not), this is normal. In the games that I managed to play, the download is no more than 50%, usually 15-25% (1440p, maximum speed), it heats up around 50-65 degrees, and in reality no one sits under stress tests for hours. If you need to encode / render video for days or other prof. load, good cooling is required. In stresses, it heats up to 80-85. But then they are stressful! - Even without overclocking, the CPU is very productive and outperforms the previous eight-core series! If you have a good motherboard, there is a huge margin for growth, especially for prof. activities. If you need cheap and cheerful for homework and multithreading, then it's better to take the 2700X - half the price, but the parrots are the same. It makes no sense to upgrade from previous generations to 3600, take 3700X and higher right away. But in games, the 3600 is a bit better than previous generations. - Manual overclocking will give not only more even voltage and temperatures, but also an increase in memory speed! Overclocking by 200-300 MHz and an increase in memory bandwidth of 1000-1500 Mb / s, and reduced the latency of not the fastest Patriot 3200 MHz modules from 79 to 74 ns. - To avoid howls of the cooler, just manually set the speed of the fans on the motherboard (the normal ones have their own control programs under Win, ASUS has AI Suite 3).
Cons
  • - The temperature sensor lies up to +20 degrees, this is a well-known cant in all Ryzen. There are two temperatures: CPU diode (on the motherboard) and regular CPU Temp. What monitoring program will look at what value - the devil will figure it out. The percent is cut down at 95, but the same CoreTemp program throws up to a temperature of 20 degrees, a total of 115. The critical temperature is 75 (displayed as 95). Why is this done? Probably, the engineers understood that Ryzen would be driven, and decided to play it safe from fools by lowering the visible limits. - Under load, it heats up wildly even in auto-acceleration, and the cooling does not depend much on the fan speed. The Gammax 300 cooler under stress tests gives 80-90 degrees, and with automatic or high LLC settings, it heats up to 95 (real) and turns off. In games 55-65, in idle time 35-40, it resets from extreme to normal in seconds, so thermal paste or a bad cooler installation has nothing to do with it, the percentage itself heats up like that.