Little bit of confusion in the comments of this video so hopefully I can clear it up here. volt-amps and cooling is what you give a CPU, heat is what you get. No harm can come out of checking your temperatures while you are gaming, and making sure they are, say below 70c. Heat also causes combustion, which is why it's so important to keep it at low as possible in the everyday PC. Ultimately though, on the a320 (without changing our cooling solution), we can reduce these temps by undervolting, and setting in a max temp limit (which also reduces the clock speeds to levels that consume less voltages too). So I was working more in reverse order in this video. However the video is designed to help people without much knowledge on the subject too. As for the aggressive voltages, AMD should release a bios update, with the option to select a more conservatively tuned CPU, as we could only really undervolt -.075mv before we reached instability on this setup.
What I used to do is lower the cpu clock speed from 4.2 to 3.6 ghz in ryzen Master with just a couple of clicks and I would drop 20c right of the bat, but now that I have a 6700xt I feel like I’m giving up a significant amount of performance by doing that
@DEA GT idk man the wraith prisms pretty solid for what it is. A bit noisy but it keeps my friends 3900x cool stock. That's pretty awesome to cool a 12 core chip
Looks an awful lot like AMD got greedy and harvest more bad modes and clocked them high enough to just fit into a 3600 chip. I.E theses cores really belong in a lower end CPU.
TjMAX of server parts is lower with a reason. Also i have a thinkpad, it doesn;t allow the CPU to go higher then 72c. Most consumer stuff just pushes parts too hard cause they are expecting a lower duty cycle... and if it dies outside warranty it's not their issue anyways.
Exactly .. my Noctua NH-U9B cooled my Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (socket 775) for 13 years .. now it is cooling my brand new AMD Ryzen 5 5500, thanks to the 8$ AM4/AM5 socket adaptor I bought from Noctua .. this cooler was a great, great investment I'm telling you ..
@@brokeandtired it's mainboard makers defaulting the core voltage .05 - .15v too high for the chips. More voltage makes higher temps and the voltage is what's killing the chip, it will slow down when it's too hot it won't do anything if it's being shocked to death.
Very true, about 5 years ago I had a I7 8700K based system built. It came with a huge Gigabyte tower cooler. The system is still motoring along nicely, the only recent changes I had done to it, was to have a RTX 3060 replace my trusty 1070ti and a extra 1TB SSD put in. The hottest my CPU has ever gets is around the 70 degrees C mark, and that is when doing a heavy work load.
My 9900k required a helluva lot of cooling to keep it from hitting 95 to 100c. I have a 5600x and 7700x as well now that I built last year. My 7700x doesn't go over 80 with my 280mm AIO in my Corsair 4000D Airflow.
My best advice for longevity is to just cap your fps, it doesn't even have to be an aggressive cap just at the higher end of your avg, or at refresh for non competitive titles. It will feel the same in game but your components will stop running at 100%, and temperatures can drop quite drastically. Giving it that little bit of breathing room really helps.
Back in 2020, I immediately noticed my 3600's temps were very high for my taste, even with a good air cooler (arctic 34 duo), like spiking instantly to low 70s and reaching high 70s during a sustained high load. But it turned out those were pretty much normal out of the box thermals. The solution was simply undervolting, no temp limit needed. I use CTR for fine tuning and OC but anyone can do it easily from the bios as you pointed out. Great vid as always Bryan!
undervolting, or buying a very basic AIO could resolve issues too. but I guess thats a moot suggestion because buying an AIO for a 3600 would have been excessive for a budget 6 core cpu.
@@pauls4522 IDK.... I put the Thermalright Peerless Assassin with a Ryzen 5700x and I could not pay it enough for it to go over 60c. Thermals were in the 50's once I used a voltage offset.... and that's running Cinebench r23 that uses the CPU much more than any game will. The Arctic eSports cooler is okay but not very good. It's more ideal for those old i7 processors like the 6700k. Those may have had a 91w TDP, but they'd use maybe 50w while gaming and 65w under stress.
Reminder to everyone that your Ryzen 3000 is probably not that old and that the warranty is three years. Check if you can RMA if yours goes bad. If you are in Australia, you may be able to argue that the lifespan is too short with the ACCC if your CPU fails shortly after the expiration of the warranty period.
First thing I noticed when I made my 3600 setup was high CPU temps! Even at idle. Doing some research I found that Mobos by default set core voltages very high. Mine was 1.4v at the time. You need to manually set the max core voltage ( or offset) and find the sweet spot. Mine is set at 1.25 volts (over clocked) and it give max performance while keeping cool.
Truth, most boards seem to have the vcore about .15v over what the chip actually needs to run, that excess voltage is producing excess heat and lots of it. Heat isn't the problem the chip will protect itself if it's too hot, it won't protect itself if it's being electrocuted to death slowly by over voltage though.
I dropped my v-core 1.21 and set clocks to 4.2 on my 3800x. At default the cpu fan ramped up whenever opening a browser neverming gaming, annoyed the hell out of me.
I heard on gamers nexus that some am4 boards use too high a voltage to make their board look faster than the competition, i think that might be at play here as well for some people?? It was a pretty big deal
Well, I did watch Buildzoid’s video about chip degradation, only high and low temperature cycle will affect gpu (solder balls crack), and cpu are highly affected by electro migration due to high voltage or the silicon quality itself. Notice that, overclocking a cpu with liquid nitrogen can often kill your cpu too. Therefore, I have to disagree with Tech Yes City if he says high temperature is the cpu killer.
@@nhozdien5058 The solder ball issue is only really a big problem when the underfill is wrong for the temperature variations it will see, 100% it's the voltage killing the chips temperature is protected against the chip will slow itself down for heat, it will allow itself to die via over voltage every single time though. The high voltage is what's causing at least some of the high temps as well.
@@nhozdien5058 tech yes city is actually right because this has been a thing for very long time: voltage x amps is what kills the CPU but temperature is a factor of how quickly that CPU will die internal resistance of transistors rises with temperature which brings up the amps,voltage and with that wattage in order for CPU to not have stability issues this was always the thing you had to do with ryzen CPUs because they ran hot as hell with stock coolers and asked for both decent undervolts and cooling solutions
@@xthelord1668 The resistance of copper does increase as temperature goes higher. However, silicon decreases its electrical resistance as temperature increases. In the beginning of the video, Brian kinda gave me that vibe of saying high temperature was the CPU killer. This was the reason why I said I would disagree if it was his implication in the beginning. As the video went, I saw his conclusion and couldn't disagree.
Interesting to see more being looked into this. Greg has had quite a few defective 3600s come through on fix or flop so it’s interesting to see it be more widespread than just there.
Going into AMD CBS and changing the TDP/PPT/EDC/etc settings is the best solution (other BIOS settings might also be needed to prevent the BIOS from ignoring the PPT). That is typically better than messing with voltages or frequencies because single-core / fewer-cores operation won't be impeded as much. Just lower the package power limit to something reasonable. I do this on all my machines, even the high-end ones, because otherwise they use double the power just to squeeze out another 10% in performance or so, which gets into silly-land pretty quickly. The thermal temperature limit in the BIOS is not as good a setting because it is a far more indirect and slow servo. PPT is a very fast servo.
Stuff like this is why I like your channel. Getting the most out of older hardware, and the breakdown of the BIOS settings really gives knowledge to someone like me that is still somewhat new to this wonderful hobby. Can't tell you how intimidating some of the Asus bios settings are to me. I'm a Weiner and afraid to mess with a majority of them. But I have a little more confidence moving forward now thanks to videos like these. Thanks again!
Your vcore was peaking at over 1.45v that is WAY too high for that silicon, these things aren't burning up they are being electrocuted to death by MB manufacturers trying to eek out more overclock headroom with higher voltages. What you did was not so much an under-volt as it was a fix of the motherboard's default over-volt.
The thing is that it appears that 3600s actually need that much voltage. My 3600 also runs at about the same voltage but the problem is that I can only undervolt by about 12.5mv before I start getting BSODs while gaming (in easy to run games at 120 FPS). For reference, my Vega 64 runs at an undervolt of -150mv pretty much without losing performance. I suspect the worst dies were turned into 3600s as yields on the 8 core Ryzen 3000 chiplet should have been pretty high. So 3600s need a ton of voltage to operate correctly.
Yeah, being electrocuted and reddit and any other places are not filled with unhappy customers that their CPU and mb are frying like crazy. It's almost like amd engineers knew how to design a CPU properly.
i see that you tested this ryzen 5 3600 with an a320 board and these problems appears, have you tried using a higher tier board like a b450 to see if the problem is still there?
A lot of motherboard vendors violate AMD's standards and overvolt the shit out of CPU's in order to try to win a few FPS in performance reviews. My Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Master killed two Threadripper 3960x CPU's back in 2019 when it was new, at bone stock settings. This is a huge, well known problem and the Motherboard vendors keep doing it on purpose, it is not an unintentional bug, and it will damage CPU's. AMD needs to crack down on the board vendors. Some (but not all) motherboards vendors have responded to criticism by updating their BIOS to correct this issue, so the first thing people should do is to check for a newer BIOS. It might have been fixed.
In my experience, undervolt it from 1.4V to 1.2V do the trick. It seems the latest BIOS update make the CPU consume the power more than it actually needs and more power=more heat.
A lot of board manufacturers tell you which is the highest BIOS you should use for a particular CPU, so that's more than likely your issue. Read the support pages don't just go updating your BIOS.
You should down volt the 5800x, that's what I do, it decrease it running temp by like 10-20 celsius with no drop in performance keeping all the core at 4.6ghz. The 5800x has the same voltage as the 5900 but with 2/3 of the cores so each core has way too much current going through it for no reason since the cores are also the same. A 5600 has 65 tdp for 6 cores, a 5900 has 105 tdp for 12 cores, the 5800 has 105 tdp for 8 cores. That's 10.8 tdp per core for the 5600, 8.75 for the 5900 and 13.125 for the 5800.
I'm using this CPU since its introduction to the market, and quickly I have realised that you can optimise it with Ryzen Master too: I can set whatever TDP target I like (usually 55W for transcoding, and 65W for gaming). Also set the "CPU Boost override" to its maximum 200Mhz value (so it drives speeds that much higher with the same voltage). This setup works very well even for the stock cooler :)
@@raven4k998 Both are valid advice! :) And I do follow them: I have a Brocken 3 for a few years now (bought for the 2700 originally) , and I always turn on vsynch (I just prefer it that way, and don't care much about the potential latency increase). And yet I still use Ryzen Master the way I described above: in games there is no speed loss (because it is never 100% on all 12 threads), and in transcoding, I can live with the 10-15% speed loss (if that) for much lower temps & silence :)
I noticed that 5600X with the included default cooler would go up to 90 degrees regularly when gaming. I just opted to buy a big Be Quiet cooler and after that the CPU never got over 67 degrees even under 100% load when compressing and decompressing files for half an hour.
I noticed this back in 2020 with my 3600 CPU, The stealth cooler just wasn't up to the task so i replaced it for a prism rgb and also undervolted it slightly, the temp were night and day difference!
I've just ordered one of these from amazon, gutted to find there are issues with them an hour after clicking pay. The bundle is coming direct from ADMI as a preassembled thing, so do you think it might come with settings changed if they know there are issues?
In my experience, the Ryzen 3000 series have usually run pretty cool and have been easy to cool. I am wondering if the TIM has started failing after a couple years of use. As they are soldered, its not exactly easy to check. Need Roman to pull one of these excessively hot CPU's apart.
From my experience the Precision Boost Overdrive settings under the tweaker settings on Asus aren't always doing its job at disabling it and you'd need to disable it under one of the AMD tabs in the advanced settings. The extreme overvolting with PBO has been a thing since first gen ryzen and has caused voltages of ~1.45V back then as well. Disabling it always had massive thermal and efficiency improvements while also lowering the voltage to more reasonable levels on every single ryzen system I have built so far (including anything from 1000 series to 5000 series), so I'm always disabling it because that little bit of extra performance doesn't seem worth the thermals and unhealthy voltages imho. I'm surprised that nobody really talked about that yet and, while I didn't test with any 7000 series CPU myself, I'm pretty sure that's what is mostly leading to the high temps everyone reported on the 7000 series launch. If anyone wants to verify that with a 7000 series CPU feel free to respond, am curious to see if it is indeed still the case.
yes exactly. average users and gamers do not need pbo. my 3600 with pbo on went as high as you said upto 1.45V and i didn't see any performance gain in gaming (by see i mean notice it, you can obviously compare with a benchmark but the negligible gains do not justify having pbo). with pbo disabled my 3600 would need just under 1v to operate to its max 3600mhz base clock and i could even lower the wraith stealth prism fan speed to 50% and would never need more for it to run cool and super quiet and very low power consumption too (even if i loaded all cores 100% for stress test it would stay around 70-80 degrees with fan still at 50%) the 3600 can easily handle even games like cyberpunk, red dead 2, etc... at 1440p with my 3060ti i had most high settings and gamed at 60 capped fps. i went not with the 5700x cause i gave my mother my good old 3600 but it's still great cpu for gaming
As an owner of a Ryzen 5 3600 (and A320 mb) this has got me intrigued - admittedly I've got an aftermarket air/fan cooler. I haven't seen any kind of temps like this. Thanks for this investigation. Love your content :)
Checked mine out of curiosity. In Cinebench R23 it got 9173 for multi and 1231 for single and temps were around 65°C. I do have slightly better than stock cooling though (BeQuiet! Shadow Rock 2). I bought the 3600 in March 2020, so I've had it for almost 3 years
Interesting video Bryan. This is actually pretty disappointing if it's the case (higher temps), given their relatively young age. Many CPU's in the past (eg. Intel 14nm++++ coffee lake; comet lake) would frequently hit these temps and not fail prematurely, so this is something AMD needs to look into - especially if the chips aren't thermal throttling and staying within AMD's design window. It seriously makes me wonder if it's a long term high voltage issue (eg. certain manufacturers over-volting by default), or if it's related to increased rates of degradation of the TSMC 7nm node at extended elevated temperatures/voltages... The 2080Ti you previously tested with is significantly more powerful than the RX 6600, so you would expect temps would have been equal/higher running that card.
Why modern CPUs are failing? Because of many factors. Some were working in bad conditions (very high overclock, high voltage, bad cooling). Bad working conditions can damage or degrade CPU (it is called an electron migration and such a CPU will not work properly with default clock or voltage). In some cases paste below cover (IHS) is dry and degraded. Such problems I saw with many CPUs (many intel models), not only with Ryzens.
Same here, though I was using hyper 212 evo on one of the systems. Both died after 3 years with only 2 months separating them even though they had different motherboards and cooler.
Put a good cooler on it and change your fan profile in the bios , keep an eye and set a max voltage if needed but I find temps are fine with a good board and cooler
If the voltage is too high, and it objectively is on a good deal of motherboards at default. Keeping it cool won't save it, the temps aren't what's hurting it the excess voltage is.
@@bdhale34 what are you talking about? AMD itself has said that those 1.4v spikes are normal, if you set Manually those 1.4v everytime it's obvious you're going to hurt your CPU Keeping it cool makes it last longer and Will save it
@@bdhale34 need good vrm with ryzen chips i have 4 x 3600 and 2 5600x cpu and voltages and temps are stable, max temps under load are 72 deg c and max voltages are 1.35-1.4v on the 3600's , the 5600x have slightly less voltages out of the box applied and subsequently run a little cooler, also all my chips are under hyper 212 air coolers and they do the job perfect, the std ryzen coolers are junk for any intensive purpose.remember amd put out a statement regarding voltages in the ryzen line and operating temps when chips were released. good luck :-)
Bro, those voltages that you showed are CRAZY! My 3600 runs with 975mv while 3750mhz , temps - 50° max in cinebench r20. Undervolt is a MUST! At the same time my second machine with 5700x runs 1008mv, 4250mhz, 55° Saving that silicon for the children to inherit it lol
I got the 3600 when it first came out in 2019 and it was a very buggy experience for a few months. I spent hours, all day long, just testing, bench marking and adjusting settings. I managed to get my Ryzen 3600 at a 3900mhz all core clock at 1.25v and stayed there. With basic cpu coolers and with everything left to default/automatic, the CPU would shoot up to 85 - 90c because of precision boost overdrive going absolute insane. The voltage spikes on PBO was super dangerous. I saw spikes up to 1.48v when PBO would activate and cause the CPU to overheat. Im happy at 3900mhz all core at 1.25v. The out of the factory default settings are faulty and volatile. Even 4 years later after updating to the latest mobo bios and amd chipset drivers, the default PBO is very problematic.
I think the problem lies with stock voltages rather than high temperatures (although the two are correlated somewhat). On my own Ryzen 5 3600 + CVN X570M platform, the motherboard will push 1.475V into the CPU by default, and I think that is the main cause of this degradation. I had got it tuned in to run at 0.86V and 3.4Ghz by default, and manually going into the Ryzen master to push it to 4.2Ghz all core with 1.16V sometimes, and so far, its overclocking potential hasn't degraded much from the three years of use while temps look great. I think the issue lies with the difference between the earlier batches of Ryzen 5 3600 and later ones, which uses a more refined 7nm process that require much less voltage to run at the same clocks. Motherboard manufacturers want their board to work out of the box with all those Zen 2 chips, regardless of their silicon quality, and that could be the reason behind the aggressive voltages, but when the chips themselves improve to a point that it don't need that, it just became a factor that drove the power and temperature up and efficiency down, while eating away at the lifespan (TSMC recommends a max of 1.3V for these chips, and some motherboards go way past that). Those unstable Ryzen 5 3600 that you have might be a result of a normal computer user leaving the motherboard bios to regulate the voltages delivered to the CPU, and over time it just tears away at the silicon quality.
I'd be using hwinfo64 to check the power reporting deviation, this was an issue early on with motherboards shoving more voltage than reported. This was for the most part solved with BIOS updates but i'm sure there'll be countless boards running theses chips out there that were never updated to solve this problem.
I have a 3600 from late 2019 as well paired with a Mugen 5 cooler. It's undervolted with a negative voltage offset set at -0.125 and while gaming it's always between 45c and 55c max. Pretty impressive indeed.
1.47v... My 3600 does 4.575GHz at 1.352v and 4.625GHz at 1.4v (I can send a screenshot shot with it running P95 and R23 at these clock/voltages)... Pretty sure your auto voltage is absurdly high!
How the hell did it pull 80+W with PBO and performance mode disabled on a 65W TDP chip??? My ryzen 3800x boosted to 4ghz was drawing below 90W and throttling to stay below 85C on a Prism cooler I dont get something or the problem is much more severe with some safety features just not working propertly
I've had a variety of 3000 and 5000 Ryzens and an offset undervolt between minus 0.050V and minus 0.075V is almost compulsory for sane temperatures. Never used hard temperature limits though.
This is what I do with my 3600. Just an offset of -0.072 mV and the temps are in control. Also using a tower cooler helps. Still using the deepcool gammaxx 400.
@@nedjimb0 dude i took mine off when i upgraded from an i5-10400f to my i5-11500, and one of the plastic mounts finally snapped and broke :( best cpu cooler i will ever find for for less than $25, can't really find the LGA1200 version for cheap anymore. Ended up getting a Cooler Master 212 Black Edition cuz its all that my local Best Buy will stock for non-AIO's lmao
@@dc-gm7lu Damn, on my ryzen 3 1200 pc with an OC to 3.8ghz @ 1.3v, it fine. My brothers pc with a 3600x (or 3700x, cant recall) is probably fine, as I havent heard complaints and my laptop with a 5600H has been fine, the problems in it are other things, lol
CPUs should have built-in thermal protection and should not fail even if the cooling is insufficient. It appears that AMD sacrificed reliability for benchmark scores.
@@spreadinglove648 This won't help if the mbd BIOS is consistently pushing too much voltage aswell though, which may be more the relevant issue here. However, without a larger sample size and in addition testing with a decent B450, it's hard to be certain.
Takeaways from this is not just efficiency tuning, but also, do not skimp on your CPU cooler - basically any 20-30$ cooler will vastly outperform Prism and Spire. Don't go over the Hz of your screen FPS wise, unless you're pushing for absolute minimum latency, it's inefficient.
PBO was actually a huge deal for me. After turning it off my voltages dropped a lot and so did temperature. I guess YMMV. Anyways, I undervolted to 1.25, overclocked to 4.2 all core and I have my very old NH-U12P on it. Now it doesn't crack 70°C even under sustained 100% load.
i have a ryzen 5 3500 and an RTX 2070 super... is that ok?.... i am scared now - SOMEONE HELP ME Also: running memory at 3200 with DOCP (XMP) the memory's official rated speed Edit: i checked 100% util CPU temp - in Davinci video render, adobe PP and AE video render and cinebench - temperatures sit on 84-86 degree (i do thermal paste changes frequently - arctic Mx4) also gaming hits max 75-76 degree.... i have PBO on at 10x scalar (200MHz) max cpu power draw is 60-65w and GPU power draw is 230-240W max i am also running a wraith stealth (smallest cooler of the stocks)
I find that undervolting is almost mandatory with some motherboards, i had a msi b450 board and it overshot quite a bit with the voltages and i quickly came to realize that undervolting was way more rational than attemting to oc that cpu since vdrop control was terrible and the ryzen 2600 did oc like shit so i would end up in the high 70's only to barely get 4ghz with a 240mm aio. I have found that ryzen really likes to work around 1.1-1.2v cpu vcore so if you see that spike to over 1.3 or even hit 1.4v then definitely try to undervolt because that is just too much
Question my cpu voltage is at 1.1v never oc mine and i have a r5 5600x. i have the stock cooler and repasted it with arctis mx-5, whenever i play wz2 the temps goes upto 70degrees and voltage at 98%, is that normal?
This one is pretty interesting to me. I have a 3600 that has never worked at stock settings. It was a very hard issue to diagnose, because I have tried so many things, and it tended to present as more of a GPU or memory issue, but after thorough testing, I found it did not work at default settings. I eventually had it stable for over a year at 4ghz all core locked, but eventually it started getting worse and getting less stable. This was across 4 motherboards, 4 GPUs, and 3 ram kits. This was a launch 3600 I got as a gift, so it took me a long time to determine it was a CPU fault, as there were a bunch of bios issues at launch.
Changed from a 2600 to a 5600x both using a Dark Rock 4. Pretty impressive, the 5600x with curve optimized OC performs so much better while staying cooler than the 2600. Absolute worthy upgrade. While being on it, I also repasted my GPU that was running extremely hot looking at the Hot Spot temperature. Dropped the °C by 20-30° depending on the game. Feels like an entirely new PC x)
I had problems with performance bias set to auto (does a small Overclock to the CPU) but seems to be having a problem on that cpu or bad bios thermal throttling (lack of it in automatic mode)
As a long term 3600 user, I found that the poor cpu, under stock settings, tends to get blasted with way more voltage than it needs. Undervolting should be the first step. If you have a limited bios, I'd recommend Clock Tuner Ryzen to set some p1 and p2 profiles. You should be able to have your cake and eat it too. I'm also aware that my cpu is a golden sample (I think it's a downbinned 3600xt), so I wont share the exact settings I use as most 3600's wont be able to keep up. However a cautious starting point would be: P2 (trigger at 10% cpu usage) 4200 MHz @ 1300 mV P1 (trigger at 50% cpu usage) 4000 MHz @ 1150 mV CTR has an automatic idle state it should default to if cpu usage is below the (trigger usage) value for P2. The values are very rough guide lines, and might be too aggressive still. Or you'll find more headroom to raise clocks further or to lower the voltage. Having a better cooler will also improve the speeds for any given voltage, or allow you to lower the voltages. CTR has a "tune" button that's tempting to press, but for me it has never produced any beneficial results. It seems to think my cpu can hit 4.7 GHz. It cannot. Maybe you'll have more luck, but it takes forever to run.
Haven't had any issues with my 3600. Ran it with pbo on, auto oc on and i think a small under volt. It was on a b450 tomahawk(non max) with a cooler master ml240 aio. Replaced it with a 5800x3d last month. Will keep an eye on the temps when I repurpose the 3600.
If you are wondering why the cpu is so hot out of the box, it’s because of the voltage on ryzen 3rd generation boost was only achieved by excessive voltage in excess of 1.4v and it has been a problem ever since launch and amd claims it’s fine, but in reality it’s not and not only causes high temperatures but also causes cpu degradation. In my personal experience working with this CPU, and other third generation CPUS is the best bet you can do is a manual overclock and then setting the voltage as low as it can go before it crashes. For example, I took my friend’s Ryzen 5 3600 and manually overclocked it to 4ghz locked and then got the voltage down as low as 1.36v and his temps on the stock cooler dropped by 17c which is incredible and will really keep the cpu going for years to come.
Very helpful. I’ve had a problem with stability of my 3600 in a SF PC and tried different methods as you did. Limiting by temperature only did not solve the problem, but limiting the power as well (to 45W) did. Still no CPU limited in Cyberpunk with ray tracing in 1440 or Diablo IV in 4k/120Hz HDR with RTX 4070ti
I bought a few wraith prisms and they are great for 3700X and below . I just like the design and the looks . Blows some air around the socket and Vrms too .
These temperatures were always present with the absolutely INADEQUATE Wraith Stealth. As someone who is still running a 3600 since 2019 I have always recommended people to get a better cooler than the included one even a 20 USD tower cooler keeps the 3600 safely under 70 C in 100% usage on stock settings. It always really bothered me how many tech channels (don't remember if TYC did that too tbh) and people on the internet played up the 3600's included cooler as adequate and an advantage over Intel at the time, the reality is that those coolers should have been used at most for a couple weeks until you get a cooler if you can't get one right away.
My ryzen 5 3600 regularly hit 80-90 degrees with the wraith stealth since day one. Bought an aftermarket cooler and applied an undervolt, allowing the CPU to stay under 75 degrees at max load (50-60 degrees during gaming sessions). Happy I made this decision, because performance remains unaffected after 3+ years.
And people called me crazy for tuning my 3600 to under 70C under load lol... "It's FINEEE at 1.45V, it's fineee at 85C..." No, it's not. My Intel i5 6500 I had before ran at a little over 1V full tilt and did not exceed 65C, ever. And that was on 14nm+++++++, no reason a 7nm product like the 3600 would need 1.4V+ to reach turbo speeds. Yes, AMD pushed their CPUs above their sweet spot for a few % more, but they did it with every gen, resulting in the house-fire hazzards that are the 7000 series. Here are some examples : - tuned a R5 1600 for a friend - from 1.35V core / 1.2V SOC down to 1.27V core / 1.05V SOC - same speed, XMP stable, ran ice cold after that - under 55-60C at all times. - my old 3600 - my sample was probably the worst one in history , was not able to reach turbo speeds like ever, ran at 85C under load with Wraith MAX and 55C idle - L-O-L. Default ran at 1.45V and about 1.3V+ under load (wtf). After some tuning, was able to use a -0.05V (50mV) offset and tinkered with the RAM speed and voltages - result was under 70C under load. Any higher offset resulted in instability and/or losing performance. Called it a day and lived with it. To this day, this is the crappiest CPU sample I have ever purchased. I even regretted not getting a 1600AF instead fml... - now living with a 5600X and besides the speed advantage, it is VERY VERY power efficient, took a -50mV undervolt and never goes above 60-65C. Same Wraith MAXX as before. Donno if karma is real and I got a golden sample or the 5000 series are much better by design, or the 3600s were all crap, or all of the above, but I am satisfied. From my research over the net when I was trying to subdue my raging 3600, I can tell you all of them take AT LEAST -50mV (-0.05V) offset without any disadvantages or clock stretching. Some people reported up to -75mV on a 3600 and up to -125mV (!) on a 3700. So it depends on the sample that you got. Start with -0.05V and go up until you see performance degradation or instability. See how far you can lower that Vcore. Every little bit helps. From all that fiasco, I will ride my 5600X to whenever it can carry me and then buy Intel again. I am sick and tired of tinkering with AMD CPUs out of the box just so they don't burst into flames, it is ridiculous. OR, I can buy one of their APUs - they are actually another story - monolithic, sip power and almost as fast as the regular Ryzen CPUs. And have none of the overheating problems. I have 3 of them at work (4650G, 5600G and 4600G) and they are quiet little beasts. We'll see what AMD has to offer in a few years time.
This is a great video on so many levels for the AMD community! I have ALWAYS underclocked AMD equipment. CPU and GPU. I've always got lower temps and higher performance due to the clock map where it detects that the temps are lower therefore it will increase the frequency as long as it's stable. I haven't found a need to limit my equipment thermally, but undervolting alone is fantastic. I even do the same to my ram and run vigorous tests to make sure it can still pass memtest. Example, if my ram can run 3600Mhz CL16 @ 1.2v, but crashes at 1.15v, I'll set it to 1.25v for some overhead stability. Saving me from needing to run 1.35 rated voltage. This will reduce the heat on the motherboard & case, as well as the load on your motherboard and PSU. Every little bit counts. I used to be of the mindset of just brute-forcing things to max and ramping fans up, but after reaching points of diminishing returns and reducing life expectancy, it just isn't worth it anymore.
Mine did degrade with a decent cooler, so i think it's more then a temperature issue. I think it's just an combination of trash bin dies + high voltages. Your CB23 scores are on the low side tho, i get even at 3600mhz (turbo disabled) 8400 multi core and 9300 with turbo enabled.
I think your unit is defective and that's that. I have a Ryzen 5 3600 with 74 max temp in synthetic tests, furmark etc. I do have some good airflow in the case and the CPU has an Arctic tower cooler
If you are a 60fps player i recommend locking your fps to 60 in Nvidia control panel or Amd relive. The result of that is you gonna have a better gaming experience because the frame-time is gonna be more stable and your cpu is gonna have an easier time working because you are not asking a lot from it.
I loved my 3600x because it was my first solid cpu. My first pc had a fx 6300 and while it could play esports titles, it was lacking in newer more demanding games. The 3600x was a breath of fresh air compared to that and it treated me well from 2020-2022. I ended up going with a 5700x recently and while that wasn't as big of a jump as the fx 6300 to the 3600x was, it still was a solid upgrade because its a power efficient 8 core chip and runs cool. I just got a noctua nh-u12s redux a couple days ago to pair with it, and my temps and noise is way better than my wraith spire cooler was on my 3600x. My 3600x will always have a place in my heart though. I will probably find a friend or relative to give it to so it can have a new life instead of sitting on a shelf
I started with 2013's AMD FM2+ socket, cpu A-10 6800k (total garbage) Than got the Ryzen 3600 when it launched. And upgrades that to a 5700x last week :)
@@TheTryingDutchman oh wow i can only imagine the feeling you got when you first booted up the 3600! I could tell a difference right away by just scrolling around in windows. Its crazy how much AMD cpus have come in just the past 5-10 years. AM4 has had great longevity!
Like other people mentioned, the problem is the voltage that some mobos apply on them. Usually way past what one would call redline for these CPUs. The solution is RMA, but if it was me i'd seriously consider upgrading because the 3600 aged really poorly, it can't get 60 FPS on Kingdom Come deliverance max settings or No Man's Sky and has mediocre lows in games like Elden Ring and i doubt it'll handle these newer PS5 games (Hogwards's legacy?) well with how close in performance it is to the consoles, at least if you care about open world games which it won't handle very well.
@@jnightmare2386 I call BS on that modded skyrim claim there, quite sure it'll drop below 60 at any point where draw calls reach the neighborhood of 7500 which with heavily modded skyrim is everywhere, even with a 12600k it struggles to keep 60 at 9k draw calls, as long as you use a grass mod + dyndolod and ENB you're not running 60FPS on skyrim with a 3600, only in interiors. And MH i can break the 75FPS mark on a 3400G with max settings so that's not exactly a demanding title. Witcher 3? Maybe DX11 witcher 3, a PS4 game from 7 years ago, which i can also hit 120 FPS on a 3400G. The titles i mentioned are WAY more demanding than those you did, apples to oranges.
Mine just died today, msi B450 tomahawk shows red light on cpu. Crashed in a game, then crashed in windows, now won't boot at all. No way to get into bios. My cooler is hyper 212
I want to say a few things. OC is not always OC. Different manufactorers have different boost values in their bioses. Some are higher, some lower. There was a commotion in the past for CPU reviews, that had an extra boost on certain boards, thus giving different results.
A little undervolting and good cooling can make your CPU last for decades and you are so right about the low-end coolers not cutting it as software demands more from the CPU. Even my old daily driver - just used for email UA-cam etc. has had a cooler upgrade. It was just an i5 with stock cooler and I noticed the temps were starting to get quite high. Now all is good and cool again. And for all you guys out there who do not clean your rig regularly, remember dust = heat!
@@ausfoodgarden The game in question in this video. Death Stranding is an AVX instruction game. Which means requiring 64 bit compression from (2) 32 bit buss lanes from the system ram requires more milivoltage to the CPU. Lowering the clock speed of the cpu is the only thing you can do with AVX instruction titled games. Compromising the voltage in AVX games causes a loss to CPU texture rendering:
i have a 1700x that started getting blue screens a few min after getting into windows, the temperatures were ok, and after I disabled 4 of the 8 cores, it worked fine for another 6 months until I replaced it
So a 3600 cpu out of the box.. just started failing after a few years of working fine? I have a new 3600 cpu that was barely used.. was about to build a small ITX gaming rig for it.. is this a no go CPU now? Thinking of grabbing a cheaper AMD GPU to go with it.. purely for a racing/flying sim gaming setup with VR.
By default, my Ryzen 7 5800X was consistently hitting above 80C, sometimes ekeing towards 85C, where idle temps were at an elevated 50C - 60C. I thought that it was really obnoxious, and I did my due diligence in mounting the cooler correctly. Disabling PBO2 barely made a dent, but long story short almost everything was tied to Windows' power management settings and I just forced Windows to use the "Balanced" power plan, on top of just disabling PBO2. I don't think I made a manual thermal limit, but after setting everything that I think could made a huge difference, it went back down to the usual 25C - 32C idle temperatures, and never went above 45C - 50C (depending on season) when gaming. I have a Cryorig H5 Universal, and it should be more than capable of keeping that thing tamed. Seeing Ryzen 70xx series processors have 90C at idle as the "norm" was incredibly outrageous and inane of AMD to do. This is absolutely wrong. This is a huge signal to every other consumer that AMD is just continuing to, by default, overclock and maybe overvolt the shit out of their chips just to meet a specific performance improvement goal and appease their investors, and it isn't helping that most motherboard manufacturers tend to go a bit crazy with voltage settings, too. This is "fun" for overclockers, but the target audience should really be towards the average consumer. "90C is below the maximum operating temperature of 100C, therefore it's okay" is a *bad* excuse to make when selling a chip to most people, because that's when most thermal throttling should occur.
Why in the 1st task manager showned in this video L1 only have 128kb instead of 384kb and L2 with only 1MB instead of 3MB and L3 only have 16MB of cache instead of 32MB?
When I built this computer I did a R5 3600XT with Wraith Prism on B450M, and it currently has a 1070ti GPU (started with an RX5700XT, but one long DCS session croaked it under warranty. Got it repaired, and it croaked again just browsing the web, so I had it repaired again, but bought the used 1070). I haven't done much gaming on it yet, but on warmer days the package temperature will briefly spike to over 80 just browsing on the web, which has kept me from really trying out some games (I built it with DCS World in mind). I was thinking maybe the thermal paste wasn't spread good enough, but could this be the issue and this solution work?
I used CTR (Clock Tuner for Ryzen) and allowed it to determine my best clocks and voltages. I run my 3600 at 4.3GHz on all cores. But I don't recall the voltage right now. Rock solid and temps are never a concern. Cooling is via a 120mm AIO.
Undervolt -0.025 and I started to get random system freeze... I stopped the Turbo boost and I got a more silent fan and a similar performance with temperature not higher than 80° C on the CPU, in a room that have temps between 22-28° C.
My ryzen 3600 is about a year-and-a-half old. I turned the computer off to go away for the weekend, when I come back it wouldn't turn on. I couldn't get past the CPU and memory tests. I don't think it overheated because I had a thermaltake all-in-one 120 radiator attached. I ran the CPU at factory settings and ran the Vengeance Pro 3200 kit at 3600 MHz to match the Infinity fabric.
Had the exact same overheating issue, brought the voltage down to 1.15 volts and bumped the clock speed up to 4100... no more issues and it actually runs faster now.
Found no major reviews on the CPU cooler you recommend. With the total cost to ship to the USA of $38 it would seem better to get a well-known and respect brand like Deepcool, be quiet!, Cooler Master, etc. from Amazon with free shipping. Used Deepcool on my overclocked Ryzen 3600 with no issues. And some of your links are screwed up.
So I have a R9 3900x with a custom cpu/gpu loop. I had an undervolted 4.4Ghz all core oc, and just recently started getting abnormally high Temps hitting 105c at the highest in MW2. Gpu Temps are normal around 60-65c. I backed off the oc to factory, and Temps are still high around 80-85c
While this may seem counterintuitive, the fan on the rear of your computer is most likely interfering with the airflow on the CPU cooler. Turn it off and check the temp. It is too close.
I have 1 3600 that died on me.first it just detect 1 ram stick and then the tpm error keeps saying that i am changing my cpu and that may cause me to lose some data .this error comes out every time i try to boot up my pc and after a few days it just died
I bought a 3600 this year (2024) for a budget PC. It came with the Wraith Stealth cooler and it idle at 35 Celsius and rises to 55-65 when gaming, reaching a maximum of 77 when running Cinebench.
So far I have not noticed any heating issue with my R3900 cpu with aftermarket cooler. If you have something better than a 1080 or 1080ti why not game at a higher resolution than 1080p ? The image looks better at higher resolutions and more of the work is passed off to gpu and your cpu isn’t working as hard.
can you plz quote the sources of the statement "running your cpu at 90° is a recipe for disaster"? I'm really interested. I do FAH even for hours to heat up my room a bit and my cpu stays around 90°. I would really like to understand if that's a real problem or only a rumor
Little bit of confusion in the comments of this video so hopefully I can clear it up here. volt-amps and cooling is what you give a CPU, heat is what you get. No harm can come out of checking your temperatures while you are gaming, and making sure they are, say below 70c. Heat also causes combustion, which is why it's so important to keep it at low as possible in the everyday PC. Ultimately though, on the a320 (without changing our cooling solution), we can reduce these temps by undervolting, and setting in a max temp limit (which also reduces the clock speeds to levels that consume less voltages too).
So I was working more in reverse order in this video. However the video is designed to help people without much knowledge on the subject too.
As for the aggressive voltages, AMD should release a bios update, with the option to select a more conservatively tuned CPU, as we could only really undervolt -.075mv before we reached instability on this setup.
@@charlesg5085 Thats very overkill for the 3600, the stock cooler will do just fine.
love the top gear retrowave track in the video big fan of that game series. crazy how good the utilization is on ryzen now its awesome
What I used to do is lower the cpu clock speed from 4.2 to 3.6 ghz in ryzen Master with just a couple of clicks and I would drop 20c right of the bat, but now that I have a 6700xt I feel like I’m giving up a significant amount of performance by doing that
Factory coolers have always been rubbish!;-)
@DEA GT idk man the wraith prisms pretty solid for what it is. A bit noisy but it keeps my friends 3900x cool stock. That's pretty awesome to cool a 12 core chip
Investing a good cooler could extend your CPU lifespan and it can probably sit in your next rig then.
Looks an awful lot like AMD got greedy and harvest more bad modes and clocked them high enough to just fit into a 3600 chip. I.E theses cores really belong in a lower end CPU.
TjMAX of server parts is lower with a reason. Also i have a thinkpad, it doesn;t allow the CPU to go higher then 72c. Most consumer stuff just pushes parts too hard cause they are expecting a lower duty cycle... and if it dies outside warranty it's not their issue anyways.
Exactly .. my Noctua NH-U9B cooled my Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (socket 775) for 13 years .. now it is cooling my brand new AMD Ryzen 5 5500, thanks to the 8$ AM4/AM5 socket adaptor I bought from Noctua .. this cooler was a great, great investment I'm telling you ..
@@brokeandtired it's mainboard makers defaulting the core voltage .05 - .15v too high for the chips. More voltage makes higher temps and the voltage is what's killing the chip, it will slow down when it's too hot it won't do anything if it's being shocked to death.
Very true, about 5 years ago I had a I7 8700K based system built. It came with a huge Gigabyte tower cooler. The system is still motoring along nicely, the only recent changes I had done to it, was to have a RTX 3060 replace my trusty 1070ti and a extra 1TB SSD put in. The hottest my CPU has ever gets is around the 70 degrees C mark, and that is when doing a heavy work load.
ryzen 7000 series with their 95c temperature 24/7 enters the chat.
This is fine.
Amd says it’s normal but I call bs lol 😂 they won’t last
@@cppctek What about Intel's 13th gen 100*C out of the box? 🤔
My 9900k required a helluva lot of cooling to keep it from hitting 95 to 100c. I have a 5600x and 7700x as well now that I built last year. My 7700x doesn't go over 80 with my 280mm AIO in my Corsair 4000D Airflow.
Those AMD reps are lying their underwear's off.
My best advice for longevity is to just cap your fps, it doesn't even have to be an aggressive cap just at the higher end of your avg, or at refresh for non competitive titles. It will feel the same in game but your components will stop running at 100%, and temperatures can drop quite drastically. Giving it that little bit of breathing room really helps.
I dunno man. I've seen that video where Der8auer overclocked for 4125 hours (6 months) straight & there was almost no degradation.
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still run in a 1060 6gb. still struggles to get 60 fps. Sadge
the stock cooler on the 3600 is just garbage. the stock one from the 1600 was way better
I always enable Vsync. My system sounds like a jet taking off until I enable Vsync then it sounds like an RC jet taking off 😂
Back in 2020, I immediately noticed my 3600's temps were very high for my taste, even with a good air cooler (arctic 34 duo), like spiking instantly to low 70s and reaching high 70s during a sustained high load. But it turned out those were pretty much normal out of the box thermals.
The solution was simply undervolting, no temp limit needed. I use CTR for fine tuning and OC but anyone can do it easily from the bios as you pointed out. Great vid as always Bryan!
undervolting, or buying a very basic AIO could resolve issues too. but I guess thats a moot suggestion because buying an AIO for a 3600 would have been excessive for a budget 6 core cpu.
@@pauls4522 IDK.... I put the Thermalright Peerless Assassin with a Ryzen 5700x and I could not pay it enough for it to go over 60c. Thermals were in the 50's once I used a voltage offset.... and that's running Cinebench r23 that uses the CPU much more than any game will.
The Arctic eSports cooler is okay but not very good. It's more ideal for those old i7 processors like the 6700k. Those may have had a 91w TDP, but they'd use maybe 50w while gaming and 65w under stress.
@pauls4522 a budget 240 is like a hundred bucks, I ran a corsair i110 on a 3600 for years and it never went past 50° under load
I don't know about you guys... my r5 3600 when gaming (Cyberpunk 2077 ultra) just sits at 60°C, maxed at 62°C. My cpu is not even undervolted.
Reminder to everyone that your Ryzen 3000 is probably not that old and that the warranty is three years. Check if you can RMA if yours goes bad.
If you are in Australia, you may be able to argue that the lifespan is too short with the ACCC if your CPU fails shortly after the expiration of the warranty period.
dont be ridiculous. this video was stupid. 3600s are not failing at all.
@@p4radigm989 It is ridiculous to let people know they have a warranty if their CPU fails? lol
@@MarcoGPUtuber no, but they are not failing any more than any other CPUs if cooled improperly. This Tech YES video was clickbait BS.
@@p4radigm989 So why are you bothering me about it then?
@@MarcoGPUtuber because you are my son. I need to protect you from fake news
First thing I noticed when I made my 3600 setup was high CPU temps! Even at idle. Doing some research I found that Mobos by default set core voltages very high. Mine was 1.4v at the time. You need to manually set the max core voltage ( or offset) and find the sweet spot. Mine is set at 1.25 volts (over clocked) and it give max performance while keeping cool.
Truth, most boards seem to have the vcore about .15v over what the chip actually needs to run, that excess voltage is producing excess heat and lots of it. Heat isn't the problem the chip will protect itself if it's too hot, it won't protect itself if it's being electrocuted to death slowly by over voltage though.
Interesting. Mine idles just in the bios at 45-50 degrees and it always annoyed me. Will need to try this when I get a chance.
This!
My game mode on the mobo auto set it to 1.45v.
It got ruined a year in, and i kept bsoding every game
I swear these mobo manufacturers out here deliberately trying to fry our CPUs so we have to go out and buy new ones! 😅
I dropped my v-core 1.21 and set clocks to 4.2 on my 3800x. At default the cpu fan ramped up whenever opening a browser neverming gaming, annoyed the hell out of me.
I heard on gamers nexus that some am4 boards use too high a voltage to make their board look faster than the competition, i think that might be at play here as well for some people?? It was a pretty big deal
Yeah, keeps the CPU happy and boosted up, it's acting like an involuntary overclock.
Well, I did watch Buildzoid’s video about chip degradation, only high and low temperature cycle will affect gpu (solder balls crack), and cpu are highly affected by electro migration due to high voltage or the silicon quality itself. Notice that, overclocking a cpu with liquid nitrogen can often kill your cpu too. Therefore, I have to disagree with Tech Yes City if he says high temperature is the cpu killer.
@@nhozdien5058 The solder ball issue is only really a big problem when the underfill is wrong for the temperature variations it will see, 100% it's the voltage killing the chips temperature is protected against the chip will slow itself down for heat, it will allow itself to die via over voltage every single time though. The high voltage is what's causing at least some of the high temps as well.
@@nhozdien5058 tech yes city is actually right because this has been a thing for very long time: voltage x amps is what kills the CPU but temperature is a factor of how quickly that CPU will die
internal resistance of transistors rises with temperature which brings up the amps,voltage and with that wattage in order for CPU to not have stability issues
this was always the thing you had to do with ryzen CPUs because they ran hot as hell with stock coolers and asked for both decent undervolts and cooling solutions
@@xthelord1668 The resistance of copper does increase as temperature goes higher. However, silicon decreases its electrical resistance as temperature increases.
In the beginning of the video, Brian kinda gave me that vibe of saying high temperature was the CPU killer. This was the reason why I said I would disagree if it was his implication in the beginning.
As the video went, I saw his conclusion and couldn't disagree.
Interesting to see more being looked into this. Greg has had quite a few defective 3600s come through on fix or flop so it’s interesting to see it be more widespread than just there.
Not only 3600 in his videos
DEFECTIVE* roughly translated to 'some goofy twat killed his cpu coz he thought OC was a perk XD
Going into AMD CBS and changing the TDP/PPT/EDC/etc settings is the best solution (other BIOS settings might also be needed to prevent the BIOS from ignoring the PPT). That is typically better than messing with voltages or frequencies because single-core / fewer-cores operation won't be impeded as much. Just lower the package power limit to something reasonable. I do this on all my machines, even the high-end ones, because otherwise they use double the power just to squeeze out another 10% in performance or so, which gets into silly-land pretty quickly.
The thermal temperature limit in the BIOS is not as good a setting because it is a far more indirect and slow servo. PPT is a very fast servo.
With my current 5800X, capping the power just gave more performance.
It'll try and check this out, any more tips or steps on how our do it?
Stuff like this is why I like your channel. Getting the most out of older hardware, and the breakdown of the BIOS settings really gives knowledge to someone like me that is still somewhat new to this wonderful hobby. Can't tell you how intimidating some of the Asus bios settings are to me. I'm a Weiner and afraid to mess with a majority of them. But I have a little more confidence moving forward now thanks to videos like these. Thanks again!
If you're intimidated by Asus you havent seen the barebones Gigabyte ones 🤣
Your vcore was peaking at over 1.45v that is WAY too high for that silicon, these things aren't burning up they are being electrocuted to death by MB manufacturers trying to eek out more overclock headroom with higher voltages. What you did was not so much an under-volt as it was a fix of the motherboard's default over-volt.
The thing is that it appears that 3600s actually need that much voltage. My 3600 also runs at about the same voltage but the problem is that I can only undervolt by about 12.5mv before I start getting BSODs while gaming (in easy to run games at 120 FPS). For reference, my Vega 64 runs at an undervolt of -150mv pretty much without losing performance. I suspect the worst dies were turned into 3600s as yields on the 8 core Ryzen 3000 chiplet should have been pretty high. So 3600s need a ton of voltage to operate correctly.
Yeah, being electrocuted and reddit and any other places are not filled with unhappy customers that their CPU and mb are frying like crazy. It's almost like amd engineers knew how to design a CPU properly.
i see that you tested this ryzen 5 3600 with an a320 board and these problems appears, have you tried using a higher tier board like a b450 to see if the problem is still there?
Settings in PBO did nothing
Because they only apply if PBO is on
A lot of motherboard vendors violate AMD's standards and overvolt the shit out of CPU's in order to try to win a few FPS in performance reviews. My Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Master killed two Threadripper 3960x CPU's back in 2019 when it was new, at bone stock settings.
This is a huge, well known problem and the Motherboard vendors keep doing it on purpose, it is not an unintentional bug, and it will damage CPU's. AMD needs to crack down on the board vendors.
Some (but not all) motherboards vendors have responded to criticism by updating their BIOS to correct this issue, so the first thing people should do is to check for a newer BIOS. It might have been fixed.
You destroyed 2 3960x ?
In my experience, undervolt it from 1.4V to 1.2V do the trick. It seems the latest BIOS update make the CPU consume the power more than it actually needs and more power=more heat.
same i just put the voltage to - offset and temps dropped.
... mine will insta crash with anything more than 1.1v
A lot of board manufacturers tell you which is the highest BIOS you should use for a particular CPU, so that's more than likely your issue.
Read the support pages don't just go updating your BIOS.
Strange, my 3600 was a great CPU and was always cool, I only recently upgraded to a 5800x and was surprised how much hotter it was.
I have a NH-D14 and went from a 3600 to a 5800x3d and get the same temps lol! After using curve optimizer of course
You are comparing a 6-core cpu with a Single-CCD 8-core cpu
You should down volt the 5800x, that's what I do, it decrease it running temp by like 10-20 celsius with no drop in performance keeping all the core at 4.6ghz. The 5800x has the same voltage as the 5900 but with 2/3 of the cores so each core has way too much current going through it for no reason since the cores are also the same. A 5600 has 65 tdp for 6 cores, a 5900 has 105 tdp for 12 cores, the 5800 has 105 tdp for 8 cores. That's 10.8 tdp per core for the 5600, 8.75 for the 5900 and 13.125 for the 5800.
Damn I wanted to upgrade to a 5800x :(
@@BloodmoonPyke prices dropped already since the
Ryzen 7 5800X3D came out and now even that is a bit lower since the new am5 Ryzen 7000 series are out
I'm using this CPU since its introduction to the market, and quickly I have realised that you can optimise it with Ryzen Master too: I can set whatever TDP target I like (usually 55W for transcoding, and 65W for gaming). Also set the "CPU Boost override" to its maximum 200Mhz value (so it drives speeds that much higher with the same voltage). This setup works very well even for the stock cooler :)
or just buy a better cooler and get more from your 3600🤣🤣🤣 or turn on vsync🤣🤣🤣
@@raven4k998 you want him to spend more money? STFU!
@@raven4k998 Both are valid advice! :) And I do follow them: I have a Brocken 3 for a few years now (bought for the 2700 originally) , and I always turn on vsynch (I just prefer it that way, and don't care much about the potential latency increase). And yet I still use Ryzen Master the way I described above: in games there is no speed loss (because it is never 100% on all 12 threads), and in transcoding, I can live with the 10-15% speed loss (if that) for much lower temps & silence :)
exactly get an ag400 or something similar for $20 and can use on future higher end cpus that will make quick work of cooling an r5 3600
8:32 3.6GHz at 1.4V on 3600? No wonder those temps went that high!
You made a video about temps and coolers and yet didn't bother trying a aftermarket single or dual tower coolers to end the video.
I noticed that 5600X with the included default cooler would go up to 90 degrees regularly when gaming. I just opted to buy a big Be Quiet cooler and after that the CPU never got over 67 degrees even under 100% load when compressing and decompressing files for half an hour.
@@WarbandGames I try to avoid liquid cooling when possible but for high end stuff it's kind of necessary.
I noticed this back in 2020 with my 3600 CPU, The stealth cooler just wasn't up to the task so i replaced it for a prism rgb and also undervolted it slightly, the temp were night and day difference!
Yeahhhh 3600 + prism gang
I've just ordered one of these from amazon, gutted to find there are issues with them an hour after clicking pay. The bundle is coming direct from ADMI as a preassembled thing, so do you think it might come with settings changed if they know there are issues?
In my experience, the Ryzen 3000 series have usually run pretty cool and have been easy to cool. I am wondering if the TIM has started failing after a couple years of use. As they are soldered, its not exactly easy to check. Need Roman to pull one of these excessively hot CPU's apart.
I'm thinking the same thing. It's probably expanding and contracting a lot
From my experience the Precision Boost Overdrive settings under the tweaker settings on Asus aren't always doing its job at disabling it and you'd need to disable it under one of the AMD tabs in the advanced settings.
The extreme overvolting with PBO has been a thing since first gen ryzen and has caused voltages of ~1.45V back then as well. Disabling it always had massive thermal and efficiency improvements while also lowering the voltage to more reasonable levels on every single ryzen system I have built so far (including anything from 1000 series to 5000 series), so I'm always disabling it because that little bit of extra performance doesn't seem worth the thermals and unhealthy voltages imho. I'm surprised that nobody really talked about that yet and, while I didn't test with any 7000 series CPU myself, I'm pretty sure that's what is mostly leading to the high temps everyone reported on the 7000 series launch. If anyone wants to verify that with a 7000 series CPU feel free to respond, am curious to see if it is indeed still the case.
yes exactly. average users and gamers do not need pbo. my 3600 with pbo on went as high as you said upto 1.45V and i didn't see any performance gain in gaming (by see i mean notice it, you can obviously compare with a benchmark but the negligible gains do not justify having pbo).
with pbo disabled my 3600 would need just under 1v to operate to its max 3600mhz base clock and i could even lower the wraith stealth prism fan speed to 50% and would never need more for it to run cool and super quiet and very low power consumption too (even if i loaded all cores 100% for stress test it would stay around 70-80 degrees with fan still at 50%)
the 3600 can easily handle even games like cyberpunk, red dead 2, etc... at 1440p with my 3060ti i had most high settings and gamed at 60 capped fps. i went not with the 5700x cause i gave my mother my good old 3600 but it's still great cpu for gaming
I'll check this, thanks for spending the time to write the comment, appreciate ya
As an owner of a Ryzen 5 3600 (and A320 mb) this has got me intrigued - admittedly I've got an aftermarket air/fan cooler. I haven't seen any kind of temps like this. Thanks for this investigation. Love your content :)
yeah try upgrading your cooler for better temps simple🤣
Omg same 😅 I'm using an Hyper 212 hope I'm fine.
Same
Checked mine out of curiosity. In Cinebench R23 it got 9173 for multi and 1231 for single and temps were around 65°C. I do have slightly better than stock cooling though (BeQuiet! Shadow Rock 2). I bought the 3600 in March 2020, so I've had it for almost 3 years
Thanks for posting your numbers, those temps are great.
Interesting video Bryan.
This is actually pretty disappointing if it's the case (higher temps), given their relatively young age. Many CPU's in the past (eg. Intel 14nm++++ coffee lake; comet lake) would frequently hit these temps and not fail prematurely, so this is something AMD needs to look into - especially if the chips aren't thermal throttling and staying within AMD's design window. It seriously makes me wonder if it's a long term high voltage issue (eg. certain manufacturers over-volting by default), or if it's related to increased rates of degradation of the TSMC 7nm node at extended elevated temperatures/voltages...
The 2080Ti you previously tested with is significantly more powerful than the RX 6600, so you would expect temps would have been equal/higher running that card.
Why modern CPUs are failing? Because of many factors. Some were working in bad conditions (very high overclock, high voltage, bad cooling). Bad working conditions can damage or degrade CPU (it is called an electron migration and such a CPU will not work properly with default clock or voltage). In some cases paste below cover (IHS) is dry and degraded. Such problems I saw with many CPUs (many intel models), not only with Ryzens.
I have a 3600x and it suddenly died after 4 years of usage. Have a liquid cooler kraken z73 though. Thanks for this vdo.
Same here, though I was using hyper 212 evo on one of the systems. Both died after 3 years with only 2 months separating them even though they had different motherboards and cooler.
Same here, seldom game and 95% for office work. Idle temperature 40c but dead after 3 years.
Put a good cooler on it and change your fan profile in the bios , keep an eye and set a max voltage if needed but I find temps are fine with a good board and cooler
If the voltage is too high, and it objectively is on a good deal of motherboards at default. Keeping it cool won't save it, the temps aren't what's hurting it the excess voltage is.
@@bdhale34 temperature also doesn't help. It impact semiconductor life since...well, since first transistor ever made.
@@bdhale34 what are you talking about? AMD itself has said that those 1.4v spikes are normal, if you set Manually those 1.4v everytime it's obvious you're going to hurt your CPU
Keeping it cool makes it last longer and Will save it
@@bdhale34 Not true, AMD itself stated their stock voltage powerspikes are safe. However, who knows if they lied.
@@bdhale34 need good vrm with ryzen chips i have 4 x 3600 and 2 5600x cpu and voltages and temps are stable, max temps under load are 72 deg c and max voltages are 1.35-1.4v on the 3600's , the 5600x have slightly less voltages out of the box applied and subsequently run a little cooler, also all my chips are under hyper 212 air coolers and they do the job perfect, the std ryzen coolers are junk for any intensive purpose.remember amd put out a statement regarding voltages in the ryzen line and operating temps when chips were released.
good luck :-)
Bro, those voltages that you showed are CRAZY! My 3600 runs with 975mv while 3750mhz , temps - 50° max in cinebench r20.
Undervolt is a MUST!
At the same time my second machine with 5700x runs 1008mv, 4250mhz, 55°
Saving that silicon for the children to inherit it lol
if you remember at launch, we had problems with high voltages on 3600 and zen2. mine was doing like 1.4v. it was fixed by agesa from amd later on.
In the US, the Thermalright Assassin is often on Amazon for $17-25 even for the RGB versions. I use it on a lot of PC builds.
was going to say, the assassin 120 is a much better deal and you don't have to wait for it to ship from china.
I got the 3600 when it first came out in 2019 and it was a very buggy experience for a few months. I spent hours, all day long, just testing, bench marking and adjusting settings.
I managed to get my Ryzen 3600 at a 3900mhz all core clock at 1.25v and stayed there.
With basic cpu coolers and with everything left to default/automatic, the CPU would shoot up to 85 - 90c because of precision boost overdrive going absolute insane. The voltage spikes on PBO was super dangerous. I saw spikes up to 1.48v when PBO would activate and cause the CPU to overheat.
Im happy at 3900mhz all core at 1.25v. The out of the factory default settings are faulty and volatile. Even 4 years later after updating to the latest mobo bios and amd chipset drivers, the default PBO is very problematic.
I think the problem lies with stock voltages rather than high temperatures (although the two are correlated somewhat). On my own Ryzen 5 3600 + CVN X570M platform, the motherboard will push 1.475V into the CPU by default, and I think that is the main cause of this degradation. I had got it tuned in to run at 0.86V and 3.4Ghz by default, and manually going into the Ryzen master to push it to 4.2Ghz all core with 1.16V sometimes, and so far, its overclocking potential hasn't degraded much from the three years of use while temps look great. I think the issue lies with the difference between the earlier batches of Ryzen 5 3600 and later ones, which uses a more refined 7nm process that require much less voltage to run at the same clocks. Motherboard manufacturers want their board to work out of the box with all those Zen 2 chips, regardless of their silicon quality, and that could be the reason behind the aggressive voltages, but when the chips themselves improve to a point that it don't need that, it just became a factor that drove the power and temperature up and efficiency down, while eating away at the lifespan (TSMC recommends a max of 1.3V for these chips, and some motherboards go way past that). Those unstable Ryzen 5 3600 that you have might be a result of a normal computer user leaving the motherboard bios to regulate the voltages delivered to the CPU, and over time it just tears away at the silicon quality.
Be careful with Ryzen master, the voltage set there is actually about 30mV higher than when set in Bios, so your 4.2Ghz at 1.16V, is more like 1.19V.
I'd be using hwinfo64 to check the power reporting deviation, this was an issue early on with motherboards shoving more voltage than reported. This was for the most part solved with BIOS updates but i'm sure there'll be countless boards running theses chips out there that were never updated to solve this problem.
I have a 3600 from late 2019 as well paired with a Mugen 5 cooler. It's undervolted with a negative voltage offset set at -0.125 and while gaming it's always between 45c and 55c max. Pretty impressive indeed.
bro do u live in a cold country
@@annaaffkhan just buy gammax gte v2 white deep cool
Yes pretty impressive, you just need undervolting and a $60 cooler to keep it relatively cool lol
Ryzen CPUs have a history of being over volted. Always under volt them.
1.47v...
My 3600 does 4.575GHz at 1.352v and 4.625GHz at 1.4v (I can send a screenshot shot with it running P95 and R23 at these clock/voltages)...
Pretty sure your auto voltage is absurdly high!
How the hell did it pull 80+W with PBO and performance mode disabled on a 65W TDP chip???
My ryzen 3800x boosted to 4ghz was drawing below 90W and throttling to stay below 85C on a Prism cooler
I dont get something or the problem is much more severe with some safety features just not working propertly
I've had a variety of 3000 and 5000 Ryzens and an offset undervolt between minus 0.050V and minus 0.075V is almost compulsory for sane temperatures. Never used hard temperature limits though.
This is what I do with my 3600. Just an offset of -0.072 mV and the temps are in control. Also using a tower cooler helps. Still using the deepcool gammaxx 400.
Gammaxx 400 has been one of the best budget tower coolers for over half a decade now.
Have one of those cooling my 11700f running 4.4 indefinite boost, never sees over 72c, amazing cooler for the price.
@@nedjimb0 dude i took mine off when i upgraded from an i5-10400f to my i5-11500, and one of the plastic mounts finally snapped and broke :( best cpu cooler i will ever find for for less than $25, can't really find the LGA1200 version for cheap anymore. Ended up getting a Cooler Master 212 Black Edition cuz its all that my local Best Buy will stock for non-AIO's lmao
@@nedjimb0 im on the gammaxx 300 on mine and my brothers rig, cools just fine and is quite cheap.
@@dc-gm7lu Damn, on my ryzen 3 1200 pc with an OC to 3.8ghz @ 1.3v, it fine.
My brothers pc with a 3600x (or 3700x, cant recall) is probably fine, as I havent heard complaints and my laptop with a 5600H has been fine, the problems in it are other things, lol
Greg Salazar also has some videos running to similar issues with Ryzen 3000 series
Maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong angle or missing the point...
Isn't it the right solution to install a better cooler?
Ya your right. Stock coolers are junk
CPUs should have built-in thermal protection and should not fail even if the cooling is insufficient. It appears that AMD sacrificed reliability for benchmark scores.
All you need to do now is just put a good cooler to be honest
yea so the CPU dosen't overheat
@@spreadinglove648 This won't help if the mbd BIOS is consistently pushing too much voltage aswell though, which may be more the relevant issue here. However, without a larger sample size and in addition testing with a decent B450, it's hard to be certain.
Takeaways from this is not just efficiency tuning, but also, do not skimp on your CPU cooler - basically any 20-30$ cooler will vastly outperform Prism and Spire.
Don't go over the Hz of your screen FPS wise, unless you're pushing for absolute minimum latency, it's inefficient.
PBO was actually a huge deal for me. After turning it off my voltages dropped a lot and so did temperature. I guess YMMV. Anyways, I undervolted to 1.25, overclocked to 4.2 all core and I have my very old NH-U12P on it. Now it doesn't crack 70°C even under sustained 100% load.
There is an option named CPB in BIOS which is ON by default.
Turn it off if too hot or too loud, then CPU will maintain at 3.6GHz quietly.
i have a ryzen 5 3500 and an RTX 2070 super... is that ok?.... i am scared now - SOMEONE HELP ME
Also: running memory at 3200 with DOCP (XMP) the memory's official rated speed
Edit: i checked 100% util CPU temp - in Davinci video render, adobe PP and AE video render and cinebench - temperatures sit on 84-86 degree (i do thermal paste changes frequently - arctic Mx4) also gaming hits max 75-76 degree.... i have PBO on at 10x scalar (200MHz) max cpu power draw is 60-65w and GPU power draw is 230-240W max
i am also running a wraith stealth (smallest cooler of the stocks)
I find that undervolting is almost mandatory with some motherboards, i had a msi b450 board and it overshot quite a bit with the voltages and i quickly came to realize that undervolting was way more rational than attemting to oc that cpu since vdrop control was terrible and the ryzen 2600 did oc like shit so i would end up in the high 70's only to barely get 4ghz with a 240mm aio.
I have found that ryzen really likes to work around 1.1-1.2v cpu vcore so if you see that spike to over 1.3 or even hit 1.4v then definitely try to undervolt because that is just too much
Question my cpu voltage is at 1.1v never oc mine and i have a r5 5600x. i have the stock cooler and repasted it with arctis mx-5, whenever i play wz2 the temps goes upto 70degrees and voltage at 98%, is that normal?
@@kidskid8210 As long as it is 1.3v or lower and temps are normal it should be fine. If yours is at 1.1 that seems pretty good
This one is pretty interesting to me. I have a 3600 that has never worked at stock settings. It was a very hard issue to diagnose, because I have tried so many things, and it tended to present as more of a GPU or memory issue, but after thorough testing, I found it did not work at default settings. I eventually had it stable for over a year at 4ghz all core locked, but eventually it started getting worse and getting less stable. This was across 4 motherboards, 4 GPUs, and 3 ram kits. This was a launch 3600 I got as a gift, so it took me a long time to determine it was a CPU fault, as there were a bunch of bios issues at launch.
I always use stock speed at default settings and I maybe get this CPU in February with a320 hdv r4.0. I probably expect no issue.
Changed from a 2600 to a 5600x both using a Dark Rock 4. Pretty impressive, the 5600x with curve optimized OC performs so much better while staying cooler than the 2600.
Absolute worthy upgrade.
While being on it, I also repasted my GPU that was running extremely hot looking at the Hot Spot temperature. Dropped the °C by 20-30° depending on the game. Feels like an entirely new PC x)
I had problems with performance bias set to auto (does a small Overclock to the CPU) but seems to be having a problem on that cpu or bad bios thermal throttling (lack of it in automatic mode)
So my first AMD CPU and this shit starts happening?
As a long term 3600 user, I found that the poor cpu, under stock settings, tends to get blasted with way more voltage than it needs. Undervolting should be the first step. If you have a limited bios, I'd recommend Clock Tuner Ryzen to set some p1 and p2 profiles. You should be able to have your cake and eat it too.
I'm also aware that my cpu is a golden sample (I think it's a downbinned 3600xt), so I wont share the exact settings I use as most 3600's wont be able to keep up.
However a cautious starting point would be:
P2 (trigger at 10% cpu usage) 4200 MHz @ 1300 mV
P1 (trigger at 50% cpu usage) 4000 MHz @ 1150 mV
CTR has an automatic idle state it should default to if cpu usage is below the (trigger usage) value for P2. The values are very rough guide lines, and might be too aggressive still. Or you'll find more headroom to raise clocks further or to lower the voltage. Having a better cooler will also improve the speeds for any given voltage, or allow you to lower the voltages.
CTR has a "tune" button that's tempting to press, but for me it has never produced any beneficial results. It seems to think my cpu can hit 4.7 GHz. It cannot. Maybe you'll have more luck, but it takes forever to run.
Locking the cpu to 45w is a brute force approach but it does work.
Haven't had any issues with my 3600. Ran it with pbo on, auto oc on and i think a small under volt. It was on a b450 tomahawk(non max) with a cooler master ml240 aio. Replaced it with a 5800x3d last month. Will keep an eye on the temps when I repurpose the 3600.
If you are wondering why the cpu is so hot out of the box, it’s because of the voltage on ryzen 3rd generation boost was only achieved by excessive voltage in excess of 1.4v and it has been a problem ever since launch and amd claims it’s fine, but in reality it’s not and not only causes high temperatures but also causes cpu degradation. In my personal experience working with this CPU, and other third generation CPUS is the best bet you can do is a manual overclock and then setting the voltage as low as it can go before it crashes. For example, I took my friend’s Ryzen 5 3600 and manually overclocked it to 4ghz locked and then got the voltage down as low as 1.36v and his temps on the stock cooler dropped by 17c which is incredible and will really keep the cpu going for years to come.
you could run that cpu at max temp 24/7 for a decade and it would be fine
I have beating the living shit out of mine since launch.. it's been living under a noctua D15..still works great
The noctua D15 is a beast.
Very helpful. I’ve had a problem with stability of my 3600 in a SF PC and tried different methods as you did. Limiting by temperature only did not solve the problem, but limiting the power as well (to 45W) did. Still no CPU limited in Cyberpunk with ray tracing in 1440 or Diablo IV in 4k/120Hz HDR with RTX 4070ti
I bought a few wraith prisms and they are great for 3700X and below . I just like the design and the looks . Blows some air around the socket and Vrms too .
These temperatures were always present with the absolutely INADEQUATE Wraith Stealth. As someone who is still running a 3600 since 2019 I have always recommended people to get a better cooler than the included one even a 20 USD tower cooler keeps the 3600 safely under 70 C in 100% usage on stock settings.
It always really bothered me how many tech channels (don't remember if TYC did that too tbh) and people on the internet played up the 3600's included cooler as adequate and an advantage over Intel at the time, the reality is that those coolers should have been used at most for a couple weeks until you get a cooler if you can't get one right away.
So it's just the temps not anything other to major right and what cooler do you think I should use for the r5 3600 ?
You would think they would pair up the new Ryzen 5 7600 with a spire but no they have to give the bare bones.
naw it's not the cooler...
@@dyyylllaannn You do have to admit though it is part of problem it’s not the best compares to the spire or prism.
@@scarfaceReaper I can recommend the SilentiumPC Fera 5 if it is available in your country. Arctic freezer 34 eSports is also good.
My ryzen 5 3600 regularly hit 80-90 degrees with the wraith stealth since day one. Bought an aftermarket cooler and applied an undervolt, allowing the CPU to stay under 75 degrees at max load (50-60 degrees during gaming sessions). Happy I made this decision, because performance remains unaffected after 3+ years.
its kinda odd that he has issues with his amd cpus while its in an asus motherboard.
And people called me crazy for tuning my 3600 to under 70C under load lol... "It's FINEEE at 1.45V, it's fineee at 85C..." No, it's not. My Intel i5 6500 I had before ran at a little over 1V full tilt and did not exceed 65C, ever. And that was on 14nm+++++++, no reason a 7nm product like the 3600 would need 1.4V+ to reach turbo speeds. Yes, AMD pushed their CPUs above their sweet spot for a few % more, but they did it with every gen, resulting in the house-fire hazzards that are the 7000 series.
Here are some examples :
- tuned a R5 1600 for a friend - from 1.35V core / 1.2V SOC down to 1.27V core / 1.05V SOC - same speed, XMP stable, ran ice cold after that - under 55-60C at all times.
- my old 3600 - my sample was probably the worst one in history , was not able to reach turbo speeds like ever, ran at 85C under load with Wraith MAX and 55C idle - L-O-L. Default ran at 1.45V and about 1.3V+ under load (wtf). After some tuning, was able to use a -0.05V (50mV) offset and tinkered with the RAM speed and voltages - result was under 70C under load. Any higher offset resulted in instability and/or losing performance. Called it a day and lived with it. To this day, this is the crappiest CPU sample I have ever purchased. I even regretted not getting a 1600AF instead fml...
- now living with a 5600X and besides the speed advantage, it is VERY VERY power efficient, took a -50mV undervolt and never goes above 60-65C. Same Wraith MAXX as before. Donno if karma is real and I got a golden sample or the 5000 series are much better by design, or the 3600s were all crap, or all of the above, but I am satisfied.
From my research over the net when I was trying to subdue my raging 3600, I can tell you all of them take AT LEAST -50mV (-0.05V) offset without any disadvantages or clock stretching. Some people reported up to -75mV on a 3600 and up to -125mV (!) on a 3700. So it depends on the sample that you got. Start with -0.05V and go up until you see performance degradation or instability. See how far you can lower that Vcore. Every little bit helps.
From all that fiasco, I will ride my 5600X to whenever it can carry me and then buy Intel again. I am sick and tired of tinkering with AMD CPUs out of the box just so they don't burst into flames, it is ridiculous. OR, I can buy one of their APUs - they are actually another story - monolithic, sip power and almost as fast as the regular Ryzen CPUs. And have none of the overheating problems. I have 3 of them at work (4650G, 5600G and 4600G) and they are quiet little beasts. We'll see what AMD has to offer in a few years time.
This is a great video on so many levels for the AMD community!
I have ALWAYS underclocked AMD equipment.
CPU and GPU.
I've always got lower temps and higher performance due to the clock map where it detects that the temps are lower therefore it will increase the frequency as long as it's stable.
I haven't found a need to limit my equipment thermally, but undervolting alone is fantastic.
I even do the same to my ram and run vigorous tests to make sure it can still pass memtest.
Example, if my ram can run 3600Mhz CL16 @ 1.2v, but crashes at 1.15v, I'll set it to 1.25v for some overhead stability. Saving me from needing to run 1.35 rated voltage.
This will reduce the heat on the motherboard & case, as well as the load on your motherboard and PSU. Every little bit counts.
I used to be of the mindset of just brute-forcing things to max and ramping fans up, but after reaching points of diminishing returns and reducing life expectancy, it just isn't worth it anymore.
Mine did degrade with a decent cooler, so i think it's more then a temperature issue. I think it's just an combination of trash bin dies + high voltages.
Your CB23 scores are on the low side tho, i get even at 3600mhz (turbo disabled) 8400 multi core and 9300 with turbo enabled.
Motherboard BIOS should have 3 standard settings. "Load optimized" "Load Minimum" and "Load Manufacturer Spec"
Is there any reason why that CPU needs to be fed 1.450 volts? Seems excessively high to me.
I think your unit is defective and that's that. I have a Ryzen 5 3600 with 74 max temp in synthetic tests, furmark etc. I do have some good airflow in the case and the CPU has an Arctic tower cooler
If you are a 60fps player i recommend locking your fps to 60 in Nvidia control panel or Amd relive. The result of that is you gonna have a better gaming experience because the frame-time is gonna be more stable and your cpu is gonna have an easier time working because you are not asking a lot from it.
I loved my 3600x because it was my first solid cpu. My first pc had a fx 6300 and while it could play esports titles, it was lacking in newer more demanding games. The 3600x was a breath of fresh air compared to that and it treated me well from 2020-2022. I ended up going with a 5700x recently and while that wasn't as big of a jump as the fx 6300 to the 3600x was, it still was a solid upgrade because its a power efficient 8 core chip and runs cool. I just got a noctua nh-u12s redux a couple days ago to pair with it, and my temps and noise is way better than my wraith spire cooler was on my 3600x. My 3600x will always have a place in my heart though. I will probably find a friend or relative to give it to so it can have a new life instead of sitting on a shelf
I started with 2013's AMD FM2+ socket, cpu A-10 6800k (total garbage)
Than got the Ryzen 3600 when it launched.
And upgrades that to a 5700x last week :)
@@TheTryingDutchman oh wow i can only imagine the feeling you got when you first booted up the 3600! I could tell a difference right away by just scrolling around in windows. Its crazy how much AMD cpus have come in just the past 5-10 years. AM4 has had great longevity!
@@Bdot888 yup, the difference was huge, and am4 was/is indeed an awesome platform! Enjoy :D
Like other people mentioned, the problem is the voltage that some mobos apply on them. Usually way past what one would call redline for these CPUs. The solution is RMA, but if it was me i'd seriously consider upgrading because the 3600 aged really poorly, it can't get 60 FPS on Kingdom Come deliverance max settings or No Man's Sky and has mediocre lows in games like Elden Ring and i doubt it'll handle these newer PS5 games (Hogwards's legacy?) well with how close in performance it is to the consoles, at least if you care about open world games which it won't handle very well.
I agree it's the cheaper mb and running in high ambient TURN ON THE AC
i havent had any problems with mine playing games plays skyrim heavly moded monster hunter witcher 3 all highest
@@jnightmare2386 I call BS on that modded skyrim claim there, quite sure it'll drop below 60 at any point where draw calls reach the neighborhood of 7500 which with heavily modded skyrim is everywhere, even with a 12600k it struggles to keep 60 at 9k draw calls, as long as you use a grass mod + dyndolod and ENB you're not running 60FPS on skyrim with a 3600, only in interiors. And MH i can break the 75FPS mark on a 3400G with max settings so that's not exactly a demanding title. Witcher 3? Maybe DX11 witcher 3, a PS4 game from 7 years ago, which i can also hit 120 FPS on a 3400G. The titles i mentioned are WAY more demanding than those you did, apples to oranges.
To be clear, you used the wraith cooler and one exhaust fan in your system?
Mine just died today, msi B450 tomahawk shows red light on cpu. Crashed in a game, then crashed in windows, now won't boot at all. No way to get into bios. My cooler is hyper 212
3600s are dropping like flies from what I've seen. Usually after 2 years of usage.
I've had mine since 2019 and never have had a single problem
you mean dropping what, which things?
I want to say a few things. OC is not always OC. Different manufactorers have different boost values in their bioses. Some are higher, some lower. There was a commotion in the past for CPU reviews, that had an extra boost on certain boards, thus giving different results.
A little undervolting and good cooling can make your CPU last for decades and you are so right about the low-end coolers not cutting it as software demands more from the CPU.
Even my old daily driver - just used for email UA-cam etc. has had a cooler upgrade. It was just an i5 with stock cooler and I noticed the temps were starting to get quite high.
Now all is good and cool again.
And for all you guys out there who do not clean your rig regularly, remember dust = heat!
Undervolting is not what you want to do. Death Stranding is an AVX instruction game which demands higher voltage for 64 bit compression.
@@boating2strokenovice726 What? I'm not talking about a single mediocre game. I'm saying that it's the best way to prolong the life of your system.
@@ausfoodgarden The game in question in this video. Death Stranding is an AVX instruction game. Which means requiring 64 bit compression from (2) 32 bit buss lanes from the system ram requires more milivoltage to the CPU.
Lowering the clock speed of the cpu is the only thing you can do with AVX instruction titled games. Compromising the voltage in AVX games causes a loss to CPU texture rendering:
i have a 1700x that started getting blue screens a few min after getting into windows, the temperatures were ok, and after I disabled 4 of the 8 cores, it worked fine for another 6 months until I replaced it
So a 3600 cpu out of the box.. just started failing after a few years of working fine? I have a new 3600 cpu that was barely used.. was about to build a small ITX gaming rig for it.. is this a no go CPU now? Thinking of grabbing a cheaper AMD GPU to go with it.. purely for a racing/flying sim gaming setup with VR.
By default, my Ryzen 7 5800X was consistently hitting above 80C, sometimes ekeing towards 85C, where idle temps were at an elevated 50C - 60C. I thought that it was really obnoxious, and I did my due diligence in mounting the cooler correctly. Disabling PBO2 barely made a dent, but long story short almost everything was tied to Windows' power management settings and I just forced Windows to use the "Balanced" power plan, on top of just disabling PBO2. I don't think I made a manual thermal limit, but after setting everything that I think could made a huge difference, it went back down to the usual 25C - 32C idle temperatures, and never went above 45C - 50C (depending on season) when gaming. I have a Cryorig H5 Universal, and it should be more than capable of keeping that thing tamed.
Seeing Ryzen 70xx series processors have 90C at idle as the "norm" was incredibly outrageous and inane of AMD to do. This is absolutely wrong. This is a huge signal to every other consumer that AMD is just continuing to, by default, overclock and maybe overvolt the shit out of their chips just to meet a specific performance improvement goal and appease their investors, and it isn't helping that most motherboard manufacturers tend to go a bit crazy with voltage settings, too. This is "fun" for overclockers, but the target audience should really be towards the average consumer.
"90C is below the maximum operating temperature of 100C, therefore it's okay" is a *bad* excuse to make when selling a chip to most people, because that's when most thermal throttling should occur.
I’ve had to replace my old 3600X when I had that Lel, they shipped me a new one for free
Big reason why intel with stock cooler working no issues
I have a brand new Ryzen 5600G that is faulty too, and they replaced it because it's under warranty. I glad to see you video, I learned a lot.
Why in the 1st task manager showned in this video L1 only have 128kb instead of 384kb and L2 with only 1MB instead of 3MB and L3 only have 16MB of cache instead of 32MB?
Isn't PBO set to AUTO means it's disabled anyways?
PBO is always disabled by default right?
When I built this computer I did a R5 3600XT with Wraith Prism on B450M, and it currently has a 1070ti GPU (started with an RX5700XT, but one long DCS session croaked it under warranty. Got it repaired, and it croaked again just browsing the web, so I had it repaired again, but bought the used 1070).
I haven't done much gaming on it yet, but on warmer days the package temperature will briefly spike to over 80 just browsing on the web, which has kept me from really trying out some games (I built it with DCS World in mind). I was thinking maybe the thermal paste wasn't spread good enough, but could this be the issue and this solution work?
I used CTR (Clock Tuner for Ryzen) and allowed it to determine my best clocks and voltages. I run my 3600 at 4.3GHz on all cores. But I don't recall the voltage right now. Rock solid and temps are never a concern. Cooling is via a 120mm AIO.
But is this behavior where disabling PBO does nothing for thermals normal across other boards/chipsets?
Undervolt -0.025 and I started to get random system freeze... I stopped the Turbo boost and I got a more silent fan and a similar performance with temperature not higher than 80° C on the CPU, in a room that have temps between 22-28° C.
My ryzen 3600 is about a year-and-a-half old. I turned the computer off to go away for the weekend, when I come back it wouldn't turn on. I couldn't get past the CPU and memory tests. I don't think it overheated because I had a thermaltake all-in-one 120 radiator attached. I ran the CPU at factory settings and ran the Vengeance Pro 3200 kit at 3600 MHz to match the Infinity fabric.
Had the exact same overheating issue, brought the voltage down to 1.15 volts and bumped the clock speed up to 4100... no more issues and it actually runs faster now.
Found no major reviews on the CPU cooler you recommend. With the total cost to ship to the USA of $38 it would seem better to get a well-known and respect brand like Deepcool, be quiet!, Cooler Master, etc. from Amazon with free shipping. Used Deepcool on my overclocked Ryzen 3600 with no issues. And some of your links are screwed up.
So I have a R9 3900x with a custom cpu/gpu loop. I had an undervolted 4.4Ghz all core oc, and just recently started getting abnormally high Temps hitting 105c at the highest in MW2. Gpu Temps are normal around 60-65c. I backed off the oc to factory, and Temps are still high around 80-85c
While this may seem counterintuitive, the fan on the rear of your computer is most likely interfering with the airflow on the CPU cooler. Turn it off and check the temp. It is too close.
I have 1 3600 that died on me.first it just detect 1 ram stick and then the tpm error keeps saying that i am changing my cpu and that may cause me to lose some data .this error comes out every time i try to boot up my pc and after a few days it just died
I bought a 3600 this year (2024) for a budget PC. It came with the Wraith Stealth cooler and it idle at 35 Celsius and rises to 55-65 when gaming, reaching a maximum of 77 when running Cinebench.
So far I have not noticed any heating issue with my R3900 cpu with aftermarket cooler.
If you have something better than a 1080 or 1080ti why not game at a higher resolution than 1080p ?
The image looks better at higher resolutions and more of the work is passed off to gpu and your cpu isn’t working as hard.
can you plz quote the sources of the statement "running your cpu at 90° is a recipe for disaster"? I'm really interested. I do FAH even for hours to heat up my room a bit and my cpu stays around 90°. I would really like to understand if that's a real problem or only a rumor
I am having the same issues with my Ryzen 5 5600X on an Aorus B550, random black screens, without even having any games running