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I don't think that this is the reason this time. I have a Ryzen 5950x system and like many other owners I suffer from poor stability. My machine crashes severa
by radicalbyte 6y ago
I don't think that this is the reason this time.
I have a Ryzen 5950x system and like many other owners I suffer from poor stability. My machine crashes several times a week with CPU errors.
This seems to be the result of poor BIOSes from AMD and their partners, more so than fab faults - reddit is full of people who still have issues after their 3rd RMA.
I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole if I was Dell.
- emodendroket 6y agoI have a 5800X and I hadn’t even heard of it. But the supply chain thing seems plausible — it’s still hard to get your hands on Zen 3.
- lunfard00 6y agolucky me never had issues with my 5950x (windows, x570 taichi). That being said, TDP 105w is bs.
- Lev1a 6y agoOh nooooo, your new top-of-the-line processor has a lower TDP than average-good processors from a few years ago! How absolutely horrible. /s, in case that wasn't blatantly obvious.
- lunfard00 6y agoThat is not the issue, the issue is that AMD advertise 2700x and 5950x with the same TDP, so at the very least that should means that they both work fine when using the same cooling solution, which is not the case. Using my previous cooler 5950x was throttling at 100 Celsius.
- arvinsim 6y agoTDP is just now a marketing term. We all know that the real value is when the CPU is boosted.
- Covzire 6y agoI have a 5950X as well and it's only mostly stable. I've been running at stock with just PBO enabled and it's mostly fine. It's not so unstable I regret building it since it almost always only reboots and logs a WHEA error when I'm not using it for some reason.
- floatboth 6y agoFor sudden reboot issues, could be some power protections tripping? For me that showed up as shutdowns (that require turning the PSU off for a minute), but maybe depending on various components and could result in reboots as well? PBO seems to result in some wild power spikes that don't ever happen with manual static OC. Try raising various overcurrent limits, that worked for me.
- Covzire 6y agoNot sure, it only happens though (9.9/10) when the system is idle so it could still be power delivery related but in the other direction.
- Nursie 6y agoFunny, never had an issue with mine. Bad stick of ram caused a few issues, but when it was replaced all’s been well.
- jamesponddotco 6y agoCounter anecdote, but I run the Ryzen 9 5950X on dedicated servers with Ubuntu 20.04, and they are as stable as they should be.
- mattgreenrocks 6y agoWow. Hope it gets fixed soon. I’d be livid about this even if I only used the machine in the off hours.
- radicalbyte 6y agoI installed the new beta BIOS update a week ago and since then my machine is been ROCK solid. Interestingly, my fan is running harder now; whilst CPU usage is low but spiking on 1-2 cores. It never did that before; so maybe the problem was caused by a thermal bug in the bios.
- radicalbyte 6y agoIt tends to crash when idle, and the machine is such an enormous improvement over anything Intel have made that I'm happy overall. The issues with the BIOS will be solved and I'm not an overclocker.
- Const-me 6y agoVery often, when Windows crashes due to hardware shenanigans, it writes a minidump into c:/Windows/Minidump folder. You can use WinDbg to see what happened. Sometimes the problem is faulty RAM or similar random fails, nothing interesting there, but more often the problem is specific piece of hardware, the minidump then tells which driver has crashed and what it was doing when it happened.
- arvinsim 6y agoMust be Windows since I never had problems with my Pop!_OS installation