True, those with 2 CCDs seems to report lotta problem while users with single CCD rarely reports any issue.

Ah yes, heat issue.

Meanwhile dual CCDs mostly has PCIE4.0 issue, audio crackling/pop, random reboot, cold boot issue, WHEA error, USB random disconnection.
Then there is an issue with weak cores within 16 cores. Found several users reporting their 5950x/5900x has few weak cores that error-ed the system into blue screen on default idle voltage. They are only able to fix it by using curve optimizer functionality to specifically feed more voltage into the weaker cores on idle.

I jumped from an Ivybridge 4770K system and from a broadwell macbook pro and the ryzen's temp gave me a shock ... and the performance difference is negligible considering the old intels are running on DDR3.

I actually spent months solving the average use(such as browsing) temp issues that goes to 50-60C, going through a few coolers, bios, fan mods, case mods and settings to ultimately give up altogether... end up settling with a 120mm aio with a very silent fan spinning at a minimum of 1500RPM so the temp stays below 50C

Does Rocket Lake need to do well only will go back to Intel?
If you like the brand then it shouldn't matter what's the performance like. If performance what's matter then doesn't matter what brand it is.
If want the performance but doesn't want the brand, I don't think possible.

The reality of Intel. But TBH that time 9900KS is the fastest CPU. Got to pay HT tax with Intel.

i kinda able to narrow down the crashing of my amd and it seems to be a memory related issue which is related to my audio playback and USB DAC.

Finally for once an error managed to popup from my audio player right before the pc crashes and it stated something about bad pool caller which point to my audioplayer’s directory... which is no surprise because i buffer my playlist into my ram to reduce disk io along with asio as playback output which already been giving problems from the begining.

Guess it was a combination of ryzen’s shitty memory architecture and usb interface and the lack of legacy code support that is the cause of the random crashes... which kinda explains that there are no problems under long stress tests because i never turn on the music during the tests. Never had this issue when i was using intel since core2duo to a bootcamp win10 macbook pro retina... problem only started with this ryzen.

I guess at the meantime I will have to heavily compromise by refrain from using ASIO and decreasing the file buffer size to see if it still crashes.... and then it’s goodbye AMD on the next upgrade.

now the torment of wondering if this problem will happen again has begun.......

Cod. Warzone is crazy on “stability”
Coldwar because of dlss/rtx reduces this but
Have u noticed how “rt” or “dlss” type games seem to behave like javascript??

I'm on a R5 3600 + B550, and I've also been noticing more frequent WHEA. Taking your lead, I checked Event Viewer and also discovered a bunch of Event 41 critical errors whenever I had WHEA.

My fast start-up settings are off, so that's not the issue for me.

But I did some digging, and remembered I updated my mobo bios not long ago to version F11 (B550 Aorus Pro AC), and for some reason, it was removed from the official bios download page. Then I found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabytegaming/com...os_f11_missing/
https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabytegaming/com...s_pro_f11_bios/

Quoted from thread:
"There is a reason. F11 BIOS was generating WHEA errors in Event Manager in Windows if you were using RAM running at 3600 MHz. This caused instability for some people. Any slower RAM speed was fine."

"I still haven't been able to run my RAM at 3600MHz via its XMP profile without intermittently logging WHEA event 19 errors in Windows 10 and the equivalent errors in Linux, which occur seemingly at random."


I also remembered that I'm running my Trident Z Neo RAM at 3600mhz via manual overclock instead of XMP, because enabling XMP would cause crashing.

So it seems like a combination of Gigabyte 500 series mobo on F11 (or F31 on X570) with G.Skill Trident Z Neo RAM running at 3600mhz has been documented to cause crashes and random WHEA.

The Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro AC bios page has been updated with bios version F13a as of 27/1, which updates to AGESA ComboV2 1.2.0.0. I'm gonna cross my fingers and update to this bios and see what happens.

AMD claim RAM clock speed with IF 1:1 until 3733mhz or 3600mhz only

I check back, for Zen 3 also AMD didn't guarantee or safe bet can achieve 4000mhz 1:1. 3600mhz still the best bet.

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-5000-zen-3-c...-agesa-support/

DDR4-4000. 2000MHz fclk is to the Ryzen 5000 Series what 1900MHz fclk was to the Ryzen 3000 Series. Many samples can do it, but not all. In upcoming AGESAs, we will be implementing additional tuning that will make reaching 2000MHz easier. This is not a guarantee. There is no “safe bet” that your CPU will reach this frequecy. But don’t be surprised to see a bunch of people bringing that magical 2000MHz fclk home with DDR4-4000.

Which AGESA version is he referring to, though?