Amd ryzen 9 3900x suffers from bios glitches in some reviews
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The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X has already gone on sale, but it seems to have given more than one information portal a headache. Thanks to the XanxoGaming website, we learned that it is possible that some units suffer from under-boosting in most or all of their cores.
As we have seen, the motherboard companies have been releasing hotfixes for their motherboards just one day after their launch. We do not know the point of contention that they have had to resolve, but it is possible that it is somewhat generalized.
Under-boosting
According to the information portal XanxoGaming , tests on various applications have resulted in minor errors, the most serious being PCMark 8. The latter did not even pass the initial test, so it was tested on different motherboards with different BIOSes . Errors have been detected by both the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and the Ryzen 7 3700X.
The main problems that plague the reviewer are the following:
- Problems with AGESA 1002 NPRP code (BIOS for press) Problems with PCI Express and NVIDIA video cards (WHEA error)
The main weakness that the user mentions is that the processor cores do not reach the boost frequencies that they should. A couple of them hit figures around 4.5 GHz and 4, 575 GHz (normal numbers) , but all the others get stuck at 4.3 and 4.4 GHz.
The motherboards on which it has been tested have been:
- GIGABYTE X570 AORUS XTREME GIGABYTE X570 AORUS MASTER MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE GIGABYTE X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI
After having contacted GIGABYTE (the first motherboard tested) without results and after many tests, the solution they came up with was to use an old X470 .
The problem is not especially serious, since it only affects that the processor is not as powerful in boost as we expect. However, manufacturing companies have already echoed the problem. If you want to know you suffer from these problems, we recommend you check how the cores behave under load.
In any case, with the next BIOS updates the problem will be solved almost certainly. Stay up to date with the news and we will inform you.
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