Got the 5600X in place.
ASRock B450M Pro 4, latest BIOS
G.skill Trident Z RGB 3200CL16-18-18-38
Per Thaiphoon this is a Samsung B-die kit.
It won't even boot at 3400 with the default timings, even if I bump up the voltage a touch to 1.36V.
It BSODs when I plug in "safe" timings for 3200 from Ryzen DRAM calculator into the BIOS.
So I can't tighten the timings at rated MT/s, nor can I boost MT/s at same timings.
Seems IMC isn't the issue... Kind of turns me off of G.skill RAM to be honest, unless I'm missing something huge.
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That being said, the 5600X is really fast. I doubted I'd notice a difference in everyday use, and maybe I'm just particular, but this thing is just immediate.
Ambient temp 72F, case window off
Best of two runs:
Speedometer 2.0 -- 174.4
CB20 ST -- 600
CB20 MT -- 4609
CB23 ST -- 1538
CB23 MT -- 11929
GB5 ST -- 1598
GB5 MT -- 8572
I'm not sure what browser AT was running, but my score was much better than theirs, just in Chrome, Incognito mode, no extensions.
Was happy to see my CB20 ST match Anandtech / TPU score and MT run beat AT's score and TPU's stock score by a fair amount.
GB5 scores look good save for the MT score, which is oddly lower than AT's.
Of note, in CB20 and CB23 MT, this chip was holding a minimum 4.575-4.6GHz all-core boost and limited by thermals (throttling down at 80C). ST it just sat at 4.65GHz the whole time, raising temps over sleep by ~10C. I know there's more juice in this bad boy!
For just enabling PBO, base 3200CL16 RAM, and a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 LED tower cooler, I'm pretty happy.
The RAM gets me... seems like even though it identifies as B-die, it's just a bad bin.