Well personally, I’ve been having a bear of a time trying to get my Ryzen machine to run correctly. I’m starting to think there just aren’t good options
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msage@programming.dev 1 month agoWho, my good friend, fucking WHO still buys Intel for the servers? It sucks so hard, I don’t get it.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
msage@programming.dev 1 month ago
I’ve had numerous Ryzens, with 0 issues.
Fewer Epics, but no issues either.
What issues are you having?
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Frequent crashing/freezing, especially at idle. Once the processor is under heavier load it’s fine, it’ll keep going smooth for hours. but at lower energy states the CPU is super unstable. It often takes me about a half hour just to get the thing up and running steady, very frustrating. Sometimes it likes to crash right as it’s changing load levels/c-State, so just as it finishes loading files for a game just as the first 3d frame is rendered. Or vice versa, it’ll crash about 15 seconds after the computer returns to mostly idle when you exit an application.
I’ve tried a bunch of things, disabling c-states, manually setting dram timings, manually increasing power to various parts, enabling/disabling just about every relevant feature I can find. And of course looking for help online. I’m actually pretty sure the problem is in the motherboard, as one of the “fixes” I tried was going from a Ryzen 3600 to a 3800X, and the problem was the same.
I’ve looked around and it’s an issue I have seen other people having, though it’s not very common. But there’s no consensus in the root of the problem. It does seem to be that it’s some interaction between the motherboard and cpu. It could plausibly be the power supply, but I think that’s pretty unlikely. The ram is fine.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Honestly, it does sound a bit like a hardware defect somewhere. Usually everything should work OOTB unless you are doing something really specific.
If you haven’t already done so, try updating the BIOS.
You mentioned the RAM being fine - have you run Memtest86+ for several hours? One pass is usually not enough to rule out memory malfunctions.
If you have a spare drive, try installing Linux Mint on it. If it still crashes, you can rule out Windows (and if it doesn’t, you could install a clean Windows on that same drive and try again).
You could also purchase a cheap AM4 motherboard (they start at like 60 bucks) to check if the issues still occur and refund it within the return window.
x4740N@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ooh I don’t know if amd does this for your specific issue but you might have had a problem had with amd driver conflicts
anzo@programming.dev 1 month ago
I bet other vendors implemented similar optimizations and have the same issues. That’s how it’s been in several occasions…
msage@programming.dev 1 month ago
Not as severe, usually.