Motherboard GIGABYTE AB350N-Gaming WIFI

[LukeD]

The "after boot" and "idle" numbers you see are after that reboot. For some reason, the processor seemed to be doing a lot right after boot, and it just kept going on, .

Kill your internet connection, a lot of the startup process are Windows checking / updating ... etc..

 

[FancyKiddo]

Yeah I figured out that it was Windows Update hiding in the Services tab because the Modules Installer Worker had become corrupted. Fun times! PC runs a lot smoother on start now that I fixed that and Windows Update isn't vainly using 100% of my disk anymore!

Good things Windows installs are SO EASY! hahaha

 

[LukeD]

Classic

 

[FancyKiddo]

I'm going to be redoing idle tests at various voltage/frequency/Cool&Quiet state combinations for my own sake. Do you guys want me to post that data once I have it all up (probably 24 hours from now), or is what I already posted good enough?

 

[LukeD]

@confusis

Will you be testing pcie bifurcation on the gigabyte board ?

 

[confusis]

@LukeD yes.

 

[LukeD]

OH OH OH !!!! I'm so excited !!!! AND I JUST CAN'T HIDE IT
When ? when ? when ?

 

[confusis]

Soon (TM)

 

[LukeD]

You are a bad man teasing me like that

 

[confusis]

Ok, one more teaser;

 

[confusis]

Ok, one more because using a capture card to get high quality BIOS screenshots is awesome: (note the RAM speed change)

 

[3lfk1ng]

That sweetspot? Yea... it's been hit.

 

[Ionrent]

 

 

[confusis]

Which version of Windows?

 

[Ionrent]

 

 

[confusis]

Ok. Will see what it does when I stream on Saturday.

 

[LukeD]

What time were you thinking of doing the live stream ?

 

[confusis]

not 100% sure yet, chances are it will be Sunday evening NZ time so it is Saturday afternoon in the USA

 

[LukeD]

Ahhhh cool its like a 2 hr difference between us
My Gigabyte board just arrived today. But I don't think ill have time to build it this weekend. I have a friend visiting. But I would love to hear what you have to say about the board and your experience so far. Hope i can make the livestream !

 

[FancyKiddo]

@confusis, can you check if the CPU downclocks/downvolts properly if you set any kind of overclock? I've been lurking various Gigabyte threads and it seems to be a limitation with all Gigabyte AM4 boards at the moment. Apparently CPU speed power options disappear in Windows and the CPU runs full tilt.

Yes, clock lowering disappears from Windows power options when the CPU is overclocked (in BIOS), and no monitoring software I've used so far has shown clockspeed dynamically lowering during those times. However, the CPU is reaching very low (~25 W) power usage when idle overclocked to 3.6 GHz.

Tonight, I'm testing the difference in idle power usage between overclocked but downvolted (the stats I have from yesterday, though I will be rechecking them once I have my Windows Update woes behind me), auto everything (I was seeing this giving the CPU 1.32 V at 3 GHz, which seems pretty high), and forced downvolted as low as I can go on stock speeds. This should give me a good indication for how Windows downclocking affects idle power usage. Hopefully that'll be tonight, and I can get those results here then.