Alienware Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC

Re:Alienware Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC by Covzire on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:07PM (#26847037)

I have a 5950X as well and it's only mostly stable. I've been running at stock with just PBO enabled and it's mostly fine. It's not so unstable I regret building it since it almost always only reboots and logs a WHEA error when I'm not using it for some reason.

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Re:Alienware Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC by floatboth on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:59PM (#26848858)

For sudden reboot issues, could be some power protections tripping? For me that showed up as shutdowns (that require turning the PSU off for a minute), but maybe depending on various components and could result in reboots as well?

PBO seems to result in some wild power spikes that don't ever happen with manual static OC. Try raising various overcurrent limits, that worked for me.

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Re:Alienware Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC by Covzire on Sunday April 18, 2021 @01:38PM (#26854568)

Not sure, it only happens though (9.9/10) when the system is idle so it could still be power delivery related but in the other direction.

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