I haven’t built a new PC in ages but I’m wondering what I should I should do for system tuning.
Specs
I’m not familiar with OC’ing on this chipset. The Asus bios is a bit of a confusing mess.
Should I use the XMP profile (on #7 now)?
Should I disable hyperthreading (I think I read to do that more on the Intel chips)?
Don’t bother overclocking. It is not worth the hassle.
Look up some undervolting guides for you CPU. This pays off way more (better thermals, reduced power consumption, maybe better clock speeds, depending on the silicon).
I agree, don’t overclock if you don’t need to, you may cause more issues than you get results.
With those specs always worth having a look at Clock Tuner for Ryzen 2 
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You can go either way with this tool (Stability <–> OC)
My MSFS performance seems great so far. I’m big into quiet and stability.
Should I leave the memory on JDEC #7 or XMP? Anything I do will likely be after a coupe weeks to make sure the system is stable.
Definitely optimize your chip. It’s not actually overclocking. It’s optimizing. Your chip comes with factory settings which means those settings are made for the worst of the chips regarding the “silicone lottery”. The reason for this is that they don’t want settings that will break a large percentage of a shipping product so they are very conservative and often have to pump extra voltage into a chip to get it to perform up to specs. So assuming you didn’t lose the silicon lottery, by not optimizing it you are just wasting it’s potential. These chips are meant to be individually tuned.
With that said, I also have a 5800x although not watercooled. I followed this playlist of videos. It’s worth the time it takes because in the end you will have a better performing processor, you will understand the “confusing mess” of AMD settings, and it will run at a lower voltage meaning less heat. So it’s all good. You don’t have to push it to the limits. Just optimize it so it’s performing up to its capabilities within reason.
FYI: that guy I linked also has RAM tuning and GPU tuning videos if you want to go the extra mile. But at a minimum just optimize your CPU.
The confusing mess part is I think the Asus bios!
Thanks for the video links. I like the idea of reducing the temps. I seem to be generating more heat than I expected and the fans kick in way more than my old system did. I think the fans are overly aggressive, even though I have the quiet profile selected.
Definitely. That’s the first thing I do with any new CPU/Motherboard. I like to set the curves so the fans spin quietly. I don’t mind CPU temps up to 65 C so I spin the fans quietly up to that temp. Above that I let the fans run harder. So it keeps it quiet for normal operation and when gaming it can run hard. In the Asus bios you can save your settings. So to start I leave everything stock but adjust the fans then save that profile. Then when I make other adjustments I save those to a new profile so if I ever have problems I can always recall the default settings and know I have a running system with quiet fans.
Good luck.
I monitored the CPU temps and they were roughly 50-65 C while running the sim. The CPU Package temp peaked around 75C.
I really didn’t like the thermal paste job I did. It was way more viscous/stickier than any I had applied before.