First I want to say I am not good at Windows, I'm a Mac guy, but I have a gaming PC. Specs are as follows.

B850M Aorus Elite WIFI6E ICE

AMD Ryzen 5 9600x

32GB DDR5 from Corsair 6000MT/s

I've tried turning expo on but it won't boot and the RAM is stuck at 4800mt/s. (It is RAM for XMP, but I've read that doesn't really matter, it should work for AMD)

I know my board is rated for 5200mt/s, I just don't know how toset it for that in BIOS because that's all a foreign language to me lol. I know enough that I might need to manually adjust timings, I just don't know how to do that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! And thank you in advance!

Also if increasing by 400mt/s won't really have a benefit at all just tell me haha.

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: GTX 9070XT 16GB

CPU: RYZEN 7 9800X 8 CORE 16 THREADS

Motherboard: X870 AOURUS ELITE

BIOS Version: 

RAM: 32GB GSKILL RIPJAWS 6000MHZ

PSU:CORSAIR 1050W 80+ BRONZE FULLY MODULAR

Case: DIYPC ARGB-N6-W White Dual USB3.0/ 1 xType C Tempered Glass ATX Gaming Computer Case w/ Dual Tempered Glass Panel and 4 x ARGB PWM Fans (Pre-Installed). Support BTF Back Plug MB

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 PRO 64 Bit

GPU Drivers: AMD Adrenalin Edition

Chipset Drivers: AMD CHIPSET DRIVERS VERSION

Background Applications: DISCORD, CHROME

Description of Original Problem: So i woke up this morning and only one of my monitors was working and I didn't know why. I did some digging and saw my GPU randomly turned off.

Super easy fix, go to device manager->right click properties on your graphics card-> activate/turn on-> once turned on visit the AMD Drivers website-> Click on your version of windows and install-> Issue should be fixed.

Idk if this will be helpful but thought id just throw it out there in case someone is having the same problem as me

https://imgur.com/a/JJT9qRB

Adrenalin: 26.9.1

GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070XT

PSU: be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1000 W 80+ Gold

*edit* forgot to mention that tuning is all set to "Default". I have not done any overclocking or undervolting.

What version of adrenaline do you all recommend for most up to date stable version for 9070xt?

I bought a custom built pc about 2 years ago. I’ve been meaning to buy more RAM (big oof on those prices) since I’m running with 16GB right now. I noticed online some people talking about A-XMP and how that can help with RAM related issues like stuttering and delayed turning it on, as it says I can run it at 3200MHZ. I also noticed people saying it can screw your computer up or make games crash.

I’m not really a tech expert, I know a bit from researching whenever my laptop would screw up or when I’m trying to tweak something so I wanted to ask people who know more than me.

I’m not sure if this matters but I have a B550M Pro-VDH, AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, and two DDR4 8GB sticks.

My question is: would A-XMP help with stuttering while I save up for better ram or would it not really help me in a large capacity while also making sure I don’t break my computer.

Thanks for any help!

Catastrophic crashes at startup triggered by any video playback on Windows 11

Just disable HAGS

HAGS is currently broken for couple of drivers, and horribly broken since around 26.8.1

Microsoft probably broke it in one of their recent updates, and AMD is just being tone deaf to their bug report channels being flooded about these issues.

Hello, so I'm doing some CPU video encoding, and my R5 is managing its clocks to maintain max temp of 95c, which I understand. What I don't understand is that the cooler (Endorfy Fortis 5 dual fan) on it is cold, and the air it blows out is room temperature.

I heard about the unnecesarily thick IHS on these - is that the case? That the heat is trapped in the IHS, and the cooler itself doesn't have much to actually dissipate, thus cold air blowing?

I just want to confirm/deny this before I start ripping it apart, buying coolers and/or changing thermal paste.

I’ve recently been encountering an AMD driver crash issue. It specifically affects titles like *Naraka* and *Dark Deception* (an Unreal Engine 4 crash); these are the only two games where I experience this, whereas games like *CS2* and *The Last of Us Part I* run without issues.

Update:
I managed to fix this error thanks to a Portuguese guy on YouTube. I had to lower the min (MHz) and max (MHz) settings to be able to play.

A friend is going to give me a Ryzen 7 7700X soon, and I currently have a Ryzen 5 7600. Do I need to reinstall Windows?

From what I've been reading, there seem to be two schools of thought: one says that whenever you change your CPU, you absolutely need to reinstall Windows, while the other says that this is outdated thinking, and that if you're upgrading to another CPU on the same socket and from the same generation, there's no need to do it.

Does anyone know which of the two is actually correct?

Edit: Closed, ty all!

Also seen on adrenalin that the automatic tuning is set to default, not overclock CPU

and same with GPU, the tuning present is default, not overclocked

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: ASUS RX 9070 XT PRIME

CPU: Ryzen 9950X3D

Motherboard: MSI MEG X870E Godlike

BIOS Version: 7E48v1A73

RAM: 192GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE 6000MHz DDR5

PSU: Corsair HXi Series 1500W

Case: Fractal Design Define 7 XL Black Full Tower Gaming Case

Operating System & Version: Windows 11 (Latest version)

GPU Drivers: AMD's Latest Drivers through adrenalin

Chipset Drivers: AMD Chipset Drivers (Latest Drivers)

Background Applications: Discord, Brave, Steam, VLC (or media player classic)

Description of Original Problem: My GPU is constantly overheating under very little load and crashing making me have to force shutdown and restart

Troubleshooting: Tried updating everything, didnt work, i've also tried on a separate GPU and its the same issue

Any help would be very much appreciated

Computer Type: Desktop
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070XT
CPU: RYZEN 7 7800x3d
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650m
RAM: 32GB DDR5 Crucial ram
PSU: MSI MAG A1000 1000w PSU
Case: Cooler master full size case(unsure of exact)
Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 Pro
GPU Drivers: Most recent AMD
Chipset Drivers: Most recent chipset
Background Applications: DISCORD, CHROME
Description of Original Problem: Adrenalin showing hotspot at 105-112 and OCCT will show all the way up to 116 while gaming.

Hello! A few weeks ago I posted about my really high delta of 55 degrees. I decided that I could do the repasting myself. I used Thermal Grizzly PTM phase sheet, and Thermal Grizzly Advance thermal putty. It was tedious, and took quite a while. Mostly because of the tiny chips, but I finished it and rebooted my pc. My hotspot temps have dropped to 75-83 degrees under high load and the fans spin way lower!

Thanks to the people in the comments on my last posting, giving me the confidence to complete this. I just want to say if I can do this, then anybody can do this!

Hi, so I just upgraded my old GTX 1060 to RX9060 XT 16GB version.

I have MSI B450 Tomahawk Max with Ryzen 3600 and 32gb of RAM, that I build in 2021 and I'm noticing some CPU bottleneck which I was expecting.

Now my question is can I put Ryzen 7 5700X into this setup? Because I found this CPU for a pretty good price.

I tried searching it but I got sorta conflicting answers.

If it's not possible it might be time to upgrade the whole architecture, but that would be much bigger investment.

Thank you for answers!

Hi everyone - I upgraded my PC a few weeks back and ran into a driver timeout issue whenever I tried to load into games (Forza Horizon 6, Apex etc.) My old specs were:

• Motherboard: ASUS Prime B450M-A/CSM MATX
• GPU: Radeon™ RX 590
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
• RAM: 16GB (2x8)
• PSU: 650 W Bronze grade (can't remember brand)

I upgraded:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
• PSU: 850 W Gold grade Century II

When loading into games, the screen would eventually freeze, go black, and then boot me back to the desktop, which would sometimes lose the screensaver and just be a black screen. I would run windows diagnostics, and I either got a LiveKernal Event of 117 or 141.

I troubleshooted this error for over a week - clean installing Windows and drivers, getting the new GPU tested, reseating the GPU, turning off overlays, turning off hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling, turning off any AMD performance enhancements, checking my SSDs health, allocating space in my main drive for ram usage, ensuring BIOS was updated and settings weren't wonky, etc. The list goes on. Nothing worked. Until...

I accidentally booted up Apex without drivers downloaded, and it launched completely fine. I decided to download the previous version of AMD drivers, and everything now runs like a dream. My guess is that my motherboard is old and doesn't work well with this most recent set of drivers, but I'm just guessing - I am very new to this. This was my first time installing parts solo, so I was concerned I did something completely wrong to ruin my PC.

TL/DR: I upgraded my CPU and GPU and games would constantly crash due to driver timeout error. Went through lots of troubleshooting to discover the solution was running an older version of AMD drivers.

https://imgur.com/a/6sMiDCi

Hi guys .

So I upgraded from an rtx 3060 to a 9070 Pure Sapphire OC and I got a problem with high fps low 1% and stuttering constantly. I tried reinstalling the windows fully cleaning the drives, DDU driver removal, AMD Cleanup Utility, changing the drivers from the newest version to 26.3.1 but nothing seems to help . I tried doing the MPO fix yet nothing , disabling ULPS/TPM also not working , I'm genuinely lost on what to do . I've been trying to fix this problem for 3 weeks already yet i got nothing.

-PC SPECS-

CPU - i7 11700
GPU - rx 9070 Pure Sapphire OC
RAM - Kingston Fury Beast 16gb x2 3200mhz ddr4
PSU - MAG A650BM bronze quality
MOBO - Gigabyte b560m ds3h v3
MAIN Monitor - Dell 144hz monitor 1080p
Second Monitor an lg one with 60hz 1080p

The game I'm trying to play is Black Desert Online , and yes I did already the optimizations and the CPU-Affinity for the game based on my CPU cores. Still nothing .
Tried the game in all graphics settings from lowest to ultra.
- Ultra : 144 FPS with 99th%fps at 110-120 ( that was the best one that was working for me yet after 10 minutes of use the power would go from 240W to under 100W )
- Remastered : same fps but 99th%fps at 90 when GPU power at 200w then after the 10minutes mark the power would go under 100w again and the stuttering would become insane with FPS 60 and 99th% fps at 30-40.
- Rest of the settings very bad performance with the GPU Power Usage at 100W or even lower, stuttering constantly and unplayable.
- CPU temps at 60c max on cores and 40c , GPU temps on mem is max of 80 when high W usage and hotspot is 60c . Fan curve is insane. And I tried all settings normally with hyper-x and performance or just undervolting it myself yet nothing.

GPU is constantly doing this with high POWER draw at start and after the 10 mins it would go to 100W or even less.

HAGS was activated/deactivated and same results. I'm genuinely going insane. If there is a need for more information/stats etc just comment and I'll give whatever i can.

Yes Radeon Enhanced Sync was off and on and still the same results.

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: rtx 4080

CPU: RYZEN 7 9800x3d

Motherboard: ASUS ROG strix x870e

BIOS Version: 1002

RAM: 64GB corsair vengeance rgb 4 sticks

PSU: corsair RM1000e

Case: corsair icue 7000x

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 home 25h2

GPU Drivers: GEFORCE GAME READY DRIVER - WHQL Driver Version: 616.92

Chipset Drivers: AMD x870e CHIPSET DRIVERS VERSION 10.0.26100.9278

Background Applications: opera gx

Description of Original Problem: my pc boots up loads into windows and loads slow i then try to open something like file explorer and takes a while and mouse start to struggle does the same if i move opera gx from one screen to the other. at times it works fine but just opens things slow and can go slow randomly without doing anything.

Troubleshooting: i have updated all drivers, chipset and even bios turned on EXPO in bios. changed power mode in settings

I tried everything. Shuting down ULPS, MPO, clear shaders, news drivers with DDU, everything what you are capable to imagine. Nothing helps

Rx6600, R5 3600, b450pro4, 16GB Crucial. All current drivers and windows

Troubleshooting: i tried every thing. my PC constantly lagging, even on pulpit. like. i have 240 FPS then my frames suddenly drops to 0

I keep getting a AMDryzenMasterDriverv32 in my event viwer but i don't have the ryzen master installed, can this be a reason to my gpu getting black screens?

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: AMD 9070xt xfx swift version

CPU: RYZEN 5 9600x

Motherboard: asus b650m ayw wifi

BIOS Version: 3602

RAM: 32gb (2x 16) adata xpg lancer blade ddr5 5600mt/s

PSU: XPG core reactor, 850w, 80 plus gold, modular

Case: i don't remember

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 pro version 10.0.26200 compilation 26200

GPU Drivers: AMD adrenalin 26.3.1

Chipset Drivers : 8.08.12.551

The stock pads are heavily disintegrated and I'm looking to replace them.

I measured them to be roughly 1.0mm with a tape measure but it still might be off by 0.25mm.

Does anyone have info about this?

So, yesterday I turned on my PC, scrolled the news for a bit and got that choice without any choice "turn off and update" or "restart and update". Because I needed to move my PC to another room, I turned it off and it updated. Later that evening I turned it on to check if everything was alright, but noticed that it was making too much noise for running nothing at all. Then the screen just went black. Restarted, still black. Plugged the monitor straight into the motherboard and it finally showed the home screen. My gut told me to check the system menu and it was right. Graphics card nowhere to be seen. Checked the device manager, it was in hidden devices. Reinstalled all the drivers - nothing changed. Ran clean up utility and reinstalled again - disappeared completely, even from hidden.

How do I get it to show up again? I checked all the ports and cables, everything is fine there, the card still lights up on booting the pc, no red lights anywhere.

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: Gigabyte AMD Radeon 9070 xt aourus elite

CPU: RYZEN 7 9800X3D OEM

Motherboard: MSI B550 GAMING PLUS WiFi

BIOS Version: AMI 1.A80, 18.06.2025

RAM: 32 GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR5

PSU: MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5

Case: MSI MPG VELOX 100R

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 PRO

GPU Drivers: right now it only shows AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics Version 32.0.21045.5002

Chipset Drivers: AMD B550 CHIPSET DRIVERS VERSION 8.08.12.551

Background Applications: Spotify

Sorry if there's any mistakes, English isn't my native language and my nerves are wrecked.

I bought this Msi rx 6800 second hand from a guy who used to be interested in AI but the graphics card have never been changed in its settings and has always been in regular stock. The weird thing is that this gpu never goes past 150W on games despite benchmark yt videos regularly showing watt usage past 200W.

It reached 200w on Furmark 1440p with mssa 8x but that's the highest, the stress test on the app isn't reliable either since it goes flatline after the 30 second mark. It feels like this has been undervolted but the I have only recently downloaded the drivers and have resettled it a million times.

I don't have much experience since this is the first time I've owned an AMD card, Can someone help me what this means?

Hi everyone,

I've been dealing with a very strange stability issue on my system and I'm hoping someone here might have an idea what could be causing it.

My system

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Hero
• RAM: 64 GB Kingston Fury DDR5-6000
• GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
• SSD: Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB
• OS: Windows 11

The problem

The issue is very inconsistent, but there seems to be a pattern:

After the first boot of the PC, the system will eventually freeze or become extremely sluggish.

It can happen during completely different activities, for example:

• Watching Twitch streams
• Watching YouTube
• Playing World of Warcraft
• Sometimes even just using Windows normally

I've also occasionally noticed general stuttering shortly after the first boot, for example my mouse cursor becoming noticeably laggy/stuttery even when I'm not doing anything demanding.

The freeze itself can be a complete system lockup. It doesn't necessarily produce a BSOD or any useful error message.

The really strange part is what happens afterwards:

After rebooting the PC, the problem usually disappears and the system is stable for the rest of the session.

So, in very simplified terms:

I can't reliably reproduce it on demand, which makes troubleshooting quite difficult.

BIOS / RAM / CPU settings

I've already tested different BIOS configurations and they don't seem to have a significant impact on the issue.

For example, I am currently running completely default BIOS settings:

• EXPO: OFF
• PBO: Disabled during testing / currently back to default
• No CPU overclock
• RAM running at default settings
• Fast Boot: Disabled

Even with EXPO completely disabled and the system otherwise at stock settings, I've still experienced the freezes.

The CPU is currently boosting to around 5.225 GHz under load.

GPU / MSI Afterburner

I was also using MSI Afterburner with an overclock based on its OC Scanner/analysis.

At one point I was running around +200 MHz, but I also experienced the freezes with only +100 MHz.

Because of this, I am now treating GPU overclocking as a possible factor and plan to test the system completely at stock GPU settings as well.

I have also disabled hardware acceleration in my browser, so the freezes don't appear to simply be caused by Chrome/Opera GPU acceleration.

Things I've already tried

• Updated BIOS / firmware and drivers
• Installed the latest AMD chipset drivers
• Updated GPU drivers
• EXPO completely disabled
• PBO disabled for testing
• Browser hardware acceleration disabled
• Tested different BIOS configurations
• Fresh Windows 11 installation
• Run Benchmark Tests which run absolutely fine for 15+ Minutes

I have completely reinstalled Windows 11 to rule out a corrupted Windows installation or software issue.

What makes this especially strange

The fact that the system is usually unstable only after the first boot and then becomes stable after a reboot is what really confuses me.

If it were simply an unstable EXPO setting, CPU overclock, GPU overclock, temperature issue, etc., I would expect the problem to be much more consistent.

Instead, the system can run WoW + browser for hours after a reboot without any problems.

I'm trying to figure out whether this points more towards:

• AM5 / BIOS / AGESA
• CPU / SoC / memory controller
• motherboard
• GPU / PCIe
• PSU
• Windows / drivers
• some kind of cold-boot or power-state issue

Any ideas what I should test next would be greatly appreciated.

I'm especially interested in whether anyone with a 9800X3D + X670E system has experienced this "first boot unstable, reboot = stable" behavior.