AB350 Gaming-iTX/ac - freezing (oh no...)

I tried to do the same and it was definetely a step forward. Yes, I dont have the Turbo on the CPU anymore but now I am able to clock the APU much higher than before. Before I was not able to clock the apu above 1300Mhz without a crash and it was not a temperature issue.

My guess is that there is some bogus going on with the power distribution When boosting.

What makes me confused is that it somehow seems to affect the RAM and APU performance- I explain further down. I thought that the CPU voltage and the SOC Voltage for the Ram and APU are not influencing each other? Is that a misunderstanding?

For now I can live with the CPU limited to the 3600 Mhz because I think the OC of the APU and the RAM is much more important on this chip ??Performancewise.

The thing I am strugling with is the SOC Voltage that feeds both the ram and the APU. I now run with my ram on 3400 Mhz but the tradeoff is that I cannot OC the APU much (MAX 1300 Mhz). If I lower the ram frequenzy I can OC the APU more. If I OC the APU and maintain the high RAM frequency it close down Crysis after around 10 minutes with the windows popup, about closing down the program. If i lower the APU clock it runs the game without problems.

It seems that the SOC Voltage is directly influencing this - The higher SOC voltage the higher I can go with both the RAM and the APU. If I dont touch the SOC voltage, I have to lower the Ram if I raise the APU Clock and the other way around.

This makes me think a few things:

I.             I think that my 2x8 Ripjaws 3600 needs a lot of SOC voltage to work with the high frequencies.

II.            I think that the APU also needs a quite high SOC voltage and that it kind of compete with the ram for it.

 I have been looking a lot for clear guidance as to what voltage limits the new ravenridge can take  The best I have found was this artickle:

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3251-raven-ridge-soc-voltage-guidelines-how-to-kill-cpu-with-safe-voltage

Here it is mentioned that you could go as high as 1.25 V to 1.30V on the SOC Voltage (Ram and APU) with the RavenRidge (Seems like more than the old Ryzen that didn't have the onboard APU). The problem that the article highligts is that you cannot always trust the boards setting so you could end up giving to much without being aware of it! Now I am on 1,25 for the SOC Voltage and 1,4V for the CPU.

I think that I could run My ram on the maximum 3466MHZ (Board maximum) and also have a high APU OC if I could go higher on the SOV Voltaget han the 1,25V.

I would love some more hard facts about the RavenRidge voltage limits but I guess it would surface eventually.