Aurora R14, CPU upgrade info

If you look at your reported GPU frequency and GPU memory frequency, you will notice they are both very low.

This typically means you allow the PCI-E link speed to drop below X16, which in turn allows the card to also scale it's frequency down.

It's part of the PCI-E power savings options. I disabled mine, forcing it to stay linked at X16. This in turn forces the video card to stay at it's default frequency of 1710 Mhz on the GPU and the default memory frequency of I believe 9K something.

I am pretty sure if you would disable the power savings feature, your idle temperature would go up a bit.

16,18,18,36 makes more sense than what was reported by AWCC.

I am always learning too . . . and I am not a gamer.

Thank you for that information. I changed the setting pictured below, but I am not seeing any changes in my graphics card frequencies after restart. Are there some additional changes that need to be made?

I have had this before on my R10. I think it has something to do with the power profiles from AWCC. I wish I remember what I did to have it finally working. I do remember I had to play around with it for a bit to get it to finally turn off LSPM.

Thanks . . . I will work on it.

Vanadiel?

A R 14 ofcourse have liquid coolant because of the size of the main fan and radiator its not possible to built in a bigger one with the same /radius and z- axis. You talk about require better cooling, its  available for 300 euro more, remember that cry tech cooling? With a little different coolant then the streetfighter, but oke, its 2,31 mm bigger then standard..on 4 axis.

So why this is a community accepted solution again its still unclear

here is an R14 with an air cooler CPU . . . of course

Because the original question was about upgrading the CPU, in this case from a TDP rating of 65 Watts to a TDP rating it 105 Watts. 5900 versus 5900X has little upgrade value.

Than the question was asked about the 5950X. That is a different beast, as it not only has a higher TDP then the 5900, it has also more cores. So cooling becomes more important and for best performance you should make sure to have the proper cooling, in this case the best liquid cooling that is being offered.

Personally I think the 5950X should be on a 240 AIO, or a good quality air cooler. A 120 AIO might hold it back a bit and prevent extended boost times, which will affect overall performance.

I don't think anything is unclear about it.

I am an architect and I was looking at the 7000 series for ryzen 9, or even the threadrippers as I would love the rendering software we utilize to be a breeze. Would these be feasible to incorporate into the Aurora r14?

Ryzen 7000 will not be compatible with the Ryzen R14 because they switched from AM4 to AM5 socket. The R14 has an AM4 socket.

For a Ryzen 7000 you would need a complete platform update. (Motherboard, RAM DDR5 instead of DDR4)

Same with threadripper as that uses a TR4 socket and a different chipset.