Specs:
Msi B650M Gaming Plus Wifi
Ryzen 5 7600x
RTX 3080
32GB DDR5 6000Mhz CL30
For the past few days, my PC has been restarting a few times while I'm playing games. It's not that I'm putting too much strain on the PC, but it happened. So I updated to the latest bios, from 7E24v18 to 7E24v1D2. I did a DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and installed the latest GPU driver and updated Windows. At first everything seemed fine, until I opened a game and after 1 minute the PC restarted. The DRAM LED on the motherboard lit up (yellow) and I had a series of instability problems. In the previous version I ran a PBO (Precision Boost Overdrive) which was Enhanced Mode Boost 3 (which was a trial) and apparently I can't run the same configuration in this BIOS version. After some investigation, I had to disable Memory Context Restore and Power Down, which basically gives the RAM greater stability. This was the only way to run the RAM at 6000MHz, as before I was having problems even at factory speeds of 4800MHz, where I would turn on the PC and it would automatically restart 10 seconds after entering Windows. From what I understand, not all settings that are stable in one BIOS version are stable in another version.
Now the PC takes a few seconds longer to boot up, but nothing too serious, as this is the only way I've found to run the RAM at these speeds.
Regarding CPU ''overclocking'', I managed to set Enhanced Mode 4, an automatic overclock, but after some investigation, I found that a manual overclock/undervolt would be more suitable due to my unstable situation. This is the configuration I used on the CPU:
PPT-120W
TDC-85A
EDC-130A
Curve Optimizer-All Cores-Negative-15
What sometimes happened to me in the BIOS while trying to change RAM speeds or change the CPU PBO, was that the screen would simply freeze, and I had to press the power button to shut down the PC and then return to the BIOS.
For now, this is the configuration I'm using on my PC because I haven't been able to find a better way and since then it hasn't restarted again... If someone could explain to me why this is happening and what other solutions I could try, I would be grateful.
Question: Should I revert to the old BIOS version I was using, or should I stick with the current version?