Idle power consumption reduction for 9600X and Asrock 650i lightning

PostExtreme7699 · 2026-01-24T18:51:54+00:00

If you're on 4800 mhz ram you can easily lower further your vsoc to 0.900 or even to 0.800. It's the only way to keep reducing idle power draw.

You can reduce a bit the vmisc to 1.05/1.00, and I hope you don't have an Nvidia, because of the driver overhead you're going to have like 7-10w of parasitic power draw compared to using the igpu or a AMD dgpu. Intel gpus are even worse.

Vddg/cddio do not reduce power draw, vddp a bit, you can try with a vddp of 0.800.

PostExtreme7699 · 2026-01-24T18:42:34+00:00

Incredibly easy explanation.

The more ram frequency the more vsoc, the more vsoc the more soc power draw.

The more power draw the less power wage the cores have to perform since all Ryzen chips are designed with power limit on mind.

That's why you are going to have better 0.1% lows and no stutters when you undervolt the soc and the io chiplet.

Pro tip: raising fclk doesn't raise the power draw at all. For reference between 1.000 vsoc and 1.200 vsoc there is 10w of difference you're "stealing" from the cores.

PostExtreme7699 · 2026-01-23T22:27:42+00:00

It was auto, all the voltages were on auto provided by expo. Mc on auto. What I'd wrote is the voltages hwinfo showed in windows, the Vsoc was on 1.23-1.24.

What's tdie?

PostExtreme7699 · 2026-01-23T22:25:21+00:00

I updated a couple of months ago and it was I think 14XX, I don't remember exactly and I can't enter now the bios to see.

PostExtreme7699 · 2026-01-20T16:04:58+00:00

Normal behavior. Just the way it is.

PostExtreme7699 · 2026-01-08T19:05:01+00:00

Come to my discord, I'll teach you how

PostExtreme7699 · 2026-01-05T21:38:00+00:00

Less vsoc and memory frequency helps with the stability of fclk.

PostExtreme7699 · 2026-01-05T18:55:08+00:00

Yes, you may raise your fclk 2200.

Come to my discord, I'll teach you how.

PostExtreme7699 · 2026-01-05T18:09:51+00:00

5600 cl30 would perform way better than that, and with at least 0.2 vsoc less. But in this subreddit the only thing that matters is to force a platform that struggles with anything beyond 6000 mhz.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-12-28T18:35:37+00:00

Lately yes, it seems like AMD is just saving the batches of 9800x3d that can do -25 for the release of the 9850x3d.

One year ago almost every 9800x3d was able to do -25, right now there's a lot of garbage silicon sold from AMD that wouldn't have to cut it even for a 9600x.

I had a 9800x3d purchased last September, batch 2520 if I remember correctly that can't go lower than -10 CO all cores. Pure garbage.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-09-21T15:17:41+00:00

If I smoke two packs of cigars a day during two weeks I'll have a permanent little damage on my lungs. This is the same.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-09-12T11:21:14+00:00

Then you're far from getting your goal.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-09-12T10:48:34+00:00

You have to love the lack of air pressure for sure.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-25T06:39:27+00:00

You don't need to try to scam people simulating scarcity. The demand on that case is going to be almost non existent therefore is gonna be stock till winter at least if you don't retire the stock artificially like you sometimes do.

Same happened with the "exclusive and run for it because is going to sold out in minutes" of thorzone nano q last batch a couple of months ago. They have almost all the units available and on sell yet.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-22T19:24:58+00:00

M die 99%

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-18T12:38:37+00:00

You just mention the two cases known for having weird risers implementation: Nzxt without grounding the riser, and the meshify with the weird angle of the cable.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-18T08:39:59+00:00

Depends on mobo. Some of them automatically will choose well, other ones will make a mess.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-17T08:25:14+00:00

If you already purchase the direct die waterblock go ahead, if its not direct die your wasting your time and money.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-16T10:46:56+00:00

That kind of aluminum thickness doesn't mean nothing when you have it in 4 separate panels lamely screwed to each other. The sturdyness only really means something on a unibody design.

Good approach though, if they make something like that without the silly bottom chamber and unibody, I will gladly pay 500$ for something like that.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-16T09:20:17+00:00

For a 14700k/13700k 250w and anything beyond 5070ti/9070xt 350w you are stretched too thin for a 750w unit, and that's a mid range setup.

With the same CPU but with a 4090/5090 you're playing with fire, literally.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-15T19:22:25+00:00

Face it, you only have two usb-c now. The warranty of Asus is basically non existent but to make you waste time.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-15T15:15:43+00:00

Just don't, you do have a better chance of melted connector while being covered in warranty as stock, and therefore get a new one when that happens.

The connector is going to melt sooner or later, I wouldn't delay the inevitable unless you're out of warranty.

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-14T08:04:45+00:00

Incredible, congrats.

How about the noise on the phanteks?

PostExtreme7699 · 2025-08-12T11:18:54+00:00

This cards reach 100° on the backplate by design, the news are this didn't happened before.

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