Configuration and frequencies reached:
Here’s the configuration I’ll be using to test this ROG Crosshair X870E APEX. For the publication of these tests, I’ve used the latest BIOS received, although new versions will certainly be available in the coming days, given ASUS’s responsiveness. In the coming weeks, we’ll also be offering several overclocking guides for your processor and memory kit. We’ve decided to use the biggest processor currently available in the Ryzen 9000 range, so as to best test the power stages when overclocking.
- Motherboard: ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial
- Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- Memory: 32 GB G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB 6000 MT/s CL26
- Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 5090
- Cooling system: AIO ROG Ryuo IV 360 ARGB
- SSD: WD Black SN770 500 GB PCIe 4.0
- Power supply: MSI AX1600
- Operating system: Windows 11 64-bit
A quick tour of CPU-Z to make sure everything’s in perfect order before we start our tests. Frequency and voltage are not fixed, but change continuously. We’ll see in the tests below whether they are respected.
Frequencies respected for our Ryzen 9 9950X3D?
As we begin this first series of tests, we can’t do without thinking about the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and its operating frequencies. It reached a frequency of 5,725 MHz on single-core tasks. With our Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a frequency of 5,725 MHz is reached on core #9, which works alternately with core #10.
As far as multi-core tasks are concerned, when the 16 cores of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D were called upon, the frequency varied between 4,800 and 4,900 MHz.
So we can indeed see that frequencies have improved, whether on single-core or multi-core tasks. Now that we know that our Ryzen 9 9950X3D is fully operational, let’s move on to our various tests on this ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial.
