Boosting performance vs lasting time.
Boosting performance vs lasting time.
I'm focusing on Warzone and Apex, not heavy BR gameplay. The Ryzen 3 1200 should handle 100% stress without overheating to around 80°C, so it's probably safe.
Run a 30-minute stress test in CineBench R23. Ensure temperature stays below 90°C and voltage under 1.35V for safety.
Attempting a solution. If needed, I boosted it to 4Ghz and ran Cinebench R20. Initially, temperatures reached 68°C right after completion. Almost immediately, I restarted the test; temps stayed between 67-68°C and peaked at just under 69°C.
Consider the R23 30-minute stress test or Prime95 small FFT.
I just ran a 30-minute test in R23, though I’m not sure why. I assumed two render tests would be sufficient. Usually it’s close to 100%, but probably around 90% of the time the CPU stayed around 68°C, mostly hovering near that number. However, CoreTemp indicated a peak temperature of 75°C, though I never saw it reach that point. For about 20 minutes I was away from the PC. When the countdown finished, I checked the temps five minutes prior and saw only a maximum of 68°C. The only readings I could see were consistently around 68°C. My Ryzen 3 1200 OCd ran at 4Ghz.
Which ridge is it—Pinnacle or Summit? (Cpu-z will clarify) My board was a Summit Ridge. It ran at max clock above ambient and TEC cooling around -30°C, reaching roughly 4400MHz at nearly 1.6v. I’d aim for about 1.45v or lower across all cores if feasible, with diminishing returns past 4.1GHz.
ASUS Realbench can cause both CPU and GPU to get hot simultaneously. After installing a 3080, my CPU temperatures rose more than before, yet benchmarks on CB didn't reflect that increase. It wasn't until I ran Realbench again that I realized the GPU was overheating during games. Standard tests miss the full picture. Realnecmh offers a more accurate evaluation of all hardware, which I believe is superior to P95.