Can I maintain my CPU's overclocking for extended periods?
Can I maintain my CPU's overclocking for extended periods?
can you maintain your cpu at 1.350 volts without noticing any issues soon? i keep it running at 4.1ghz and 1.350v and everything seems stable, so is this safe? can the vrms on my motherboard handle it for the long term? my ram is overclocked by msi memory—trying to go from 2400mhz to 2667 is all I have to confirm it’s secure for extended use. please let me know if i’m doing anything wrong and whether this boost is necessary, especially since it helped improve my fps in rainbow six, which was my main game.
You are only running a single stick of RAM? If that is the case there is a lot more performance to be had at 3200 with dual channel. I haven't seen any hard numbers on the 3rd gen Ryzen products, but on the 1st and 2nd gen there was up to a 20% difference between single and dual channel RAM of the same speed. The boost was pretty substantial. I wouldn't be surprised to see something similar on the 3rd gen.
If you can spend the money upgrading your RAM and running the CPU at a lower speed would be safer. Between memory running at 2667 and 3200 there is some good performance uplift to be had.
That said, 1.35V should be ok for daily use. I remember seeing somewhere that AMD's recommended limit is in the 1.4V range... but don't quote me on that.
Well, it's difficult to predict. Parts that break gradually and eventually stop working can take a long time (decades). In terms of temperature, you're not putting too much stress on the silicon, and that's usually what matters most. If nothing goes wrong, it should keep running forever. I own an old AMD Phenom II x3 with 4 cores unlocked, which I've overclocked to 500MHz since launch day. It still works well. On the other hand, I had an Athlon x2 4400 that failed after four years and never got overclocked. So, it's really tough to say.