How can I make my Ryzen 3 3100 work slower when it gets hot or a little too powerful?
How can I make my Ryzen 3 3100 work slower when it gets hot or a little too powerful?
Hey there! Just finished testing my weak Ryzen 3 3100 on an Asus X570 gaming motherboard. It's running in all cores with a nice 4400 MHz speed, 1.325 vCore and also 4500 MHz at 1.35 vCore. That really surprised me. I used just the AMD Wraith Prism cooling. No real life tests, only about six hours of Ryzen Master built-in tests.
Well anyway, I'd love to overclock that little thing but... it's always burning up at 56-60°C while idle and up to 70°C under load, so how do I make AMD tick like Intel with EiST? How can I overclock the Ryzen, force it to downclock when doing light workloads or even just sitting idle? Please advise. With kind regards, Ulink
If you set it to Ryzen balanced, your computer might slow down on its own when not in use. I don't think that's a big deal tbh. When talking about voltage and speed, I also wouldn't worry too much. Personally, I have never hurt a CPU just because of too much power, even using those old 2600k chips past 5ghz with crazy voltages that people say will kill them right away. Keeping the computer cool is important though. It's really hard to tell if it will actually shorten how long CPUs last. I think I've been near 1.35v on my R5 3600 too, mostly around 1.325 when I wanted to get 4.4ghz going.
Ryzen chips aren't the same way Intel works. When I try to push this thing to 4.5Ghz at just 1.35V, it feels like a memory from Dr. Tyrell's story of Roy Batty. The line said: "Light that shines twice as bright burns half as long." My processor gets burned up that fast if you crank it up too high. Just take the chance while you still can!
If you pick Ryzen balanced, it might slow down on its own at rest. Honestly, I don't really care about that. What about voltage and speed? I'm not worried too much either. I've never killed a CPU just because of too much power or clocking up to high speeds. Even running old 2600K chips past 5GHz with crazy voltages is still fine for me. Keeping it cool is definitely important though. It's really hard to tell if that will shorten its life. I think I've been putting out about 1.35 volts through my R5 3600 too. Most of the time, I'm running around 1.325 volts when trying to hit a 4.4GHz clock.
@NightHawkRMX hmm hmm hmm. So you're saying that a max temp of 70 degrees C is too much for the silicone part? What are its ideal temperatures? Well I've been treating those Intel chips up to 70 degrees under water, and up to 74 or 76 degrees on air—that's my safe range. Thanks for your reaction anyway
It can get up to about 80 or 85 degrees Celsius. This isn't dangerous for your computer parts. Just because the computer looks quiet when you are resting doesn't mean it is running hot while working hard. You need to watch the temperature while using the thing, not just when it sits still.
So I should be okay there. Well, anyway, I just bought this one for fun. I went back to the X570 board to test it out and want to see how that new CPU handles things. By the way, this thing is super cool. It got NVMe PCi-e 4.0 SSDs and 64 gigs of RAM, so running an OS feels like a dream. It runs faster than my old 10900K with 64 gigs of RAM and that NVMe drive [running at speed 3.0]. I never had this smooth time back when I used the 3700X, 3800X, or 3900X CPUs (I didn't test those yet). Nice work on AMD's part... maybe it was just that infamous 2004 God knows what. I tested the older ones before and they worked fine on boards like 1903 and 1909.