I need some help to overclock my Ryzen 5 3600X.
I need some help to overclock my Ryzen 5 3600X.
Hi everyone... I'm super excited about trying to overclock my ryzen 5 3600x but I don't know the EXACT safe voltage for these new chips (3rd gen). I can hit 4.4v on 1.3v, but I won't do that because I am scared it will explode inside the cpu... wait, no, my ryzen are the "new" ones, and I bought them two months ago. Even though I ran Prime95 tests, the safe voltage was only 1.088v which is way too low! So... what do u guys think? If I use this, will it damage him or just cut his lifespan in half?
Just follow these steps and you won't even have to think about "Ryzen 3000 overclocking" or "safe voltage"... First, crank up your cooling. These chips love to run at high multi-thread speeds if there is enough room in the heat. You can pick a big liquid cooler like an NH-D15 or D15S, and ignore all the warnings about it. When you turn manual overclocking off, single-core speed gets worse as you go higher on the product line, but that doesn't happen here. Back last month someone pushed their 3950X to 4.3ghz, which looked cool at first until you checked the single-core boost and saw it hit 4.7ghz instead. So they traded off 400mhz on one core for a lot of speed across many cores? Second, set your memory to 3600-3733mhz and make the FCLK half of that frequency.
Just follow these steps and you won't even need to worry about terms like "Ryzen 3000 overclocking" or "safe voltage." First, crank up the cooling. These CPUs will naturally push for higher multi-thread speeds if there is enough room in their heat limits. You can use big coolers like the NH-D15, D15S, or a 280/360mm AIO/CLC. Just make it huge and move on. Unlike changing settings manually, which hurts single-core performance more as you go up the list, this method does not have that problem. Last month I saw someone overclock their 3950X to 4.3ghz. It sounds cool at first, but if you check the single-thread boost, it's actually only 4.7ghz. So they traded off 400mhz single speed for a bit of multi-core speed? Second, set your memory to 3600-3733mhz and cut the FCLK in half while tightening those timings too. Check out the Ryzen Dram Calculator guides online. These two steps are better than that manual OC nonsense people keep spreading around anyway.
AMD CPUs usually run at their top speed right out of the box, so they don't have room to get faster on their own. I just want to leave them alone. In contrast, Intel processors can go much faster than their regular settings.