Is it possible to increase the clock speed of the RX 570 and Ryzen 5 3600 in an MSI B450M PRO VDH Max?
Is it possible to increase the clock speed of the RX 570 and Ryzen 5 3600 in an MSI B450M PRO VDH Max?
Eh, you're able to. What you really need is a solid cooling solution (at least a decent single tower 120mm), some luck with the silicon selection, and a bit of determination. Your motherboard already has this capability, so it makes sense to take advantage of it for the experience. You'll probably face limitations in both silicon availability and cooling options. Now, how well you can push your system overclocking depends on other factors entirely.
Ryzen offers restricted overclocking capabilities, and affordable motherboards seldom provide suitable options for this purpose. When it comes to GPU overclocking, I won't speculate without understanding the precise PSU details, as this is crucial for addressing the issue effectively.
Eh, you can. All you really need is good cooling solution (at least a very good single tower 120mm), luck in silicon lottery, and some gumption. Your motherboard has the feature, might as well do it for the experience. You're likely to be limited on silicon lottery and/or cooling as well. Now, how
well
you can do overclocking is another question entirely.
Find FIT voltage, set voltage to a bit lower than FIT (do not go any higher than FIT), see how far that voltage gets you in clocks. Do benchmarks as well to see if you gained anything from that. If you're lucky with the chip, you can see lower temps and higher clocks; benchmark gains possible but not guaranteed.
If you got unlucky, then just enable PBO with that nice cooler you have and let the chip do its thing.
Keep in mind that Ryzen is poor for overclocking; increases in clocks don't translate to linear performance especially in games. Benchmarks, sure. Plus Ryzens boost high out of the box when paired with capable cooling, a tiny bit more when PBO is maxed out.
Even AMD realized that the potential is doing it the other way; by optimizing voltage to control temps and let the algorithm do the job. Hence we got PBO2 with Zen 3.