Overclocking worth it?
Overclocking worth it?
I'm honestly convinced I was achieving around 3640. If I can recall, that was my highest score. I remember getting close to 3580, and I managed 3853 across three tests in a row—repeating the same score three times is pretty impressive. I rounded it up to 3600, set the CPU ratio at 42.75 (times 100), used a SOC of 1.2, core voltage at 1.395, and had a GPU with 120 cores and 950 MB memory.
Found it
Best score was a 3744
With no overclock I just got a 3599... Apparently the pbo option is boosting the chip on its own, which is just as effective if not more so than my current approach. I’m going to check if lowering the voltages improves thermal performance and sound quality.
When doing a full core overclock, reducing your temperatures was easier by turning off pbo in the cbs in the advanced settings of the BIOS. Your screen capture from Ryzen Master showed stable temperatures with little fluctuation. Using LLC also contributed to lowering the voltage.
Your experience appears quite typical, especially among experienced overclockers. With Ryzen, it's crucial to test performance across various conditions—single threaded, light load, and heavy multi-threaded—to accurately assess the success of your overclocking efforts. Most reports I've seen indicate improved results only in heavy multi-threaded scenarios, while others overlook significant drops in lighter applications. Additionally, understanding how locking Zen2 to a fixed voltage performs over time is still an area of learning. Many enthusiasts are already noticing CPU stability issues after prolonged use.