Question about the 5600 curve OC topic
Question about the 5600 curve OC topic
Hey, I’m a retired PC gamer who keeps updating my rig every few years. Now I focus on getting solid performance without breaking the bank, usually every three years and nothing extra. My current build is a 5600 and I’ve heard about this overclocking curve with Ryzen 3 chips. I watched a few tutorials and was impressed by the lower temperatures, lower voltage, and higher boost potential. I tried -25 curve per core across all cores, but my boost didn’t exceed 4.449 MHz. I played several games, including Supercpu Benchmark and CB23, and they stayed stable at maximum frequency in CB23 with good temps, but no noticeable boost increase. I thought maybe my PSU was failing or something, so I adjusted the PBO max override to 200 MHz, which pushed me up to 4649 MHz in CB23 with 68-70°C temps and solid clocks. Still, I couldn’t push beyond that even with lower curve settings. I changed EDC, TDC, and PPT values, but nothing helped. It seems like the BIOS might be restricting the overclock potential—maybe it’s locked or has a bug. I’m wondering if I’m missing something in my settings or if there’s a limitation preventing higher boosts even with low curves. On top of that, I’m not seeing much improvement on multi-threaded tasks like CB23 or CPU-Z, even though I’m getting decent scores in single-threaded tests. It’s confusing—am I missing a key setting or is the hardware just not capable? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
It might occur that your undervoltage doesn't deliver sufficient energy to the cores, preventing them from exceeding 4650. Consider adjusting CO to -15 or -10 on your top two cores and verify.
Thanks for the update. The videos I watched didn't mention how to actually starve the cores to hit the main goal. Hwinfo, Event Viewer, and RyzenMaster all indicate my best cores are 3 and 6. The only issue was with core 6—had to lower it from 25 to 20. I'm planning to try -10 on cores 3 and 6.
WHEA warning during core drop indicates insufficient voltage for a core due to overly aggressive undervoltage. Adjust undervolt settings carefully, reserving higher values for cores that can handle more voltage on my 5900X setup—using -15 for the top two, -20 for the third and fourth, and keeping -30 as a baseline.
It was a good tip, but no. I put -10 on my best two cores and still the same, i cant go over 4641mhz, the magic number. For piece of mind and disable the PBO boost override and i was locked at stock boost, which makes no sense since with the same settings i gest stable effective clocks at 4641mhz running cb23 but can't go over 4400 in single thread cb23 test. I'm 100% locked to the option i select in the PBO boost override. Dunno if its a feature or bug, i might post something in MSI forum.
Avoid using HWInfo64 as the main clock enabler—it doesn’t fit well with high clocks and rarely delivers good results. Instead, focus on PBO, extra voltage, and higher PPT/EDC settings. Gaming tests have pushed the 5600X to around 4.85GHz, though static OC still caps performance.