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Setting up your own graphics card for the AMD Ryzen 3600

Setting up your own graphics card for the AMD Ryzen 3600

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Angel_Wingsx_
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07-05-2026, 12:52 AM
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Hello everyone! I put together my computer back in January using a Ryzen 3600, a B450 Tomahawk Max motherboard, eight sticks of 2gb Corsair Vengeance memory running at 3200mhz, and an Asus RTX 2060 graphics card. After putting it all together, I noticed my temperatures were always jumping around in the high 50s to low 60s when I just turned it on or did nothing else, but sometimes they would even spike into the high 70s (and rarely hit the 80s). I also found that my voltage stayed right between 1.3 and 1.35 volts while only running Discord or Chrome. When it came to cooling, I had a big Scythe Fuma rev B fan spinning at 100% because I didn't care about how loud it was. A few days ago, I bought an all-in-one cooler called the Masterliquid 240L V2 hoping for better results. To my surprise, it didn't help much. So I decided to turn off Core Performance Boost in my BIOS which cut the voltage down all the way to 1.0 volts sometimes even down to 0.9 volts. This also made my CPU run slower at 3600mhz and helped cool things down (idle temps were around 47 degrees Celsius with no spikes). I also capped my speed so it stayed at 3600mhz, which is still fast enough for gaming and games in general while lowering the heat. I wanted to get PBO performance without overworking my CPU. So I started tweaking things manually on my motherboard to boost the core frequency all the way up to 3900mhz (the maximum number shown by CPU-Z) with a special setting that allowed me to keep using 1.25 volts instead of 1.35. I ran a quick test on CPU-Z and it showed that max temps were around 74 degrees Celsius (it would go up to 85 when PBO and CPB were still on). Idle temps are also below 50 now, so I'm happy with the results. In any case, the real question is... Is this a safe overclocking? I was reading about how CPUs get damaged over time, and it really scares me to risk damaging my processor by having a constant higher voltage. Thanks for listening! Any suggestions are welcome.
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07-05-2026, 12:52 AM #1

Hello everyone! I put together my computer back in January using a Ryzen 3600, a B450 Tomahawk Max motherboard, eight sticks of 2gb Corsair Vengeance memory running at 3200mhz, and an Asus RTX 2060 graphics card. After putting it all together, I noticed my temperatures were always jumping around in the high 50s to low 60s when I just turned it on or did nothing else, but sometimes they would even spike into the high 70s (and rarely hit the 80s). I also found that my voltage stayed right between 1.3 and 1.35 volts while only running Discord or Chrome. When it came to cooling, I had a big Scythe Fuma rev B fan spinning at 100% because I didn't care about how loud it was. A few days ago, I bought an all-in-one cooler called the Masterliquid 240L V2 hoping for better results. To my surprise, it didn't help much. So I decided to turn off Core Performance Boost in my BIOS which cut the voltage down all the way to 1.0 volts sometimes even down to 0.9 volts. This also made my CPU run slower at 3600mhz and helped cool things down (idle temps were around 47 degrees Celsius with no spikes). I also capped my speed so it stayed at 3600mhz, which is still fast enough for gaming and games in general while lowering the heat. I wanted to get PBO performance without overworking my CPU. So I started tweaking things manually on my motherboard to boost the core frequency all the way up to 3900mhz (the maximum number shown by CPU-Z) with a special setting that allowed me to keep using 1.25 volts instead of 1.35. I ran a quick test on CPU-Z and it showed that max temps were around 74 degrees Celsius (it would go up to 85 when PBO and CPB were still on). Idle temps are also below 50 now, so I'm happy with the results. In any case, the real question is... Is this a safe overclocking? I was reading about how CPUs get damaged over time, and it really scares me to risk damaging my processor by having a constant higher voltage. Thanks for listening! Any suggestions are welcome.

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07-06-2026, 05:56 PM
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1) Turn off overclocking. Go into your BIOS settings and choose 'default options'. Save everything and quit. Then go back in to turn it back on again. 2) Make sure you have XMP enabled, then save and quit. 3) With the current cooler you are using, run these tests (Cinebench R20 Cpu-Z) and write down both how fast they run and what temperature they hit. 4) Put in a different cooler and do the same thing again. Here is why: Unlike Intel or older Ryzen chips, checking temperatures alone isn't enough for newer Ryzen 3000 models. They act like video cards where having more power and cooling space helps multi-thread speed but doesn't always help single thread performance. With the cold... manual overclocking on Ryzen 3000 can be really bad. You might get a small boost in multi-threaded tasks, but you give up your single-threaded speed.
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07-06-2026, 05:56 PM #2

1) Turn off overclocking. Go into your BIOS settings and choose 'default options'. Save everything and quit. Then go back in to turn it back on again. 2) Make sure you have XMP enabled, then save and quit. 3) With the current cooler you are using, run these tests (Cinebench R20 Cpu-Z) and write down both how fast they run and what temperature they hit. 4) Put in a different cooler and do the same thing again. Here is why: Unlike Intel or older Ryzen chips, checking temperatures alone isn't enough for newer Ryzen 3000 models. They act like video cards where having more power and cooling space helps multi-thread speed but doesn't always help single thread performance. With the cold... manual overclocking on Ryzen 3000 can be really bad. You might get a small boost in multi-threaded tasks, but you give up your single-threaded speed.

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