I played around with OC'ing it and was only able to get it stable at around 4.65ghz. Which seems to be what some people have been able to achieve. Max of 4.7 usually.
For someone who only games is this small of a change really worth it when I'm holding back my single core performance by a bit? I've seen many people across forums saying it's not worth to OC it for gamers.
I'm pretty new to overclocking and looking for some opinions and if you can educate me that'd be even better. Thanks.
Overall, you'll gain about 2-4% in multi-core but will lose about 1% in single-core. You probably won't feel the single core loss. And you'll see maybe a few fps increase here and there for gaming. Overall it's not worth it for performance boost.
BUT - as you probably know by now, the 5800x runs hot. So OCing to 4.65ghz or lower will decrease your temperatures by a lot (as your set voltage is lower than when it's on turbo at full loads you will get lower temps).
AMD already stated that these chips run hot but as intended, so we got nothing to worry about. But I still rather have them run cooler and my fan curves don't need to drastically be adjusted. I personally adjusted my case fan curves but I don't want to touch my CPU fan cooler curve. I rather leave it at default and still not go all crazy and loud during gaming.
I personally OC my 5800x to 4.65ghz at 1.312V (I could go lower, haven't played with voltages much really) using Ryzen Master for when I game only. I get 10-15C lower and always under 70s. I'm actually usually below 65C which is on par with my old trusted ryzen 5 3600. When I don't game, I leave it on stock.
Also disable your PBO or leave it at auto if it is already on auto. Online reports show that current bios versions (for majority of motherboards) make the new ryzen 5000 crash with or without bsods. And if yours crashes on idle then disable c-states in bios. Happened to me on my MSI board, disabled both and now I have no issues. I would recommend not to play with PBO/PBO2 until they get some stable bios versions for the new ryzens.