Can't get my ryzen past 3.73 GHz

[dlektja]

I'm new to overclocking and needed some help. I recently build a system using the ryzen 1700x. The motherboard is a asus crosshair 6, the ram is 16 GB of trident z 3200 MHz ram, and the cooler is a nzxt kraken x62. No matter what I do this CPU only get 3.73 GHz. I read somewhere that this CPU will get 3.8GHz 100%. I'm starting to think that I lost the silicone lottery.

 

[theonerm2]

Have you tried upping the CPU core voltage?

 

[dlektja]

Have you tried upping the CPU core voltage?

Yep. My core voltage is at like 1.36. Turns out that this OC is not stable as well.... So i just dropped it down to 3.7 GHz and turned my core voltage down to 1.30. It seem like it runs fine now.

 

[theonerm2]

You have a good cooler so try 1.4v. You can go up to 1.45v safely but watch your temps and see if the fan noise is tolerable at that point.

 

[tamagocsi]

uh, thats a hard question why u cant do it... there are many voltage regulators on your motherboard, not only one take responsibily on your cpu overclocking performance, i know this is an odd example, but my i7 7700k can reach 5,5 ghz without problem.. but i have to set 9 value at voltages to get this result.. mine cpu is relided one, (i did the relid : ) )the temp is 65C at 5,1 ghz with 100% load after 20 minuntes aida64 stress test (avx off), my room temp is 29C
i mentioned that my cpu is relided... here a short tutorial vidio from delid-relid, if u dont know what is it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fs43OyeUyU
relided cpu-s are good things but dont do it, realy dont do it!! its an expert object! intel cpu-s have extremly weak paste between ihs and cpu die but amd has pretty good one!
befor delid my 7700k had 85C under 100% load with 4,8 ghz, after delid i had 55C at 100% load with 4,8 ghz!

7700k rule:
stock 4,5 ghz = 1,2 V
4,8 ghz = 1,265 V
5 ghz = 1,315 V
5,1 ghz = 1,340 V

your voltage increasing curve should same at ryzen too
my advice is do some research on the internet!
u should hit 4 ghz at 1,38 volt

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

I believe Ryzen can handle more voltage, just don't go over 1.45V is what I've heard from other threads.

 

[Leaps-from-Shadows]

I'm new to overclocking and needed some help. I recently build a system using the ryzen 1700x. The motherboard is a asus crosshair 6, the ram is 16 GB of trident z 3200 MHz ram, and the cooler is a nzxt kraken x62. No matter what I do this CPU only get 3.73 GHz. I read somewhere that this CPU will get 3.8GHz 100%. I'm starting to think that I lost the silicone lottery.

No such thing as a guaranteed overclock. Some CPUs are simply overclocking duds.

You can do what the others said and use up to 1.45v, but that will increase your temps quite a bit for little to no gain. I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[tamagocsi]

new record! vccio 1,2 v, cpu pll 1,222, cpu 1,265
temp: 57 C after aida64 run 2 hours
result: stable 5 ghz
i had 6 cpu(3 amd, x4 965 black, fx series 6 and 8 ), i could get +25% performance from my every processor, 7700k is my 7th cpu!

 

[mbilal2]

Unlike ^^ this guy, you lost the silicon lottery. Happens to the best of us and it's quite common.

 

[tamagocsi]

sorry guys, i accept your answers... but i had same problems with overclocking on every cpu what i had, but every cpu is tricky, it took me 3 weeks to realize where is the trick! first time i could not hit 5 ghz on 1,4 volt cpu voltage with 7700k,
it was unstable and crashed everything..

 

[dlektja]

You have a good cooler so try 1.4v. You can go up to 1.45v safely but watch your temps and see if the fan noise is tolerable at that point.

Tried, but cinebench crashes immediately....

 

[theonerm2]

Well then leave it at 3.7GHz. It looks like that's all you can get out of your chip. I think you will find it performs well enough at that frequency anyway.