I'm still new to PBO, I just came off a 2600 and I've been doing manual OC for the past few years so these new settings are slightly confusing.
I have a 3700x and an Asrock B450 Pro4 with the 1.0.0.4 AGESA patch B (most recent) BIOS update, the PBO settings on this motherboard have 5 limits in stead of the normal 3. The 2 extra limits are for SoC, however I just turn on XMP and use the dram calculator to set timings, it was perfectly stable with stock cpu settings. I don't know if I should be touching those SoC limiters in PBO or not. I also don't know if I should touch the scalar and auto OC settings either, I feel like auto OC gives me nothing, and scalar has something to do with voltages, so I'd rather leave that at x1.
As for fit voltage, I did what I read, which was to simply max out PBO limits and leave everything else at stock, run small fft's in prime95 and observe the SVI2 TFN sensor in HWinfo. I did that, and it mostly sat at 1.275v but would briefly jump up to 1.281 and sometimes as low as 1.22. What I don't understand is if I should pay attention to the most common reading of 1.275, or go with the very lowest of 1.22? And does that mean that's the number I type into the bios, or is that the number I aim for when accounting for vdroop?
And I'm well aware that an all-core OC on zen2 is a little redundant, I'm just trying to figure out as much as I can about zen2 and my chip. Any help is appreciated.
I have a 3700x and an Asrock B450 Pro4 with the 1.0.0.4 AGESA patch B (most recent) BIOS update, the PBO settings on this motherboard have 5 limits in stead of the normal 3. The 2 extra limits are for SoC, however I just turn on XMP and use the dram calculator to set timings, it was perfectly stable with stock cpu settings. I don't know if I should be touching those SoC limiters in PBO or not. I also don't know if I should touch the scalar and auto OC settings either, I feel like auto OC gives me nothing, and scalar has something to do with voltages, so I'd rather leave that at x1.
As for fit voltage, I did what I read, which was to simply max out PBO limits and leave everything else at stock, run small fft's in prime95 and observe the SVI2 TFN sensor in HWinfo. I did that, and it mostly sat at 1.275v but would briefly jump up to 1.281 and sometimes as low as 1.22. What I don't understand is if I should pay attention to the most common reading of 1.275, or go with the very lowest of 1.22? And does that mean that's the number I type into the bios, or is that the number I aim for when accounting for vdroop?
And I'm well aware that an all-core OC on zen2 is a little redundant, I'm just trying to figure out as much as I can about zen2 and my chip. Any help is appreciated.
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