So, this is kind of a two part question but both deal with overclocking on this specific board.
So, firstly... I was running a Ryzen 2200G with this board for around two years. About a year-ish ago, I decided to overclock the CPU. Read a bunch of guides, blah blah blah.
Went into BIOS and realized there is no way to change the CPU Voltage, other than this Dynamic thing.
In any event, I left all of that alone, and the only settings I changed was XMP mode (which was on since day 1 for the RAM), and I bumped the CPU to 4.0GHz. It held stable, and CPU VDD in HWMonitor showed that it would hold right around 1.35-1.4V when it needed to. All was well, that overclock was stable and everyone was happy.
Fast forward to last week, I installed a Ryzen 5 1600AF. The CPU swap of course caused the BIOS to do its soft reset, so I reenabled XMP, and did the same exact thing I did with my 2200G. I first tried bumping speed up to 4.0GHz, which is where I would have been a happy camper.
Booted up fine, opened HWMonitor, and it's showing the CPU VDD is only 1.125 max. Start the P95 test, and CPU VDD drops down to 1.08 and system locks up. I had to drop down to 3.8GHz to get it stable, and CPU VDD is still 1.125 idle, 1.08 stressed.
I read the couple guides there was, and bumped the Dynamic Vcore DVID +.204, figuring this should put the VDD in the 1.3-1.4 range needed. It doesn't change the CPU VDD at all. It does change the CPU VCORE, but doing this doesn't seem to add any sort of stability, or it IS stable but overheating and crashing, not 100% sure. CPU temps stay under 84, but the motherboard temps get high, or what I perceive to be high.
So I guess my questions...
1.) Am I looking at the right monitors in HWMonitor (as in, I am using CPU VDD as what to monitor for voltage)?
2.) Why with the 2200G did the CPU VDD automatically go up to 1.4V when needed, but the 1600AF refuses to go over 1.125?
3.) Am I even doing this right at all, am I stupid, and is this specific Gigabyte board just not a good one to OC on?
Thanks y'all,
- Matt
So, firstly... I was running a Ryzen 2200G with this board for around two years. About a year-ish ago, I decided to overclock the CPU. Read a bunch of guides, blah blah blah.
Went into BIOS and realized there is no way to change the CPU Voltage, other than this Dynamic thing.
In any event, I left all of that alone, and the only settings I changed was XMP mode (which was on since day 1 for the RAM), and I bumped the CPU to 4.0GHz. It held stable, and CPU VDD in HWMonitor showed that it would hold right around 1.35-1.4V when it needed to. All was well, that overclock was stable and everyone was happy.
Fast forward to last week, I installed a Ryzen 5 1600AF. The CPU swap of course caused the BIOS to do its soft reset, so I reenabled XMP, and did the same exact thing I did with my 2200G. I first tried bumping speed up to 4.0GHz, which is where I would have been a happy camper.
Booted up fine, opened HWMonitor, and it's showing the CPU VDD is only 1.125 max. Start the P95 test, and CPU VDD drops down to 1.08 and system locks up. I had to drop down to 3.8GHz to get it stable, and CPU VDD is still 1.125 idle, 1.08 stressed.
I read the couple guides there was, and bumped the Dynamic Vcore DVID +.204, figuring this should put the VDD in the 1.3-1.4 range needed. It doesn't change the CPU VDD at all. It does change the CPU VCORE, but doing this doesn't seem to add any sort of stability, or it IS stable but overheating and crashing, not 100% sure. CPU temps stay under 84, but the motherboard temps get high, or what I perceive to be high.
So I guess my questions...
1.) Am I looking at the right monitors in HWMonitor (as in, I am using CPU VDD as what to monitor for voltage)?
2.) Why with the 2200G did the CPU VDD automatically go up to 1.4V when needed, but the 1600AF refuses to go over 1.125?
3.) Am I even doing this right at all, am I stupid, and is this specific Gigabyte board just not a good one to OC on?
Thanks y'all,
- Matt