How do I know if my Ryzen 2700X is overclocking

[justice507]

So I had someone built a PC for me and it's a Ryzen 2700X.



However, I'm unsure whether if it's auto overclocking. How can I know? And I heard something about Precision Boost, the equivalent of Intel's Turbo Boost? Is that automatic as well? Are these safe for my PC?



Can I, let's say, turn off any of these two (Precision boost and overclocking) or both, and how do I do that? Should I?



Pls advice.

 

[Ali Tauseef]

You can only either enable the Precision boost or overclock it manually by yourself, all this information should be available in the BIOS of whatever motherboard you have, to access the BIOS you need to constantly press and release F2 (in most cases) as your PC starts. From the BIOS you'll likely find these options in the "Performance" or "Advanced" tab depending on the motherboard, there you should see if Precision Boost is actually on or not.

If you don't have experience with overclocking then Precision Boost is perfect as AMD designs it themselves to balance between cooling and performance, in order to test whether it's overclocking, you can load up a game and use a program like CPU-Z which will tell you how far your CPU clocks are going.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

No, don't turn off anything. YOur 2700x doesn't OC per say. At least not how your thinking.

Yes, the 2700x like a lot of modern CPU's have a couple of states. Base or stock speed and Precision Boost (turbo).

So in normal loads the CPU will operate at it's base (stock frequency/clockspeed.) of 3.7ghz. When needed the CPU can 'boost' to a higher frequency for 1 or 2 cores for higher performance (as in gaming like higher speeds). So when a game needs higher single thread/core performance it will Precision boost (turbo) to it's max capability based on load/thermals and will adjust itself to give best performance. This all happens on the fly in realtime. It's automatic, and doesn't require you to do anything. It's 100% safe, does no harm to your CPU.

Don't worry about it at all enjoy your awesome CPU

 

[coozie7]

Google ' AMD Precision boost ' if you want more info, but here's some from HardOCP: https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/04/30/amd_precision_boost_2_wraith_prism_deep_dive

To check if it's working, Grab a freebie like HWinfo64 install and run it, even at idle on the desktop you'll see the core speeds jumping up and down if Boost is working.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

You can only either enable the Precision boost or overclock it manually by yourself, all this information should be available in the BIOS of whatever motherboard you have, to access the BIOS you need to constantly press and release F2 (in most cases) as your PC starts. From the BIOS you'll likely find these options in the "Performance" or "Advanced" tab depending on the motherboard, there you should see if Precision Boost is actually on or not.

If you don't have experience with overclocking then Precision Boost is perfect as AMD designs it themselves to balance between cooling and performance, in order to test whether it's overclocking, you can load up a game and use a program like CPU-Z which will tell you how far your CPU clocks are going.

No, you do not need to enable precision boost. It's automatic.

To disable it, yes, you need to do that manually through the bios.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Google ' AMD Precision boost ' if you want more info, but here's some from HardOCP: https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/04/30/amd_precision_boost_2_wraith_prism_deep_dive

To check if it's working, Grab a freebie like HWinfo64 install and run it, even at idle on the desktop you'll see the core speeds jumping up and down if Boost is working.

Good call!

 

[coozie7]

^ Smug: I have the 2700X...So many cores, so many threads...Take that, render times!

And to Justice507: The others are right, all the Boost settings are applied automatically, and they won't hurt the CPU, but Precision Boost and XFR are only available on the later X470 and B450 chipset motherboards.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

^ Smug: I have the 2700X...So many cores, so many threads...Take that, render times!

haha stop ya fecker! 😉 I'm thinking of getting one. Just for the PB/XFR 2.

My 1600x is still doing it for me big style, but I'm looking at the benchies green with envy.

PM me some benchies. No, don't! Okay do....but be gentle 😀

Have you tried OC it yet?

edit: ooh, you've the same mobo as me. How does it handle the R2 CPU's? Sorry, getting completely off topic. Maybe you can PM me.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

You can only either enable the Precision boost or overclock it manually by yourself, all this information should be available in the BIOS of whatever motherboard you have, to access the BIOS you need to constantly press and release F2 (in most cases) as your PC starts. From the BIOS you'll likely find these options in the "Performance" or "Advanced" tab depending on the motherboard, there you should see if Precision Boost is actually on or not.

If you don't have experience with overclocking then Precision Boost is perfect as AMD designs it themselves to balance between cooling and performance, in order to test whether it's overclocking, you can load up a game and use a program like CPU-Z which will tell you how far your CPU clocks are going.

apologies, I actually meant to upvote you, because I agree with most of what you said, apart from the first sentence.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

^ Smug: I have the 2700X...So many cores, so many threads...Take that, render times!

And to Justice507: The others are right, all the Boost settings are applied automatically, and they won't hurt the CPU, but Precision Boost and XFR are only available on the later X470 and B450 chipset motherboards.

Wait....what!? Really? I missed that. So does it boost at all on the B350?

 

[justice507]

@Ali thanks,nice answer!

@keith and @coozie7 Thanks guys, guess i'm late to the party 😉 😀

Yep mine's an MSI X470 gaming plus

 

[coozie7]

@ Keith12: Great, now I won't hijack the thread!
Yep, it boosts, but I don't think the XFR and precision Boost are at full capacity, not on my B350 MB, the Intel Burn Test gives me a 8 core speed of just under 4GHZ while rendering is slightly above that, at idle or under light load though at least two cores regularly hit 4.3GHz.
You know what? I think I'll go for a B450MB and see what happens...I'm bored. 😉

If you're only, or mainly gaming, I'd say stick with the 1600X, and even if you regularly need the extra cores/threads of the 8 core parts take a look at the current 1800X pricing, over here in the UK ( if you can find one ) they're really ' cheap '.

 

[Ali Tauseef]

@Ali thanks,nice answer!

Happy to help!