Noob question about ocing r5 1600 to 3.6ghz. What i have to do?

[genca]

Title says all. In saturday or monday i will get new pc. I bought r5 1600, b350-f strix and 2x4 predator 3000mhz. Now, i want to oc my ryzen to 3.6 ghz(maybe, just maybe 3.7) but i dont now a thing about overclocking. Can someone tell me how should i overclock it, what i have to do? Do i have to do it in bios or not? Will i have to change voltage? And about ryzen stock cooler, how loud it will be on this overclock? I have nzxt s340 with 2 fans that comes with case, rx570 strix, seasonic s12ii 620w.

 

[ElectrO_90]

OC'ing is that difficult, but if you don't know what you're doing, I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[photonboy]

There are plenty of guides: http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-ryzen-5-1600-review,23.html

Overclocking doesn't necessarily affect the fan noise. Sometimes you can get a slightly higher frequency without raising the VOLTAGE which is what really affects the temperature.

Not sure why "3.6GHz" since that's the Max Turbo so I'm guessing under normal gaming load it already hits at least 3.4GHz. Each 100MHz gains you almost 3% improvement so I'd aim maybe for 3.7GHz at first, run MEMTEST86 and Prime95 (P95 temps run far hotter than normal usage just FYI but if you can handle that you should be okay... may or may not THROTTLE the CPU frequency down though if temp gets too hot).

Noise is hard to predict since ambient room temp and case cooling varies a lot. You can experiment.


Other:
a) make sure memory is actually 2933MHz or close (not 2133MHz or whatever) as DDR4 bandwidth matters far more than a little CPU frequency bump
b) update the BIOS first if newer exists

Other:
4.0 GHz seems to hit a wall where the voltage required goes up significantly (every CPU varies slightly too it's called "silicon lottery") and 3.9GHz even if achievable with the stock cooler may be too loud... 3.8GHz might be fine but I'd start with 3.7GHz first and if that works test stability for a week or so. Maybe just stay there as you likely won't see a noticeable difference going higher. Probably a good balance between stability, performance and fan noise... again VOLTAGE affects temperature the most so don't put the voltage higher than necessary to achieve stability.

 

[photonboy]

Always test the DDR4 memory and CPU if you change the settings of either.

MEMTEST86 www.memtest86.com
a) create USB stick
b) boot to it (may need to press "DEL" to go into BIOS and manually select quick boot to that USB stick)
c) let run until either ERRORS or one full PASS finishes without errors

That test the DDR4 memory sticks as well as some of the CPU.

Then again use P95 or some other CPU diagnostic to test the CPU. If the DDR4 memory and CPU pass without errors your system should be fairly stable. It's not 100% (close) and other issues can occur but it's a good start.

 

[genca]

Always test the DDR4 memory and CPU if you change the settings of either.

MEMTEST86 www.memtest86.com
a) create USB stick
b) boot to it (may need to press "DEL" to go into BIOS and manually select quick boot to that USB stick)
c) let run until either ERRORS or one full PASS finishes without errors

That test the DDR4 memory sticks as well as some of the CPU.

Then again use P95 or some other CPU diagnostic to test the CPU. If the DDR4 memory and CPU pass without errors your system should be fairly stable. It's not 100% (close) and other issues can occur but it's a good start.

Thank you very much man, I appreciate your help. When I overclock it, I'll tell you if i did it or killed pc 😀 😀