Overclocking Ryzen 1600

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So I recently overclocked my R5 1600 from 3.2 to 3.6Ghz and manually set the Vcore going between 1.392 and 1.404volts.. I wanted to ask is that fine to leave the volts like that or will it kill my CPU faster or will I lose performance or something like that?

System Specs:
AMD Ryzen 5 1600(Stock Wraith Cooler)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX1060 3GB Windforce OC
G.Skill Aegis 8GB Ram DDR4 3000Mhz(Currently @2933Mhz because else it crashes under stress)
Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3(rev. 1.0)
Intenso SSD SATA III High 240GB
Corsair VS Series VS550
Aerocool Aero-500 (Window)
 
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In all honesty those are some [strike]really[/strike] bad Clocks in my personal opinion. at least from what i've seen(on forums) and compared to my own Ryzen 5 1600.

try ... Adjusting Load line calibration to higher and keeping cpu voltages at 1.3v maybe 1.33 MAX since you are on stock cooling.
you should be able to push your chip to high 3700mhz's low 3900mhz without temp problems.
if you lower your memory clockspeeds make sure your cas trs and other memory timings are also adjusted for optimal performance.

my 1600 chip might be silicon lottery winner but i really doubt that.
3975mhz 39.75 mutliplier max temps 66 underload while benching prime95 no errors for 2 hours I do have AIO watercooling 360 Kelvin Fractal design
LLC set to extreme with...
Jeez, no. Reduce that voltage. You don't need it that high at all. It's moderate OC so it won't even need a voltage bump.

Yes, you will kill your CPU over time with such high voltage. Voltage just effect performance, not the way you think. But having such high voltage will cause big heat output.

My 1600x is set at 3.9ghz with 1.3v. You don't just dial in a setting and hope for the best. You need to test for temp/stability as you OC otherwise you will have random crashes all over the place among other issues.

Firstly set your Bios back to stock. Test your system using Prime95 small ffts. Then note what your max temp is. Temps don't want to be going above 80c when testing with Prime. If they go over 80, your OC is too high and/or so is your voltage.
Use CPUz to determine your VID. This is the max voltage in theory your CPU should use.

Reading about your CPU/Mobo combo will give you valuable info about OC'ing. It's trial and error and needs patience to achieve stability.
Also, I would consider not pumping such high voltages with that PSU. It's not the best.

Although the Ryzen is a 65w TDP part, the power draw goes up to about 125w OC'ed. Be careful with that PSU.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask or PM. I can give you some guidlines to getting a steady OC of about 3.8 (hopefully - chip dependent) The Wraith Cooler, should be okay for 3.7/3.8, but anything higher than that you will need something better.

If you are just gonna jump in again, set your voltage to 1.3 and see if you can run prime at stock CPU speed. If you can run prime with no errors for two hours or so, then your CPU is stable at that voltage. Then bump the CPU multiplier up notch by notch, testing with prime as you go. Once it fails prime, then you go back to the bios, and up the vcore by one notch, then go back and test etc etc Rinse repeat.


 


So I used Prime95 before OC works fine 0 errors.. Just overclocked CPU to 3.6Ghz and 1.296-1.308volts.. Running Prime gets to max 77C and average 75C with 0 errors for 30minutes.. Idle is like 44C..
 


that's much more like it. A good OC. You can do one or two things from there.

1. Keep the clock-speed if your happy and try reduce the voltage further to get lowest voltage for that speed.
2. Keep pushing the multiplier up until either it fails Prime (then bump another vcore notch) or the temps reach about 80c.

The VID for my chip is 1.375. Whatever OC i get, i won't be pushing my Vcore beyond that. Hitting any higher on Ryzen requires really good cooling, changing LLC bios settings, which WILL increase heat output and also because the architecture maxes at about 4.1 anyway. edit: just a note, your ASRock b350 doesn't have LLC options. It only really for very high OC's so you should be fine.

For complete stability, I run prime overnight for a min of 8 hrs. Then you know it's pretty rock solid.


Good job :)

edit, idle temps are a little high. I would be expecting a good 10c lower. This can be due to ambient temps, or poor airflow in your case.

Idle 30-35, Gaming 45-65, stress (Prime) 65-80. That's ideally where you would want your temps to be in or around.

 


Thanks for everything! Just one last thing is it better to get lowest possible voltage or it doesn't matter at all? Because I really don't have any problem with the power it consumes..
 
Yes, it really does matter. If you have too much voltage, the chip will get hot. If your CPU cooler can't match the heat output, your CPU will throttle. This can cause glitches, drops in FPS whilst gaming, and random crashes too!

The best result for OC'ing is always : Maximum attainable stable clockspeed, with lowest voltage for CPU, with the parameters of your cooling solution. If you change to a better cooler, then those variables will change, but you will still look for the same outcome -max clock, min voltage.


Your welcome for the help :)
 
In all honesty those are some [strike]really[/strike] bad Clocks in my personal opinion. at least from what i've seen(on forums) and compared to my own Ryzen 5 1600.

try ... Adjusting Load line calibration to higher and keeping cpu voltages at 1.3v maybe 1.33 MAX since you are on stock cooling.
you should be able to push your chip to high 3700mhz's low 3900mhz without temp problems.
if you lower your memory clockspeeds make sure your cas trs and other memory timings are also adjusted for optimal performance.

my 1600 chip might be silicon lottery winner but i really doubt that.
3975mhz 39.75 mutliplier max temps 66 underload while benching prime95 no errors for 2 hours I do have AIO watercooling 360 Kelvin Fractal design
LLC set to extreme with only 1.35 Vcore.
my memory kit is a Corsair 2666 4x 4GB Overclocked to 2933 1.25V 16-17-17-17-35 memtest gives no error also after 2 hours.

Screenshot Cinebench+temps
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/8824622

So i think... you should be able to squeeze out a bit better performance without additional power draw or higher temperatures.

Edit:
The only overlcocking i did on my system is Cpu and Memory
things such as Graphics card and monitor or a full system performance overhaul can still be done.
example: removing services that aren't required to make your system even run so it runs much smoother then before is also performance gains things like Printer service Spooler can be removed since i don't print things on this system. or all the things mircosoft installs that won't generally be used such as OneDrive and its services.

Granted this are smaller things but they all stack up.. which in turn can still give your full system much higher performance.
So less background tasks will also gain you increases on overall system performance.

And yes everything Keith12 said is correct, the more Voltage you apply the hotter it gets.
Lower Volts increase clocks until instability then tweak it here and there to get it stable.
Lower temps allows you to increase volts and gain more performances basically. So watercooling allows people to run little higher volts and thus gaining little more performance.
 
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