Question r5 3600 with Game Boost on b450 tomahawk.

[Besik01]

r5 3600 with Game Boost on b450 tomahawk. I never OC before, and just clicked on game boost to see if my cpu going to get hot. i didn't do stress test, but while playing WoW and ff15 for 30 minutes each, cpu never got warmer then 70C, on stack cooler. I kind of enjoyed playing with 4.2...my question is, should i worry, should i do manually OC, should u get better cooler, ir if temps are stable, just keep it as is. If i need stress test, what program i should use as a newbie. Thanks for the help!

 

[BogdanH]

I kind of enjoyed playing with 4.2...

Fact is, it doesn't make sense to (manual) overclock AMD CPU's, as performance gain in real world usage is negligible. The thing is, AMD CPU's automatically "overclock" when possible pretty good -and stay stable at that.
You can try manual overclocking even further to squeeze additional 100-200MHz. But guess what: that's only 3% faster -impossible you'd notice the difference in everyday use. But if it would make you "kind of " feel better, go ahead.

Just my opinion on that.

 

[Besik01]

thanks for reply, no, i do not need more, actually was thinking less, heard Game boost sometimes use to much voltage. But everything looks normal and runs great.

 

[Besik01]

just added cooler master hyper 212 black edition, to get a little better cooling