No. I would not recommend overclocking that CPU unless you have aftermarket cooling and a good quality motherboard. Even then, it's probably almost pointless as you're not going to see enough gain from doing so to make the added expense worthwhile. If you are using the stock cooler, you absolutely do not want to be overclocking anything, ever.
If you need more performance, then I'd recommend that you simply replacing your CPU with a higher quality model. Right now you can get a Ryzen 5 2600 6 core 12 thread CPU that would drop right in place of that Ryzen 3 1200, for about 120 bucks. That's about the same price as most AIO coolers and only half again as much as a decent air cooler, and will offer much better performance than any level of overclock you could ever do on that or any other Ryzen CPU.
What? This is just flat out wrong. The stealth can easily take that CPU to 3.7 or better on stock voltage with temps in the 70's in 100% stress load. I got one to 3.9 on the stock cooler no problem and didn't go over 76 c in p95 26.6 SFFT. This is absolutely worth the massive performance gain. 3-500 mhz all core above the max single core turbo is easily achievable on that cooler. The same goes for a 1600 on its stock cooler.No. I would not recommend overclocking that CPU unless you have aftermarket cooling and a good quality motherboard. Even then, it's probably almost pointless as you're not going to see enough gain from doing so to make the added expense worthwhile. If you are using the stock cooler, you absolutely do not want to be overclocking anything, ever.
I heard that you can overclock it on stock cooling but thanks
Im a newbie in overclocking and have heard that you should overclock the CPU that I have, Ryzen 3 1200. What do I set my voltage at when turning up the GHz? I would also love any other tips and recommendations too
Any AM4 mobo in existence (that has a chipset that can overclock) can easily supply enough current to overclock that CPU to it's voltage and temp limits on ambient cooling without breaking a sweat.
No, it's not flat out wrong, and if you're going around making recommendations for ANYBODY to overclock on a stock cooler, ANY stock cooler, I don't care WHAT CPU is involved, you're going to be in for it I promise. We don't do that around here. It's irresponsible and it's poor advice. Your personal feelings about whether it's an acceptable level of cooling don't much matter. The fact is, those coolers are NOT anywhere near as capable as many of you would have people believe them to be. They are cheap piece of crap, bottom of the barrel Cooler master fans with two dollar heatsinks.
It's not a matter of "knowing what you are doing". It's a matter of giving out responsible advice and yours, as usual, is not.
I don't really feel like typing up a ryzen OC tutorial since this info is readily available with a google search. If you are sure you want to go down this route make sure that your motherboard has a chipset that is able to OC, you have a decent reliable power supply, and you understand how to clear CMOS if things go wrong. You will also need to download the appropriate monitoring and stress testing software.
If you are even mildly uncomfortable with any of those things than this might not be for you.
Do your research and familiarize yourself with the procedures before diving in.
Listing your full system specs would be useful. You can get a good safe OC with that CPU on its stock cooler but that doesn't mean the rest of system is up to snuff.
I could probably get you to 3.8ghz stable by typing one number into the bios but I honestly just don't want to deal with the tech support if things go wrong.
Good luck.
Is flat out wrong. I don't care who you are or what you THINK you know, that's pure BS. There are MANY AM4 motherboards that are not only not suitable for overclocking ANYTHING on, they are barely acceptable for stock usage.
Do you really think a motherboard expected to handle an 8c16t at stock operation (at the very least) couldn't easily deliver everything a 4C4T CPU could need in terms of current draw
I'm not bothering to read that. It's just....ah, whatever dude. If I go any further with this, we'll both regret it. SO just, kill it now while you can.
Do you REALLY believe that every AM4 motherboard is designed to HANDLE an 8/16 CPU? I assure you, they are not. Some are, some are not. If you think running one on most of the A320 chipset boards or overclocking on one, is a good idea, then you're, I just don't even know what to say to that. Seriously, you're entire belief system is fundamentally skewed. Sure, you can do this, overclocking with a stock cooler on a lower TDP CPU, but it's BAD ADVICE to be giving people who obviously have never overclocked previously. And it's absolutely not something I'd recommend as a "best practice", here or elsewhere. If you want to give trailer park type advice, take it to Reddit. We try to keep things on the legitimate side of the sheets here.
And I assure you, I've overclocked more systems, on more different platforms, than you've ever even used. I don't give out piss poor advice that flies in the face of every accepted tenet in the overclocking community which primarily says that unless you're working with a dual core CPU you do not overclock on a stock cooler. You also don't overclock on a cheap board. If YOU wish to do that, great, but you're not going to be recommending to people here that they should do it. I assure you, you will not. So just don't. It's not irresponsible to recommend AGAINST something that is perhaps doable, but not wise. It is however irresponsible to recommend in FAVOR of doing something that could potentially be a bad idea, like this is. So, that's enough of that unless you want to take this to a higher level.