[SOLVED] ryzen 5 1600 bottleneck and overclock

[dayzan02]

i got a ryzen 5 1600 with a gigabyte x370 for 150$ on black friday. i currently have a gtx 1050 and was wondering if the gpu would bottleneck the cpu. i also wanted to oc the cpu and wanted to do 3.8ghz but not sure what a good voltage is. any reccomendations?

 

[drea.drechsler]

Anything under 1.425 volts is perfectly safe long term but you shouldn't need anywhere close to that for 3.8Ghz. I'd start at 1.375 volts then work it back down. You may even get by with the stock cooler but a better one would help with noise when under heavy load.

It should not bottleneck a GTX1050.

 

[dayzan02]

Anything under 1.425 volts is perfectly safe long term but you absolutely should not need anywhere close to that for 3.8Ghz. I'd start at 1.375 volts then work it back down. You may even get by with the stock cooler but a better one would help with noise when under heavy load.

It should not bottleneck a GTX1050.

 

[dayzan02]

so i should start with 1.375 then go down in what increments? and also what i meant was would the CPU be bottlenecked by the GPU.thanks!

 

[drea.drechsler]

so i should start with 1.375 then go down in what increments? and also what i meant was would the CPU be bottlenecked by the GPU.thanks!

Two straps at a time at first, then go by ones. It should boot right off at 1.375V, then run a few minutes of Prime95 small FFT watching temps, mainly to make sure nothing's going amiss. If it holds for 5 min's, reboot, lower voltage a couple straps and try again. Once you find one where it crashes reboot and raise it a couple straps (or set some LLC if your mobo has it) and try again. If it THEN holds 5 min's go for a long stress...a couple hours of small FFT...watching that temperatures are holding at safe levels, especially VRM temperature. It really should, seeing as it's a 6 core and only 3.8 gig.

DO NOT try any memory overclocking yet! just let it run at defaults until you've got the 3.8 gig dialed in.

Overclocking Ryzen is really pretty easy, just don't be afraid of voltage so long as temperature is OK. Overclocking memory, especially on 1st gen processors, is the harder bit.

 

[drea.drechsler]

And oh yes...i fully believe the CPU will be waiting on the GPU way more than the other way. Even a 1060 often makes a Ryzen wait at 1080p and I don't believe a 1050 is very good at 1080p... it's a much better 720p card.