So i read on here and other sources that PBO was the way to go on the 5000 series... I was a bit skeptical on that assumption because PBO wasnt worth a damn on the 3000 series. The PBO set the 5700x to draw 1.425 volts on the core and soc 1.25 volts. Drawing a total of 154 watts measured in HWinfo and some janky stints i soldered on the board. HW monitor is usually within about 5% +/- of my actual measurements which is pretty good considering its free... oh and the CPU clock boosted to around 4.66 ghz. With my manual OC at 4.55 ghz, 1.1 core v and 1.05 soc v, i got power draw down to just 99 watts total which in turn took temps from 68c down to 55c. Um, PBO and curve optimizer were good starts, but still fell short of all hype.