Question Should I manually oc to keep voltage lower?

mattcitko1999

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So I started considering it after seeing what speeds and voltage it runs at and what others were able to get. So while I haven't ran cpu-z or prime95 l did notice that in the mw3 benchmark it was running at 4030 mHz and getting up to 1.43v, I know it won’t run at 4.2GHz at all times. Temps were 50-55°C. l've seen an average around 50° in-game. Idle temps between 35-37°C. Should I manually overclock it? Right now I have ryzen master on default settings and in bios the game boost is off I believe. Not really thinking about getting more fps but maybe lower voltage less heat and that's always better. Should I at least try it?
Specs are -
Ryzen 53600
Msi x570
Corsair h150i cooler
2070 super
Corsair hx1000i

Edit- so I just ran cinebench and on multicore it got up to 69-71°C and was running about 1.37-38v. On single core it’s running at 52-54°C and voltage 1.42-45v. On single core clock speeds do seem to vary from ryzen master to hwmonitor. Ryzen master shows no higher than 3600mHz while hwmonitor is at 4100-4150mHz.
Single core score - 1178pts
Multi core score - 8560pts
 
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If you're worried about temps start with an undervolt via negative core offset (-CO).

-30 all-core isn't always doable (YMMV), so if that's not stable, go down to -20, -10 etc.
The greater the offset the lower the voltage, and so long as the CPU is stable it will also achieve higher boost clocks as a result.

As a note, crashing with -CO is typically while the system is at idle (or more specifically during transient spikes).
If you notice your PC randomly rebooting at desktop or when you walk away from it, dial back the core offset.
 
If you're worried about temps start with an undervolt via negative core offset (-CO).

-30 all-core isn't always doable (YMMV), so if that's not stable, go down to -20, -10 etc.
The greater the offset the lower the voltage, and so long as the CPU is stable it will also achieve higher boost clocks as a result.

As a note, crashing with -CO is typically while the system is at idle (or more specifically during transient spikes).
If you notice your PC randomly rebooting at desktop or when you walk away from it, dial back the core offset.
So tried playing around with that and well no luck, tried -20 and wouldn't boot, had to clear cmos and for now I set it to 1.275 @ 4GHz. Its stable I think i could try 4.1 with this or might have to go up a bit to 2.9v. Not sure what else I had changed before but I know I had llc set to auto and so hwinfor was showing core voltage at 2.8v (what I had in bios) but cpu core VID was 1.1 at all times. Now with the 4ghz @ 1.275 I set llc to mode 5 and both values in hwinfor are showing 1.275. Temps are better, during testing its 65-66 idle low 30's in game 43-46. So overall better but would want to get closer to 4.1 maybe 4.2 just to not lose performance.