So basically, I've been learning and experimenting with CPU and GPU overclocking over the past 2 years, throughout those 2 years it was an on and off process of trying, failing, having an issue no one has ever had before, giving up for a few months and then coming back to try again. Recently I've pretty much mastered all the essential GPU overclocking techniques, info, and the logic behind it. But CPU overclocking has been the biggest problem because I've learned what most the options are and what they do and what is the optimal setting for them BUT on my system, none of the general public experiences apply.
I've been reading into what is the best way to oc recently and have found that a lot of people really like AMDs PBO because it's easy and better than stock, and have also learned that manual overclocking (if done properly) is overall better than PBO and auto oc. I would prefer to manually oc, because I know what is what and would spend time actually doing it to get the most performance possible.
I began CPU overclocking around 1.5 years ago a bit after I got my current pc, I began by messing around with the frequency multiplier, core voltage, soc voltage, and LLC settings, not seeing much success I gave up and left it at 4ghz, throughout the next year and a half I didn't change much of the core settings but messed around and found out what all the settings do.
But as of recently I actually set out for what I wanted to achieve (4.2ghz stable under 1.475v) and started proper testing with cinebench and cpu-z, the only problem is that any manual oc I try, even 4ghz at 1.4v + maximum LLC settings which resulted in 1.5v in cpu-z, It would never actually complete a run and would always crash. With PBO it completed the run but under stock values being at a frequency of 3650mhz by the end of the benchmark.
Now, this is absolute [redacted] rubbish and even if I got the worst silicon lottery in the world it still shouldn't be this bad, so like is it my mobo which is causing problems or is my CPU really that [redacted] bad?
PC Specs :
CPU : Ryzen 7 2700x @ 4Ghz (Stable for general use and gaming but crashes in heavy video rendering or synthetic benchmarks)
With stock cooler
GPU : eVGA GeForce GTX1070Ti SC Black
Motherboard: ASUS TUF B450-PLUS Gaming
RAM : GeIL 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 SUPER LUCE RGB SYNC C16 3000Mhz
Storage 1 : Samsung 970 Evo 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD
Storage 2 : Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 3.5" 2TB
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G1+ 650W Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold
I've been reading into what is the best way to oc recently and have found that a lot of people really like AMDs PBO because it's easy and better than stock, and have also learned that manual overclocking (if done properly) is overall better than PBO and auto oc. I would prefer to manually oc, because I know what is what and would spend time actually doing it to get the most performance possible.
I began CPU overclocking around 1.5 years ago a bit after I got my current pc, I began by messing around with the frequency multiplier, core voltage, soc voltage, and LLC settings, not seeing much success I gave up and left it at 4ghz, throughout the next year and a half I didn't change much of the core settings but messed around and found out what all the settings do.
But as of recently I actually set out for what I wanted to achieve (4.2ghz stable under 1.475v) and started proper testing with cinebench and cpu-z, the only problem is that any manual oc I try, even 4ghz at 1.4v + maximum LLC settings which resulted in 1.5v in cpu-z, It would never actually complete a run and would always crash. With PBO it completed the run but under stock values being at a frequency of 3650mhz by the end of the benchmark.
Now, this is absolute [redacted] rubbish and even if I got the worst silicon lottery in the world it still shouldn't be this bad, so like is it my mobo which is causing problems or is my CPU really that [redacted] bad?
PC Specs :
CPU : Ryzen 7 2700x @ 4Ghz (Stable for general use and gaming but crashes in heavy video rendering or synthetic benchmarks)
With stock cooler
GPU : eVGA GeForce GTX1070Ti SC Black
Motherboard: ASUS TUF B450-PLUS Gaming
RAM : GeIL 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 SUPER LUCE RGB SYNC C16 3000Mhz
Storage 1 : Samsung 970 Evo 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD
Storage 2 : Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 3.5" 2TB
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G1+ 650W Fully Modular 80PLUS Gold
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