Which option is best for OCing Ryzen 5 1600?

[Priyank Kumar]

I have an MSI B350m Mortar. After searching around I see there are three ways to OC: Ryzen Master Overclocking Utility, MSI game boost option in the BIOS and manually setting the values in the BIOS. I am new to overclocking and have no idea which would be the safest option to go for. I just want to get it at 3.7 GHz.

Which option should I go with?

 

[Seanie280672]

I have an MSI B350m Mortar. After searching around I see there are three ways to OC: Ryzen Master Overclocking Utility, MSI game boost option in the BIOS and manually setting the values in the BIOS. I am new to overclocking and have no idea which would be the safest option to go for. I just want to get it at 3.7 GHz.

Which option should I go with?

Go with the bios, RyZen is easy to overclock, and 3.7ghz should be easy to hit.

enter the bios, goto the OC menu.

Change OC Mode to expert, CPU frequency to 3700, leave ram alone for now, worry about that later, if you start messing about with ram now, you wont know if problems are caused by ram stability or CPU stability,

Next goto Digital ALL power submenu, also in the OC menu, set CPU LLC to level 2, enable over voltage protection, and enable over current protection.

Now back to the main OC Menu, type into the CPU voltage box "Normal", set CPU NB or CPU SoC voltage to 1.100v leave ram voltage at Auto

Leave CPU memory changed detect at Enabled.

in the CPU features down the bottom, disable C6, AMD Cool & Quiet and SVM mode.

Save and exit then test it, a quick run of Cinebench will let you know if its initially stable, if you get a black screen then thats known as Insta-Crash, you need to go back to the bios and change the CPU Voltage, start low, try something like 1.275v first and work you way up, for a newbie I wouldnt recommend anything higher than 1.35v in total, but you shouldnt need anything like that.

Eventually you will want to test for a few hours of IBT or Prime95 etc, make sure you monitor your temps.

If it passes all tests, now you can start messing about with trying to get your ram upto speed.

 

[Priyank Kumar]

Thanks for the detailed steps!

One thing though, I have already set the A-XMP profile for my RAM. There were two options, 2666MHz and 3000MHz, I chose the former because I had read about RAM instability problems, CPU-Z detects DRAM speed to be 1333MHz which was originally 1066MHz so I think it worked? I didn't run any benchmarking software but ran the computer for a few hours browsing the net and stuff and there wasn't any problem for that much at least. I didn't alter any other settings except selecting the option in the XMP menu. Should I revert it before proceeding with the CPU overclock?

 

[Seanie280672]

No, leave it as it is, if it booted then you should be good to go.

 

[blackr92]

I have an MSI B350m Mortar. After searching around I see there are three ways to OC: Ryzen Master Overclocking Utility, MSI game boost option in the BIOS and manually setting the values in the BIOS. I am new to overclocking and have no idea which would be the safest option to go for. I just want to get it at 3.7 GHz.

Which option should I go with?

Go with the bios, RyZen is easy to overclock, and 3.7ghz should be easy to hit.

enter the bios, goto the OC menu.

Change OC Mode to expert, CPU frequency to 3700, leave ram alone for now, worry about that later, if you start messing about with ram now, you wont know if problems are caused by ram stability or CPU stability,

Next goto Digital ALL power submenu, also in the OC menu, set CPU LLC to level 2, enable over voltage protection, and enable over current protection.

Now back to the main OC Menu, type into the CPU voltage box "Normal", set CPU NB or CPU SoC voltage to 1.100v leave ram voltage at Auto

Leave CPU memory changed detect at Enabled.

in the CPU features down the bottom, disable C6, AMD Cool & Quiet and SVM mode.

Save and exit then test it, a quick run of Cinebench will let you know if its initially stable, if you get a black screen then thats known as Insta-Crash, you need to go back to the bios and change the CPU Voltage, start low, try something like 1.275v first and work you way up, for a newbie I wouldnt recommend anything higher than 1.35v in total, but you shouldnt need anything like that.

Eventually you will want to test for a few hours of IBT or Prime95 etc, make sure you monitor your temps.

If it passes all tests, now you can start messing about with trying to get your ram upto speed.

i tried following you tips to go for 3.7ghz(using MSI B350M Mortar+Ryzen 5 1600).
Prime95 stable for 3 hours but my load temp hit 86C (my country quite hot, i live in asia)
Aida64 stable for 4 hours but there will be mini froze happens randomly where it locks my mouse cursor and keyboard ( do i need to change any settings to prevent this?)
Cinebench runs fine too but mini froze happens here too.

Whats is the next step you think i should take?