So I'll confess, I find Ryzen overclocking a bit confusing. Lots of different avenues to go down... do just manually set clockspeed and voltage, do I use PBO, do I use some other random boost mode, do I need LLC etc etc. I've looked at a few guides online but come away unsure on the best approach. The whole 'auto-overclocking' thing where chips dynamically turbo to different speeds is alien to me, I'm never quite sure where I stand and occasionally I try something and then notice voltage has randomly shot up to like 1.5v or whatever which gets me worried.
I'm very much oldschool in terms of how I normally approach overclocking - set vcore to a safe limit, ramp up the bus speed and/or multiplier, run some stability tests, ease off on the voltage if the temps get too high. But with all this dynamic stuff I never really know if the system is stable, maybe I run a test and it seemed stable because it didn't boost as high, or used more voltage or whatever? Plus there are so many options in the BIOS I'm not sure which way to turn.
I realise the above makes me sound like some sort of newbie that shouldn't be tinkering but I've been building and overclocking PCs since the 90s, I've got the risk appetite just can't really get my head round the modern setup. It's kind of got to the stage where I'm just overclocking the RAM and primary timings (which I understand in general albeit not the massive raft of timings you get these days) and not much else, just leaving it to get on with it, but I don't know if that means I'm missing out on a lot of potential. I recently upgraded my GPU which is why I need to eek more out of the CPU now, it is the bottleneck in some cases.
I'm very much oldschool in terms of how I normally approach overclocking - set vcore to a safe limit, ramp up the bus speed and/or multiplier, run some stability tests, ease off on the voltage if the temps get too high. But with all this dynamic stuff I never really know if the system is stable, maybe I run a test and it seemed stable because it didn't boost as high, or used more voltage or whatever? Plus there are so many options in the BIOS I'm not sure which way to turn.
I realise the above makes me sound like some sort of newbie that shouldn't be tinkering but I've been building and overclocking PCs since the 90s, I've got the risk appetite just can't really get my head round the modern setup. It's kind of got to the stage where I'm just overclocking the RAM and primary timings (which I understand in general albeit not the massive raft of timings you get these days) and not much else, just leaving it to get on with it, but I don't know if that means I'm missing out on a lot of potential. I recently upgraded my GPU which is why I need to eek more out of the CPU now, it is the bottleneck in some cases.
