5950X & PBO

[AndrewPE28]

Maxing out my AM4 system and no longer worrying about gaming, I'm selling my 5900X3D and bought a 5950X. My primary use is PixInsight so multicore performance is priority. Just trying to maximise what I have and wanted to check if what I'm doing is sensible?

New Ryzen 5950X
Asus TUF Gaming X570 Plus - latest BIOS
2 x 32GB Corsair DDR4 3200
ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro 420


I've set PBO to Manual, Scalar to 1x and Curve to negative 15.

Stock BIOS score in Cinebench R23 after 10mins was 22812 with max temps around 65C. Scores with PBO on are 26289 and max temps 87C. I'm an absolute noob to overclocking, I'm not interested in infinitely tweaking to get max performance, just a nice stable boost over stock. I tried googling the same CPU/MB combo and there isn't much info.

 

[Vestas]

I built a 5950X system last year and eventually* turned PBO off. The gains (unlike AM5) were minimal for the massive increase in power consumption and heat. Couldn't justify it but YMMV.

*ran it for about a week doing nothing but benchmarks/stress tests as I built it for someone who lives a few hours away so gave it a bit of a kicking...