AMD Ryzen 5 3500X / 3900 (non-x) ???

[The Old School Gamer]

Did you see the validation? http://valid.x86.fr/71trq7 Shows all cores at the same clocks and bench scores of 568 / 3318 if that helps.

What do you guys who bought the 3500x think, is there a good chance of those clocks, if not what would be a ballpark figure?

That is highest all core OC I've seen on a 3500X, I had seen 4.4Ghz but not 4.6Ghz @ 1.341v.
Like Mr Gates says we have no idea if that's 100% stable though.
I personally never tried to manually OC on my 3500X, I just stuck to PBO.

try setting EDC between 1 and 10 for pbo and see if this helps.

I'll give it try, thanks.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

try setting EDC between 1 and 10 for pbo and see if this helps.

Just changing Performance Enhancer from Auto to Level 3 (OC) sorted it out.

That looks more like it.

3900X Before & After

3900 (non-X)

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Here is CPU-Z validation for my 3500X on PBO.
https://valid.x86.fr/ssbblw

I wouldn't trust those recorded snapshot temps on the validations.
The CPU-Z bench test only lasts like 40 seconds or so, certainly not long enough to gauge a proper max temp reading imho.

Max temp threshold is 95c,
Think I was only hitting around 60c on PBO (4.1xGhz).
4.6Ghz @ 100% load must be up in the 70c-80c range I would imagine.

 

[The Old School Gamer]

PBO is an dynamic overclock.
Under an generic simulated load as demonstrated above it will.
But an actual real use case scenario is quite different.
You can apply a fixed ratio OC but generally that hurts single/low core count performance and could degraded the CPU over time.

So PBO is the way to go imho for 24/7 running.

I use a low cost 212 EVO black cooler on my 3900 with PBO and the maximum temp I've recorded after hours of gaming is just 72c which is nowhere near the throttle down limit.
So apart from running a little cooler I can't see water-cooling making much to any difference performance wise.