Can I have some help overclocking my 5800x pleaseeeeee

[beasty6]

Hey all,

I have a 5800x with a b550 strix-F and want to overclock it, I've tried following guides, videos but it's so confusing, not a case of adjusting multiplyer and adding Vcore no more lol

I've seen people getting 5ghz all core using curve optimiser? I've got so many options in my bios I don't honestly know what to touch and what not to touch.

Anyone able to guide me through? I'm not looking to benchmark, just for for performance in games

Thanks

 

[Haz123]

Overclocking as we knew it 5-10 years ago is dead and you need to readjust your thinking away from that. Yes you can pump the chips full of volts and try to push 5ghz all core but that can actually lead to worse performance overall because you will just generate too much heat and the chip will throttle itself down to lower clocks.

I instead follow an undervolting method and this allows the individual cores to use less power, run cooler and therefore they are able to boost higher and for longer when needed

https://joseph.to/ultimate-guide-to-undervolt-ryzen-5000/

Plenty of other guides out there but that one just gives the basics and is hopefully not too confusing. Look for undervolting or PBO for Ryzen 3 and you will find more info. I have -20 offset on the underused cores and -10 on my best cores. I get all core boost to 4.6ghz and individual cores at times boost past 5 ghz.
I would only run cinebench as a benchmarking tool so that type of workload is of no interest to me and running cool and stable in games is far more important.

You will almost never have a sitiuation in games where all the cores are needed to run at 5ghz. You will far more often have 2 or 3 needing to boost high while the rest are very lightly utilized. By lowering the voltage on the less used cores there will be less heat generated and this frees up more thermal headroom for the cores that are actually doing the work and allows them to maintain higher clock speeds for longer.

I hope that makes sense.

 

[michty_me]

What I was advised elsewhere was to do the following:

Find two best cores
Use individual core curve optimiser and start with the best cores. Reduce by -5 until instability and reduce by +1/+2.
Repeat until stable with curve optimser on every core.
Add +mhz until unstable and back off 25Mhz.

Others say to do differently. I've yet to try it as haven't had a great deal of time to sit and test.

I have also read that you can set an event logger and start reducing all core optimiser. If you get a crash, Check event logger and cross reference which core crashed on a WHEA error and increase that core by a couple of points.