Hi There, been years since i last posted and/or built my last PC.. which is reflected in my user name, sadly being old and 'sensible' it would now be Tuscon69 
Anyway after years of pre builts and just getting by, the lockdown drove me to do some proper research and do my first self build for a good 10 years I think and ive applied an overclock but im not 100% convinced the vCore is safe.
Specs are
Ryzen 3900x @ 4.35ghz all core
32gb (2x16) Crucial ballistic 3600 ram (running at 3600 and in sync with Infinity Fabric) 14-18-14-32
ASROCK X570 Taichi latest BIOS
EVGA 1080TI FTW (only thing ive carried over from last PC as waiting on RTX3080 or Big Navi)
Corsair H115i Platinum AIO, using stock paste.
2TB Sabrent Gen 4 Nvme + 2TB Cruicial MX500 for Steam library
Corsair 750W gold RX PSU
Fractal Design Mesify S2 with 3 x 140mm FD front intakes, 1 FD rear exhaust + the 2 Corsair fans on the AIO exhausting out out the roof (aiming for positive pressure).
Im manually overclocking and set my Vcore to 1.325 , my memory is at 1.44v as per the settings from Ryzen DRAM calculator.
I use the PC for gaming, video and photo editing and work stuff (Excel, Powerpoint etc).
The system is stable at these speeds and i get better results on Cinebench R20 single core as well as things like Farcry 5 in game benchmark than I do if i leave things on auto with PBO enabled. So im satisfied theres no major impact to gaming performance (in modern titles at least).
So happy that ive got a nice balance between heavy workloads and light/gaming but im a little concerned that the Vcore may be a little high for constant use having now read and watched some youtube stuff about people frying their CPUs.
Im I looking at outdated info or should I wind it back (or even revert to stock and PBO)?
edit: Forgot temps, idles around 35-40c, Gets up to 70-71 in R20 and generally 50-55c in gaming.
AIO and case fans set to balanced and SB Fan custom set to pretty much inaudible.
Thanks all.
Anyway after years of pre builts and just getting by, the lockdown drove me to do some proper research and do my first self build for a good 10 years I think and ive applied an overclock but im not 100% convinced the vCore is safe.
Specs are
Ryzen 3900x @ 4.35ghz all core
32gb (2x16) Crucial ballistic 3600 ram (running at 3600 and in sync with Infinity Fabric) 14-18-14-32
ASROCK X570 Taichi latest BIOS
EVGA 1080TI FTW (only thing ive carried over from last PC as waiting on RTX3080 or Big Navi)
Corsair H115i Platinum AIO, using stock paste.
2TB Sabrent Gen 4 Nvme + 2TB Cruicial MX500 for Steam library
Corsair 750W gold RX PSU
Fractal Design Mesify S2 with 3 x 140mm FD front intakes, 1 FD rear exhaust + the 2 Corsair fans on the AIO exhausting out out the roof (aiming for positive pressure).
Im manually overclocking and set my Vcore to 1.325 , my memory is at 1.44v as per the settings from Ryzen DRAM calculator.
I use the PC for gaming, video and photo editing and work stuff (Excel, Powerpoint etc).
The system is stable at these speeds and i get better results on Cinebench R20 single core as well as things like Farcry 5 in game benchmark than I do if i leave things on auto with PBO enabled. So im satisfied theres no major impact to gaming performance (in modern titles at least).
So happy that ive got a nice balance between heavy workloads and light/gaming but im a little concerned that the Vcore may be a little high for constant use having now read and watched some youtube stuff about people frying their CPUs.
Im I looking at outdated info or should I wind it back (or even revert to stock and PBO)?
edit: Forgot temps, idles around 35-40c, Gets up to 70-71 in R20 and generally 50-55c in gaming.
AIO and case fans set to balanced and SB Fan custom set to pretty much inaudible.
Thanks all.
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