Soldato
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Hi everyone. I'm in the process of building an AMD system for the first time in god knows how many years, last one was Barton CPU. I've been rocking 5ghz Intel chips for a long time now and find overclocking them so easy, but moving to AMD has me massively confused on what's going on.
So for starters. Whilst I'm waiting on my 5900x to arrive, been pre ordered since December 12th, I've popped a 3950x in a MSI X570 Tomahawk with 32gb of 3600mhz memory. I was shocked to see at first when jumping in to bios that the stock default value is 1.45v...yes 1.45v!!!!. So doing lots of thread reading on how to overclock or get the voltage in check, it looks like you shouldn't need any more than 1.25v to 1.3v to get a stable 4.1 or 4.2 all core overclock. Now I'm not going to bore you all with the 50 times I've restarted bios with different settings after various attempts at benching, running Ryzen Master, the new CRT tool tonight, nothing seems to work when I enter a core speed multi regardless of voltage I throw at it. So I thought, stuff this everything auto let's see what happens.
Now this is what I don't get. Why is it when I leave voltage to auto (1.45v) and clock frequency to auto and run cinebench, I get these results below. Core voltage goes nowhere near its maximum and core speed sticks at 3.8ghz? Temps are well in check, only 60c or there abouts. Sorry for crude pic
I can't understand how by manually setting core frequency any higher than stock results in CTDs when benching to test stability regardless if I use low voltage, high voltage or even auto voltage.
And why is it when I'm doing a single core bench, every core is banging out 1.46v.
Also trying Ryzen Master auto overclocking mode does nowt, core frequency still sitting at 3.7 to 3.8 with loads of voltage and temperate headroom
I've watched maybe 6 or 7 Ryzen overclocking videos today, read countless guides and tried all the settings from the guides, this is either a stinking chip or I have issues elsewhere in the build.
Could anyone point me in the direction of a tried and trusted way to at least get a small overclock whilst reducing this bonkers default voltage? Or even explain to me where I'm going wrong.
So for starters. Whilst I'm waiting on my 5900x to arrive, been pre ordered since December 12th, I've popped a 3950x in a MSI X570 Tomahawk with 32gb of 3600mhz memory. I was shocked to see at first when jumping in to bios that the stock default value is 1.45v...yes 1.45v!!!!. So doing lots of thread reading on how to overclock or get the voltage in check, it looks like you shouldn't need any more than 1.25v to 1.3v to get a stable 4.1 or 4.2 all core overclock. Now I'm not going to bore you all with the 50 times I've restarted bios with different settings after various attempts at benching, running Ryzen Master, the new CRT tool tonight, nothing seems to work when I enter a core speed multi regardless of voltage I throw at it. So I thought, stuff this everything auto let's see what happens.
Now this is what I don't get. Why is it when I leave voltage to auto (1.45v) and clock frequency to auto and run cinebench, I get these results below. Core voltage goes nowhere near its maximum and core speed sticks at 3.8ghz? Temps are well in check, only 60c or there abouts. Sorry for crude pic
I can't understand how by manually setting core frequency any higher than stock results in CTDs when benching to test stability regardless if I use low voltage, high voltage or even auto voltage.
And why is it when I'm doing a single core bench, every core is banging out 1.46v.
Also trying Ryzen Master auto overclocking mode does nowt, core frequency still sitting at 3.7 to 3.8 with loads of voltage and temperate headroom
I've watched maybe 6 or 7 Ryzen overclocking videos today, read countless guides and tried all the settings from the guides, this is either a stinking chip or I have issues elsewhere in the build.
Could anyone point me in the direction of a tried and trusted way to at least get a small overclock whilst reducing this bonkers default voltage? Or even explain to me where I'm going wrong.
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