Help with Ryzen 1700X overclocking

[WildWayz]

Hi guys

After a bit of advice.
I have a 1700X, ASrock AB350 AM4 Pro and 16gb DDR4 3200MHz ram and a H60 AIO water cooler.

On auto for the core, the system is stable and boosts to 3.9ghz. my Cinebench score is 1560ish

If I set the multiplier to 3.9 and voltage up to 1.4v, it will pass cinebench but Handbrake encoding or Prime95 results in a system crash.

Any idea what I am doing wrong? On auto what does the voltage run at?

I've tried disabling turbo boost in the bios (core performance boost), voltage set to 1.35 and multiplier set to 39.
OCCT runs for 10 mins then system crashes. CPU temp hits 46C max before crashing.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Glanza]

Have you tried actually using it once you've set the clocks up?

Play some games for a few hours and see if it stays on.

 

[WildWayz]

Gaming was a bit.... iffy.

No crashes - well, Shadow of War would give the error "rhe GPU will not respond to more command, most likely because some other application submitted invalid commands. The calling application should re-create the device and continue." when overclocked. Fixed it by turning the overclock off.

 

[chroniclard]

Start with lower voltage and a lower overclock. Your aim is to find an acceptable sweet spot between overclock and safe voltage.

My 1700x takes 1.39V to get 3925 stable. The voltage required above 3.8 tends to ramp up significantly and is often not worth it.

 

[WildWayz]

Start with lower voltage and a lower overclock. Your aim is to find an acceptable sweet spot between overclock and safe voltage.

My 1700x takes 1.39V to get 3925 stable. The voltage required above 3.8 tends to ramp up significantly and is often not worth it.

How did you check stability? Running Cinebench / 3DMark was fine - but Prime95 / OCCT = issues after about 10mins of testing.

 

[chroniclard]

How did you check stability? Running Cinebench / 3DMark was fine - but Prime95 / OCCT = issues after about 10mins of testing.

I tend to run Cinebench a few times first as it will often error with an unstable overclock, so its a good first port of call. Then move onto realbench, prime, occt.

Personally I am not going to spend days making sure its 10000000% stable running things for hours on end, will run prime for an hour tops or realbench stress test for an hour, good enough for my usage.

Also worth testing memory.

 

[WildWayz]

Thanks again

The memory is 8 Packs stuff (the £199 3200MHz stuff) - which has been tested to the speed. Actually can push 3333MHz without adjusting the DRAM voltage.

I guess an hour stress test is stable as most systems don't operate like that when gaming...

 

[chroniclard]

Ah, I have that memory, working great for me.

 

[WildWayz]

Got it all stable now...

CPU: 1700X - 3.85Ghz with 1.385v - stable
Memory: 3333Mhz stable

Cinebench r15 hit 1705 - highest i've ever had! Fire Strike returns 20458 Time Spy is 9560!