*** Official Ryzen Owners Thread ***

[Hagar]

I'm getting 6 cores flat out at 1.24v and 3691mhz, which is odd but sure, I'll take those 91mhz. That's like 1/3 of a respectable Ryzen overclock done for me

The 1600x has an all core boost of 3.7GHz so you are slightly down, probably the motherboard clock at 99.76Mhz rather than 100.0

Model - Base Clock - Boost (All Cores) - Boost (2 Cores) - XFR (2 Cores)
1600X - 3.6 - 3.7 - 4.0 - 4.1

 

[eddiew]

The 1600x has an all core boost of 3.7GHz so you are slightly down, probably the motherboard clock at 99.76Mhz rather than 100.0

Actually it's at 100.5... I honestly don't know what to think any more But I hadn't considered all-core boost, just base-clock, which is 3.6, so I'm taking it as a bonus

Imma leave it running prime overnight at this undervolt, if it's happy in the morning, I'll call it good until Zen+

 

[opethdisciple]

Yeah all settings get wiped. In my case the bios updates have made things even worse.
Go for 3.8 @ 1.35v and give that a go. Your issues were the same as mine when pushing for 3.9.

It worked! 3 hours prime stable, and waking from idle during that time.

On to overclocking my ram tomorrow.

I have the Corsair LPX ram. As far as I know, set volts to 1.4, put the timings in manually and set ProcODT to 60.

Then stability test it with HCI.

I've never overclocked RAM before so this is all new to me.

 

[gavinh87]

It worked! 3 hours prime stable, and waking from idle during that time.

On to overclocking my ram tomorrow.

I have the Corsair LPX ram. As far as I know, set volts to 1.4, put the timings in manually and set ProcODT to 60.

Then stability test it with HCI.

I've never overclocked RAM before so this is all new to me.

Yep, that looks right to me.

 

[eddiew]

Yeah, no, I give up I am forced to conclude that my motherboard simply doesn't have good bios options for overclocking this chip. There's no ability to specify the CPU voltage, only the offset.

1) stock config, offset -0.072v, bios shows this as 1.2v. Boots, primes all night long with ~1.28v all cores at 3.7, never goes above 67 degrees, but does get xfr spikes of up to 1.519v when doing light tasks.

2) fixed at 3.7ghz, same offset, bios shows this as 1.39v (why???). Runs at 1.4v all cores, gets much hotter, never downclocks. Windows power plan loses min/max processor settings.

3) using AMD's power plan, never downclocks, up to 3 cores show as running full xfr at all times and volts are almost continuously around 1.45!

3) offsets below -0.072v result in a failure to boot and require clearing cmos.

I... cannot tame these volts with the options I have Which is annoying, because I thought the Gigabyte Gaming line was good, and it turns out to lack some real basic controls like what voltages you want... So basically I've gimped myself with poor choice of board.

Still. It runs. It runs cool, stable, and it's presumably within AMD's tolerances. And it's significantly faster than I thought it would be vs my old 2500k. I should probably quit worrying and just use the darn thing

 

[DarkHorizon472]

Yeah, no, I give up I am forced to conclude that my motherboard simply doesn't have good bios options for overclocking this chip. There's no ability to specify the CPU voltage, only the offset.

1) stock config, offset -0.072v, bios shows this as 1.2v. Boots, primes all night long with ~1.28v all cores at 3.7, never goes above 67 degrees, but does get xmp spikes of up to 1.519v when doing light tasks.

2) fixed at 3.7ghz, same offset, bios shows this as 1.39v (why???). Runs at 1.4v all cores, gets much hotter, never downclocks. Windows power plan loses min/max processor settings.

3) using AMD's power plan, never downclocks, up to 3 cores show as running full xmp at all times and volts are almost continuously around 1.45!

3) offsets below -0.072v result in a failure to boot and require clearing cmos.

I... cannot tame these volts with the options I have Which is annoying, because I thought the Gigabyte Gaming line was good, and it turns out to lack some real basic controls like what voltages you want... So basically I've gimped myself with poor choice of board.

Still. It runs. It runs cool, stable, and it's presumably within AMD's tolerances. And it's significantly faster than I thought it would be vs my old 2500k. I should probably quit worrying and just use the darn thing

Try just below 3.7Ghz, on my mother board on auto going just below that lead to much lower voltages.

 

[eddiew]

Try just below 3.7Ghz, on my mother board on auto going just below that lead to much lower voltages.

Kind of ends up being an underclock though, since it's happy to run 3.7 (or 3.691) all-cores under its stock config xD In the end, I guess that if Ryzen couldn't take occasional spikes to 1.5v it wouldn't be asking for them... There's an internet full of people who've observed the same behaviour with xfr, and it looks like it's all about that boost to 4.1. It feels unnecessarily high, but it isn't causing temperature spikes and imma trust AMD on it being fine and normal because I am not an electrical engineer

The lack of a simple voltage option is on Gigabyte however. Tbh, had I done better research I might have made a different choice, but I've got what I've got and I can't be bothered fiddling with it now

 

[DarkHorizon472]

That's unfortunate, on mine on auto voltage all cores on 3.675Ghz it sets 1.2v, on 3.7Ghz it sets about 1.37v. It's very strange.

I now run all cores at 3.7Ghz on 1.22v manual voltage with no problems. Cpu boost is disabled.

 

[eddiew]

If there was a manual voltage setting I would use it ^^; Unfortunately Gigabyte have rather let themselves down with this bios.

 

[Orcvader]

Took me a while to realise it but you have to use the page up and down buttons on the keyboard to change the voltage on my K7. No idea if it's the same for your board.

 

[eddiew]

Took me a while to realise it but you have to use the page up and down buttons on the keyboard to change the voltage on my K7. No idea if it's the same for your board.

I literally don't have a voltage to select. There is only "dynamic vcore" (offset), with Auto, and a range of -0.3 to +0.3. There's no indication of what it's relative to, and indeed, that value changes depending on your overclock, so it's a total guess.

This guy shows the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guN4DF64ABA&t=45

Had it ever occurred to me that someone would make a board WITHOUT voltage control I would have chosen differently, but I can't be arsed with another reinstall again so... this is what I got :/

Can only hope that they add this in a later bios, but frankly I doubt it. They've had plenty of time to sort it out.

 

[pete910]

Took me a while to realise it but you have to use the page up and down buttons on the keyboard to change the voltage on my K7. No idea if it's the same for your board.

Just type the voltage you want in

 

[chanjy]

I literally don't have a voltage to select. There is only "dynamic vcore" (offset), with Auto, and a range of -0.3 to +0.3. There's no indication of what it's relative to, and indeed, that value changes depending on your overclock, so it's a total guess.

This guy shows the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guN4DF64ABA&t=45

Had it ever occurred to me that someone would make a board WITHOUT voltage control I would have chosen differently, but I can't be arsed with another reinstall again so... this is what I got :/

Can only hope that they add this in a later bios, but frankly I doubt it. They've had plenty of time to sort it out.

This is deliberate to differentiate the X370 from the B350 boards.

It's kinda annoying but AMD have given users more overclocking chipsets than Intel at least

 

[Scougar]

When power is removed from the psu, i.e taking the cable from it or turning the pc off at the wall, the next time I come to boot it gets into a boot loop.
I then have to reset cmos, enter bios, load profile and all is ok.
If the cable is left in or it never gets unplugged or my house doesn't lose power (old house) its fine but its annoying as hell.
This happens when running ram speeds above 3200, the ram is verified stable at 3466 but i dread the though of turning it on in case at some point in the day the wife has unplugged it or whatever.

Sounds like you need a battery backup/UPS to get around this (Not bad to have one anyway for any system).

 

[gavinh87]

Sounds like you need a battery backup/UPS to get around this (Not bad to have one anyway for any system).

Or ASUS and AMD could get their **** together and fix it

 

[muon]

This is deliberate to differentiate the X370 from the B350 boards.

It's kinda annoying but AMD have given users more overclocking chipsets than Intel at least

Other B350 boards have it. It looks like Gigabyte have deliberately gimped their cheapest B350 board.

 

[eddiew]

Other B350 boards have it. It looks like Gigabyte have deliberately gimped their cheapest B350 board.

There's not a lot of price variance in mATX space - this one is 94p more expensive than the other, and it's actually the most expensive available on OCUK. Should have done better research, but it never occurred to me that such a basic feature would be absent

 

[Orcvader]

Just type the voltage you want in

Wait, you can do that? Urgh I feel like an even bigger idiot. At first I was clicking it/pressing enter but was confused when nothing popped up. Then I remembered from my older Intel system that I can use pg up/down and tried that and that worked.

 

[opethdisciple]

Yep, that looks right to me.

From bios to bios have your oc's still worked or have you needed to retest?

 

[smogsy]

Wait, you can do that? Urgh I feel like an even bigger idiot. At first I was clicking it/pressing enter but was confused when nothing popped up. Then I remembered from my older Intel system that I can use pg up/down and tried that and that worked.

on my K7 if you type in a number it automatically changes to the closets Automatic increment.... or even worse you want - 0.799 it does + 799