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Overclocking guide for 3600X and MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon Max Wifi

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Hi All

I have recently installed a Ryzen 5 3600X onto a MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon Max WiFi and looking to do a mild overclock. AIO also installed - Masterliquid ML240L, 240mm AIO.

Does anyone have a good guide to overclocking using reliable settings on this processor and board/manufacturer combination?

There are preset overclock functions in the BIOS, but reluctant to use them as I've heard they sometimes apply more voltage than necessary?

Thanks all.
 
Hi All

I have recently installed a Ryzen 5 3600X onto a MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon Max WiFi and looking to do a mild overclock. AIO also installed - Masterliquid ML240L, 240mm AIO.

Does anyone have a good guide to overclocking using reliable settings on this processor and board/manufacturer combination?

There are preset overclock functions in the BIOS, but reluctant to use them as I've heard they sometimes apply more voltage than necessary?

Thanks all.
What RAM do you have? Exact model number please.

The most important timings are the tRCD and sub timings. You'll need to get to know your BIOS and understand what is what. There is no silver bullet guide for overclocking

Use DRAM calculator to get started and then tighten timings as far as you can.

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/ryzen-dram-calculator/
https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/cifiy2/finally_a_detailed_ddr4_overclocking_guide/
 
Hi JollyJamma

I have 2x 8GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3600Mhz, CMK16GX4M2Z3600C20

Sorry - My question was related to CPU overclock not memory overclock, unless I need to adjust memory timings as well?

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Hi JollyJamma

I have 2x 8GB of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3600Mhz, CMK16GX4M2Z3600C20

Sorry - My question was related to CPU overclock not memory overclock, unless I need to adjust memory timings as well?

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You'll not get very far with the CPU overclock.

Enable AMD PBO and leave the motherboard to manage the CPU. You won't be able to gain much CPU wise, maybe a few 100 mhz but nothing like Intel's ability to hit 5+ Ghz.

RAM is a far better way to gain performance in AMD since latency affects the performance and easily manually tweaked.

Start by reading this https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-memory-tweaking-overclocking-guide/

According to this link, you have Samsung B Die https://pangoly.com/en/compare/ram/...e-lpx-16gb-2x8gb-ddr4-3600-cmk16gx4m2z3600c20
 
Thanks

I have just enabled AMD PBO. Currently it was set to [Auto] and changed it to "Enabled". There are a multitude of settings, Enabled 1, Enabled 2 etc.
Do you know if there is anything else I need to do?

Many thanks for the links on the memory overclocks - I will take a read into them this evening and make some progress.
 
Thanks

I have just enabled AMD PBO. Currently it was set to [Auto] and changed it to "Enabled". There are a multitude of settings, Enabled 1, Enabled 2 etc.
Do you know if there is anything else I need to do?

Many thanks for the links on the memory overclocks - I will take a read into them this evening and make some progress.

Try Enabled 1, fire up windows, open CPU-z and run Intel CPU burn to see what the CPU boosts to. Then do the same with Enabled 2.

Your RAM has very high latency so you'll want to get it from 20-23-23-43 to something like 18-19-18-36 but that depends on how good the RAM is and how good your memory controller is.

If your RAM is hot garbage and I had to suggest an easy fix, I'd suggest spending some money on Crucial Ballistix 3200CL16. That'll overclock to 3800CL16 quite easily.

That being said, you need to fiddle with the RAM yourself and do your own hands on test. You might be able to get your RAM to tighten up really nicely and perform well.
 
You could try an all core OC, set voltage at 1.325 or below and push up the clock till it crashes then drop it back a notch or two,mif it can do 4.4ghz or more then it should easily out perform pbo.
 
You could try an all core OC, set voltage at 1.325 or below and push up the clock till it crashes then drop it back a notch or two,mif it can do 4.4ghz or more then it should easily out perform pbo.
All core overclocked on AMD kills its single thread performance but sure, you can manually overclock it.

I’d rather let PBO handle each core and focus on tuning memory.
 
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