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R7 1700 Overclock advice for Gaming/Streaming?

lloydcars18

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Hey there Folks so i have a question to ask basically I've been running a stock clocked R7 1700 for about a year now and its been running great although i'm after some more performance :)

So the rest of my system is in the description i currently play at 2560x1080 and Average around 80-90 FPS on Low/Medium settings other than texture quality on Destiny 2. Which i think is a little low as my Monitor is 144hz and would ideally like 100+fps on a consistent basis.

Do you think 3.7ghz on all cores would be beneficial also i cant seem to run my memory at 3200mhz at 1.35v do you think bumping the voltage up to say 1.38v or so should increase stability as with my second module its causing constant BSOD'S etc?

Haven't started streaming yet but its close on the horizon?
 
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lloydcars18 said:
Hey there Folks so i have a question to ask basically I've been running a stock clocked R7 1700 for about a year now and its been running great although i'm after some more performance :)

So the rest of my system is in the description i currently play at 2560x1080 and Average around 80-90 FPS on Low/Medium settings other than texture quality which i think is a little low as my Monitor is 144hz and would ideally like 100+fps on a consistent basis.

Do you think 3.7ghz on all cores would be beneficial also i cant seem to run my memory at 3200mhz at 1.35v do you think bumping the voltage up to say 1.38v or so should increase stability as with my second module its causing constant BSOD'S etc?

Haven't started streaming yet but its close on the horizon?
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First of all, make sure you have the ram in the correct slots, that's slot 2 and 4 from the CPU, I was running those sticks for quite a while without any problems, enable XMP in the bios and don't touch any other ram settings, they should come loaded with 2 profiles, profile 1 is 2933mhz (3000mhz) and profile 2 is 3200mhz, try both, make sure before you save and exit you raise the CPU NB/SOC voltage to 1.100v, it runs at approx. 0.900v at stock, this is the uncore / north bridge /memory controller, never any higher than 1.2v in total, that's AMD's recommendation, personally ive never taken mine over 1.15v

Is your bios upto date ?

3.7ghz on your CPU should be simple, 1700 is dead easy to overclock, just a case of disabling the power saving features, c-states etc, raising the multiplier to 37, hard dial in the CPU core voltage as auto voltage normally over volts far too much, then stress test, start with IBT, 50 passes, standard, it will take about 15 mins to run and is a very good indication of if you're stable or not, I don't know which cooler you are using, so make sure you monitor your CPU temps with something, if it fails, raise your CPU volts a little more, never any higher than 1.425v at the most if your cooler can handle that, but most will do 3.6-3.7ghz on stock voltages, after all it self boosts to 3.6ghz.

If it passes, I normally set it to maximum for about 20 passes, that will take a couple of hours to run, that will test all of your available ram too, I normally just run it over night and find out in the morning if im stable or not, either it passed or it crashed, you can then move onto tests like prime95.....use v26.6, and realbench etc.
 
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Yep 70 is fine ;)
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The stock cooler will only get you up to 3.6ghz to 3.7ghz, I doubt if it will give you anymore without a better cooler, most need a good voltage bump to get from 3.8ghz - 4ghz before they hit a wall and no amount of voltage will give anything more, mine was running at 3.9ghz, fully stable at 1.375v, tried all the way up to 1.45v and couldn't even get 3.95ghz out of it, that's what I mean about the wall, there was 500mhz in it.

This was mine running on an MSI mortar B350 motherboard with the same ram you have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaQgj3PPTu8&t
 
I have been running 3.6 all cores (36x) although it does ramp down to 1550Mhz at idle, on stock cooling. Vcore is 1.25, SOC is 1.1V, Vmem is 1.38V. Memory 3333MHz C14.

This has been since April 2017.

I have just bought a Noctua NH-D14 and plan on running it up to 3.9 - 4.0 and hoping to keep the memory settings. This will be the longest I have owned a CPU without much overclocking required.
 
For reference i have my 1700 running at 3.9 @ 1.325v on a 240mm AIO and ive never seen it go above 65c. I run on a CH6 as well with my ram at 3200mhz on a 1440p 144hz screen with a 1070 and i get a comfortable FPS on FF14 which i mainly play at the moment. Dont be afraid to turn down some settings on your 580 like shadows and Depth of field etc on some games as they often hit performance hard but for very little actual graphical quality improvement.
 
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