Hello,
I haven't really messed about too much with overclocking my Ryzen 1700 since i've had it, I did replace the stock Wraith cooler with a Noctua NH-U12S SE just for quieter operation and better temperatures. When I first got it about a year or so ago I did initially use Ryzen Master to overclock to 3.7GHz and adjusted the voltage to I believe about 1.33v. I remember I ran Prime95 for many hours and all seemed good. A little while later I was getting the odd crash which I assumed must be the OC, with no need for the extra performance I decided just to take it back to stock clocks. Over the course of the year I still got the odd freeze (which i hate as I couldn't see any reason) but then for some reason, they just stopped (I generally think it was a Windows issue) and haven't had any of those for roughly 5-6 months.
Over the last week I decided I would like to get a bit more performance so decided to have a go as it is supposed to be 'relatively' easy. I updated the BIOS on my MSI B350 Tomahawk to the latest and went to work. I was able to get it to go to 3.85GHz in the BIOS with 1.375 vcore and choosing mode 3 in the boards LLC settings. The voltage is higher than I wanted but it seemed to run ok, I ran Aida64 for a couple of hours, all fine, ran Prime95 Blend test for a few hours, all fine but when I ran the small FFT test it crashed within 30 mins and the system shut down. I scaled back incrementally, 3.8GHz shutdown, 3.7GHz with 1.35vcore, also shutdown. The CPU was getting to almost 85c which seemed pretty hot and according to HWmonitor the 'Systin' temperate was exceeding 100c. I am not really sure where to go next, I haven't overclocked for many years and it seems that the MSI board I have has some really odd settings ie the LLC settings are simply 'Mode 1, Mode 2 and on' rather than actual measurements. I did a best guess when selecting 'Mode 3' but am aware this could be wrong.
Can anyone shed any advice on how to get a stable 3.7GHz OC? I have seen a lot of reports that 3.7 to 3.8 can increase heat and power draw a lot so 3.7 is fine with me. And although even the 3.85 was fine and stable with the odd game, browsing, and general use I do want something that is 100% stable so it needs to pass Prime95 small FFT test which whilst an unrealistic workload should be stable if the overclock is.
Any help appreciated, I have googled etc but a lot of settings advice seems to conflict with the actual settings I have in my motherboards BIOS.
Cheers.
I haven't really messed about too much with overclocking my Ryzen 1700 since i've had it, I did replace the stock Wraith cooler with a Noctua NH-U12S SE just for quieter operation and better temperatures. When I first got it about a year or so ago I did initially use Ryzen Master to overclock to 3.7GHz and adjusted the voltage to I believe about 1.33v. I remember I ran Prime95 for many hours and all seemed good. A little while later I was getting the odd crash which I assumed must be the OC, with no need for the extra performance I decided just to take it back to stock clocks. Over the course of the year I still got the odd freeze (which i hate as I couldn't see any reason) but then for some reason, they just stopped (I generally think it was a Windows issue) and haven't had any of those for roughly 5-6 months.
Over the last week I decided I would like to get a bit more performance so decided to have a go as it is supposed to be 'relatively' easy. I updated the BIOS on my MSI B350 Tomahawk to the latest and went to work. I was able to get it to go to 3.85GHz in the BIOS with 1.375 vcore and choosing mode 3 in the boards LLC settings. The voltage is higher than I wanted but it seemed to run ok, I ran Aida64 for a couple of hours, all fine, ran Prime95 Blend test for a few hours, all fine but when I ran the small FFT test it crashed within 30 mins and the system shut down. I scaled back incrementally, 3.8GHz shutdown, 3.7GHz with 1.35vcore, also shutdown. The CPU was getting to almost 85c which seemed pretty hot and according to HWmonitor the 'Systin' temperate was exceeding 100c. I am not really sure where to go next, I haven't overclocked for many years and it seems that the MSI board I have has some really odd settings ie the LLC settings are simply 'Mode 1, Mode 2 and on' rather than actual measurements. I did a best guess when selecting 'Mode 3' but am aware this could be wrong.
Can anyone shed any advice on how to get a stable 3.7GHz OC? I have seen a lot of reports that 3.7 to 3.8 can increase heat and power draw a lot so 3.7 is fine with me. And although even the 3.85 was fine and stable with the odd game, browsing, and general use I do want something that is 100% stable so it needs to pass Prime95 small FFT test which whilst an unrealistic workload should be stable if the overclock is.
Any help appreciated, I have googled etc but a lot of settings advice seems to conflict with the actual settings I have in my motherboards BIOS.
Cheers.
