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Ryzen 3 1200

Vale

Vale

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I have a Ryzen 3 1200 with a Gigabyte Gaming mk1 AB350. I can clock the chip to 3.8 gig but games become choppy. I never get a BSOD? unsure what the issue is.

I'm thinking of getting a Ryzen 5 1600x instead and forgetting about overclocking. The R3 temp is low so it's not an overheating issue, memory is set at profile XMP1. Memory is 8 gig (2x4) Ballistix BLS4G4D240FSC. Also running an RX470 stock speeds.

Should I just buy the Ryzen 5 or rethink my overclocking with the R3? Main PC use gaming.

Thanks in advance.
 
If I was you I would get the R5 2600, or 1600 and 16GB of 3000-3200MHz ram. You also have slow 2400MHz ram, Ryzen loves faster ram - 3000MHz/3200MHz is the sweet spot. What games are you playing that slow down? The Rx470 is still a reasonable 1080p card, not the best by any means but it should do 1080p with a few setting turned off - even the 4GB model.

If I was you I would get the processor and RAM, if you can't afford both then get the R5 2600(1600 if you need to) and get the ram later and try overclocking the RAM some. You will run out of RAM as 8GB is not enough these days, this may be partly your issue now and as it's relatively slow it will hurt you more when it happens. Run TaskManager and see what RAM utilisation is like during gaming - I bet it's high!
 
Choppy AFTER the overclock. The GAMING 3 version of the board is the one to have apparently, mine is the first revision and a bit naff. I've managed to bump the chip up to 3.5 gig and the ram from 2400 to 2666 and that is now as far as it will go before playing up.
 
Increasing the SoC voltage to 1.1V will help with memory overclocking. Check to see and if it's at default increase it to 1.1V and you may get another step or two on the memory. You may not have this variable accessible on your motherboard but it's helped me with memory overclocking/stability before.
 
Vale said:
Choppy AFTER the overclock. The GAMING 3 version of the board is the one to have apparently, mine is the first revision and a bit naff. I've managed to bump the chip up to 3.5 gig and the ram from 2400 to 2666 and that is now as far as it will go before playing up.
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This is what I suspected. So your overclock is not stable, or you have something else going on (like in the link above with the glitchy driver). You don't need a new chip here, you just need to resolve you issue.
 
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