Ryzen 3700x "Overclocking" for simpletons...(and mainly for thermal reasons)...

[SheldonCooper]

Hi there,

I recently swapped a 2700x for a 3700x into the same mobo and with the same cooling...and I was surprised to see that the 3700x ran way hotter than the 2700x...even with the huge Noctua NH-D15 with 2 fans. Like at idle, it would sit around 50-60 degrees and under load would be around 70-75.

Obviously higher temps = more fan noise, and regardless of whether it's safe for the chip to run hotter, it's a pain in the ass hearing the fans whirring up and down all the time when i'm just browsing the interwebs - and even with days of fan curve messing...i've not found anything to tame the chip.

Until...I found a video on Youtube of some dude that just used Ryzen Master to set a all-core frequency of 4.3Ghz and a V-core of 1.25 and it lowered his idle and load temps. I'm not really someone who has the patients to deep dive into eeking every last bit of performance out of it...and this solution seemed like a really nice set it and forget it option (providing it was stable).

So I have just spent a quick hour doing some preliminary tests, starting at 4.1 and working up to 4.3Ghz @ 1.25v, using Cinebench as a quick "does it it immediately crash" test - and I've so far run 3 successful tests on each set of settings, and my score went up by between 400-500 points and thermals are a nice 40ish on idle and 65 under load.

It all looks sweet...but I can't help but have that feeling of it being too good to be true (or too easy to be true). Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on whether this is legit? I have looked through reddit and everyone is doing different things and have differing opinions...could do with some reassurance from non-reddit people

Thanks!

 

[SheldonCooper]

Thanks for the responses. Have had a week or so now with the CPU. I don't think the temps are as wild at idle as they were. Not sure why this was as my BIOS was on the latest one from when first swapping the CPU. I tried again messing with seeing what I could push the CPU too, and it crashes at anything other than 4.3GHz all cores @ 1.25v. I can't even set the strongest core to 4.4 and have the others at 4.3 - crashes.

When I let it just do its own thing and just game as normal, only 1 core turbos to 4.4GHz while all the others boost to only around 4.35Ghz, obviously it's not doing that all the time. I am very much all for leaving it as it is to do it's own thing - but I dunno, in my head (and please correct me if I am wrong) - other than the odd little burst of an extra 100mhz on a core here and there, surely the benefits of having all cores guarantee 4.3Ghz solid 100% of the time when required? That make sense?

I would say I predominately game on the computer - but I do also use it for Adobe products too. This is where the 4.3GHz all cores all the time thing for rendering Premiere and After Effects stuff would be ideal? If I all I am losing is 100mhz bursts here and there?

I hope all of that makes sense.

I will be honest, I've been on Ryzen for nearly 2 years now and I still don't understand how the CPU's boost and manage themselves power wise and I'm not really interested in learning cause I'm not really chasing every last ounce of performance. I just want something that will feed my 2080ti with frames and that I can get like..what...90% of the raw power out the chip?

I waffled there. Sorry. Any advice welcomed and again, really appreciate you taking the time to read and reply.