Ryzen OC as a novice

[desm0nd]

Hi gents, I'm looking for advice with regards to overclocking my current setup to get a little increase in performance for gaming purposes.

Ryzen 5 2600 (with stock cooler)
RX580 Red Dragon GPU
MSI B450 Tomahawk DDR4 Motherboard
16GB Corsair 3000MHz RAM
Bitfenix Formula 550W PSU

I have been onto the BIOS and turned on the "game boost" and "XMP" presets given, and I am just wanting to know your recommendations as to whether these are both acceptable to do, or would I be better off manually overclocking the CPU? Turning both of these presets on seems to of given me a nice little performance boost, I am just worried about the stability of the system.

As said in the title, I am a complete overclocking novice so my knowledge is limited. Looking at temperatures through CoreTemp, under strenuous gaming conditions the CPU temperature never exceeded 74 degrees. Is this an acceptable temperature?

Any help or advice is much appreciated. I can post any relevant voltages or other information if guided, thanks.

 

[lab4]

Should just be able to change the multiplier to 38 and run. Run a stress test and check temps. If stable and temps low, push once step further. You shouldn't need to change voltages to get 3.8ghz stable. Anything higher you'll want to fix the voltage as the auto voltage can cause issues.

However, I'd be surprised if you notice any difference over stock boost. Unless you are willing to really push. Even then faster cores vs all cores would be better for gaming.

 

[.45 ACP]

no need oc if you're asking me.stock 2600 is not bad for 580 but stock cooler of 2600 isn't.i've used 1060 with oc'd 8320 in 2k and it's working even BF1.2600 is way better and 580 closer to 1060.