Here's my plan, I wanted to run it by you guys. The idea is to provide a minimal overclock in BIOS and then use MSI Afterburner and AMD Ryzen Master to apply profiles for gaming when needed. The logic behind it is removing unnecessary heat and noise and remove long term OC stress (on cooling and on me).
System: Ryzen 2700X, 16Gb 3600Mhz 8pack, Crosshair VII, Pilat 1070Ti shroud cooler.
Stock speeds (from memory): CPU 3.7Ghz, memory: 2133Mhz, GPU 1900Mhz/4000Mhz
In the BIOS perform a small overclock to something conservative like CPU: 3.9Ghz Memory, 3000Mhz. Out of interest 3600Mhz D.O.C.P profile is unstable
Then in Windows 10 I can use MSI afterburner to push the video card to it's limits when I intend to game and Ryzen Master to push the 2700X to 4.2Ghz or higher and the ram to 3400Mhz
So far I have tested the CPU up to 4.2Ghz at 1.4V as stable, memory at 3200Mhz stable, but I believe that 3400Mhz is the sweet spot. GPU I have added +200Mhz to both CPU and memory, at 250Mhz it became unstable. Needs a bit more work to see if the memory will go higher still.
At these higher speeds while the initial stress tests only produce temps in the low 70s the system does build heat over an hour or more of gaming producing mid 80s on the CPU and high 70s on the video card.
I have had a few overheats caused by AI Suite 3 being bugged and worse than not controlling the fan speed it takes control of them and leaves them at minimum. Further when bugged clicking the "Full Speed" button to get the heat out of the system has a 50% chance of a hard shutdown occurring. So I need to find an alternative to that.
One consideration not mentioned is the system will dual boot to Gentoo Linux, so I do want a sensible BIOS profile for CPU bound compiling and workstation style loads. I also need to make sure that the default BIOS fan speed profile is sane and not borked by AI Suite 3 bug effects.
The system is currently very nearly silent under light load, I'm hoping to keep it that way, I don't so much mind if it sounds like a tornado under gaming load though.
Cooling, BTW, is a cheap Corsair H100X AIO 240mm Rad with front mounted twin fan rad and stock Fractal Designs case fans, one intake on the bottom, one exhaust behind CPU.
System: Ryzen 2700X, 16Gb 3600Mhz 8pack, Crosshair VII, Pilat 1070Ti shroud cooler.
Stock speeds (from memory): CPU 3.7Ghz, memory: 2133Mhz, GPU 1900Mhz/4000Mhz
In the BIOS perform a small overclock to something conservative like CPU: 3.9Ghz Memory, 3000Mhz. Out of interest 3600Mhz D.O.C.P profile is unstable
Then in Windows 10 I can use MSI afterburner to push the video card to it's limits when I intend to game and Ryzen Master to push the 2700X to 4.2Ghz or higher and the ram to 3400Mhz
So far I have tested the CPU up to 4.2Ghz at 1.4V as stable, memory at 3200Mhz stable, but I believe that 3400Mhz is the sweet spot. GPU I have added +200Mhz to both CPU and memory, at 250Mhz it became unstable. Needs a bit more work to see if the memory will go higher still.
At these higher speeds while the initial stress tests only produce temps in the low 70s the system does build heat over an hour or more of gaming producing mid 80s on the CPU and high 70s on the video card.
I have had a few overheats caused by AI Suite 3 being bugged and worse than not controlling the fan speed it takes control of them and leaves them at minimum. Further when bugged clicking the "Full Speed" button to get the heat out of the system has a 50% chance of a hard shutdown occurring. So I need to find an alternative to that.
One consideration not mentioned is the system will dual boot to Gentoo Linux, so I do want a sensible BIOS profile for CPU bound compiling and workstation style loads. I also need to make sure that the default BIOS fan speed profile is sane and not borked by AI Suite 3 bug effects.
The system is currently very nearly silent under light load, I'm hoping to keep it that way, I don't so much mind if it sounds like a tornado under gaming load though.
Cooling, BTW, is a cheap Corsair H100X AIO 240mm Rad with front mounted twin fan rad and stock Fractal Designs case fans, one intake on the bottom, one exhaust behind CPU.