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SOME RYZEN 7 1700 OVERCLOCKING!

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Hi there

So I grabbed a retail processor to see how well it did compared to the retail sample AMD provided me. The sample was rock stable in everything at 4050MHz, but anything higher could be flaky.

Glad to report the retail CPU was rock stable at 4100MHz even with the memory running as high as 3200MHz.

Sacrificing memory performance could yield 4.25GHz, but we found running the memory at 3000-3200MHz yielded a greater gain than running the CPU at 4.2GHz with RAM at 2400MHz.

As such sweet spot is memory at 3000MHz C16, however getting memory to run at high clocks takes a lot of trial and error and he had good results with enabling DOCP profiles and then clocking down.

Some screenshots of the 1700:

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I personally think it is a fantastic achievement from AMD, this 65W 3.0GHz base chip is rock stable at 1100MHz above its rated speed.

The 1700 does have XFR but its boost is limited to stay within the 65W specification, but once you switch to manual overclocking the 1700 is no different to the 1700X or 1800X and can easily run at 1800X speeds when overclocked.

We used the best motherboard, the Crosshair, we will do some testing soon in MSI Carbon and Asrock Taichi to see if those can too achieve good overclocks.

The lower-end boards, well they cost less for a reason, you pay for what you get and its still early days so some good value overclocking mainboards may yet appear for sure.

Once we test a Carbon and Taichi with same CPU we shall feedback. We are still awaiting 1800X delivery to test those!

Also as you might be aware there is a severe motherboard shortage and the CPU's have already oversold and are short from AMD.

I shall add delivery information into this thread over next few days as I know it. :)
 
Thanks for the info :)


Bit of a newbie question, but how does the clock speed scale when overclocked? Does it 'boost' up and down due to demand or will it sit at the clocked speed regardless?
 
Nichrome said:
Oh... sounds very sweet :)
What do you mean by.. fine? For me, fine temps are below 65C under water on overclocked CPU.
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I do not consider AIO water, but they were around 66c with a pull and push gentle typhoon setup, so very quiet but powerful cooling. Proper H20 would be cooler!

I hope an 1800X will see at least 4.2-4.3 rock stable and the best will be around 4.4GHz probably with an AIO. Some proper custom H20 guys who get daddy 1800X chips might just squeeze 4.5GHz. Which for a 16 core CPU with such good IPC is very good indeed and it cost half the price of what Intel cost!

AMD only really have to contenders now:
- 7700k is still great gaming CPU for games that are not multi-threaded optimised, so the fact they run 4.50-5.00GHz makes them great for gaming.
- 7600k simply because they are £200 and can also run at 5.0GHz makes them a great option for gaming.


However if it was my money, I'd by Ryzen, simple as that! Cores is the future, not Mhz! :)
 
Scottland said:
Thanks for the info :)


Bit of a newbie question, but how does the clock speed scale when overclocked? Does it 'boost' up and down due to demand or will it sit at the clocked speed regardless?
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Manual overclock, XFR is disabled, so if I set it at 4.1GHz, it runs at this speed all the time and that is how I overclock, I have no interest in energy saving. ;)
 
Gibbo said:
I do not consider AIO water, but they were around 66c with a pull and push gentle typhoon setup, so very quiet but powerful cooling. Proper H20 would be cooler!

I hope an 1800X will see at least 4.2-4.3 rock stable and the best will be around 4.4GHz probably with an AIO. Some proper custom H20 guys who get daddy 1800X chips might just squeeze 4.5GHz. Which for a 16 core CPU with such good IPC is very good indeed and it cost half the price of what Intel cost!
However if it was my money, I'd by Ryzen, simple as that! Cores is the future, not Mhz! :)
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Do you think, 240+360mm rads in push pull, just for CPU, is a proper cooling? ;) GPU I use has factory 120mm AIO cooler.
I probably won't switch to AMD any soon, as I am rocking on my i7 6700k at 5.0GHz (1.45V, 69C under P95, Intel Burn Test etc). In games, a stable 58C :)
But I really hope AMD continues this kind of a gameplay, we seriously need more than 1 company in the CPU market, else Intel will continue to adjust its prices as they want..

PS: I sent a message to 8Pack few days ago, but got no response.. Can you maybe poke him to read the message? :)
 
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