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The Ryzen 5 3600 Discussion Thread

JOSH said:
Sent the b450 back and all's well with the x570.

Right any links and tips for standard use? XMP or tuning utilities/must haves?
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You can leave everything at Default Optimized in BIOS (Stock) and just use XMP/DOCP for the RAM. Depending on the RAM, you may have to add a bit of voltage. My GSkill Ripjaws V 3200 CL16 M-die are running at DOCP 3200 CL16 but raised the speed up to 3333 CL16 with 1.36v. If you cannot make it run at DOCP, then use the DRAM Calculator.
For monitoring, use only HWINFO64 or Ryzen Master. I use the former only.

The chipset driver i downloaded directly from AMD site not the board manufacturer.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/x570
 
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New BIOS has dropped for my x570 Asus TUF. Only note is improved system performance.
Tested & holds 3600x at 4367mhz for longer in a single core test though multi score results are the same with all cores at 4149mhz.
 
Put together a 3600 system few days again, latest bios just checking everything in order, default settings all core 3975mhz and single core 4175mhz, that about normal?. Whats best method to pursue an OC without running cores at boost 24/7? PBO doesn't seem to do anything for me what about auto overclocking.

Cheers
 
Orange Nexus said:
My 4.2 GHz all core oc does not downclock but the voltage does. With all core oc, it seems cooler cos the vcore does not jump as high but close to what you set in BIOS. Load temp is same as stock, tho. I keep mine at stock.

https://i.imgur.com/jzoq05U.jpg
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You would need to use ryzen master or the new beta version of hwinfo 6.13 I believe to see the downclocking as the old versions of hwinfo don't show it.
 
MegaPinches said:
Put together a 3600 system few days again, latest bios just checking everything in order, default settings all core 3975mhz and single core 4175mhz, that about normal?. Whats best method to pursue an OC without running cores at boost 24/7? PBO doesn't seem to do anything for me what about auto overclocking.

Cheers
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Took a lot of fiddling with pbo on my b450 toma max and then I only got +25 too 4.225 that was with pbo scaler x2 but the temps were about 10c higher and vcore running cinebench was 1.375 so I went back to 4.2 all core at 1.325 which also gave a cinebench r15 score of 1683 as opposed to pbo of 1600 with single core score of 498 with pbo only giving 497 even tho it had a 25mhz advantage I guess this is down to the single boosting cores alternating.
 
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Just a quick update. Thus far my all core Ryzen Master profiles are:

4200MHz @ 1.175v
4300MHz @ 1.225v
4400MHz @ 1.275v

Also testing out a profile where 3 cores are 4GHz and 3 cores at 4.5GHz at 1.275v :)

I keep tweaking the voltage until fully stable for my needs.
 
bells said:
Is it worth it going from a 4790k to a 3600/x ? as i could also drop in a more powerfull Am4 cpu in the future ?
or just stay on my 4790K 16g ram ? im not sure
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I guess that depends if your system isn't doing what you want it to do anymore or just wanting an upgrade for the sake of it.
 
bells said:
Is it worth it going from a 4790k to a 3600/x ? as i could also drop in a more powerfull Am4 cpu in the future ?
or just stay on my 4790K 16g ram ? im not sure
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I went from a 4770K at 4.7GHz to a 3600. Cant say in terms of visible day to day or 4K gaming performance there is much of a change being honest. I have however had a great time upgrading and tinkering. For sure the the 3600 is faster but unless you are doing workloads that use the extra performance, then you won’t see a big difference.

My main thing was getting away from intel’s security issues, there are so many holes found their cpu’s it all the time. It is also nice having two extra cores and better IPC. Overall I am happy I upgraded :D
 
TNA said:
Just a quick update. Thus far my all core Ryzen Master profiles are:

4200MHz @ 1.175v
4300MHz @ 1.225v
4400MHz @ 1.275v

Also testing out a profile where 3 cores are 4GHz and 3 cores at 4.5GHz at 1.275v :)

I keep tweaking the voltage until fully stable for my needs.
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Remember you need to actually test performance at each clock speed. These chips will "clock stretch" if not fed enough voltage, rather than just crash, so you might think everything is fine with an overclock but actually be getting worse performance.
 
DragonQ said:
Remember you need to actually test performance at each clock speed. These chips will "clock stretch" if not fed enough voltage, rather than just crash, so you might think everything is fine with an overclock but actually be getting worse performance.
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Already done that. Not sure if it was you who mentioned it before. There is a clear difference between each in 3-4 different benchmarks I tested.

Go check my cinebench scores, they are by far the best 3600. That would not be the case if it was clock stretching. Also would get higher scores if at the same clock when I give it more voltage the score would change, but it stays within margin of error. Conclusion, no clock stretching :D


https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/the-official-ocuk-cinebench-r20-benchmark-thread.18849380/

I am 15th on the single threaded benchmark which is the 3rd highest Ryzen score. My all core 4.5GHz OC is also the highest scored 3600 but that is not a very high score as the 3600 only has 6 cores vs peeps that now have 12 or more cores topping the charts.
 
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Orange Nexus said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzbc8h1udYk
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Makes no difference to 4K which is what I game at. I am always GPU limited or reach my desired fps before needing more CPU power :p

Also not fair really comparing two CPU's from completely different price points and different number of cores really. The 9900KS will cost double if not triple the amount of money. More than I spent on my 3600, X570 mobo and RAM. Lol.
 
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