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AMD OC guide thread

Raja
Level 13
The first of our OC guides is now live. This one is aimed primarily at extreme overclocking, but has some good info for normal usage, too. Expectations for overclocking frequencies and voltage requirements are all defined, as well as handy hints for troubleshooting via motherboard POST codes. A worthy read:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/cyc9ns24gwwploo/C6H_XOC_Guide_v03.pdf

A normal overclocking guide may follow at a later date - assuming there is something of merit to write about. CPU overclocking is limited by the architecture itself. Unless yields improve, 4GHz is the expected frequency for most samples. Memory overclocking is limited by AMD's firmware.

Be sensible when purchasing a memory kit for the platform. Stick with kits rated below DDR4-3000, and bear in mind that kits binned on Intel platforms may not achieve their rated timings and frequency on the AMD platform.
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Raja@ASUS wrote:
Understood. Things are progressing, but nobody knows how far they can ultimately go. To get any further with the IMC, board vendors need a lot more access to the registers.


The thing is i got Bulldozer as soon as it was released, got K10 quad as soon as it was released and got Thuban as soon as it was available. All of them had everything enabled and available.
It's like they forgot how CPU releases go 😄
Anyway, enough of this. Situation is clear, thanks 😉

Raja
Level 13
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Ok, what I am getting at 4ghz is this PC switch off with orange light blinking slowly under Q-Code LED. Raising voltage to 1.42-1.43 does not change anything. Dropping ram to 2133Mhz doesn't change as well. Manual says that yellow light means RAM, but if 2133Mhz is causing the crash(switch off) then I doubt that's RAM.

muziqaz wrote:
Ok, what I am getting at 4ghz is this PC switch off with orange light blinking slowly under Q-Code LED. Raising voltage to 1.42-1.43 does not change anything. Dropping ram to 2133Mhz doesn't change as well. Manual says that yellow light means RAM, but if 2133Mhz is causing the crash(switch off) then I doubt that's RAM.


if it is messing up when the yellow light is on ...it is the ram......what ram you got?...what are your timings and voltage on the ram?
and if you're SoC voltage is too high it will also cause this issue ....my ram at 2725 mhz with 14-14-14-14-34 is running on
1.30 volts .....llc 110%....and a boot voltage of 1.35....and the reason for this is because in windows if i set ram at 1.35 in bios my ram is over 1.4 volts,my ram is not even on the qvl list i also run my cpu at 4ghz 1.3750 vcore
llc set to setting 1 with 110% puts it at 1.41 1.43 in windows ......
SoC voltage is at 0.96 and in windows llc pushes it to 1.025...llc is again setting 1 ..110%
if i leave llc on auto i get even higher voltages in windows....
and i don't remember if i seen what type of cpu you have ....but if you got a 1700 or a 1700x you might not be able to do 4ghz.....
rememebr man the 1700x and 1700 are cpu's that faild to make the 1800x stamp...that right there says from AMD
it faild to meet the requirements to be a 1800x..i.e. voltage standards and clock speeds you might need more vcore voltage with a lower cpu....
but then again .....to much voltage will do the same thing as not enough voltage ....
and i can't stress it enough SoC at 0.95 will boot even 3000 mhz ram......i left a voltage tuning guide a few pages back .....worth the read if you really want to get the most out of your rig.....

Changing gears here....... the first time I've messed with bios settings besides QFan and DRAM speed.

When I changed the cpu ratio the processer configuration in control panel - power settings disappeared. So my balanced setting of 70%-100% and performance @ 90%-100 are gone now. That's just weird to me, not a problem. It's in line with win10 worried about my battery when I've got a 45lb desktop than does not get lost in the cushions!

purecain
Level 9
the best we can hope for is 3466mhz using the dividers, 3600mhz is possible for those who are using the base clock method to oc.

G.Skill are releasing some new ram and 3466mhz is the highest bin. if their technicians wernt able to reach higher speeds I'm confident we have reached the limit of the imc on Ryzen.
I think the system builders like myself who have bought early who have 4000mhz + rated ram would of benefitted from a little more feedback from amd.
but in the end the ryzen chipset is quite capable and is still a very good product. if the latest beta bios stops the need to have to reprogram the bios settings every two days we will have a product to market.
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Hi buddies
I'm going to overclock my 1700x up to 4Gh. My Mobo is Asus Rog Crosshair Vl Hero and my Rams is 16 GB Geil EvoX 3200 CL 16.
I want to reach to 4Gh CPU clock using 3200 ram frequency.
As I'm beginner in overclocking area, plz explain clearly how i can do it.
Tnx

Hi to all ryzen lovers and asus fans. Got my pc monday build with this motherboard from asus and a ryzen 1600x. The thing is oc to 4ghz with vcore voltage set to 1.375v and the dram set to 3200 with 1.35v. I run the corsair lpx series cl16 with the bios 9903( or is it 9902? ) and everything is stable and i am happy . Also wanted to ask if i should try and lower the voltage on the cores to 1.35v or just leave it as it is?

G0dzis wrote:
Hi to all ryzen lovers and asus fans. Got my pc monday build with this motherboard from asus and a ryzen 1600x. The thing is oc to 4ghz with vcore voltage set to 1.375v and the dram set to 3200 with 1.35v. I run the corsair lpx series cl16 with the bios 9903( or is it 9902? ) and everything is stable and i am happy . Also wanted to ask if i should try and lower the voltage on the cores to 1.35v or just leave it as it is?


Decrease vcore until is unestable, after reach this point increase a bit to gain stability. check your temps...

Is using auto with level 5 llc safe?

My system appears stable after several tests.
I posted what i did on overclockers as well as the amd subreddit.


Looked around for some numbers, tried em for myself. So far everything seems stable but im wondering if I did ok. Board is the Crosshair VI Hero.
This is for the R5 1600. Probably not in proper order with this.

Ram is Corsairs LPX 3200mhz kit

Bios Rev : 1403

Ratio : 37

BCLK: 100.2 (having that .2 there is just so things arent .2 off their values in OS)
CPU Voltage : Auto
(load is varying between 1.256 and 1.3; vcore is showing 1.286 idle, 1.306 max)
CPU SOC : 1.2 (via offset)
CPU LLC : Level 5
CPU Power Phase : Extreme
CPU Current Capability : 110%

Dram timings 16-19-19-19-36-55-2T
Dram power settings unchanged except for 1.4 Boot and 1.35 normal

Most other things are left at auto.

Temps are idling around 42-48C
So far only tests i ran were AIDA64 (Just stress cpu) for 30m , Realbench for 2 hours, 3DMarks Timespy and Firestrike Extreme tests, cinebench'd several times and ran all tests at least once, also ran OCCT linpack for an hour and passed. Nothing seems to happen when gaming either.
The mentioned tests the temps did not exceed 80C on the wraith spire. Socket temps are pretty in line with CPU and not going above them as well. This was also while using the Ryzen power plan.
Only thing that happened, was saw a qcode 8 during the first linpack attempt at 45m, but ran again and it passed on the 2nd try. So not sure what caused that, Bios instability maybe?
Did I luck out, or could this use some refining?



Havn't got anyone saying no or really feedback at all yet.