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I have written the answer in the text you quoted above. Look at my Rule number 3 and rule number 7, this should answer your question. Also please actually read what we post here, we are trying to help. If your english is not good enough to understand what we are writing, I could translate it to either German or Hungarian, alternatively just use a translator. If you have any unanswered questions, let me know.

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Again, this is probably not going to work because we don't know how your CPU handles clock and voltage changes, we don't know your PSU, cooling performance of your system overall etc. Understand it first, then go from some base information that you can find on the internet to start your overclock and slowly dial it up (if you think the system will still be stable and temps fine) or down (if the system is unstable or temps too hot). You could get lucky with a "just change voltage to x.xxv and your clock rate to x.xx Ghz" but if you are not you will still be on your own. Also I'm pretty sure a "4+ghz" overclock with the 1700 is hardly possible. It seems to be running insanely hot at 1.4v - 3.8Ghz on air already without taking into account that you might have a CPU that overclocks badly, meaning that you could only reach maybe 3.7Ghz at 1.4v. (source: https://www.hardocp.com/article/2017/03/20/amd_ryzen_7_1700_retail_cpu_overclocking_x_2) If I were you, I'd shoot for a +500Mhz overclock and go from there. Again: adjust the voltage slowly, don't jump too high if you don't have to.

Every CPU I've overclocked so far was from Intel (Pentium 4, I5-750, I7-3770k) but I'd be surprised if it AMD is a lot different. Here's the basics that you can (probably) change: >CPU clock rate (or CPU ratio, BCLK etc.) In layman terms, this is how often your CPU "thinks" per second. Instructions that the CPU is working on need to be in order, so it all gets synced through the clock. The faster it "ticks", the faster your computer is able to perform its task. This is the number you want to get higher for more performance. This is called overclocking. >CPU core voltage (Vcore) This is how much voltage your CPU will draw through the motherboard. >CPU offset voltage For CPUs with the ability to regulate their power draw on their own. For example idle the CPU clocks itself down to 1.6Ghz only needing 1 volts but under load it can boost itself to 4Ghz and then needs more voltage, lets say 1.3 volt. The CPU can do this on its own when you overclock using offset voltage. If your CPU can use 1.2 volts MAX pre-overclock, setting offset to 0.05v will allow it to draw a maximum of 1.25volts if needed. General rules for all brand and any generation of CPU: 0.: always overclock your CPU through BIOS/UEFI, never any in-OS software 1.: higher clock rate usually needs more power and therefor higher voltage 2.: higher voltage leads to higher CPU temperatures 3.: if you push your voltage too high you WILL destroy your CPU 4.: Overclocking your CPU will draw more power, make sure your PSU is strong enough to handle it (putting estimated values for your voltage and clock speed into PSU calculators such as this one https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator is not a bad start) 5.: increase clock rate FIRST and then adjust your voltage in small increments until your system is stable at the desired clock rate -> look online for the clock speed others are achieving to have an estimate at where to start 6.: if you cant get it stable dial back the overclock (a stable system is a system that does not crash under full load over a long period of time) 7.: an overclock can still be unhealthy (even if the system is stable), if your temperatures are too high. In this case -> dial back your clock rate and voltage 8.: offset mode is always a good option, if your Motherboard supports it 9.: almost every CPU is unique in its overclocking performance and the exact numbers you need I think that's pretty much it. If anyone can find a big flaw, let me know and I'll edit it as fast as I can. For your specific problem there is literally no better way than to UNDERSTAND what overclocking is FIRST. Following a step by step guide will lead a lot of users into trouble because of rule number 9 and because a lot of step by step guides are made by idiots that don't know what they are doing. If you understood these things and you look in any BIOS/UEFI that supports overclocking you will find either the options mentioned above (for Intel) or something very similar for AMD. Using common sense and some basic logic you will then be able to figure out everything else without much trouble. Have fun and don't kill your hardware

Great idea. This also gives me the idea of making a challenge around building a PC with as little active cooling as possible (points deducted per fan used). Looking at the power/performance metric in such a case would surely lead to the win, since low power parts can perform quite well these days (for example in laptops), while needing very little cooling. Buying water cooling to cool all parts with one fan comes to mind but it is expensive and will lead to less money left for the PC components themselves. I can already imagine a build where you have one heatsink on the CPU and a CPU heatsink on the GPU (pic related), so a single fan can cool them both. I actually wonder if that would work. Or you could in theory say "maximum wattage while running games/benchmarks is not allowed to exceed X Watts", which could be awesome since a lot of high end users are suffering from high electricity bills and the general power consumption of this planet seems to be too high.

While this may be true you have to admit that being creative is still better then doing what worked once over and over again. A lot of people are complaining about the formula being the same and this will lead to a drop in viewers over a period of time. Also I think even the LTT team agrees with me on this point, or else they would not have tried to change the formula so drastically in the Season 2 and 4. This is not some show where unexpected or very interesting/shocking stuff can happens even if you do the same thing all the time (like some wildlife show for example). There is no real "random element" in buying a PC on a budget, putting it together and comparing the PCs you've built. I guarantee, if they don't shake up the formula for the next 3 or more seasons you will be bored to death by the predictability. Don't get me wrong, I love Scrapyard Wars as it is already. But why be satisfied with the minimum if all it takes is a good idea to get way more out of the show?

Good ideas. I'd like to see pretty much anything that brings LTT out of their comfort zone for the next season.

Since Linus is officially out of ideas most of us expected SE5 to be nothing special in terms of the competition and rules a lot of viewers did not get disappointed. So feel free to post some ideas on how to make this show creative again and lets hope that SE6 will be at least inspired by some of the better ideas we might come up with. Done so far: >Build a budget PC >Build a PC with DIY watercooling >Build the best value PC >Build and mod a PC >Build a budget PC ver.2.0 I didn't look up any old threads on this topic, so I'm claiming this idea as my own, if it has been posted in some of the year old threads let me know. >Scrapyard wars: free performance edition. Overclocking is a HUGE part of PC hardware culture and yet it is never addressed in depth on LTT. My idea for the next scrapyard wars would not only be fixing this, but also changing the buying pattern, which has been price/performance oriented most of the time. This means that we could even end up with very old or exotic hardware if it overclocks better. Since a lot of parts are overclockable (CPU, RAM, GPU, (+ Motherboard) which is basically the whole PC minus PSU and Hard drives) there won't be any "I'll just buy everything as cheap as I can with a well overclocking CPU and call it a day" if scored accordingly. The idea is: >points for "free" performance, meaning the Systems get benched 2 times. >Bench 1: normal settings (no cheating!) >Bench 2: everything overclocked as far as it can go >Bench 2 gets compared to 1 and this will give the system a score. The bigger the difference, the better. This is just the basic idea, you could still give points for the usual stuff (overall performance, looks, sound etc.) but I'd advise against it. If this is a stupid idea, let me know. If you have a decent idea yourself with the only rule being "address the issues with Scrapyard Wars that you feel is making it stale and predictable" please let me know.