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Thank you all for your replies! It really did help me understand more However, if it's not too much of a bother I'm still confused about a couple of things. 1. If 4.2 GHz is the max for a single core, how is it that my CPU has never gone anywhere near that? The highest I've ever seen is a value of 3925 MHz during a single core performance test via Cinebench (before I overclocked). It was only one core and the others would trade off, but in my 1.5 years of owning my PC, I've never seen my CPU pass 4 GHz until recently with my OC. Does that have to do with the silicon in CPU? I don't know much about this topic, only that throughout the manufacturing process some CPUs come out with less imperfections that then allow them to perform better. 2. If a 4.2 GHz all core OC is not possible, what could I try to make the 4 GHz OC work? (Thank you @Chris Pratt for the informative reply, just curious about my options) I didn't download Prime95, because the website I found on google looked kind of weird and I've been able to run Cinebench for over 10 minutes and not get any errors. I don't get any crashes, crazy temps/voltages, or errors shown in HWinfo. The only reason I think my OC is unstable is because after a while the frequency drops and to reset it, I have to restart my PC. Thank you all again for the informative replies!

Hello everyone! I built my PC about a year ago and only recently got into learning about overclocking. I was having trouble understanding what's going on as I think that my CPU is not performing as it should. I followed Graphically Challenged's video (AMD R5 3600 Overclocking Guide MSI B450-A PRO MAX). I have a B450 Tomahawk MAX motherboard, a Corsair RMx 850 watt psu, 32 GB of ram, a cooler master Evo 212 tower cooler, and a 1660ti. I've attached a screenshot of an excel sheet that had some of the numbers I recorded. I hope it helps visualize it better than just typing everything out. NOTE: My 4.2 GHz overclock failed. Couldn't get into windows. I didn't know what to put for idle frequencies at stock settings as Ryzen Master and HWInfo kept jumping around and giving me different values. My Cinebench R23 scores are nowhere near other people's stock scores. I was only able to get to other people's scores when I overclocked. I read that the average is around 8900-9000 for multicore score. I don't understand why voltages at stock with PBO disabled run so high. I also don't understand why a CPU that says it can reach 4.2 GHz can't reach (and I mean myself) a stable overclock. Is there something wrong with my CPU/motherboard? Could those high stock voltages be ruining my CPU? How is everyone else able to overclock to 4.1 GHz across all cores with much lower voltages? (even when factoring in the silicon lottery) From what I understood from other videos and forum posts, we want the voltage to be as stable as possible and voltages over 1.3 are high for a CPU. For my first overclock I saw an almost constant voltage and normal idle/load temps. I believe I also had reasonable temps as those temps only occurred under a CPU stress test. While gaming I would see temps around 55-60C. I also noticed a couple days later that after having my PC on for several hours or sometimes when waking it up, the frequency would no longer be at 4 GHz and instead would jump around 3.6-4 GHz, but not in all the cores just some of them. The voltage would never go higher than 1.35 volts. I was not able to reach any sort of stable overclock under 1.35 volts. Even if I set it to something low like 3.8 GHz across all cores. I feel like I get more stable voltages/temps when I overclocked it than when I leave my setting at stock. Thank you for taking your time to read this long post and any advice or insight would be appreciated.

Thank you! I'll give it a try, hope you have a great day!

Thank you for your help!

Hello everyone! I was trying to change my background as I usually do and instead ended up changing the lock screen on accident. I don't have a windows license so I can't "personalize" my settings and I enjoyed having my lock screen change to some unknown landmark with the internet explorer link after logging in. Is there a way I can restore defaults without buying the license? I really liked this feature and would hate to have to pay $140 for a simple feature. I'm also in the middle of upgrading and testing a bunch of my parts and don't want to buy the license right now. Thank you for taking your time to read this and I hope you have a great day!

Thank you everyone!

Is it possible to have to have different kits of RAM of different brands with different speeds and CAS latency to work together? I have a kit (2x8gb) of corsair vengeance 3000mHz C15 ram and wanted to get some faster ram. I was looking at the G.Skill Trident Z (2x8gb) 3600mHz C16. My build is mainly for gaming, but I also use for it school and occasionally run some engineering programs. I've heard that when you have the same brand of RAM, but different speed the system will resort to the slowest speed of RAM.Would I be able to pair both of these kits when I'm doing extensive work and then take out the slower kit for regular usage (like gaming)? Or would it be better to just save up for a 32gb kit of a faster RAM and sell/give away my current kit? Usually I get by with my 16gb of RAM for school work or gaming, but even then then I'm hitting about 11-14gb of usage and under heavy work loads I reach 100% usage. I don't really want to upgrade to a different 32gb kit, so I was wondering how pairing 2 different kits would work. Thank you for taking your time to read this and I hope you have a great day! My system: Ryzen 5 3600 Corsair (2x8gb) Vengeance 3000mhz C15 B450 tomahawk MAX EVGA 650 80+ gold Samsung 970 Evo EVGA 1660ti

Hi thanks for the advice! I just finished using Cinebench 20 and I got max core speeds between 4026 and 4099 MHz. Max values were: temp=68C voltage=1.475V power=83.76 watts CPU 0 through 11 were at 100% utilization. EVGA 1660ti clock max values: graphics=1980 MHz memory=6001 MHz Video=1830 MHz Thank you FloRolf and MzHellcat for the advice! Is it true that AMD Ryzen chips just don't reached their advertised boost clocks?

Hello! I'm using a Cooler Master 212 Black edition. After about 1-2 hours of gaming, the highest temp I reached for my cpu was 66-67C, while my Gpu reached around 68-69C. I usually don't play longer periods of time. I didn't check any other temps, but that day it was about 35C (95F) outside. On other occasions, my cpu will be around 60-65C and gpu will be at 66-67C. For cpu voltages, I've seen a min of 0.925V and a max of 1.475V

Hello everyone! Does anyone know why my Ryzen 5 3600 won't reach it's boost clock of 4.2 GHz? I've recently started to look at Hardware Monitor to check my system and I noticed that even after playing games like Project Cars 2 and Modern Warfare that my cpu never reaches its advertised boost clock. However, my graphics card will reach close to 100% utilization. I tried enabling Game Boost, but that caused a world of problems. I couldn't even boot into windows and after a couple of tries, after my PC kept rebooting itself I was able to go into the bios and turn it off. (Whew! thought I broke my PC). XMP is enable in my bios. I'm not sure what Windows version I have, but I haven't seen any update alerts when I shut down my computer. As for the bios I have the VC02v34 version (third to last version). My system: MSI B450 tomahawk MAX AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Corsair Vengeance 16 gb 3000 mhz EVGA 1660ti XC Ultra Gaming EVGA G3 650 watt 80+ gold Samsung 970 Evo 500 gb as boot drive Any advice is greatly appreciated and thank you for taking your time to read this,