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So recently i tried to overclock my Ryzen 5 1600 but i can't get it to or above 4.0Ghz without having to put the Voltages to ABSURD levels for it to be stable. So did i just lose the silicon lottery or is it something to do with my board which is the Msi B350 Gaming Pro Carbon or is there something i'm doing wrong? 

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ohhh, so i'm going to need to upgrade my board to a better chipset to get better overclocks?

Do i Recommend Ryzen? Yes. All of the Yes.

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Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.9Ghz

ASUS Gaming TUF B450 Micro-ATX

2x4Gb HyperX DDR4 @2133

GTX 1070 Founders Edition

Corsair Crystal 280X

500Gb SanDisk Sata SSD, 1Tb 7200RPM Hdd

EVGA 500 Watt 80+ Bronze

EKWB A240

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Just now, zombieshy_guy81 said:

ohhh, so i'm going to need to upgrade my board to a better chipset to get better overclocks?

Yeah, though x470 is better than x370. 

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1 minute ago, OptimusPrimeOnCyber said:

B350 isn't designed for extreme overclocking that is where the ax370 boards come in.  

ohhh, so i'm going to need to upgrade my board to a better chipset to get better overclocks?

 

Do i Recommend Ryzen? Yes. All of the Yes.

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Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.9Ghz

ASUS Gaming TUF B450 Micro-ATX

2x4Gb HyperX DDR4 @2133

GTX 1070 Founders Edition

Corsair Crystal 280X

500Gb SanDisk Sata SSD, 1Tb 7200RPM Hdd

EVGA 500 Watt 80+ Bronze

EKWB A240

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1 minute ago, zombieshy_guy81 said:

ohhh, so i'm going to need to upgrade my board to a better chipset to get better overclocks?

actually, the b450 pro carbon ac is pretty good at overclocking, but definitely better than x470

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Do not push absurd voltages, that'll kill the CPU really quick.

I have a 1600, and couldn't get to 4.0 either w/ a b350 (it posted, ran ONE cinebench, and the crashed) I think I only got to like 3.8-ish stable.

You probably aren't doing much wrong, most people don't get to 4.0.

Dial it back a bit, lower the voltage to like 1.35-1.375 (AMD says 1.4 is safe, but that is a little high in some people's opinions).

Make sure you have the cooling too, stock can handle a little overclock, but not anything too much.

Just now, zombieshy_guy81 said:

ohhh, so i'm going to need to upgrade my board to a better chipset to get better overclocks?

Ryzen wasn't an amazing overclocker as it is, changing the mobo probably won't help too much.

It almost certainly is not economical too. Just take what you have, it is still a decent CPU.

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CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 @3.75* RAM: 2 by 8gb G.Skill Flare X 2400 @2666* GPU Strix GTX 1070 @1880-ish

Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 500gb; 2x 2tb Seagate Barracuda Drives; 1tb hdd (It died after 4 years :();

 

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GPU: Intel HIGH DEFINITION Graphics @32 BILLION hertz

Storage: 32 TRILLION bytes of SOLID STATE emmc C drive with 64 TRILLION bytes of SOLID STATE microSD card D drive.

 

*Overclocked around 25% of the time... questionably stable.

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Yes more than likely but you probably will only be able to go able 400Mhz higher than you are already so not really worth the extra money

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4.0 GHz is sort of expected for Ryzen, 4.1 is getting high even. They are not stellar at overclocking.

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11 minutes ago, Linker said:

Do not push absurd voltages, that'll kill the CPU really quick.

I have a 1600, and couldn't get to 4.0 either w/ a b350 (it posted, ran ONE cinebench, and the crashed) I think I only got to like 3.8-ish stable.

You probably aren't doing much wrong, most people don't get to 4.0.

Dial it back a bit, lower the voltage to like 1.35-1.375 (AMD says 1.4 is safe, but that is a little high in some people's opinions).

Make sure you have the cooling too, stock can handle a little overclock, but not anything too much.

Ryzen wasn't an amazing overclocker as it is, changing the mobo probably won't help too much.

It almost certainly is not economical too. Just take what you have, it is still a decent CPU.

Yeah, thats what happened when i tried 4.0Ghz exactly. Right now i have it at 3.9Ghz and i think somewhere in the 1.3 volt range stable (i'm away from home atm so i can't really check)

Do i Recommend Ryzen? Yes. All of the Yes.

Main Rig Specs - BIG BOI

Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.9Ghz

ASUS Gaming TUF B450 Micro-ATX

2x4Gb HyperX DDR4 @2133

GTX 1070 Founders Edition

Corsair Crystal 280X

500Gb SanDisk Sata SSD, 1Tb 7200RPM Hdd

EVGA 500 Watt 80+ Bronze

EKWB A240

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15 minutes ago, zombieshy_guy81 said:

ohhh, so i'm going to need to upgrade my board to a better chipset to get better overclocks?

No, 3.9Ghz is very good for a 1600 non X, you aren't going to get any higher with changing of the motherboard.

If you want higher clocks get ryzen 3000 series when they come out.

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13 minutes ago, OptimusPrimeOnCyber said:

Yes more than likely but you probably will only be able to go able 400Mhz higher than you are already so not really worth the extra money

I see, thanks for the heads up. I was really considering a X470 board for a minute lol

Do i Recommend Ryzen? Yes. All of the Yes.

Main Rig Specs - BIG BOI

Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.9Ghz

ASUS Gaming TUF B450 Micro-ATX

2x4Gb HyperX DDR4 @2133

GTX 1070 Founders Edition

Corsair Crystal 280X

500Gb SanDisk Sata SSD, 1Tb 7200RPM Hdd

EVGA 500 Watt 80+ Bronze

EKWB A240

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15 minutes ago, zombieshy_guy81 said:

ohhh, so i'm going to need to upgrade my board to a better chipset to get better overclocks?

Dont bother.

Most Ryzen CPUs wont go above 4GHz, espeicaly the 1st gen Ryzen.

Buying new board just to get MAYBE another 100MHz is not worth it at all.

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2 hours ago, zombieshy_guy81 said:

Yeah, thats what happened when i tried 4.0Ghz exactly. Right now i have it at 3.9Ghz and i think somewhere in the 1.3 volt range stable (i'm away from home atm so i can't really check)

That's much better than mine lol.

I just decided to run it at stock for now.

Maybe' I'll go back later.

 

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Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 500gb; 2x 2tb Seagate Barracuda Drives; 1tb hdd (It died after 4 years :();

 

Laptop: (HP Stream 11-y010nr "Spent all my money on my Desktop" Edition)

CPU: Intel Celeron N3060 @160 BILLION hertz RAM: 400 BILLION bytes Samsung DDR3L @160 BILLION hertz 

GPU: Intel HIGH DEFINITION Graphics @32 BILLION hertz

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*Overclocked around 25% of the time... questionably stable.

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