BIOS Update x370 enables higher overclocking!

[LK LAW]

Before I've updated my x370 killer sli (asrock) I could "only" hit 3.7Ghz @1.25v on my Ryzen 7 1700

I could not go any further then that or my system would not post, quite strange given the fact that 3.7GHz is stable at a relatively low 1.25v.

Now I've updated my BIOS version to P4.7 and I managed to hit 3.8GHz stable @1.275v. I could probably go further then that but I'm running the stock cooler and temps are getting a little too toasty.

I didn't purchase an aftermarket cooler as I didn't see the point, couldn't OC that much anyway (defo going to get one now).

Kind of strange that suddenly I can go further, anyone have a similar story?

[porina]

Welcome to the wall. The voltage wall that is. You did better than my sample, which would only do 3.6 before I had to seriously turn up the volts. From memory I think 1.40 gets me to 4.0 just about, but it gets rather warm as you can imagine. It isn't worth the effort for daily use... 3.6 or 3.7 at lower voltage gets you almost all the performance, without dealing with silly amounts of power and therefore heat. I only occasionally set it to 4.0 if I'm doing a competitive benchmarking run, although I'm looking to replace it with a 2700X at some point.

[LK LAW]

I could always OC it to 4GHz with 1.325V with AMD master utility, but never in BIOS, which I found very strange.

I'm probably also going to upgrade to the 2700x, the 2000 series seem like a decent improvement.

[porina]

Maybe it wasn't as stable as you think at that voltage? Dunno... if it wasn't for competitive benchmarking, I wouldn't be looking at the 2700X at all. I do feel a bit left behind with the 1700, as at the time the 1700X and 1800X were quite a bit more expensive. Now the 2700X is less than the 1700 was when it came out why would you get anything less? Ok, some people don't need 8 cores or prefer lower power consumption... but for performance it hits a nice spot.