Happy with 4.1ghz?

[Anomnomnomaly]

This week I've been tweaking and testing my new build... and on stock voltages I've got the Ryzen 5 2600x up from 3.6/4.2ghz to 4.1/4.6Ghz... About a 12% increase.

 

Temps on the H100Pro are good, she's idle from as low as 31ºC but generally sits around 35-40ºC depending on ambient (if heating in office kicks in).  Peak temps are hitting between 62-67ºC (depending on ambient).

 

All of this is with all the fans running in silent mode. So the 3 case fans are as low as 700-800rpm and spin up to as much as 1700rpm on the Corsair ML 140's and 1000-1600 on the Corsair ML 120... the two fans on the rad go from between 780-1800rpm.. I believe they're also ML 140's. The pump on the block sits around 1000-1200rpm and never seems to go higher.

 

 

[SenKa]

12 minutes ago, Anomnomnomaly said:

This week I've been tweaking and testing my new build... and on stock voltages I've got the Ryzen 5 2600x up from 3.6/4.2ghz to 4.1/4.6Ghz... About a 12% increase.

 

Temps on the H100Pro are good, she's idle from as low as 31ºC but generally sits around 35-40ºC depending on ambient (if heating in office kicks in).  Peak temps are hitting between 62-67ºC (depending on ambient).

 

All of this is with all the fans running in silent mode. So the 3 case fans are as low as 700-800rpm and spin up to as much as 1700rpm on the Corsair ML 140's and 1000-1600 on the Corsair ML 120... the two fans on the rad go from between 780-1800rpm.. I believe they're also ML 140's. The pump on the block sits around 1000-1200rpm and never seems to go higher.

 

 

Go as high as your temps will allow to keep below 80c, in my opinion.

 

With Ryzen you'll likely hit a thermal wall before a voltage one unless you got mega screwed on the silicon lottery.

[Anomnomnomaly]

I'll stick with with these for now, it's the best balance between performance and noise... the pump does on occasion spike to 2000rpm and the 120 exhaust has also hit 2100rpm as I've done a little more tweaking.

 

I was having an issue with all 6 cores being at the 4.1Ghz OC and never dropping back to idle...  So I did some reasearch and reading and came across some info regarding the windows high performance mode and how it struggles with the way Ryzen CPU's designed.

 

 

So I installed the Rightmark PPM Panle and adjusted the settings as recommended... and that's resolved the CPU idle speeds.... they're dropping back to 2.7Ghs (ish) on idle and power use has dropped back to around 28W when idle.

 

This has had the knock on effect of dropping the idle speeds of the case fans (PWM) a little, but they do occasionally spin up a little more than before.. But noise levels are decent and whilst I can hear the system it's not that noisy at all... and if I'm watching video or playing games... the noise from those drowns most of it out unless the game requires more cooling power, and not many do with the case, just the GPU fans when gaming.

[Anomnomnomaly]

Started using Ryzen Master and allowed it to work out the best settings... instead of tweaking from the BIOS as I've always done before.

 

This has resulted in a stable gaming speed of up to 4.3Ghz with a boost up to 4.8Ghz... closing in on 4.9Ghz. Reading as 4874 in HWmonitor.

 

Idle temps have increased, and I'm now at between 40-45 idle with one core hovering around 4.2-4.3Ghz with the rest throttling back to some odd numbers... Core 0 sticks at 4Ghz or higher all the time, Cores 1,2 & 5 throttle back to 2,6Ghz whilst cores 3 & 4 throttle back to 1.9Ghz.

 

Gaming wise... no where near close to bottlenecking on this thing... AC Origins 1440p Ultra settings and averaging 50-60% across the cores, with some in mid 30's and a couple hitting 90%... and frame rates between 50-70fps.

 

OC on the video card is pretty much the same as it's been for ages... Memory up from 2000 to 2230 and gpu from 1450mhz to 1540... I was hoping for more on the GPU but when stress tested it's hitting 82º and the max temp limit I can set it to is 84º

[nick name]

Ummmm HWmonitor is giving you bad numbers.  

 

Try HWiNFO isntead.  Absolutely more reliable.  

[geo3]

Um, no. There is no way you're getting a 2nd gen Ryzen past 4.3 without an exotic cooling setup. 

[Anomnomnomaly]

Coming back to this thread as I wasn't around much in recent months.

 

You were quite correct... HW Monitor wasn't giving me accurate readings, so I went back to HWinfo which I already had but updated to the latest.

 

 

What I found was a little surprising... nothing to do with the CPU but it was reporting that my memory was running at 1067 (2133) when I had it set using XMP as I have 32GB of Corsair Vengeance 3200Mhz memory.

 

So I went back into the Bios and found it had reset.

 

Then followed a lot of investigating as time allowed... RMA'd the memory as no matter what I did it would not run at 3200mhz... I'd updated BIOS, changed out the CMOS battery (just in case), switched DIMM slots, tried a single DIMM... At first I thought the motherboard was faulty, I had a BIOS update revert back to the previous F31 back to the one I originally flashed in Jan F4... But it wasn't... So RMA'd the memory.

 

New stuff arrived... same exact issue... so after speaking with Gigabyte support... the ram is supposed to be fully supported but they have had occasional reports of ram not running at rated speeds.  So I went back in and manually set it to 3000 and finally it would stick... I raised it to 3066 and it was still fine... Settled at 3133mhz stable.

 

No idea why that final 66Mhz caused an issue... But it's resolved and I don't have to RMA the board which would cause some major issues.

 

So after all that I went back and had to redo all my testing again in case memory stability was affecting things... and It's stable at 4.15Ghz

 

Idle temps are sub 38-45ºC depending on ambient temps (my office is normally around the 20-24ºC range due to heat from PC and amp). Under stress testing it's hitting 60-65ºC. So there's loads of headroom in there for the really hot weather in the summer... When my office can hit mid 30's as we don't tend to do AC in this country... I have a large fan. 

 

 

Now I have to start testing my games again as I previously thought I was running ram at rated speed... perhaps now I can squeeze a little extra performance out of some.

 

 

Next upgrade... graphics card. My RX580 8GB is ok and gives me decent FPS but I've had it a couple of years and it was a real bargain... I paid £102 for it brand new because Amazon messed up. I pre-ordered it back when there was a shortage of cards as the price was a little over £225 back when these cards were going for over £300 in the UK.  Then Amazon dropped the price before making it unavailable.... and because of their guarantee. My pre-order price dropped too.

 

I had to wait almost 3 months for it to come into stock... But getting a card for 1/3 of the normal price is worth the wait.. and the memory on the card overclocks really well. Up from 2000 to 2230, but the core only comes up from 1366 to 1442 and temps can easily hit 80ºC before the fan gets noisy... However the fan speed never gets above 50% even at those temps... But that's noisy enough.

 

Waiting for Navi news before deciding which side to choose... I'm really hoping that there's a mid range navi that will give close to 1080 Ti speeds around the £300 mark... That's normally the sweet spot and if they can manage that. It's a no brainer... A 2070 will cost almost twice that.