AMD processor crashes when overclocking

[ranshaa05]

Hello. so i have an AMD Ryzen 7 1800x (3.60GHz stock) CPU and i have two problems with it:

1. whenever i try to overclock it (even from 3.60 to 3.70GHz) it crashes when i try to stress test it (I'm pretty sure it's overheating, which it shouldn't at these speeds). problem is that i have a Gigabyte AX370-GAMING K3 motherboard with f23d BIOS version, and it has an offset for the Vcore voltage (and i don't know how to deal with offsets). i tried turning the offset to +0.300 but anything above +0.200 seems to cap the CPU at 2.2GHz for some reason. Does anybody have any idea how to fix this? - this problem was resolved 

 

2. when i run the CPU at stock speed and stress test it, it goes to 100% usage and then gradually decreases to about 3.2GHz. why does this happen? my power plan is set to high performance.

 

also, i am running windows 10 x64 (ver.1809) insider preview. my PSU is 450w.

 

EDIT: i just read some stuff about my cooling solution, and it seems that my Arctic Freezer 13 is just not going to cut it for an overcocked 1800x... does anybody have any recommendations for a new cooling solution? i'm looking for something that will support at least a 3.80GHz overclock on this CPU for as cheap as possible.

Edited January 27, 2019 by ranshaa05

[Jurrunio]

you never touch anything voltage or frequency without monitoring in Windows or your OS choice.

[Fasauceome]

8 minutes ago, ranshaa05 said:

I'm pretty sure it's overheating, which it shouldn't at these speeds

You shouldn't be guessing as to whether or not it's overheating, you need to know because if you just let it overheat over and over again it can cause damage.

[.Apex.]

dude wtf??? +0.3 offset????????? are you fucking insane? that will push the voltage to 1.5V+, the reason it's locking itself at 2.2Ghz probably because it's protecting itself.. or overheating, don't do that without checking your current voltage, you'll kill your CPU.

 

 

[SorcierX]

1.) You need to do way more research on how to overclock your processor before you kill it.

 

2.) You need to make sure your cooling solution is working properly before your processor overheats to death.

[Origami Cactus]

Please stop trying to overclock as right now you are just killing your cpu.

1) RESET TO DEFAULT AND STOP IT!!!

2) ALWAYS MONITOR. Don't just guess your cpu temp, LOOK AT IT. Use Hwmonitor/aid64 or even msi afterburner

3) LOOK AT TUTORIALS. Please don't just put your cpu voltage to 0.3V without knowing what it does. As @syn2112 said you are fucking frying your cpu.

4) MONITOR your stats!

5) What is your cooler and power supply?

6) Generally voltage should be under 1.4V, 1.3V is better. 

[ranshaa05]

2 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

you never touch anything voltage or frequency without monitoring in Windows or your OS choice.

 

2 hours ago, fasauceome said:

You shouldn't be guessing as to whether or not it's overheating, you need to know because if you just let it overheat over and over again it can cause damage.

I probably should have made it clear that "pretty sure that it's overheating" means "i'm very sure that its overheating" 

also, i should probably mention that i DID monitor my CPU temperature while overclocking. i'm not THAT dumb.

2 hours ago, syn2112 said:

dude wtf??? +0.3 offset????????? are you fucking insane? that will push the voltage to 1.5V+, the reason it's locking itself at 2.2Ghz probably because it's protecting itself.. or overheating, don't do that without checking your current voltage, you'll kill your CPU.

 

 

that's what i thought. although i tried raising it in smaller steps (+0.010) and it didn't seem to do anything in terms of allowing me to up the GHz so i turned it up more and more just to see if it does anything. It didn't. I guess i shouldn't have done  that anyway.

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, ranshaa05 said:

I probably should have made it clear that "pretty sure that it's overheating" means "i'm very sure that its overheating" 

also, i should probably mention that i DID monitor my CPU temperature while overclocking. i'm not THAT dumb.

tbh not monitoring real time voltage for the core is more foolish than not watching temperature. There's over temperature protection on the CPU, but not overvoltage.

 

That board's VRM is crap, so this is what I expect when you try overclock an 8 core on it. I won't even let a 6 core touch that board.

[ranshaa05]

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

tbh not monitoring real time voltage for the core is more foolish than not watching temperature. There's over temperature protection on the CPU, but not overvoltage.

 

That board's VRM is crap, so this is what I expect when you try overclock an 8 core on it. I won't even let a 6 core touch that board.

I see. thanks for the tip. I'll make sure to watch the voltage in real time in the future.

anyway, i seem to have found what's causing it to heat up so much. it seems that my Arctic Freezer 13 is just not gonna cut it for this CPU. any recommendations for a cooling solution?

[Jurrunio]

8 minutes ago, ranshaa05 said:

I see. thanks for the tip. I'll make sure to watch the voltage in real time in the future.

anyway, i seem to have found what's causing it to heat up so much. it seems that my Arctic Freezer 13 is just not gonna cut it for this CPU. any recommendations for a cooling solution?

The cooler you can use depends on how much space the case gives. 1.4V is the max core voltage (not VID) for 1st gen Ryzen in overclocking