Overclock Ryzen 5 2600x?

[Excepsi]

Im debating if i should overclock my 2600x others said its pointless because its already overclocked need your guys opinions.

 

[Mister Woof]

With Precision Boost 2/Overdrive, it will mostly OC itself as long as there's thermal headroom.

 

In some scenarios you will get better performance if you manually OC, but it's not going to be really noticeable.

[Excepsi]

2 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

With Precision Boost 2, it will mostly OC itself as long as there's thermal headroom.

 

In some scenarios you will get better performance if you manually OC, but it's not going to be really noticeable.

Would you suggest it though?

 

 

[Mister Woof]

what are you uses

[ch3w2oy]

It's up to you. PBO/XFR2 will boost a few of the cores to it's max boost while manually overclocking can achieve that boost on all cores. If you're just gaming and don't need all cores running at it's peak than just leave it. There are a few settings in the BIOS that you can change that will help PBO/XFR2 run better/higher.

 

What motherboard do you have?

[Excepsi]

1 minute ago, ChewToy! said:

It's up to you. PBO/XFR2 will boost a few of the cores to it's max boost while manually overclocking can achieve that boost on all cores. If you're just gaming and don't need all cores running at it's peak than just leave it. There are a few settings in the BIOS that you can change that will help PBO/XFR2 run better/higher.

 

What motherboard do you have?

x470 ultra gaming

[Excepsi]

3 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

what are you uses

Gaming and some streaming

[Mister Woof]

Just now, Excepsi said:

Gaming and some streaming

Just leave it and tweak the BIOS settings for PBO.

 

You might actually get worse performance in some cases in gaming if you manually OC - if you can say only get 4.1ghz stable all-core vs. in gaming scenarios PBO can get 4.2 ghz on 2 cores in gaming, you'd get less performance.

[Excepsi]

2 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

Just leave it and tweak the BIOS settings for PBO.

 

You might actually get worse performance in some cases in gaming if you manually OC - if you can say only get 4.1ghz stable all-core vs. in gaming scenarios PBO can get 4.2 ghz on 2 cores in gaming, you'd get less performance.

What should i tweak i the pbo settings?

 

[Mister Woof]

6 minutes ago, Excepsi said:

What should i tweak i the pbo settings?

 

here's a discussion about the topic

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/96zbfw/ryzen_master_precision_boost_overdrive/

[Eastman51]

33 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

With Precision Boost 2/Overdrive, it will mostly OC itself as long as there's thermal headroom.

 

In some scenarios you will get better performance if you manually OC, but it's not going to be really noticeable.

The setting is always grayed out for me, doesn't actually work as far as I can tell

[Excepsi]

26 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

here's a discussion about the topic

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/96zbfw/ryzen_master_precision_boost_overdrive/

Ok so i turned on PBO and did cinebench my cpu got 1390 cb is that good?

 

[Mister Woof]

@ChewToy!

He may have more information because he actually has a 2600x.

 

Hopefully he can help you.

[vjizzle2384]

47 minutes ago, Excepsi said:

Would you suggest it though?

 

 

I have one and no don’t OC it no need and you get nothing useful from it, I have already tested it.  All you get is hotter cpu

[ch3w2oy]

10 minutes ago, Excepsi said:

Ok so i turned on PBO and did cinebench my cpu got 1390 cb is that good?

 

That's fine without manually overclocking. Cinebench isn't like games and works better with a manual OC. The best I get is like 1484 with my manual OC so 1390 isn't that bad without OC.

 

There's not really much more you can do without overclocking manually, which wont provide much better results anyway. I only do it because I like to OC.

[vjizzle2384]

59 minutes ago, Excepsi said:

Im debating if i should overclock my 2600x others said its pointless because its already overclocked need your guys opinions.

 

If you really want OC get intel you can experiment all day with it.  Make sure it’s the K version .

[ch3w2oy]

You can try manually overclocking if you want. Right now the only thing I have set with mine is the VCORE Voltage to 1.39 and the frequency to 4.275. You might not get that high on yours as each chip varies. I have my RAM overclocked to 3400c14 with super tight timings, which helps a lot with Ryzen.