Ryzen 3600 and X570 Strix Overclocking Confusion

bimmerman · August 4, 2019

I am super confused about overclocking this thing. I’ve been reading and reading here and am just confusing myself further.

First: my system.

R5 3600
Asus ROG Strix X570 Gaming-E motherboard.
- Bios version 0413, dated 6/18/19
- Agesa 1.0.0.2
16 GB of 3600 MHz C18 – Corsair Vengeance LPX kit.
- Running at DOCP / XMP profile settings, 18-22-22-42-65 @ 1.35 V
- Infinity Fabric is set to run at same speed.
Corsair H115i Pro CPU cooler (AIO 280mm)
Win 10 home, 1903 variant.
- Most recent Ryzen Master release
- Ryzen High Perf power plan
I'm not sure what chipset driver I have, or how to check

I’m curious what the community has to say about overclocking the 3600. I went a bit overkill on components (for future 3950X) and am using the 3600 to learn what does what. But, as far as I can tell…..PBO / Auto OC have zero effect. My chip will happily boost to 4.2GHz all day long, single or all core, no matter how much I enable PBO/Auto OC via Ryzen Master or in Bios. Has anyone had good luck using these tools on this chip? I think I’m missing something.

My computer is running quite nicely, so this is definitely not a woe-is-me post. I’m pretty happy with the performance I’m getting from only enabling DOCP/XMP and manually setting the FCLK to the same speed as the RAM. I haven’t tweaked memory timings yet either. The performance is pretty awesome, I just want to better understand some stuff that seems weird. Also, just to be clear, I am not concerned with the idle temps/voltages. This is more nuts and bolts than sky-is-falling.

So, my questions, in some semblance of order.

AMD Overclocking Menu – according to AMD's Robert (u/AMD_Robert) all X570 bioses should have this menu somewhere. Mine doesn’t, unless I’m missing something. Has anyone found this bios option with this motherboard?
PBO vs Auto OC – as far as I can tell, this does nothing. My chip is boosting to all-core 4.2GHz regardless of whether XMP/DOCP is enabled, PBO, Auto OC, it doesn’t matter. Stock or with DOCP+PBO+AutoOC, 4.2GHz all-core.
In the Bios, there are two different locations to enable Precision Boost Overdrive. Neither seems to do anything.
1. Furthermore, there are ‘Performance Boost’ levels and TPU levels for various OC-ing….and again, I can’t tell whether they do anything.
Chipset drivers – for the life of me, I can’t figure out which one I have installed. Does anyone have a bright idea to find out? I can find out the Bios version, but not the chipset driver itself with tools like CPU-z, HWmonitor/info, Ryzen Master.