Troubleshooting

Vasilisloop · August 26, 2019

So i just build a Ryzen 3 1200 ( bottlenecks 20% )my rx 580 8gb ram 2666mhz asrock phantom gaming i am a newbie at this so this is my question if i overclock my 1200 to 3.4ghz stock voltage what will be the cpu bottleneck percentage and if i go to 3.8ghz 1.29v what will be the percentage?Thanks

Mnky313 · August 26, 2019

I assumed you used bottlenecker (https://pc-builds.com/calculator/) to determine the 20% bottleneck?
this is NOT indicative of actual bottlenecks!
Run whatever games you want to and play with the settings until you're at an acceptable graphics/framerate mix and check:

if your CPU is sitting at a high percentage (>85-90%), that would be indicative of a bottleneck. You can try overclocking to see if it increases FPS.

If your games run fine and the CPU usage isn't super high you're probably not CPU bottlenecked. Overclocking most likely won't do anything for FPS.

Fasauceome · August 26, 2019

Only overclock if your CPU is lacking in the titles you play, or just for fun if you like to OC. However, your ram speeds would also improve some performance if you OC, try to get closer to 3000 MHz.

Camdate · September 29, 2019

it depends on what games you play, you have to types of games : games that are gpu dependent and games that are cpu dependent, so in some games the overclock might help a little bit but, dont forget that your processor is still a quad core, so overcloking wont make that much of a difference. It will only make your system more unstable.

Vasilisloop · September 30, 2019

On 9/29/2019 at 5:25 PM, Gamer02032003 said:

it depends on what games you play, you have to types of games : games that are gpu dependent and games that are cpu dependent, so in some games the overclock might help a little bit but, dont forget that your processor is still a quad core, so overcloking wont make that much of a difference. It will only make your system more unstable.

So yes i saw the unstable frequency of this cpu was near 3.8 with my gigabyte b450m dsh3 rev1 i saw an increase of 10/5% in fps but the 0.1% 1.0% was bear freeze in games and a lot of stuttering went down to 3.4 and it feels fine .I think it may be related to psu its 500w.