Overclocking with the R5 2600

[MisterMeow]

Long story short, I built the system about a month and a half ago and I haven't played around with cpu overclocking since 2012 when I built a fx 6300 system. So I'm sort of re-learning. I'm using an Asrock B450 Pro4 and a wraith max cooler, still on 3.1 bios which I'll update later. But This board has some not so familiar settings. There's no LLC, and the vdroop seems to be pretty aggressive. I've had what seem to be stable OC's at 4ghz with 1.3v. But under load vcore drops by 40-60mv. I did try doing a vcore offset of +50mv (which seems to be the stepping for this setting), but then it idles at +50mv. With offset on auto, @4ghz/1.3v, aida64 starts maxing out around 84c with short spikes up to 92-93c. No crashes, no bsod, The heaviest workload I'll ever put it under is gaming, so I don't expect to hit those temps. I just feel like I'm missing something in the bios. If anyone whose overclocked on this board can point me in the right direction of what settings I should be changing, I'd appreciate it.

 

I was also curious what the stock voltages are meant to be? HWM and cpuz are reading 1.2v. Yet under load it drops to around 1.16v with a turbo of around 3.7-3.8ghz on all cores. That voltage just seems low to me.

[C17H23NO2]

Stock voltages are also slightly different from CPU to CPU, sorry I don't remember my Voltages but guess around 1.3 ? 
Sadly this board really seems to not have LLC support.
Otherwise why so worried about the Vdrop? If its stable and working it's okay. Mine also drops to 1.27V under load running at 4.1 Ghz which is fine , at least for me.  

[MisterMeow]

Well I don't really have time to run aida64 for more than about an hour. I've ran all kinds of benchmarks though. I've seen 0 instability so far. It's just the weird temp spikes I see at idle. Every few seconds the temps will spike maybe 8-10 degrees and drop back down. But on stock it doesn't do that. I feel like I'm missing something in the bios.

[C17H23NO2]

Temp spikes could be just a not optimized fan curve. i have temp spikes too, even at "idle" sth is always running in the background. 
Try setting a better curve manually that could reduce it but it's normal. 
I am having 35°C Idle that sometimes spike to 40-45°C and then go down again. Nothing unusual 
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[MisterMeow]

On 10/21/2019 at 4:25 PM, C17H23NO2 said:

Temp spikes could be just a not optimized fan curve. i have temp spikes too, even at "idle" sth is always running in the background. 
Try setting a better curve manually that could reduce it but it's normal. 
I am having 35°C Idle that sometimes spike to 40-45°C and then go down again. Nothing unusual 
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I seemed to of fixed the problem just by dropping the vcore to 1.24v and adding a +50mv offset. Smoothed out the constant temp spikes when idling/low usage. Although I have no idea why doing this changed anything. It still idles at 1.28v and drops to 1.23v under load, which is identical to what it was before.