Upgraded from 1700x to 3900x. How do I tame it?

[The Old Myron Siren]

I just upgraded my daily rig that I use for gaming and work with a 3900x and everything went pretty smoothly. I upgraded the BIOS while the 1700x was still in and just plopped in the 3900x and everything worked. I never really tried to do too much with the 1700x and I've been reading that the new 3000 Ryzens are quite the animal when it comes to tweaking your BIOS. Does anyone have some recomended changes/tweaks I should make? Temperatures are fine and nothing abnormal as of yet, just not sure if there's some standard changes I should be making. Thanks in advance guys, always a help here!

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Eh. Do some baseline tests. Turn on PBO if your board supports it (and you have adequate cooling). Test again, then if you see improvement, leave it on. If not, turn it back off.

It does a pretty good job of keeping itself performing nicely.

[Fasauceome]

Since the 3700X features an improved memory controller, you can overclock your memory further than before most likely.

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Try overclocking the infinity fabric as well as tightening RAM timings as much as possible, as per this video:

 

Use "per CCX overclocking" if and when you decide to overclock as well, you can squeeze out more performance that way.  Don't have a video on that though unfortunately.  Maybe someone else knows one?

 

As mentioned remember to do before and after tests to see what has actually changed, if anything, in terms of performance, heat, etc.

[The Old Myron Siren]

12 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

Eh. Do some baseline tests. Turn on PBO if your board supports it (and you have adequate cooling). Test again, then if you see improvement, leave it on. If not, turn it back off.

It does a pretty good job of keeping itself performing nicely.

I'll do some searching in my BIOS for PBO! I a Crosshair VI (X370) so fingers crossed that it does!

 

4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Try overclocking the infinity fabric as well as tightening RAM timings as much as possible, as per this video:

 

Use "per CCX overclocking" if and when you decide to overclock as well, you can squeeze out more performance that way.  Don't have a video on that though unfortunately.  Maybe someone else knows one?

 

As mentioned remember to do before and after tests to see what has actually changed, if anything, in terms of performance, heat, etc.

How would I go about overclocking the infinity fabric? I never knew about that and not sure if my X370 boards has that? Again, not entirely well versed with the intricacies.

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6 minutes ago, The Old Myron Siren said:

How would I go about overclocking the infinity fabric? I never knew about that and not sure if my X370 boards has that? Again, not entirely well versed with the intricacies.

I don't personally own this platform at the moment so I can't give first hand knowledge on the specifics of how, I just know generally what are some of the big areas to look at for tuning things when you do have it in front of you.  I might be mistaken but I thought they showed how to adjust those settings in the video, but if not a search for that should turn up some good results, possibly even by other tech youtube channels like Gamers Nexus.

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12 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Try overclocking the infinity fabric as well as tightening RAM timings as much as possible, as per this video:

 

Use "per CCX overclocking" if and when you decide to overclock as well, you can squeeze out more performance that way.  Don't have a video on that though unfortunately.  Maybe someone else knows one?

 

As mentioned remember to do before and after tests to see what has actually changed, if anything, in terms of performance, heat, etc.

I use the tool der8auer linked for that, but I think it can be done in Ryzen Master now.