how to boost my cpu

[Naturalhighz]

Hey so I just got the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max and I'm running a R5 1600x

 

Standard that's 3.6 Ghz and with my old motherboard a B450 Asus rog strix-F I just had a boost button and it went to 3.8 I think. I can't seem to find anything similar in the bios and I'm not super familiar with messing around in manual overclocks so I was hoping someone here could guide me a bit as to where I can safely go.

 

The cpu is cooled by a coolermaster mastercool 240 AIO so temps shouldn't really be the biggest issue. I'm not looking for max overclocking just want to at least reach the standard boost clock of 3.8 or maybe 4.0 if it's stable without messing with too much.

[jGD]

MSI BIOS should have a "GAME" mode. Adds an instant 300 mHz OC to stock settings. Should not be used when manually overclocking... meant to boost out of the box settings by an additional 300 mHz.

[hawklen]

I got the same motherboard for my R5 2600. it's pretty decent. And jGD is correct.

[Naturalhighz]

 

5 minutes ago, jGD said:

MSI BIOS should have a "GAME" mode. Adds an instant 300 mHz OC to stock settings. Should not be used when manually overclocking... meant to boost out of the box settings by an additional 300 mHz.

if I press the game boost button my fans spin up to 2000 rpm and I feel like I'm in a aircraft hangar even in the bios. I was afraid my computer would fly off if I left it on.

[hawklen]

I believe there is MSi software to control that if so desired.

[Naturalhighz]

I tried looking at fan control but it made no sense. it didn't match what I was hearing at all. when playing games my fans would spin up from 1100 rpm to 1300 once I got over 55 degrees C on my cpu but in the bios the numbers didn't match that at all so I just set them to pwm and it seemed to fix it somewhat. but I still don't have the gameboost on.

[hawklen]

You can adjust the fan curve to a higher temp before the fans go max.

[Naturalhighz]

Yeah that's what I was looking for but as I said according to the fan curve it wasn't supposed to be doing what I heard. It was all really weird. 

[hawklen]

That's all I can think of at the moment. Brain tired. I use AIO cooling, even max all my fans are decently quiet.

[Naturalhighz]

Yeah mine is an aio as well and it is super noisy despite everything I've found online says it's supposed to be super quiet. for me it just really isn't at all. Might be the place it's mounted in my case that isn't optimal but it's just a lot of noise all the time.

[Naturalhighz]

tried just putting in a 3.9Ghz at 1.375 V and seems to be stable. highest temps  saw in HWmonitor was 65 degrees. People always say the 1600x shows 20 degrees more than it is but I feel like that must have been fixed because otherwise I'd be idling at 10 degrees which makes 0 sense.

 

went from 2677 in cinebench r20 to 2796 so pretty decent. if everything seems good with gaming etc I might go for 4.0 see if it's still stable.

[hawklen]

2 hours ago, Naturalhighz said:

tried just putting in a 3.9Ghz at 1.375 V and seems to be stable. highest temps  saw in HWmonitor was 65 degrees. People always say the 1600x shows 20 degrees more than it is but I feel like that must have been fixed because otherwise I'd be idling at 10 degrees which makes 0 sense.

 

went from 2677 in cinebench r20 to 2796 so pretty decent. if everything seems good with gaming etc I might go for 4.0 see if it's still stable.

Nice! I'm running my r5 2600 @ 4.225Ghz, with a 1.35vcore myself. I idle at around 35-38C, 20-25% load i get 41C, 65C load. Always heard you look at what the tdie temp says.

 

Thats in cinebench R20? I get 2946 in that.

[Naturalhighz]

I want to push it a bit more but I'd rather it be stable and quiet than push for 1 more fps so I doubt I'll go over 4.0 

[Naturalhighz]

1 hour ago, hawklen said:

Nice! I'm running my r5 2600 @ 4.225Ghz, with a 1.35vcore myself. I idle at around 35-38C, 20-25% load i get 41C, 65C load. Always heard you look at what the tdie temp says.

 

Thats in cinebench R20? I get 2946 in that.

Tried tweaking a bit and got to 2844 @ 3.9Ghz 1.375V. did r15 and got 1296 I think. Tried bumping it to 4.0Ghz @1.385V but was crashing and decided I was happy with 3.9. I could probably get it stable at 1.4V but I don't really want to go there. Highest temps under load were 69 and sitting at around 30 idle rn and that's pretty much where I like to be.

[hawklen]

4 hours ago, Naturalhighz said:

Tried tweaking a bit and got to 2844 @ 3.9Ghz 1.375V. did r15 and got 1296 I think. Tried bumping it to 4.0Ghz @1.385V but was crashing and decided I was happy with 3.9. I could probably get it stable at 1.4V but I don't really want to go there. Highest temps under load were 69 and sitting at around 30 idle rn and that's pretty much where I like to be.

Those are some pretty decent temps imo. I got decently lucky in the silicone lottery for my R5 2600, Got luckier with my Corsair Vengance LPX 16GB 2400mhz ram. It has samsung b-die chips, so I got it up to 3464mhz, 18-20-20-38 timings.

[Naturalhighz]

1 minute ago, hawklen said:

Those are some pretty decent temps imo. I got decently lucky in the silicone lottery for my R5 2600, Got luckier with my Corsair Vengance LPX 16GB 2400mhz ram. It has samsung b-die chips, so I got it up to 3464mhz, 18-20-20-38 timings.

yeah I haven't really bothered with my RAM since it's just a 1st gen Ryzen. 2666 should be just fine.