My A320 motherboard can overclock my Ryzen 3 2200G even though the chipset is not overclockable.

[tasnim_tamim]

Hello there!

I have a GIGABYTE A320M-S2H Rev1.1 motherboard running with F32 bios (not latest) and it's running with a Ryzen 3 2200G CPU.

As far as I know motherboard's with A320 chipset cannot be overclocked at all.

Yet I was able to overclock both my RAM and CPU through the BIOS and even with Ryzen Master. Set my 2666MHz RAM to 3000MHz for over a month and it works flawlessly. Recently found out I can even set clock speed of my CPU too and both BIOS and Windows would show that. But here comes the problem. I tried stress testing the CPU and using Cinebench multiple times. None of the time the CPU utilization would go above 95% with OC to 3.80GHz. CPU usage would go max to 3.66GHz (close to advertised turbo boost speed). Tried messing with clock speed for hours but never could reach my OC speed but it isn't the case for my RAM. RAM would run around 2988~3012MHz on BIOS with no problem and I am totally confident that my RAM overclock was ok. Just the CPU problem.

 

So.. I wanted to ask you all if it's because of the A320 chipset limitation or I did something wrong? I checked the frequency using CPU-Z instead of task manager too. Using stock Wrath Stealth cooler at full speed. The CPU after 15-20min stress sits around 65°.

 

Thanks for reading and would appreciate your thoughts and tips.

[Constantin]

4 minutes ago, tasnim_tamim said:

Hello there!

I have a GIGABYTE A320M-S2H Rev1.1 motherboard running with F32 bios (not latest) and it's running with a Ryzen 3 2200G CPU.

As far as I know motherboard's with A320 chipset cannot be overclocked at all.

Yet I was able to overclock both my RAM and CPU through the BIOS and even with Ryzen Master. Set my 2666MHz RAM to 3000MHz for over a month and it works flawlessly. Recently found out I can even set clock speed of my CPU too and both BIOS and Windows would show that. But here comes the problem. I tried stress testing the CPU and using Cinebench multiple times. None of the time the CPU utilization would go above 95% with OC to 3.80GHz. CPU usage would go max to 3.66GHz (close to advertised turbo boost speed). Tried messing with clock speed for hours but never could reach my OC speed but it isn't the case for my RAM. RAM would run around 2988~3012MHz on BIOS with no problem and I am totally confident that my RAM overclock was ok. Just the CPU problem.

 

So.. I wanted to ask you all if it's because of the A320 chipset limitation or I did something wrong? I checked the frequency using CPU-Z instead of task manager too. Using stock Wrath Stealth cooler at full speed. The CPU after 15-20min stress sits around 65°.

 

Thanks for reading and would appreciate your thoughts and tips.

Don't expect to much of a mobo of 50$

[Sir0Tek]

Who told you that A320M isn't able to overclock memory and/or cpu?!

[Fasauceome]

5 minutes ago, Sir0Tek said:

Who told you that A320M isn't able to overclock memory and/or cpu?!

CPU overclocking is not officially supported

 

Gigabyte likes to bend the rules but if A320 boards were able to overclock I still wouldn't do it, the power delivery is crap.

[tasnim_tamim]

32 minutes ago, Sir0Tek said:

Who told you that A320M isn't able to overclock memory and/or cpu?!

From AMD's website:

A320 Ryzen Processor Overclocking Enabled: No

https://www.amd.com/en/products/chipsets-am4

Yet I can do it on my MoBo. Set a value and it's showing on both BIOS and Windows/CPU-Z. The problem is I just can't hit OC speeds, which is what I need help/thought on.

[RwandanStarbux]

I have an A320-AC And it overclocks well, not the greatest, but it works, use Ryzen Master, and look at the Mediocre performance difference in Task Manager.

 

Maybe its just for the AC version, I have no idea, but my Temps, and performence is fine, as I have had no issues for the passed 6 months, but I would reccomend not to overclock if its anything above a Ryzen 5 2600, as it probably wont work well.

 

 

[Boom Shaka]

On 2/2/2020 at 4:44 AM, tasnim_tamim said:

Hello there!

I have a GIGABYTE A320M-S2H Rev1.1 motherboard running with F32 bios (not latest) and it's running with a Ryzen 3 2200G CPU.

As far as I know motherboard's with A320 chipset cannot be overclocked at all.

Yet I was able to overclock both my RAM and CPU through the BIOS and even with Ryzen Master. Set my 2666MHz RAM to 3000MHz for over a month and it works flawlessly. Recently found out I can even set clock speed of my CPU too and both BIOS and Windows would show that. But here comes the problem. I tried stress testing the CPU and using Cinebench multiple times. None of the time the CPU utilization would go above 95% with OC to 3.80GHz. CPU usage would go max to 3.66GHz (close to advertised turbo boost speed). Tried messing with clock speed for hours but never could reach my OC speed but it isn't the case for my RAM. RAM would run around 2988~3012MHz on BIOS with no problem and I am totally confident that my RAM overclock was ok. Just the CPU problem.

 

So.. I wanted to ask you all if it's because of the A320 chipset limitation or I did something wrong? I checked the frequency using CPU-Z instead of task manager too. Using stock Wrath Stealth cooler at full speed. The CPU after 15-20min stress sits around 65°.

 

Thanks for reading and would appreciate your thoughts and tips.

Hi, don't know if you have found out by now.. but the motherboard has a b350 chipset.

[Yug35h]

If you update your bios to f40 or latest your cpu utilization will go to 99% but still can't hit 100%.