Can I overclock my cpu

[Lazaro Hernandez]

I have a ryzen 5 2600 and was wondering if it would be okay to overclock on my mobo (asus prime b450m-a). I don't know if this mobo is able to so if someone could help me out that would be apparated. Also if you have the same cpu what voltage and ghz do you recommend I was thinking around 4ghz but let me know if that is too much.

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3 minutes ago, Lazaro Hernandez said:

I have a ryzen 5 2600 and was wondering if it would be okay to overclock on my mobo (asus prime b450m-a). I don't know if this mobo is able to so if someone could help me out that would be apparated. Also if you have the same cpu what voltage and ghz do you recommend I was thinking around 4ghz but let me know if that is too much.

I have this board. It's not intended for overclocking. 

But generally zen+ at 4ghz is around the 1.4v v-core range.

Put a fan directly on the VRM package area please. 60mm will do.

[Lazaro Hernandez]

4 hours ago, ShrimpBrime said:

I have this board. It's not intended for overclocking. 

But generally zen+ at 4ghz is around the 1.4v v-core range.

Put a fan directly on the VRM package area please. 60mm will do.

I don't have a vrm fan

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Just now, Lazaro Hernandez said:

I don't have a vrm fan

Any fan will do. Even if you take off the side panel and put a desk fan pointing into the case would help. 

But it will be important to cool the VRM package area. They'll get hot if you don't.

[Lord Bloobus]

4 hours ago, Lazaro Hernandez said:

I have a ryzen 5 2600 and was wondering if it would be okay to overclock on my mobo (asus prime b450m-a). I don't know if this mobo is able to so if someone could help me out that would be apparated. Also if you have the same cpu what voltage and ghz do you recommend I was thinking around 4ghz but let me know if that is too much.

Listen to the other guy concerning overclocking, but it's kind of been discussed that the Ryzen chips don't OC that well and the gains you make are rather marginal compared to just leaving it as is. Also you need to make sure you have the cooling overhead to deal with it.

[Haro]

6 hours ago, Lazaro Hernandez said:

asus prime b450m-a

You technically can, it's just this board is sadly horrendous and isn't really made for it, you can see how far you can go with it and you can monitor the vrm temps, if needed, as said above you could point a small fan at the vrm. 

[Mister Woof]

Non x 1st and 2nd gen chips need overclocking or else they're slow as balls. You'll get 3.6ghz at best with that chip if left alone.

 

You don't need that robust of a vrm or cooling on a 6 core to get a decent 3.9-4ghz oc under realistic use loads (not p95).

 

As long as your cooler is adequate and your case is not some ridiculous oven design you don't have that much to lose.

 

Monitor your vrm temps and keep it under 1.35v and you'll probably be fine. I'll bet you can get 3.8ghz by leaving the voltage on auto.

 

If you want, you could always spend like $10 on some stick on heatsinks for the vrm components and push it further.

 

My 1600 is on about the same trash tier motherboard as yours and it manages 3.9ghz at 1.39v with a pitiful vrm heatsink that is actually probably worse than the stick on types.