3600 to 3600xt?

[EdMetal]

Hi! I'll be brief. I have a very good specimen of 3600, that I found out being able to hit 4.5ghz all cores at 1.26v. 

 

OCCT stable, Aida stable, all that stuff.

 

Now, before acquiring this chip I read all sorts of info I could find online about overclocking zen2, and some of them were very alarmistic, going as far as telling that the only way to be safe with Ryzen is to let pbo do his thing, leave all at stock and don't set a manual static voltage, because some users have seen degradation with as little a 1.25v static. 

 

I want to keep this 3600 until ddr5 hits, because it is a very good overclocker, so I do worry about his lifespan. 

Since it appears that the only way to stay safe is to leave pbo on, and my 3600 is in fact like a 3600xt, is there a way to tweak my bios settings so that it effectively behaves like a stock 3600xt? 

Thanks in advance! 

[Mateyyy]

Lots of people are quick to throw the word "degradation" around, when in fact more often that not they just happened to run a heavier workload they haven't run before that causes their overclock/undervolt to not be stable. 

If 1.25V was to damage your chip (though I doubt it), you must have some serious bottom of the barrel silicon, and that doesn't seem to be true in your case.

[SupaKomputa]

30 minutes ago, EdMetal said:

because some users have seen degradation with as little a 1.25v static. 

I haven't heard about CPU degradation, it's either working or not.

[Bombastinator]

Part of the issue with Ryzen2 as I understand it is later examples are generally much better over lockers than early ones. Improvements in manufacture I suspect.  The only thing I know of that can cause degradation is high heat, and there is disagreement on what a chip can withstand heat wise.  One group (the old school) says anything under 75c and degradation is extremely slow. Decades or more.  The other says the number is much higher. Somewhere just under 100c, varying by chip.  If you can hit that OC while keeping temps under 75c even the old school cannot complain.  That wasn’t possible generally with early ryzen2 though.  Merely running at stock it was hard to keep them under 85c

[Jurrunio]

I'm pretty sure PBO on Zen 2 already exceeds 1.25v all the time. You have to manually set the multiplier though since PBO lets you add 200MHz at most, bringing the 4.2GHz 3600 to 4.4 only. I'd say just use whatever you see PBO use and make sure you dont overshoot LLC settings.