Ryzen5 3600x undervolt

[Arian78]

Hi everyone,

I was benchmarking my cpu with CinebenchR20 and my score was 3599 which i think is a bit low, can i undervolt and overclock it with the stock cooler? Or just undervolting does help the cpu perform a bit better? I couldn't find any guide in undervolting too, so please come with a full guide!

Thank you so much.

[wolfff]

15 minutes ago, Arian78 said:

Hi everyone,

I was benchmarking my cpu with CinebenchR20 and my score was 3599 which i think is a bit low, can i undervolt and overclock it with the stock cooler? Or just undervolting does help the cpu perform a bit better? I couldn't find any guide in undervolting too, so please come with a full guide!

Thank you so much.

i don't know alot about overclocking and undervolting but what i do know is that the stock amd wraith cooler aint a good overclocking cooler. my amd wraith does the job perfectly fine for my ryzen 7 1700 cpu but still gets some high temps in heavy to run games. but it never goes too high the degreese

[Coolmaster]

3599 is fine for a 3600X, a little slow but within the margin of error, make sure you don't have anything running in the background when running it.

 

Undervolting actually makes your CPU perform worse, it will be power starved and not able to boost as fast or as long, but it does help create less heat. If you really want to undervolt, drop your voltage by a little (maybe less than 0.1 volts), then run Prime95 or Aida64 for an hour or longer to see if your system crashes. If it doesn't crash, then you can lower the voltage a little more and repeat until you can't lower it any more. If you want to overclock do the same as undervolting, but instead of decreasing voltage increase the clock speed until it can't go any higher, but you can raise the voltage for more heat and a shorter life span to get higher clock speeds.

[boggy77]

i would try to enable PBO in bios, which is an auto-overclockign feature.

also, make sure your ram is in slots 2 and 4 and xmp is enabled.

what motherboard do you have? make sure you install chipset drivers. a bios update sometimes helps with performance as well.

[Vishera]

Undervolting may cause lower performance.

Just follow an overclocking guide,there are a lot of their for Zen 2.

[Jurrunio]

At what memory speeds? If it's 2133 you're actually scoring better than I expected

[Arian78]

22 minutes ago, Coolmaster said:

3599 is fine for a 3600X, a little slow but within the margin of error, make sure you don't have anything running in the background when running it.

 

Undervolting actually makes your CPU perform worse, it will be power starved and not able to boost as fast or as long, but it does help create less heat. If you really want to undervolt, drop your voltage by a little (maybe less than 0.1 volts), then run Prime95 or Aida64 for an hour or longer to see if your system crashes. If it doesn't crash, then you can lower the voltage a little more and repeat until you can't lower it any more. If you want to overclock do the same as undervolting, but instead of decreasing voltage increase the clock speed until it can't go any higher, but you can raise the voltage for more heat and a shorter life span to get higher clock speeds.

I have actually heard about offset mode or something like that, is it the same as undervolting? and if not, is it a goodthing to do?

 

22 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

i would try to enable PBO in bios, which is an auto-overclockign feature.

also, make sure your ram is in slots 2 and 4 and xmp is enabled.

what motherboard do you have? make sure you install chipset drivers. a bios update sometimes helps with performance as well.

My motherboard is Asus b550 m-k.

The xmp is enabled and my two rams are on the right slots and with 3200mhz.

The chipst is updated to the last version.

5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

At what memory speeds? If it's 2133 you're actually scoring better than I expected

It's 3200.

 

[boggy77]

just use this to squeeze the best performance out

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/amd-ryzen-clock-tuner-ctr-1usmus/

[Arian78]

12 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

just use this to squeeze the best performance out

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/amd-ryzen-clock-tuner-ctr-1usmus/

Ok... i did it, and how does it work? I hope it doesn't fry the cpu. Does it have any automatic overclocking without destroying the cpu because of high temps?

[boggy77]

1 hour ago, Arian78 said:

Ok... i did it, and how does it work? I hope it doesn't fry the cpu. Does it have any automatic overclocking without destroying the cpu because of high temps?

the cpu can't be fried or destroyed by overclocking. maybe you could do it 30 years ago, but modern chips have all sorts of protections against overtemps and overvolting