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What is your ambient temp?  20c is 70f.  I dont agree you are achieving those temps at all unless you are in a room that is 30f on its own.  (I have the same cooler, CM Lite 120 on a 1700....its just fine but aint running at 20c brother)

 

Are you sure your RAM is actually running at the stated speeds?  Or is that just the ram you bought and put in?  If so check to ensure its running that speed at boot by checking CPU-Z, memory tab.  My bet is its actually running at 2133mhz - if you can get it to 3200mhz or more than gaming wise thats a HUGE upgrade (but see below)

 

As an overclocker of a few 1700's there are some gains to be had - but unlikely any you would note unless you share with us your use case.

 

Like for rendering...getting your 1700 to 4.2ghz competes with the R5 3600X handily.

But with your GPU - there just isnt a way that your CPU is "holding it back" so if you are a gamer - your GPU is the issue here and would need replaced

 

What is your use case?

 

 

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Hello I would like some help tuning my pc I have a Ryzen 7 1700 running at 3.7ghz at the moment (runs at 20c with water cooler), MSI GT 1030 OC edition, a B450m Gaming motherboard from gigabyte, a 950w PSU, 2 hard drives 3.5 in (3TB in total) (one needs data recovering bc accidentally deleted data) and a 128GB m.2 SSD I also have 32GB of ram running in XMP at 3600 MHz (timings – 18-22-22-39-85 1.35v)

 

I have had a look at the Bios had a play around but don`t feel am gett max performance so am ready to just reset the bios (restore default settings) and try tuning everything as best as possible to get the maximum performance out of this machine without hurting anything else  eg photoshop performance or any adobe applications (need that for my uni work)

 

Thanks for reading!

 

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What is your ambient temp?  20c is 70f.  I dont agree you are achieving those temps at all unless you are in a room that is 30f on its own.  (I have the same cooler, CM Lite 120 on a 1700....its just fine but aint running at 20c brother)

 

Are you sure your RAM is actually running at the stated speeds?  Or is that just the ram you bought and put in?  If so check to ensure its running that speed at boot by checking CPU-Z, memory tab.  My bet is its actually running at 2133mhz - if you can get it to 3200mhz or more than gaming wise thats a HUGE upgrade (but see below)

 

As an overclocker of a few 1700's there are some gains to be had - but unlikely any you would note unless you share with us your use case.

 

Like for rendering...getting your 1700 to 4.2ghz competes with the R5 3600X handily.

But with your GPU - there just isnt a way that your CPU is "holding it back" so if you are a gamer - your GPU is the issue here and would need replaced

 

What is your use case?

 

 

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Tbh I didn`t believe it either my BIOS and AMD master says 20 C (before OC) (when at ideal) but when I OC a little (3.7ghz) it runs at 28 C I do have my computer close to my window and I have good airflow with my case which is a Thermaltake versa H15. my room tends to be colder than others being described as a hot sleeper so my room is fairly chilly (-2 tonight lamo). A great example of this is my GPU it does use fans and runs a 36 C ideal (we use imperial units) but does generate some coil wine for some reason no idea why not OCing so a little confused about that.

My Ram is running at 3600 MHz I check the task manager and checked the bios says 3600 MHz XMP is selected at 3600 MHz just the timing s is interesting, to say the least.

In terms of use, case I am just using it for photoshop and some games I have a laptop with a gtx 1650 if I wanna do some quilty gaming (in comparison to the gt 1030) I am a Uni photographer which may involve some other adobe applications like adobe premiere pro and InDesign. I am getting a 144hz 1080p display in the post so I imagine this should be fine on this GPU? I am also palling on using a DisplayPort 1.4 connection wire and GPU the monitor isn`t 1.4 but I would like to know that I've tried my best to not bottleneck this connection at all as my work is very dependent on color accuracyIMG_20210406_192712.thumb.jpg.1714779dfad8a3f764eb78e27aa925ce.jpgIMG_20210406_192704.thumb.jpg.a939e71b8915cfc785e53ecff2106eae.jpgIMG_20210406_192643.thumb.jpg.e0c7d98ee4e2f24e8072cf676da8ab7b.jpg

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