Overclocking Ryzen 7 5800X

[spannvis]

Hey! 

 

Thinking about overclocking my CPU (Ryzen 7 5800X) with a MSI X570 MAG TOMAHAWK WIFI mobo. CPU cooling is a Noctua NH-D14 (w/ Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound), during benchmark it reaches 80C but soon cools down to 62C stable. While streaming and playing simultaneously it never goes beyond 62C so cooling probably wont be a problem. 

 

The thing is, I've never OC before, is there anything I should be aware of? Are there any good guides with my specific parts? 

 

Thanks in advance! 

 

// spannvis 

[Skiiwee29]

There is really no overclocking headroom on ryzen chips and doing so almost always hurts single core performance. You would be best to enable PBO2 and set a curve optimizer undervolt and call it good. With my 5900x setup this way I get 4.6-4.625ghz all core and over 5ghz single core 

[Lurick]

I, honestly, wouldn't even bother with manual overclocks. Just make sure PBO and XMP is enabled in BIOS and you're good to go. You can search around for your motherboard + CPU combination to see if anyone has any good offsets for reducing temps but beyond that just let it do the auto overclocking through PBO

[Chris Pratt]

@Skiiwee29is right. Undervolting Zen 3 is the way to go. This gives the CPU extra thermal and power headroom to let PBO do its thing. Do a per core undervolt, though. It's exceedingly rare to get a stable all core undervolt without leaving a lot of extra performance on the table. Doing it per core will be time consuming, but it will be totally worth it.

[GuiltySpark_]

I've set my Curve Optimizer to -20 on all cores and enabled PBO and I leave it at that. 

 

In Cinebench R23 runs I maintain 4.7Ghz across all cores and see 81-82c maximum. Good enough for me.

[freeagent]

It really depends what you do with your pc. If you just game and are an average user pbo is the way to go. If you crunch numbers all the time an all core oc is in your cards. Run an all core oc and you will gimp it by a few hundred MHz on the top end, not that it matters much if you are crunching. There is much performance to be had and lost going either way.

[sicxind]

is this really true?  as of august 2022. ryzen master allows me to over clock my R5 2600 on all cores to 4.1 Ghz with very modest voltage increase, and not very high temps with an after market air cooler,  1.25v and around 70c if resizable bar is not active.. for some reason.  and that chip clocks pretty low.  why is there not any head room for over clock on ryzen chips?

 

i guess maybe the 2600 chip doesnt go much past 4.2ghz as its not really designed for it. but if this older chip can be pushed up with absolutely no effort and time invested.  im not sure why a 5800x wouldnt be a quick and simple process to over clock.

 

why let the chip auto throttle when its nearly effortless to over clock the chip with nothing more than possibly 1 hour of turning a computer on and off looking for the voltage sweet spot in ryzen master. 

 

yah the 5800x might run a bit hotter and require a water block solution but it should still be easily overclockable on all cores with ryzen master in the year 2022 with little to no effort.  just saying

 

 

[BuzzingBee]

1 hour ago, sicxind said:

is this really true?  as of august 2022. ryzen master allows me to over clock my R5 2600 on all cores to 4.1 Ghz with very modest voltage increase, and not very high temps with an after market air cooler,  1.25v and around 70c if resizable bar is not active.. for some reason.  and that chip clocks pretty low.  why is there not any head room for over clock on ryzen chips?

 

i guess maybe the 2600 chip doesnt go much past 4.2ghz as its not really designed for it. but if this older chip can be pushed up with absolutely no effort and time invested.  im not sure why a 5800x wouldnt be a quick and simple process to over clock.

 

why let the chip auto throttle when its nearly effortless to over clock the chip with nothing more than possibly 1 hour of turning a computer on and off looking for the voltage sweet spot in ryzen master. 

 

yah the 5800x might run a bit hotter and require a water block solution but it should still be easily overclockable on all cores with ryzen master in the year 2022 with little to no effort.  just saying

 

 

Because enabling PBO is best for single core performance, full load performance and everything in between.

 

For example If I adjust my 5950x for all core OC I could get 1.15v and 4400mhz but I'm stuck with that core speed even with single core. If I adjust my PBO and curve optimiser I could get around 4350mhz full load, sure I lose a bit of performance in comparison, but in single core I could get beyond 5000mhz! A huge difference in single core performance.