Extending boost curve

[SorryBella]

Hey, so ive maxed out my PBO2 to +200 with -27 undervolt via Curve Optimizer, but im still wondering how to increase my boost beyond the 200Mhz range. So far i cant find any solution to it besides just standard overclock which id love to do but it would increase my idle wattage which i dont like because its not only going to be wasteful for my parents who foot the bill, but also isnt a good way to keep my electrical circuit healthy as im quite wattage limited with several high drain products in my room. How can i just extend the boost curve instead of overclocking so i can have the performance where it matters? Like in games or handbrake render which i frequently do.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Bclk overclock

Think you can do around 104 before you start needing to drop down to gen3 or even gen2

 

I reccomend not using your main os while bclk oc just so if its particularly unstable you wont corrupt anything, once its actually stable you should be fine and no annoying corruption shenanigans cause its stable

[SorryBella]

1 minute ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

I reccomend not using your main os

I dont have spare drives that i can boot to with Zen-Radeon drivers. And ive stated before that reliability and power bill during ownership would still be kind of a focus, hence why im hesitant to pull the stops on clock ratio overclock because that would lock my frequency up when its unnecessary like in times like this. Where im just in the forum talking.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

4 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

I dont have spare drives that i can boot to with Zen-Radeon drivers. And ive stated before that reliability and power bill during ownership would still be kind of a focus, hence why im hesitant to pull the stops on clock ratio overclock because that would lock my frequency up when its unnecessary like in times like this. Where im just in the forum talking.

Mate a 160 gig disk is like 50rb nowadays

 

But thats simply just a safety precaution, i usually just bclk till it stops posting and dial down by .2/.3 on the bclk to ensure stability

[RONOTHAN##]

51 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

So far i cant find any solution to it besides just standard overclock which id love to do but it would increase my idle wattage

In my experience at least it ends up decreasing your idle wattage a bit if you set it up right, since the chip isn't trying to run 1.48V with a core at 5GHz just in case you move your mouse. It makes little real world difference, it's in the single digit watt differences and performance can end up going down overall depending on how well you stress test, but it is technically lower power at idle. 

 

 

There really just isn't any headroom in those chips. The only area where you might get an improvement is with RAM OC, but even then it depends on your workload whether you'd actually see a benefit or not. 

[SorryBella]

Just now, RONOTHAN## said:

There really just isn't any headroom in those chips. The only area where you might get an improvement is with RAM OC, but even then it depends on your workload whether you'd actually see a benefit or not. 

Which are gaming and Handbrake and both of those are very much RAM sensitive. Ive tried to overclock it a few days ago and yeah, no dice. Ill just tighten the advanced timings further but where it sits the RAM side is pretty stable.