Overclocking cpu

[Malachiter]

I bought the Thermalright peerless asssasin 120 se so I want to overclock my ryzen 5 5600. I know how to do the cpu ratio thing but I don’t know what voltage to put with each clock speed. People say I shouldn’t use auto, but too high voltages will damage it too. Also, while I play games (valorant and csgo), my cpu and gpu are both at around like 15% utilisation and they are not thermal throttling and I don’t have an fps cap or anything. Does anyone know why it’s like that?

[Middcore]

Overclocking modern Ryzen chips isn't really worthwhile. 

[Malachiter]

42 minutes ago, Middcore said:

Overclocking modern Ryzen chips isn't really worthwhile. 

If I were to overclock it still, how much speed would I gain?

[Alex Atkin UK]

11 minutes ago, Malachiter said:

If I were to overclock it still, how much speed would I gain?

Generally you don't overclock them manually, you enable PBO and let it do its thing with possibly trying to decrease the voltage curve offset a little.

[WereCat]

21 minutes ago, Malachiter said:

If I were to overclock it still, how much speed would I gain?

Generally you can get some nice multi threaded performance at the cost of single threaded. 

So you'll hurt the game performance while getting some extra on workloads. 

[freeagent]

Set 200/160/190 +200 -29 AC and let er rip.

[Malachiter]

50 minutes ago, freeagent said:

Set 200/160/190 +200 -29 AC and let er rip.

What do you mean by 200/160/190. Is that like voltage, clock speeds or what?

[freeagent]

That is your PPT/TDC/EDC.

 

I would just leave anything related to overclocking alone for now until you are familiar with what is going on.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Its honestly a minefield, I can't for the life of me get my 5950X to turbo above 4.7Ghz for single-core loads so I've pretty much given up on that.  Doing the tweaks similar to above I did manage to get multi-core to 4.4Ghz though.

 

The key seemed to be increasing the power limits as mentioned, and adding a negative voltage curve offset.  Though it was unstable with any more than 20 it seems, I'd start with 15 and gradually increase it.