AMD Overclocking Guide

[ChrisLoudon]

Hi guys,

 

While I would class myself as a fairly proficient Intel overclocker, I have absolutely 0% experience with AMD CPUs and since I'm close to upgrading one of my home rigs and seriously considering going Team Red, I'd like to understand how the AMD platform OCs.

 

With Intel, its always been easy. Chose a K series chip and a Z series Mobo, lock the cores together, set the multiplier, dial in the vCore, test for stability and off you go.

 

Is this how its done with AMD? I really have no clue.

 

A good YouTube or online guide would be handy.

 

Will be looking at one of the existing or yet to be released X3D chips.

[Dedayog]

1 hour ago, ChrisLoudon said:

Hi guys,

 

While I would class myself as a fairly proficient Intel overclocker, I have absolutely 0% experience with AMD CPUs and since I'm close to upgrading one of my home rigs and seriously considering going Team Red, I'd like to understand how the AMD platform OCs.

 

With Intel, its always been easy. Chose a K series chip and a Z series Mobo, lock the cores together, set the multiplier, dial in the vCore, test for stability and off you go.

 

Is this how its done with AMD? I really have no clue.

 

A good YouTube or online guide would be handy.

 

Will be looking at one of the existing or yet to be released X3D chips.

AMD undervolts nowadys... but doesn't have much impact on the X3D chips, as they are more or less optimized and locked.

 

If you get a non-X3D chip due to the pricing issues now though...

 

 

 

[podkall]

Overclocking has been for a while, a thing in a past, for the most part.

 

With each CPU and GPU generation, the overclocking yield and support becomes smaller, as the components already ship as fast as they can possibly go,

 

or with technologies like PBO or Intel's Turbo Boost that are so good already that one of the only reasons for OC is to see a number go up in Cinebench.

[freeagent]

For me, I find out the maximum power the socket will allow the CPU to use with PBO with the heaviest workload that I know of. Once I do that, I use those as my power limits. From there I use he curve and boost override to tune my single and all core clocks.

[ChrisLoudon]

17 hours ago, Dedayog said:

AMD undervolts nowadys... but doesn't have much impact on the X3D chips, as they are more or less optimized and locked.

 

If you get a non-X3D chip due to the pricing issues now though...

Thanks buddy, 2 good vids for me to watch.

 

Looks a bit more involved than Intel. TBH, for me its not about extra performance (although its always nice) but about reducing voltages and power and thermals.