Overclocking questions

[xshmuel]

Hey guys,

 

I have never had a CPU which actually was able to overclock (xeons etc). I am planning on buying the new ryzen 1700 (I actually need the cores for work etc) and overclock it to 3.8-3.9 GHz.
my questions is:

 if you dial in your overclock will the system always run at this dialed in overclock or will it clock down when it idles? And does the voltage do the same?

 

 

 

[Squibbies18]

2 minutes ago, xshmuel said:

Hey guys,

 

I have never had a CPU which actually was able to overclock (xeons etc). I am planning on buying the new ryzen 1700 (I actually need the cores for work etc) and overclock it to 3.8-3.9 GHz.
my questions is:

 if you dial in your overclock will the system always run at this dialed in overclock or will it clock down when it idles? And does the voltage do the same?

 

 

 

it will clock down when it's idle, it'll only run at those speeds when under heavy load, basically it becomes your new boost clock.

[xshmuel]

1 minute ago, Squibbies18 said:

it will clock down when it's idle, it'll only run at those speeds when under heavy load, basically it becomes your new boost clock.

Ah ok thx for the info

[Shubham Yadav]

17 minutes ago, xshmuel said:

Hey guys,

 

I have never had a CPU which actually was able to overclock (xeons etc). I am planning on buying the new ryzen 1700 (I actually need the cores for work etc) and overclock it to 3.8-3.9 GHz.
my questions is:

 if you dial in your overclock will the system always run at this dialed in overclock or will it clock down when it idles? And does the voltage do the same?

 

 

 

 

About the clock, the overclock you set is the new maximum clock speed all the cores can run at when under load. It's not like turbo since the turbo can only be reached for a single core but overclock frequency will be the ceiling one or all cores can reach depending on the load.

 

Regarding the voltage, it depends on what kind of voltage you set it at. If you do the regular and set the voltage to 1.4 volts, the voltage will hover around that even when you are at idle. If you don't want that, most motherboards offer you to set an offset voltage to set to what voltage to dial on idle a bit deeper under those settings.

 

Last of all, nice choice going with the 1700. It's just as good as the 1800x for 2/3 of the price, and comes with a free cooler.

[xshmuel]

6 minutes ago, Shubham Yadav said:

 

About the clock, the overclock you set is the new maximum clock speed all the cores can run at when under load. It's not like turbo since the turbo can only be reached for a single core but overclock frequency will be the ceiling one or all cores can reach depending on the load.

 

Regarding the voltage, it depends on what kind of voltage you set it at. If you do the regular and set the voltage to 1.4 volts, the voltage will hover around that even when you are at idle. If you don't want that, most motherboards offer you to set an offset voltage to set to what voltage to dial on idle a bit deeper under those settings.

 

Last of all, nice choice going with the 1700. It's just as good as the 1800x for 2/3 of the price, and comes with a free cooler.

thanks for the help with the voltage info. And yhea the 1700 will help me so much, will not use that free cooler tho will get a dark rock 3 (or pro 3) really need the silence since the pc will probably run for few days in a row calculating stuff (and I sleep in the same room so noise is important  )