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Overclocking problems with MSI X370 board

Mikmeki
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So my board is MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon and the CPU is 1600X. Whenever i apply overclock through BIOS, Ryzen Master shows a clock of 2.2Ghz. Windows task manager and Geekbench shows the right overclock (3.9Ghz). I though it is just a some kind of bug in Ryzen Master software, but when i ran Geekbench with overclock applied, the score was about 35-45% worse than with stock clocks (in parallel with clock difference 2.2Ghz vs. 3.6Ghz).

Then i set everything to auto in BIOS, and tried to overclock with Ryzen Master. Well, what do you know, it works just fine. Geekbench score went up by few hundred points and temps were more realistic.

So to my question, is overclocking with Ryzen Master reliable? I have heard everyone say to just avoid it like a cancer. Why exactly is this, and what the heck is going on with my BIOS? It is the latest version, i did double check that.

I'm also having some problems to get my memory running at its rated speed of 3000Mhz. The best i have gotten is 2666Mhz with16-17-17-36 timings. The kit is rated for 15-16-16-35 so that's already loosened. How high can i safely bumb CAS voltage if that could help?

Thanks again in advance!

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Probably just a bug in the bios, can't do much about it except maybe submit a bug report to MSI

 

Highest you should go is 1.35v, though note that you may not be able to get the memory to its rated speed unless its on the gaming pro carbon memory qvl list.

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OC using the BIOS and see if it fixes the problem

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