Am I Pushing It Too Far?

[Mike Soda]

Alright so after spending all day on it, I've come to the conclusion that there's something wrong with my MSI B350M's BIOS. It refuses to properly apply any CPU overclock if the voltage is over 1.350V; the gigahertz show up right in Task Manager, CineBench & BIOS itself, but CPU-Z & HWMonitor say it's stuck at 1549.6MHz & Cinebench scores are in the 200's . At that voltage though I'm able to successfully run Cinebench at the following frequencies: 3800MHz, 3825MHz, 3850MHz & 3875MHz with normal scores in the 800's. Although I've heard before that running your hardware on the bleeding edge can be dangerous. I don't know if this applies to maximum voltage & frequency together or running it on the edge of any particular frequency. I'm hoping MSI fixes this soon before my Aida64 Extreme trial ends in 28 days, that is if I could clock it any higher regardless. In the mean time awaiting replies I'll be further testing those frequencies starting at the highest with Aida64.

 

Which 1 of those should I run my Ryzen 5 1500X at for the current voltage I'm stuck with?

[Mike Soda]

Never mind, turns out no CPU overclock will work properly with current BIOS, gonna just focus on GPU for now