R7 1700 overclocking issue

[Special Agent 星雨]

Specs:

Ryzen 7 1700

AMD Wraith Spire RGB cooler

2 x 8GB Trident Z RGB RAM @ 3000Mhz CL15

Asrock X370 Taichi

 

I've finally the time to overclock my Ryzen 7 1700 CPU, but it appears my particular chip is either really bad or I am doing something really wrong.

When I try 3800mhz at ANY (safe) voltages, the computer would crash during a Cinebench R15 CPU benchmark run. I've tried, at 3800mhz, ~1.28v, 1.3v, ~1.33v and even 1.35v, at which temperatures were reaching the high 80s. ~ indicates rough estimate.

 

Setting in the BIOS that I have altered:

Overclock mode: Manual

CPU Frequency and voltage change: Manual

AM4 Advance Boot Training: Disable

CPU frequency: 3750Mhz

CPU voltage: 1.2375v

DRAM Frequency: XMP 2.0 Profile 1 (2933Mhz)

Voltage mode: OC mode

CPU LLC: Level 2

VDDCR_SOC LLC: Level 2

DRAM Voltage: 1.35v (auto)

C6 Mode: Disabled

Global C-state control: Disabled

 

I have modified the settings in BIOS after doing research on how to overclock a Ryzen 7 1700.

Is this just a case of losing the "silicon lottery"? Or am I doing something wrong?

 

 

[cymbalist]

8 minutes ago, Special Agent 星雨 said:

Specs:

Ryzen 7 1700

AMD Wraith Spire RGB cooler

2 x 8GB Trident Z RGB RAM @ 3000Mhz CL15

Asrock X370 Taichi

 

I've finally the time to overclock my Ryzen 7 1700 CPU, but it appears my particular chip is either really bad or I am doing something really wrong.

When I try 3800mhz at ANY (safe) voltages, the computer would crash during a Cinebench R15 CPU benchmark run. I've tried, at 3800mhz, ~1.28v, 1.3v, ~1.33v and even 1.35v, at which temperatures were reaching the high 80s. ~ indicates rough estimate.

 

Setting in the BIOS that I have altered:

Overclock mode: Manual

CPU Frequency and voltage change: Manual

AM4 Advance Boot Training: Disable

CPU frequency: 3750Mhz

CPU voltage: 1.2375v

DRAM Frequency: XMP 2.0 Profile 1 (2933Mhz)

Voltage mode: OC mode

CPU LLC: Level 2

VDDCR_SOC LLC: Level 2

DRAM Voltage: 1.35v (auto)

C6 Mode: Disabled

Global C-state control: Disabled

 

I have modified the settings in BIOS after doing research on how to overclock a Ryzen 7 1700.

Is this just a case of losing the "silicon lottery"? Or am I doing something wrong?

 

 

you might jsut have a chip that isn't going to go any further than what you have so far, have you tried setting your SOC voltage to 1.1V?

I've seen on a video that for overclocking you might want to raise that a little to get more stability

 

[Special Agent 星雨]

Just now, cymbalist said:

you might jsut have a chip that isn't going to go any further than what you have so far, have you tried setting your SOC voltage to 1.1V?

I've seen on a video that for overclocking you might want to raise that a little to get more stability

 

What would the SOC voltage be when it is set to default? I will definitely try bumping it from whatever it is on auto to 1.1V when I restart my computer later.

[cymbalist]

Just now, Special Agent 星雨 said:

What would the SOC voltage be when it is set to default? I will definitely try bumping it from whatever it is on auto to 1.1V when I restart my computer later.

it should be set to 1V by default.

[Special Agent 星雨]

41 minutes ago, cymbalist said:

it should be set to 1V by default.

I tried setting SOC voltage to 1.1V, but it seems to have made no effect, I retried 1.3V @ 3.8Ghz (which apparently MOST people should be able to achieve), and as usual, in the middle of a Cinebench R15 run, computer restarts with Dr. Debug Code 00. Guess I just have a really bad chip.

[cymbalist]

3 minutes ago, Special Agent 星雨 said:

I tried setting SOC voltage to 1.1V, but it seems to have made no effect, I retried 1.3V @ 3.8Ghz (which apparently MOST people should be able to achieve), and as usual, in the middle of a Cinebench R15 run, computer restarts with Dr. Debug Code 00. Guess I just have a really bad chip.

Sounds like you hit the bottom end on the lottery, bad luck

 

I'm trying to find a video i saw on youtube from some reviewers that where invited to AMD in collaboration with ROG or MSI i think (had something to do with dragon force team). Some AMD techs gave some info on different voltage settings to help get stable overclocks. When i find it i'll link it to you.

[cymbalist]

@Special Agent 星雨 

This is a long video with lots of info about ryzen including info about overclocking ryzen from AMD themselves.

[jjohnthedon1]

No it's 1.1 default soc

1.2 is max recommended and it's more to stabilise higher memory clocks

 

if you get your temps in check up to 1.45v is perfectly safe and fine 

 

try max llc aswell because I set mine to max and still drop 0.025 

 

what board are you on ? 

If u were going for 3.8 at 1.35 but still getting vdroop to 1.32 Thad why it's crashing 

 

what I would do is set ur voltage to 1.38 max llc run cinebench and monitor voltage in cpuz and report back