Ryzen 5 1600, what's the voltage limit?

[Frankieanime158]

Hey, just wondering what would be the highest voltage an R5 1600 would allow for overclocking. I did a dirty OC jumping to 1.3v at 3.8 right away, and it's perfectly stable. Half an hour of Prime95 gave me 61c max with my Hyper 212. I tried that same 1.3v with 3.85ghz and I crashed a few seconds into Cinebench. I tried for 3.9, so I kept going up a bit until I hit 1.335, which is where I stopped. I boot fine, but as soon as I click run on Cinebench it hard crashes and shuts off. I don't feel comfortable going passed 1.335 unless I get some verification from other's that it should be okay to try 1.35.

Thanks

[johndms]

7 minutes ago, Frankieanime158 said:

Hey, just wondering what would be the highest voltage an R5 1600 would allow for overclocking. I did a dirty OC jumping to 1.3v at 3.8 right away, and it's perfectly stable. Half an hour of Prime95 gave me 61c max with my Hyper 212. I tried that same 1.3v with 3.85ghz and I crashed a few seconds into Cinebench. I tried for 3.9, so I kept going up a bit until I hit 1.335, which is where I stopped. I boot fine, but as soon as I click run on Cinebench it hard crashes and shuts off. I don't feel comfortable going passed 1.335 unless I get some verification from other's that it should be okay to try 1.35.

Thanks

AMD recommends no higher than 1.35v for 24/7 use. But I've gone as high as 1.45v to see if I could break 4GHz (I couldn't). Personally, I won't go past 1.4v with aftermarket cooling.

[johndms]

10 minutes ago, Frankieanime158 said:

I did a dirty OC jumping to 1.3v at 3.8 right away, and it's perfectly stable.

Try several hours of Prime95, or Aida64 to verify stability. I had my 1600 at 1.3v and it crashed after 36 minutes, then again at 1 hour 47 minutes. I tried again at 1.325v and it seemed stable, but I kept getting random blue screens while gaming. I finally settled at 1.35v and haven't had any problems since.

[Frankieanime158]

Alright cool, thanks for the help. Will do :]

[This kid builds pc]

I've had mine all the way up to 1.425 for 4ghz and it always stable. I don't run it oc'd all the time though because my mobo for some reason won't save the thing when I try to save it.

[johndms]

22 minutes ago, This kid builds pc said:

I've had mine all the way up to 1.425 for 4ghz and it always stable. I don't run it oc'd all the time though because my mobo for some reason won't save the thing when I try to save it.

The OP and I appear to be using the same CPU and Board. I feel safe in saying that the board will probably prevent the Ryzen 5 1600 from reaching 4GHz because we'll have to push our voltage near 1.45v, or higher. I can reach 3.9GHz, but have to use 1.4v. Not comfortable with that 24/7.

 

The ASRock b350 boards don't have LLC capabilities which help to stabilize CPU Core Voltage drops during load and the resulting spikes when returning to idle (known as vdroop). At 3.8GHz 1.35v, my vcore drops to 1.275v (-0.075) during load. Normally, with LLC, a person could run that same overclock at 1.30v and be just fine, because their vcore wouldn't drop below 1.275v (-0.025). This also means hitting 4GHz will be easier because there's no need to overcompensate with the vcore due to vdroop.

 

Does your MSI PC Mate have LLC capabilities?

[just_dave]

5 hours ago, johndms said:

The OP and I appear to be using the same CPU and Board. I feel safe in saying that the board will probably prevent the Ryzen 5 1600 from reaching 4GHz because we'll have to push our voltage near 1.45v, or higher. I can reach 3.9GHz, but have to use 1.4v. Not comfortable with that 24/7.

 

The ASRock b350 boards don't have LLC capabilities which help to stabilize CPU Core Voltage drops during load and the resulting spikes when returning to idle (known as vdroop). At 3.8GHz 1.35v, my vcore drops to 1.275v (-0.075) during load. Normally, with LLC, a person could run that same overclock at 1.30v and be just fine, because their vcore wouldn't drop below 1.275v (-0.025). This also means hitting 4GHz will be easier because there's no need to overcompensate with the vcore due to vdroop.

 

Does your MSI PC Mate have LLC capabilities?

PC Mate should have them.

RT8894A is digi

[This kid builds pc]

On 9/27/2017 at 5:21 PM, johndms said:

The OP and I appear to be using the same CPU and Board. I feel safe in saying that the board will probably prevent the Ryzen 5 1600 from reaching 4GHz because we'll have to push our voltage near 1.45v, or higher. I can reach 3.9GHz, but have to use 1.4v. Not comfortable with that 24/7.

 

The ASRock b350 boards don't have LLC capabilities which help to stabilize CPU Core Voltage drops during load and the resulting spikes when returning to idle (known as vdroop). At 3.8GHz 1.35v, my vcore drops to 1.275v (-0.075) during load. Normally, with LLC, a person could run that same overclock at 1.30v and be just fine, because their vcore wouldn't drop below 1.275v (-0.025). This also means hitting 4GHz will be easier because there's no need to overcompensate with the vcore due to vdroop.

 

Does your MSI PC Mate have LLC capabilities?

 

On 9/27/2017 at 10:43 PM, dave_k said:

PC Mate should have them.

RT8894A is digi

Haven't seen the LLC settings on there.Another issue i have is that If I set my voltage kinda high or frequency above 3.7ish (i think havent tried in months) then it wont save the oc. Thinking about getting x370. How much should i sell my board for?

[just_dave]

1 hour ago, This kid builds pc said:

 

Haven't seen the LLC settings on there.Another issue i have is that If I set my voltage kinda high or frequency above 3.7ish (i think havent tried in months) then it wont save the oc. Thinking about getting x370. How much should i sell my board for?

Who would buy such crap?

[YaBoiWill]

I know this is an old thread, but I have mine running at 4.1ghz and 4.07v at peak, but when at idle the voltage drops to 1.13 v and 1.115ghz for power saving. I left it overnight running the small data set in OCCT and it seems to have survived. 

I think 1.35v is the max recommended for 24/7 use, and I don't put it under 100% very often. 

4.15 seems to be the limit for my chip, I guess I'm one of the lucky ones because I have read about people only just being able to get 3.6 

[useless2]

On 9/28/2017 at 1:01 AM, Frankieanime158 said:

Hey, just wondering what would be the highest voltage an R5 1600 would allow for overclocking. I did a dirty OC jumping to 1.3v at 3.8 right away, and it's perfectly stable. Half an hour of Prime95 gave me 61c max with my Hyper 212. I tried that same 1.3v with 3.85ghz and I crashed a few seconds into Cinebench. I tried for 3.9, so I kept going up a bit until I hit 1.335, which is where I stopped. I boot fine, but as soon as I click run on Cinebench it hard crashes and shuts off. I don't feel comfortable going passed 1.335 unless I get some verification from other's that it should be okay to try 1.35.

Thanks

I'm asking the same question, but as someone who is as of writing this reply running at 3.975GHz just after succesfully running cinebench (1298 score). I'm currently sitting at over 1.5V. Stock cooler, but I'm not having issues with temperature, just stability. There's a 50/50 chance that my PC will crash during cinebench, I'm pretty sure I could get it to 4GHz, but I'm already uncomfortable with the voltage, but AMD says that they don't recommend going over 1.45, so you should be fine with anything less (1.35 is completely fine).

[YaBoiWill]

On 10/15/2019 at 5:48 PM, useless2 said:

1.5V

Wow thats high. I have a feeling that you just didn't win the silicone lottery here. 

Mine is running at 3.8ghz at 1.325V and gets a score of 1350 I think in cinebench (don't know which release, cant remember) 

It could also be that your MOBO just doesn't have great VRM's to deliver the power needed, although I am far from an expert on that matter

I also really only have it at 1.325 because it just gives a bit more stability, but it did work 80% of the time at 1.3v, and probs would do if I wasn't using my PC for work.