1700 overclocking

[Johnny250]

Hey everyone. Just a quick question. I'm having a little trouble overclocking ( not use to offset voltage). What is a safe offset voltage for my ryzen 1700. Aorus x370 gaming 5 with x62 cooler 

[Carclis]

It depends entirely on the board since each motherboard manufacturer will use a different voltage for a given CPU. Your safest bet is to set the offset to 0 or as close to it as possible to see where the voltage sits and then work your way up from there. Most people recommend up to 1.4v for daily use with AMD claiming up to 1.425v is the limit but you should need a very beefy cooler for both of those.

[Johnny250]

1 minute ago, Carclis said:

It depends entirely on the board since each motherboard manufacturer will use a different voltage for a given CPU. Your safest bet is to set the offset to 0 or as close to it as possible and then work your way up. Most people recommend up to 1.4v for daily use with AMD claiming up to 1.425v is the limit but you should need a very beefy cooler for both of those.

Yea that's what I've heard. But what would that be as an offset voltage. Not sure how offset voltage works 

[phongle123]

9 minutes ago, Johnny250 said:

Hey everyone. Just a quick question. I'm having a little trouble overclocking ( not use to offset voltage). What is a safe offset voltage for my ryzen 1700. Aorus x370 gaming 5 with x62 cooler 

The max it should go to is 1.45v before it goes red on my board meaning I shouldn't want to go over that. However, use it as a base then overclock to 4.0Ghz. If it doesn't boot at 4.0Ghz @1.45v then you didn't get a great chip. Go down to 3.95Ghz or until it boots up. When it does, lower your Voltage to 1.40v, then go down from there by 0.01v until it stops booting correctly. Then move it up 0.02v <<<This is usually a stable voltage.

[AidenJyu]

You can try to oc to 3.7 by at least 1.25v.Then run the system stability test by aida64(both stress cpu and fsu) for 60 min.If there's nothing happen to your oc during the test, it means you make it.

[Johnny250]

My current offset is +.178. According to cpuz that's 1.38v. Does that sound d right. 3.9 seems to be stable at that voltage

[Johnny250]

2 minutes ago, Johnny250 said:

My current offset is +.178. According to cpuz that's 1.38v. Does that sound d right. 3.9 seems to be stable at that voltage

My bad. I meant +.180v

[Simon771]

9 minutes ago, Johnny250 said:

My current offset is +.178. According to cpuz that's 1.38v. Does that sound d right. 3.9 seems to be stable at that voltage

That sounds okay.

My R7 1700 won't go above 3,85GHz no matter what voltage I'm using.

 

So 3,9GHz at 1,38V is great.

Personally I wouldn't go above 1,4V for daily usage, so I would leave it at that.

[Carclis]

2 minutes ago, Johnny250 said:

My current offset is +.178. According to cpuz that's 1.38v. Does that sound d right. 3.9 seems to be stable at that voltage

That's pretty much where I would leave it then. It's near enough to 1.4v. As long as your temps are fine I would just work out what the best overclock is from there and then finetune it for a lower voltage if possible.

[Johnny250]

Just now, Simon771 said:

That sounds okay.

My R7 1700 won't go above 3,85GHz no matter what voltage I'm using.

 

So 3,9GHz at 1,38V is great.

Personally I wouldn't go above 1,4V for daily usage, so I would leave it at that.

Ok thx. I never load this cpu up too bad. Only gaming with background tasks so completely overkill for what I need. I might see if I can play with it and see if I can get 4ghz