First time overclocking. What do I need? (CPU & memory)

[kiicki]

I built my first PC last week, and I want to get into overclocking my CPU and memory. I have tried to change my profile to D.O.C.P but that has lead to crashes. As far as I know, that profile will overclock your memory and CPU, so I'm not totally sure what part failed, if both. Without overclocking, I think my memory is running at 2333mhz now, but I have 3200mhz. I have also heard that memory frequency does increase the performance with Ryzen CPU's, and I kinda want to take the advantage of 3200mhz as I already got it.

 

I do understand that a better cooler is highly recommended, but I have heard that the Ryzen 1600 stock cooler does a decent job, and I should be able to overclock it to some degree.

 At some point I will upgrade the CPU cooler.

 

Should I start overclocking my CPU or memory? What software's should I get for monitoring and for benchmarking?
 

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3,2GHz Socket AM4 Box
• CPU Cooler: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 stock cooler
• Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming
• Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX Black DDR4 PC25600/3200MHz CL16 2x8GB (CMK16GX4M2B3200C16)
• Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1060 Dual OC 2xHDMI 2xDP 6GB
• Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 550W
• SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 500GB

EDIT: I'm more curious about the software's I need to benchmark and monitor my hardware. Overclocking is something I can play around with I guess, and follow some tutorials. I won't be pushing too much voltage, so I don't "fry" my hardware.

[johnukguy]

The stock AMD cooler for the 1600 is decent and will allow modest over clocks. Basically take it slowly and only change one thing at a time, in very small increments, especially with voltage and memory settings. As for benchmarking, free software such as Unigine's Heaven does a good job (mostly for GPU's though) and there's no real need for much else beyond in game benchmarks that give you closer to real feedback and something like Cinebench.

[kiicki]

23 minutes ago, Kota317 said:

ram = XMP and the cpu ( i dont know shit about anything newer then a phenom on amd side so take this with a grain of salt) but you should have a core ratio and a multiplayer... the ratio at 1 and the multiplayer at 40 would give you 4 ghz.... thats like vary basic but.... use HWmonitor to check temps and that stuff. I also use msi after burner on my asus cards so you could use that for gpus too 

It does seem like I need to overclock manually. XMP is an Intel thing, and D.O.C.P is the AMD version of it. Or at least that's what Asus motherboards call it. This setting/profile didn't work as my PC was crashing. Either blue screen or Chrome browser crashing. Livestreams would also chop at times, but since changing this setting overclocks the memory and CPU, I don't really know what part failed.

[kiicki]

4 minutes ago, johnukguy said:

The stock AMD cooler for the 1600 is decent and will allow modest over clocks. Basically take it slowly and only change one thing at a time, in very small increments, especially with voltage and memory settings. As for benchmarking, free software such as Unigine's Heaven does a good job (mostly for GPU's though) and there's no real need for much else beyond in game benchmarks that give you closer to real feedback and something like Cinebench.

I have seen people use Cinebench for their CPU overclocking to get their scores, and some other software that I can't remember for the stress test. Not quite sure what software to use for the memory though.

[knightslugger]

if that LPX3200 kit is the C16 variant, run it at 3000 mhz (or as close to it without going over).

[kiicki]

1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

if that LPX3200 kit is the C16 variant, run it at 3000 mhz (or as close to it without going over).

It is CAS latency 16. Doesn't this perform well at 3200 mhz?

[knightslugger]

11 minutes ago, kiicki said:

It is CAS latency 16. Doesn't this perform well at 3200 mhz?

last time i tried with that kit, it would not post at 3200 and when it did, it was unbelievably unstable. 2933 was much more stable.

[Eduard the weeb]

Software for benching would be firestrike my first recommendation due to it being the easiest to judge with other people.