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First time overclocking...

IsaacThePooper
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1 minute ago, IsaacThePooper said:

I just got a Ryzen 5 1600 with an AsRock X370 Fatality K4

 

So I got a stable overclock at 3.7GHz with 1.35 volts. Oh, with the stock cooler.

 

Is that good? Anything to change?

3.7 GHz would almost certainly run fine on a Vcore of 1.25V, just BTW.

 

That board should handle a 6 core at that voltage fine though. See if you can get 3.8 if that voltage has safe CPU temps. You might need to up SOC voltage to 1.1V and DRAM voltage as well.

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Just now, STRMfrmXMN said:

3.7 GHz would almost certainly run fine on a Vcore of 1.25V, just BTW.

 

That board should handle a 6 core at that voltage fine though. See if you can get 3.8 if that voltage has safe CPU temps. You might need to up SOC voltage to 1.1V and DRAM voltage as well.

Wha'ts SOC? and I tried doin 3.8 and I got a blue screen...

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Just now, IsaacThePooper said:

Wha'ts SOC? and I tried doin 3.8 and I got a blue screen...

Hmm, 3.8 at 1.35V should be very doable. You may have lost the silicon lottery hard then, strange. You should check HWInfo64 to see if you're getting crazy Vdroop or something. Those Asrock 3+3 VRMs are prone to that.

 

SOC is system on chip voltage. Can help with overclocking stability. See if the system BSODs with SOC voltage at 1.1V.

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Just now, STRMfrmXMN said:

Hmm, 3.8 at 1.35V should be very doable. You may have lost the silicon lottery hard then, strange. You should check HWInfo64 to see if you're getting crazy Vdroop or something. Those Asrock 3+3 VRMs are prone to that.

 

SOC is system on chip voltage. Can help with overclocking stability. See if the system BSODs with SOC voltage at 1.1V.

Hmm... Should I return the motherboard back to microcenter or the CPU?

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23 minutes ago, IsaacThePooper said:

Hmm... Should I return the motherboard back to microcenter or the CPU?

Neither, both are working as they're advertised to. Vdroop is not a flaw with the board that makes it defective, it's just a design choice that Asrock decided to use 3 Vcore phases which means Vdroop is likely. 

 

Download HWInfo64, see the tab under "CPU #0" that says "CPU Core Voltage" and see what it says when you run a stress test. It should start out at around 1.35V on your board then it might drop really hard if the VRM gets too hot.

 

Keep in mind that if your chip gets too hot (85C or higher) then the system will lock up.

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20 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

Neither, both are working as they're advertised to. Vdroop is not a flaw with the board that makes it defective, it's just a design choice that Asrock decided to use 3 Vcore phases which means Vdroop is likely. 

 

Download HWInfo64, see the tab under "CPU #0" that says "CPU Core Voltage" and see what it says when you run a stress test. It should start out at around 1.35V on your board then it might drop really hard if the VRM gets too hot.

 

Keep in mind that if your chip gets too hot (85C or higher) then the system will lock up.

I figured out the problem, one of my sticks of RAM was failing on me, so I removed that. Now I get a stable overclock of 3.9GHz at 1.35 volts.

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9 minutes ago, IsaacThePooper said:

I figured out the problem, one of my sticks of RAM was failing on me, so I removed that. Now I get a stable overclock of 3.9GHz at 1.35 volts.

Are you sure the RAM was defective though? If you run it at 2133 and run memtest does it work just fine for an hour without errors?

 

I'm willing to bet your RAM voltage was too low/your timings too tight for XMP settings/your SOC voltage was too low, not defective memory. There is always a chance though.

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Just now, STRMfrmXMN said:

Are you sure the RAM was defective though? If you run it at 2133 and run memtest does it work just fine for an hour without errors?

 

I'm willing to bet your RAM voltage was too low/your timings too tight for XMP settings/your SOC voltage was too low, not defective memory. There is always a chance though.

Yeah I did that and I've used that same stick on other systems and it was really finicky. 

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Just now, IsaacThePooper said:

Yeah I did that and I've used that same stick on other systems and it was really finicky. 

Hmm, alright, perhaps return it then?

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