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AMD Overclocking Yes or No - True/False?

pschuman21
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So I have a question here, I have heard Linus and other's on YouTube say that ALL the AMD Ryzen processors are overclockable. However, on  even AMD's site, also on Amazon's questions/FAQ's and on other sites; they say that the 1500, 1600 & 1700 are not overclockable. Is this True? Or is it more just a "not recommended" because they want you to buy the 'X' version that costs more? The reason I am asking this, is before I buy a 1600 for my new build, I wanna make sure I can overclock it a little, before maybe paying a little more for the 1600X. Thanks and Linus, you Rock! Love watching your vids!

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Links to those pages? All desktop Ryzen processors are overclockable as long as the mobo's chipset isnt A320.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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5 minutes ago, pschuman21 said:

However, on  even AMD's site, also on Amazon's questions/FAQ's and on other sites; they say that the 1500, 1600 & 1700 are not overclockable. Is this True?

No, and I don't think you'll find that on AMD's site at all. In fact, AMD uses "all CPUs are unlocked" as a marketing selling point. I don't know where you found any claim on the contrary.

 

EDIT: you can see for example that if you pick 1600, 1600x, 1700, and 1700x to compare at AMD's website, it correctly reports all CPUs are unlocked:

https://products.amd.com/en-us/compare?prod1=149&type1=CPU&prod2=150&type2=CPU&prod3=146&type3=CPU&prod4=147&type4=CPU&prod5=&type5=

There are restriction on the motherboard side, but any B350 or X370 motherboard will allow you to take advantage of the unlocked multiplier.

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Going to assume you have non overclockable motherboard or you're in the wrong settings in your bios

 

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1 minute ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

No, and I don't think you'll find that on AMD's site at all. In fact, AMD uses "all CPUs are unlocked" as a marketing selling point. I don't know where you found any claim on the contrary.

 

Yeah i'm just looking on AMD's site, it does say 'unlocked'. I am trying to find where I did read the thing about overclocking on it. I'll post the link once I find it here.

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Umm nevermind here, I can't seam to find were I had read what I was questioning, it's been about a month since I started my debate on what processor to buy.  I guess it was a stupid thing to post about. Sorry everyone.

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