Ryzen 1700x Overclocking

[Vorcen]

Hi guys,

 

Built a new rig a month or two back, largely because I wanted to play around with the Ryzen platform.

 

I'm running a;

Ryzen 1700x cooled by a H100i

MSI PC Mate B350 Mobo

16gb Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz

GTX 1080

 

Been playing around a little with overclocking. Memory overclocking just using the top A-XMP setting was a nice chunk of performance boost.

 

Ultimately I don't think I've been blessed by the Silicon Gods, not that bothered; but alas. I've got my 1700x running stable (fine after 2 hours of Prime95 blend) at 1.360v. I could probably shave a bit more off the voltage on that, but temps are fine, sitting at 64 degrees stable on Prime95.

 

Now. A couple of questions, is it worth using my thermal headroom to crank the voltage higher and see if I can hit 3.9ghz? I had a 3.9ghz oc crash at 1.392v after 15 minutes of prime95 so I think 1.4v ish would do the trick.

 

Second of all, during my two hour torture AIDA64 reported my mobo temps at 90 degrees which was a tad concerning. A quick shutdown and boot into bios reported them at 38 ~20 seconds after I'd finished though. Should I be concerned?

 

Cheers in advance

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, Vorcen said:

Now. A couple of questions, is it worth using my thermal headroom to crank the voltage higher and see if I can hit 3.9ghz? I had a 3.9ghz oc crash at 1.392v after 15 minutes of prime95 so I think 1.4v ish would do the trick.

Try it, though the motherboard overheating issue will be more severe if not treated

 

3 minutes ago, Vorcen said:

Second of all, during my two hour torture AIDA64 reported my mobo temps at 90 degrees which was a tad concerning. A quick shutdown and boot into bios reported them at 38 ~20 seconds after I'd finished though. Should I be concerned?

motherboard or VRM? Anyway, try blow the VRMs' heatsink with a fan first. It should be easy with a liquid cooler.

[Vorcen]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

motherboard or VRM? Anyway, try blow the VRMs' heatsink with a fan first. It should be easy with a liquid cooler.

Aida64 just says 'motherboard' would be helpful if people with experience of MSI PC Mate could shed light on this.

 

So, my h100i is front mounted and intake. I could maybe set my rear exhaust to intake to cool the vrm.

 

Case I'm using is the phanteks enthoo pro m tempered glass fyi.

[Queen Chrysalis]

What kind of frontal intake do you have?  I've been using my 1700 at 3.8 and though I'm not torturing it as much as you are, I've never even toughed those numbers.  Even at 4.0, it didn't look like that.

[Vorcen]

Frontal intake is my h100i.

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, Vorcen said:

Frontal intake is my h100i.

You should have your liquid cooler as an outtake, not an intake. Right now it blows all the hot air from the cpu directly into your mobo. If you can mount the h100i at the top or back so it blows the hot air from the cpu directly out, and have some other fans in front.

[Jurrunio]

27 minutes ago, Queen Chrysalis said:

What kind of frontal intake do you have?  I've been using my 1700 at 3.8 and though I'm not torturing it as much as you are, I've never even toughed those numbers.  Even at 4.0, it didn't look like that.

Gaming 5 is a much better motherboard when it comes to VRMs.

 

32 minutes ago, Vorcen said:

Aida64 just says 'motherboard' would be helpful if people with experience of MSI PC Mate could shed light on this.

 

So, my h100i is front mounted and intake. I could maybe set my rear exhaust to intake to cool the vrm.

 

Case I'm using is the phanteks enthoo pro m tempered glass fyi.

Try give HWinfo a shot