Overclock Ryzen 7 1700x

[ChrisZH]

Hey guys/gals, I’m wanting to overclock my 1700x to 3.8ghz. Have no idea how to really do it though. I have a liquid cooling setup so that temps will be kept relatively cool. Do I change stuff in the bios? Or is there a program similar to afterburner I can use? Could someone explain what I need to do and how to get a stable overclock. Thanks a bunch guys/gals

[ChrisZH]

My motherboard is the Asus prime x370-pro and I have a corsair 850m psu

[Boazie123]

You can either do it in the Bios or with the Ryzen Master program, which is a bit nicer to do it with, so, first, you need to be very patient, I’d first check if the overclock to 3.7 will be stable, just try standard voltage first on 3.7 and run Prime95 stress test for a few hours and if it crashes its unstable, so go a little further on voltage(NOT TO FAR REAL MAX 1.45 or something), do that a few times until it hasnt crashed in the prime95 test for 3-4 hours

[ChrisZH]

2 minutes ago, Boazie123 said:

You can either do it in the Bios or with the Ryzen Master program, which is a bit nicer to do it with, so, first, you need to be very patient, I’d first check if the overclock to 3.7 will be stable, just try standard voltage first on 3.7 and run Prime95 stress test for a few hours and if it crashes its unstable, so go a little further on voltage(NOT TO FAR REAL MAX 1.45 or something), do that a few times until it hasnt crashed in the prime95 test for 3-4 hours

So if there’s a guide for someone’s stable overclock at 3.8 (listing voltage and everything they used) I can’t take the same thing and run with it? Are all chips different a little bit?

[Boazie123]

Yes youre right, every chip is different and some chips wont even reach 3.8 ghz stable and some will reach 3.9 maybe 4.0 its just based on whats called the silicon lotery. You should just look at ryzen 7 overclock guides and try if you can reach 3.8/3.85 with those voltages and then lower the voltage until it gets unstable.

[ChrisZH]

1 minute ago, Boazie123 said:

Yes youre right, every chip is different and some chips wont even reach 3.8 ghz stable and some will reach 3.9 maybe 4.0 its just based on whats called the silicon lotery. You should just look at ryzen 7 overclock guides and try if you can reach 3.8/3.85 with those voltages and then lower the voltage until it gets unstable.

Thanks  I’m pretty new to overclocking. I just recently got a crossfire rx580 setup going and then am getting water blocks for them to liquid cool. Going to set up a loop with the gpu and cpu with a 240mm rad I think. I’m just now able to upgrade and do what I have always wanted to do with computers. So any more information or advice you could give me about overclocking would be great.

[GoldenLag]

usually i would just set voltage to 1.4 and attempt 3.9ghz. if you arent stable then id drop clock to 3.85ghz. if it is stable attempt higher clock. 1.42volts is the max you should use for an overclock. you are then within what we would consider safe voltages. 

[Boazie123]

The tips I give you:

If it crashes during the stress test(unstable) no stress?, just restart your pc and put in less voltage.

Don’t be impatient(obviously)

Check the cpu temps during the stress test(although you have a custom waterloop there could still be something wrong)

 

 

 

 

[Ryujin2003]

Good luck with the OC. Some games will definitely give you issues (I have CF 480s). Otherwise, the R7 platform is really easy to OC. I would definitely recommend doing it in BIOS and not Ryzen Master.

 

I use an MSI board, but the guidelines are relatively similar. Set the voltage and the clock, then play around until you get the best stability with reduced heat. As @GoldenLag states, you could easily set the voltage to 1.4, set the clock and go from there. I'm rocking 3.8GHz @ 1.38 volts I believe. Been a while since I looked. So you can go with the 3.8 to 3.9 (3.9 worked for me, but had a little instability occasionally), and then if you test and everything is fine, you can reduce the voltage until you get instability. Then bump the voltage back to the last known good setting and you're golden.

 

I would make sure to set LLC (load line calibration). I have it set to level 3 on my board, but Asus probably has a different metric. It helps with voltage fluctuation and increases stability. I had occasional drop of .01v which would cause an instant crash of my system. LLC keeps the voltage constant, no fluctuations.

HF GL DD

[ChrisZH]

Thanks for all the advice fellas, I’ll update what the results look like