oc Ryzen 5 1600 3.8Ghz at stock voltage

[Wyndmere]

Hi guys, i recently got a GTX 1080 to pair with my Ryzen 5 1600, so i decided to OC it a bit with its stock cooler. I got it to 3.8 Ghz on all cores, ran AIDA64 for some hours and it did not crash. I did not change the stock voltage and it hits 1.25 V max at a max temp of 73C. Now i am wondering if i hit the silicon lottery or something, because from what i have seen 3.8 Ghz on stock voltage is pretty rare. Maybe i need to test stability for longer? Maybe my slow 2133 RAM helps in this case? Looking forward to hear your thoughts on the matter.

[KarathKasun]

Smash it with OCCT using small FFT's, see if it errors out in ~30m or so.

[Jurrunio]

16 minutes ago, Wyndmere said:

from what i have seen 3.8 Ghz on stock voltage is pretty rare.

Because only those with CPUs that overclock like garbage stay at 3.8GHz, those with good chips all go to 4GHz to 4.1GHz.

 

Try Prime95's small FFT test for 15mins. That should shoot the temperature and stability in the foot.

[Wyndmere]

15 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Smash it with OCCT using small FFT's, see if it errors out in ~30m or so.

 

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Because only those with CPUs that overclock like garbage stay at 3.8GHz, those with good chips all go to 4GHz to 4.1GHz.

 

Try Prime95's small FFT test for 15mins. That should shoot the temperature and stability in the foot.

Ok i'll try those, i do gaming and multitasking so i might not need the most stable system ever. I will try to OC higher but after i get an aftermarket cooler

[KarathKasun]

3 minutes ago, Wyndmere said:

 

Ok i'll try those, i do gaming and multitasking so i might not need the most stable system ever. I will try to OC higher but after i get an aftermarket cooler

You will change your clocks after the 3rd time you randomly get a reboot during an online match or lose progress in that SP campaign you were working on.

 

I thought the same thing way back when I was overclocking my shiny new Pentium 4 3.06ghz.  I lost days of my life over the year that I ran the system "mostly stable"

[Crunchy Dragon]

My Ryzen 5 1600 does 3.8Ghz on auto voltage. Not sure if that's different from stock, but first-gen Ryzen doesn't overclock particularly well from what I've been able to find.

 

Silicon lottery obviously plays a huge part in that, but it seems the line as a whole had issues.

Also running the stock cooler.

 

Worth noting that I'm completely unstable past 3.8Ghz unless I really up the voltage, which I don't feel comfortable doing(have to dip into 1.4v).