Overclocking Ryzen 5 1600 to 4Ghz

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vladimirlekin

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Hi this weekend I bought new system and tried overclocking Ryzen 5 1600 to 4Ghz. After I set voltage to 1.35v in Ryzen Master and overclock it to 4ghz I try testing it with cinebench or Prime95 it reboots after few seconds, less than a minute. I even tried going to 1.45v but same thing. I have stock cooler and the temperature is not the problem, I tried running cooler at 100% when I overclock it to 4ghz temp goes to 80 degrees or so. The max stable I can achieve is 3.85ghz at 1.37v, even 3.9ghz is not stable, maybe at 1.45v it would be, but I wouldnt leave it like that for everyday use. MOBO is Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3. Am I missing something and should change few other things? I see on youtube that eveybody can reach 4ghz with this processor.
 
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Partly its due to the mobo, partly due to the lottery. The B350 is the budget board, its basically stripped of most things related to higher OC possibilities. If you really wanted to stretch the limits, you'd need to have gotten an X370 board instead, which comes with all the additional heatsinking, larger traces etc necessary for the voltage/current (heat and resistance) at high OC levels.

And yes, in 22°C ambients, ppl are hitting 4.1GHz stable at ok voltages with the stock Wraith coolers on the X370 boards, but on the B350's it's iffy at best.

Seanie280672

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you didnt win the silicon lottery, ifs its rebooting and crashing, especially at those voltage, then it wont go any higher, doesnt matter what everyone else is hitting, every cpu is different, I wouldnt recommend running it at 1.4v or 1.45v 24/7, even AMD only recommend 1.35-1.375v max for 24/7 use, maybe future bios updates may help get the clocks higher, but dont hold your breath.

By the way, the stock cooler cant handle those volatges or temps, 80oC is too high, these CPU's throttle at 75oC, so temps in your case are a problem too, the X series CPU's are good upto 95oC due to the 20oC offset, non X versions are 75oC max.
 

mbnthat123

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Ive also got amd ryzen 5 1600 but i bought the gigabyte b350m d3h i can only get 3.7ghz stable with prime95 running for an hour max temps 72c with stock cooler, i have a corsair h100i v2 waiting for the bracket to come in might achieve higher. Also future bios updates hopefully allow better stability.
 

vladimirlekin

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What voltage are you using at 3.7ghz? Also please reply after you try to oc with AIO. thanks
 

Seanie280672

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That guy in the video would of got sent that CPU by AMD, obviously they are going to send him a good one, they are not going to send him one that only does 3.7ghz, otherwise his review will say its crap, they've hand picked that for him, as with any other youtube review you see, they get engineering samples or the cherry picked cpu's
 

vladimirlekin

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It could be that they tested it before sending it to him. However I told that I am not happy with my cpu at store where I bought it and I will be able to exchange it, they dont have it in stock right now. But when I get it I will see if it goes any higher than 3.8ghz.
 

Seanie280672

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Im surprised they will exchange it for you because you cant overclock it, overclocking isnt guaranteed, as long as it runs at stock speeds then it fine, here in the UK they would tell me to go to hell if I asked that question.

 

vladimirlekin

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Here in Canada everybody is polite. They say sorry and give you a new cpu. :)
 

AnNyeongZ

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+1 on that, replaced my 7700k until I hit 5.2,GHz


 

Seanie280672

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very strange, they wouldnt do that in the UK, so what do the shops do with the ones you give back to them ?, I wouldnt buiy a CPU at full price with a broken seal, its now a used part.

 

AnNyeongZ

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Sell as opened box or to PME's and don't pay taxes in both situation

 

Eugen_1

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I used to have the b350m gaming 3 matx version which was even worse because they don't seem to bother pushing any bios updates for it. The max I could do on my chip was 3.8ghz at 1.39v I believe. Tried going higher but the voltage required was over 1.42 and it wasn't even stable for longer than 2 min in AIDA/Prime95. I'm also from Canada so I exchanged mine too lol. Same results on the next chip. I started to feel like it was the motherboard that was the problem. Luckily half my USBs stopped working a day before the 1 week return policy ended. Got the Asus b350m prime instead. It allowed me to push it to 3.85 despite having no mosfet heatsink. I made one myself out of an old broken video card. Voltage is at 1.37 but this board has LLC and with that on the voltage jumps around 1.40v. the strange thing is that this board seems to actually cause less heat at the same voltage settings. Or maybe I just mounted the CPU and paste better. I hated the Gigabyte card for it's lack of bios options. At least on my mATX board. Maybe I got a bad CPU twice? Kind of regret not getting the 1600x. Better single core on stock settings. Going to replace the cooler anyways once my phanteks am4 kit comes in.

 

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Partly its due to the mobo, partly due to the lottery. The B350 is the budget board, its basically stripped of most things related to higher OC possibilities. If you really wanted to stretch the limits, you'd need to have gotten an X370 board instead, which comes with all the additional heatsinking, larger traces etc necessary for the voltage/current (heat and resistance) at high OC levels.

And yes, in 22°C ambients, ppl are hitting 4.1GHz stable at ok voltages with the stock Wraith coolers on the X370 boards, but on the B350's it's iffy at best.
 
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Moshud

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Bought a 1600x and crosshair 6 last friday, assembled on sunday then set the mobo 4ghz oc profile and manually set voltage to 1.375 as this was max for 24/7 ( i am not using 24/7 only a few hours at best) ran prime95 for 3 hours max temp was 71 (corsair h100i v2) and have had no issues, i have noticed that when running prime my cpu voltage drops to 1.308 and stays their should i set my voltage to this level?
 

Moshud

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Took your advice i lowered the voltage down to 1.33v and ran prime95 for 2 hours @ a 4GHZ OC 2933RAM with no errors max temp was 65 degrees by the end, the voltage does still drop to 1.308 when running small FFTS and stays their ,im gonna leave it at as these test are very time consuming and i am happy with temps and sound levels of fans should have mentioned i have my fans set at a fixed rate of 1206rpm for lowest possible noise
 

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That's not too shabby. By comparison, my kraken's fans at its current lowered OC (4.6GHz @ 1.208v) run @ 400 idle and 500-700 gaming, with stress test max of 900. To top off all that, my aio is the only exhaust, 2x intakes and the kraken's 2x 140mm fans as exhaust. P95 gets me 66° and MSI kombuster gets the gtx970 to 80°. Case temps/hdd temps never really get any higher than 36° even after hours of relatively hard gaming. All this in a fractal design define R5 Window that's supposedly choked for airflow because of the door.
You are going to find most temp advice is generally not specifically correct, there's always going to be slight differences both good and bad and this time sounds like you are definitely getting it dialed in right, now.

Cheers.
 
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