First time overclocking. Tips?

ELE241 · May 27, 2017

Hi guys, I'm trying to overclock for the first time. My build for everything is:
ryzen 1600
MSI b350 Tomahawk
Corsair h115i
G. Skill aegis 2400mhz

Now, it's my first time overclocking and I tried overclocking within the BIOS but I couldn't figure it out from there. I have MSI command center and I don't know if I can overclock from there or not. If I can, great! How do I do that? If I can't, great! How do I do it from the BIOS?

Supahos · May 27, 2017

YouTube is your friend. That's probably the most common am4 board sold I suspect there are dozens of vidoes showing exactly what to use and where it is on there. They can give you and better idea I can in text.if you're on stock cooler I suggest stopping at 3.7 or 3.6ghz

elbert · May 27, 2017

Try Ryzen master and with your cooler you should just set it to 1.35v. Push the clocks high as you can get on that voltage. Should hit 4ghz. Check the temps but with the water cooler it shouldn't go past 50c.
https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/ryzen-master

ELE241 · May 27, 2017

elbert :

I have the msi command center. Is this the same as the ryzen master?

elbert · May 27, 2017

Here is an image of Ryzen master. Its possiable that MSI packaged into their command center.

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ELE241 · May 29, 2017

So at the bottom where it says 1 next to C I click on it and adjust my CPU to whichever OC setting i desire? And i dont have to worry about going to 2 at the bottom of the application and set the clocks to the right frequency?

elbert · May 29, 2017

You can save up to five custom profiles for Ryzen in the Master utility. Thats what those are. Once you got it set just click on save profile. Here is video at the start it show how to set Ryzen Master which is simple. The rest is on bios overclock if you ever want to push overclocking to its limit.
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFXetkP22lE"][/video]

ELE241 · May 29, 2017

So let me ask you this: When I'm done with the overclocking and I save it, do I need to restart my computer and go into the bios to make sure everything is working properly?

elbert · May 29, 2017

Nope. You could simply fire up CPUz to check your CPU. Given your overclocking you should test stablity using prime95 version 26.6 for about 10minutes. Watch temps with speedfan.
http://www.cpuid.com/
http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15504
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

ELE241 · May 29, 2017

what would be stable for this cpu to be stable overclocked? 3.6 or 3.9?

elbert · May 29, 2017

It varies you have to test using prime95 small cpu test. With your cooler I would think 3.9Ghz at the least. What overclock is stable with 1.35v you just have to test and see. Put it to 3.9Ghz and test and if you get no errors or crashes then go 4Ghz. Test again and if all is well I suggest smaller increases. The 1.35v is about the highest safe voltage and 4.1Ghz probably will not be stable.

ELE241 · May 29, 2017

elbert :

On the topic of prime95, I honestly dont know how to use it correctly. Is there a link on youtube you know that would explain it better?

ELE241 · May 29, 2017

elbert :

Never mind I found everything out for prime95. Do I need to do 12 to 24 hours worth of testing with prime95?

elbert · May 29, 2017

With water cooling it takes a bit to warm up so 20~30 minutes. It takes about 10 minutes for water to warm up so an extra 10~20 minutes should be enough to test stablity. Games wouldn't push your CPU as much so doesn't take long to be reasonably sure of stable operation.

ELE241 · May 29, 2017

Thank you for all of the help! If it weren't for you, I don't think I would have started overclocking at all.

elbert · May 29, 2017

If you need any more help come back to tomshardware for all tech questions.

ELE241 · May 29, 2017

I'll post updates this Saturday.

ELE241 · Jun 3, 2017

Ok, update time:

It didn't work.

Somehow I have to enable HPET? Where do I go to enable that?

ELE241 · Jun 3, 2017

I found this link, but how do I go to command prompt afterwardsh to put this in?ttp://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2344969/enable-hpet-fully.html

elbert · Jun 3, 2017

High Precision Event Timer usally is in the advanced tab under integrated pheripherals on MSI motherboards. The command prompt in windows 7 just click on start>all programs>accessories to see command prompt. The right click on command prompt to select run as admin.

ELE241 · Jun 3, 2017

I'm running windows 10.

elbert · Jun 3, 2017

Click Start and then typing “cmd” into the search box. To open Command Prompt with administrative privileges, right-click the result and then click “Run as Administrator.”

ELE241 · Jun 3, 2017

I'm not seeing that when I right click on the windows on the bottom left

ELE241 · Jun 3, 2017

I right click on the cmd prompt and run as administrator and I can't figure it out from there.

elbert · Jun 3, 2017

You mean type the following.
bcdedit /set useplatformclock true

Hit return, wait for the response. Then restart your PC.

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