Ryzen 5 1600 o/c question!

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Hello guys, I saw many videos on youtube about safe over clock of ryzen 5 1600 with stock wraith spire cooler, I just want to push mine at 3,7-3,8 tops. I only want it to be stable with safe temps considering its a new CPU, I would sacrifice 100-200mhz in order to have it cooler and more stable. My question is about voltages. Some people just raise the multiplier and when they reach the frequency they want, they save and reboot, leaving anything to auto, some other manually set voltages. I would appreciate your help and experience since it's the first time I try to over clock and that's because I found it pretty easy with ryzen, or at least it seems easy. I got Asus prime b350 plus mobo, in case you wonder, and ram corsair vengeance 16gb 3000mhz. If you got any tested stable settings to give me it would be awesome!
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First of all, overclock in the BIOS and don't use any tools that run in Windows, though you might know that already :)

Leave the voltage at default at first (meaning you set the voltage to the value it has on stock clocks, "auto" settings may apply too much voltage on some mainboards).
Start by just raising the multiplier. Then run some stress tests to see whether the overclock is stable and the temperatures are fine.
If it's stable, but too hot, try lowering the voltage.
If it's cool, but unstable, try raising the voltage.
If it's both hot and unstable, lower the voltage and clock speed (if this happens though, you're taking the wrong approach).

Remember to always increase clocks and voltages in the smallest steps possible and...
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First of all, overclock in the BIOS and don't use any tools that run in Windows, though you might know that already :)

Leave the voltage at default at first (meaning you set the voltage to the value it has on stock clocks, "auto" settings may apply too much voltage on some mainboards).
Start by just raising the multiplier. Then run some stress tests to see whether the overclock is stable and the temperatures are fine.
If it's stable, but too hot, try lowering the voltage.
If it's cool, but unstable, try raising the voltage.
If it's both hot and unstable, lower the voltage and clock speed (if this happens though, you're taking the wrong approach).

Remember to always increase clocks and voltages in the smallest steps possible and retest after every step if you want to keep your CPU & mobo as safe as possible. Also, don't raise the CPU voltage above 1.4V unless you're on liquid nitrogen or similar.

If you found your last overclock step to be cool, stable, and showing some potential headroom, repeat all of the above for the next step, et cetera pp.

Last, but not least: Every CPU is different, it's kind of a lottery what clocks yours will be able to achieve. Settings that work on others' PCs won't necessarily work on your PC, and vice versa ;)
 
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Forgot to ask, if I set either core voltage or memory voltage at auto, how exactly will it work, it will automatically be limited to 1.425 for core and 1.35, it changes voltages situationally or it keeps the stock low voltages, is this safer than limiting it by myself manually?
 
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"Auto" settings adapt the voltages automatically to the values it things you CPU needs at certain speeds. This can work just fine and take some work off of you, but I've made the experience that those automatic settings apply higher voltages than needed, driving up heat generation, and, on high overclocks, even going beyond the "safe" voltage limits, slowly (or quickly if you're unlucky) killing your CPU.

That's why I tend to advise against using those "features" ;)
 
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Setting it to 1.4V only means that the mainboard will aim to give a voltage of 1.4V when the CPU runs at full speed.

1. Depending on the quality of the mainboard, the actual voltage may go slightly higher (but it should stay very close to the aimed value normally)
2. When the CPU is at idle and thus runs at lower speeds, the mainboard will drop the voltage accordingly. This is done automatically and you don't have to worry about it.
3. To answer your question: As stated in (1), you should not see a voltage of 1.3V under full load if you set 1.4V. Lower voltages won't endanger your CPU though.
 
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Thanks for making it clear! My mono will be Asus prime b350 plus, unless I change my.mind and go for Asus b350-f strix, but it will be one of those two 100%, reviews as I be seen are good for both. I dunno if those mobos can do what you described but my budget can't go higher than 135-140€ for motherboard. I just hope those will do the job in voltages, stability, ram and temperatures
 
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