Overclocking ryzen 1600x voltage

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Personally I wouldn't sweat it as long as you're getting good temps with your cooling. To Keith's point, keeping these cool at 1.4v can be tough. As far as life of the CPU, unless you're worried about this thing going for well over 5 years, go to town. In the end that little extra clock could gain you a few extra FPS if you're a gamer (depending on the rest of your build of course), or on the flip side it could gain you nothing. I'd verify if that OC is actually doing anything for you and if scaling back to even 3.95 @ 1.375v changes anything in regards to your application performance (like games if that's you primary use).

My daily driver is a 1600X clocked to 3800 @ 1.28v but its a professional workstation that's on literally...
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Roland Of Gilead

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AMD says it can go to 1.42 for daily OC'ed use. Personally I keep mine below 1.375, and after that, If i can't hit the desired speed, then i just go with that. Mine is running at 3.9 @ 1.35. I'm happy out with that. FOr the extra heat generated by going to 1.4 4.0ghz, it's just not worth it for 100mhz increase.

Run coretemp and check what your VID is. This will give you an indication of what your max voltage should be. If you go over it, the lifespan of the CPU may decrease over time. So instead of maybe 10 years, you might get 8 years @ 1.4
 
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Personally I wouldn't sweat it as long as you're getting good temps with your cooling. To Keith's point, keeping these cool at 1.4v can be tough. As far as life of the CPU, unless you're worried about this thing going for well over 5 years, go to town. In the end that little extra clock could gain you a few extra FPS if you're a gamer (depending on the rest of your build of course), or on the flip side it could gain you nothing. I'd verify if that OC is actually doing anything for you and if scaling back to even 3.95 @ 1.375v changes anything in regards to your application performance (like games if that's you primary use).

My daily driver is a 1600X clocked to 3800 @ 1.28v but its a professional workstation that's on literally 24/7 that I beat up pretty good for 8-10 hours a day. It'll do 3.95 with ease but it runs hot at that as its only got an H75 cooling it and I don't need the juice so 3.8 is more than enough for me. Its all about your use case.
 
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