Hello,
I am trying overclocking on AM4 with a 1600 on a Gigabyte X370 Gaming-5 motherboard, W10.
Because of the limited options in the BIOS to achieve similar to offset/P-state overclocking, you have to use Dynamic Voltage (DVID) setting so your voltage will lower at idle for your overclock and not run at a set but stable voltage 100% of the time.
So in the BIOS I change voltage from Auto to Normal and set Dynamic Voltage to +0.050V. I also add the same value for the Dynamic VCORE SOC.
Next I:
- Disable Turbo
- Enable Global C-states
- Enable AMD Cool & Quiet (doesn't make a difference either way)
- Set multiplier to an odd number (37.25) as Ryzen on these mobos only downclocks if you set an odd multiplier for your overclock.
- Balanced Power Mode is set in OS
But when saving and rebooting to desktop, using both CPU-Z and HWMonitor to look at voltage, I notice that voltage doesn't drop at all, instead cycling between 1.272-1.282v (can't recall exactly the figure) when idle. What's going on?
If I leave all BIOS settings at default, voltage will drop to 0.800v when idle. So why is DVID not working? What is stopping voltage from becoming dynamic? It seems to me as soon as you change frequency, voltage won't drop.
Someone please help I'm scratching my hair out here!
I am trying overclocking on AM4 with a 1600 on a Gigabyte X370 Gaming-5 motherboard, W10.
Because of the limited options in the BIOS to achieve similar to offset/P-state overclocking, you have to use Dynamic Voltage (DVID) setting so your voltage will lower at idle for your overclock and not run at a set but stable voltage 100% of the time.
So in the BIOS I change voltage from Auto to Normal and set Dynamic Voltage to +0.050V. I also add the same value for the Dynamic VCORE SOC.
Next I:
- Disable Turbo
- Enable Global C-states
- Enable AMD Cool & Quiet (doesn't make a difference either way)
- Set multiplier to an odd number (37.25) as Ryzen on these mobos only downclocks if you set an odd multiplier for your overclock.
- Balanced Power Mode is set in OS
But when saving and rebooting to desktop, using both CPU-Z and HWMonitor to look at voltage, I notice that voltage doesn't drop at all, instead cycling between 1.272-1.282v (can't recall exactly the figure) when idle. What's going on?
If I leave all BIOS settings at default, voltage will drop to 0.800v when idle. So why is DVID not working? What is stopping voltage from becoming dynamic? It seems to me as soon as you change frequency, voltage won't drop.
Someone please help I'm scratching my hair out here!