am geting a pc is it easy to overclock? and can i overclock with the cooler ryzen 3 1200 comes with

kiwi1234

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so am getting a pre-built pc from www.pcspecialist.co.uk
the website says i should use NOCTUA NH-U14S FAN CPU COOLER its £59 witch is a lot since am at a budget should I go with that cpu cooler?

these are the specs of the pc :

Processor (CPU):
AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Quad Core CPU (3.1GHz-3.4GHz/10MB CACHE/AM4)

Motherboard:
ASUS® STRIX B350-F GAMING (DDR4, USB 3.0, 6Gb/s)

Memory (RAM):
8GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 4GB)

Graphics Card:
4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050 Ti - DVI, HDMI, DP

1st Hard Disk:
120GB KINGSTON UV400 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (550MB/R, 350MB/W

Power Supply:
CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
 
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You can get mild OC's with the stock cooler pretty easily.
Without knowing how good the case airflow is, you could probably get 3.6 to 3.7 ish without much extra heat.

Do a lot of research before diving in to the bios. Understand what you are doing before overclocking.
The "auto overclock' feature on most mobo's uses a fair bit more voltage than needed, thus making a lot more heat.
So auto clocking isn't particularly useful in general.

My advice is to use the pc as it comes, and do some research before OC'ing.


exroofer

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You can get mild OC's with the stock cooler pretty easily.
Without knowing how good the case airflow is, you could probably get 3.6 to 3.7 ish without much extra heat.

Do a lot of research before diving in to the bios. Understand what you are doing before overclocking.
The "auto overclock' feature on most mobo's uses a fair bit more voltage than needed, thus making a lot more heat.
So auto clocking isn't particularly useful in general.

My advice is to use the pc as it comes, and do some research before OC'ing.


 
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I have mine running well @3.8GHz on the stock cooler and its definitely limited by the heat but even so its not worth £59 for and extra maybe 200MHz. Also you will need more than a single 120Gb drive, I used my old 500Gb one and its full with only about 6 games installed.
 
Your on a budget, the computer comes with a Corsair VS PSU dont overclcock. The VS line isnt that strong of a unit and any OC'ing is going to stress the unit and could fail. If you dont have money to replace the unit with a better one then dont Overclock.

If you want to chance overclocking with that PSU then remember that if it goes it has a good chance of taking other parts with it.
 


That worked. i wouldnt go with any of the VS PSU and the cheapest would be the 650w TXm which is really good unit.

If you go that unit i would ask them to send any extra cables that are not being used. Depending on how long you keep this computer you could use the 650 TXm on your next build.