Overclocking a Ryzen pre-built

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I recently acquired a Dell Insipiron 5675. It features a Ryzen 7 1700 @ 3.0 Ghz. Somewhat to my surprise I found that Ryzen Master would actually let me overclock the CPU. So far I've gotten it 3.7GHz without having to adjust any voltages.

However, the BIOS is extremely locked down and does not allow any overclocking. I would like to experiment with some other OS's besides Windows (Linux, OS X, VMware's ESXi, etc.) Without the ability to adjust clock speeds in the BIOS, are there any other AMD overclocking tools available for other OS's?
 
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LoL at buying a system with the very overclockable X370 chipset with no multiplier adjustments, and especially no voltage adjustment in the BIOS. Overclocking will be very limited without the latter anyway.

BTW 3.7GHz is the stock turbo speed for when up to 2 cores are loaded, thanks to Precision Boost. Furthermore, 3.75GHz is possible thanks to XFR, provided the heatsink can keep things cool enough. And that's completely stock. Locking all cores at a lower 3.7GHz results in lower performance than stock with only 1 or 2 threads, so what are you trying to accomplish exactly?

Most people would raise the voltage to run that cheap chip at least as fast as the faster ones (at the cost of efficiency so TDP will be higher than the 95w those are rated at), and AMD supplied that overclocking utility as a courtesy for their users who mostly use Windows. They didn't make the older overdrive tab for other OSes either.
 
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RM is not your run-of-the-mill SW overclocker, it's more like an interface to BIOS/UEFI but may not have all settings that may be found in BIOS so things like CPU/core voltage left at auto may go overboard. With some caution it could be used for mild OC.
I used it at the beginning to establish some parameters for future BIOS OC. It worked fine until some more settings could be achieved.
 
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They didn't use a b350 because the m2 slot & onboard wifi/Bluetooth dictate it to be labelled x370.
It is a b350 (or more so a320 ) in all but name though.

Stock 3.7 turbo is for one core only, 3.4 for 3-4,3.2 for all cores.

So 3.7 is still a useful overclock & DOES boost performance over stock.
Also xfr does not run at all on the dell boards.

Your only option is ryzen master on the dell & hp prebuilds , & no there is no proprietary oc software for non windows OS.
 
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@maddmatt30 & @CountMike My experience with Ryzen Master is a little different than what you're implying. If I apply an overclock and reboot, the OC is gone. It is more than possible that I'm using RM incorrectly. I simply fire up RM, go to "Creator Mode" to find the 3700MHz profile already loaded, then manually hit the apply button. Is there any way to store the OC profile in the BIOS so that it persists across reboots?
 
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So when Ryzen Master first loads, there is a yellow bar at the bottom of the screen that says "Current profile is read-only." I can save a modified profile as "Profile 1", but it doesn't persist after a reboot. I have to manually apply Profile 1 after a restart. Any thoughts?

Another problem is that after the clock speed is adjusted upwards, the CPU runs at full bore and never throttles even if there is a very minimal system load. Is it necessary to give up low power mode to overclock a Ryzen?

EDIT: Disregard the downclocking issue. For some reason one core likes to stay pegged at 3.7 GHz, but the other cores are throttling.
 
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