Ryzen 5 1600... Is it worth overclocking for gaming?

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text2yasar

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Sorry if this is a noob question.
I have a pc running Ryzen 5 1600, GTX 1060 3GB and 16GB 3000Mhz Ram.
When playing games, my GPU usage goes to over 90% but CPU usage never goes above 70%.
My question is that is it worth overclocking the CPU at this point? Will that make any difference if fps since CPU already has some headroom even without overclocking?
 
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Since it works, why tinker with it? If you are a beginner, you can cause anything from instability to damage to your CPU. My suggestion is touch it only if it peaks and you start noticing bottlenecking, which won't happen with your current video card.
 
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Given that the CPU is never being pushed to its limit at its current speed, there would be nothing gained from overclocking it.

It appears your GPU is more of a limiting factor. I am assuming you're running 1920x1080.
 
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text2yasar

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I am running games on 1920x1080 and mostly play Rainbow Six Siege, GTA V, Far Cry and other popular titles. I can run the games on Ultra settings and on average get anything from 85 to 120 fps with exception of GTA V where frame rate drops to high 60s to low 70s.
I have overclocked intel cpus before and tweaked this Ryzen CPU to 3.95Ghz successfully but I was using the stock cooler and cpu use to run hot at low 80s under load (checked stability with Blender, Cinebench and other stress testing tools and it was stable) so i restore stock clocks . I have since upgraded to a high end CPU cooler with 200w TDP and added additional fans to my Meshify C case.

Frame rate is not the problem. Just wanted to learn if IPC of Ryzen will increase with overclock giving me significant boost.
 
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