Ryzen 5 1600 voltage will not go above 1.4 no matter what

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I feel like I could get much better OC results if I could ever get past 1.4 VCore, 4 GHz barely won't boot into Windows and 3.9 GHz can't even do a full Cinebench run. For whatever reason my VCore will not do what I want since it won't get past 1.4 even though I have a VCore offset of about +.17. This is paired with the Asus ROG Strix X370-F Gaming, T-Force Night Hawk 16 GB 3200 MHz but only running 3000 MHz to help with stability, EVGA GTX 1070 Ti, Corsair RXM 850, and a Cooler Master Lite 120 with a Corsair SP120 fan.

I'm completely stumped on this one. My BIOS only has ram speed, CPU speed, VCore, LLC (set to L1), and C-State (disabled) changed so unless I'm missing a setting somewhere I don't know what's up with this.
 
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sounds like you're pushing too much vcore. those chips usually run quite a bit lower then 1.4V; in fact i think the max vcore AMD recomends for overclocking those chips is like 1.375. back it down to 1.35V and see if it runs at 3.9ghz, test how stable it is there, before you go any higher

most of those chips will get to 3.9ghz with a little playing, the mediocre ones won't get to 4.0ghz. not sure if you got a mediocre one or not, but it does sound like you're trying to shove way too much vcore into it (which can cause stability issues). Overclocking Ryzen is more akin to how we used to play with the PhII then it was Bulldozer/Piledriver. those piledriver chips would take all the voltage you could throw at them if you could keep it...
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sounds like you're pushing too much vcore. those chips usually run quite a bit lower then 1.4V; in fact i think the max vcore AMD recomends for overclocking those chips is like 1.375. back it down to 1.35V and see if it runs at 3.9ghz, test how stable it is there, before you go any higher

most of those chips will get to 3.9ghz with a little playing, the mediocre ones won't get to 4.0ghz. not sure if you got a mediocre one or not, but it does sound like you're trying to shove way too much vcore into it (which can cause stability issues). Overclocking Ryzen is more akin to how we used to play with the PhII then it was Bulldozer/Piledriver. those piledriver chips would take all the voltage you could throw at them if you could keep it cool. the PhII (and Ryzen) was much more touchy about ram speeds and finding the "sweet spot" on the voltage for it's clocks; too much voltage and you couldn't get the PhII stable no matter what you did; and sometimes you had to underclock your ram to get those old phII cpus stable as those chips usually liked their ram around 1333 or 1600mhz (Ryzen is a bit sensitive to ram speeds thanks to the infinity fabric, too fast and you won't get it stable on an overclock, too slow and the same can happen, I think the sweet spot for overclocking those is somewhere between 2400-3200, might have to play with it a bit to find yours, though I think most people have had success around 3000mhz)

here is a more in depth guide to overclocking ryzen; understand the voltages talked about in this guide are for the 8core ryzen 7, you can get away with lower numbers due to your 6/12 ryzen 5

https://www.overclock.net/forum/10-amd-cpus/1628504-ryzen-7-overclocking-guide.html

 
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Well that's the thing I've tried pretty much every VCore possible and can't get anything stable past about 3.75 GHz, 3.8 GHz will boot and run Cinebench maybe once before crashing but usually crashes while running it. 3.9 GHz will post and sometimes get into Windows but that's about it, 4 GHz will sometimes post but won't make it to Windows. I think I simply lost the silicon lottery hard, real hard.
 
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