Ryzen 7 1700 Water-cooled: Cooler but.....slower?

[cowboyray]

I purchased the Ryzen 7 1700 last year and had been using the Wraith Spire Cooler that came with it.

With the stock cooler, I was able to overclock to 3.85 at 1.325V but had temps approaching 90 degrees, so settled on a overclock of 3.75 at 1.3V where the temps range from 39 degrees to 83 and have used that setting since. At 3.75 I consistently get a Cinebench score in the range of 1650-1660.

This past weekend I installed the CoolerMaster ML240L watercooler. It was my first water cooler installation so I was nervous but installation was super easy and a success!

Temps dropped to 24 degrees at idle and 52 at load at 3.75, but the Cinebench score dropped from 1650 to 1625. I did a number of other tests using settings that had worked with the stock cooler and found similar drops in the Cinebench scores.

With the watercooler I have been able to overclock to 4.0 at 1.425 but have decided to go with 3.95 at 1.35625V. At 4.0 temperature rose to 70 degrees, in comparison to 61 with 3.95. My Cinebench score at 3.95 is in the 1720 range, which is around what i got at 3.85 with the stock cooler.

So my question is does the Ryzen 7 perform better at higher temperatures? The water cooler is a dual fan - would it be of benefit to turn one off and let the CPU reach higher temps?

Please note, while I noted test scores from Cinebench, i test the stability of the overclock with CPU-Z, Prime 95 and Unigine Heaven as well.

Any insight into whether cooler temperatures hurt performance would be appreciated.


Ryzen 7 1700 (OC 3.95)
MSI x370 Pro Carbon Gaming Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (OC 2933)
MSI Twin Frozr rx 480
CoolerMaster ML240L Cooler
Phantek Enthoo Pro M Case

 

[scout_03]

leave both fan working to keep this low temp on air was higher because of the low cfm it give .

 

[theboys4]

Your PC will allways get different scores no matter what you do.
Your asking about if it runs cooler does it have worse performance.
Well it shouldn't especially at such small temperature changes unless you got a crappy chip it shouldn't it might run differently at -25°c compared to 70°c but that's where overclocking comes in to make up the difference in temperature but like I said it shouldn't decrease your performance

 

[RememberThe5th]

Sometimes ram impacts on perfomance, check if xmp is on or set correct timings for ram and voltage.