Do NOT Overclock This CPU! -- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

[@marcusc3288]

Love how you just won the silicon lottery and decided not to overclock it.

[@Nicolas11x12English]

Haha, yes! A quite unexpected move... :D

[@Opiophobia]

There are a few forums on reddit: But essentially if you undervolt the stock settings with a slight offset voltage and raise the BCLK to 102.95 (under 103), you can reach 4.45 on single core performance. Worth a look if you're interested.

[@tuxnews2878]

Its not 1.31 etc its 1.32 bro, are you blind

[@greggreg2458]

@@Opiophobia Can i do that with an Asus Crosshair VII?

[@santiagoferrari1973]

Oc the non X, the X is fine as it is.

[@Kneedragon1962]

We play with this stuff because we can. It's fun. It's a bit like the fast car or fast bike guys dropping a hot cam in, seeing what that does. Mostly they will give some increase in power at the top of the rev range, but for normal day to day use, they hurt everything else the engine does. It will generally be a nicer & easier to use bike with the engine left stock. It will start better, run nicer, get better fuel ecconomy and last longer, if you leave the way they made it at the factory. But we're boys, so trying to get your 160 rear wheel hp bike to 200 is a challange... When where and under what conditions you could ever use that extra power... But 200 has got to be better than 160 ~ Right?

[@Nicolas11x12English]

I understand what you mean. ;)

[@jamesbowerman5477]

Well said !

[@LDSF1922]

Definitely, I freaking love it Haha

[@sinki19841984]

'It will generally be a nicer & easier to use bike with the engine left stock.' With all the emission crap these days hardly any bike is better at stock factory form.

[@letni9506]

Most AMD fans oc because they are obsessed with beating or at least matching Intel on the cheap.

[@TheElemynt]

Yeah my 2600X is constantly OCing itself to 4.0-4.1 GHz without me ever touching OC settings.

[@occitany2982]

mine too but it's with a 2700x

[@clashofpoke]

That's called boost clock.

[@goated6g959]

@@clashofpoke do you how to fix it

[@clashofpoke]

@@goated6g959 It's not a bad thing. Instead, rather a good one! It's basically free overclocking that is built-in and DOES NOT void your warranty. Every modern processor has it and uses it as long as there's enough thermal headroom (don't worry, this won't make it overheat). Basically, there's nothing to fix there.

[@goated6g959]

@@clashofpoke thank you for the help some other people said the same thing to me I might just upgrade the CPU cooler to water cooled

[@NoName-bg2om]

I also won the silicone lottery. Married a wife with big implants and the dude before me paid for the surgery !! LOL

[@RoshanRKwhatsappstatus]

epic

[@borisdaborghadanuff4087]

🤣🤣👌everytime i read this i laugh so bloody hard it hurts!!!!

[@Blizzard23]

Boomer humour

[@ut2k4wikichici]

reeee

[@MrMadmazz]

No Name, paying for a chicks boob job is like buying a body kit for a car your been thrashing but sorta sick of looking at. You know keeps it interesting a few more months till you can trade it in for a upgraded model that looks better and rides harder lol.

[@MohondhaY]

I'm super happy with my 2700X. Waiting to see what AMD has to offer in Zen2! 🤗

[@gvzonloos7759]

MohondhaY worth getting over the i7 8700k? I’m having a hard time decide

[@MohondhaY]

For me it's definitely worth it. I went with Zen+ over the 8700K *MAINLY* because a few FPS difference in games didn't bother me at all and for the super easy future upgrade paths RYZEN offers! Playing games, doing video edits/rendering, browsing ..it does it all quite easily. Also considering how well this CPU does against Intel's 8 core chips but for a much affordable price and again for the easy future upgrade path, this is definitely worth it. The best thing of all by going with Ryzen *for* *me* will be the ability to use Zen2 (in 2019) and Zen3(in 2020) CPUs (if I wanted to) *JUST* by replacing the CPU in my system! AM4 motherboards will support up to 2020. Won't need to buy another motherboard or install windows all over again, only replace the CPU. How awesome is that? If you're going with *RYZEN* go with the 2nd Gen *ZEN+* only.

[@smu7373]

It depends on what will you be using the built for? For gaming 1080p or 720p 8700k will perform %15-20 more fps for some games. Keep in mind that at 1440p ryzen shines. But if you are going to use your PC for work or other things 2700x will be a good choice. Thats my opinion of course. If you are playing at 1080p i5 8500 will be sufficient too.

[@LIVEFRMNYC]

I'm almost always at 4.0ghz on my 2700X with default auto clocking and windows profile set to high performance. I using NZXT 52 aio cooling. Also have XMP enabled on my 32gb ram at 3200mhz.

[@jocerv43]

@@gvzonloos7759 well considering the 8700k is almost 2 times the price with only ~10% increase on performance it's not worth it.

[@jarednielsen6232]

the Ryzen 2700X is Super great CPU you can easily run it at 4.3 GHz if don't use the stock cooler. but since this CPU has 16 threads it can give you the same performance as intel 9900K. you need a decent cooler. water cooling is NOT always the best choice. try the Noctua NH-15se-am4

[@Duncan23]

I've found that 3200mhz RAM and just letting XFR & PB do their thing is a good sweet spot. It gives you great performance, minimal heat and power consumption.

[@chappy48]

Agree 100% Honestly just let PBO and XMR do their thing and maybe increase the thermal and power draw limits a bit to let it stretch its legs. You keep thermals down vs manual overclock and get nearly identical performance. I tinkered with OC for so long and couldn't get a good one stable (i apparently did not win the lottery with mine) and my temps were really high even with a quality aio (almost 90°C in R20 at some points. So I turned on PBO and XFR by using one of the PE settings in the bios and now it is sitting around 70°C in R20 with an almost identical score.

[@frankneugebauer6455]

A video about "How to tweak fast Samsung B-die RAM to maximize a Ryzen's performance", would be very welcome.

[@apexjuan494]

Thank you for this explaination, very helpful. Just picked up a 2700x for black friday as was wondering why i wasnt stable when overclocking past 4.1

[@Ben-Rogue]

I just got myself a 2700X and have opted to undervolt as I'll be running the stock cooler for some time, and XFR and Precision Boost seem to not care so much about high idle temps. I dropped the clock to 3.7GHz (this is more than enough for my use care) at 1.1V, taking idle temps from around 50-55c to about 35-40c. This helped massively with with idle noise too, as it let me drop fan speeds considerably, and only makes slightly more noise at full throttle, peaking at around 65-67c

[@RAYl71]

hello guys , just set from bios Normal mode , it will automatically overclock when it needed and 100% stable, i think it gives best performance , rog strix mobo is smart thing so let it do his job

[@BeyondEllisBeck]

He’s right. All you need is faster ram and you get a free 10-15% performance.

[@epichunter115]

BeyondEllisBeck how is it free if you have to buy faster ram

[@BeyondEllisBeck]

epichunter11 because most people have already purchased high speed ram before the new ryzen dropped so they received more performance for free.

[@TheManiHimself]

1st of all is what kind of board you have, u can have the fastest ram your board can only carry it so high.

[@BeyondEllisBeck]

Parko Di Realest even older ryzen CPUs benefited from this. And the standard motherboards allowed 2400 to 2866mhz since ddr4 was already running at faster speeds. The problem at that time though was AMD having to properly fix the bug of ryzen rejecting higher speeds at the time of launch. Now however, they love faster ram speed.

[@Phillip_Kilby]

That's right. 3.2ghz ram should be a decent boost for these cpu's.

[@Viewer19]

You are supposed to use Performance Enhancer Level 3 BCLK 103-104 and voltage offset -50/75mv that will give you multi core clocks to 4.4-4.5 GHz CB S 180+ CB M 1920+ run cooler and draw less watts than all core OC.

[@HaywireGW2]

I know this is old, but what is CB S? And -50 translates into what? If I just type minus 50.. it'll go 1.800 lol. 0.050? 0.50? If you remember. Been 3 years. :-) getting the last juice out if it till 7000 series.

[@benwaballs8800]

Cinebench, stock settings Ryzen 2700x = 1809, overclocked with no voltage change to 4.2 Cinebench = 1927, that's kind of a huge difference!!!

[@sugaroki]

computer nerds: 4.20 Ghz me: 420 OHHHHHHH

[@anarcat6653]

computer nerds: 4.20 Ghz also computer nerds : 420 hohohohohohoho *smoke intensify*

[@bisso502]

Sugaroki You are fucking hilarious

[@loadstone5149]

Except it’s not 4.20 it’s 4.2

[@alessandrorv2732]

@@loadstone5149 4.20 and 4.2 are the same number

[@Pumkin932]

@@alessandrorv2732 Sometimes numbers and math are nonsensical. Understand that it does indeed mean 4.2 but many things can say 4.20 and it actually not mean 4.2. This is why I hate math and numbers.

[@razoo911]

now i understand why you chose 2700x over 8700k if you use vegas pro

[@Nicolas11x12English]

Yup, a quite noticeable difference for me in VEGAS Pro 15. :)

[@Bolloyes12]

Ryzen 5 still rocks :D

[@SunCityGamer]

dylan .dog Who cares?

[@ThaRealGecko]

kublaikhan1215 It looks like you did ... Why else leave a comment ... O.o

[@harvey8869]

@@Nicolas11x12English Any difference on VEGAS Pro 14?

[@sassuki]

I would even go as far as disable the CPB all together. You'll get very nice temperatures with the stock cooler which enables quiet cooling with minimal performance loss.

[@AliceGaudon]

Thank you for saving my time ! :D

[@Nicolas11x12English]

You're welcome. ;)

[@Zombiebros22]

Wasting*

[@luiytheninja3655]

Personally, I've found that, Memory is the major factor, not so much the speed of it, but the timings. I improved my score by 400 on cinebench, just by tightening up memory timings.

[@hockeymasktime1918]

what is tightening up the timings? Lower numbers or higher numbers? Sorry for my ignorance on the subject.

[@hashtaglobotomy2655]

Where did you get that cool song during the graphs? I dig it.

[@Nicolas11x12English]

Thank you! I dug through my old project files for you and found the song you mentioned. It's called "Destructoid" and is from the KZbin Audio Library. :)

[@hashtaglobotomy2655]

@@Nicolas11x12English Thanks so much. I had no idea that was even a thing. lol Guess you can teach old dogs new tricks. Hope you have a blessed day!

[@hashtaglobotomy2655]

@@Nicolas11x12English Oh, and it may not be a "golden sample"but the 2700x i have is pretty decent. CB23 on a decent air cooler ive gotten 10800. HWBOT cert at 4.325mhz at 1.4218v Picking up a 360 rad and gonna do some custom additional peltier cooling to see if i can hit close to 4.4. maybe ill make it in the top 10...fingers crossed.

[@Nelthalin]

You should overclock but use baseclock instead of the multiplier. That was precision boost will still work and you can go up to 4,45-4,5 with boost

[@alissontrevisan8563]

Thanks man. Your video really helped me about my 2700x. I have to think if I overlooked my CPU but after this video I change my mind. I use the wraith prism so yeah let's leave in stock

[@gamerdad9870]

nah 4.2 nah nah its says 4.3 on the box XD

[@houseofhorror8638]

My 2700x Auto clocks itself at 4.2, nothing enabled. It jumps to 4.3 with PBO enabled. I think my chip may be a winner.

[@matcerliani]

My stock settings for 2700x are: Core Voltage 0.9 V Core Speed: 3.1k Mhz May I know why? What should I do, cause after watching this video it's like underperforming as stock..

[@FIVESTRZ]

i had to reset windows power settings to default and now mine usually boosts to 3.9-4.0

[@bcllcb]

If asrock will add offset and performance enchanter you can keep 4.2ghz and have also single core to boost 4.45ghz very easy

[@turbonortti2131]

Catalin Boros 4.4?🤨rly?

[@tmkongen]

Debauer or whatever it's spelled got 4.5 on the C7H with PE lvl 3 i think it was.

[@bcllcb]

i Have PE3 41x and i boost to 4.45ghz 1T on C6H but uefi its a mess right now

[@MohondhaY]

Catalin Boros hi, could you please link that video here? I couldn't find it in his channel. Regards.

[@bcllcb]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHSWl6aMoJ6GqdU ,i have a asus board and we have performance enchanter and i use BCLK with PE in conjunction

[@pandemik0]

Hardly seems worth it for 5% performance increase.

[@360Fov]

I regret updating my x470 gaming plus mobo bios so much! The UI on the original bios as shown in this video is so much nicer than the updated one, which reverts back to simple white text lists. Sadly my RAM won't even boot with XMP settings...nevermind custom overclocking. Fortunately it still runs great at stock settings.

[@samuelwhite3173]

My stock Prisim cooler my CPU sits at 63°C at 4.2GHz..

[@b3nnzz]

I won the silicon lottery too. 1.296 volt with 4200mhz

[@kognak6640]

You have FlareX 3200 CL14 kit, you really don't need "higher frequency memory". That kit runs easily as high as what ryzen IMC can reach. And anyways you get much better performance by tightening sub-timings than simply increasing frequency. I suggest to use tool called Ryzen DRAM Calculator. It's very handy for people who are not experts in memory tweaking. Just follow guide how to use it, software needs xmp latency values for starting point as each kit is different. It even tells what dram voltage, procODT etc non-timing related settings to use.

[@gazlink1]

Wait.. There are b450 boards?

[@rattlehead999]

yes

[@faycalassaad6066]

Not released yet.

[@charredolive]

@@faycalassaad6066 They are now. I have the Asus Prime B450M

[@UniverseGamerLumi]

Ian Fullen yeah I’m gonna get an Asus TUF GAMING B450 mobo

[@Requiem4aDr3Am]

heh man I just got this cpu and had a new build. I am absolutely in love with it. I'm finding that even with the wraith prism I'm able to get some insane performance out of it. Highest temp I got to was 78° under full load and even at that level it was staying at 3.995 ghz. When cool I've had it pop up to 4.325 ghz but its usually at around 4.2 ghz for me. I absolutely won the silicon lottery with my cpu. I also took a gamble and got a zotac geforce gtx 1080ti amp extreme core edition brand new off ebay of all places for only 680 bucks. The thing is a beast.

[@CountCarbsNotCals]

You don't need to overclock it, it has built-in features to boost the clock Safely for you.

[@fatalradius]

I set mine to 4ghz with 1.4 volts. I got much better performance than with auto. XFR is great, but I found that it was dropping other cores to low frequencies making frequencies bounce up and down. Now all cores are running at 4ghz always, non stop.

[@charliejackson4451]

when those cores drop frequency the remaining cores boost much higher. Plenty of workloads wont use all cores, especially games so XFR is almost always going to be better performance. With better cooling youll get even better boosts.

[@aboutech3901]

4.1 GHz and 1.286V.

[@aquilarossa5191]

I just replaced my trusty old i5 2500K with a R7 2700X. All I have done is set XMP for 3200mhz. The CPU sits on 4.2ghz on all cores with just 1.35v vcore. I see some cores go up to 4.35ghz. All this on the stock cooler. Block FSB overclocking might mess with the memory settings, so I avoid it. The extra few mhz may not be worth the hassle. I would like it to throttle down more when not under load though. It seems to prefer sitting at 4.15-4.2ghz and never drops below 3ghz. Electricity is expensive here in NZ. What has surprised me is that i listed my 2500K and motherboard with a 600w PSU on FB marketplace yesterday for $100. I did not think it would sell. People have been queuing up to get it. The other thing that surprised me is that the 2700X does not improve the 3DMark score when paired with the 1050ti i still have. Not one bit. That old Sandy Bridge is still strong enough to handle that GPU. Intel have pissed me off drip feeding us tiny improvements every generation and charging more for it and require us to get new motherboards to upgrade. It made me consider AMD. My digital audio workstation software loves that 8/16 core count and my wallet loves the price. I am waiting for Navi from AMD. if leaks are true it should be a good alternative to Nvidia

[@vladvah77]

Because AMD's Zen processors IPC is just a bit better than Sandy/Ivy Bridge level! but now with Zen 3000 they are on par with Coffee Lake processors IPC-wise! finally :-)

[@bluej511]

I absolutely love mine, got a Crosshair VII Wifi for free so i bought a 2700x even though i have a 1700x already haha. CB15 scores went from 155/1690 to 175/1800. With 50% core parking i can get 4 cores (on auto settings btw) to boost to around 4.3 4.35 and stay there without an issue, now i am watercooled so temperatures aren't an issue at all even with 27°C ambient. Only using 3200mhz ram but will be buying 3600 to see what i can muster. So if i oc manually ill maybe get 4.2 on all cores rather then 4.3 on 4 cores but considering most games only use 4 cores its not a problem. Origins ends up using more then 4 cores but even then this thing boosts on all cores to something like 4.1 already.

[@bluej511]

I have everything on auto (except ram) it boosts to 4.2-4.35 while using 50% core parking (there's a registry tweak so you can set core parking in power options under processor management). For gaming the 2700x does seems to do a lot better then a 1700.

[@bradjenkins2861]

my ryzen 7 2700x stock cooler had me sittin at around 33-40c idle and only got to 75c in prime95. I am not sure why you say the stock cooler is poop.

[@JackHulk11]

he didnt say it was poop he said it doesnt have much room for overclocking which is already evident, when you oc u get higher temps to. I get 30 - 40 idle whilst overclocked to 4.9 ghz on my 8700k aswell but I don't get 75c in prime95, i get around 65 - 70.

[@Luredreier]

+Nicolas11x12 English You don't want to do manual overclocking with this thing, or in other words, do *not* use locked clock rates. What you *do* want however is a good X470 motherboard (the quality actually influence the automatic overclock) that *does* have percision boost override in the UEFI. And then overclocking using the precision boost override. That way it's actually possible to get 4,5 GHz single threaded frequency with 4,3 GHz all core frequency in some lighter workloads on some motherboards. Of course that depends on the silicon lottery... And yeah, your power efficiency kind of goes out the window when you do that (although slightly less then when you do a manual overclock with fixed clock speeds). As for memory, yeah, you *do* want faster memory, however not because you actually *want* to run it much faster then 3200 MHz, but because faster/higher quality memory often can run at better timings and sub-timings when running at 3,2 GHz. Basically if you already got a 3200 MHz memory kit it's not really worth it to buy anything faster, just tweak the timings and sub-timings as far as they will go. (And remember that some of them are influenced by eachother) There's some software calculators out there that will help you work out what numbers are the best for your system.

[@alexk.4918]

Disabled this thing ( Overdrive ) on my Asus Prime X470 with 2700x. As seen more than 1.46v on CPU and temps around 85 degrees under heavy load. Even my Dark Rock Pro 3 was not able to cool it below this temps. Also my motherboard VRM was cooking, back side of MB where mosfets are situated was around 77 degrees, what was on mosfets I even don't want to know. So If you have liquid cooler & 12 phase VRM on your mobo maybe. Bot as for me it's crazy, if yo do not want to Pay100-120$ more on motherboard for 200-300MHz.

[@Luredreier]

+Alex K I'm talking about precision boost override, not any form of overdrive. Overdrive is a form of overclocking where the motherboard is trying to OC the CPU with a set voltage and frequency target picked by the motherboard vendor and tends to use too much voltage as it needs to work even for people losing the scilicon lottery. Precission boost override OC is giving the reins to the CPU and simply telling it what voltages and temperatures you find acceptable before leaving it to figure itself how fast it can go. And yes, how far it will OC using precission boost and XFR will depend on your motherboard even if you override the temperature and power targets. I don't know exactly what features your motherboard have, I've noticed that some motherboards does *not* have precision boost override, only old school OC options like the "overdrive" you mentioned (not the same thing at all). I suggest just waiting then updating the UEFI in a few months to see if the feature has been added to yours. If not then yeah, I guess just leaving it at stock is best for you and your motherboard. Those temperatures do *not* look good.

[@alexk.4918]

I'm talking about precision boost override too.

[@Luredreier]

+Alex K Depends on the motherboard. On some of them you can set a temperature target and the CPU won't OC any higher then what that target allows. So you won't get 85 degrees C like that. And you can set voltage targets too so you won't get over 1,4 volts like that. That said, its been implemented differently on different motherboards it seems, and not at all on some...

[@daigunsaga2631]

i was able to get a very high performing stable 4.2 ghz OC at 1.325v with 20% LLC and 3600mhz ram and 1.36v. Temps are kind of high, but nothing dangerous...at least nothing that alarms me. Max load (during streaming+gaming) hits 85 but usually very briefly. Idle is at 41c. Idc...im happy as heck with this.

[@eggyrepublic]

The 7 2700X is good because it have RGB cooler

[@BigeyBig]

What?

[@Benri05]

@@BigeyBig rgb = more performance, this is basic info by now

[@StarsAtNight1]

Why don't you try to undervolt the chip at stock speeds and see how much power you can save.

[@alt4119]

My Ryzen 2700X at default, max boost is 4.39GHz but not on all cores. I noticed though, on HW monitor voltage is jumping all over the place, min fr 1.29v to 1.45v & higher sometimes. I think it's due to the default settings in UEFI "load line calibration" (LLC). I'm curious for those whom owns the new Ryzen 2700X, what are you reported seeing? on max default voltage through HW monitoring. So I decided to overclock it, that way I can set a fixed safe max voltage without going over 1.45v or higher in some instances. AMD said 1.425v is max safe voltage for 24/7 operation. I got it stable at 4.275GHz with 1.4125v. For me, in this case, I'd rather OC than to leave it at default settings due to dangerous voltage jumps. Yeah I might not get a higher single core boost but I'm happy with my current settings. Perhaps I'll upgrade to X470 Mobo some point soon to see if I get a stable/better power delivery...I just don't wanna redo my computer right now, e.g...redo my raid setup with new+different chipsets, drivers, etc... (My rigs spec: The main components are...Ryzen 2700X, Asrock b350 fatal1ty gaming K4, 16G Corsair DDR4 3000, NH-D15 Noctua CPU cooler, 960 Samsung evo NVMe 256G M.2 drive, EVGA 1080Ti black.ed, 34" 3440x1440 95Hz monitor, OC to 110Hz)

[@Xbot4Life]

I think i may have hit the lotto too and i agree, dont overclock this thing, its overkill, im actually trying to figure out how to underclock this 2700x for when im NOT gaming because its a bit much. I tried running off 2 cores and that worked great, ill try 1 core and see how that goes.

[@Spyrit2011]

When surfing the web all my cores are at 2200.

[@thijskunst]

My ryzen 7 2700x is running 1.45volt at all auto settings. If i manually set the voltage to anything below that, it randomly crashes when you're doing something other than sitting at the desktop.

[@716Flat4]

My RUN 2700x achieved 4.2ghz at 1.33v. now I got 4.3ghz at 1.4v. runs faster than stock. Runs cooler than stock. Why wouldn't you OC!?

[@SpartanVVV]

From where the temperature is 29 degrees, if I just turn it on, there are already 47 degrees, and some techno bloggers tell me that this is normal?

[@chiclure]

Hello! did you install the sensors coming with the processor? If yes, did you activate the small button on the prism cooler which activates the turbo mode? because my Processor goes to 5097mhz at times I believe that I am stumbling on a version of top quality if it goes up to 5097mhz is this normal?

[@vincecooper2672]

If you have a high temp at 4.2 Ghz. with the Wraith cooler, I find that to be strange. I use Artic Silver 5 Thermal Paste & it's around 55 Degrees C. & it's fine.

[@Sponsi_PL]

Mine is 3.9GHz @1.28v, will be trying 1.25v - this is good balance between loudness and power.

[@jasegray4850]

So i just need to turn on XFR2 and precision boost 2 in the bios and im good to go basically?

[@magicalmist2669]

i must of hit that silicon lottery to lol, my 2700x hit 4.3ghz all core overclock

[@solaray5]

I mean yeah if you are talking about using GPU's from the time frame of the 2700x launch I would say OCing might not be worth it. But with newer GPUs like the 3070 and 3080 coming out, you will be CPU bound in games making it potentially worth the hassle of OCing to 4.2.

[@pierpaologuerzoni5116]

Hello guys, I have a huge problem, that I have no Idea how to resolve. Yesterday I bought new Mobo, CPU and Ram. A tuf b450m-pro gaming a Ryzen 7 2700x and 16gb of Ram.. It was my first build! I built it and seemed everything fine.. but I realized my Ryzen is stuck at 2,2ghz all the time! I am so grateful for any help Thank You

[@baodybag]

From my understanding and having a similar board that setup in bios is wrong... turning I think it was "CPU core performance" setting to off not default. Think it was explained that it wasn't a true overclock as that setting still would dynamically change core speeds and such. Which could also hurt the overclock.

[@pitracks]

is an r7 2700 oc'd to 4ghz @1.26v good or is it just average?

[@magnusnilsson9792]

If you are using 3200MHZ RAM @3200MHZ your CPU should try to reach 4266MHZ so you can get a 3:4 Ratio or just keep it @ 4000MHZ for a 4:5 ratio.

[@delle77twitch63]

Out of the box the 2700x with std settings in bios where everything is set to auto, and ram of 3200mhz then you will get about 4141-4200mhz on all 8 cores. That is very impressive. Also the 2700x just feel like your computer become more smooth compared to the 1800x, maybe becourse its 2nd gen ryzen. If you use the automatic overclock of ram and cpu you get the same result. ( my ram was set to 2900 and 3200mhz, maybe i should have just set everything to auto and then see what happen.. i think i do that now ;-) ) and i used symetric settings. to compare the 1800x that is 8 cores 16 threads 3600mhz and boost to 4000 ( gen 1 ryzen ) will max go to 3900mhz overclocked on all 8 cores. Both are actual really good cpu's, and can run all games with allot of fps.. A 1800x with a gtx 1080 gpu run hitman on ultra with directx 12 with an average of about 110fps ( std benchmark test in hitman ) all in all i can recommend both 2700x and 1800x ryzen, but get the 2700x if possible, or get the 1800x used and you get a killer gaming cpu for little money ;-)

[@richhere5392]

What GPU are you using ?

[@songlover1072]

When I set my CPU Ratio to 3800MHz there is no display on the monitor, please help, I have a MSI B450M PRO motherboard

[@Outlander0995]

Yeah man! That's why wise ppl do say: no need to overclock X chips. More heat, more power usage.

[@1stKiller5]

4fps boost In gaming totally useless

[@Skilow]

gaming is not everything you can do on computers, many things would greatly benefit from such speeds.

[@Odin3v]

His test is flawed when showing just cpu gains. He is gpu bound in the test.

[@ImDaveTV]

basically its not worth overclocking 2700X??

[@MrDutch1e]

I think it would be awesome if you could start including 8700k with MCE enabled in your reviews/comparisons. From what I've seen enabling mce (simple one click that makes all cores boost to 4.7ghz) put the 8700k roughly on par with the 2700x stock.

[@richardthomas634]

HOODedDutchman absolutely, who in their right mind buys a “K” series chip and runs it at stock speeds 🤣 I would like to offer my “8700k” @ 5.2 for comparison 😉

[@jk6956]

Is this still relevant now? I have a x470 gaming 7 wifi and GTX 980ti hybird, both card and cpu is water cooled. Would it be worth it?

[@PizzaPowerXYZ]

I got 4.25ghz on stock cooler and capped at 80c Voltage: 1.35

[@rxxmxx]

Pizza PowerXYZ wraith prism cooler?

[@PizzaPowerXYZ]

Yes

[@PizzaPowerXYZ]

@@rxxmxx I got the nzxt x72 days after and I get 4.35ghz at 1.4v. The temperature caps at 56C during both GPU and CPU stress tedts

[@mhx6437]

Fan speed?

[@PizzaPowerXYZ]

@@mhx6437 max duh

[@SaccoBelmonte]

Seems like we are in the era of CPUs that auto OC

[@meppie1922]

How do you determine your stability? I hope not only Cinebench R15.. There is also a lot more performance to gain by manually setting the sub timings or loading The Stilt timings presets.

[@Nicolas11x12English]

CineBENCH R15 and hours of AIDA64 stress testing.

[@meppie1922]

Nicolas11x12 English i am sorry man but that is not enough to determine stability at all.. Cinebench R15 and Aida65 stress test is a rather poor stability test program... You want to run AVX loads too like it avx or at least prime95 for an hour to call yourself stable. The way you doing it delivers the people a false image of stability.

[@Nicolas11x12English]

AIDA64's FPU subtest uses heavy AVX loads...

[@Rukifellth2792]

0:20 "Pretty high temperatures at stock settings." What do you consider high temps? My 2700X idles at 32°C, runs around 50° during a typical gaming load, and around 68°C when all 16 threads are 100% doing video rendering. These temps are fine. The full load temp is a lil warm, but it's not being run like that 24/7 nor is it near what the CPU tops out at.

[@Epiphany-cl7fe]

60c is not hot..like what so ever..

[@myvoker]

Lucky you, mine also overheated at stock settings

[@micgeneva998]

My 1700x oc @4.05 needs 1.35v VID (1.39v vcore) combined with stock skills ripjaws 4 2666mhz oc@3200 14-15-15-34 it has 1842 Cinebench R15. Got it for $165 from crazy eBay deal. Mobo is Asus ch6 WiFi My suggestion is to wait for a couple of months so the litho fab gets mature, and bios gets much better, so you will more likely hit a so called “lottery chip”.

[@wilfredobracero4226]

I can't even get it to 4.2 using liquid cooling and this guy is using the wraith cooler. How???

[@Валентин-РафаэльАлексеенко]

But ryzen 7 2700 can i overlock?

[@xalex7923]

I have it with stock cooler to 4.00Ghz idle. Maybe 4.5 if the temperatures are ok?

[@MrTjp420]

is it much better than stock settings???????

[@zippity6647]

I don't get it, I am using the stock, Wraith Prism, and I have used the EZ Tuning on my X470-f Gaming motherboard, and in intensive games, I still hit a max of 58°C. Is this just me or does EZ Tune have something wrong with it.

[@highly_developed_bs_detect230]

the 2700 non x is fantastic to overclock perfect price to performance 4.175 ghz stable great cpu !!!

[@gu3z185]

Mine can only reach 4.1 flat, although I guess I can expirement with LLC more

[@donaldduck9233]

i overclocked it to 4.2 with stock cooler and kept under 70 with cinebench and rendering videos. in ashes of the singulator, it peeked to a max of 55c over the course of 2 hours and averaged 49c

[@kellenstuart4698]

I tried 3600 RAM and it isn't stable. The fastest I can run my RAM is 3200 without getting a crash. It's also weird because XMP for the 3600 RAM (paired with the 2700x) defaults to 2133... it can't figure it out on its own. Currently, I'm running 3.9ghz w/ 3200 CL 16 RAM. Seems pretty decent given that I'm still using the stock cooler

[@TheFilminators]

I did this to my 2700x and my system just wouldn't boot .

[@masteroel4501]

Hi Sir Nicolas, nice to see this Video, you basicly use the exact same Build as i have. And i wonder, if you could make a video with this setup and compare different AMD GPUs? Since i use a 4k-Freesync screen, i would be wondering about those specs and fps the most.

[@introvertplays6162]

Nicolas11x12 English You realize, that you have the best overclocking Ram for Ryzen 2 already? You can actually boost it to 3400Mhz with most boards on CL 14 Subtimings. There is no need for even higher frequency Ram right now...but other than that, nice video!

[@olivierthierry4935]

Hummm, just a minut, i've buy a 2700, i'm running at 4.25Ghz for 1.3875V, all enable, all on auto, and i'm reaching 1915 on cinebench, what's wrong ? What can you acheive with a good overclock on 360 AIO water cooling please on the 2700X ? So that's mean i've won or i'm wrong ?

[@Peaceful_Gojira]

YOOO I went gaming plus MSI! Almost got this motherboard, haha....sweet!

[@lovestogame2012]

i got the 2600x and it runs at 4.25 with no overclocking Noctua NH-U14S cooler

[@TapMyButtons]

Really? When? Is it Constant 4.2ghz when gaming?

[@lovestogame2012]

It showed 4.5 as well in fdmark

[@awi5951]

Some reviewers have gotten theirs to run 4.3 on a single core in games on certain motherboards my Asus prime x470 board doesnt do that but it does let me overclock the ram. I just set mine to 4250 on all cores stable my GTX1080 is maxed out in games and is not being bottle necked at all by it.

[@ellsworth1956]

I should give you 2 thumbs up! one for the 2600x and one for the greatest cooler on Earth!

[@mashedpotatoes77]

If you got top of the line RAM with a very high frequency like 3200 Mhz or 3400 Mhz, you could fiddle with the timings to enhance the performance of the infinity fabric. Steve from Hardware Unboxed conducted such tests a few weeks ago. You should check it out.

[@arrax8241]

Isn't the 1070 a little bottleneck in some cases?

[@safetsabani7919]

I guess some people in 2018 didn't know what X stands for.

[@Mile19825]

Hallo Nicolas: Ich habe die CPU Ratio auf 40 gesetzt, aber die adjusted CPU frequency ist nach wie vor noch 3600 MHz !!!??? Wie kann das sein ?? LG

[@gnarledcaptaintheduck9207]

Hey can you tell me can this motherboard "ASUS ROG STRIX B350-F GAMING" overlock/overlocking? with that 2700x CPU u showed in the video? Please reply it will help me out im building a gaming pc for myself so trying to make sure i have the best and perfected stuff.

[@mrSKphotography]

26 - 60 degrees??? How??? I am running a kraken x62 and mine is higher and not overclocked?!

[@Andre-li1kp]

Would you reccomend taking power settings to perfomance? I get some more ghz when I do this, but my cpu can get up to 80 degrees celcius when im doing this. With the stock cooler.

[@Luredreier]

+Andy S AMDs processors don't like heat as much as Intels do. 80 C is too much. Do you have a X470 motherboard? If so look into UEFI and see if you can find precision boost override somewhere or something similar. If you do then you can manually set various voltage, frequency and thermal targets and the CPU will do its best to meet those while still going to a lower and more power efficient level when you don't need the performance or those targets just can't be meet for whatever reason.

[@Andre-li1kp]

I dont really know how to do that, heh. But yea, I got Asus rog strix x470-f motherboard.

[@charliejackson4451]

The boost works off of temperature headroom so you want to run as cool as possible when running XFR/PBO bclk OC. You can attain a boost of 43.5x on xfr hence the need for the bclk OC so you can go beyond 4.35ghz on boost. As long as you can cool the voltages its fine, been running mine at 4.45ghz all core boost and 4.56ghz 1-4cores since 2700x launched on 1.5v+ and never gets above 65c. No degradation whatsoever as heat is the factor that degrades the components and all voltage does by itself is cause electromigration which happens very very slowly. Invest in some good cooling and you will be good to go with getting higher boost clocks. I run at those frequencies by running chilled air through the case at 50f all the time.

[@xGaMErZzZPrOx]

80c under full load is pretty normal, but just make sure to clean the cpu fan and heatsink every 2 months or so, from experience, a dusty fan/ heatsink will make my gtx 1080 run up to 10c hotter than after a good cleaning, even 15c if i dont clean it for long enough, and cpus can run around 5-10c hotter uncleaned. If your cpu is at 80 fan and heatsink might need cleaned but 80c isnt gonna hurt your cpu, but you should watch carefully if it goes to 85+. Also make sure your case is adequately ventilated, it can make a huge difference.

[@rramos7488]

Im actually running 1.225 volts on the VCORE with an OC of 4.0Ghz -- SOC is set at 1.05v -- I think these chips just run on very low voltage. It gets very finicky after 4.2 however.

[@yoch5383]

Hi, my 2700x is at 37°C with out doing anything and 55/60°C when i play video games i wanna know how did you have those lowest temperature ? I have X52 Kraken as watercooling so idk why it's so high and i haven't overclock at all

[@breesey8475]

I'm looking at x62 kraken with same CPU, so would like to see a response also.

[@Epiphany-cl7fe]

your temps are fine

[@techbuildspcs]

I have a 280mm copper rad under a loop and I get a 70c temps with a 1600 at 4.0ghz with 1.362 volts.

[@minerzero]

....Why do I feel like he didn't actually overclock his chip properly? And that he simply had a 1 core OC of 4.2ghz?? I say this because my Ryzen 2700x never goes below 4150MHZ on ALL cores and it performs WAYYYYYYYY better than the number he is showing here..... I have no idea how he is getting such a low difference.....

[@Pumkin932]

I'm on mobile and this dumb dislike removal idea has made it difficult to see if this video is gonna fck me or not. Over 200k views and only 2k likes must mean this is a bad video, right? Ffs.

[@techmago]

Why do someone overclock de CPU then run a GPU-bound benchmark? What do you expected?

[@Jonathan-fw6ty]

Yeah, that's the dumbest video I've ever seen. And it still got 100k views and a bunch of likes. Is it that easy to be a tech youtuber? Just randomly spew out bullshit and people buy it? lol

[@JairusJoy]

how to overclock the ram with this processor???

[@SiqFix]

4.1GHz is the most stable with Prism Cooler. CPU fan on performance mode.

[@maixyt]

Wow I really just won the silicon lottery for the worst 2700x. Pbo is straight useless on mine, goes below stock freq with insanely high voltages. The best I can get is 3.9 GHz manually at 1.275v, as opposed to pbo which gives me 3.6ghz at, wait till you read this, 1.45 mother fucking volts 🤯

[@madjames2392]

What is the best motherboard no matter the cost to pair with a 2700x?

[@cubematrixstudio7605]

Most any x470 board.

[@bradjenkins2861]

I was BSOD so I disabled precision boost. No problems so far.