r/overclocking - for those who like to push their chips a little harder

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Lighning05 on 2025-04-16 01:24:39.

At first I started by going all out on PBO with a -30CO +200Mhz and it was stable with prime95, occt, ect and everything I threw at it, I kept that for several months and it was rock solid, then I got curious and wanted more, found stability at 4.750Ghz with 1.250V (1.200V under load). I tried to squeeze a bit more and passed 1 hour of prime 95 (128K min and max fft) at 4.8Ghz using 1.3V (1.244V under load)

Now my question is, is it safe to daily 1.3V on my cpu ? Or do I risk degradation over time?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/davdeluxe126 on 2025-04-16 00:51:26.

Just built my first PC with the following parts:

• RTX 5080 FE (got into priority access)
• Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX motherboard
• 64GB DDR5 Corsair Vengeance RAM
• 1000W Corsair PSU

After running Steel Nomad I'm getting a score of roughly 8100 with the following settings:

For the CPU, just did PBO - 20

In MSI afterburner, did Mem +2000, power limit to 108% and undervolted to 2800 MHz @ 925 mV

Both as recommendations from the youtuber ImWateringPSUs

What would be a good approach to boost those numbers further since I think that's kinda below average. Any help would be appreciated!

Also, in some games I get an overlay in the top left with green text that shows FPS, network speed, GPU and CPU % and temperature but it's not consistent. I don't know what it's from since I deleted the NVIDIA app and it shows up in multiple games

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Zealousideal_Tree786 on 2025-04-16 00:46:48.

I'm new to CPU PCs. I've had my 14900K since it came out and I feel like it's time for it to have its final push.

I tried to do OC with chatgpt but the results were terrible cinebench R23 gave 22,000 points, a tremendous garbage and Chat told me that it was a great result, I won't use it again for that.

I used the Asus OC by AI and it gave me 2 BSODs without doing absolutely anything, no games, no software or anything, it just crashed.

The result I get from stock 14900 is 33415 in cinebench R23 and with ASUS OC 36228 (photo attached)

My hardware in case someone agrees to help me step by step please

-Asus Dark Hero z790

-Intel 14900K

-Kingstone DDR5 64gb 7200Mts activate

-Cooler: Asus Ryujin III but with 6 fans to remove the hot air, 3 below and 3 above, like a sandwich

-PSU Asus Rog 1200W

Regards 🙏🙏🙏🙏

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/jamilahamila on 2025-04-15 22:25:57.

im trying to overclock my amd 5 2600 cpu but im running into issues. First i tried one on youtube with 4.1mhz and 1.4 voltage but my computer crashed straight up. Then i tried one with littlebit less my computer was working well and not over heating for 2 hrs then crashed all of the sudden. How do i understand the ratio between mhz and voltage. I just want little bit extra performace.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Hooln on 2025-04-15 22:01:48.

Hi,

I have a Zotac 5080 Solid OC. I noticed that it is staying below 90% utilization in Cyberpunkk 2077 max settings and resolution scaling at quality. So I wanted to play around with its configuration a little (Don't know if it makes sense to try to overclock an OC edition card but that's another topic). I have no experience with overclocking so I am following some guides, including the guide in this subreddit.

My problem is, I can't edit the Temp Limit setting in MSI Afterburner. The slider is greyed out. Trying to click on it just drags the application window around. I am thinking maybe Nvidia settings or BIOS settings are overriding this. The internet has been surprisingly unhelpful. Has anyone ever experienced this or have any ideas?

https://preview.redd.it/l1a3st4om2ve1.png?width=781&format=png&auto=webp&s=e6e9f9b83f35eaeb4ce8959d68446fd37f209dc7

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/theBullKS on 2025-04-15 21:02:15.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Impossible_Map6782 on 2025-04-15 19:45:16.

Hello. Just did a fresh install on PC. I can't remember where I read on how to change MSI afterburner to allow it to hit mem clock 3000. Does anyone have info or a post that I can look at. I'm stuck @ 2k rn

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/abad0m on 2025-04-15 19:43:50.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/BacklogGamingJunkie on 2025-04-15 19:11:36.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/23_min_men on 2025-04-15 18:02:34.

Like the title asks, I was playing dead island 2 when the game crashed a few times to desktop so I was curious, does undervolting a CPU only cause the system itself to crash (like blue screen or reboot) or does it also possibly cause games to crash? My cpu is a Ryzen 7600x

I use PBO advanced and run a CO negative 10 on all cores with a 90° thermal throttle limit and a 85 tdp limit, also running EXPO 6000mhz cas 30

So far only game that crashed apart from cyberpunk that crashed once

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/zkareemz on 2025-04-15 17:40:09.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/RealisticQuality7296 on 2025-04-15 17:19:38.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/liightsome on 2025-04-15 17:13:17.

Question to those somewhat advanced, experienced in manual ram oc'ing, as I'm not one myself in the ram category.

I'm torn between ordering a 6k cl28 kit and a 26 kit, the latter being somewhat decent bit more expensive. Same brand btw, and yes for amd cpu.

So the choice led me to the question. How easy is it to go from cas latency 28 to 26 on that cheaper kit?

Is that same like with cpu, a little trial and error, or maybe these newer 26 and 28 mem modules are pushed close to the maximum that there won't be any headroom for me to play around with ?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Rezurmas on 2025-04-15 17:06:25.

Has anyone got older versions of this card vbios or has a site where I can find cause I heard that older versions had higher power limit I need for OC my cpu is lacking in time spy so I need to focus on card but rn I’m on the overclocking it I got +1888 mhz on memory and +190 on clock can’t go higher

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/PossibilityAsleep865 on 2025-04-15 16:33:17.

It can run 4.42Ghz with CPB,but when i try to do a manual OC it doesnt boot even if i try to do 3.62GHz while the base clock is 3.6GHz.It makes no sense.I also tried setting agressive pbo power limits and high vcore but still no boot.I was thinking abt doing a really high bclk oc but wanted to check if theres any soloution to this before i do so,im also new to overclocking so any tips will be very appreciated!

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/AbrocomaRegular3529 on 2025-04-15 16:23:17.

Trying to understand the science behind it. It crashes instantly on benchmarks on -55V but runs perfectly fine (2 years) on -60 or -50?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/chojvk on 2025-04-15 15:51:59.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/xTsrDotDeb on 2025-04-15 15:42:13.

I have a i9 11900k; paired with a rog strix z590 e gamin wifi; 8gb x4 3600 dominator cl16; 360 aio push pull nzxt kraken z73. But my cpu if from a great batch of 45 SP… and it runs hot as hell. 50-60 temps in idle, while gaming goes as high as 85 to 88 sometimes. I only see guides or youtube videos of people tuning 80+ SP chips. What about the poor ones? What should i do with this beast? As i don’t want to bottleneck my gpu also. My 3080ti feels so lazy lately, not bothering to work beyond 60 degrees while gaming.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Zealousideal_Web_407 on 2025-04-15 15:15:35.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Romka999 on 2025-04-15 15:07:56.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Naretto95 on 2025-04-15 15:06:50.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/packetHound on 2025-04-15 14:27:34.

CPU ratio 51

Ring ratio 48

BCLK 100.00

Power limits unlocked

Turbo, Enhanced turbo, c states : off

CPU voltage override: 1.32

AVX: 0

MSI LLC 3

SA voltage 1.3

IO voltage 1.2

VID sits at 1.35

Vcore sits around 1.324

Scored 973 in cinebench 2024 MT

Passes P95 and OCCT cpu+mem

idle temps around 34-38 degrees

load temps max around 80 average

(z490 carbon, 10900k, 64gb 3600C16 Hynix DJR Kingston Fury, 3090 Strix oc, 1600w Supernova evga, h100i 240mm push/pull)

For an additional question, is it worth bumping for any extra? or its diminishing returns beyond this.

On AVX workloads i average 80 degrees, with momentary half second spikes around 90

(which I've read is normal) but the cooler takes care of it.

Looking for improvements I can make, or if this is a good spot to be in.

Thanks!

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/mustyovski on 2025-04-15 13:44:34.

b650 carbon wifi and 9700x with My first computer told me that 7200mhz was risky and asked me to apply here for an overclock close to cl30 6000mhz, please help

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/kimo71 on 2025-04-15 12:02:28.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/srneeam on 2025-04-15 11:50:35.

It's a laptop that I have very recently bought. I do understand that modern processors have dynamic voltage leveling for single/multi core workloads but what I have saw seemed a bit too much. It jumps to about 99.6-100.6 degrees and gradually lowers to about 90-95 when single core load sustains. 90s are generally considered bad for lifespan of CPU but maybe AMD doesn't think like it?