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

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/godlytoast3r on 2025-04-19 02:42:39.

I've got an i5-14600k and was confused by how I could run anything from 1.2-1.35 or even higher vcore and see zero change in stability, crashing my PC after 0-2 rounds of marvel rivals when running a 6ghz ht-off core. Then I tried raising IA VR Voltage Limit to 1.61 since that's what a stock chip pulled in a buildzoid video and suddenly it appeared stable. I've dropped it to 1585, working on dialing it in.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with raising this value long-term. I've cooked a lot of traces and God knows what playing with this chip. And right now 1.235 vcore is still giving me a 6ghz core after all of it. Even had it at 1.4v for a few days, but it's been on LM since day 1 with a good cooler. Anyways, raising that ia voltage limit has not produced ANY smell in the short term while looking like the answer I've been looking for for weeks.

Also quick tip for the setting right above it, IA VR Current Limit. That setting does NOT prevent your chip from pulling a certain amount of amps in a benchmark.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/SecretiveFox on 2025-04-19 02:42:10.

I wanted to configure my graphic card in amd adrenalin (because I don't want to use third-party programs, and I want to keep it simple) and I've used this configuration, I seem to notice that the games run more smoothly but I would like to know other people's opinions and if I can improve something.

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The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Certain_Froyo6016 on 2025-04-19 01:50:01.

I've been changing some settings and on cinebench 24 I got a multicore score of 842 on my ryzen 7 5700 non x I was wondering if that's good or not

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/mrsavage1 on 2025-04-19 01:15:41.

I have a 9950x3d x870e hero and some team group delta ddr5 cl38 8000 mdie memory. I keep seeing posts of less than 70 ns for memory but my best has only been 71. What do I need to do to get the memory below 70ns? I am using the expo I memory settings and pushed the tREFI to 65k. I would like to know if the default expo setting vSOC being at 1.3v is too high?

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The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Inevitable_Sugar6899 on 2025-04-19 00:42:44.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/DAVIDX90 on 2025-04-19 00:26:25.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/pinkcosmos12 on 2025-04-19 00:04:33.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Basic-Secretary-6367 on 2025-04-18 23:57:12.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Hunt3rrbruh on 2025-04-18 23:44:37.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/FireSnake92 on 2025-04-18 23:15:56.

Could someone help me undervolt my laptop (clevo x170km-g)? I have an i7 10700k but I easily get to over 90 degrees while gaming. I am using throttlestop. In the pictures you will find my settings

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The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Death4two on 2025-04-18 22:40:49.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Brembars on 2025-04-18 22:05:00.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MPG X670E CARBON WIFI (MS-7D70)

Does anyone have any idea why my 5090 is performing so poorly?

RIG:

7950X3D

x670e Carbon WIFI Latest Bios

6000Mhz RAM

5090 Gainward Phantom

Phanteks Revolt X 1200W PSU

Using supplied 12Vhwpr connector to 4 PCIE connectors

Performance just does not seem right... .

Any help is greatly appreciated

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/KarmaStrikesThrice on 2025-04-18 22:02:14.

I want to compare undervolting results with other 5070Ti owners because I thought the power draw will go down more after relatively drastic voltage reduction. I have Gigabyte Windforce OC SFF msrp model, basic overclocking with stock voltage and +100% TDP is stable at +465 on core and +3000 memory (memory tested for highest score in 3dmark and Unigine superposition so it trully is fastest at +3000, memory doesnt seem to effect core frequency when the gpu is power limited, i saw 0-20mhz core difference between +0 and +3000). My core undervolting results in Kingdome come 2 (all settings extreme + dlaa in 1440p widescreen, I chose this game because it is one of few games that is consistently power limited and draws 280-300W, most other games are usually around 250-280W where the core boosts up to ~3270MHz @ 1045mV, Kingdome come would probably need 320-330W TDP to get to 3270MHz ) are like this:

1020mV 3217Mhz 290W 100% FPS 0.345 rFPS/W (max stable OC performance)

975mV 3100MHz 270W 98.5% FPS 0,365 rFPS/W

935mV 3000MHz 250W 97% FPS 0.388 rFPS/W

890mv 2800MHz 225W 92.5% FPS 0.411 rFPS/W

845mV 2600MHz 205W 89% FPS 0.434 rFPS/W

820mV 2200MHz 160W 75% FPS 0.469 rFPS/W

815mV 2050MHz 150W 72% FPS 0.48 rFPS/W

850mV is a point where the voltage curve starts going sharply down with frequency and performance hit is much bigger, however the performance to watt efficiency is still improving. At half the power I was getting ~70% FPS, ~30% less power resulted in ~10% lower performance. I was kinda hoping I would be closer to 85% performance at 50% power draw. Are these expectable results, or are your results better/worse?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/lawshadowz on 2025-04-18 21:53:31.

Hi all,

Just a quick message.

When using Asrock Z890i Nova itx mobo don't use HWmonitor it will show insane crazy high temps on:

DRAM = 88c

VR = 92c

And it's not my hardware!

I asked 2 more people who have the same exact motherboard and voila the SAME exact BUG

Second person had DRAM = 88c (same bug), VR = 90c, third person DRAM = 88c and VR 89c

So if you see these weird temps on your Asrock Z890i Nova itx don't worry its HWmonitor acting up with bug readout. Can't be that 3 people have a bad mobo with same exact temps.

DRAM and VR show wrong readout or is bugged.

Use HWinfo64 instead i see NO weird temps at all.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Purple_Grocery_145 on 2025-04-18 21:35:01.

Hello,

Wanted to get the G skill 6000mts cl26 but they are EOL, found a similar one on the Lexar ram.

Which bin is better?

Trident Z5 Royal Neo

DDR5-6000 CL26-36-36-96 1.40V

32GB (2x16GB)

VS

6000MT/S:CL26-36-36-68/1.45V

Ty

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Ok_Luck_3358 on 2025-04-18 21:11:21.

Hi everyone, I have a problem: when I'm in a game, it looks really bad even though it's running at 200 FPS. When I turn on VSync, it adds delay. The weird thing is that when I play with the Task Manager open, everything becomes much smoother. My PC has been formatted, and I've already tried configuring everything through Nvidia settings, updated all my drivers, and even updated the BIOS, but nothing works.

I also tried using G-SYNC, but my monitor only supports FreeSync, so that's not an option. I didn’t have this issue before, which is why I originally thought it might be a virus, but after formatting the PC, I realized that’s not the case.

If anyone can help me, I’d really appreciate it!

(Maybe the administrator isn't the problem)

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/-Rhialto- on 2025-04-18 20:08:15.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/UglyCat319 on 2025-04-18 20:05:20.

so recently my pc has been crashing due to "cache hierarchy error" and from what I've heard PBO is supposed to fix that, but for some reason PBO just doesn't show up in the bios. Also the game boost option is greyed out. I have tried updating the bios, both to the oficial release and the beta release.

I have a ryzen 5 5800xt and an msi a520m-a pro motherboard.

update: so basically Im an idiot and never researched chipset types and ended up buying the worst motherboard possible.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Illustrious-Most6803 on 2025-04-18 19:29:51.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/AverageCryptoEnj0yer on 2025-04-18 18:02:45.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/TheDominicanCapo on 2025-04-18 16:41:16.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Spiritual-Neat-1132 on 2025-04-18 15:55:59.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/optimuspoopprime on 2025-04-18 15:31:53.

When I first got my 9950x3d, I decided to play around with curve shaper vs curve optimizer. I got great performance but couldn't find stable values as I'd randomly find a instability when gaming... But was great for everything else outside of gaming.

I decided to go back to curve optimizer:

10x scaler, +50mhz boost override, -25 ccd0 -20 ccd1, expo1. Would pass core cycler/occt over night test.

Well it's the weekend and finally getting around to gaming but I'm noticing stuttering when playing Diablo 4. I thought it was the new Nvidia drivers I downloaded last night but I've since reverted to the previous driver and same thing. I then decided to disable curve optimizer and found the micro stuttering went away.

Does this indicate that co is not stable and that I need to lower the values until the stuttering goes away?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/cryptographerking on 2025-04-18 02:42:16.

I'm tuning my ram and I can go one of two ways, I can get tCWL equal to tCL-2 (CWL 12) with tRDWR at 10, or I can run tCWL equal to tCL with tRDWR at 8. I was hoping to be able to get tRCDRD down to 14 from 15 by running a higher RDWR cuz that seemed to help me run flat 14s at 3600mhz, but I'm at 3733mhz now n I can't get RCDRD stable at 14. So with RCDRD at 15, the only difference is higher CWL with lower RDWR vs lower CWL with higher RDWR.

Edit: forgot the main question. What would you suggest is better for gaming, specifically online competitive gaming?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Nearby_Charity_373 on 2025-04-18 15:20:05.

I've seen people say if you set the settings to extreme it can damage it but I was under the impression before that if you don't change the voltage and just clock speeds it's impossible to damage it?