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

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/horizon936 on 2025-04-17 20:50:03.

Pretty much the title. I see so many posts about the benchmark gains but has anyone actually got an improvement in any actual game? I tested Cyberpunk, Marvel Rivals, Black Ops 6, Forza Horizon 5 - fps was the exact same as before. I even tested it back to back in the same scenarios - no improvements.

Not only that but Forza Horizon 5 is no longer stable at 3270mhz, so I had to drop down to 3255mhz, resulting in actual lower performance in games compared to before, and it also now has 100% GPU utilization even with NVIDIA Reflex on, resulting in 16 fps stutters every minute or so, while Frame Gen is now completely unsmooth and broken in this game.

Reverted to the old driver for now and things are back to normal. Anyone else with similar experiences?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Chris2709 on 2025-04-17 20:49:58.

Hi,

I am trying to get my 4x8 GB Patriot Viper Steel 3733 MHz CL17 RAM configuration to work.

While 2x8 GB worked correctly with an XMP profile, 4x8 GB, of course, doesn’t.

My setup:

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X

RAM: 4x8 GB Patriot Viper Steel 3733 MHz CL17

Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus B550 Elite V.2

My current settings:

System Memory Multiplier: 36.00

FCLK: 1800 MHz

Timings: 18/20/20/40

DRAM Voltage: 1,36V

VDDP: Auto (haven’t touched it yet)

VDDG GCD: 1.05V

VDDG IOD: 1,05V

VDDP: Auto (haven’t touched it yet)

SOC: Auto (same situation as before)

Overall the Windows stability is good, there are no BSODs, the RAM usage doesn’t spike however apps based on JS frameworks (Chromium, Electron) such as Brave, VSCode, Discord fail to start properly after I adjust the settings.

However, after I delete all of their cache files, they usually manage to work correctly.

I want to achieve greater stability, which settings should I change?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/TorwaK on 2025-04-17 20:33:47.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Reallynotsuretbh on 2025-04-17 20:29:40.

Is it ok to mix ram brands/timing at this stage of the game? I've got an AM4 X570 board with a 3700X and 4 sticks of RAM: 2 Gskill 8GB 3600 16-19-19-39s at 1.35V and 2 Corsair 8GB 3600 18-22-22-42, all DDR4 of course. Just got a memory management BSOD and have been troubleshooting, but it has otherwise been running fine for quite a long time. You folks are just built a bit different, so I figured I'd ask here. I think I forgot to enable XMP all those years ago (lol I know better now) but is an overclock to the listed ram speed possible when the sticks aren't identical? Can I expect issues in the future for doing so? Pardon my ignorance, there's so much info to sift through right now, hard to find a precise answer

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/FeeLongjumping1429 on 2025-04-17 20:27:52.

Hello. I'm currently running an Intel I7 12700kf and Asus prime z690

My CPU is running hot for my liking at around 95 degrees, I undervolted my GPU and it saved a lot of temperature for little to no performance hit, i attempted to do the same for my CPU through bios but no settings in bios seem to be effecting my CPU when i look at speeds through HWinfo, the only setting that seems to change anything is Turbo mode where my clock speed goes from 50x100 (ratio x bclk) to 36x100 and the VID max goes from 1.475ish to .995. (i know VID is only what the cpu asks for, not what it receives)

Knowing my CPU can obviously handle a x50 ratio, i was hoping to either limit turbo mode or disable it and let the ratio go up to somewhere like x42 with only minor increases to voltage, provided stability tests are successful. temperatures seem to sit around 65ish while running CPU profile on 3dmark giving about 80-85% utilization, so i think i have some room to play, i just don't want the 90 degrees i get from turbo mode

Any help would be appreciated, I'm not familiar with new bios settings if there's like a preset or something that overrules the changes i'm making or something

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/MakakPL on 2025-04-17 19:53:32.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Trumps_right_testi on 2025-04-17 19:21:45.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Courtoisie on 2025-04-17 18:53:19.

Good evening everyone, after 10 years served for my i7 4790k, i'm going to pull the trigger on a brand new gaming machine.

After researching like a madman (hello obsessive-compulsive disorder) , I came to this build :

Case : NZXT H6 Flow (small desk)

GPU : MSI Shadow 3X OC RTX 5080

CPU : AMD 9800x3D

AIO : PHANTEKS Glacier One 360D30 DRGB

Fans : 4 x 120mm PHANTEKS D30 D-RGB + 2 x 140mm PHANTEKS D30 D-RGB

PSU : NZXT C1500 Platinum ATX 3.1 ( overkill or PlatiGemini 1200 ?)

RAM : CORSAIR Vengeance RGB DDR5 64Go (2x32Go) DDR5 6000MHz CL30

Storage : 1 x 4To Samsung SSD 990 Pro NVMe M.2 Pcle 4.0 (to begin with, more down the road, and even PcIe 5.0 ones when the prices will be okay)

Monitor : ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM (since 27" 4K monitors have more PPI than 32" ones)

My main question right now is "which motherboard to go for".

My researches lead me to the ASRock X870E Nova Wifi (no PcIe lanes hlaved if using 1 GPU and maybe 3-4 M2 slots).

The thing is : here in France, the X870E Taichi Lite (slighty bigger than an ATX mobo) is "only" 50€ more expensive than the Nova Wifi.

Since I'm planning to play a bit with overclocking with this new chip as I did a loooot with my faithful 4790k, I would like to get your advices on this choice and to this whole build in general. Thanks a lot in advance and have a great evening !

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/ziggo0 on 2025-04-17 17:21:50.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/rozayvision9219 on 2025-04-17 16:49:05.

5090

9800x3d

6000 64g ram expo turned on

computer seems to be working fine. Last ight updated to the new Nvidia drivers. How ever CPU CCD1 (Tdie) has been about 90 for awhile. When I changed the CPU I used grizzly thermal paste, I might get another or paste and redo it.

https://preview.redd.it/rd1auw71dfve1.png?width=573&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd7a68dd342a6bdef439928c93535c9905827dc5

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/BedroomThink3121 on 2025-04-17 16:37:37.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Vertigo103 on 2025-04-17 16:33:26.

Cinabench R23 score 14700KF

CPU settings with Stock Bios Intel fan (253W) selected not MSI high performance (4096W)

Super stable, solid performer.

I'm very pleased with my 14700KF.

What do you think of my score? I never once thermal throttled, stayed under 90C

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/portugalfreak on 2025-04-17 16:14:09.

Was just wondering about the question in the title. When the 50 series first came out I was able to get +350 and +2000 on my prime 5080 on driver version 572.42 because +375 and higher would crash in certain games like valorant, but just updated to the latest yesterday. Wondering if it has made higher OCs stable as over the past few months I have seen some mentions of the newer drivers doing so but not currently able to check. Thanks

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/otakunorth on 2025-04-17 15:54:48.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/schwandog on 2025-04-17 15:35:14.

Hey Everyone,

I just got a 5090 and after reading several opinions that you can apply a significant undervolt to the card while sacrificing only minimal performance I want to do that. However, I've only ever ran cards at stock.. Can someone point me to a guide on how to do this? preferably a text based one. I apologize if this isn't the right community to ask.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Flat_Neat_6231 on 2025-04-17 15:24:46.

so basically i'm having some stutter issues and i can't seem to figure out how to stop my 9800x3d from boosting to 5.2 i kinda wanna try the stock settings but stock settings are turbo so how can i make it run stock at 4.7 i think it is to test my games?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/bandyplaysreallife on 2025-04-17 15:11:21.

I have heard a variety of opinions on the matter- but it really comes down to this- is it worth using impossibly heavy AVX2 loads for stability testing, or is SSE enough? Sure, you can potentially reveal some additional errors, but no real-world software will ever put that kind of load on your CPU- and it hits the CPU hard enough that clocks start to throttle.

What do you do for testing? What's your bar for an daily-ready OC?

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/howaboutno88 on 2025-04-17 14:07:17.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/AnthMosk on 2025-04-17 12:53:06.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Previous_Pangolin_88 on 2025-04-17 11:46:57.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/mobust7788 on 2025-04-17 11:43:54.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/xeltech943 on 2025-04-17 11:23:14.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/RankedFarting on 2025-04-17 11:14:03.

I got the 5700X3D at the start of the year and decided to finally look into undervolting as everyone was talking about it and i like to get the most out of my components.

I used PBO2 to adjust voltages (always same value across all cores) and used cinebench 2024 for the benchmarks. My results are confusing me as there is barely any difference and now i don't know whether or not to stay with the undervolt.

| Voltage | Score | |

|

| | Stock | 818 | | -15 | 810 | | -20 | 808 | | -30 | 815 | | -35 | 811 |

I did not measure temperature over time for each setting but i can say that max Temp during all the tests was 76 Degrees and depending on the setting the Average Temp was 73-75 degrees. I had HWMonitor open and took periodic looks at it.

As you can see scores and temperature barely changed and i would attribute the little difference there is to just margin of error (but correct me if I'm wrong).

Now i don't quite know what to make of this. Undervolting seems to lower the temperature by 1-2 degrees at most and performance are what i would call essentially the same.

I have seen some videos where people get noticeable differences in temperature and score and now I'm unsure if my results are just great with the stock voltages or if this is a bad sign?

I would greatly appreciate any insight as i don't know if i should use any undervolt with these results and what this means.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/P3akyBlind3rs on 2025-04-17 10:41:22.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/EddyB1310 on 2025-04-17 09:45:41.

Hello guys, I'm trying to refine my overclock. I've red a lot of post where people are reaching CRAZY values like 3000/3200 mhz on core clock....

My actual and stable values are:

Core clock: max frequency 3000 Mhz, in games it reaches 2600 ish mhz

Vram: 2514 mhz with fast timings

Tension: 1090 mv....I coulg go 1075 but I THINK it gives me problems with fans....I'm not sure about this!

What are your values guys??? Please let's talk about GAMES, not benchmark....There is a significant difference between the two and EVERY setting I test on benchmark that looks stable, is NEVER stable on games!

Thank you guys <3