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

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Brapplezz on 2025-06-12 07:46:15.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Winter_Ad_9289 on 2025-06-12 06:45:46.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/ryan_mcgee_77 on 2025-06-12 06:18:41.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Airflow_Enjoyer on 2025-06-12 06:17:54.

Brand new rig on msi meg x870E godlike.

This scared me since I expected to get around 2450 cinabench score but Im 200 behind with this power draw.

Did some digging and changed stuff in bios: Pbo enabled +100 PB overdrive PBO Control: motherboard

This changed nothing really. Oh expo 1 is also on. 2×32gb 6000 CL 26 kit.

Then set undervolt: CO: per core. 7 cores minus 15 core 8 0 (Minus 20 instead of 15 caused a crash) Curve shaper is -10 on all but minimum and low.

This made my cpu run a bit cooler and lost 0 performance.

I think the issue is the pbo control. When set it to motherboard or amd default it only plays around 190-200. While I still have thermal headroom as I am yet to hit 80°

I read a megathread on this issue... could it be that manual pbo control is the answer? What settings would you guys consider safe? I dont want to hit absolute max temps, I only want the cpu to perform as advertised at a stable 230w under full load.

I want the cpu to be able to draw at least 230w if that's safe, but I also like the undervolting thing it has going on, if possible I wouldn't want to abandon that. I know this oc/uv is tame but I am a first timer + I want it to be very stable long term as this is my main pc so pls cut me some slack.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Impossible-Lunch-667 on 2025-06-12 06:00:46.

I have a old cpu, i7 5820k paired with a rtx 3070 and mainly use the system for gaming. I am not facing bottleneck issues most of the time but still I want to overclock the cpu to get the most out of this system. I have tried other bios versions before (my bios is the latest from 2019) but no matter what I do the bios doesnt let me input any value to the voltage or the clock speed multiplier section. I have also tried AI Suite 3 too, that software overclocked my cpu but it was really unstable and made my pc crash a lot of the time even though I did all the stress tests in that software. Completely removing AI Suite was also a big trouble so I really would prefer not to go down that road again. I am new to overclocking so keep that in mind I might be missing some obvious stuff. I really would appreciate any kind of help or advice. Thanks.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Spirited_Violinist34 on 2025-06-12 05:19:26.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/bhebrooklynbets on 2025-06-12 04:32:16.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Glass_Faithlessness5 on 2025-06-12 04:02:28.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Avian_Aces on 2025-06-12 03:31:42.

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Astral 5090 at .925mV Undervolt / Ryzen 9800X3D +200BPO & -30 CO / 2 x 32GB 6400MHZ CL30-38-38-76

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/annoyinggamer99 on 2025-06-12 02:47:19.

I got a new prebuilt as a gift that came with a 5070 and a i9 14900f, it had some issues at first with the pci but i got those fixed, however in hwinfo it is saying that my temps are reaching up to 90c sometimes 100c randomly whenever am just browsing, however when i do 3dmark the temps only ever reach 74c so I was wondering if the default setting it came with were bad, i heard around that the stock settings were kinda bad and i want this pc to last me a while before a upgrade, so what would good performance volts while also not degrading the card to much the mobo is a b760m c v2 and this is the cpu stuff on hwinfo while playing rust

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The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/ArkyOT on 2025-06-12 02:09:54.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Winter_Ad_9289 on 2025-06-12 01:35:59.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Wonderful_Beat8767 on 2025-06-12 01:04:27.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/SiegeMustache on 2025-06-11 22:58:55.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/FireStarter1337 on 2025-06-11 22:49:22.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Tom201326 on 2025-06-11 22:39:17.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/King_Kislay on 2025-06-11 21:35:59.

thaiphoon burner not working even it can not install run like portable.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/dean0-0 on 2025-06-11 21:21:42.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/thedanimal_19 on 2025-06-11 20:52:37.

Hi all,

Some help would be greatly appreciated which I am sure most are on here for this reason. I am currently using a AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8- Core with a Gigabyte 3070ti GPU. For the life of me I don't understand why am I am CPU bound on most games (Fortnite/FIFA). I have tried to up my graphic settings to see if this would work with mo luck. Any guidance would be awesome. I feel like I am doing something wrong.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Pixld_ on 2025-06-11 20:41:54.

I've tried to look everywhere for this setting and can't find much about it on Google either, it might not exist on this motherboard. But does anyone know what it could be? I think it's the last thing I need to tweak to get my FCLK stable at 1900 but I'm at a loss. Thanks in advance if anyone has any idea about this!

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Cenovius on 2025-06-11 20:40:10.

Hello. I just bought a used 14900k at a decent price. I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with the settings I should use for the above Mobo? I'd like to overclock it to close to 6ghz. Yet I don't want it to degrade. From doing some googling. It seems it's a voltage issue with these CPUs degrading? I've updated my Mobo to the latest BIOS. Would just like to ask if anyone can point me to a direction where I could get good performance out of it, while remaining on the safe side. I have an aio on it. Doing a stress test some of the cores reached high 90s. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/cookiemonster75017 on 2025-06-11 19:42:15.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/supercakefish on 2025-06-11 19:22:59.

I recently purchased a Ryzen 7600X3D. I’ve been testing PBO CO at -40. It survived over 2 hours of the AIDA64 stress test (CPU+FPU+Cache). I decided to try Prime95 Small FFTs and was disappointed when it crashed within seconds with all AVX extensions enabled. So I ran the same test with all the AVX extensions disabled - and so far it’s survived 45 minutes of the torture test (and counting, it’s still running). No clock stretching reported by HWInfo - effective clock is rock solid at 4.7GHz.

My question is - should I now reduce my CO negative offset until it no longer crashes with AVX enabled? I use my PC for gaming and web browsing/media consumption only. I have no idea how extensively AVX/AVX2/AVX-512 are utilised in modern games and basic desktop programs. Should I admit defeat and scale back my undervolting ambitions in the name of rock solid stability? I was getting excited when it seemed to pass the AIDA64 test, but now I’m not sure what to do.

Would appreciate the advice of more experienced overclockers. Also worth noting that this is my first experience with Ryzen, before this I had an i9-9900K, so I’m trying to familiarise myself with how Ryzen differs from what I’m used to.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/Vivid-Elk-6729 on 2025-06-11 17:57:23.

So around a week ago I bought a gaming prebuilt. I don't know much about computers so this was the best option for me. The PC specs are: MSI RTX 5080 and AMD 9900x, 32GB RAM

I downloaded 3Dmark to test my performance and it was average on their bell curve. I read that overclocking a 5080 can make it as fast as a 4090, so I decided to try. I very very slowly kept adding to the just the core clock and memory clock. I never unlocked the voltage changer on MSI afterburner or power percentage. I probably did about 20 different tests as I was having fun seeing my performance go up. The highest I went up to was 1600 memory and 475 core. It ran completely fine on benchmark.

The performance of the benchmark went from an average of 80.5fps to 93fps. My temperatures on both the GPU and CPU never got about 62C. I only ran this once and then completely reset everything back to the stock settings. However I read that this kind of overclocking can be risky, so I deleted MSI afterburner and hard restarted my computer.

Everything seems to be running the same, and I did a stock benchmark and it's still the exact same as the first time. Am I in the clear? I was just having fun but freaked myself out. I'm not computer savvy and I hope I didn't mess anything up. I also reinstalled my Nvidia drivers.

The original post: /r/overclocking by /u/RedLotuzs on 2025-06-11 17:52:54.

So recently I've experienced a lot of BSODs, pretty much all pointing towards memory and the same address. I ran memtest86 and something funny happened

The first test had 500 errors in 1 pass. The few tests after that all had 0 errors, and now i have multiple errors again when testing.

I already tried turning off XMP and running at stock but i still got blue screens. Does anyone see a possible solution before i get new RAM sticks and the issue still persists?

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