By safe OC, I mean I don't want to push it to the limits. I want it to run cool, stable, and get good clock speeds. I have a katana 5 tower cooler "cheap not very good. But I assume it's better than stock one."

Should I bother changing the clock speed and voltage or just let them stay at stock speeds?
MOBO "MSI B450-A Pro Max" again, nothing fancy here.

Is it possible to clock it to 4.4 GHZ and stay safe with what I currently have? Or should I fix it to something like 4.2 or 4.0 and give, I don't know low voltage that can handle that and stay cool at the same time?

you might already noticed that I'm not very good at oc'ing and stuff. but any help is appreciated. I currently have 1600x which was running 90+ degrees on stock settings. That's why I fixed that CPU's clock speed to 3.6 with a low voltage, and I'm basically getting more or less the same performance but my CPU is staying nice and cool at 50-60 degrees at max. This is what I'm after.

Details are here: https://valid.x86.fr/ccz6si

Overclock workflow was:

1. Open Ryzen Master and create a new Max OC profile.

2. Include and Set control mode to Manual for CPU.

3. Include and set Cores Section to mirror speeds of core 0. Speed set to 4.4 Ghz initially.

4. Include and set Voltage Control to 1.4 V initially.

5. Press apply and test.

6. If test passes, perform a CPU-Z benchmark to confirm there are actual gains.

7. Repeat with 25 Mhz CPU OC increment. As soon as a test fails, increase voltage by 0.025 V.

Note: I understand this is a very basic way to test. But today I was just curious to see what OC I can hit with some form of stability. I will be performing more extensive stability tests later. The final OC was stress tested on CPU-Z for 30+ minutes with no issues though. This is the first time I OC the desktop.

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What are the expected temperatures for this CPU running the CPU-Z stress test at 4.4 Ghz OC @ 1.4v for 15 minutes? My cooling setup is a MasterCooler MasterLiquid 240L and all benchmarks/stress tests are done with fans running at 100%. Any contributions to this question will be greatly appreciated since I'm not sure if the 240L is performing as it should.

Here are my results so far with running CPU-Z stress test at different voltages and frequencies for 30+ minutes, room temp at ~ 60 °F:

• 4.4 Ghz at 1.4 V: 73 °C

• 4.575 Ghz at 1.4 V: 76 °C

• 4.2 Ghz at 1.4 V: 71 °C

• 4.2 Ghz at 1.2V: 57 °C - For those who don't want to run their CPU at 1.4 V (even though its still operating within spec).

• Precision Overboost enabled from Ryzen Master, 4.150 Ghz at 1.37 V: 70 °C (I kinda expected it to be better than a manual overclock, but it's not, more than likely due to some underlying reasons regarding stability).

Build:

• CPU: Ryzen 3700X

• GPU: XFX AMD RX 5700 (flashing to XT BIOS soon)

• RAM: G.Skill Trident RGB 16 GB - 3200 Mhz (Still need to tighten the timings on this RAM)

• PSU: Seasonic Focus Gold 850FX

• Case: CoolerMaster H500

• Cooling: MasterLiquid 240L

• Motherboard Asus ROG Strix B450-F

• Less than one month old.

Fun fact: With a manual OC at 4.4 Ghz and 1.4 V, I ran a Prime 95 torture test. Instantly hit 94 °C and 150 W of CPU power, freaked out, but let it run for a few more seconds out of curiosity to see if the cooler can sustain the temp. It slowly rose and hit 95 °C within seconds. Never used Prime 95 before and would have fried my CPU if I was unsuspecting and wasn't watching the temp and power readings.

Hello all I’m a newbie to over clocking and I’ve done some research for what people recommend for my cpu.

My current rig is ryzen 7 3700x, 16gb ram 2x8, rtx 2070 super. My rig is 4 or 5 years old now so It’s feeling a bit slow. I want to squeeze some more frames out so ive done a full pc reset and decided to do some overclocking. I have 2 main games right now and that’s league and Lost ark.

From what I’ve heard my cpu is bottle necking my gpu. I’ve seen people recommend I first that I enable PBO and run a benchmark and see what my peak voltage etc are. I’ve ran the test and my avg voltage during the test was around 1.17~1.18 and my cores speed was around 3770. My cpu temp around the end of the 10 minute benchmark was around 85 degrees celsius. And my cinebench 24 score at the end was 639. I’ve got no clue if that score is good or bad so I’m looking for some guidance. My goal is to just squeeze out some more performance without pushing for anything crazy. Note my PBO settings for the test was 395 PPT 255 TDC 255 EDC, and the cores were all at 3600 and volt being at 1.09375.

Is it worth for me to tweek some more number if so which ones? Ty.

Edit: ive done another test after changed the core speeds to 3700 and voltage to 1.15. Temp was lower at 81~82. I did however notice on ryzen master that only 19% of 225 TDC was used and 27% of 225 EDC was used. Is this normal? or should i lower these values.