Ryzen master gave you -30 all core settings, which is an undervolt. There is no chance that undervolt anyhow hurt your cpu, as you give it LESS power than it wants, meaning at worst it can be unable to run as fast as you want it. The microstutters however might occur from unstable undervolt, which is why id recommend to look up how to clear cmos on your motherboard. This will get rid of anything you might have messed up with curve optimizer, permanently. Your motherboard is Aorus x570 elite, which looks to have CMOS reset right above front panel connectors. Bottom right of the board, there will be two pins above it. Check if they are marked as CMOS CLEAR or sth similar. If they do, connect them with something conductive (my fav is screwdriver, but DONT TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE WITH IT) and hold it until it reboots. You will get a message of BIOS reset. Good luck. Answer from dharknesss on reddit.com
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r/overclocking on Reddit: Used ryzen master curve optimizer and my PC keeps crashing
December 3, 2023 -

I have a Ryzen 7 5800x and a Aorus Gigabyte B450m pro wifi motherboard, Windows 11. I recently upgraded to the new CPU and have been using it for a couple weeks. I decided to use Ryzen Master to use to auto optimize for the CPU. It took about an hour and I think it blue screened at one point. But when it was complete I hit apply and it went to rest the PC. When it did, the Aorus screen comes up like it it's booting and the blue screens and says it has to restart. When it restarts, it says its going to repair but then crashes again. It just starts doing this over and over. I tried putting the bios into safe mode but that didn't do anything. Please someone help. I'm fairly new to this stuff.

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r/ryzen on Reddit: Enabling Ryzen Master Curve Optimizer Results in Windows Boot Crash
September 1, 2024 -

Hi all,

I purchased a 5950x for my MSI x570 Gaming Plus and it's been working excellently. I wanted to try my luck at overclocking and saw that there was an application to do this, the Ryzen Master. I spent the day yesterday attempting to get this to work and when doing the Optimizer Curve for the CPU Windows would boot up but at the login screen at about 3 seconds in it would hard reboot.

Edit: Please note that I have tried both Default and Auto OC Control Mode and both result in hard reboots at login.

I am interested in any suggestions on how to address this. Thank you for any assistance.

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r/overclocking on Reddit: New Ryzen Master auto curve optimizer issue
April 19, 2022 -

Anybody else having issues with the auto curve optimizer?

I've gotten to 97% on the last core twice and then it'll BSOD and I have to start again.

Since this happened twice I've updated my bios to v18 which is stable from the MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK page.

Currently using an 5900x, x570 mag TOMAHAWK mobo, Corsair 3600 dominator platinum ram.

Had pbo and xmp enabled during the previous tests. Will try now with a fresh bios.

Anybody else having similar issues?

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Question - Ryzen Master Curve Optimizer | Tom's Hardware Forum
September 6, 2024 - You have to be careful though, Too much of an negative offset can make the CPU or cores unstable, and you may not even see it, but you may just have random things crash every now and then, or a random BSOD out of nowhere even though a stress test was fine for hours, I got BSOD's at idle if I had 1 core that was unstable, or I had issues once with Windows update, I thought windows just being windows, it was the Curve optimizer messing with something.
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reddit.com › r/overclocking › can ryzen master curve optimizer have caused permanent cpu damage?
r/overclocking on Reddit: Can Ryzen Master Curve Optimizer have caused permanent CPU damage?
June 26, 2024 -

Title basically describes most of my problem.

System:

  • Ryzen 9 5900X

  • RTX 2070 Super (oc'd)

  • x570 elite

  • G.skill Trident Z RGB 4x8GB, DDR4, 3200Mhz, 14CL

  • Seasonic Focus PX-750

  • Kraken x62

I ran the Curve Optimizer tool in Ryzen Master per core. It took ~17hours aproximately and the following results came out:

After I did this, I started having microstutter issues in various games (CS2, Aimlabs) and I haven't been able to get rid of this issue ever since.

Naturally reverted the settings and didn't do anything. Tried a CMOS reset as well and also no effect.

So at this point I'm wondering if the Curve Optimizer tool in Ryzen Master can have caused permanent damage to my CPU or any of my other components that may be causing this microstutter? Last thing left to try is that I do a full clean windows install but after that I'm not sure what else I can do other than starting to replace parts.

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Ryzen master gave you -30 all core settings, which is an undervolt. There is no chance that undervolt anyhow hurt your cpu, as you give it LESS power than it wants, meaning at worst it can be unable to run as fast as you want it. The microstutters however might occur from unstable undervolt, which is why id recommend to look up how to clear cmos on your motherboard. This will get rid of anything you might have messed up with curve optimizer, permanently. Your motherboard is Aorus x570 elite, which looks to have CMOS reset right above front panel connectors. Bottom right of the board, there will be two pins above it. Check if they are marked as CMOS CLEAR or sth similar. If they do, connect them with something conductive (my fav is screwdriver, but DONT TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE WITH IT) and hold it until it reboots. You will get a message of BIOS reset. Good luck.
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I'm less negative than others on Ryzen Master on this thread. I think it's a decent way to quickly test things. Secondly, if you did just an undervolt, and only Ryzen Master, it's so extremely unlikely it broke anything I'm not going to consider this further. And anything Ryzen Master could have done would have been undone with a cmos reset. Secondly part 2: I add 5 to any CO recommendation from Ryzen Master. EG if it recommends -30, I try -25, then tune down from there if I'm feeling it. Thirdly, your ram, in my mind, is the most questionable part. 4x ram sticks generally suck on Ryzen with daisy chain topology. Also, I find ram generally impacts bottom 1% a bit. And you have a 3200cl14 kit, which is pretty low latency. What's your sub timings like?
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BSOD after using Curve Optimizer on Ryzen Master - Troubleshooting - Linus Tech Tips
May 3, 2023 - https://linustechtips.com/topic/1486821-bsod-after-using-curve-optimizer-on-ryzen-master/ More sharing options... Followers 2 · Go to solution Solved by Skynet5, February 8, 2023 · I got it working I just had to be really fast to open Ryzen Master to disable settings.
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Re: Ryzen Master Curve Optimizer Boot Crash Loop -... - AMD Community
June 17, 2024 - Hi, thank you - I did manage to fix this by re-flashing the BIOS which removed the curve optimizer BIOS settings. I couldn't see anywhere obvious in my Asus BIOS to clear them out manually? Once I had restored the BIOS, I could boot Windows and remove Ryzen Master.
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reddit.com › r/amdhelp › i tried optimization curve, and now my pc keeps restarting
r/AMDHelp on Reddit: I tried optimization curve, and now my pc keeps restarting
September 7, 2025 -

So in the amd ryzen master app, i tried the optimization curve on all cores. After waitingnfor an hour for it to be fully optimized, i applied it. My pc restarted and then everytime i got into my home windows screen it will just restart again and then the blue screen came out in which to choose F1, F8 or Esc. Tried everything on that blue screen but nothing works. What should i do now? I cant even open up ryzen master to disable the optimization curve. CPU: Ryzen 7 5800 X RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3200MHZ GPU: RX 9060XT 8GB PSU: 600W MOTHERBOARD: AORUS X570I WIFI

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Ryzen Master - Auto Curve Optimizer | Hardware Canucks
April 19, 2022 - Even on mild undervolt of -5mv on all cores I hit instability (rarely) which was noticeable in vmware and a few apps randomly crashing. Finding a reliable method to test because of the dynamic adjustments is painfully hard. CO needs to allow for static increments instead of dynamic to allow users to gain stability quicker. The fact its a 3-5mv step per increment is utterly fucking stupid. That or they need to allow the user to define their own curve rather than just using offsets.
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reddit.com › r/overclocking › amd ryzen master : setting curve optimizer mode makes my system unstable...why?
r/overclocking on Reddit: Amd Ryzen Master : Setting curve optimizer mode makes my system unstable...why?
January 5, 2023 -

I have a ryzen 5600 + rx 6600 + silverstone ET750 gold PSU + ID cooling se-242-xts cooler. I turned on PBO in the BIOS and auto OC in ryzen master, everything works fine and its stable in prime95. But if i set curve optimizer mode to "all cores", the system becomes unstable, fails prime95 tests and randomly restarts by itself.

This happens even if i spend 32 minutes letting the utility test the settings (which it then claims is fine, but results in an unstable system).

Does anyone know why this happens or how to fix it? Not sure what this curve optimizer mode is exactly. I assume it means how the CPU speed ramps up in relation to voltage?

Theres no overheating, even during prime95 stress tests the highest temp i saw so far was 67 degrees celsius, voltage with curve optimizer mode averaged 1.065v, without curve optimizer, it averages higher, about 1.085v.

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Ryzen Master Troubleshooting help | Overclock.net
October 19, 2024 - Hey guys currently running a 5900x with a dark hero viii on a water loop. I have been trying for three days to successfully run curve optimizer from Ryzen master but everytime on the last core at between 97-99% it blue screens or reboots and when i relaunch the software the optimizer is reset...
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reddit.com › r/overclocking › is this a sign of a faulty cpu or a normal ryzen master behavior?
r/overclocking on Reddit: Is this a sign of a faulty CPU or a normal ryzen master behavior?
October 1, 2024 -

I got sudden restart issues happening while gaming just like the one in the video and im trying to find the problem so i just need to know if this is normal or not while applying curve optimizer. Note that curve optimizer is not applied after this restart and kernel event 41 and whea 18 processor core erros shows in event viewer, which also exist when it suddenly crashes during gaming or any cpu intensive task. Also this is the only way for the reboot to happen on purpose as i can play for days or even a week without a single crash. This is a newly build pc and the problems started right away. Tried updating bios and chipset and already replaced Psu and mobo

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Linus Tech Tips
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PC won't post after running Ryzen Master curve optimizer run and applying the result - Troubleshooting - Linus Tech Tips
February 9, 2023 - On a new PC build and fresh installation of Windows 11, with all BIOS settings at default except for the RAM profile set to EXPO, my system was running normally. I then ran Ryzen Master's curve optimizer at the "per core" setting and let it finish over the course of ~70 minutes. After it finished...
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r/AMDHelp on Reddit: Curve Optimizer - Issues With Games
March 4, 2024 -

I used Ryzen Master to figure out a per-core optimized curve. When I applied the suggested curve in the BIOS I noticed games would crash (CoD Cold War, FH5, Halo Infinite...) saying there was an issue with the GPU.

The CoD Cold War devs offered their time to take a deep dive into the issue... They told me my CPU OC was the issue! I turned off the curve in the BIOS and then BOOM, smooth sailing.

I've heard folks having similar issues. I'm interested to understand why this is the case. Does the scheduling of tasks start getting messy with an optimized curve?

P.S.: I would like to add that I'm very grateful for devs who take the time to help regular folks like me. I can understand how tricky that job may be, and those extra minutes make the world of difference. Thank you!

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Ryzen Curve Optimizer (CO) stability over time | Page 2 | Overclock.net
None of the heavy loads failed at all cores CO -30, but I read that it was actually light loads (really low voltages?) that were likely to cause crashes due to CO offsets too negative. I chose 1-min. intervals to generate lots of busy/idle/busy transitions for this reason. Thanks for recommendation. I have started OCCT with 11-min. intervals and will look into y-cruncher and Core Cycler. Click to expand... This is correct - all-core loads have lower boost frequencies, and so might be stable; light loads have higher frequencies, and the curve might have been pushed too low for these to be stable.
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Ryzen, unlike your 7600K, is very much connected to ram for performance and proper operation. Not all ram will work properly. Not only do you have ram not from the same kit, but they are demonstrably different. I am not surprised that it does not seem to work properly. Buying a new kit of the capacity you need is a good idea. To answer your question, "AMD optimized" seems to me to be marketing fluff. Buy a supported kit. Check your motherboard ram support QVL list. Use the chart that supports your processor. Buy the exact part number from the list that you want. Not all supported ram will show up on the motherboard list. If you have a favored ram vendor, they will also have a support chart that you can check.
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I May have figured it out the hard way, I've put the new ram in, nothing crashed for the whole day. Randomly decided to crash again while basically idling. Reset all bios settings to default, and messed around with the overclock again. Put curve optimizer to -15, passed both multi and single core on cinebench. Took it down to -20, instant crash. Back to -15, crash again(weird how it didn't crash the first time). On -15 I was able to get 4.6ghz on all cores with PPT on 110, TDC on 90, and EDC on 140 at a comfortable temperature (70c on full load around 55-60 when gaming) The same settings on -10 on the curve optimizer gives me like 4.53ghz. I can bump it up to 4.6ghz but temps become a bit too hot for my liking, around 80c on full load, and I don't think it's worth the extra 70mhz. Mm, I didn't bother with Curve Optimizer. What would it give me, 50 Mhz? That's like 1% extra perf for a days work. RAM OC gives me a lot more. And that is more fun, in my humble opinion. A lot more to learn and fiddle with.
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reddit.com › r/overclocking › a(nother) guide to ryzen 5000 curve optimization
r/overclocking on Reddit: A(nother) Guide to Ryzen 5000 Curve Optimization
August 4, 2023 -

This is free performance that I hadn’t taken advantage of in the year I’ve owned my Ryzen 5600, so I’m writing to this to advocate that nobody else wait as long as I did.

This is my guide. There are many like it, but this one is mine😁.

Curve Optimization is very easy - the testing being automated - and poses no danger whatsoever to one’s hardware; the worst you can expect is a Windows bluescreen, and that is no more deleterious than stalling a car. The only drawback is that you will need to have your computer running tests that render it useless – if you are prepared to leave it running overnight and/or while at work, though, this is not a problem – and it can take a long time.

1. Software (all free)

You will need:

  • AMD Ryzen Master (latest version)

  • HWINFO (to get the preferred core order and, optionally, compare before and after temps/power)

  • Core Cycler (which contains PBO2Tuner – set and test curve optimizer values)

  • CPU and gaming benchmarks (compare before and after performance, test for real-world stability)

2. Preliminaries

  • Open HWINFO and uncheck both boxes, then navigate to “Central Processor(s)”-> <your CPU>. Make a note of the sequence after “Core Performance Order” – this is the order in which we will be testing them with Core Cycler, but you must SUBTRACT 1 from each value; Core Cycler starts numbering cores at 0, not 1.

  • Open AMD Ryzen Master, select Advanced View, click Curve Optimizer, Per Core, then click Start Optimizing. Ryzen Master will then enter an automated procedure to generate its best estimate of what your CPU is capable of. Plan to be away from your computer for at least an hour while this is going on; when you come back, make a note of the values it generates, but DO NOT APPLY them - just close the program. Note that the “subtract 1” rule applies to Ryzen Master, as with HWINFO.

  • Open the Core Cycler config file and make the following changes:

“stressTestProgram = YCRUNCHER”

“coreTestOrder = <your order from earlier>” - remember to subtract one from each

“numberOfThreads = 2”

“mode = 20-ZN3 ~ Yuzuki” in the ycruncher section, halfway down the page.

Some rationale:

The preferred core order is from WORST to BEST under-volter, and thus MOST to LEAST likely to fail – this is because the more preferred a core is, the more efficiently it is already running, and so the lower the voltage floor is. This makes testing faster because the most unstable cores will fail first, and dropped cores are left out of subsequent intra-session iterations by Core Cycler. Also, the ycruncher Yuzuki test is considered to be the most difficult one to pass, so we might as well start with it; you can – and should – run others afterwards.

  • Open Windows Event Viewer, right-click on Custom Views, and click Create Custom View. Check “Warning”, and “Error”, then “By source”, and check “WHEA Error” in event sources. Name the view something meaningful, then exit the Event Viewer. This is just in case Windows ever BSODs – not likely, but possible – and we will need to know which core failed.

3. Testing – Round One

Create a spreadsheet like the one below – we will be keeping track of passes and fails.

in the beginning...

When you’re ready to leave the computer alone, close all programs, open PBO2Tuner and key in the values given by Ryzen Master earlier, then click Apply, and minimize the program. These values are applied as though they were typed into the BIOS, and persist until they are changed, or the computer is restarted.

Run “Run CoreCycler” - the testing will begin, and will run until you stop it, or until every core has thrown an error.

~TESTING HAPPENS – LEAVE FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, PREFERABLY 6+ HOURS~

When you come back to the computer, if Core Cycler is still running, stop it with Ctrl-C, and see which core/s, if any, have failed; Ryzen Master’s supplied values are usually rather optimistic, so you should expect some errors, which show up in bright purple text. (If you accidentally close the window, the log file contains all the same information, but is more annoying to parse.)

Scroll around the window and see how long it took for the core/s in question to error out – a fast error is anything under 10 mins, IMO, and a slow error is anything over. Any core with a fast error will be having its CO value increased by 2, while slows will have theirs increased by 1; if any cores don’t error (in which case, Core Cycler will still be running on those cores when you come to check), add them to the

“coresToIgnore =”

– no point hitting these cores again until Round 2.

(If the machine has reset, go into Event Viewer and look in your custom view – under Error, there will be an entry called “Processor APIC ID”, with a number, the number corresponding to a thread. Core 0 will run threads 0 and 1, Core 1, threads 2 and 3, and so on; whichever core was running the failed thread, increase its CO by 3 or 4 – that core was not even close to stable!)

Update your spreadsheet as shown below, with the adjusted CO values, and save it – when you are ready for your next test session, put these new values into PBO2Tuner before you start.

after first session

Keep repeating the above until all cores pass a session of this “all cores at once” testing.

after second session after third session

and so on; my last all-core session, after shedding cores as they passed, looked like this:

final all-core results

4. Testing – Round 2

The next step is to extend the testing for each core. You can jump right to hitting one core for 6+ hours (as I did), or divide the cores into two groups (“front half, back half”, from the order earlier, is best), and test them one half at a time, Ignoring the cores in the other half. This will double the amount of time each core is under stress, and might generate errors that didn’t appear before, but you will be much closer to the true stable value thanks to the previous testing.

Change the core testing order to match the results from Round One - they might not be the same as the HWINFO values; for example, HWINFO gave me 2 ,1 ,0, 4, 3, 5, but ordering by the results of my Round One, worst to best, would be 0, 1, 4, 5, 3, 2.

Do the “increment on error” procedure from before, until the front half all pass, and then do the same for the rear half.

5. Testing – Round 3-4-5

If you like, you can split the cores again, and repeat, getting all groups stable. Keep splitting until you get to the point where only one core is being tested at a time:

  • Ryzen 3 – four, two twos, four ones.

  • Ryzen 5 – six, two threes (or three twos), six ones.

  • Ryzen 7 – eight, two fours, four twos, eight ones.

  • Ryzen 9 – 5900 = twelve, two sixes, then each six as per Ryzen 5; 5950 = sixteen, two eights, then each eight as Ryzen 7.

Yes, this CAN be a lot of testing, but Curve Optimizer CPUs are most likely to crash at the highest boosts (= lowest loads), so sheer duration is the only way to generate any confidence in stability. Thankfully, Ryzen Master gets us most of the way there; the values it gives are usually stable enough at least for idle Windows tasks.

My last round of Yuzuki was a 40-iteration test on each core individually - 5-6 hours per core:

final results

From Ryzen Master's -28, -30, -30, -30, -30, -30, I ended up at -20, -21, -29, -26, -22, -26.

6. Further Testing

It is advisable to use the PRIME95 HUGE on each core in turn, as this is another very low load situation that lets the CPU boost to its maximum; make these changes in the Core Cycler config file. Feel free to try to some other presets as well – no such thing as too much testing. Read what other users found to be their “magic bullet” test settings, and try those out.

double-checking with P95

The best test, though, is, as always, to use the thing - browse, game, edit, do whatever you normally do.

7. Finalizing

When you’re happy that everything tests stably, go into the BIOS and enter your final values in the Curve Optimizer menu – this will save you having to use PBOTuner2 every time you boot up.

If your computer ever crashes (not impossible) use the Event Viewer to identify the rogue core, and increase its CO value in the BIOS.

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PC crashed several days after setting up Curve Optimizer for AMD Processor, could it be the culprit? - CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory - Linus Tech Tips
July 30, 2023 - Hi, so I'm a bit concerned since this PC is quite new and crashing issues due to system failures are very scary. I have a Ryzen 5 5600X CPU, which could run easily 75-80C under load, so I decided to enable curve optimizer in BIOS for PBO - it automatically set it to -20 all core. And I read -20 i...
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Curve optimizer values not working in bios | Overclock.net
I have a 7600x. I run ryzen master auto tuning per core curve optimizer and come came up with negative values. 26-26-26-24-26-26. Uninstall Ryzen master and made a clear cmos. Then i enter valeus above in curve optimizer and i had a boot loop (automatic repair). I had to use -20 all core in...