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so you've been waiting for AMD ryzen now

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you've seen what it can do you're ready to do your best impression of Philip J

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fry but wait AMD has left the keys in

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the proverbial ignition and decided to

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keep their frequency multipliers unlocked so could you potentially save

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yourself a hundred bucks going for the

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1700x instead of the 1800x and get the

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same performance I always recommend that before you start

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haggling with your local CPU dealer you

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take her out for a test drive so let's do that then shall we Welcome to our AMD

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ryzen 7 overclocking

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Guide G fuel is the sugar-free energy drink formula that can help you maintain

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Focus during long work dayss and gaming sessions use offer code Linus to save

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40% for a limited time so since we don't have to spend

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extra on a special unlocked CPU to

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enable overclocking we can use any

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motherboard with an AMD x370 or b350

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chipset like our x370 based ASUS Crosshair 6 cool but what CPU should we

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buy well AMD's own guidance indicates

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that non-x chips aren't expected to

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overclock as well so The Logical course

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of action appears to be to just crank up

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the clocks on a 1700x and save ourselves a cnote but is

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it really going to be that easy in theory yes but it's complicated by the

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fact that ryzen doesn't give you very

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much control while you do have dead

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simple access to change the multiplier and the base clock the means by which

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the clock speed or frequency of a CPU is

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derived both in the BIOS and in AMD's

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ryzen master software you can't

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simultaneously enable AMD's automatic

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turbo functionality Precision boost

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ryzen immediately locks to the clock speed and voltage that you set meaning

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that if you want to actually match the potential of an 1800x your 1700x will

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have to be able to do up to 4.1 GHz all

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day long not an easy task considering

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even the 1800x will only hit 4.1 with

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xfr under certain workloads out of the box so let's get down to it then and see

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if our 1700x has what it takes using our

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usual ryzen bench and a 1080ti we'll Venture first into the BIOS for for the

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greatest degree of control simply by

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setting the multiplier to 40 and the vcor voltage to

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1.375 we managed a stable overclock of 4

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GHz over the 1700 X's stock 3.4 GHz base

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frequency not bad for a CPU that's only

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supposed to boost to 3.9 using

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xfr sadly though we couldn't push any

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further even if we cranked the voltage to

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AMD's recommended maximum of 1.45 volts

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we're not sure why this is exactly but even when we dove into more advanced

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base clock overclocking we were only able to eek out an extra 100 MHz on the

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CPU not really worth the time or effort

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the same was true of our 1800x which tells us that at least for our chips the

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limiting factor may be elsewhere

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armed with this knowledge we now know the relevant voltages and frequencies we

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need in order to perform an overclock first the CPU multiplier shown in our

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BIOS as CPU core ratio this works in

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increments of 0.25 and by default ranges from 22 to

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63.75 You'll generally want to ignore

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custom CPU core ratio but if you do use

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it you'll be greeted by a multiplier called fi ID and a divider called did

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which go from 16 to 255 and 8 to 48

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respectively to be clear the only reason

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you would want this kind of control is if you were base clock overclocking so

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you can access it with AI overclock tuner but quite frankly we don't really

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recommend it because it adjusts other sensitive system frequencies like PCI

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Express for no realworld performance

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benefit one useful thing you can do with

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the AI overclock tuner is set what ASUS calls docp which is fancy talk for Dr

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overclock profiles like Intel's

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XMP now in the future you'll be able to use this to set your high-speed RAM to

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the correct frequency and timings automatically which is key because ryzen

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really does seem to perform better the higher you can crank the memory speed

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and the lower you can get the timings

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but bear in mind that most RAM right now

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is tuned for Intel platforms so you'll need to shop for special memory to be

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able to take advantage of this

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and we actually didn't have a ton of success running even the memory that AMD

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provided or one of these AMD specific memory kits any higher than 2666

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megahertz so your mileage May

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significantly vary as far as that goes

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in any case it's likely you'll end up manually keying in your RAM timings to

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get them as low as you can before hitting a wall moving on to voltages our

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main concern is V cor shown here as CPU

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core voltage by default when you set an overclock ryzen will snap to a rather

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strange arbitrary voltage of

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13625 as for what to set it to we found

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that 1.375 is the sweet spot for overclocking

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with high-end air cooling while ASUS recommends no higher than 1. 1425 with

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strong liquid cooling drram voltage

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defaults to 1.2 but most higher end kits

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are asking for about 1.35 if you do adjust this you'll want

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to tweak the CPU s so voltage whose

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default is 0.99 turning this voltage up can improve

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memory overclocking and for us did seem to help with stability you'll also want

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to set your memory termination voltage in our case labeled VT DDR in Tweakers

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Paradise to half of your Dam voltage if

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you're trying out base clock overclocks then you can also find Sensi skew here

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which you'll want to enable Force stability though again we really don't

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recommend this pH okay so we're overclocked how

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does it run well thanks to the Crosshair 6's am3 mounting holes we can test not

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only our am4 based Noctua u12s and

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Cooler Master hyper 212 plus but also our Corsair h100i all-in-one water

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cooler so we can give you guys a good idea of what to expect pretty much

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across the board for temperatures under Ida 64's stability test our hyper 212

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plus managed 82° which I would consider to be acceptable while our Noctua ran at

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83 .5 so that's warmer but it should be

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noted that this was with a much quieter fan our h100i meanwhile managed to keep

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things down to a cozy 74 1

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12° if you want to compare these results to your own bear in mind that currently

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AMD's ryzen X Series CPUs are reporting

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temperatures a whole 20° higher than they actually are in some applications

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we took our readings from AMD's own ryzen Master software though so they

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should be accurate as for performance at

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4 GHz our 1700x sits at the top of the

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x-class rise and lineup for FPS per dollar at 1080p a likely Target for all

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of you out there buying High refresh rate monitors games like DSX mankind

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divided rise of the Tomb Raider for Honor GTA 5 and doom all showed close or

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better performance synthetics like like 7zip PC Mark y cruncher cinebench and

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real bench all showed the overclock mostly meeting or exceeding the 1800x

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sometimes by a wide margin so combining

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these scores and average FPS well it

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gets extremely close to the core i7 7700

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K's performance per dollar in many ways actually the

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overclocked ryzen 7 1700x reminds me of

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the XP 2500 plus it wasn't the fastest

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CPU on the market but it was fast enough

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for most uses and could be counted on to consistently overclock about as high as

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AMD's topof the line and more expensive

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3200 plus back then on top of that like

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the 2500 plus it's priced just right for

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a wide range of users consumers

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prosumers and Gamers so in short while

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some enthusiasts might have hoped that ryzen

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would overclock like a bat out of hell and be a return to the Athlon 64 in X2

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days with AMD on top of the performance Heap that isn't what we got but hey a

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chance to relive the Athlon XP days

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that's not too shabby either so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked

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