now if i'm Intel at this point i'm hoping beyond hope that ryzen
has reached his full potential zen 2 basically spelled the end for the
lakes in enthusiast's eyes so much so that it's now starting to leak into the
mainstream even but unfortunately for Intel those enthusiasts have been busy
and it ain't the end one usmas is that how i pronounce that
of the ryzen drm calculator fame reached
out to us with a special little project that he's calling workstation tool
it's an automatic overclocking and
simultaneous under volting tool that
promises to both improve performance
and decrease power consumption on your AMD ryzen processor is it over does AMD
have the high ground let's fire it up
and see for ourselves shall we and we're going to see if today's video
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now i know what you guys are thinking come on
this is just another one of those pc performance tune-up tools registry
cleaners that claims it's going to improve performance but actually doesn't
do anything and i understand your skepticism we even had someone reach out
about sponsoring a video with their performance tuning tool
and i installed this thing and i'm like okay so i've got all these numbers that
say oh you are going 30 faster on networking but i was like hey what
benchmarks can i run to demonstrate it's working they were like oh you want to
run benchmarks whoa what no
we have from one usmas screenshots
showing in real benchmarks that people actually use like cinebench as much as a
9 performance improvement after running
this software and the craziest part he's providing it to the community for free
now it is a little bit complicated to set up which is why i brought an Anthony
hello it's not as complicated as zen underclocking has been in the past
first you need to make sure that you're using a zen 2 CPU zen one and zen plus
as well as renoir epus are not currently supported you'll also need to make sure
your BIOS is up to date with the gsa 1.0.0.4 combo pi being the lowest one
osmis has tested to work while you're in your BIOS there are still some settings
you'll need to change as well you need to make sure your CPU load line calibration setting is set to level 4
for ASUS motherboards or level 3 for other vendors and you'll want to set CPU
phase control to standard if your motherboard has a setting for it ASUS
motherboards also have a CPU current capability setting which you should set
to 100 and once all that's done save your changes and boot into Windows where
you'll want to make sure you've got net framework 4.8 or higher installed and
then download ryzen master as this is how the app gets its power frequency and
temperature readings with all that done you're almost ready to get started
download and extract the archive to a folder you can access we use the desktop
and then download and extract cinebench from maxon's website not the Windows
store this version doesn't work the app actually uses cinebench as a useful
before and after comparison between settings and maintains a database of
your performance results when all that's done we just run wst in the main folder
just like this here's the app and what you'll see here
at the top is a bunch of information constantly
updating this is coming from ryzen master on the left hand column we have
the core numbers so we've got core 1 core 2 core 3 core 4 on ccx1 5678 on
ccx2 etc in the middle we have the effective clock speed of each of these
cores right now they're basically nothing because the system is more or less idle
and on the right hand side we have a number that indicates exactly how good
the core is for overclocking this is the
number the BIOS indicates to Windows to tell it which cores it should more
heavily load so for our system here looks like ccx1 has pretty good cores
ccx2 is it's all right czx3 not so great four
that seems to be the lowest out of them all five is pretty good actually that's
the best of them all we also have CPU usage CPU temperature current voltage
total package power as well as some other AMD related power metrics here let's
take a look at the settings what the app does is it takes
the reference frequency here which is the starting level and the maximum
frequency that you enter in which is the end level and what it does is it steps
through each of those frequencies testing it each time to see which cores
are actually running at those frequencies which ones are erroring out which ones are getting too hot that kind
of thing as it does that that's where cycle time comes in 240 seconds that is
four minutes is the default for how long it uh tests each iteration you can
imagine this takes quite a while to do but the outcome should be pretty great
now a couple of other settings here are a little bit confusing ccx delta this is
actually set on a per CPU basis and it should be set automatically based on
what your CPU is that being said it's not something to really worry about
ryzen 3 to 5 and 7 i think are good for 75
megahertz ryzen 9 i think is and
fifty and uh Threadripper is 75 to 100.
we also have the testing mode here currently it's on avx light
which one osmos actually says is
similar in terms of power draw to what you might expect from a full avx
workload except it's not quite as hot so it's useful for testing coolers that are
a little bit less capable than what we have here the only other thing that's going to be relevant for most people is
the reference voltage and target voltage again this is the start and end points
much like the frequency here these are all pre-configured with values that the
software kind of thinks you might want to use so i mean if you want you can
just hit start and see what happens otherwise you can tweak these things like the
maximum temperature or where you want to start and stop just to
kind of narrow things down or yeah try your luck aside from that there's not a
whole lot else to the program itself so uh let me go ahead and set a short cycle
time and uh hit start and see what happens so the first thing that's going
to happen is cinebench r20 is going to pop up and it's going to do a baseline
run this is your CPU as it is normally so let's see what we get here it's a
3970x looks like there was a previous run on this that was 16 927 let's see
what we get here 16 932 a little bit better now it's going to go through it
set the parameters that we have here so it uh we only have 4 000 set for both
the reference and max frequency and 1100 for the reference and target voltage one
of the most interesting and really exciting things about this program is
that not only does it do all of this it still works with all of AMD's power
management features you're basically getting the best of both worlds between
a straight underclock as well as overclocking per ccx it should make a
huge difference so that's it run the utility and everything's dialed in i'm
ready to get my performance gains basically yeah it does take a little bit
more effort than that uh it does require a little bit of tweaking from the user's
perspective especially for a chip that one of us hasn't actually tested yet
which is the 3970x he's got a 3960x so
it took me a little bit of doing and a few bsods later but here we are and
should have everything all dialed in for a nice underbolt it's actually a little
bit slightly overclocked as well so it's about 3.9 on all cores with a couple of
ccx's dialed back one or two ticks that's really cool having that level of
granularity where you can just like AMD would tune them at the
factory go okay yeah this one's ever so slightly better than that one let's
turn it up just a little bit more super cool yeah like you could do this
manually with ryzen master but like from
experience it takes a lot longer than this does and it is not as automated so
like to do all of this would have taken so much longer because i had to set up
all the testing myself i had to crank everything on my own and you'd have to
be sitting there staring at it the whole time yeah okay so i can run cinebench then yeah
theoretically there's not really a whole lot to go wrong here if it's overclocked
then it's gonna be faster unless it crashes unless it crashes boy these
things are fast ain't they oh yeah now one tip we got from one asmos via email
as we were going back and forth about this was that the tool works best for
cpus that have more ccx's
so wait what was our before number the before number was uh 16 9 something that
is a smaller performance gain than i expected it's small but at the same time
the actual overclock was small it's within about 100 megahertz of what it
would normally be doing so that could come down to us just having a chip that
doesn't undervolt and overclock particularly well then yeah i tried
doing a more aggressive overclock and while i could get stable results it
wasn't consistent and i think that might be down to either our chip or our
load line calibration or our phase control settings while dialing it in
it's best to have it on standard like i said but he came back and said hey
if you're having issues with it with stability try sending it to a stream
anyway and that should give you a little bit more overhead as far as stability
goes it might increase your thermals but that's yeah i mean when you're dialing
it in that's less of a problem so then should we have a look at what our thermals ended up like do you have the
before thermals well i have if you go to the benchmark tab here this is our
before run and this is our after run and our power usage is over there as
well before and after wow so 30 watts
less and ever so slightly greater performance
yeah so if i were to keep the same level of power i could increase the
performance more the only problem again being that
this is a pre-production piece of software and not tested on every chip
he's going to have it all massaged out by the time it's ready for release so
the price is definitely right in a nutshell wst does automatically
what we used to have to do manually when overclocking our processors and what i
think is really cool is the fact that it uses the same
standard tools for both measuring improvements in performance as well as
validating stability that we as enthusiasts have been using for years
and years now as you've seen here your mileage may vary you might not get
a ton more performance or you might not even get a power consumption improvement
there's nothing that one usmas can do about how good your chip came out of the
factory but at least you've got it now and this
really puts like custom levels of tuning
overclocking in the hands of people who only really know how to press
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thanks for watching guys if you enjoyed this video and you enjoy this kind of
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it hasn't really been much we never even we never even checked out his last piece
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