BASIC RYZEN TUNING - AND WHY YOU SHOULD

Hey folks, this week I wanted to take a little look at some basic tuning for Ryzen CPUs and also show why you really should spend the small amount of time getting things polished up when you first get a Ryzen system or even if you are upgrading to a newer CPU on your existing AM4 platform.

The processor I am using for this is a used ebay buy in the form of a Ryzen 9 3900XT which was bought to replace my 3700X to give a bit more grunt to multithreaded workloads i’ve been working on - Originally I had intended to make a Ryzen tuning video using the a Ryzen 5000 series CPU but when this 3900XT was coming in at less than the price of a Ryzen 5 5600X, I couldn’t really say no and the steps ill go through will be applicable to anyone on the Ryzen platform so lets get into it.

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00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Stage One : Memory
02:06 - Stage Two : Clocks
02:36 - Option 1: PBO
03:06 - Option 2: All Core OC / UV
04:29 - Configuration Details
05:12 - CPU-Z Performance
06:15 - Cinebench R20 Performance
06:36 - Power and Thermals
08:19 - Games are Single Threaded... Right?
10:24 - Wrapping things up

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[FGOS]

Few things with this one, firstly if you are going to use Ryzen Master to do a little tweaking doing things gradually is the key, aim low to start with, set the max all core OC to the CPUs Base clock at 1.3V and increase the clocks from there. When you hit the limit at 1.3V either decide if you want to try for higher frequency by giving it a little more voltage or more sensibly start dialling down the voltage to see if you can hit those clocks at lower voltages.

Secondly, while tweaking through the BIOS in a Pre-OS environment can get you better results for sure as there are more variables that can be tweaked, in reality, most folks will get 95%+ the potential of their CPUS just by doing the basics through software and XMP.

Lastly, and something not covered in this video, depending on the quality of your memory, you can often tweak further than the XMP by tightening timings and even running at higher than rated speeds.. if this is something interests you, Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed have a good few videos on that topic that are worth a watch.

[joshuahall]

I have a Ryzen 5 3600 ACO 4.5ghz 1.37 v ram XPG 3000 mhz OC 3200mhz cl16 1.35v on Asus Prime X570 Pro motherboard.

[fevbarton]

I have a 3600 that crashes and bsod all the time with PBO and CPB enabled. Everything else on defaults. =/

[mikesunboxing]

loved this video time for a quick tinker

[lostferwords]

Am I the numpty? is this Jim from Adored TV?....might switch 2600 overclock to an undervolt and compare.

[dadgamer]

Thank you. Very useful guide! My 2700 has been undervolted and manually boosted to 3.9gz and matches stock 2700X performance. But I haven't touched my son's 3300x and need to think what's best to do there!

[DJ_Dopamine]

Perfect timing. Just built a new R5 3600 system yesterday for a friend. I wonder... has the YT algorithm hacked my webcam?

[Sentrix]

Helped heaps with my ryzen systems. Currently have 3 running concurrently, passing down the older hardware as I go. Really helped getting the most out of all my systems

[dadgamer]

Would be an interesting video to see what extra tweaks recommended on memory: clock speed or timings once you go to XMP? How much volatge should you do? As you say, maybe Gamers Nexus has done it, but your video is much easier to follow :)

[rockguy]

I am running a r7 5800x at 4.8 ghz at 1.23 v
Cheers!