4.0 limit on 2700x ?s

[WelshBloke]

This^

My 2700x is running quite nicely on Precision Boost, some cores reaching up past 4.1 on occasion, and doing it very quietly and economically, staying cool, on air. I'm quite pleased.

Mine will boost over 4.1 but it doesn't do it silently! Theres a pretty big "WOOOOSH" of air if it sustains any high clocks.

 

[ancient pedant]

Mine will boost over 4.1 but it doesn't do it silently! Theres a pretty big "WOOOOSH" of air if it sustains any high clocks.

I credit my NH-D14. It's huge, ugly and brown. It barely fits in my case, but cools better.than many low end waterloops and is so quiet. One of my favorite pieces of hardware ever and well worth the price.

 

[Markfw]

I credit my NH-D14. It's huge, ugly and brown. It barely fits in my case, but cools better.than many low end waterloops and is so quiet. One of my favorite pieces of hardware ever and well worth the price.

Yes, while the stock 2700x cooler is sufficient, its noisy. Aftermarket cooling is quite often much better.

 

[WelshBloke]

I credit my NH-D14. It's huge, ugly and brown. It barely fits in my case, but cools better.than many low end waterloops and is so quiet. One of my favorite pieces of hardware ever and well worth the price.

That'll do it! 😀

 

[WelshBloke]

Yes, while the stock 2700x cooler is sufficient, its noisy. Aftermarket cooling is quite often much better.

Yeah, I'm looking into that now.

 

[dowhopdedodo]

I was seeing 4300+ peaks on CPUZ Saturday,

I'll post this here, but move to new post if asked (to meet forum standards). Not sure why I didn't mention this earlier, other than I thought it was an easy fix I'd address at the end of things. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked out that way.

The case and cooling fans keep running after shutdown. I didn't even notice it at first. But after working on this for a couple of days, I'm looking for new insights.

My understanding is that the MB is leaking voltage. I've reset CMOS via the jumpers (a few times now) and pulled the battery also (a few times). Tried running bios (v4011) stock in assorted combination with the preceding, but nothing seems to change the outcome. Also verified Window (10) pwr options.

There are a few mentions via Google, although I didn't find anything recent. The recommended solutions I did see didn't seem to work for me. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Markfw]

I was seeing 4300+ peaks on CPUZ Saturday,

I'll post this here, but move to new post if asked (to meet forum standards). Not sure why I didn't mention this earlier, other than I thought it was an easy fix I'd address at the end of things. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked out that way.

The case and cooling fans keep running after shutdown. I didn't even notice it at first. But after working on this for a couple of days, I'm looking for new insights.

My understanding is that the MB is leaking voltage. I've reset CMOS via the jumpers (a few times now) and pulled the battery also (a few times). Tried running bios (v4011) stock in assorted combination with the preceding, but nothing seems to change the outcome. Also verified Window (10) pwr options.

There are a few mentions via Google, although I didn't find anything recent. The recommended solutions I did see didn't seem to work for me. Anyone have any ideas?

Start a new thread with your specific problem, and list your hardware config first.

 

[DuronBurgerMan]

There seems to be some nonsense with the Ryzen CPUs where the reviewers are given golden sample chips that can hit higher than realistic overclocks. I have an 1800X and it's a horrible overclocker. I can't even get 3.9ghz out of it. But according to AMD, 4.2ghz should have been easy. It's good that we're getting some actual user experiences online. I was interested in the 2700X if it could hit 4.3ghz. I'm starting to realize that it can't unless you get a golden chip.

This hasn't been my experience.

I picked up a 1700X back when that first came out last year. 3.9GHz was easy. I eventually got 4.0 GHz out of it, though that took a LOT of tweaking. That was on air cooling (Noctua U12 cooler).

A few months ago, I dropped in a 2700X into the same setup and sold off the 1700X on ebay. The 2700X easily OC'd to 4.2GHz. And likewise, some extreme tweaking eventually made 4.3GHz possible - though the temps are very borderline for my liking.

On the 2700X, I wound up removing the overclock because Precision Boost did almost as good by itself. But my results were definitely in line with reviewers, who got 4.2 (HardOCP) on the low end to 4.4 (Guru3d) on the high end. HWBot has the average 2700X OC (on water) as 4285 MHz. So expect to land right around 4.3, +/- 100MHz with good cooling.

Now, AMD never claimed that first gen Ryzen was going to get 4.2 (except maybe the cherry picked 1900Xs). So I'm not sure where you got that. 4.0 was the typical expected result, +/- 100 MHz or so. Maybe a bit less on some crappy 1700s.

 

[SlowBox]

Good job man not to be greedy, but I bet you can do 4.2Ghz by upping the voltage a little notch higher. hehe,

 

[wahdangun]

Try applies negative offset if your bios supporting it, it can make your cpu cooler and sustain boost longer and higher