Question Ryzen 7 1700 OC

[topslop1]

Older board was giving me some trouble so I'm on a Tomahawk B450 MAX;

I had the processor at stock settings and was doing 3880 points on CPU-Z bench. Still about 120 points under what others on a Ryzen 7 are getting..

So I overclocked the sucker to 3.5ghz and now I'm getting 300 points LESS.

What the heck is going on here?

 

[Markfw]

Older board was giving me some trouble so I'm on a Tomahawk B450 MAX;

I had the processor at stock settings and was doing 3880 points on CPU-Z bench. Still about 120 points under what others on a Ryzen 7 are getting..

So I overclocked the sucker to 3.5ghz and now I'm getting 300 points LESS.

What the heck is going on here?

Without all the stats, I am going to guess the overclocking made the CPU heat up due to core voltage, and its throttling.

 

[Red Hawk]

3.5 isn't even up to the stock boost clock of the 1700 (3.7). If you have decent cooling the CPU could be sustaining 3.6-3.7 GHz at stock under load, so you're effectively downclocking.

 

[DrMrLordX]

@Red Hawk

Too right.

@topslop1

See if you can hit 3.8 GHz @ stock volts.

 

[burninatortech4]

My 2017 release 1700 had a terrible voltage curve. I was able to get it to 3.8ghz at stock but had to go insane to get it stable at 4ghz. I'd shoot for a 3.7ghz undervolt or a 3.8ghz @ stock.

 

[DrMrLordX]

My 2017 release 1700 had a terrible voltage curve. I was able to get it to 3.8ghz at stock but had to go insane to get it stable at 4ghz. I'd shoot for a 3.7ghz undervolt or a 3.8ghz @ stock.

That's par for the course. Zen1 was like that across all the products, though I could push ~3.9 GHz on my 1800x at reasonable volts (and 4.0 GHz at unreasonable volts).

 

[topslop1]

I'll give 3.8 a shot in a bit