Wednesday, March 9th 2022
AMD Asks Motherboard Makers to Remove Overclocking Options for Ryzen 7 5800X3D
TechPowerUp has verified a rumour posted over on VideoCardz that is quite puzzling, as AMD has asked motherboard makers to remove support for overclocking in the UEFI/BIOS for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. When we asked for a reason as to why this was the case, we were told that AMD was keeping that information to themselves for the time being. The details provided by AMD are short and to the point "5800X3D 8C16T 100-xxxxxxxxx 105 W AGESA: PI 1206b 1/28 Please hide Vermeer-X CPU OC BIOS SETUP options".
The information suggests that this happened back at the end of January, although it's no surprise that this information took some time to leak, as it's not the kind of information that would normally make its way outside of the motherboard manufacturers. AGESA 1.2.0.6 B is also the most current release for a wide range of motherboards, even though it doesn't seem to be offered as a final release from all of the board makers just yet. It's unclear why AMD has done this, but it suggests that there might be some issues related to the 3D V-Cache and overclocking.
Source:
VideoCardz
The information suggests that this happened back at the end of January, although it's no surprise that this information took some time to leak, as it's not the kind of information that would normally make its way outside of the motherboard manufacturers. AGESA 1.2.0.6 B is also the most current release for a wide range of motherboards, even though it doesn't seem to be offered as a final release from all of the board makers just yet. It's unclear why AMD has done this, but it suggests that there might be some issues related to the 3D V-Cache and overclocking.
115 Comments on AMD Asks Motherboard Makers to Remove Overclocking Options for Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Yet when AMD does this a good half of the comments doesnt see an issue with it. I'm sorry, but that is one hell of a slippery slope and should be derided so long as the decision is upheld.
And since this is only bios locking they may change there mind at a later date.
It's not any different to hiding IGP options for CPU's without an IGP, in reality.
What does matter, is how MUCH settings are removed in the end: Do they lock out a limited number of settings, or all of them? Do they replace them with anything else?
In the end if they just disable limited things to prevent sudden death of the CPU's, that's a good thing.
Maybe throttlestop will be able to get more out of these chips ;)
Speak to us, buddy... holding it in is bad...
if i set everything on auto the cpu puts 1.4v and does 4.7ghz if i do manually i can get 4.7ghz at 1.270v stable.
1270>1400 is a pretty huge difference when it comes to heat and stability.
but i agree that for 90+% of people the auto OC feature will do as good if not better than a manual overclock.
But in general usage auto OC will downclock and downvolt in the majority of cases, so on average you would get better efficiency. For the most part at least.