I`ve noticed that most of times cores wouldn't boost equally! like in reality only one core goes up to 3.8 while rest of them sits comfortably at 3.5ghz.
Ill try to play a bit with my clocks then! Btw should I do it like
@GoldenX recommended - through Ryzen Master or just do it off of bios?
Yeah, it's designed and configured to do that. It boosts the fastest/highest-affinity cores at the expense of the "backup" ones. All of it is governed by a combination of factory-designated clock/voltage range and temperature readouts. In single-threaded loads the difference is slight at worst, but heavily multi-threaded tasks definitely do suffer quite a lot for it. And it gets worse under the heaviest loads, as the boost to the best core starts to dip, too. With the X-models you don't see this as even the "lesser" cores boost almost to the max the chip can do on a manual OC, with the best cores going up beyond what anybody sees with a manual all-core OC... ...some people see SC boosts up to 4.35 every so often! The system really squeezes everything it can out of them... ...more than you'd be able to on your own. Unfortunately, the vanilla models kinda get gimped by it because the base clocks just aren't high enough. It doesn't make as much sense to let it go that way when you can easily get all cores sustaining what that one core will boost to sometimes. I think they had efficiency as a higher priority with the vanilla models. And they did a great job. They aren't geared for max performance like the X-models are. They run cool/quiet, they are inexpensive, stable, and yet still perform well out of the box. Doesn't mean you can't squeeze out a little more though
Ryzen Master really comes in handy, as it allows you to tweak voltage and core clocks without rebooting. So you can set it, test, set, test... saves a lot of time once you hit a workable voltage for whatever you're shooting for. I recommend just setting a safe voltage that will for sure work, setting your mark on the clocks, and going from there. Just decrease voltage until it crashes or whatever. Personally I like to to use IBT for the preliminary stuff, because it often won't crash if the OC is bad. It'll usually just halt the test, outside of crossing the clock speed line. That and it's fast and will tell you fairly soon if the OC is never gonna work or if temperatures are going to be an immediate issue. I say save the long and/or realistic tests for after you've eliminated the really bad configs. This combined with Ryzen Master will get you in and out of the ballpark pretty quickly. In the end you'll want to transfer it over to the BIOS side though, as Ryzen Master needs to be started and applied at every boot - it doesn't automatically apply your OC every time.
I do have 3200/CL14 for Ryzen (in my area the werent much more expensive than other non binned dies)
Haha, a wise choice. Ryzen RAM overclocking has been a subject of notoriety from the beginning. 3200/CL14 is the standard for good performance, so you're already on the right foot. Messing with RAM is the most tedious part. You get to skip it
Unless you like to suffer like some of us do lol
Actually my choice of 2600 was mainly due to the amazing price/performance ratio also I was hoping that maybe I could use my msi x470 board for ryzen 2(amd was hinting something about x470 compatibility) so there is no point in spending too much right now.
We shall see about future motherboard compatibility. Personally I got an x370 for cheap and I'm happy with it. But I said recently that this may or may not be my holdout build for Zen 2. I figure if Zen 2 sucks or just isn't worth the cash, this will still serve me plenty well enough! It definitely has so far.
Welcome to the fold and good luck.
