Overclocking
We set a voltage of 1.4 V, which is in line with what a good air cooler can handle, and increased frequencies step by step. The maximum stable overclock ended up at 4.2 GHz. Since the Ryzen 2700X boosts up to 4.3 GHz out of the box, which is higher than our manual overclock, many, especially low-threaded benchmarks show a performance loss after overclocking. This is as expected due to the relatively small OC and AMD's good use of the processor's boost potential.