Overclocking

Overclocking a CPU for a computer that is used for work isn't suggested due to system instabilities that often comes with the territory. Often these issues only come up when the system is stressed from a heavy work load and can occur hours, weeks or sometimes months and years later after setting up the overclock. When you are gaming it isn't that big of issue. That being said, those who are on a limited budget and are willing to risk losing working hours if the system crashes can of course can perform a CPU overclock with this motherboard. Overclocking AMD Ryzen CPUs with a static voltage isn't generally considered the best method because AMD's built-in Precision Boost (PBO) and/or undervolting can often lead to better benchmark scores. However, nothing prevents the brute overclocking method either.

Performed here is the simple the tried and true old-school method of raising the CPU multiplier along with the static CPU voltage. Nothing special, just the basics. Getting this Ryzen 9 3900X to an all-core overclock of 4.3 GHz was as easy as one could ask for. Type in the voltage and CPU multiplier value and that is it. The CPU still came up 50 MHz short from the highest bootable overclock this chip has done so far with an applied voltage of 1.35 V. It is still a decent result for this particular Ryzen 9 3900X. This motherboard's auto settings for handing the PWM frequency and Load-Line Calibration was sufficient and worked out well without manually needing to change anything. Sometimes, these settings need to be adjusted in the BIOS for finer control over an overclock. In this case, Gigabyte auto settings was good enough to get the job done.