Hello, I've been out of the PC-building scene for the last 10 years but this year have taken on a personal goal to build myself a PC that is faster than an M2 Macbook Pro using hardware from before Q4 2023.
While I'm saving for some proper Mac-beating hardware later this year (probably designed around a 13900K) I put together a "budget" PC using 2nd hand parts and a new 5700X CPU and SP DDR4-3200 RAM.
My benchmarking shows that this sub $1k machine is already better than the Mac for some tasks, but it is struggling with workloads that are single-threaded and/or sensitive to memory performance. I don't really want to throw more money into this AM4 build since I'd rather save for the LGA1700 rebuild later this year, but in the meantime I just wanted to check whether there is anything else I can do to increase this PC's single-threaded performance or improve memory speeds/latency.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte A320M-H which appears to only provided OC settings for CPU clock (currently at default 100mhz) or CPU Clock Ratio (currently at default x34). It appears to provide full memory timing controls but I don't know how much I can expect from the cheap Silicon Power DIMMs.
Is there any way that I can increase the single-core turbo boost speed or otherwise improve single-thread throughput on this PC without changing hardware?
Full Hardware Specs
- Gigabyte A320M-H Rev 1.0
- AMD 5700X
- CPU cooler is the stock AMD cooler from a Ryzen 3200G
- SP SP032GBLFU320X22 CL22 16GBx2 DDR4 3200MHz CL22
- WD SN850X 1TB
- NVidia GTX 970 4GB
- Cougar Atlas 750W PSU
- Basic DeepCool case with a single 140mm exhaust fan