I have been messing around with Overclocking my cpu on and off for almost a month now. I finally more or less understand what this thread is saying. I have been toying with this, but I think my starting point was wrong.
Before I figured out how to do the per core overclock, I had set my PBO to -15 and the clock boost to +200 and I made adjustments from there until I got to my current overclock, (which isn't really stable). I also have my ram set to use the optimized profile setting and before that I was using a-xmp (I bought xmp instead of EXPO ram).
I was thinking about starting my overclocking fresh from step 1, so I wanted to know what the proper procedure is for overclocking the 9800x3D. I figure I am supposed to
- Using stock Ram settings and no boost clock, normalize voltage draw across all cores using negative PBO offsets. This will leave at least 1 core with an offset of 0
- Lower the PBO globally until the system starts failing stress tests (AIDA64 seems to be the best stress test to run)
- increase boost clock as high as it can go until it starts causing stress tests to fail
- Overclock RAM and hope that works at advertised settings…
Is this the basic process or is there something else I am missing?
Edit: I said Overclock, but I meant undervolt.