AMD 2700X and 2600X Overclocking - Is it bugged?

[garbuckle3000]

I'm trying to OC the AMD 2700X, but I don't know if it's a game bug or not: With either the 2700x or 2600x, the bios defaults to 50mhz below the base speed (i.e. 4300mhz instead of 4350 for the 2700x). Also, I can't get more than a 50mhz OC out of this. The customer wants 4411mhz on AMD, yet even with the massive HE01 cooler with 171 CFM, the temps will rise to 100C and throttle... for a mere 50mhz OC!?!?!

Anyone else have experience with overclocking these chips?

[garbuckle3000]

Ok, I at least managed to bring it down to 94.7C after installing 6 case fans to help, and that little bit was enough to stop throttling.

Still, I can't believe that such an expensive chip is so horrible at overclocking. I'm definitely going to stick to Intel where I can, as the 8086 chip has a base clock of 5ghz.

[Brittimus]

AMD chips don’t have much overhead for overlocking. Certainly not compared to Intel chips generally speaking.

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Originally posted by garbuckle3000:

I'm trying to OC the AMD 2700X, but I don't know if it's a game bug or not: With either the 2700x or 2600x, the bios defaults to 50mhz below the base speed (i.e. 4300mhz instead of 4350 for the 2700x). Also, I can't get more than a 50mhz OC out of this. The customer wants 4411mhz on AMD, yet even with the massive HE01 cooler with 171 CFM, the temps will rise to 100C and throttle... for a mere 50mhz OC!?!?!

Anyone else have experience with overclocking these chips?

You're not getting 4400 mhz out of those chips very easily. Only 5% of AMD chips for 2700x or 2600x can do that, extremely rarely. It's possible but you would have to sift through hundreds of chips to find one that does it. You should of probably rejected that job as it's just too difficult to complete.

There is a random number generator for the game. You can buy 500 x Ryzen 2700X's from the store new in-game and every single one of them will run a different temperature at 4.3 ghz. Some may run 100c, some may do 70c, some may do 90c, it's completely random.

In real life the maximum speed of 4.3 ghz from the 2700x is right about at the ceiling for these processors. Most 2700X's in real life will not overclock much further than 4.3 ghz. Most of them even in real life will only do +50 to +75 mhz and the extremely rare lucky few may see 4.4 ghz. So that's why it's like that in-game: Because that's how it also is in real life.

[garbuckle3000]

Ok, I'll chalk it up to the silliness of AMD denoting overclocking chips with an "X" moniker, yet not actually being able to overclock them.

It's confusing because I guess the "K" on Intel means you *can* overclock them, yet the "X" on AMD means they have *been* overclocked

Glad I was actually able to complete that job (having 6 used case fans on hand helped stay under budget) :)

That said, I wish the game showed the proper base clock on these (4350 and not 4300)

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Originally posted by garbuckle3000:

Ok, I'll chalk it up to the silliness of AMD denoting overclocking chips with an "X" moniker, yet not actually being able to overclock them.

It's confusing because I guess the "K" on Intel means you *can* overclock them, yet the "X" on AMD means they have *been* overclocked

Glad I was actually able to complete that job (having 6 used case fans on hand helped stay under budget) :)

That said, I wish the game showed the proper base clock on these (4350 and not 4300)

Neither company, AMD nor Intel ever guarantee "How far" you can overclock anything. They just add the ability to overclock in general. It is always down to the user's skill and knowledge of the hardware, your cooling solution, the luck of the Silicon Lottery, Memory speed, Memory configuration, the quality of the power section on the motherboard you're using, the quality of your power supply you're using, the quality of the power line in your home, etc, many different factors. The companies do not lie. The chips -ARE- overclockable. It's not their fault if you can only OC it +50 or +100 mhz or so. People on liquid nitrogen for example have taken 2700X processors down to -100c to -200c and overclock them to 5000 (and above) Mhz rather commonly. It's just we're not going to see that on "Common" cooling. By common I mean: custom water loops, air cooling or AIO's.