CPU Overclocking

[Foxhound928]

the customer wants an overclock to 4003 Mhz, only has a budget of $120, set the overclocking to

Base Clock: 106
Ratio: X38
Voltage: 1.5

it's stable, but keeps thermal throttling, and no matter what fans i add, can't get it to stop throttling, any help here would be appreciated

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You could just have a dud processor that runs hotter than average. That's possible. Not all overclock jobs in the game are always possible to be completed. Just because the customer wants you to overclock it to 4003 Mhz does not mean that their processor would be stable at 4003 Mhz or that it would run cool enough with their current hardware to work at 4003 Mhz without thermal throttling. It's always a gamble with overclocking jobs. All processors in the game have random attributes and are not the same. Some processors will run hotter at 4003 Mhz than other processors would even if they are the exact same model number. When that job was randomly generated by the game's random job generator it could of assigned you a poor quality processor that just runs hot and there's nothing you can do to fix it.

Also: About adding fans. Make sure you focus on the CFM rating of the fans and add fans which have the highest CFM rating that you have access to at the moment. "Just adding fans" is not enough. You must add fans with a high CFM rating.

And in the end remember you can always go over budget on all non-story jobs by +10% and still get 5 stars.

[Foxhound928]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

You could just have a dud processor that runs hotter than average. That's possible. Not all overclock jobs in the game are always possible to be completed. Just because the customer wants you to overclock it to 4003 Mhz does not mean that their processor would be stable at 4003 Mhz or that it would run cool enough with their current hardware to work at 4003 Mhz without thermal throttling. It's always a gamble with overclocking jobs. All processors in the game have random attributes and are not the same. Some processors will run hotter at 4003 Mhz than other processors would even if they are the exact same model number. When that job was randomly generated by the game's random job generator it could of assigned you a poor quality processor that just runs hot and there's nothing you can do to fix it.

Also: About adding fans. Make sure you focus on the CFM rating of the fans and add fans which have the highest CFM rating that you have access to at the moment. "Just adding fans" is not enough. You must add fans with a high CFM rating.

And in the end remember you can always go over budget on all non-story jobs by +10% and still get 5 stars.

i made sure to get decent fans for it, with a CFM of 78, which is the best i could buy that would fit in that case, didn't know that not all overclocking jobs are completable to the customers specs.......that kind of sucks, cause how are you supposed to know ahead of time without a comparable system as a reference point, are there any other jobs like that?

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Originally posted by Foxhound928:

i made sure to get decent fans for it, with a CFM of 78, which is the best i could buy that would fit in that case, didn't know that not all overclocking jobs are completable to the customers specs.......that kind of sucks, cause how are you supposed to know ahead of time without a comparable system as a reference point, are there any other jobs like that?

Some further information for you: In this game the CPU's and processors are randomized with random attributes each time they are either "generated" from the random job generator that assigns a processor to a customer job, or we buy it from the store in career mode, or pull it out of inventory in free build mode. The parts of the CPU That are random are: maximum overclock Mhz, maximum voltage it wants to run at when overclocked, how much power it uses when overclocked, and the temperature it runs at when overclocked. You could buy 1000 x Ryzen 1800X processors from the store in career (just for example) and clock all of them say +300 Mhz over the stock clocks and every single one of those 1000 processors will all run at a different temperature when running overclocked. Some will run hotter (and require more cooling for the same Mhz). Some will run cooler and require less cooling. It's all just random in this game.

Video cards are similar and random too when overclocked. So just because a customer asks you to overclock their video card does not mean that it's possible to complete the job. Their video card may not be possible to be overclocked to the speed they ask you to OC it to. Video cards have a maximum limit and their video card might not even physically clock to their requested Mhz (slider in the GPU tool program may not even go that far for their video card) etc. I suggest everyone should be in the habit of creating a new manual save before accepting every job and again before turning in a job as a "Defense" against this part of the game.

[Foxhound928]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Foxhound928:

i made sure to get decent fans for it, with a CFM of 78, which is the best i could buy that would fit in that case, didn't know that not all overclocking jobs are completable to the customers specs.......that kind of sucks, cause how are you supposed to know ahead of time without a comparable system as a reference point, are there any other jobs like that?

Some further information for you: In this game the CPU's and processors are randomized with random attributes each time they are either "generated" from the random job generator that assigns a processor to a customer job, or we buy it from the store in career mode, or pull it out of inventory in free build mode. The parts of the CPU That are random are: maximum overclock Mhz, maximum voltage it wants to run at when overclocked, how much power it uses when overclocked, and the temperature it runs at when overclocked. You could buy 1000 x Ryzen 1800X processors from the store in career (just for example) and clock all of them say +300 Mhz over the stock clocks and every single one of those 1000 processors will all run at a different temperature when running overclocked. Some will run hotter (and require more cooling for the same Mhz). Some will run cooler and require less cooling. It's all just random in this game.

Video cards are similar and random too when overclocked. So just because a customer asks you to overclock their video card does not mean that it's possible to complete the job. Their video card may not be possible to be overclocked to the speed they ask you to OC it to. Video cards have a maximum limit and their video card might not even physically clock to their requested Mhz (slider in the GPU tool program may not even go that far for their video card) etc. I suggest everyone should be in the habit of creating a new manual save before accepting every job and again before turning in a job as a "Defense" against this part of the game.

that's really crazy, i mean i know that IRL components can be the same way due to the manufacturing process, but not to that extreme, like, given your example, if you were to IRL buy 1000 Ryzen 1800Xs, every single one will most likely perform "slightly" different, whether it be in overclocking, or base speeds, but not nearly to the same extreme seen in the game, that's very weird for the programmers of the game to do.

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Originally posted by Foxhound928:

that's really crazy, i mean i know that IRL components can be the same way due to the manufacturing process, but not to that extreme, like, given your example, if you were to IRL buy 1000 Ryzen 1800Xs, every single one will most likely perform "slightly" different, whether it be in overclocking, or base speeds, but not nearly to the same extreme seen in the game, that's very weird for the programmers of the game to do.

It is exactly that way in real life actually. In real life the "extreme overclocker people" chasing world records sit and literally go through 500 or 1000 different CPU processors of the same model to find the one "golden sample" that has the highest Mhz clock that they can use to hit world records with liquid nitrogen. This game is just trying to simulate that. The overclocking part that is. Not the liquid nitrogen part. LN2 overclocking would just be stupid in a game like this.