When the Ryzen 7 5800X3D got here out and allowed AMD customers to immediately improve an growing older AM4 machine with a CPU aggressive towards Intel’s newest and best, a complete lot of individuals snatched them up, together with your creator right here. It’s an excellent CPU for PC avid gamers, with sufficient cores to deal with background duties whereas gaming, and sufficient cache to permit the Zen 3 structure to satisfy its potential.
It does have one Achilles heel, although, and that is the comparatively low clock price. While it isn’t that far behind the common Ryzen 7 5800X, the 5800X3D does lose out in most productiveness duties. Comparing it towards the Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 components, the 5800X3D hangs robust in a number of video games, however loses badly in some, and actually falls behind in productiveness duties.
With that in thoughts, bear in mind then that overclocking utilities from the “large 4” Taiwanese motherboard producers (that being ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte, and MSI) purportedly do not honor this habits and can apparently assist you to crank the clocks and voltage to the sky when you so select.
Using MSI’s MSI Center software, Igor overvolted the chip past 1.3v, and he says that the system instantly shut down and would not begin up. He’s declared the chip useless, and whereas he accepts the blame for his motion, the very fact stays that the software program should not actually have allowed him to try this.
As Igor factors out, professional overclocker Roman “der8auer” Hartung just lately killed a Ryzen 9 7950X3D in a lot the identical means, however you may moderately anticipate that the 5800X3D, having been out for a great lengthy whereas now, won’t be weak to the identical concern. As it occurs, it completely is.
While Igor used MSI software program to kill his chip, additional testing in the neighborhood has revealed that all the motherboard distributors’ overclocking software program will gleefully allow you to terminate your individual 3D V-Cache CPU when you click on the mistaken factor within the UI and overvolt the heck out of your chip, so perhaps do not try this.
AMD Ryzen Master
Better but, perhaps simply keep away from these utilities altogether and use AMD’s personal overclocking software program, Ryzen Master, which does not have this downside. The solely accepted overclocking on the X3D CPUs is AMD’s personal Curve Optimizer. That’s extra for lowering energy consumption and warmth output than enhancing efficiency, however it’s not a horrible thought to run it in your 5800X3D. You might save a couple of pennies off your energy invoice, anyway.
