I am about to get a Dark Hero board with a 5900x and coming from years with Intel i’m kinda lost about how I should Oc it. I’ve checked CTR and it seems like a great tool to start with, no?
I was wondering if I can still use it since the latest release is 2.1, is there any differences? Some people on discord told me NOT to use this tool or that it can cook the CPU…
Between PBO, curve, the switch oc on the dark hero, that’s a lot of tools i’m not familiar with and i’d really like some expert advices
What I would like to do is do a manual oc with the Dynamic mode of the Dark Hero but I am not familiar with all this and I have trouble to find a proper tutorial.
I have yet to make up my mind on CTR since there might be some issues with it. I would have to investigate that further.
The common notion for OC’ing Ryzen 5000 is to use Curve Optimizer + PBO. Long story short: Adjust the curve and reduce the voltage for each and every core. When you are done, raise frequency offset and increase the voltage allowed by PBO.
I’m also not familiar with this, but I expect that you will get better results from just using the Curve and PBO. If it is not results you are after, but the experience in general then it’s different of course.
Edit: Strike-through above. I don’t think that you need to increase the frequency as this might be done automatically.
I don’t think it’s strictly necessary to overclock AMD processors to be fair. A good cooler that keeps the temperatures low will work almost like it does for Nvidia GPUs.
But if you want to overclock, as Azulath said, go with Curve + PBO. Optimum Tech on Youtube has a very well made guide on the Curve settings.
Before CPU clockspeed I’d say it’s more worth working on RAM speed (frequency + timigs). That’s how I did it with my 3700x and I gained ~120 points in Cinebench R20 just using 3600CL18 RAM on my system over average scores without touching core speed. If you invest more time into tighter timings and even 3800MHz speeds you can get very good results and not increase significantly the heat output of your system. They’re already well tuned CPU out of the box.
I use a Dark Hero + 5950x; I would really suggest not bothering to OC it.
If you want to run the thing flat out:
The most you have to do is flip on PBO (there’s two places), flip off the Asus specific OC thread thing, and make sure XMP is on.
After that you mess with core voltage offsets.
The chip will run till it hits whatever limits are set on the thing, but the Asus motherboard limits are stupid high so it will thermal throttle or hit voltage limits or something 1st, basically the only limits are what the silicone can handle + cooling capacity,
As you’ve noticed, this also results in high idles cause the thing will keep dynamically ramping up singular cores/threads.
If you want to tame back the temps, you need to manually set the PBO limits yourself to something more reasonable.
edit:
Idle temps will always be higher than your use to, but you should be able to get a max temp of high 70s, low 80s