2700x voltage question

What are these things supposed to run in a stock/idle-ish state?

I keep reading over 1.4v is bad....and it seems to sit above that quite a bit.

Say I load up a game, I can see all the cores go up to something like 4.150ghz and vcore sits at 1.35ish.

Is that normal?

If I wanted to overclock and not use XFR or whatever it is, can I just set the vcore to 1.35 and see what happens? It seems like auto voltage always slaps the vcore up really high. if I do an overclock of 4.2 and leave on auto, it will just sit at 1.45v all the time.

Worth even doing?

curious how this all works. Never had to worry about all this kind of stuff I feel in the past. Set something and forget it. Obviously the CPU isn't going to blow itself up. Over thinking it?

yeah it'll increase voltage and clock speed depending on cpu/vrm temps.. single core boost will hit 1.5v for 4.3Ghz but that's not a huge deal. if you're trying to do 4.2Ghz all core i'd start at 1.45v then see if you can get the voltage lower.. if you don't absolutely need 4.2Ghz across 16 threads i'd just leave XFR and PB2 enabled and call it a day.

Rig in sig runs 4.3ghz all core overclock with just 1.36 volts.... Temps are a hell of a lot lower than when using XFR, PB2. I would start at 1.35 vcore and then bump it up from there. This rig is prime stable 24/7.... if you are running air you might need a tad more voltage

Enigma said:

Rig in sig runs 4.3ghz all core overclock with just 1.36 volts.... Temps are a hell of a lot lower than when using XFR, PB2. I would start at 1.35 vcore and then bump it up from there. This rig is prime stable 24/7.... if you are running air you might need a tad more voltage

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running water. with the stock setup under gaming, temps hit maybe 38c, sometimes 40 but pretty much sits pretty at 38c when gaming.

ive noticed mine can hit 1.45 at stock with xfr on. i need to just spend some time and oc it.

Funny I was looking this up a couple days ago.


BLUF: A member tested several samples at 1.38 and beyond, saw degradation within 3-4 months losing 100 MHz from the top end. Others report the same thing, however, members also report no issues with their OC since launch. Looks like it maybe limited to manual OC notXFR/PBO..

OP, if you really want 4.2 all day I would first test your application/specific load while OC’d vs stock, really to see if it is worth it. Sometimes PBO has proven to do better than a manually OC Ryzen.

Look through your bios to see if can manually lock your vcore or set a negative offset -.05/.075 may be a good starting point. If on Asus I want to say LLC3/4 mode unlocks voltages for PBO, seen some high numbers even when I set an offset.

I think I'm just going to leave it in stock functionality mode using the balanced windows plan.

I mean I mostly game and since the boost thing is holding it at 4.1/4.2 on all cores while gaming (on games that take advantage of all the cores) doesn't make sense to OC to a standard speed.

Kind of sad in a way, been OCing so long to not do it feels wrong but since it OCs itself so to speak for me, guess it doesn't matter.

Should have went intel

I run em low try to....and make sure the thing was seated on your sink...had a bad seat...was freezing....new blob and passed everything again at 4.2 with the mugen 5 the 2600x...we're fine.

sirmonkey1985 said:

yeah it'll increase voltage and clock speed depending on cpu/vrm temps.. single core boost will hit 1.5v for 4.3Ghz but that's not a huge deal. if you're trying to do 4.2Ghz all core i'd start at 1.45v then see if you can get the voltage lower.. if you don't absolutely need 4.2Ghz across 16 threads i'd just leave XFR and PB2 enabled and call it a day.

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The recommendation have been to let pb2 and xfr do their job.

anyone have a golden chip that will do 4.4?

2700X at 4.1 with 1.385. Gets to 65C running 16 threads can’t remember name of benchmark blast it. Other times rarely runs above 60C.