After a conversation with a friend about overclocking, I decided to see what I could get out of my Ryzen 5 5600X. As a baseline, I ran an R20 test and scored 4042.
I followed this short guide video and started out with CPU Ratio of 46.5 and Vcore of 1.375v as it states. From there I walked it up to 4.75Ghz without any problems, but it wouldn't take 4.8. I was then able to get the Vcore down to 1.35v @ 4.75Ghz. At this level I got an R20 score of 4685. A nice improvement over baseline! Temps were stable at around 75C, so plenty of headroom left there.
Curious to see if there was more in it, I took it back up to 4.8Ghz but this time bumped the voltage to 1.388v and the initial run in R20 borked halfway through. Said friend then said that clocking the memory (3600) up to 3866 can help, so I did that and scored 4734 in Cinebench R20. Sweet!
I tried messing about with the RAM speed next, and the computer would boot to windows at 3933 but wouldn't POST at 4000. I left it at 3933 and this time tried to run R23. It started fine but borked during run 3, so I dropped the RAM speed down again to 3866, and this time R23 borked in run 8.
Figuring I was beyond a stable config, at least in benchmarks, and not wanting to push the hardware too much as this machine is a daily driver, I settled in for 4.75Ghz all core @ 1.35v and RAM clocked to 3866Mhz. With this configuration I attained the scores in the title of this post;
| Benchmark | Single Core | All Core |
|---|---|---|
| R20 | 602 | 4685 |
| R23 | 1570 | 12144 |
I believe these are ballpark figures for a 3700X all core and a 3800X single core, both of which have 2 more cores than the 5600, so it's a skookum choocher.
Temps wise, the maximum I saw in any of this testing was less than 85C, but with the current config the CPU hasn't run higher than 81C. The cooler is an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280.
Here are some screenshots showing R20/3 scores and HWInfo stats: https://imgur.com/a/3AwlPWf
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Why stick with RAM settings that can’t even stably do 8 runs of Cinebench?