Thursday, April 13th 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Overclocked to 5.90 GHz
New processor launches are closely followed by clock-speed and benchmark records, and that applies to even AMD's Ryzen 5 1600X six-core processor. Professional overclocker Der8auer succeeded in overclocking the chip to 5905.64 MHz without having to disable any cores. The feat was possible due to liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling. The clock was made possibly by running the chip with a base-clock of 129.79 MHz, and a multiplier of 45.5X. The core-voltage is unclear. The processor was paired with an ASUS Crosshair VI Hero motherboard, and G.Skill Trident Z memory.
Sources:
CanardPC CPU-Z Validation, DigiWorthy
32 Comments on AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Overclocked to 5.90 GHz
To run faster requires an exponential amount of voltage, and thus cooling, so to run 4.3Ghz may require twice that the change from 3.6 to 4.0, and also double the heat output. Its why to get my 1100T to run 4.2Ghz it requires almost 1.6vcore and it gets hot even under water. Same for every other CPU, GPU and all else.
Designed with a specific process node, and because physics work no matter what or how you feel about it.
Had it been Ryzen giving 250ms hikes in GTA V, it would have been major news.
[QUOTE="Vayra86, post: 3638515, member: 152404"]Actually, he's saying that he can barely notice the difference above everything else... [/QUOTE]
He says that.
Except that they had blind tests.
(and actually every 7700k owners needs to decide for himself, how bad he feels about major AAA game freezing for up to 250ms once every several minutes. I don't think I'd like it)
They couldn't see any difference whatsoever in games with high fps (like doom).
But they DID notice differences in games like GTA V. And most of the testers pointed to Intel system, quite clearly.
*yawn*
Games 'like GTA V' has already been reduced to just GTA V. You're getting there! Keep up the good work, soon you'll be a realist like me.
Back to the original statement: this is precisely why this isn't news - nobody really cares because this is an exception to the rule of top end gaming performance of the 7700K. You need to realize that people make video to get viewers, and not primarily to tell you what's what. Judge this for what it is: an exception to the rule. By no means news worthy albeit an interesting find - what I'd be most interested in here is the cause of the issue, and not so much the double blind 'who notices it' - we have long established that any kind of stutter is detrimental to gaming so this is no different. The only reason these videos exist is because on the Ryzen release we had a 'Ryzen gaming perf shitstorm' and anyone with two brain cells jumps on that to produce content on, because this is what people click on right now and clicks are ad revenue.
If we are really having an argument over a 250ms hitch in a single game title... well. Perhaps thát is news :D What would be news, is when this issue pops up on every 7700K with an OC or something. You really gotta stop being the disgruntled AMD supporter, because that is why you keep missing the mark. Remove the blinders.