Wiped stock thermal paste off of Wraith Prism cpu cooler and 3600x cpu, replaced with kryonaut. Temperatures higher though?

[phanbuey]

I've always read that it's actually not a good idea to undervolt ryzen because although it looks like you gain performance but actually lose some. But if not I'd love to undervolt my processor if it meant better performance and lower temps without getting another cooler. I've done that with my i7-8750h laptop and it works so much better. How would I go about doing that?

You're not really undervolting, you're just telling it not to go above a certain voltage (1.275 - 1.3v) which with my 3600 is the sweet spot for 4.2 ghz and it made like 15C difference from normal PBO. Just do a standard OC in the bios with 1.275 or 1.28 v and 4.2Ghz and it will still do the CoolNQuiet and downclock and downvolt at idle/low volt, but it will go straight to 4.2 and that voltage at load without pumping the customary 1.42v into the chip.

 

[Tmansdc]

Yeah as long as I can get 205+ single threaded and 1620+ score in cinebench r15 again I'll be happy.

I don't want to cut too much performance I want the best multi-core and single threaded I can get because I do a wide variety of things on my desktop.

 

[Tmansdc]

Yeah I'm not going to undervolt as that will cut single threaded performance. Any other tips? I'm willing to do modded bios, power plans, chipset drivers, etc. Those are all up to date though.

 

[bubbleawsome]

How would an undervolt cut single thread performance on the new ryzens? As long as it's stable won't it keep the same boost clocks?

 

[Tmansdc]

Nah I've heard it will reduce single threaded clocks but boost multi threaded.

I'm just going to deal with it as is. I'm not putting a backplate on the computer unless I need to upgrade. Next time I get a computer I'm going to have someone assemble it for me.


Honestly I know I get a little paranoid and freaked out over stuff easily because I think I'm going to break something I spent a decent amount on but I have to realize computers aren't that fragile. I got to just chill with this.