Long time no see everyone!
So my trusty 1090T based system had a few too many hard drive crashes and other parts go bad from age in the last few months that I decided it was time to get back in the game with Ryzen.
I'm starting out with the 1200 to get a feel for things and so I don't feel as bad if I completely burn the chip and so far I've gotten up to 4.2ghz valid and 4.01 stable with 1.38v.
One of the first things I noticed when I was overclocking the chip was that just using the multiplier wasn't the way to go. It was impossible to get mine to be stable for anything above 3.9 that way and even at that speed it was hit or miss on booting consistently. Maybe that's just my luck with the chip, but all the reviews I saw had issues getting above 3.9-4.0 using just the multiplier and didn't spend a lot of time finding a way around it.
Obviously I was still determined to get over 4ghz with the chip so I dropped the multiplier down to 38 and pumped up the bclock a little. I actually had prime stable with 1.35 for 4ghz this way, but the memory was too slow for my liking at only 2800 or so. This was also when I had to start playing with the PLL chip voltage, at least that's what the Crosshair VI Hero bios says it is. Keeping it at 38x105.4 required the 1.8v stock to go up to 1.85v. I've never had the option to play with that voltage before so it's new territory in what's safe and what's not.
Once I had 4ghz stable I started pushing for 4.1ghz before getting the first set of benchmarks done. I ended up dropping the multi down to 36 and bumping the bclock up to 114. For the first set I also dropped the memory divider down so instead of being up at 3039 it was down at 2736 because I was worried that higher memory speeds were going to require a higher vcore. Here's a few submissions I put on hwbot for my efforts.
wPrime 1024m - 4:06
x265 - 1080p - 19.77fps
CB 15 - 620
Right now I'm trying to get bench stable with 4.2ghz. I've gotten both SuperPi's, wPrimes, and CB 11.5. CB 15 is being a bit of a pain, and I don't even try the encoding if CB 15 doesn't run.
So far the only real annoyances I've had are the first bios for the mobo and ryzen master. The starting bios would run the cpu at 1.55ghz if I used any vcore above 1.2v. I spent a few hours trying to figure it out before I upgraded and went DOH! Ryzen master I still haven't figured out. It just doesn't update the multiplier if I set it to something higher than what I booted at which defeats the purpose of me using it completely. Hasn't held me back so oh well.
I'll stop tooting my horn for now :D. How has everyone else's experience with Ryzen been so far? I've seen a few threads with lots of love for the chips, but I haven't seen a ton of builds like back when Phenom 2's came out.
