Temperatures:
To measure temperatures we run the CPU at its stock clock speeds and hit it with an AIDA64 Stability Test load for 20 minutes.
Overclocking
As you can see above, thanks to the AMD Ryzen 7 3700Xs 65W TDP, thermals aren’t an issue at all at stock clocks. This gives us plenty of room to play about with clockspeeds and voltages (within reason) to try and extract every last drop of value out of the processor. We used the AMD Ryzen Master software, instead of delving into the BIOS. The process is much simpler and, honestly, more enjoyable. Changes can be made on the fly and tested immediately.
The CPU starts out life with a base clock of 3.6GHz and a boost speed of 4.4GHz, naturally, we’d like to see that 4.4GHz stable across all 8 cores but whether or not that’s possible is the real question.
We began by pushing the core clock up to 4000MHz and testing things, then another 100MHz until we got to 4400MHz. This wasn’t quite stable, even with a decent addition to the voltage, so we backed things down to 4375MHz and ran our stability tests.
And there we had it, 4375MHz across all 16 threads, completely stable, and improving scores massively in certain tests. You’ll find the results on the following pages labelled as ‘Ryzen 7 3700X OC’.
To measure temperatures we run the CPU at its stock clock speeds and hit it with an AIDA64 Stability Test load for 20 minutes.
Overclocking
As you can see above, thanks to the AMD Ryzen 7 3700Xs 65W TDP, thermals aren’t an issue at all at stock clocks. This gives us plenty of room to play about with clockspeeds and voltages (within reason) to try and extract every last drop of value out of the processor. We used the AMD Ryzen Master software, instead of delving into the BIOS. The process is much simpler and, honestly, more enjoyable. Changes can be made on the fly and tested immediately.
The CPU starts out life with a base clock of 3.6GHz and a boost speed of 4.4GHz, naturally, we’d like to see that 4.4GHz stable across all 8 cores but whether or not that’s possible is the real question.
We began by pushing the core clock up to 4000MHz and testing things, then another 100MHz until we got to 4400MHz. This wasn’t quite stable, even with a decent addition to the voltage, so we backed things down to 4375MHz and ran our stability tests.
And there we had it, 4375MHz across all 16 threads, completely stable, and improving scores massively in certain tests. You’ll find the results on the following pages labelled as ‘Ryzen 7 3700X OC’.
