Overclocking The AMD Ryzen APUs: Guide and Results
by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on April 16, 2018 2:30 PM ESTHow to Overclock With ASRock UEFI BIOS
The ASRock BIOS design and layout is consistent throughout the AM4 motherboard range. Everything was present on our motherboard, except the ability to change the settings of the integrated graphics. The only options for overclocking the graphics were in the way of SoC voltage, and even then, it could only be set as an offset value, not a true value. This is a little disappointing given that the ASRock X370 Gaming-ITX/ac hasn’t got any hard issues within the BIOS for the graphics, but on the plus side, everything else is done well.
Upon entering the BIOS, the initial menu screen offers information about the board including the installed components including the processor. It is not an easy mode, and the information is very limited. Everything needed for overclocking is in the OC Tweaker menu.
In the OC Tweaker menu, changing the 'CPU Frequency and Voltage Change' from auto to manual opens up the frequency and voltage options. At the top is the frequency, while down the bottom is the voltage. Starting with frequency, rather than offer a CPU ratio, ASRock just offers a plain frequency, and clearly does the multiplier manually.
When it comes to applying the XMP profile, unlike the MSI board in our data testing in this article, the ASRock board only opens up a single XMP profile, the standard DDR4-3600 CL16 that the sticks are rated for. Enabling XMP and then changing the memory frequency to the setting that’s required is easy enough, as the value goes up in increments and can be adjusted using the + or – keys on a numpad. Alternatively, if the user presses enter a long list via a drop-down menu appears.
Further down the same page, options are present for changing the offset values to the SoC voltage or VDDCR. Just below these is the DRAM voltage, which when we enabled XMP automatically set the value to 1.4 volts, rather than 1.35 for which our kit is rated, which was a little odd.
Pressing F10 and selecting yes saves the settings and reboots the system. Unfortunately the options changed to not appear as in some other vendors Save and Exit popups.
Note – To overclock the integrated graphics on this board, users will need to install the AMD Ryzen Master overclocking utility within Windows. We go into Ryzen Master on the next page.
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MSWordPro - Thursday, April 26, 2018 - link
I would personally not bother to overclock any of the Ryzen lineup. The potential headaches aren't worth the 3-4% increase in performance, less when taken into account that a lot of applications don't seem to scale 1:1 with clockspeed (might be wrong on this). At least the IPC and general clockspeed is up.0ldman79 - Friday, April 27, 2018 - link
7zip bench is messed up, is it not?Lower is better yet the higher the clock and more threads gets a higher score.
Something seems to be amiss...
maverickmad - Tuesday, May 15, 2018 - link
I would personally not bother to overclock any of the Ryzen lineup. The potential headaches aren't worth the 3-4% increase in performance, less when taken into account that a lot of applications don't seem to scale 1:1 with clockspeedlooks amazing
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Seikavx - Thursday, May 17, 2018 - link
Very important:Are all b350 and x370 bioses identical feature wise? In specific, the ability to set estate frequencies for core performance boost tuning like in the rig hero VI? That bios is very comprehensive, and I'd like to not have to buy that board just to have access to those features. The point is to be able to tune the turbo boost by setting high multiplier instead of ocing all cores to run at one fixed state. I just want to significantly increase single threaded ipc for gaming. With the hero VI the options to tune cpb with pstates exists.
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