Advanced Overclocking
Advanced overclocking (30-40 minutes)
Whereas the Easy Overclocking version doesn’t take into account the difference in performance between each core, the following method will seek to take advantage of each core to the maximum of its performance.
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- When booting up your PC, you’ll need to enter the BIOS, usually by pressing the Del or F2 key.
- Navigate to Advanced > AMD Overclocking > Accept
- Modify the following parameters: Precision Boost Overdrive: Advanced – PBO Limits: Motherboard – CPU Boost Clock Override: Enabled (Positive) / 200 – Platform Thermal Throttle Ctrl: Manual / 85
- Now enter the Curve optimizer menu and select “Per Core”
- We’ll start by setting the values for each core to Negative -20
- We now have the same configuration as for easy overclocking. I recommend that you validate the stability of overclocking with a single run of Cinebench R23. This will also give us a score that we’ll be looking to improve.
- If validated, return to Curve Optimizer and we’ll go to -25 on all cores, then check stability. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to go to -30 on all cores.
- Once the maximum stable setting has been reached, we return to Curve Optimizer and this time play with 1 core at a time, adjusting it by -5, always checking the Cinebench R23 score increase and stability.
- When the stability limit is reached, we move on to the next core.
We’re looking here to optimize each core, which doesn’t all respond in the same way to overclocking, which is why we’ll often see different values.
If you really want to optimize, you can adjust from -1 to -1 to find the limits, but you’ll spend hours for a minimal performance gain.
