HardOCP, as has happened to us with the AMD Ryzen 5 1400, has had serious problems overclocking said processor, due to the temperatures it reached.
We have been the first medium worldwide in do the first review of the AMD Ryzen 5 1400 processor and we have been able to see the performance of this good processor, capable of surpassing the Intel i7 6700K without problems, but also, we have detected some problems, especially based on DDR4 RAM, which has given us many problems and in some cases has It was impossible to use the Kingston HyperX Fury game, which was not even detected by the manufacturer. We have seen that overclocking is not easy.
It has cost us a world to reach 4.8GHz and we have only managed to do it through the AMD Ryzen Balanced profile, which has allowed us to go up from 3.7GHz, even so, the voltage and temperature of the processor skyrocket quite a bit. HardOCP has shown a video where they have put the AMD Ryzen 5 1400 and AMD Ryzen 5 1600 processor to the test and in both cases they have had quite a few stability and even temperature problems, since with liquid cooling it has cost them a lot to maintain the temperature of the processor at bay.
First they started with the Ryzen 6 1600 with six cores and twelve processing threads running at 4GHz and they have used some RAM memories at a frequency of 3200MHz (we have tried everything, but none of the RAM games used have worked at more than 2133MHz ). The processor voltage was fixed at 1.45 volts and level five in the load calibration. Then they moved on to the Ryzen 5 1400 processor, which has gone up to a stable 3.9GHz and 1.4 volts. In a second attempt they have tried to put the processor at 4GHz, but it has only reached 3975MHz and a voltage of 1.45 volts, although they have not been able to maintain it for more than an hour.
The temperature for these working and load frequencies has been 57-67ºC for the Ryzen 5 1400 and 70-73ºC for the Ryzen 5 1600, both with liquid cooling. The problem with these processors is that they have the barrier at 3.7-3.8GHz, as we have been able to verify and after this point the serial heatsink does not support the temperature generated by the processor and the voltage it requires begins to scale exponentially. We had BIOS 370 in the MSI X1.22 Xpower and we have had the same problems that HardOCP comments in his video, with the RAM and with the frequency, temperature and voltage of the processor.
Amd I think he had said that the processors were seen with 20 degrees of more because of the XFR
That's right… ..to see if Roberto can confirm it, if so, this news should change the headline… ..I smell Intel around here.
I remember that we analyzed the Intel i7 7700K processor and emphasized that it was not interesting to upgrade to this processor and that it had serious temperature problems even with RL installed.
I see several tendentious things in the article, as always, but precisely what you write does not affect here, that works in Ryzen 7 microphones with suffix X nothing else
As it is. The manufacturing process is like this and period, when they improve it, the frequency will continue to increase. But they offer you that and you can get 600 mhz up, so where is the problem? Of course it is going to become unsustainable after 3.8ghz because it does not give for more.
The processors that have a difference of 20ºC due to the XFR, are the processors with the 'x', the rest of the processors must work correctly. AMD's stock cooler is not the best solution, as is Intel's. We have put the Ryzen 5 1400 up to 3.8GHz after installing the AMD Ryzen Balanced profile and the temperature rises to 80ºC. Theoretically, this processor does not have the temperature difference and would be based on a single, complete CCX module.
It is correct that of these temperatures since it is normal that if you use the high performance and stress state to the CPU with a stock cooler the temperatures rise to that point, if you want to play OC it is normal that you should use special cooling and not a stock cooler that will only give you to sustain temperatures in a range of normal use without stressing the CPU, that is, 80º for a processor that supports + 90º stable is correct ... it generates a high heat index of course, but still it is within of the sustainable parameter for the stock cooler that everyone already knows is not the best solution of the wraith family. If you don't believe me, ask the Intel Core I7 7700K that has the same 4 Cores with 8 Threads and that heats up hell with its stock cooler if you stress them, but it's still within the sustainability limit.
Did you update the Bios? Because I saw many reports that some mothers were misreporting the temperature. Be careful, you can greatly discredit a company with false information.
The article is stupid. They do not present temperature problems. Up to 3.8 ghz they go very well, after that, you are already getting a lot of juice. It is not an FX that could reach 5ghz. Zen 2 is going to go up to 4.5ghz.