I recently acquired a Ryzen CPU with the goal of overclocking it to see how far I could push its limits. To start, I ran Cinebench at 4.0 GHz and was thrilled to get a score of 1770 - a hundred points more than the expected 1400 for this configuration.

As I continued to experiment, I decided to try increasing the clock speed to 4.1 GHz. However, it quickly became apparent that this was not possible. The CPU would either crash or fail to run Cinebench at all, even with only four cores active. It seemed as though there was a kind of "brick wall" beyond which the CPU couldn't be pushed.

Determined to find out more, I turned off four of the cores and ran Cinebench again at 4.1 GHz. To my surprise, it worked successfully - this was not a particularly high-performance kind of benchmark run, but I was still only getting an 800 points in Cinebench.

Encouraged by this result, I decided to try increasing the clock speed further to 4.15 GHz. This time, I managed to complete a full cinnamon run without any issues - it was pretty exciting! However, when I attempted to push the CPU even higher to 4.2 GHz, things didn't go as planned.

The system failed to boot successfully at this point, and the screen began to flicker rapidly. It seemed as though I had hit another kind of "brick wall" beyond which the CPU couldn't be pushed.

With that, I decided to call it a day - there was a strange burning smell coming from somewhere in my flat, and I didn't want to take any risks.

In retrospect, the maximum overclock I could achieve with this particular CPU was 4.0 GHz with all eight cores active - not a huge improvement, but still something notable. However, when I turned off four of the cores and tried running Cinebench again at 4.1 GHz, performance dropped significantly due to the reduced core activity.

This experience has left me with a framework for reference when new CPUs are released, allowing me to see how much actual core speed increase we can expect. Unfortunately, this particular Ryzen CPU has proven to be quite difficult to overclock - hopefully future models will address these issues and offer better performance under stress testing conditions.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday's the day today's the day that I'm gonna see how much of an overclock I can get out of my rise in CPU with the current liquid cooling system that I have on it now I think it's a bit of a poignant thing to do today because the new rising CPUs are coming out shortly and there's all this news about them gonna going to be having a new turbo boost speed of 4.3 5 gigahertz so my kind of goal for today is to see if I can match that speed with my current CPU now this is this is funny because I'm almost definitely not going to be able to but I'm gonna push everything to the limit and I'm gonna see how far I can take the system so that we can see how much of a benefit how much of an increase in performance this really is going to the new CPU so that we have a bench line for like the really hard core overclock on arisin 1700 X so yeah wish me luck let's hope it doesn't end in just like 4 gigahertz but before I do anything I think I think I need some coffee before I take on this this very daring feat okay so first things first gonna go into the BIOS and push everything with the liquid cooling system to its absolute limit so this means 100% on the fans 100% on the pump which is going to drop the temperatures down quite a lot I've actually done a video detailing how much of the difference this makes when it comes to CPU temperatures which I'll have linked in the description below just to make it clear how I'm going to be doing the testing of the system with each step of overclock is gonna be with Cinebench I'm only gonna use Cinebench because I mean it's a decent enough test and stability and even at just 4 gigahertz I've already struggled with stability on the system in the past so I just want to see what the maximum overclock is that I can get using a more basic tests like Cinebench something that all of you can do at home as well so I just got 4.0 8 gigahertz to run successfully on Cinebench and it gave me a score of 1770 which is like a hundred points more than 4.0 5 gigahertz was so let's see if I can get 4.1 gigahertz running so it seems as though I've pretty much run into a brick wall very early on because I'm at four point zero eight gigahertz and it that's as far as I can go when I try and push it just one step up to four point one gigahertz it just doesn't run Cinebench gets about two seconds into it and it crashes it just doesn't seem to work there isn't significantly higher temperatures at that point I don't know it just seems as though the CPU can't handle it beyond that so now I'm gonna see how far I can take the CPU by turning off cores on the CPU so I'm gonna use Rhys and master the application to turn off some of the cores and then see how far I can push it now what I've done to this point is I've actually turned our four of the cores so it effectively turns it into a quad core and Cinebench ran at 4.1 gigahertz so let's see how far we can take it from here and for some reason that worked at 4.15 gigahertz I actually finished a cinnamon run which is pretty exciting actually I think that's quite a high clock to get on on on horizon CPU now the thing is because it's only for a cause running it's not really a particularly high performance kind of benchmark run and I was only getting eight hundred and 42 points in Cinebench as opposed to the 1770 that I got with all eight cores on but let's push forward and see how far we can get these clocks okay so the system is busy booting and yes it's actually successfully booted with a 4.2 Giga heard over clock going now again this is with only four cores running but let's see if Cinebench works but that went pretty badly pretty quickly as you can see the screen kind of flickering behind me there it's it's just it's it seems as though 4.1 5 gigahertz is the farthest I'm gonna get it with 4 cores because if you look over here it's it's just it's dying again and this isn't even with running cinnamon this was literally just trying to boot the system it hasn't even successfully booted where it successfully booted with 4.2 gigahertz so I don't I don't really know but let's see if we can tweak it a little and get it up and running at 4.2 gigahertz so we've decided to call it a bit of a day because there's a kind of weird cabbage Burnie smelling smell coming from somewhere in the flat and well that's the smell that Hardware makes when it's about to catch on fire so I think I'm going to leave it there so the maximum overclock I could get out of it was 4.0 8 gigahertz with all 8 cores on which is not very big and then when I turned four of the cores off I could get it to 4.1 5 gigahertz but performed way worse because well half the cause weren't active now this was a fairly short fairly pointless video but I think the reason I made it is so that I have a bit of a a bit of a framework of reference for when the new rising CPUs are launched so we can see how much of an increase in actual core speed we can get out of them because at this point that's one of the biggest shortcomings of the rise in architecture is the fact that they overclock really terribly so that when you kind of put down a bunch of money on a custom lube liquid cooling system it's pretty much wasted on a rising system hopefully the new risin plus CPUs will kind of fix this a bit and because you can just drop it in the same motherboard it might make it a very worthwhile upgrade for people who are who are kind of disappointed with the overclocking performance in their CPUs anyway until the next video bye byetoday's the day today's the day that I'm gonna see how much of an overclock I can get out of my rise in CPU with the current liquid cooling system that I have on it now I think it's a bit of a poignant thing to do today because the new rising CPUs are coming out shortly and there's all this news about them gonna going to be having a new turbo boost speed of 4.3 5 gigahertz so my kind of goal for today is to see if I can match that speed with my current CPU now this is this is funny because I'm almost definitely not going to be able to but I'm gonna push everything to the limit and I'm gonna see how far I can take the system so that we can see how much of a benefit how much of an increase in performance this really is going to the new CPU so that we have a bench line for like the really hard core overclock on arisin 1700 X so yeah wish me luck let's hope it doesn't end in just like 4 gigahertz but before I do anything I think I think I need some coffee before I take on this this very daring feat okay so first things first gonna go into the BIOS and push everything with the liquid cooling system to its absolute limit so this means 100% on the fans 100% on the pump which is going to drop the temperatures down quite a lot I've actually done a video detailing how much of the difference this makes when it comes to CPU temperatures which I'll have linked in the description below just to make it clear how I'm going to be doing the testing of the system with each step of overclock is gonna be with Cinebench I'm only gonna use Cinebench because I mean it's a decent enough test and stability and even at just 4 gigahertz I've already struggled with stability on the system in the past so I just want to see what the maximum overclock is that I can get using a more basic tests like Cinebench something that all of you can do at home as well so I just got 4.0 8 gigahertz to run successfully on Cinebench and it gave me a score of 1770 which is like a hundred points more than 4.0 5 gigahertz was so let's see if I can get 4.1 gigahertz running so it seems as though I've pretty much run into a brick wall very early on because I'm at four point zero eight gigahertz and it that's as far as I can go when I try and push it just one step up to four point one gigahertz it just doesn't run Cinebench gets about two seconds into it and it crashes it just doesn't seem to work there isn't significantly higher temperatures at that point I don't know it just seems as though the CPU can't handle it beyond that so now I'm gonna see how far I can take the CPU by turning off cores on the CPU so I'm gonna use Rhys and master the application to turn off some of the cores and then see how far I can push it now what I've done to this point is I've actually turned our four of the cores so it effectively turns it into a quad core and Cinebench ran at 4.1 gigahertz so let's see how far we can take it from here and for some reason that worked at 4.15 gigahertz I actually finished a cinnamon run which is pretty exciting actually I think that's quite a high clock to get on on on horizon CPU now the thing is because it's only for a cause running it's not really a particularly high performance kind of benchmark run and I was only getting eight hundred and 42 points in Cinebench as opposed to the 1770 that I got with all eight cores on but let's push forward and see how far we can get these clocks okay so the system is busy booting and yes it's actually successfully booted with a 4.2 Giga heard over clock going now again this is with only four cores running but let's see if Cinebench works but that went pretty badly pretty quickly as you can see the screen kind of flickering behind me there it's it's just it's it seems as though 4.1 5 gigahertz is the farthest I'm gonna get it with 4 cores because if you look over here it's it's just it's dying again and this isn't even with running cinnamon this was literally just trying to boot the system it hasn't even successfully booted where it successfully booted with 4.2 gigahertz so I don't I don't really know but let's see if we can tweak it a little and get it up and running at 4.2 gigahertz so we've decided to call it a bit of a day because there's a kind of weird cabbage Burnie smelling smell coming from somewhere in the flat and well that's the smell that Hardware makes when it's about to catch on fire so I think I'm going to leave it there so the maximum overclock I could get out of it was 4.0 8 gigahertz with all 8 cores on which is not very big and then when I turned four of the cores off I could get it to 4.1 5 gigahertz but performed way worse because well half the cause weren't active now this was a fairly short fairly pointless video but I think the reason I made it is so that I have a bit of a a bit of a framework of reference for when the new rising CPUs are launched so we can see how much of an increase in actual core speed we can get out of them because at this point that's one of the biggest shortcomings of the rise in architecture is the fact that they overclock really terribly so that when you kind of put down a bunch of money on a custom lube liquid cooling system it's pretty much wasted on a rising system hopefully the new risin plus CPUs will kind of fix this a bit and because you can just drop it in the same motherboard it might make it a very worthwhile upgrade for people who are who are kind of disappointed with the overclocking performance in their CPUs anyway until the next video bye bye