just picked up a gtx 1070 FE and going to pair it up with a 3700x and was wondering for gaming are you guys keeping the cpu stock or OC'ing the cpu? for cpu cooler i grabbed a Noctua NH-U14S and i also grabbed two Noctua 120mm NF-S12B Redux Edition 1200RPM to mount on top has exhaust fans. the case comes with two fans in front and one exhaust in rear. the games im going to stick with is american truck sim and euro truck sim 2. they only require a 760gpu so not very demanding..hoping i can squeeze out 1440p out of that card at high settings. just wanting to know if i should leave the cpu stock or try to push it a bit.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X to OC or Not?
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Not only is your spelling and grammar terrible, but your post is complete bullshit.
His CPU fan will probably provide equal or better cooling performance when compared to off the shelf water cooling. Ryzen 3xxx don't overclock particularly well, and the OP would be better off giving the CPU as much cooling as possible, and letting precision boost overdrive handle the overclocking automatically. With the new Ryzens, you're better off trying to create a solution that has minimal thermal throttling, rather than overclocking as such. In terms of reduced lifespan, that's pretty much a complete fallacy. On a Ryzen, you're talking about 100mhz overclock if you're lucky, and no chance that you'll even hit the turbo speed on all cores.
yeah makes sense..especially since im not running a very demanding game..even at stock i should be able to run 1440p on high settings comfortably on that gpu without sweating it too much.
I have a 3600x and with my RTX2080 I can run pretty much all games on 1440p on max settings. Your 3700x will NOT bottleneck a GTX1070.
Amd specs on your 3700x:
Max Boost Clock - Up to 4.4GHzAmd specs on their cherry picked cpu's:
Max Boost Clock - Up to 4.7GHzNot much room for improvement there, which is kind of typical these days. Manufacturers already selling their gear close to the maximum feasible clocks
I find it extremely unlikely you could hit 4.7ghz on a 3700x. I think the absolute best you could pray for would be 4.4ghz on all cores, and I think that's extremely unlikely.
Just let it boost automatically. Mine boosts 4.3 all cores even when hot.
do you mean setting game boost to on in the MB settings?
thanks for the advice everyone. been a life long console guy finally made the jump to pc. so i want to make sure i make it a good experience and hopefully move into a few other games. but for now ATS and ETS2 are the two games i have wanted and prayed for to come to console for years..my prayers were answered with a better job so i figured time to reward myself. i will not bother manually OC'ing i will get into the bios and set it on auto boost and see how it goes. i would be surprised if it did suffer from over heating on that option with that fan. but will see how it goes. thank you.
When I played ETS2 I had an ancient PC by today's standards, an i7 920 and Radeon 7970 and I ran it at 1440p 60fps just fine. No mods though so maybe that'll make a difference, but if I did fine then your PC will destroy those games.
Generally with the new AMD cpus, with the kind of boost system they have, for usual work loads and gaming you won't see much benefit in OC. Where you can get benefit is from a higher all core clock when overclocked, but that will likely be lower than the peak single core clock you'd reach if you just let it boost naturally. Higher all core clock will be better for highly threaded work loads like rendering. Higher single core with boost will be better for gaming and typical work loads.
Personally I wouldn't bother unless you do it just for fun.
Mine goes up to 4.4 easily, but I have a big stonkin NH D15 on it.
i wasnt sure that would have fit in the case thats why i went with the NH-U14S.
Bless the NH-D15, I run one too. Case is silent as heck. Too bad the colour looks like it was inspired by someone taking a big dump. But they have now released a black version which looks mint, https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15-chromax-black.html
I have to note that the limiting factor here will likely be your GPU, and hence, there will likely not be much in actual performance during gaming.
Its really not worth it as most processors these days are really clocked to squeeze the most out of what they can already deliver. Yes, you will probably get more mileage with proper fine tuning and overclocking, but it may not be worth the time.
As a rule of thumb, the higher in resolution you go, the more your GPU becomes the limiting factor. In any case, do try and let us know what you find out.
Actually Hardcore Overclocking just put up a vid right up your alley.
Unless your using water cooling its probably best not to overclock, you want it running as cool as possible as the hotter it runs on average the inversely proportional lifespan it may have.