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so you've been waiting for AMD risin now you've seen when it can do you're ready to do your best impression of Philip J fry but wait AMD has left the keys in the proverbial ignition and decided to keep their frequency multipliers unlocked so could you potentially save yourself a hundred bucks going for the 1700 X instead of the 1800 X and get the same performance I always recommend that before you start haggling with your local CPU dealer you take her out for a test drive so let's do that then shall we welcome to our AMD Rison 7 overclocking guide gee fuel is the sugar free energy drink formula that can help you maintain focus during long work days and gaming sessions use offer code Linus to save 40% for a limited time so since we don't have to spend extra on a special unlocked CPU to enable overclocking we can use any motherboard with an AMD x3 70 or be 350 chipset like our x3 70 based Asus crosshair 6 cool but what CPU should we buy well AMD's own guidance indicates that none X chips aren't expected to overclock as well so the logical course of action appears to be to just crank up the clocks on a 1700 X and save ourselves a c-note but is it really going to be that easy in theory yes but it's complicated by the fact that Rison doesn't give you very much control while you do have dead simple access to change the multiplier and the base clock the means by which the clock speed or frequency of a CPU is derived both in the BIOS and in AMD's rise in master software you can't simultaneously enable AMD's automatic turbo functionality precision boost rising immediately locks to the clock speed and voltage that you set meaning that if you want to actually match the potential of an 1800 X Y or 1700 X we'll have to be able to do up to 4 point 1 gigahertz all day long not an easy task considering even the 1,800 X will only hit four point one with XFR under certain workloads out of the box so let's get down to it then and see if our 1700 X has what it takes using our usual rise in bench and a 1080 T I will venture first into the BIOS for the greatest degree of control simply by setting the multiplier to 40 and the Ecore voltage to 1.37 5 we managed a stable overclock of 4 gigahertz over the 1700 X's stock 3.4 gigahertz base frequency not bad for a CPU that's only supposed to boost to 3.9 using XFR sadly though we couldn't push any further even if we cranked the voltage to AMD's recommended maximum of 1.4 5 volts we're not sure why this is exactly but even when we delve into more advanced base clock overclocking we were only able to eke out an extra 100 megahertz on the CPU not really worth the time or effort the same was true of our 1800 X which tells us that at least for our chips the limiting factor may be elsewhere armed with this knowledge we now know the relevant voltages and frequencies we need in order to perform an overclock first the CPU multiplier shown in our BIOS as CPU core ratio this works in increments of 0.25 and by default ranges from 22 to 60 3.75 you'll generally want to ignore custom CPU core ratio but if you do use it you'll be greeted by a multiplier called F ID and a divider called D ID which go from 16 to 255 and 8 to 48 respectively to be clear the only reason you would want this kind of control is if you were base clock overclocking so you can access it with AI overclocked tuner but quite frankly we don't really recommend it because it adjusts other sensitive system frequencies like PCI Express for no real-world performance benefit one useful thing you can do with the AI overclocked tuner is set what asu's calls do CP which is fancy talk for DRAM overclock profiles like Intel's XMP now in the future you'll be able to use this to set your high speed Ram to the correct frequency and timings automatically which is key because Rison really does seem to perform better the higher you can crank the memory speed and the lower you can get the timings but bear in mind that most Ram right now is tuned for Intel platforms so you'll need to shop for special memory to be able to take advantage of this and we actually didn't have a ton of success running even the memory that AMD provided or one of these AMD specific memory kits any higher than 26 66 megahertz so your mileage may significantly vary as far as that goes in any case it's likely you'll end up manually keying in your RAM timings to get them as low as you can before hitting a wall moving on to voltages our main concern is v core shown here as CPU core voltage by default when you set an overclock Rison will snap to a rather strange arbitrary voltage of one point three six two five as for what to set it to we found that one point three seven five is the sweet spot for overclocking with high-end air cooling while Asus recommends no higher than one point four to five with strong liquid cooling D RAM voltage defaults to one point two but most higher-end kits are asking for about one point three five if you do adjust this you'll want to tweak the CPU SOC voltage whose default is 0.99 turning this voltage up can improve memory overclocking and for us did seem to help with stability you'll also want to set your memory termination voltage in our case labeled VT TDD are in tweakers paradise 2 half of your DRAM voltage if you're trying out base clock over clocks then you can also find cents of my SKU here which you'll want to enable for stability though again we really don't recommend this whoo okay so we're overclocked how does it run well thanks to the crosshair sixes am three mounting holes we can test not only our a m4 based knock - au 12s and cooler master hyper 212 + but also our Corsair H 100 I all-in-one water cooler so we can give you guys a good idea of what to expect pretty much across the board for temperatures under i-264 stability test our hyper 212 + managed 82 degrees which I would consider to be acceptable well our knock - a rounded 83.5 so that's warmer but it should be noted that this was with a much quieter fan our H 100 I meanwhile managed to keep things down to a cozy seventy four and a half degrees if you want to compare these results to your own bear in mind that currently AMD's rise in x-series CPUs are reporting temperatures a whole twenty degrees higher than they actually are in some applications we took our readings from AMD zone rise and master software though so they should be accurate as for performance at four gigahertz our 1700 X sits at the top of the x-class rise and line up for FPS per dollar at 1080p a likely target for all of you out there buying high refresh rate monitors games like Deus Ex mankind divided rise of the Tomb Raider for honor GTA 5 and doom all showed close or better performance synthetics like 7-zip PC mark Y cruncher Cinebench and real bench all showed the overclocked mostly meeting or exceeding the 1,800 X sometimes by a wide margin so combining these scores and average FPS well it gets extremely close to the core i7 7700 KS performance per dollar in many ways actually the overclocked rise in seven 1700 X reminds me of the Athlon XP 2500 plus it wasn't the fastest CPU on the market but it was fast enough for most uses and could be counted on to consistently overclocked about as high as AMD's top-of-the-line and more expensive 3200 back then on top of that like the 2500 plus it's priced just right for a wide range of users consumers prosumers and gamers so in short while some enthusiasts might have hoped that risin would overclock like a bat out of hell and via return to the Athlon 64 and x2 days with AMD on top of the performance heap that isn't what we got but hey a chance to relive the Athlon XP days that's not too shabby either so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button maybe consider checking out where to buy your own rise in CPU and motherboard at the link in the video description also down there is our merch store and our community forum both of which 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