![]() But if yours does, you’ll be prompted to restart the system to apply any memory speed changes you’ve made in Ryzen Master. The $255 Asus Crosshair VI Hero that we used for this article doesn’t support the feature, alas. Ryzen Master also offers the ability to tweak your memory’s voltages and speed, but these features require support from the motherboard. One of the Ryzen Master tabs that let you tweak CPU and memory overclock settings. (Protip: Make a bunch of tiny tweaks, testing for stability in between adjustments, rather than massive leaps in clock speeds.) Whenever you tweak core clock speeds or voltages, clicking the Apply button in the top-right corner will bring your overclock to life. Follow standard CPU overclocking procedures while you’re doing this if you’re new to overclocking, PCGamer has a helpful guide. Instead, you’ll need to click on one of the four profile tabs to the left of the C tab and enter your desired settings there. You can’t actually overclock your Ryzen CPU here. ![]() Ryzen Master’s default tab is labeled C at the bottom-left corner of the app. Your chip will also use much more power, simply sitting at its maximum all-core boost clock (3.7GHz in the case of the stock 1800X). If you switch to the high-performance power profile in Windows-as AMD recommends to improve gaming performance-this graph will show a lot less movement. Using Windows’ default Balanced power profile, you’ll see Ryzen clocking itself up to 4.1GHz if your setup supports XFR, then all the way down to 2.2GHz at idle. It’s especially useful if you want to know exactly what AMD’s Precision Boost and XFR technologies are doing to your Ryzen CPU. To that end, there’s a real-time graph of per-core clock speeds and the CPU’s temperature at the top of the Ryzen Master interface, accessible by clicking the tiny >icon in the upper-left. The temperature and clock-speeds graphs at the top of Ryzen Master. The core of becoming a Ryzen Master is knowing exactly what your chip is doing right now. The most important thing to understand when you’re overclocking Ryzen is that the chip has two modes of operation: Normal Mode and OC Mode. Windows updates may disable HPET, so if the app starts popping up warnings long after you’ve overclocked your system, run the script again. After running the script and restarting your system, Ryzen Master will work normally. If you don’t have HPET enabled you’ll be greeted with an error message when you try to apply your overclocking profile. In order for Ryzen Master to show you accurate real-time graphs of voltages and clock speeds, you’ll need to run the HPET.bat script in the Ryzen Master install folder to make sure you have HPET (High Precision Event Timers) enabled in Windows 10. (Click any image in this article to enlarge it.) What happens if you try to use Ryzen Master with HPET disabled. As such it has its own installer and desktop icon. Unlike WattMan, which comes bundled with the Radeon Settings tool alongside AMD’s graphics drivers, Ryzen Master is a stand-alone application. But it isn’t cool either with both CPUs in the mid to high range on the chart.Assuming you have a compatible motherboard, head over to the Ryzen Master landing page and download the app to get started on the path to mastering Ryzen. ![]() I wouldn’t call this hot, considering it isn’t the biggest cooler. The 3300X ended up warming up to 75 degrees Celsius and the 3100 to 71. ![]() This was right in line with the mid-range of the Ryzen CPUs as well.įor thermal testing, I stuck with that same AIDA64 FPU test, which is on the far end of extreme to show the worst possible case for CPU temperatures while using as standard of a cooler as I can with the Noctua 120mm tower cooler. I then also run AIDA64 using the floating point stress test which is the most demanding and wattage moved up to 125 for the 3100 and 137 for the 3300X. Their wPrime power draw isn’t bad though at 104 and 114 for the total system draw. Both CPUs support a special Eco mode which clearly wasn’t working at idle on either CPU. ![]() In the big graph, I check out idle power draw as well as the power pulled when running wPrime. For power usage, I use our Kill-A-Watt to measure the total power pulled from our test bench in three situations. Especially with the 65-watt TDP that both CPUs have listed. Being budget-focused, both the 3300X and the 3100 aren’t likely to be a big concern. Depending on your build, power usage and thermals could be the most important aspect of a CPU (like in SFF builds) or not important at all. ![]()
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