Overclocking
Overclocking
When we reviewed the Ryzen 1800X, I was very impressed with just how easy the chip was to overclock. With a simple voltage increase, the chip was able to hit an impressive 4.1GHz with ease, giving a huge boost to performance. It did seem the chip wanted to go much higher, but cooling limitations were causing it to throttle. The same is pretty much true of the Ryzen 1700, and while it is the bottom chip of the range, it still hits an impressive 4.0GHz, although it still took the same 1.488V on the CPU to reach it as we did with the 4.1GHz on the on the 1800X. Either way, this is straight up free performance, and as you saw in the testing, it turned a pretty dull chip into one that very closely matched the 1800X in most of our tests.
Hard to take ANY of this seriously when you suspect thermal throttling at the end because of inadequate cooling. If the chip was throttling from the get go then every single bench mark was null.
Put a better cooler on and retest…
Huh? A 240mm CLC + one of the best conventional thermal compounds in the world is “inadequate cooling”?
Very first paragraph you wrote 1700X but you meant 1700. Didn’t read other comments to see if this has been mentioned.
He should listen you … Coz there are more typo errors …
Hard to take a article seriously when theres as many errors in it as this… one of the charts isn’t even right, and I’d question some of the results compared to the 1800X too.
maybe in may, ram issues cleared
Really bad review…
Only review that has a big difference between 1700 and 1800x OC. And the only review where the 1800x is at the top of the chart. And how does 2.5% of clock turns into + 12% performance?????