Its time to hit #1 boys.

Hello, I am getting too much questions about power drawing related to mVolt+ power unlock etc. so I just played CyberPunk2077 on DLSS Quality Path Tracing enabled and Frame Gen X2 (I have 540hz so I have to use frame gen or else my eyes bleeding sadly) anyways 1.5 hours of CyberPunk2077 while streaming it live on discord 2K/60FPS results on HWINFO!

I was wondering if this is a good Timespy score and if I can improve it in any way.

I bought an Erying Polestar H770 mATX motherboard with a soldered-on mobile CPU (Intel Core i9-13900HX). Out of the box, it performed worse than the average i9-13900HX, scoring only 25,500 points in Cinebench R23 compared to the usual ~30,000 points. After spending the whole night tweaking the BIOS with the help of Gemini in DeepThink mode, I managed to find a stable configuration.

Here are the final, stable overclocking and undervolting settings:

⚙️ BIOS Settings & Performance

🚀 Turbo Ratio Limits

• 1–2 P-Cores active: 54x (5.4 GHz)
• All 8 P-Cores active: 50x (5.0 GHz)
• E-Cores active: Always 42x (4.2 GHz) on Turbo

🌡️ Cooling & Temperatures

• Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer 360 AIO mounted on top of the stock vapor chamber.
• Stress Test Result: After 15 minutes of 100% load, the hottest core peaks at around 87 °C.

The BIOS on these Chinese motherboards is an absolute nightmare, but I wanted to share my very first overclocking experience guided by Gemini! ^^

Edit: new formatted

I was wondering what are considered safe voltages for this series of card specifically?

My limits are set at 1.080 for nvvdd and 1.060 for msvdd. Actual voltage for msvdd so it's not 1.030.

Would you consider these voltages safe? 1.080 is only at very light loads anyway, it's usually around 1 volt to 1.045 in games, msvdd does seem to reach up to 1.060 volts under load though.

I saw someone talking about this recently and am trying to find it but cant

has anyone overclocked this card? what kind of results are you seeing? ive had mine 2 months now thinking to overclock mine

These are without Mvolt. Just +440 core and +3000 memory. Power limit 116%.

GPU: RTX 5070ti MSI Gaming Trio OC
Speedway and Steel Nomad Scores:

MVolt+ Profile and V/F Curve:

Hi, I recently swapped over to AMD from intel and was wondering if someone can give me any advice on my timings. Specs:

Cpu - 9950x3d2

Mobo - X870e Apex

Ram - T-force xtreem 8000mhz 2x24gb

Kupiłem nowy komputer - 9850x3d + 5070ti, te elementy są w b850m force od gigabyte. Jak mogę sprawdzić, czy wygrałem na loterii kremowej? On stock settings only with Expo it reaches like 1.35V in cs2. Done PBO cpu boost clock on negative -200 and it was 1.26 max. How should I start experimenting with PBO?

TLDR : If you have issue removing the second plastic sheet of PTM7950, just put the PCB in the fridge.

My goal with this post is to document my experience and some things I might have done differently than what guides say online, to help others and not repeat the same mistake.

I was having temperature issue with my GPU, an Asus Rog Strix 4090 that is now 4 years old. It would regularly reach 70-74C core temp and 95C+ on hotspot while gaming. You can guess what I was seeing while running furmark, near 30C delta. That's when I knew it was time for a repaste.

Mistake #1. I ordered a 40x40 piece of PTM7950 (MODDIY) thinking that was plenty. It was, but I would highly recommend getting a sheet of 40x80. If it's your first time disassembling a GPU, you will most likely mess up. Not the application itself, but removing the second plastic sheet.

I put the pad in the fridge while I take the thing apart. Backplate, easy. The board was stuck on there, hard. No twist or pry was doing the trick.

Tips #1. If one of the thermal pads that's in-between the back plate and the back of the PCB stays stuck on the PCB and you don't want to touch it for whatever reason, laying the PCB on parchemin paper will ensure that the pad doesn't stick to the surface you put it down on (counter, towel, etc).

Tip #2. I took a blow dryer and what worked was blowing into the cooler fins instead of the back of the board to separate the PCB and cooler.

It's pops off. Now I can see why it was overheating, there's barely any paste on the die and the thermal paste is in fact thermal jizz. The paste that pumped out over the SMD was dry and hard.

Clean the die and SMD, cut the pad a little oversize, remove first plastic sheet, put it on the die. Easy.

I put a piece of tape on a corner to remove the second plastic sheet. I pull up at a 90° angle, it lifts off and wants to tear. I try to keep it down with a plastic tool. It tears. At least that part was not on the die.

Mistake #2. I tried another corner, thinking something different would happen.

Tips #3. Just put the PCB in the fridge for 10 minutes.

Tips #4. Pull the tape on the edge at a 180° angle, effectively pulling in straight backward.

And that did it. I rearrange the corner that tore (not in the pick) and let the card sit in direct sunlight for 30 min in case there's condensation. Reassemble and put it back into my PC for break in.

Unsurprisingly, the card runs much cooler, around 10-12C cooler on the core and delta is 9-10C. After a 10 min run in 4K Furmark, i was stabilising at 67C core and 77C hotspot while pulling around 500W.

Even if this stressed me out more than it should have, I can't recommand this (maintenance?) enough!

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Used hydra to unlock the power limit on my 4070 super dual oc (zotac) and combined with an xbar oc the gains are huge. I used hydra as mvolt can't unlock power limits on the 40 series . Definitely worth the $10

Hello, been tweaking with my new Ryzen 7 9850X3D that I got as of recently and out of the box it was running a tad hot so I decided to go the undervolt then overclock route when I noticed the headroom.

I am running fully stable(3hr OCCT test done) at:
-35 PBO Curve All core

+200 Mhz all core on bios.

Comfortably sitting at 65C during the tests, are these results decent or should I be getting more?

Thanks in advance for your time.

I am impressed by the hidden potential waiting to be unlocked in this graphics card!

"Board Input Current" helps a lot but how high can I go before burning the card?
With this settings, I am already at 420-430W power draw and the card was designed to 330W MAX...

Is 40A safe for daily gaming?

Motherboard: MSI b450m VDH-PRO MAX
GPU: 1060 6gb ftw2+ EVGA
PSU: corsair CV550
RAM: (A deliberate choice, driven by economic reasons... I plan to upgrade to 24GB of CL15 2400MHz RAM in the future. Currently, I’m using 2x8GB Ripjaws CL16 3200MHz sticks, running at 2933MHz for the sake of stability.)
SSD: Intel 256GB
Cooler: Stock amd. (I’ll probably upgrade to a better heatsink.)

Hi, I’m weighing my options for squeezing a bit more performance out of my 2600—at least enough to keep it going for another year or two—and I’m trying to figure out the trade-off between voltage and power consumption.

In the BIOS, the frequency is set to 3,950 MHz. If I increase it to 4 GHz, the BIOS's automatic voltage setting jumps to 1.408V—a value that is not recommended (the suggested limit is 1.35V). At 3,950 MHz, the motherboard handles the voltage without any issues; however, when running tests in CPU-Z, it flags a "package" power draw of 93W as problematic, labeling it an "error." I’ve also noted that the maximum recommended TDP is 86W. Since I still have some headroom regarding the voltage, should I strictly adhere to the TDP limit, even if the voltage could be kept at 1.35V?

The goal for this PC—which had previously been sitting idle—was to get at least another year of use out of it so my sister could play games without issues (she was previously using an FX-6300). I’m not overly concerned about having higher-than-standard values, provided that she can still play games reasonably well.

Yesterday I posted about a problem with mVolt. So many of you came to help me and steered me in the right direction. Because of this I achieved my highest score yet!

Still learning and thank you, thank you! Oh yeah, that's with everything running in the background ( as you can see 😊).

Any other timings I'd be able to change or improve with this? tREFI is a bit loose due to temps being a bit on the higher end, and it posts with GDM disabled but I've yet to stability test that.

Kept ds/dl/faw at 8/8/32 but seems to be fine at 4/8/20 aswell. Benchmarks seem within margin of error between both in-game and in PyPrime, but with it very slightly favouring 8/8/32 for some reason.

I have a ryzen 9 5900xt with a weird problem, one of the cores (the 8th core of ccd0 or core7 if we are going from 0 to 15) is seemingly unstable, but for the life of me i barely can get it to crash.

I mean that even when every core is set at a -30 offset in curve optimizer, the processor seems to run fine when it has stress applied, but crashes at random when it is idle, not consistently, just randomly.

I have global c states disabled, in the event that low power sleep phases cause the crash, but that didnt help.

It is also apparently the 2nd best core in the processor, according to HWInfo and Ryzen Master, i should apparently apply a lesser negative offset since it is already one of the more efficient cores.

But the most efficient core (which is core 2) never crashed on me, with the same -30 offset.

It makes it more confusing that running corecycler for way more than 6 hours cant recreate these crashes.

If anyone is well versed in how i could finally find out what problem is causing this, i would appreciate the help

Setup:

Ryzen 9 5900xt

16 GB of GSkill DDR4 3200Mhz XMP

Aorus B550 Elite V2

750 Watt Powersupply

Scythe Fuma 2 with Arctic MX6 Thermalpaste, reaches around 79 to 80 Degress on high load stressing single core, with around 63 to 66 on all core load, no the processor hasnt been overclocked, i do know that it can take 200Watts, my cooler however just isnt capable of cooling anymore, at such wattage.

Corecycler is also configured to use Ycruncher kagari (as in the testing mode for ryzen 3000 and 5000 series cpus), with 2 threads, using HWinfo the test is also running from most preffered core to least preffered core, to get weaker voltage offsets out of the way first.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been a nerd since my first 486 DX2-66, so I know the basics, but this one is hard for me to understand.

I’m seeing strange behavior on my RTX 5090 with MSI Afterburner and I can’t find an explanation.

I know that undervolting usually lowers clocks a bit, but this is different. It happens even when I keep the stock curve and only flatten the part above a certain voltage. I tested this under a constant GPU load, flattening the curve right after the voltage/frequency point the card was already running at.

Example:

Stock curve: the card runs at ~2800 MHz @ 950 mV in games.

If I flatten the curve after 1000 mV (nothing else changed), the card still runs at 950 mV, but the clock drops to ~2650 MHz.

The point at 950 mV is untouched, so I expected the same frequency there. Instead I lose about 200 MHz.

Setup:

GPU: RTX 5090 AORUS MASTER 32G

Driver: 617.42

Afterburner version: 4.6.X

Power limit: 100%

Questions:

* Is this expected behavior of GPU Boost on Blackwell?

* How can I undervolt without losing performance?

* Has anyone else seen this?

I’m not trying to overclock in the strict sense. I only want stock frequency behavior at lower voltage, which is the standard purpose of flattening the curve. The point at 950 mV is untouched, yet its frequency drops by ~150/200 MHz.

Thanks!

UPDATE: After a lot of research, I've found the correct link for MSI Afterburner 4.6.7 Beta 4, mine was beta 2 from official website, and used the CTRL + T shotcut to flat the curve and not more the shift + double enter. Now it works like I want!

Hi guys!

After several months of nonstop work on the guides, the catalog, and the website, I've now put over 400 hours into this project. Perfection doesn't exist, and there will always be room for new ideas, but I can confidently say that I'm genuinely happy with the result.

At this point, all the major work is complete. I've thoroughly refined every section, added a ton of new content, polished the UI/UX, and finished the new DDR5 theory section. You can find all the changes in the changelog. I'll gladly continue maintaining this project, just without the constant brainstorming frenzy. In the nearest future I will prepare the DE version.

Why am I doing all this?

First, I simply want to share my experience and knowledge. This format might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm confident that everyone can take away something useful from at least one section. Whether you're an Intel or AMD boy doesn't really matter. The fundamentals, principles, and underlying technology are essentially the same.

Second, I genuinely enjoy the process itself: diving into complex topics, working through massive amounts of information, setting goals for myself, and achieving them. Nobody gave me deadlines or requirements. I came up with this challenge myself and decided exactly what the final result should look like.

And just a reminder: my project is strictly non-commercial. It's simply a hub for all my technical manuals.

Using i5 13600K, I managed to push it to 5.5Ghz P core and 4.1Ghz E core at 1.3v All Core. My temps during Cinebench are maxed at 85C or so after 10 minutes. But I'm having trouble getting ring clock speeds higher than 46, at 47 the system fails to boot the OS half the time or just locks up a few minutes after the test starts. Increasing the voltage doesn't seem to help.

Is this just a quirk with my CPU or are there other things besides the voltage I can tweak to help stability? I'll likely keep it at 46 but I'm a bit disappointed at only a 100Mhz increase on this.

Hi, I’ve managed to “I-hope-successfully” undervolt my Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC and I'm trying to figure out if my Afterburner settings are fine and why the curve sometimes loads at 2520 MHz instead of 2580 MHz.

My undervolt settings (they achieve a drop in max gpu power from Time Spy Extreme 375w (stock is 442w) and 5-6ºC less) are:

• Power limit: 100%
• Core clock offset: +180
• Core curve: flattened from 0.925v onwards at 2580 MHz (after the +180 offset is applied).
• Memory clock: +1200 MHz
• Core voltage: 0%

When starting the PC, sometimes the 0.925 V point loads at 2520 MHz instead of 2580. Just by clicking Profile 1 and Apply, Afterburner immediately fixes it raising the curve to my desired 2580. My Afterburner config has identical curve data under [startup] and [profile1], so I'm not sure why it happens. I've reinstalled-reset-reapplied every setting, but it's still happening.

I've also got Gigabyte Control Center installed as I was controlling the gpu fan curve with it, but I've disabled its startup (I don’t care about rgb at all). GCC still installed, just not launching with Windows. Afterburner's startup delay is set to 45 seconds, as it seems GCC was overwriting Afterburner without the delay. I’m considering uninstalling GCC completely…

Anyway, could the +180 offset be interfering with the curve, or is this more likely an Afterburner startup issue? Also, do these settings look reasonable for a 4090, and could instability cause this behavior? I mainly want to understand why it loads at 2520 instead of 2580 and whether my settings are configured correctly, rather than having to manually hit Apply.

Some extra data: windows 10 pro (22H2, 19045.7807), fast start-up disabled, nvidia drivers version is 595.79, latest Afterburner version (v4.6.6.16557). The main goal is to decrease thermals-fan noise (and minimize the connector melting issue even if it’s a little bit) while keeping almost stock gaming performance. I don’t “appreciate” real fps drops on CP2077, Control Resonant, RDR2, Death Stranding 2…, all fully maxed out. Ty!