Allen
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The enthusiast motherboards make overclocking easy. But, as part of the company plan, AMD is going after enthusiasts and gamers. Hence, AMD is providing special overclocking software for Ryzen. Its optionally "per core" -- so one lesser-performing core will not hold back the entire CPU. Such software is not a new idea; but, its nice that Ryzen gets it too.
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AMD Ryzen Master Overclocking Utility Gives You Full Control of The High-End Chips – Per Core Clock Adjustment, Core Enable/Disable Feature, Full Voltage Adjustment And Much More
.. Per Core Clock Adjustment For All Ryzen Chips Enable / Disable / Set Core Count (0/2/4/6/8 as per needed) Step Size: +25 ~ +50 MHz increments for Non-X and +100 ~ +200 MHz increments for X series chips (TBC) CPU Voltage Adjustment MEM VDDIO Voltage Adjustment MEM VTT Voltage Adjustment (IMC) VDDCR SOC (PCH Voltage Adjustment) CAS Latency Adjustment Row Precharge Delay (15 bus clock @ standard) RAS Active Time (36 bus clock @ standard) Read Row-Column Delay (15 bus clock @ standard) Write Row-Column Delay (15 bus clock @ standard)
These are just the tuning options in the AMD Ryzen Master control panel and there’s more...