AB350 Cool & Quiet breaks overclock

I agree with everything you said. I never said it should be perfect, but rather am listing some of the current short comings for awareness and looking for answers from the community that already exist. As far as HEDT, don't know if 6600K is considered part of the HEDT since it is unlocked, but my 6600K running a 4.5 uses SpeedStep without issue currently. It's true that Ryzen is very new, but that will only hold for so long. One of the first things, since overclocking was mentioned for every Ryzen, would be tools to not just set an overclock but monitor said overclock. Yes it sees temps, hopefully correctly, but not current voltage or voltage changes that I've found in the tool. Also, setting via Ryzen Master may or may not be better, but I don't plan to activate a profile every boot; even in the short term. I did not like doing that for GPUs, and I doubt I'll start with CPUs ... IMO :) Fortunately, current BIOS settings on AB350 Pro4 works fine; other than AMD Cool 'n' Quiet. I can live without that feature. I'll keep the 3.8Ghz @1.325V with idle temps staying in the low 30s on a "free" 95TDP air cooler; water pending.

1.44 BIOS version just released today corrects Cool 'n' Quiet clock down when manually clocking. I don't think that they fixed it meaning that it won't down clock CPU, voltage does drop, but it no longer prevents a max of 2.7GHz regardless of the manual overclock when the voltage was set over 1.3v. 

Edited by mkmcgregor - 24 Mar 2017 at 9:48am

Guys and Gals(PC: Gals and Guys), is it OK, now with L1.44 out, that I can mark this [SOLVED] so that later comers here can see it instead of creating a new thread of their own?


Edited by wardog - 24 Mar 2017 at 11:59am

potyec wrote: Sadly looks like 4Ghz you need like 1.45++ volts . Even 1.455 v is not enough

With CnQ Enabled on AMD processors CnQ will slightly stymie an OC.

Are you able to match your OC a few posts up while disabling CnQ?