Will the AMD Ryzen 3900x work on my x370?

The mobo will handle the power and the temps just fine.

Problem is nobody can tell if the chip and the BIOS support will allow such OC.

Zen 2 launched less than a day ago. More information will emerge vey soon.

The built-in clock boost already gets you almost all of the capability of the chip. Assuming that the X370 will support the 3900X at all, which I don't think we know for 100% sure yet, you will be able to overclock; the question is whether it will get you anything over and above stock clock boosting.

The notion of CPU's with massive overclock capabilities always sounded weird to me. If a particular chip can manage X GHz, why not boost it that way from the start, and price that binning appropriately? seems to me that's what AMD are doing with Ryzen, more and more with each generation.

Manual overclocking should work fine, it will take a bit more time and effort to set up your per core clocks etc but there is no reason you couldn't get the full performance out of even a 3900x. As xhue noted, you do not have PB2/XFR2 support on X370 (or any of the 300 series). I am curious what you will be able to do with Ryzen Master though, that may be a neat workaround.

Thanks xhue, I missed the bit in the op where he was looking to overclock to 4.6ghz.

4.6 on 1 or 2 cores should be doable, as I said, the overclock needs to be set properly 1 core = x, 2 cores = x/y 3 cores = y etc etc. From all the reviews I have seen and what reviewers have told me none of these will run at 4.6 on all cores, 4.3 seems to be the limit for most and that is on the new x570 boards. Possibly with exotic cooling and some insane voltages all core 4.6 may be attainable but hardly within reach of the average user.



Edited by Xaltar - 08 Jul 2019 at 9:57pm