Help overclocking on x370 Taichi

Hello there! I just built my very first PC. I have a x370 taichi motherboard updated to bios ver. 2.30, ryzen 7 1700cpu cooled by the led wraith stock cooler and 16gb ddr4 3600mhz corsair vengeance lpx ram. I'm a complete noob at overclocking so I decided to do a slight overclock especially since I am on the stock cooler. The thing is even though I go above 3.0ghz, on the "about" section on windows it still says that my cpu is running at 3.0. On Cinebench is the same thing and the benchmark results dont change even though I overclock it. On the BIOS it also says 3.0 but when I go to OC tweaker it still has the settings I changed... I dont know what Im doing wrong since O have seen many people overclock on the same mobo without any problems. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

Edited by Jag - 15 May 2017 at 12:16am

Hello. I was about to write and update saying tjat I was able to overclock. I think the problem was with the ram that was on the xmp profile. When I changed that to auto I had no issues overclocking.

datonyb wrote: let me make this sooooooooo very easy for you your exact board and a very easy to follow overclocking guide spoken in english and not pc geek-ish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Tw-wcT7o4 i have the same board and same cpu as you and instantly clocked it to 3.9 ghz at only 1.3 volts EDIT IN P STATES (your see him explain the pstates in video) i have 9c equals 3900 mhtz 27 equals 1.306 volts on main advanced screen i have cpu LLC set level 2 soc LLC set level 2 and soc volts set at 1.00v try that first

I had seen that video and that was one of the reasons I did not understand what was happening because I had followed the basic overclock steps he mentions. I just hadnt noticed that the Ram speed was at 3200mhz. When I lowered it I was able to overclock without problems. I successfuly clocked to 3.8 but the temps were too high. On 3.7 the temps were lower but too high still. I have it on 3.6 on stock voltages with 2900+mhz ram and on aida 64 stress test temps stayed between 70-72. I still need to check stability on prime95.

sorry for delay ive been away from pc for a day or two

my cooler is the excellent noctura vertical am4 specific cooler/heatsink (not the mini downdraft one)
and two front intake 120mm antecs
and one rear exhuast and one rear-top exhuast (both antec 120mm)
in an antec gx500 medium case
(all four case fans run on the case fan controllers and are set to low)