Overclocking

Overclocking

Overclocking and tweaking then. Always invest in good hardware by the way (MOBO/PSU/Memory/Cooling), the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a good power supply and proper processor cooling. Overclocking with a more core processor (it doesn't matter if that is Intel or AMD) is often far more difficult than you expect it to be. 
  

For this Ryzen Threadripper based review, we'll use nothing more than a 280mm LCS cooler.
 

Overclocking multi and many cores on a high clock frequency with Threadripper is an easy enough job, and can be managed relatively easily from the BIOS. You can also use AMD's software tool of course. Threadripper is using binned dies, they only use the top 5% of dies. 

BIOS Overclocking

The Guru3D reader-base overclocks mostly from the BIOS to try and find the maximum stable limit. The generic overclock procedure for multiplier based overclocking is as follows:

• Leave base clock (bus) for what it is right now (100 MHz)
• Set the per core multiplier at a maximum of your liking:
• Example: 100MHz x 41 = 4100 MHz
• Increase CPU voltage; though AUTO works fine on many motherboards you can do it manually as well. Start at 1.35 volts (or voltage offset (start with +200Mv)) and work your way upwards into a state of equilibrium in perf and cooling temps.
• Make sure your processor is properly cooled as adding voltage = more heat
• Enable XMP/ DOCP on your memory kit (ours does 3200 MHz CL14)

We tried 4.1 GHz on all cores, that booted/worked but required significant more Voltage on the processor, and that also means more heat. 

So we had a CB15 4374 score at default, now tweaked we reach 4730cb, not bad.