So you can oveclock with a cheap AMD A520 chipset motherboard after all

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Last week AMD launched their budget A520 chipset for motherboards. You can run all modern Ryzen processors on it while the chipset is a bit more restricted, one of these restrictions is the lack of ability to overclock. Well, that's not 100% the truth at it seems, you can tweak.



Be advised though A520 motherboards will have very poor VRM designs not ready for tweaking. A specific Gigabyte motherboard at the very least allows overclocking. This concerns the A520M-H, which was tested with earlier f1 firmware. In the video below you can observe a Ryzen 5 3600 is boosted to 4389 MHz on all cores. The base clock was increased to 108 MHz, with a CPU clock ratio of 40.50.

It is not known whether this is also possible on other motherboards, or whether it only concerns this specific model. The source also used an older firmware version, so there is also a chance that Gigabyte has terminated this loophole again with an update. Regardlessly of how interesting you fins tweaking to be ... it might be worth to check out.



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