Returning to AMD on a Ryzen APU Part 3: Overclocking the Ryzen 5 3400G MANUALLY (Results and Rant)

So, I finally bought myself a higher wattage PSU (but a remarkable questionable 80+ bronze 450 watt PSU from EVGA) so I can overclock outside of PBO. Here's a set of quick and dirty settings to comfortably overclock a Ryzen 5 3400G. First order of business to to power off your computer, turn it again then enter the bios. Go to advance frequency settings (using a Gigabyte board btw) and change CPU clock, CPU voltage, GFX clock, GFX voltage. 

CPU clock: 4000mhz

CPU voltage: 1.35 (started at 1.3750)

Vega 11 clock: 1650 mhz

Vega 11 voltage: 1.3 

Vega 11 memory clock: 1600 mhz

Since you can't the GFX memory speed on the bios, you'll need to do the last part with RyzenMaster. Remember to only change this part in RyzenMaster:

I think you can get away with just the stock memory clock speed of 1333.

For some reason, my CPU voltage here is 1.45. Dunno if this refers to a cap value but certainly I did not set it to 1.45.

CPU-Z and GPU-Z for your convenience. 

For the fun part, here are results and evaluations. First off, we have our favorite Monster Hunter Online benchmark. I don't play the game and I'm not planning to. Just using the free standalone benchmark tool :P

Even with everything overclocked, this result is just 47 points more than 1525mhz/1600mhz settings we achieved though PBO.

If you've been in this blog for long, you do know I regularly play Black Desert Online. Here's how the stock wraith spire of an overclocked Ryzen 5 3400G stacks against BDO in medium settings (upscale enabled)

I'll buy an AIO next. 

This thermometer is situated directly above the power supply and directly below the wraith spire. Look at that internal case temps. I guess the XFan's included in the Deepcool Matrexx 30 isn't helping much. 

As you can expect, the thermals are rather dangerous, if not atrocious. VSOC can go up to 107c and I'm told it's safe until 120c. Talk about thermal headroom huh?

Interestingly, when I reduced the voltage from 1.375 to just 1.350, my 3DMark Night Raid results lowered.

And it got progressively worse this morning. It's almost toe-to-toe with just the PBO settings we had earlier. Though I'm not feeling much of a difference in Black Desert Online.

But mind you, my goal here isn't just to overclock the Ryzen 5 3400G for testing. But rather to beat or match the performance of a GTX-750ti. And I can say we're almost there, just need better RAM and cooling maybe.

Yeah, that 750ti was paired with an E5-2670.

So what can we take away from this? Where do we go from here?

We can still push this certain Ryzen 5 3400G past 4.00ghz if we have better CPU cooling and case thermals. Should have tried this on an open testbench with my Shadow Rock LP. Currently waiting for a compatible Deepcool Gammaxx 300R since the Matrexx 30 has rather lol maximum CPU cooler height limit. This probably isn't the last of this series lol.

Update

Got the Deepcool Gammaxx 300R installed and the 130w TDP tower style cooler does wonders. I don't want to say there's much overclocking headroom left. And Oh, did I mention after trying other overclocking settings on my Ryzen 5 3400G that it power cycled so much my Windows 10 got corrupted? Yeah. Anyway, results below. Fan curve is set to maximum as well. You couldn't fit a Gammaxx 400 much less a Hyper 212 so you're going to be stuck with a Gammaxx 300 or a Gammaxx S40. When am I getting sponsored by Deepcool lol.

Look at how fast that went down. Thank you tower coolers.

And that's it for this system unit. I'm getting an M22 soon but that's going to be after I complete a swap of this B450I Aorus PRO WIFI with a much fulfilling B450M Steel Legend from Asrock. Same case though lol.