Overclocking
Disclaimer: Overclocking is never guaranteed so that the results may vary depending on certain conditions and various hardware configurations. I am not recommending overclocking if you do not know what you are doing. High voltages may damage hardware, and it will not be covered by warranty.
As I mentioned earlier, there were no problems to reach our processor’s boost clock. However, because of the nature of the current Ryzen generation, we can’t count on significant overclock. Our results were limited because of the CPU to 4.35GHz what is still a pretty good result. For sure, the motherboard is not holding us back.
Much more fun we can have while overclocking RAM. The B550 PG Velocita offers a wide range of frequencies and a long list of available memory settings.
Depends on used memory modules, we can count on up to DDR4-5000+ at more relaxed timings or as low as CL14 at maximum frequencies with the infinity fabric ratio of 1:1, so as long as the CPU can handle, anything between DDR4-3600 and DDR4-3800.
Above is already a fantastic DDR4-5000 result, which isn’t easy to reach on most motherboards. For the tests, we had to use a higher binned Ballistix Elite memory kit with Micron E-die IC. If we use Samsung based IC, then we still can count on at least DDR4-4600 and tighter timings like CL16, which should give us higher performance. Soon we will see Zen 3 processors, which are promising higher memory frequencies with full support on the B550 chipset side.
