Just noticed the price of the AMD 1700x is 60 bucks higher than the 7700k now. They was near identical prices when I first started putting this build together. May consider the 1700 since it is 90 bucks cheaper than the 1700x. Besides the clock speed, what is the main difference between the 1700 and 1700x? Could I easily overclock the 1700 to 3.4ghz or higher? From the researching I have done, the ryzen 7 series cpu's don't seem to overclock as well as the 7th generation intels. If I tried to reach an overclock of 4.0ghz on the AMD 1700, how hard would that be? Am I going to be pushing the chip to the limit? And could I easily do something wrong and mess it up trying to go that high?
Now I haven't done any overclocking for a few years so I will have to familiarize myself and read some guides on overclocking. I know in the past overclocking was done through the bios. Are there ways of overclocking through windows or is the bios still the best way to overclock?
4 Ghz is pushing the limit with the R7 series. You'll easily be able to hit 3.4 Ghz on all cores on the 1700, but pushing it to 4 Ghz may prove challenging.
@Darren got his to 3.9 Ghz I believe.
I pushed my 1700X to 4 Ghz before having to resort to unholy amounts of voltage (1.4v+) to get it over 4 Ghz.
There are ways to do it in Windows (depending on your motherboard manufacturer) but by far the best way is still to use the BIOS, and slowly raise the clock multiplier, testing for stability, and then adjusting voltage as needed.