Never mind, found the problem. According to the article I found, my mobo has a poor vcore voltage regulations. At any amount of OCing the vcore voltage will rise to 1.4v. Manually setting the voltage did nothing.
At stock it stays under 1.2v. Both the CPUZ and AMD Ryzen Master confirmed it.
Funny, it doesn't show them while stress testing.
I never trusted Ryzen Master. Granted I used it basically on launch day and it was giving me weird quirks so I just use BIOS.I read something interesting. It says that the program AMD Ryzen Master will set the Vcore voltage to 1.3v before you do anything with OCing.
Using it to see results is moot. CPUz speaks the truth.
I think I ran 3.8GHz at stock voltage on my 1700 and I'm pushing way more cores/threads. Ryzen is super easy to get to 3.8GHz but it's when you get near or past 4.0GHz that you really gotta crank the voltage. Kinda happens all at once. Most Ryzen chips from what I've seen on boards across the internet seem to indicate you can usually undervolt at stock clocks or use stock voltage at a higher frequency easily.You're right. Bumped it to 3.8 Ghz and the Vcore is pretty much the same. Temps at 35c at idle. No alarm sounded yet.
You could probably click the multi one or two more at that voltage, most of the Ryzen don't have an issue getting to 3.8 at least.
I'd just be familiar with how to clear CMOS for when it hard locks when overclocking too high.
Also, you would get a noticeable amount of additional graphics performance by adding another stick of RAM.
Ballistix Sport LT 8GB Single DDR4 2666 MT/s (PC4-21300) DR x8 DIMM 288-Pin Memory - BLS8G4D26BFSE (Red)