X399 OC Guide | Page 11

Step 4 (Success): Enjoy Overclock or Increase Frequency Congratulations, your current overclock is stable. You may want to try for a higher frequency. To do so, experiment with raising your CPU Clock Control and CPU Vcore settings either in BIOS or EasyTune and go back to Step 1 for stability testing to ensure that it’s stable. The below picture shows a 4.0 GHz OC on liquid cooling passing 1 hour of stability testing: Thermals We wouldn’t recommend you to use an air cooler to overclock an AMD Ryzen Threadrip- per processor, use a liquid cooler instead. These CPUs runs hot and even liquid coolers may not be able to handle the heat if voltage is very high or ambient temperature is very high. 10