It should be easy to do! Old, outdated 6 core chips are soooo last year.
i7-8700k 5ghz, 4.7ghz Uncore, 0 AVX Offset, 1.38v. High LLC (middle setting)
4023 Multi-threaded
528 Single-threaded
32GB 3 year old SK Hynix 3200 RAM (Corsair Vengeance LED) with crappy timings.
https://i.imgur.com/gSV9rKK.png
And here’s my also 3 year old AMD system:
Ryzen 5 1600 3.9ghz +0.156 Offset
2845 Multi-threaded
393 Single-threaded
16GB Also SK Hynix 3200 Corsair LPX with crappy timings.
https://i.imgur.com/VdMm7bz.png
Well, I’ve never had cause to do this, but I’ll play. 
Ryzen 5 3600 - stock everything - nothing tweaked
3532 Multi-threaded
481 Single-threaded
I was expecting the multi-threaded to be better - would my 2666 RAM have any bearing on that?
I should never have come here Sal … this is a work machine and I play only WoW, but after a lifetime in tech now you’re giving me the itch to tweak things. I don’t have time for this! 
Microcenter/PowerSpec: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, ASRock B450 Pro, 750W PSU, 16GB DDR4 2666 RAM, 500GB SSD, Nvidia RTX 2070 … Only thing I did was add a 1TB SSD.
When I bought it (Black Friday sale) it was cheaper than buying parts.
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I’m not sure how sensitive Cinebench is to memory (i don’t think it matters TOO much, but I did notice a small bump when going from 3200 to 3466 at same timings; can’t be sure if it was margin of error or actual gains, though), but I know in fact regarding actual real world performance, RAM can and does help.
Here’s a video that shows some differences for the Ryzen 5 3600
The difference is there, and perhaps doing some manual overclocking on your RAM would be helpful, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy new RAM to replace 2666. It seems 2666 seems to be pretty competent.
Tightening timings might be more important than the actual speed.
For my 1600, luckily, 3200mhz worked (more or less) out of the box. XMP didn’t work, but manual timings and speed entry (along with manual 1.4v DRAM, and 1.2v SoC) got it to run on my B450 board.
As far as overclocking Ryzen 3000, my understanding is the chips themselves are far more sensitive to voltage and degrade pretty fast when set to high fixed vcore. Where Zen 1 and + could do up to 1.45v without real worry of degradation, 1.3 seems to be the cutoff for Zen 2.
My friend has a Ryzen 7 3800x, and just turned PBO on. It doesn’t score super amazing in Cinebench vs. an all-core OC, but in actual applications the CPU dynamically boosts higher (in gaming anyway) than the all-core OC. So real world performance, PBO is a good choice if your cooling can handle it.
Thanks for that. I’ll watch the videos tomorrow - 12 hour plus day today and I need to get away from this desk… I do have Cinebench running on my old i5-4440 - I’ll come back and post the results if it finishes before I go to bed!
I do use PBO and a manual OC on my 2070 (yeah, it was YOUR FAULT … well you and your friends here).
Hey - another question: When your friend comes back, together will we be a Double-You? 
#momjokesftw
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You is both singular and plural. I think we’re okay.
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i9-9900k 4.8ghz, 32GB Corsair 3000 Ram
4872 Multi
493 Single
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Touche!
As promised, my old rig:
i5-4440 - 4 Cores @ 3.1 GHz
1183 Multi-threaded
297 Single-threaded
It was a workhorse and did well by me for many years! In fact, it has been repurposed and is downstairs, still at work right now.
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I was on an i5-4570 before my other systems. My mom now has it, and it still going strong as her office PC.
My “low temp” 5.1GHz OC (to reduce my AC use):
i7-8700k (delidded) at 5.1GHz, 1.325V, LLC 6
3200MHz CL14 DDR4 XMP Profile
ROG Strix z370-i
Fractal Celsius S24 240mm AIO
Multicore: 4087
Single core: 538
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Dang, you got lucky on that one! I need 1.425v to get 5.1ghz, just not reasonable.
1.38 5ghz is best i can do.
9700k OC
Multicore - 4116 @ 5.4ghz
Single Core - 563 @ 5.5ghz
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that OC is impressive!
I haven’t seen very many people go beyond the 5.3ghz realm on these chips.
OK, I’ll bite…
3900x, stock (PBO disabled) on X370 w/ 1.6GHz IF on air:
MT - 6,886 (peak 4.075GHz, 4.05GHz typical)
ST - 487 (peak 4.5GHz, 4.25GHz typical)
Now what?
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No point with Matisse. At best I’ll lower my ST by up to 8% for a maybe 2% gain on MT, since it’s likely only to hit ~4.2GHz all-core. Seems like splitting hairs to me.
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