User Guide

AMD Ryzen™ Master Overclocking User’s Guide

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Important Information

Chapter 7 Important Information

7.1 AMD Ryzen™ Master Automatic Update

AMD Ryzen Master 1.1.0 forward provides automatic notification of updated software if the

system is connected to the internet. AMD recommends upgrading your AMD Ryzen Master

installation for the latest features. Note that some features may require motherboard BIOS support

from your motherboard vendor.

Upon installation of Ryzen Master 1.1.0 or later, Windows Task Scheduler is configured to run the

Ryzen Master AutoUpdate.exe, found in the Ryzen Master install directory, every 15 days. If a

new version of Ryzen Master is available, the user is notified through a Windows pop-up stating

that "AMD Updates Available."

7.2 Windows

Power Options

For workloads that can use the full thread capacity of the CPU, the OS power policy should be set

to “High performance” or "AMD High Performance" options by the user for maximum

performance. For workloads that don’t stress the thread capacity, the OS power policy can be left

in “Balanced” mode for marginally lower idle power and temperature.

7.3 AMD Ryzen™ Master Processor Resource

Consumption

Since AMD Ryzen Master is an application and samples many processor parameters to display

real-time performance information, it consumes processor resources but presents a light load at

idle. You may notice AMD Ryzen Master taking slightly more resources as a percentage when a

heavy workload is running, such as a highly-threaded benchmark. The multi-thread workload of

Maxon’s CINEBENCH benchmark is a good example of this behavior. This is due to the

operating system’s higher overhead of thread-context switching between AMD Ryzen Master and

the other workload.

If a highly-threaded application can consume all available thread capacity and maximum

performance is important, you have several options:

1. If you are using an application to test stability and need AMD Ryzen Master open to continue

optimizing the overclocking configuration, you can lower the AMD Ryzen Master process

priority as follows:

• Open Windows 10 Task Manager

• In the Applications tab, locate and right-click on the Ryzen Master Application icon and

select 'Go To details' from the menu. You will be taken to the Details tab and the Ryzen