How to Overclock Your AMD Ryzen CPU On Linux | Linux Today

How to Overclock Your AMD Ryzen CPU On Linux

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Nick Congleton
Sep 1, 2017

AMD’s Ryzen CPUs were designed to be overclocked. They’re excellent at it, and they benefit greatly from it. Most Ryzen CPUs can even overclock a few hundred MHz using a stock cooler. That’s impressive no matter how you look at it.

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