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Hey - sorry I didn't see this to respond sooner. I'l preface my response with I'm not an expert overclocker and anything you do is at your own risk etc as you can run into issues which will need you to do CMOS resets etc if it goes wrong. That said here's my experience: Previously I have a basic tier B450 board and 3700x and other than turning PBO on I didn't get very far with overclocking. My results have been much better on 5600x and my new x570 Unify motherboard. Key things I've done (all in BIOS except power plan): 1) Set PBO mode to advanced to allow manual control of settings 2) Add manual power control PBO settings Set wattage limit top 350W (5600x will never reach this) Set the other 2 specific manual settings to 220A This should take away any hard limits on power for the overclock - I leave all other thermal protections etc on Auto so I think the chip should still be safe. 3) Set PBO Scalar to 4x I've seen some people recommend 10x but I have gone with 4x which I've seen recommended a lot. I have yet to test the diference at each step scientifically 4) Set manual PBO overboost to +200MHZ. This adds an additional 200MHz to your PBO boost speeds. So my 5600xz which should boost to 4.65Mhz now boosts to 4.85. Stability here probaly depends on chip silicon and motherboard quality, I think I was pretty lucky but I think most Ryzen chips seems to manage the +200Mhz. 5) Set Curve Optimiser. Ryzen is wierd that often it will boost higher and more consistently with less voltage. I believe curve optimiser is a way to under / overboost voltage per core. Typically applying a negative voltage offset helps chips boost higher and more consistently. Again this especially is silicon quality dependent. I have set all cores to -15 and it runs stable at that, I know some pople have to experiment more and adjust core by core (someone had one core which could not cope with more than -5 but other cores could do -10/-15 6) Ensure windows power plan is set to some kind of performance plan. The ones available depend on software and if you installed the Ryzen chipset drivers. Key is not to be on a power saving one. I had a problem with my chip not getting >2200Mhz and root cause appeared to be having the power saving power plan selected. As soon as I selected a high performance one it boosted properly! Most of my settings here have been stolen from other people on Ryzen 5000 PBO overclocking threads so apologies for not being able to explain these better. They should at least give you a start on which things to look out for. As an aside I have found my latest Unify bios allows me to go above the +200Mhz extra boost. Windows won't load above +300Mhz but I can get in at +300Mhz and my chip boosts to 4.95Ghz gets an insane CPU Passmark single thread score of 3706. It isn't stable in games though so for now I've dropped to +200Mhz as I doubt the extra performance is meaningful in the real world and I'd rather a stable setup. WIth your RAM already running at 3800Mhz speed I think there's little likely additional benefit to be gained from super tight timings so I think PBO settings is your best additional perfortmance increase opportunity. Hope some of this was useful!

Here's my 5600x's result. Overall CPU score is much lower as you'd expect but seems to have an awesome single core score. I'm only running my 32 GB memory kit at 3200 speeds as I've had some issues recently with Bios versions. Might be able to get it a tiny bit higher once I can get my 3800 settings back and stable. I'm running ultra power plan with +200Mhz PBO overboost, manual PBO limits and a negative 15 all core curve optimiser.

Jakey-poo, One thing thats worth checking is the speed setting your memory has been configured to. "Out of the box" the memory config in a new ryzen computer can often be at a default value which is way under the speed your memory could run happily at. Often its set at 2133Mhz which could seriously hurt performance in games. Most Ryzen systems like to have memory at 3200MHz (or above)and this can often be very easily achieved by setting something called the XMP profile in the BIOS RAM settings. Forgetting to enable the XMP settings is something even experienced system builders forget once in a while. I think this is worth checking as your system is not miles away from mine (3700x/5700xt/32gb RAM @3600MHz) and while I'm struggling with VR, my non-VR performance is pretty good so I would think your system shouldn't struggle quite that much. DCS does like RAM though so if you check and you are already running your 16GB RAM @ 3200MHz XMP or above, an increase to 32GB is something that will help dcs, especially in multiplayer servers. HTH

Hi I have just received a G2 which will be first foray into VR. I'm afraid I haven't used it yet as I've been usper busy this week but here's a couple of quick answers. I can update after the weekend once I've used it. G2 has received mixed reviews about "tracking" but invariably these related to the tracking of the hand controllers. In games like beat saber but moreso FPS games holding the controllers close to the face or by your sides can cause a loss of tracking of the controllers (according to some people...) However assuming you play DCS with some kind of HOTAS this tracking is a non-issue to you ingame. The only tracking there that counts is the headset tracking which is generally considered to be very good, with points made above about needing some light in the room. In terms of pricing, it's been on pre-order for many months and only launched in the last 2-3 weeks, there's still a bunch of people who pre-ordered in July / Aug who are only just receiving them. Like the CPU / GPU/PS5 releases recently lack of demand leads to Ebay scalper prices System Active are the approved dealer for preorders in the UK but they have a big backlog of orders and enw ones are likely not fulfilled till next year. I have seen reports that HP UK are selling from their website with near immediate delivery, if they have any left they should be at MSRP. (Edit: Just realised it looks like you have already checked HP UK website) I can update with my new to VR experiences later this weekend, although I'm running it with a slightly underpowered GPU (5700xt) so not ideal. Hope this helps...

Thanks Jayroc - really appreciate the effort you have gone to! Is there any chance you have any comparative numebrs from your pre-upgrade GPU and CPU you could share so we can get a sense of what has driven the biggest uplift out of the CPU & GPU updates? From my perspective I currently have a 3700x and a 5700XT but with a Reverb G2 arriving next week for my first ever foray into VR I wanted to work out which upgrade (3700x to 5600/5900x or 5700xt to 6800xt) would offer the best uplift when considerd against value. Regardless of this - your insights above are already really appreciated.