Never buy AW junk ever!!! They messed with firmware and limited all possible overclocks and performance. Its thanks to Prema my AW can run at max speed w/o firmware pulling the performance of CPU to 800MHz and GPU to be 650MHz during heavy loads.
I can understand your frustration at not being allowed to overclock or do anything else you like. Why I'm wondering is, why overclock at all? You need to invest in a better CPU cooler (or should), plus there is a greater tendency for instability. Do you really notice speed increases in real life or only on benchmark tests?
I got 2080 ti + 1700x, at default it does not boost above 3.4ghz during my workloads, in games like BF5 I do get chopped performance because of my cpu, putting it at 3.85 lessens the low dips quite substantially.
However it's slightly unstable, 3.75 is very easy to achieve on my chip.
I almost always recommend getting a proper cooler if you want a silent pc that doesnt rev up during games and such. Especially annoying in VR.
Overclocking is also a fun hobby. Had a blast with 3570k and its watercooling. In all honesty, that chip overclocked ran vr games better than my current 1700x.
However, I can really only recommend overclocking new parts if you are at the absolute peak currently.
Like at the time i bought my chip there was not really any other cpu that was better for consumers, unless you wanted something like 7980xe, and we all know the prices of those alongside motherboards.
New parts nowdays usually have overclocking features that are better than what you can achieve by hand.(Unless you know exactly what you're doing, like which subtimings for ram do more difference than others)
My friend bought a system with B450+AMD 3600. I cant recommend him to overclock, just because the out of box self-overclock is good enough. Especially if you lower the vcore offset by -30mV until it gets unstable, then increase it by +15mV. Then increase current capability to 130%, if on Intel increase extended boost capability as well.
This will decrease temps slightly, and will allow it to boost even more than stock.
My plan with my current system is to retire it and replace my server and slap esxi on it and use it for virtualization. My current server does see choking when hosting games, doing backups, and having VM's for other services.
I should invest some time learning docker, but havnt had the willpower for it.
My old server isnt really bad in itself as long as i adapt myself to it, it's just very limited in expandability in terms of storage/pcie/powersupply as everything is proprietary.
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