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Mira Yurizaki
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Slight pet peeve:

 

When people think a < 500 MHz difference in a part that's already operating at > 4 GHz has an appreciable performance boost. Most of the time these days it's less than 10%.

 

To put it in perspective when the i7-2600K came out, people could get it up to 4.8GHz, which from the stock max turbo boost of 3.8GHz. This is a >25% uplift.

 

5.0GHz from 4.7GHz (what I commonly see out of an i7-8700K)? 6%.

  1. Cyberspirit

    Cyberspirit

    I'm just happy that I was able to get 4.125 MHz on all core instead of 3.8GHz. ?

     

    I can see where you are coming from but, can't say I don't enjoy messing with Overclocks even if I don't get much of a benefit.

  2. Mira Yurizaki

    Mira Yurizaki

    At the end of the day, whatever makes you happy is what counts I suppose :P

  3. Cyberspirit

    Cyberspirit

    I probably asked this before so, sorry but, what are you running your 2700X at?

    Since we have the same CPU and Mobo.

  4. Mira Yurizaki

    Mira Yurizaki

    I let the motherboard do it's thing and the highest I've seen it go is 4.3GHz.

     

    From what I read, I think XFR pushes the CPU so hard that makes basic overclocking a moot point.

  5. Cyberspirit

    Cyberspirit

    Yeah, it usually pushed it up to 4.3GHz on some cores but it maxed out on 3.8GHz on an all core load.

    Also, afaik, a super quick jump in Voltage won't hurt the CPU but, I really didn't like how high it got sometimes so, I just decided to go manual.

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