punkdthrice

Budget (including currency): $500 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: COD Warzone and Multiplayer Esports games. Other details I'm willing to upgrade the CPU for max performance/efficiency. Both will be paired with an 970 Evo SSD, DDR4 3600CL16 and GTX 1080 Ti. I have 2 motherboard CPU combos. Asrock Z590 PRO4 + i7 10700K Asrock B450 Gaming K4 + Ryzen 5600 Both are paired with an 970 Evo SSD, DDR4 3600CL16 and a GPU - GTX 1080 Ti will be swapped accordingly. Which one should I keep for daily use? i7 10700k Pros: 8 cores 16 threads, Lower memory latency, HW encoding, Better optimization and compatibility with applications. Cons: Worse Single thread, Very High Power Consumption. Ryzen 5600 Pros: Higher Single thread, Much Lower Power consumption. Cons: Only 6 core 12 threads, No HW Encoding, Higher memory latency My 10700k is configured to run 125w/229w PL1/PL2 and the power draw is double the amount of the 5600 which heats up my room significantly. However the 5600 at roughly 70w gets higher Single thread and equal Multithread scores in Cinebench at half the power draw. The 10700k system does feel more snappier and responsive due to its higher core count. I am only running the 5600 on a B450 so I don't know if I'm losing any performance that way. I only intend to use this for Gaming and Discord. I won't be upgrading my 1080 Ti for awhile. I have both platforms in hand. Which platform do I keep for the long term? I am strongly considering getting a 5700x to get 8 cores on the AMD platform and selling the Intel platform just because of the Power consumption problem. Please help me decide. Any advice would be appreciated!

I understand your point. But I do want as much free performance I can get. I’m not aiming for higher clocks either. Since I already managed a stable overclock I just want to know if it’s safe to stick with it at that voltage that it won’t damage my CPU in the long run.

I’ll be using the PC mostly for gaming. Would you prefer me dropping the voltage down to 1.30v instead? I think it might crash because I’ve played with offset voltage which required me to go above 1.35v dropping down to 1.29v and still be unstable. So I’m not very confident I can get a lower voltage out of it. Maybe 1.310 but is that really necessary? I just want to be safe so I might test it again tomorrow at 1.31v.

I recently started overclocking my i5 6600K. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z170-XP SLI BIOS v.F6 using a Hyper 212 Evo. At first I tried to use Offset mode +0.035mv (no adaptive on this MB) with LLC set to high and and got 1.35v in CPU-Z with droops down to 1.29 which was causing my system to be unstable during stress testing. So I decided to use fixed voltage. I manually entered a 44x mulitplier to apply 4.4ghz and 1.32v manual fixed voltage. I ran a 6 hour prime95 test and it was stable so I upped the multiplier to 4.5ghz and crashed 3 hours into stress test. I dropped it back down to 4.4ghz and so far I'm 14hrs into a prime95 v28.10 Blend test and it seems very stable. No crashes. Temps maxed out at 80c, usually its around 65c-70. I understand prime95 produces really unrealistic temps compared to real world usage. Aida64 gets max temp of 70c. Is it okay to leave my clocks and voltage at this rate and run the computer 24/7? I have the computer on for 12 hours a day with 3-4 hours of gaming a day. I know I can drop the voltage down to something like 1.28-1.3v and see if its stable but I don't want to spend so much time dropping 0.02v and waiting for a system crash only to do it again by increasing the voltage by 0.01v. I just want a good OC and voltage in a safe zone and be done with it. Basically I don't want to spend much time testing my chips potential. So my question is if this OC 4.4ghz@1.32 is okay to run 24/7? Keep in mind i'm running a fixed manual voltage at 1.32v even during idle. I'm not too concerned about power consumption, CPU longevity is most important to me. What is usually the voltage at when OCing to this frequency? Just wondering how my chip compares to others? I know it's not a great OC based on reading online.