DingoFnBaby

Squeezed everything I could.. for 1997 tonight:

Damn. The MSI has such a thing as well, but I don't know what'd it do over the overclock features I have adjusted already. Peter

Fair enough I'm not above using some cold air.. my ambient in the garage is around 65-68, which is pretty reasonable.. I'll probably need to dial it down a little when the tilt swings the other direction. My issue AFAIK is really that the cooling loop doesn't have enough mass for the size of the radiator. Or more air needs to be pushed through it.. I have decent fans, but nothing esoteric. I don't need absolute top to feel decent about this rig

Yeah, closed everything I could.. except explorer and set Cinebench to real time. I'm thinking I'm close to the limit of what I can get on this rig, but maybe some tweaks can squeeze a few more. That puts me at 5th under you in 3rd on the current google doc's AM4 tab @nick name but at 4.35GHz vs your 4.435, I don't think I can get over 2k without bumping the clock. I did try running at 4.375 and couldn't get Cinebench to do anything other than lock up the computer until I pulled the power cord. I think I'm gonna have to live with sub 2k on Cinebench unless I want to roll the dice and swap CPU's for $300 a pop and I'm probably not that motivated. Since the cooler couldn't keep up with the heat generated for more than a couple of minutes, I'm also somewhat tempted to see what I can do to increase the cooling efficiency or swap to something that can offload more heat.. since I pretty much heated the entire loop to 70C within around 5 minutes. I could get creative and try and push some colder air through it, but right now everything runs inside the box and works for daily use Dingo

Even after uninstalling GE and rebooting, I ended up topping out on repeated runs at 1988 @NordernAttached, screenshots from MSI CC - replicated the same settings in bios to make it permanent. For a cooler, I'm using the Master Liquid ML360R RGB. Also, tried a Prime95 run with these settings and cooler - ended up hitting 80C at around 7 minutes and cut the test short there. I'm planning to drop it back down to 4.325 and see if I can get an hour, or lower until I can get at least an hour. Dingo

Fresh pull tonight with most things unloaded from memory.

Pretty happy for water cooler and nothing exotic including an OS with everything still running