Lhakryma

Thanks for the input, thing is I already have the x470 I mentioned because it was on sale

Looking at the buildzoid video about it, it's apparently overkill vrm for what the ryzen 2000 has to offer, and people say that it's really good for the 3900x as well. Will it handle the 3950x?

So do y'all think the x470 aorus gaming 7 wifi will be good enough for the new 3950x?

So there's this article about 3900x ryzen cpus not getting the advertised boost speeds, and I talked about it with a friend. He suggested it may also be caused by the consumers having crap mobos with really bad VRM. Would that influence the ability of the cpu to reach the boost speeds?

So then why do I see gaming benchmarks for 3900x using 4.1ghz OC, instead of just letting it use boost, which goes to 4.6?

Could you please elaborate on that? So the boost clocks will be consistent with proper cooling?

What's bclk oc? I actually don't, TBH I recently started playing nms which maxes out literally every core on my cpu , I have an i5-4590 atm, wanna upgrade to 3950x for that sweet sweet multicore performance But from my experience, the majority of games (especially older ones) don't take advantage of all cores.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that boost is basically like OC, but not for all cores, but for a small number of cores (100% boost for the first one, 80% for the second one, etc.). So in that case, for example for the 3900x that supposedly has a boost of 4.6 ghz, why would I bother with OC for low threaded software like games? Wouldn't boost be more than enough, since it would basically go to ~4.6 -4.3ghz for the 1-2 cores the games actually use? From what I read, it should theoretically keep up the boost speed either until the load is down, or until it reaches a temp threshold (which with good cooling I'm guessing is never). So unless I want to go past that 4.6 cap, why would I ever bother with OC?