Long duration package power limit

[HardStroke]

saw a video from optimum tech and in that video he shows some tips on how to overclock the cpu and ram

he showed an option thats called 'long duration package power limit' and its the setting that caps the watts that the cpu is requesting.

in that video he used a 10900k and he showed that with this setting left on default the 10900k used its rated 125w but when he set this option to an unlimited value (4095 in the video, technically it is unlimited) the cpu was using 198 watts

he used 2 different boards but you can see that in a blender rendering cycle the 10900k sustained a 4.9ghz clock when this setting was set on unlimited

do you think that changing this setting could actually increase overclock stability?

since my 10600k struggles at 4.9ghz and wont even boot at 5ghz, if ill modify it will this help the cpu hold higher clocks?

[Hairless Monkey]

7 minutes ago, HardStroke said:

do you think that changing this setting could actually increase overclock stability?

No. It will not help with stability. If anything, it makes the system less stable since it operates the CPU outside of the parameters set by Intel.

 

That being said, if you are overclocking you should remove the long and short duration power limits.

[Mateyyy]

It doesn't affect overclocking stability, it just means that PL2 (the short-term higher-than-TDP boost) will remain active even in long workloads. By doing this, you're practically "degimping" the CPU, since in extended heavy workloads it'll quickly drop clock speeds to maintain 125W package power by default.