overclcoking

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hi I have the intel core i7 12700KF I just wanted to know if its a good idea overclocking the e cores instead of p cores thanks in advance  

 

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Overclocking the E cores benefits Cinebench and that's about it. The P cores are where the noticeable performance games come from, depending on what you're doing. There is an argument to be made for, if overclocking for just a gaming system, to disable the E cores because you can raise the Uncore significantly higher thanks to that (very beneficial for anything that requires memory bandwidth), though it depends what you're doing for what is the best core config for daily operation. 

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21 hours ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Overclocking the E cores benefits Cinebench and that's about it. The P cores are where the noticeable performance games come from, depending on what you're doing. There is an argument to be made for, if overclocking for just a gaming system, to disable the E cores because you can raise the Uncore significantly higher thanks to that (very beneficial for anything that requires memory bandwidth), though it depends what you're doing for what is the best core config for daily operation. 

so for gaming it would not be that significant basically. 

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4 minutes ago, swabro said:

so for gaming it would not be that significant basically. 

It would be unmeasurable at best. If a game is touching the E cores, you've got a problem. Basically no games use more than 8 cores (the amount the P cores have), so if they're using the E cores something went wrong with the scheduler, they should run exclusively in the P cores.

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oh ic ty for the advice