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Will overclocking the cache frequency of my CPU have any meaningful increase in performance or should I just leave it at stock speed?

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never heard of ppl OC the cache before

 

but I can say the difference is very small and may be pointless

 

correct me on this

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Will overclocking the cache frequency of my CPU have any meaningful increase in performance or should I just leave it at stock speed?

Cache doesn't have a separate frequency to be honest. I believe you are probably referring to the base clock, or BCLK frequency. I wouldn't recommend touching this unless you know what you are doing.

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Cache doesn't have a separate frequency to be honest. I believe you are probably referring to the base clock, or BCLK frequency. I wouldn't recommend touching this unless you know what you are doing.

No I'm referring to the cache multiplier. I can set a min and max multiplier which seems to default at 40. This is with the 4790k on Maximus VII Hero.

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No I'm referring to the cache multiplier. I can set a min and max multiplier which seems to default at 40. This is with the 4790k on Maximus VII Hero.

Got it. I would personally leave that alone, if there is an auto option, I would set it to that. Otherwise people have said that for overclocking the Cache ratio should be as close to the cpu multiplier for best performance, but that may cause an unstable overclock. As always YMMV.

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Got it. I would personally leave that alone, if there is an auto option, I would set it to that. Otherwise people have said that for overclocking the Cache ratio should be as close to the cpu multiplier for best performance, but that may cause an unstable overclock. As always YMMV.

Right. I guess I wasn't sure if I should try to keep it closer to my overclock. Set the min on auto and the max at 47 to match my turbo. I seem to be sitting really stable with what I have now at only 1.28 so I didn't want to push more if I didn't need to unless I would actually gain something.

CPU: AMD 5950X    MB: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero    RAM: HyperX Predator 64GB    GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti FE    SSD: Seagate FireCuda 530 2TB    
PSU: EVGA 1200w P2    COOLING: EK AIO Elite 360    CASE: Fractal Design Torrent    DISPLAY: LG CX48 4k OLED    AUDIO: HIFIMAN Arya SE

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