Different core multipliers?

[SeanBond]

I have never tried setting different core ratios on my cpu and kept them all at the same multipliers, but it is easy to get one core running incredibly fast if I keep the rest of the cores downclocked? For example should I easily be able to hit 5.2ghz one core one and have core 2-4 sitting at 2.8 ghz stable on a 4790k? Or is that all too difficult for an amateur overclocker because more complicated things are involved. 

[Lotus]

basically, no, because you'll need a higher voltage to hit that speed and while heat does increase proportionally with speed, it increased proportionally to voltage squared. 20% increase in voltage is 44% increase in heat. Overclocking limits are more closely tied to voltage causing more heat output than actual clock speed causing heat output.

[Aniallation]

I have never tried setting different core ratios on my cpu and kept them all at the same multipliers, but it is easy to get one core running incredibly fast if I keep the rest of the cores downclocked? For example should I easily be able to hit 5.2ghz one core one and have core 2-4 sitting at 2.8 ghz stable on a 4790k? Or is that all too difficult for an amateur overclocker because more complicated things are involved. 

Not really, if all the cores can't hit a certain frequency there's only a small chance that one core will. There are some times that this works, like when they hit 8.6GHz on two cores of an FX-8350, but that's liquid nitrogen shit

[i_build_nanosuits]

I have never tried setting different core ratios on my cpu and kept them all at the same multipliers, but it is easy to get one core running incredibly fast if I keep the rest of the cores downclocked? For example should I easily be able to hit 5.2ghz one core one and have core 2-4 sitting at 2.8 ghz stable on a 4790k? Or is that all too difficult for an amateur overclocker because more complicated things are involved.

X99 will let you do that and you'd be abble to cherry pick your best core and push it...but with Z97 it's random core taken so chances are you won,t be able to push it more.

[SeanBond]

Alrighty thanks for the replies. Just making sure, I was hoping to see what I could squeeze out of single threaded games that ran like poo by having a profile. You dream crushers