CPB/Precision Boost meaning?

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Can someone explain me what the Core Performance Boost and AMD Precision Boost stand for?When should I enable/disable those options?

 

P.S I'm not going to OC my CPU for now

[Guest]

If you are not OC'ing leave those on. These basically mean that for example if your doing a single thread task, then the cpu boosts the one core to much higher frequencies than when it is off. It is useful for almost everything, so leave those on. When overclocking on the other hand, these might intefear with your Overclock, causing an unstable system.

 

[Guest]

Also if you have the r7 2700x you dont even need to overclock, as the precision boost/core performance boost 2.0 is so good.

[stealth80]

51 minutes ago, Some Random Member said:

Also if you have the r7 2700x you dont even need to overclock, as the precision boost/core performance boost 2.0 is so good.

Mostly true - unless you are doing workloads that utilise all 16 threads, in which case manual 4.2ghz will be faster - some clock to 4.3 all cores

[Guest]

Just now, stealth80 said:

Mostly true - unless you are doing workloads that utilise all 16 threads, in which case manual 4.2ghz will be faster - some clock to 4.3 all cores

Well in normal day to day usage it is faster.

[stealth80]

1 minute ago, Some Random Member said:

Well in normal day to day usage it is faster.

I've considered swapping to it from my 1700 for that reason, I play a lot of MMO's that aren't well optimised for more than two threads, the 2700x looks like it would kill my 1700 in these scenarios

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

I've considered swapping to it from my 1700 for that reason, I play a lot of MMO's that aren't well optimised for more than two threads, the 2700x looks like it would kill my 1700 in these scenarios

Yes the 2700x is much better in gaming, but i dont have that kind of cash laying around to change my 1700, and most of my workloads benefit from all 16 cores anyways. So if you have you might just change your cpu, but don't forget to update the bios beforehand.

[stealth80]

1 hour ago, Some Random Member said:

Yes the 2700x is much better in gaming, but i dont have that kind of cash laying around to change my 1700, and most of my workloads benefit from all 16 cores anyways. So if you have you might just change your cpu, but don't forget to update the bios beforehand.

Haha yes I know, it’s already on the lastest bios anyway, I’m always looking for improvements, latest is best allowing me 4ghz @ 1.37v and 3333mhz ram