Considerations about my OC and whether to include water cooling
Considerations about my OC and whether to include water cooling
Turbo mode at 4.5GHz applies only when a single core is loaded. With two cores, performance drops, and four cores under load drop to 4.2GHz. A 15-20% boost would be beneficial for free use, and this difference will become noticeable over time.
Notes:
Turbo mode 4.5GHz applies only when a single core is loaded. With two cores it drops, and four cores under load reach 4.2GHz. It’s helpful to have a 15-20% boost for free use. Eventually this will matter. It’s interesting to learn that the number of cores under full load influences turbo mode, which gives me some reassurance. I assumed turbo mode would overclock all cores to 4.5 during load, but a 12% increase is unclear—I’ll have to consider it. I aimed for about a 20% OC, which feels better than the 4.4% I expected, though still far from what I hoped.