New buyers silicone in 3700x/3800x quality
New buyers silicone in 3700x/3800x quality
I have a brief inquiry for those who recently purchased a 3700x. How is overclocking working? Do you notice if the chip was superior at launch? Your feedback would be valuable. Thanks in advance!
I purchased my 3700X a few months back and initially reached up to 4250 MHz at around 1.2975 volts. Anything beyond that needs roughly 1.35v or more on the core to achieve stable performance, which isn’t ideal for me. I settle for 4.25 GHz instead. Unclear what was possible when it launched, but this is my current setting.
Got my 3800x at the beginning of July and the silicon in that compared to the 3600x i had before which was a few months after launch was night and day! Granted it's not a 3700x and you may expect better silicon in a 3800x but even still. I think the general consensus is the later chips are a tad better. Not to say a good early sample wouldn't beat out a poor later sample but there is certainly a bit of luck involved. The 3600x took 1.4v to pass Cinebench r15 at 4400MHz all core. The 3800x can do 4525MHz all core at 1.2625v.
He seems to be discussing it. As he typically does. However, nothing is displayed.
R20 could use a stronger boost. I spent limited time on R20 but recently tried the new CTR software which offers automatic overclocking based on CCX data with an embedded R20 benchmark. It reached 1.275GHz at 4475MHz and 2.450MHz at 4450MHz using LLC level 3. I’m pretty sure I could push it a bit more manually, though I haven’t had the chance yet.
It indicates the chip quality at the end of the diagnostic run on CTR.