Question Just want to know.

[Duggu_Pal]

Hello! Am from India and i would like to know that will this setup,mentioned below can be overclocked to 5.00Ghz,or will there be any thermal throttling? My setup is as follows:

• GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS MASTER MOTHERBOARD
• INTEL CORE I7 9700K 9TH GENERATION PROCESSOR (12M CACHE, UP TO 4.90 GHZ)
• ANTEC KUHLER K240MM RGB CPU COOLER
• GIGABYTE AORUS P850W 850 WATTS 80+ GOLD FULLY MODULAR PSU
• G.SKILL 16GB (8GBX2) DDR4 - 3600 MHZ TRIDENT Z RGB SERIES
• ZOTAC GAMING GEFORCE RTX 2080 SUPER AMP EXTREME 8GB GDDR6
• SAMSUNG 860 EVO M.2 SATA 500GB SSD
• SAMSUNG 860 QVO SATA III 2.5 INCH 1TB SSD
• COMBO COOLER MASTER MS110 MEM-CHANICAL RGB GAMING KEYBOARD AND MOUSE WITH OPTICAL SENSOR
• ANTEC NX600 NX SERIES MID-TOWER GAMING CABINET

 

[tennis2]

Should do fine.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Impossible to say. All CPUs are different. There is no way to say for sure that you can reach that frequency. Possible, yes! Maybe even probable, but no one can guarantee it.

-Wolf sends

 

[Duggu_Pal]

Impossible to say. All CPUs are different. There is no way to say for sure that you can reach that frequency. Possible, yes! Maybe even probable, but no one can guarantee it.

-Wolf sends

thanx for your honest answer.

 

[Rubendabiest]

Impossible to say. All CPUs are different. There is no way to say for sure that you can reach that frequency. Possible, yes! Maybe even probable, but no one can guarantee it.

-Wolf sends

You can always look at the "silicon lottery"

 

[Wolfshadw]

You can always look at the "silicon lottery"

Key word being "guarantee".

-Wolf sends

 

[Rubendabiest]

Keyword being "guarantee".

-Wolf sends

Are they not always running as advertised?

 

[Wolfshadw]

Are they not always running as advertised?

Advertised is 4.9GHz
OP Asked about hitting 5.0GHz

As I originally stated. Possible? Sure! Even probable, but no one can guarantee it.

-Wolf sends