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AMD's turbo core feature has proved useful as of late.
Basically the purpose of this thread is an in depth look at tuning with turbo core, as the general consensus has been to disable it while overclocking. I still run games and apps that are heavily single threaded, such as cnq3/cpma, warsow/q2, project brutality/gzdoom, fallout3, etc. Along with more recent multithreaded games as well.
I found that turbo core boosts single threaded performance due to it's logical core management, allowing my quad to effectively limit 2 cores and boost 2. Watching it in action via hwmonitor for confirmation yeilded successful results.
Will update the thread with info soon(am on mobile)
Build:
ASRock a68m-itx $59
Athlon X4 760k $37
Corsair h50 aio $free
EVGA GTX 960ftw 2.0 2gb $140 (fall 2016)
Hyper fury 1600 8x2gb $76
Corsair force ls 120gb ssd $40
Seagate 320gb hdd $free
500w psu $free
I have managed a prime stable 4.4, unable to go 4.5 no matter what I try
Could be the board, or the CPU lotto.
I managed 4.9 for turbo core/ dual core speed on core # 0 and 1.
Tried 5ghz but wouldn't boot the os.
Prime doesn't see it doesn't thread to dual, it doesn't activate turbo core so I still have my stable 4.4 with the 4.9 on top. Works great. I was getting jankyness in single threading games but turbo core solved that problem. I have hwmonitor displayed via rivatuner, and only cores 0 and 1 displaying frequency. It works great.
Here you can see the difference and increased single threaded performance with the CPUz validations. Keep in mind that tuning for single threaded apps gives crappy benchmarks in cinabench.
These comparisons in CPUz show the differences.
https://valid.x86.fr/8q6032
https://valid.x86.fr/g7uts5
More to come on all this, I'll.do an actual write up with pics.and video
When I have time, I'm on mobile now and just wanted to get the thread started.
Basically the purpose of this thread is an in depth look at tuning with turbo core, as the general consensus has been to disable it while overclocking. I still run games and apps that are heavily single threaded, such as cnq3/cpma, warsow/q2, project brutality/gzdoom, fallout3, etc. Along with more recent multithreaded games as well.
I found that turbo core boosts single threaded performance due to it's logical core management, allowing my quad to effectively limit 2 cores and boost 2. Watching it in action via hwmonitor for confirmation yeilded successful results.
Will update the thread with info soon(am on mobile)
Build:
ASRock a68m-itx $59
Athlon X4 760k $37
Corsair h50 aio $free
EVGA GTX 960ftw 2.0 2gb $140 (fall 2016)
Hyper fury 1600 8x2gb $76
Corsair force ls 120gb ssd $40
Seagate 320gb hdd $free
500w psu $free
I have managed a prime stable 4.4, unable to go 4.5 no matter what I try
Could be the board, or the CPU lotto.
I managed 4.9 for turbo core/ dual core speed on core # 0 and 1.
Tried 5ghz but wouldn't boot the os.
Prime doesn't see it doesn't thread to dual, it doesn't activate turbo core so I still have my stable 4.4 with the 4.9 on top. Works great. I was getting jankyness in single threading games but turbo core solved that problem. I have hwmonitor displayed via rivatuner, and only cores 0 and 1 displaying frequency. It works great.
Here you can see the difference and increased single threaded performance with the CPUz validations. Keep in mind that tuning for single threaded apps gives crappy benchmarks in cinabench.
These comparisons in CPUz show the differences.
https://valid.x86.fr/8q6032
https://valid.x86.fr/g7uts5
More to come on all this, I'll.do an actual write up with pics.and video
When I have time, I'm on mobile now and just wanted to get the thread started.
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