This is my first overclocking experience so bear with me.
I was struggling to get good performance from my overclock, running at 4.6GHz both via Intel Turbo boost and manual overclock. There were large drops in performance and I didn't know why.
I recently got advice to run Intel ETU while stress testing to find out what was causing performance drops. I had Intel turbo boost on, and VRM thermal throttling was occurring at 95 degrees.
I thought that this motherboard would have been capable of overclocking the CPU to at least 4.6Ghz without any throttling. I have good airflow in my PC - two front fans and two exhaust fans 3cm from the VRM and CPU. Even if I set these to max, there is not any noticeable change in temps during benchmark tests.
I spoke to MSI and sent them the details with temperature screenshots. They replied saying throttling is to be expected with turbo boost on and this is normal, expected performance.
This motherboard wasn't cheap - is it something about it being mini-ITX and smaller heatsinks or something? Surely it can perform better than this? Is this a regular thing with mini-ITX boards or motherboards in general?
PC specs:
- CPU Intel i5-9600k 3.7GHz
- Corsair h60i cooler
- MSI MPG Z390I GAMING EDGE AC (mini-ITX)
- 16GB Corsair DDR4 Vengeance 266MHz
- Gigabyte 1060 6GB
- ADATA SX900 SSD
- Windows 10
- NZXT h200 mini-ITX Case
I was struggling to get good performance from my overclock, running at 4.6GHz both via Intel Turbo boost and manual overclock. There were large drops in performance and I didn't know why.
I recently got advice to run Intel ETU while stress testing to find out what was causing performance drops. I had Intel turbo boost on, and VRM thermal throttling was occurring at 95 degrees.
I thought that this motherboard would have been capable of overclocking the CPU to at least 4.6Ghz without any throttling. I have good airflow in my PC - two front fans and two exhaust fans 3cm from the VRM and CPU. Even if I set these to max, there is not any noticeable change in temps during benchmark tests.
I spoke to MSI and sent them the details with temperature screenshots. They replied saying throttling is to be expected with turbo boost on and this is normal, expected performance.
This motherboard wasn't cheap - is it something about it being mini-ITX and smaller heatsinks or something? Surely it can perform better than this? Is this a regular thing with mini-ITX boards or motherboards in general?
PC specs:
- CPU Intel i5-9600k 3.7GHz
- Corsair h60i cooler
- MSI MPG Z390I GAMING EDGE AC (mini-ITX)
- 16GB Corsair DDR4 Vengeance 266MHz
- Gigabyte 1060 6GB
- ADATA SX900 SSD
- Windows 10
- NZXT h200 mini-ITX Case