Hi,
I recently am trying to see if I can lessen some of the heat the 3900x gets when getting to such voltage and I understand that 95c is the limit for the 3900x. I also am aware that it could be somewhat pointless to overclock the 3000 series, but I might make my money worth something since AM5 is right around the corner, as well as potentially switching to a 5950x anyway.
So, I have my 3900x running 'SMT OFF' at 1.41250V with LLC Level 5 at 4.5GHz and during Cinebench R23 testing, I noticed it doesn't go in the 80's (into the high 70's it does) in temperature on a 360AIO. Idle temps are in high 40's.
To me, this seems awesome since the 3900x boosts only a few of single cores to 4.6GHz at like a 1.5V burst or something, so theoretically I am ~0.1V lower to 4.5GHz all-core.
Only thing I can't remember if it's the voltage that will cause degradation or the temperature at which the voltage is set to being way too high (which in this case it isn't all that bad).
Is this worth having? 12c/12t @ 4.5GHz all with 1.41250 LLC-5, SMT OFF?
Also, a question: Does SMT enable 12 more "virtual" threads? Is that what hyperthreading is?
I recently am trying to see if I can lessen some of the heat the 3900x gets when getting to such voltage and I understand that 95c is the limit for the 3900x. I also am aware that it could be somewhat pointless to overclock the 3000 series, but I might make my money worth something since AM5 is right around the corner, as well as potentially switching to a 5950x anyway.
So, I have my 3900x running 'SMT OFF' at 1.41250V with LLC Level 5 at 4.5GHz and during Cinebench R23 testing, I noticed it doesn't go in the 80's (into the high 70's it does) in temperature on a 360AIO. Idle temps are in high 40's.
To me, this seems awesome since the 3900x boosts only a few of single cores to 4.6GHz at like a 1.5V burst or something, so theoretically I am ~0.1V lower to 4.5GHz all-core.
Only thing I can't remember if it's the voltage that will cause degradation or the temperature at which the voltage is set to being way too high (which in this case it isn't all that bad).
Is this worth having? 12c/12t @ 4.5GHz all with 1.41250 LLC-5, SMT OFF?
Also, a question: Does SMT enable 12 more "virtual" threads? Is that what hyperthreading is?