Paul has an interesting way to overclock the 10900k he just removed the pl1 and 2 and tau limiters and current, gave vcore an 0.6 offset bump and got 5.1 all core and 5.4 single (or is it two?) core:
https://youtu.be/NPk2lnCFoUA 22:00
it seems he used AIDA64 stresd test
Oh hold on he used an MSI motherboard...
When it's "single core" workload it's actually 2 cores that alternate between the load - I don't know if this is a window scheduler thing or if it's hard coded into the CPU, but Ryzen CPUs do the exact same thing when you run Cinebench single thread bench, it puts alternating load on 2 cores. With the 10900k I've read that it's always core 7 and 8 that gets used for single thread loads - I assume it's cause Intel bins their cores and so core 7 and 8 is the highest quality of the lot.
As for Paul, his review has some weird data like getting 20fps more than a 9900k in tomb raider and not a single other reviewer achieved the same results even with a all core 5.3ghz overclock
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